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Yo~

So I've been kinda thinking that in light of the shit that just went down, maybe I'd sign up with the military. I've got a pretty sweet gig monster hunting, but it just doesn't feel like it has any meaning, you know? I've trained for this shit (the military) pretty much my whole life, so I figure they could use me. I’ve been here for like a year now and I kinda figure that if I was brought here for a reason, this is probably it.

I was just wondering if anyone else here has had much contact with these guys. What are your impressions? Have you signed up already? How's the pay, and do they seem decent to you? Any spectacularly hot babes I should know about?

That's it. That's the message. Thanks for your time.

~Gideon Nav

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[.......well. Apparently hot vampire make outs don't help every ill.]

Well, I suppose that's a choice that I'm in no place to argue against.

[it worked.......until Libertas got blown all to hell and the guilt came in thick and fast.]

Uuuuuugh.
You might never hear me say this again ever in my life.
Or you know, read it or whatever.
I just wish someone would tell me what the fuck I'm meant to do.

[Damnit, why can't he be the correct undead hottie here.]

You'll never hear me repeat the words to you either.

At the end of the day, your focus is on one person, right?

[He's still her favourite undead hottie if that counts for anything ;;]

Well yeah, kinda.
Forever the sword of my Umbral Sovereign.

But I'm also not a fan of sitting around and watching people get blown up.

[Not that she has been 'just sitting around'. She has poured her efforts into helping in any way she can, since the attack. Nothing feels enough.]

[It do, but that only goes so far right now!]

...Do they have knights in any of your literature back home?

Yeah, not that different from Cavaliers, right?
Except they don't all serve the King Undying and his necros.

Correct.

The reality of how the concept came to pass into literature in my world was because knights were violent brutes causing chaos for kings. And they were given free reign to fight in another land entirely and take their violent urges out on so-called enemies of a religion. While that was happening, a new concept of being a knight was made: one who followed certain codes of respect, civility, and so forth. They might champion a just cause and hold to that civility.

A military post will direct you, but it won't serve your interests, it will serve someone else's. I...just worry. That's all.

So you're saying that the military here is more like the brutes from the first example?
Surely what they want is to protect.
I know everything here is sus as all hell but like,
That's how the military works.

[She is not at all naive and brainwashed by the Necrolord Prime and his propaganda.]

I admit to bias in thinking it true of all such military organizations.

And I know you know that. I just want to make sure that this is the best choice that helps you.

Ugh, fuck this shit.
I liked it better when I knew what I was doing here.
Having Harrow's back, taking out monsters, not giving so much as half a flying fuck about the powers that be.
I don't do the thinking, I just do the smashing and the eye-candy.
Why did it have to go and get complicated?

[Which is to say, she has no clue which is the best way forward from here, the best path toward a version of herself she won't feel ashamed of. That, and perhaps that she has been so focused on her necromancer that she's turned a blind eye to the fact that is has always been complicated, here.]

[He gets it. He does. It is always easier when things are in order and have an obvious purpose. The world makes sense, and then it shifts under your feet without your say so, and everything shatters. Building is...pointless, sometimes. Alucard knows that well.]

I rather hate to say it, but sometimes we all have to do the thinking. Even the muscle.

What would you be doing, if she was still here? In the face of everything right now?

Man, don't say that.
You're gonna go ahead and spoil my day.

And I dunno.
She always put the Ninth House over and above anything else.
Outsiders were a secondary concern.
And the Ninth House here meant me and her.
But...she didn't wanna destroy the Singularity, I know that much.
She would rather have been in Solvun from the outset.
My guess is she'd suggest we regroup and rebuild etc.
And gather intelligence on what the fuck is going on in the bigger scheme of things.
She was the big thinker, you know?

Back home, she did everything in her power to prevent me from joining the Cohort.

I have often been referred to as a buzzkill. I can't do anything about that.

Okay. So in your view here, what is the difference between the Cohort and Cadens' military? Besides the lack of Harrow.

Al, you fucker.

And I guess I'd need more info really, but for starters the Cohort serves God and all of the Nine Houses.
It's like a divine honour to serve with the Cohort.
I guess Caden's military might be more short-sighted than that.
It serves the Free Cities, right?
No-one else.

:]

It does only serve the cities, but how is a Nation that different from a deity that is in charge, at the end of the day? Besides the slight different in mortality.

I don't know.
I guess the weird part of all of this is wanting to fight people who literally inhabit the same planet as you.
This whole setup is weird.
And I'd kinda expect God to have a good reason for fighting, you know?
To protect himself and all nine of his Houses - so that's nine planets worth of people.

Admittedly I have some questions about the guy right now, but still.

God, for all that I've experienced, is at best in different to the decisions made by man and his Church, so I fully support questions on that front.

But....if the set up is weird, then I think that is worthy of examination and consideration.

The King Undying seems like he's kinda more hands on than most other gods I've heard about here.
But yeah, I guess you have a point.
I guess everyone I've spoken to has a point.

Which fucking blows because that was like, my one idea.

See, that bothers me in a different way. How do you have free will if God keeps coming down and making waves in mortal affairs?

You know that I have no kind truths here, just experience. And the ultimate thing I've learned is that there is no linear nature to what happens in the aftermath of loss. Just many bad ideas, and you haven't gone ahead and impaled people, so you're better off than I ever was.

Hard for me to say considering He's the only one I've ever had.
And like, you're talking to a girl from a fucked-up cult right at the far edge of the solar system.
He pretty much left us to our own devices most of the time, guarding the Tomb for Him.
But I guess most of the shit anyone ever did was always roughly in line with what He wanted?
I dunno.

And I guess you do know what you're talking about here.
Even if I did kinda, sorta impale one person before.
But that might be a story for another time.

Pretty sure most religions are fucked up cults but that's anger showing. Either way, I think you do get my point.

Impalement stories are always for another time. Just.

I think hold off on impulsive choices like this one for now.

And I'm here if you need to come and get drunk.

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