She has doubts as to whether he'll succeed given how much power Jack has over them, but...]
I'm terrible in a fight, but when the chips are down... I'll help. Have to at least try, you know.
[Tyzias has said a lot about Alternia these past few days. Frankly, having to explain it to a group of ignorant aliens who have no idea how deeply shit is fucked only makes it seem worse.]
...I don't have any illusions about me being able to make a change on Alternia. It's all too fucked for any one troll to tackle, and revolution, well. [Tyzias snorts.] The first big one got an entire caste permanently genocided and the last one got all the adults exiled from the planet. I'm not arrogant enough to think I can do better.
But someone, someday, in the future, will. And that's what I use to keep myself going. Carve a space out for that troll to be born, to survive, to know there's hope, to know that other people have tried. The chains of history bind us all, but they also reach into the future, one link at a time. And if a single link can change its direction even slightly so that, when the day comes, it doesn't bind but instead offers a way to climb up... I'll be satisfied.
In the meantime, I just gotta do as much good as I can.
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She has doubts as to whether he'll succeed given how much power Jack has over them, but...]
I'm terrible in a fight, but when the chips are down... I'll help. Have to at least try, you know.
[Tyzias has said a lot about Alternia these past few days. Frankly, having to explain it to a group of ignorant aliens who have no idea how deeply shit is fucked only makes it seem worse.]
...I don't have any illusions about me being able to make a change on Alternia. It's all too fucked for any one troll to tackle, and revolution, well. [Tyzias snorts.] The first big one got an entire caste permanently genocided and the last one got all the adults exiled from the planet. I'm not arrogant enough to think I can do better.
But someone, someday, in the future, will. And that's what I use to keep myself going. Carve a space out for that troll to be born, to survive, to know there's hope, to know that other people have tried. The chains of history bind us all, but they also reach into the future, one link at a time. And if a single link can change its direction even slightly so that, when the day comes, it doesn't bind but instead offers a way to climb up... I'll be satisfied.
In the meantime, I just gotta do as much good as I can.