First Transmutation

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[As the small boy wakes up, dressed in his green jumper and hat, he shivers slightly and notices all the snow around. Standing up, he tugs on one of his ear flaps and slowly looks around the island. Clearly, he was lost. Was he alone?]

How did I get here? Or rather, where is here...?

[He'll be walking around with no real destination in mind.]

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[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[That takes him by surprise, since he's not expecting to hear that. He doesn't fully know what a noble is, but he knows from the sound of it, the title was for important people.]

Y-you're a noble?!

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

Heh.. Yeah. You wouldn't know it by looking, but I am.

It's all a pain in the ass, and I'd ditch the whole thing if I could, but Kaien thinks keeping the title's good for us. It gives us "influence", but I've never been as good at using that to my advantage as Yoruichi was.

But I just don't see the point of burying myself under rules and etiquette and confining myself to things I don't believe in.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

It is better to follow what you believe, but what did you mean by 'influence'?

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

It's hard to explain. We're not really part of the government or anything. Well, I am, since I'm a Vice Captian but that's not the point.

But we're kind of put on a pedestal. People look to us as an example of things. So what we do is looked at pretty closely and our decisions hold a lot of weight.

Really, it's all total crap. If it were up to them I'd sit around not doing a damned thing but waiting for someone to come marry me, and that's boring as hell. I'm gonna fight and blow things up and drink and do whatever the hell I want. It's my life and I'm gonna live it!

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

Um, I'm not sure about the other things and its not my place to say, but I think its better that you became what you are now because since people look to you, then maybe they can be influenced to do something good.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

[She smiles a little. She knows she's not the best role model, what with all the drinking and cursing and blowing things up, but somehow Fletcher seems to have come to think rather highly of her and she doesn't want to burst his bubble.]

Yeah, really That's all I can hope for.... But it's just one of those thing where if you take it too seriously you just come across looking like a jerk.

So I try not to think about it and just do what I feel is right.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[He's somewhat easily taken by those who seem to do positive things and know what they want. Its partly due to the fact that he is inspired, since he struggled with right and wrong before.]

[chuckles] Somehow, I'm not surprised to hear you say that.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

Heh... I just do what I do. Ain't always the best choice but they can't all be winners, y'know?