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Characters: Dolorosa and you
Format: will match
This log is: open
Location: Fortitude classrooms
Summary: Troll history class may have cryptic messages in it. ~~or maybe Ru is pulling your leg~~
Warnings: Dolorosa feels

The usually smiling and peaceful Dolorosa looks upset as her student walk into class. On the board behind her in her familiar is scroll is written the end of the rebellion? and every so often she looks longingly at the words.

"Throughout these weeks I have taught you about how blood color defines the class systems, how each color has a place in society and a role to play, and how not everyone was happy with these positions. Last week I told you about Signless and the rebellion, which I was personally a part of, but I did not tell you the outcome. Those involved were all close friends of mine, family even. I raised Signless, something unheard of in troll society, and on that day he was killed, his beloved Disciple went into hiding, his faithful friend Psiioniic was taken by the empress because of his abilities, and I was sold into slavery. I cannot give you a complete retelling of the events or what happened afterwards, as I was otherwise occupied, but I can tell you that rebellions never really die, they just get passed on."

"If your cause is just and you have those willing to fight for it, why should it not continue?"

With that Dolorosa ends class early, but she is there for anyone who wishes to question her about, well, anything.

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Dolorosa frowns deeply at his accusations, she doesn't agree with anything that he had said. While, surely, she understands where he is coming from, she does not believe that violence is the answer.

"Violence only begets more violence. Torturing others to achieve peace is no way to go, it will only start a cycle of revenge. I truly believe that peaceful rebellion can overthrow an inherently evil system."

He didn't really react to her rebuttal. "All focusing on the correct methods will create is martyrs. The only way to truly achieve one's goal is to do whatever it takes to achieve it. Anything else is volunteering for the gallows." He didn't bother to assert his experience. Should she challenge it, he'd respond, but as far as he was concerned, it wasn't worth it.

"What makes you believe such a thing? Show me a world where violence doesn't cause more violence. If we were to do, using your words, whatever it takes, then how are we any better than they are?"

"Madam Headmistress, the evidence that my method is correct is the fact that I'm sitting here." There was a patronizing tone in his voice, but he pushed it aside. He didn't seem to care much about the fact he had an audience. His posture straightened, and suddenly the lazy, casual air he usually carried was gone. "You are looking at an individual that reshaped his own world into a more peaceful one. I come from a world not dissimilar to yours, with one imperialistic race taking over others. The exercise of Britannian strength was its own justification. Only the strong survive, the previous emperor called it.

"I met every Britannian act of aggression in kind. When Britannian, or any other army stood to use their force against innocent people, I placed myself and my own forces between them. Naturally, the war intensified. Such is its nature. I am not so delusional as to think my efforts did not take innocent lives. Some sacrifices were necessary. But, in the end, while those that will have the job of explaining the fall of the Britannian Empire will call me the most totalitarian, tyrannical, hegemonic Emperor the world has ever known, it is only because they will be able to say so from the greatest time of peace and cooperation the world has ever known."

"Just because your method proved useful in the world you are from does not mean that method will prove useful in every world. The social structures are different and so are the acts of violence and the technology, all of which influence the outcome and the minds of the people. You say you became the most hated but just because you are gone does not mean that all hate is gone."

"When that symbol of hatred is removed by an ally of the people and those people are later guided by those that have that kinder, gentler method that the world as a whole will rally behind, that world will never again be as it was. That will not be denied. The complete erasure of hatred is simply impossible.

"I am very familiar with details of your world beyond what you have presented to us. I would say our worlds are more similar than you expect, save for scale."