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[veepofchess]

Characters: Lelouch vi Britannia, Suzaku Kururugi, Shoryu, AND YOU
Format: Going action taggy mainly because I'm tired. If you want prose, I'll do it.
This log is: open
Location: Black dorm common room
Summary: Manipulation and exposition
Warnings: See above

[Lelouch is chillin' in the common room of the Black dorm, studying. Well, not studying anything related to any class taught on campus. Instead, he has several cook books spread out on the coffee table, and he has one on his lap over crossed legs. He's trying to figure out what is off in his cooking.]

[Pleas bother him.]

Comments

[goodtobetheking]

I believe they have a similar system in some areas of Hourai, or the theory has been discussed. [he rests his chin back on his hand, thinking back to the various interesting yet entirely irrelevant texts he's had the kirin filch from the other world over the centuries.] Social Darwinism, isn't it? To rule without the mandate of heaven.

[he doesn't think they do, from what he's seen and heard so far, but he's always interested in countries more like Hourai, without tangible deities.]

[choseanidiot]

[And this is Enki's cue to sigh loudly, lifting his hands to rest behind his head.]

I knew I shouldn't have brought you stuff... [Enki mutters, not loud enough to actually disturb the beginning discussion Shōryū and Lelouch have going, and gives Shōryū a half-annoyed stare.

And he's not sure Shōryū is using that term as it should be used, but he's not read enough on that social theory to know what seems wrong. He's frankly been more interested in the parts where the people Over There have become more self-determining, choosing their rulers (not that that have saved them in the long run).]

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku was quiet as he listened to the two speak, he knew a little about how Enki's world worked from the little he had explained and it sounded very different that their own. He raised an eyebrow at Enki not understanding what he meant, but now wasn't really the time to ask. He sat silently interested in the conversation.]

[veepofchess]

Yes, that is exactly it. The emperor also uses it as a justification for the subjugation of people who do dare resist invasion.