rakuen | Round 4, Day 2

Characters: Kanaya and YOU
Format: starting [action] will match commenter
This log is: Open!
Location: EVERYWHERE
Summary: ~~I want all the CR~~ Kanaya is looking around
Warnings: None?

[Kanaya is wandering around the school grounds, wearing her new uniform. This place was so different from Alternia, and although she's seen Earth before, it's only been from behind a computer screen. The sun was different here and she wondered if the other trolls would enjoy it's rays. On the other hand, she didn't want them to experience it, that would be taking them away from their important mission.]

[She didn't sleep last night, or even spend last night in her dorm. Instead she spent the night reading the rulebook, it wasn't nearly as wordy as Rose's gameFAQ and she got through it easily. If she could collect 5 weapons she'd win the round, but besides memories and upgrades there didn't seem to be much gained for winning. No discernible way to get back.]

[For now she's just trying to familiar herself with her new surroundings, perhaps collect a few weapons along the way]

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[[Ah hah! So Theta had seen an ashen-skinned horned person, her eyes were not, in fact, deceiving her. How truly, truly strange. She limps straight up to the other person, a bright and cheery grin on her face. There's a cane in her left hand, her left leg doesn't seem to take her weight well at all. Her trousers also have an odd cut to them, flaring out around the knees before tucking back in to tall boots.]]

Good day!

[[She offers her hand out, palm up to take the other's hand and kiss it if it's given.]]

Are you new here as well?

[Kanaya watches the human limp up to her. She vaguely recalled Tavros who was bound to his four wheeled device and how she had cut off his legs so he could get new ones.]

[She takes a moment to stare at her outstretched hand. The other seemed to be waiting for her to do the same, so she held out her hand as well, not taking it as she's not quite sure what they're supposed to do]

Yes, I arrived here the other day to play this peculiar game.

I think I might have seen you on the tram. If you don't mind, just off of sight I think, I wanted to speak with you.

[[She moves to take Kanaya's hand, but as soon as the touch connects, she yelps in pain from the warning, drawing her hand back quickly.]]

Ah...that's...

[Kanaya looked at her hand, did touching humans always hurt? She wasn't yet aware of the rules.]

I understand my appearance is jarring for humans, I suppose it is natural to seek to learn about which you do not know. Or fear it. But I must say, that was peculiar. Perhaps out body chemistries oppose each other and cause such an adverse reaction.

I had hoped to learn, yes. I take it you know about humans already, then? I feel ignorant, will you humour me? You seem like a very intelligent person, I wouldn't mind exchanging knowledge, whatever I know that might interest you.

[[Her words are earnest, though there's an undercurrent of arrogance. She doesn't like not knowing things, and she'll only admit to it for the chance at filling in the gaps and learning more.]]

A cultural exchange. I would not be against taking place in one. You appear different from the other humans I have encountered, and you are correct in assuming my intelligence. Though I cannot say it is a constant among all Trolls.

Mm, it would be nice if there was a species out there where intelligence was a constant. I wonder...why I seem different? Is it a personality difference, do you think? Or am I outright strange compared to the others?

Intelligence cannot work as a constant. Without those with a lower mental state, the menial jobs of the land would never get done, as people would believe themselves to be too smart for such labor. I did not mean to come across as rude, if I did, you seem older than those I am used to communicating with. I do not know how aging works exactly on Earth, but I assume, if I may, that you are not thirteen.

Oh ho~! You really are devilishly clever~. But once a certain level of intelligence is reached amongst the population, those that are too stupid can always be eliminated~. We've replaced all the servants in my house with clockworks. It can be done on the national scale~.

I am, I'm nineteen, I'm an adult, while thirteen is still just a child. And you? Where in your species' life cycle are you?

[she nods once] Once life progresses far enough intellectually the creation of non-organic life to replace all of the expendable life forms seems inevitable. Am I wrong in assuming that where you are from is close to that final step?

I am six solar sweeps, which seems to translate over to thirteen human years.

Unfortunately, there's other things holding us back from that even though it's the next logical step. I doubt the changes necessary to get us to that point will come in my lifetime, but perhaps in the next few generations the gears will turn far enough to carry out such work.

How long is a human life and is it definite that the intelligence of this generation will be passed on to the next, or will it mostly die out with the death of those who posses it?

Human lifespans vary greatly, those from the upper class tend to live to between eighty and ninety, while those of the lower class pass on between forty and sixty on average.

We pass on knowledge by teaching, and those of the upper class are educated well, taking in lessons from their predecessors and expanding upon it, while those in the lower class... Well, I have no idea, really, some of them can't even read, but they at least have useful trades, some of them...

[[They're not her problem and she could care less about them. Guess who Theta wants to replace with clockworks.]]

Round 4, Day 2

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