[Voice//Posted in "Seeking" because that's the only place a Discard can post]

[formerly_known_as_prince]

[The voice on the other line is determined, a little disgusted. What follows is the world's most obvious warning.] Hello everyone. My name's Utena. And i've...played and won this game before. Or one very similar to it. I don't know why you've all been brought here or what everyone's motivations for dueling are. But I know this: whatever you were promised, you're not going to get it. The people who run this will use you Players until they have no more use for you and then they'll throw you away and start over with the next batch. As for the Weapons, i've seen what being owned does to someone.

This whole thing is disgusting.

Comments

[duchy]

It's not slavery if you switch back and forth.

she doesn't know how to say 'only a semantic distinction'

[formerly_known_as_prince]

You're just making words that let you weasel out!

[duchy]

What do you mean?

[Blinking with genuine confusion; to a sort of eight-year-old it's a game, at least.]

[formerly_known_as_prince]

[She mellows a little. He's just a kid after all.] I'm sorry. I shouldn't have snapped at you. You see one of my best friends was used as a Weapon for a very long time in a game much like this one. It hurt her a lot. I don't like to see other people going through that, even temporarily.

[duchy]

Oh.

[Well, that makes sense.]

How long?

[formerly_known_as_prince]

[She thinks. How long? Back into the time of myths, certainly.] I don't know exactly. A very long time.

[duchy]

She never got to be the one fighting?

[formerly_known_as_prince]

She protected one person, once. She spent a very long time paying for it. It doesn't matter that much though. I've seen some people play both roles. It didn't make much of a difference.

[duchy]

Maybe it's not the same game? I mean, that doesn't sound like a game at all...