integrity: [Season Seven] (♆ Don't fuck with me.)
Crowley ([personal profile] integrity) wrote in [community profile] sirenspull2012-07-08 07:36 pm

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The citizens of this city, registered and unregistered, are somewhat pathetic.

[Hello, Siren's Port. Have your neighborhood friendly demon, sounding oddly serious and composed.]

We are brought here, against our will, by a mystical force that none of us can control or see. While we are trapped here, we are treated as second-class citizens, the proverbial Rosa Parks on the bus line that is the multiverse, and not weeks after a neighborhood friendly hunt on the newcomer population, individuals seem to have... shrugged it off. Moved along with their lives and their husbands and wives and paper routes and white picket fences.

[There is a slight creak as Crowley shifts in the chair he is sitting in. He pauses slightly, to collect his thoughts, before he continues. A good orator always knows when to draw the line and when to keep talking. He seems to be deciding where it is now.]

Whether or not this is just another display of humanity ignoring when terrible things occur in favor of the new bright and shiny politician on their doorstep is irrelevant. What is relevant is your amazing ability to ignore what is directly in front of you -- we are held in the hands of a group of individuals no more or less powerful than we are and yet we are the second-class. Even those registered as citizens, those with powers in government -- you can't tell me you are truly invited to the weekly bridge game of our Canadian cousins.

[And suddenly, his voice grows slightly harder.]

What will it take for all of you to realize that we are nothing more than cattle in a small pen being poked at with sticks? Would it be the brutal murder of someone you love or the relinquishment of supposed unalienable rights that you hold onto so tightly? What will it take for you to finally open your eyes and understand that you aren't free. Your tiny little slice of life is nothing more than an illusion fed to you by a series of corporations and egotistical human overlords who think themselves better than everyone else because they have a pretty picture stamped on an ID card. So come on -- be honest. What would you rather have -- eternal peace at the price of freedom or the knowledge that you did something potentially great regardless of the consequences?

[There is the clink of a glass -- and Crowley ceases talking. But the feed stays open.

It's a serious question. And a testing of the waters.

He wants to know how many dangerous people are truly in the Port.]
momchester: (- you're a stupid person for saying it)

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[personal profile] momchester 2012-07-09 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
How many angels died? Was it worth it?
ofthursday: ([° set] Don't wake me cause I'm dreaming)

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[personal profile] ofthursday 2012-07-09 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Many. Yes, it's worth it.

[No matter how terribly things have gone, and how horrific it has all been, that has never changed to him. It's always been worth it, for what they're fighting for.]
momchester: (= in the light)

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[personal profile] momchester 2012-07-09 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
If he's using that logic here then I think it is.
capax_infiniti: (I'm surrounded by idiots)

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[personal profile] capax_infiniti 2012-07-09 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
It seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
There are far too few people willing to take the fall and change the world for the better.
momchester: (= this man has no dick.)

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[personal profile] momchester 2012-07-09 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
No matter what the cost.
momchester: (= listening intently.)

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[personal profile] momchester 2012-07-09 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
But there are other ways to change things. It's dangerous. So many people have powers here that starting a war could destroy everything.
astralling: (≠ ms hellfire)

[personal profile] astralling 2012-07-09 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
The trick is getting enough people to listen. The newcomers here seem very strong-willed and... different.
ofthursday: (Do you know the price I paid [Focused])

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[personal profile] ofthursday 2012-07-09 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
What else do you suggest? Nothing else has been done; the situation seems only to have worsened.
longaevus: (12)

[personal profile] longaevus 2012-07-09 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
There are those that have never been under such illusions.
returnsmagic: (i am a traveler of both time and space)

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[personal profile] returnsmagic 2012-07-09 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Excuse you he isn't a lizard. :| ]

No. They don't, and yet they are the ones with the fewer resources.

Other than the AGI court I heard about last summer, it is rather disheartening to see there are no more progresto have been made.
southernreaper: (Dusty)

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[personal profile] southernreaper 2012-07-09 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Bit cynical, don't ya think?

[There's a small smile to accompany that.]

An' while that may be true, that means we need t'help those that c'n do the research, that know what they're doin'. If'n the companies are all there is, then we need t'step up an' challenge 'em.

[A pause as he kneads the bread.]

But not by killin' folks.
fightswithpurpose: (disdain)

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[personal profile] fightswithpurpose 2012-07-09 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
But it would still be illegal for me to go after the hunters, even though it would be more efficient. I am expected to let "justice" be served in a courtroom.
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