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[redcladidealist]

[A letter. That's what Lloyd had come home to. A letter. A letter and a suddenly empty apartment, all of Zelos's things just... gone. Lloyd stands there, still numbly holding the letter. Things had been strained between them ever since he'd found out. Found out that Zelos was dead. And how. Why. But he hadn't seen this coming.

Moved out.

Gone.

His thoughts feel broken and stilted. Zelos was gone.

Squeezing his eyes shut, the teen drops heavily into a chair.]

Dammit...

[For a long time all he does is just sit there, too many emotions lodged in his throat and his head to manage anything else. Finally, he pulls his Dreamberry out. He probably looks as bad as he feels - guilty, miserable. Angry. - but he honestly doesn't care. He needs to say something, even if it's stupid and childish.]

Somebody hit Zelos when you see him.

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

I'm not a king, I'm a prince. And, who the fuck says it matters if they WANT me to be king or not? Or, more accurately, Emperor. It isn't like it really fuckin' matters what other trolls want, seriously. Though, Fef is the Empress to be, not me.

[His blood level he'd probably be like her general or some high up there military officer.]

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[redcladidealist]

[Lloyd is trying to wrap his mind around all that politics and hierarchy and social status and...

Yeah, it doesn't click. But he got the important parts.]

Of course it matters what other people want. You can't be a leader if people don't want to follow you.

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

You're actin' like they hawe a choice! They don't. They follow you because they don't want to get CULLED, idiot. What sorta fucked up world do you come from where YOUR peons make decisions, fuckin' weird. Royalty sets the order, and we keep the order, any low bloods audacious enough to try and stand against us gets culled, simple as fuckin' that.

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[redcladidealist]

Everyone has the right to choose how they want to live. I'm not royal. I don't even belong to any village. [He'd gone to school in Iselia and had had friends there, but he wasn't really a part of the village, and now that they'd kicked him out, he was even less a part.] My Dad's a dwarf and I don't know who my parents were, but none of that means I can't make decisions for myself! Besides, just because you make the rules doesn't mean you can't be wrong!

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

[He's just staring at Lloyd. Mainly, because what the fuck is a dwarf? And a dad? Oh, wait those weird human familial things?]

A course you can make decisions for yourself, they just might get you killed is all. Also, I'm a highblood, a sea troll, I'm royalty, how COULD I wrong? It's within' my hatch-right to correct the lowly. To cull those who stand against me. Those below you are meant to serwe and that's it. Their life is there to be a use to those higher--that is their purpose.

But anyway, what the fuck is a dwarf?

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[redcladidealist]

[There are so many things wrong with what Eridan just said, Lloyd doesn't even know where to start.]

People are people, no matter who or what they are, and everyone makes mistakes. Even you! And if someone in charge is screwing things up, then the people below him should tell him so he can fix it! That's how people work together.

A dwarf is another race, like a troll or a human or an elf. Most of them live underground, so people don't see them very much.

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

[No, Eridan is pretty sure everything he had said was right.]

The only way they'd be screwin' up is if they weren't keepin' their underlings in check. If the idiot isn't doin' it right, the crown will be confiscated and someone else will rise to power. Just how the world works. God, hawe you newer read anythin' about history before? [Eridan is a huge history nerd, man. He knows all the troll wars backwards and forwards, and dates and who fought who and what scars on history was left from when and who and what.]

The only workin' together we do is for galactic domination.

Oh, huh. Elf? I take it your world has a lot a wariation in races? So Dwarfs liwe underground, humans liwe on the ground, what about these elf things? Are they aquatic?

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[redcladidealist]

[Wait, that isn't how it works, is it? Lloyd's face flushes, because Eridan has him pinned there. He doesn't pay attention in history.]

O-of course, I have! [When Raine made him. HE IS NOT GOING TO ADMIT IGNORANCE TO THE TROLL.] That's how I know people can rebel when their leaders are making mistakes! Like in, uh... the war of... Dammit, that's not important. It's happened!

...I'm not sure where elves live. [And he hates admitting that to Eridan.] I haven't actually met one. I think they have to live on the land, though, because they'd have to meet humans to make half-elves. As far as I know, nothing lives in the water, except fish and turtles and things like that.

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

[He just smirks at that stutter. So transparent, Lloyd.]

Well, there has newer been a rebellion for us trolls, because we know how to rule RIGHT. Ewen if there was, us highbloods would massacre all the rebllin' lowbloods without a fuckin' doubt. [truth be told, there was a rebellion, furthering the truth, the highbloods do exactly that.]

... That is horrifyin' that there are no sea dwellers where you're from. Do you not hawe royalty or somethin', I mean that'd explain why you're so uncultured, but seriously, how do you not hawe sea dwellers rulin' ower you pathetic land dwellers?

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[redcladidealist]

You just kill everyone? [Shock turns to outrage.] That's horrible! If they weren't happy because something wasn't right, you should try to fix the problem!

I didn't say we don't have royalty. Well, Sylvarant doesn't anymore because the Desians killed them off- [At least he's pretty sure that's how it happened. It's been a long time, which means history. Which he doesn't pay attention to if he can help it.] -but Tethe'alla does. And what makes something in the sea better than the land?

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

Well, duh. A course. Are you kiddin' me? They don't hawe the fuckin' right to hawe a opinion on how we do our rulin'. They liwe to serwe, but ewen then--I think that's too gracious a us sea dwellers. I think they should all die.

Desians? They sound pretty alright if they're slaughterin' those below 'em. Not lettin' weaklin's get in their way, they got the right idea, ewen if they're landdwellers. But, for what makes US better, is we're genetically superior in ewery way.

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[redcladidealist]

[It isn't shock. He knows that people can think this way. He's seen it with the Desians. But encountering it here, from someone who isn't a Desian, or from Cruxis - he hadn't been expecting that. That's the only reason why it takes a moment for his expression to morph into fury.]

You don't have the "fucking right" to do anything, you bastard! We're not inferior beings no matter how or where we're born! We're people, and so are you, and we all have the right to live!

[He's so angry he's literally shaking right now, his mana unconsciously flaring for an attack he dearly wishes he could make. He can't do anything with it through the Dreamberry, though, so it just crackles uselessly around him.]

If you even dare try to slaughter anyone here, I'll stop you and make you pay!

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

[Make HIM pay? how adorable Lloyd.]

You honestly think you'd be able to stop me? Please, the only power you hawe is the power a bein' fuckin' annoyin' as shit and loud about your piece a rubbish opinions. Opinions, that are so fuckin' hilariously PETTY it should be outlawed. You think it matters if they're people? That they hawe thoughts and feelin's? They are lowly scum, filth that merely needs to be cleansed. While my planet is destroyed, the twelwe a us bein' the last trolls, doesn't mean I can't continue my ambitions here.

So if you want to come and stop me, make me pay, or whatewer, I welcome you to try it, Redscarf. That is, if you really want to hawe a date with death.

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[redcladidealist]

[Lloyd snaps.] I'm a lot more powerful than you think! I swear, if I see you hurting anyone here, you'll find out exactly what I can do! [His mana crackles around him again, punctuating the threat.

Then he abruptly shuts the Dreamberry off. He's too furious, and he knows it.

But he also means every furious word with every fiber of his being.]