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[nemuri]

WOULD YOU RATHER-

1. Post with your character. 2. In your comment, have your character ask a question. Would you rather ________ or _________, where the blanks are anything your character would like to know from anyone who might respond. Maybe they're asking out of curiosity. Maybe they have a dilemma of their own. Who knows. 3. Respond to other characters, whatever catches your own character's interest or whatever they'd like to talk about. Maybe they can't decide between the two. Maybe it's an easy answer. Maybe they think the question sucks. Discuss. Chat. Take turns. 4. ???????? 5. Profit.

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Nikiya | La Bayadère AU | OTA

[moderatoassai]

Would you rather see your beloved married to another or allow yourself to be murdered at your rival's hands?

Re: Nikiya | La Bayadère AU | OTA

[aceinthehood]

The option where I'm not dead and the person I love is happy is probably the best option.

[moderatoassai]

And if her marriage brings her no joy?

[aceinthehood]

Well. I'd need to know the details to know the validity of murder vs. lover's happiness. Bad sex isn't worth dying over, abuse might be.

[moderatoassai]

She is a fiery woman, while her father arranges for her to be tied to a man who knows little of fire, who knows only of militaristic order, she wishes for freedom. They are quelling her very spirit.

[aceinthehood]

And why can't she get out of it herself?

[allegroassai]

Love is passing, Nikiya. I would wait my turn.

[moderatoassai]

Passing in the manner of the fire, Gamzatti. Extinguished, perhaps, but lit again come morning.

[allegroassai]

Oh, I know about fire. The flame revives - a new light upon a new world.

[moderatoassai]

Our world, falling into ruin -- No, I wish for the fire to burn as it has become our own tradition.

[allegroassai]

You may wish - [Sigh.] - and perhaps, perhaps, his little finger will burn from it. After all.

[invisibleline]

Let them get married. It's not worth dying over.

[moderatoassai]

Understand first -- that through her, I see the heavens.

[invisibleline]

If you're dead, you won't see anything.

[moderatoassai]

Although my body may perish, my soul shall continue its cycle. Reborn, I may become more than I ever was in this life.

[invisibleline]

I don't believe in reincarnation.

[Or much of anything she hasn't seen proof of. Most people, faced with the fantastic, might grow more credulous, over time. Emma, meanwhile, clings doggedly to the idea that seeing is believing.]

Besides, even if you're right, you're leaving your lover behind to feel responsible for your death. And believe me, that sucks.

[aworthyrival]

You know, it really sucked when the girl I'd fallen for rejected me to be with an idiot, but it didn't suck that much. Besides, wouldn't getting killed by a love rival just, like, make the whole situation that much more humiliating?

[moderatoassai]

Humiliating? Yes. To stagger beneath the viper's bite and finding no saving grace... It was beyond humiliating.

[aworthyrival]

Exactly. I'm trying not to think too hard about how you're talking about this like you experienced it first-hand, but exactly. So, like, suck it up and deal, it's way better than dying.

[moderatoassai]

I have always lived for others. First, I lived for my parents. Then, I lived for Agni and his temple. Now, I live for Gamzatti, but I cannot live for Gamzatti forever.

[finefeathers]

Beloved married to another. There is no one love unless you make it so.

[moderatoassai]

Is love, then, a choice?

[finefeathers]

A person's response to it is. Time and survival instinct allows most to move on.

[moderatoassai]

Most, but not all. I am clinging to her, for I am as one who has never before seen the light.

[finefeathers]

Clinging sounds like and is an active choice. Making it poetic does not change that fact.