un: man's greatest treasure (video)

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[She switches on the video function of her device knowingly this time, as she climbs the stairs to a relatively quiet deck. It's daylight, and the moment she steps foot outside, she flinches; not that she believes in divination, but those fucking fortune fish were right.]

Ugh. Sun. [She squints and shields her eyes with one hand.]

Hello - I hear there are people who've newly joined our journey due east. I'd say welcome, but the circumstances of us meeting for the first time will never be better. Take it from experience. [The way she scrunches her nose here has little to do with the sun glinting in her eyes and more with the experience of circumstances.]

Anyway. My name's Hermione Granger, I come from a world where the planet I inhabit is called Earth, and the country I come from is called England. [A pause.] I am also a witch. It's not a thing we broadcast in my world, what with the rules about secrecy and not wanting non-magical users to know witches exist, but I figure when in Rome...

[ANYWAY 2.0] Tell me about yourselves. [She goes to turn the video off in wait, but it still catches the last mutter:] Bloody hell, I need a hat.

[ooc; NOTE ON TIMING: backdate this to before the plot rolls start, please.]

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I'm glad you agree with me.

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Women, as men, fail themselves in the specificity of their deeds.

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Exactly. Equal rights and all that.

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'And all that.'

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Yes - feminism! But don't tell them about it, they might throw you in the brig.

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'Feminism.'

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Oh, sorry. Sizhui did mention the devices translate this word pretty poorly into your language, so it might help to explain. It's a word to explain the belief that women - indeed all people - are equal to men in ways of both rights and opportunities. Social, economic, political equality.

You can also use it to say, for example: I'm a feminist.

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Yet not all are equal.


( Think of villages, where a woman faces more hardship by the full break of dawns than a lady of the sects encounters in a year's passage. )

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It's not about the financial power of individuals, though. It's about women having autonomy and choice, just as much as men do.

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You speak of ideals.

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Unfortunately, yes. I wish it were a reality but here we are.

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You seek to change the world.