un: worm wife / text

[wifedup]

( There is absolutely someone out there fucking with Wen Kexing, and so if anyone mentions the state of his new name he's going to commit Attrocities. He's here for a reason ... admittedly a potential wife reason, but still! You mention being a worm one time and fate laughs at you. )

It's come to my attention we're all very demure about our own skill sets. When it comes to trying to work together that reticence might be to our detriment. Especially considering the wealth of people we have here, what if one of us is in need of a carpenter and we don't know where to go? Or a scribe, those might be handy with all the terrible meetings we have to listen to. Or a healer, even.

( A healer especially, but he is the most subtle and anyone implying otherwise needs to be quiet. )

And so, I thought it might be a good idea if we instead shared what we were good at. I can go first.

Cooking.
A pursuer of scholarly endeavours.
Passable martial arts.
Provider of wine.

If anyone needs any poetry or lessons in how not to burn water then I am certainly your man. I know these aren’t exactly the more useful of skills, but there are bound to be more capable people out there. We need to help each other in these trying times, after all.

( We also need to not be lying bastards, but oh well. )

Comments

[nothinglikefather]

I'm more concerned with what the people around him do to him, but you know your home better than others. And here... well, I've not seen anyone make a fuss. Not within our group, anyway.

[lonelydream]

[ For better or for worse, Wen Kexing has made himself someone quite difficult for anyone to do anything to. Zhou Zishu would stand at his side, in any case, and that makes it all the more difficult for anyone to target him. ]

I'm glad to hear it. He seems to have found himself friends.

[nothinglikefather]

I'm not sure if he'd call me friend. Useful, more like. But he thinks highly of you. Obviously. You know that.

[lonelydream]

Yes.

[ Because it'd be an insult to Lao Wen and himself both to claim otherwise. ]

He did mention you. That's rather high praise already.

[nothinglikefather]

Christ, I assume nothing good.

[lonelydream]

It wasn't anything bad.

[nothinglikefather]

That's a small blessing, considering everything. Then again, it's probably best we don't know the truth about people we call friends. I doubt most of us are blameless.

[lonelydream]

Man is, as a whole, terrible. Someone who has done terrible things is not necessarily a bad person, though.

[nothinglikefather]

All depends on the intention, in my experience.

[lonelydream]

The greater good, I suppose.

[nothinglikefather]

And that's just a matter of perspective. Most people don't agree on what a greater good really is.

[lonelydream]

How would you describe it?

[nothinglikefather]

I'm not the best person to ask. And I don't think you've got time to listen to the Brotherhood's bloody long-winded doctrine. But, the long and the short of it? People should be free to make their own decisions without being controlled or manipulated by others. Sink or swim under their own steam.

[lonelydream]

Peace and prosperity for the citizens, unharmed by the power struggles of those who would seek to rule them.

[nothinglikefather]

Do people need to be ruled at all? No, forget I said that. It was rhetorical.

[lonelydream]

[ Interesting. ]

Forgotten.

[nothinglikefather]

What do you think it is? The elusive "greater good"?

[lonelydream]

As I said. A world where the citizens of the country are able to live in peace and prosperity.

[nothinglikefather]

Free from the interference of others?

[lonelydream]

At least without suffering through countless wars that have no lasting effect on their daily lives.

[nothinglikefather]

...Well, we agree on that at least. I imagine Wennie would do as well. He's quite the heroic sort, isn't he?

[lonelydream]

He'd deny it, but yes. Very much so.

[nothinglikefather]

Most of them do, for one reason or another. The ones that tell you that they're saints are normally bastards.

[lonelydream]

It's the great hypocriticism of heroes. The lie of it. Boys grow up wanting to be heroes; they believe in the glory and honour of it. Men realize that there is no glory, and very little honour to be had.

[nothinglikefather]

Then wouldn't you say that's a problem with the way we talk about heroes? Doing the right thing is more important than glory and honour is a load of bullshit.