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princess maker - Heart Soldier Senshi
[ When you insert the key and open the door, you'll find yourself in a humble cottage, in what seems to be the living room specifically. There are several doors, but a specific one catches your eye: simple in its decoration, the door has a cute little wooden plaque with flowers carved into it. Though the door is closed, you can see through it—as if it's somewhat transparent.
A wooden cradle sits in the room beyond, which is otherwise plain. Inside, a baby sleeps peacefully. When she stirs, calling for her parent, you are there to cradle her back to sleep. ]
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[ Slowly, the scene changes, fading in and out with various silent scenes—the baby coos pleasantly, giggling jovially when you (presumably) make faces at her; she tries to pick herself up and falls over, but she does not cry; a disagreement between you and her lead to a thoughtful discussion; the young girl carries a large laundry basket to do chores; she buys a pet bird, looking so proud for having earned the money all by herself; then the wall becomes opaque. ]
[ In the middle of the open doorway, a young girl the age of 10 stands, smiling at you. A bird with beautiful plumage rests on her shoulder.
This is your daughter. You tried your best to rear her, and she's been good to you. You know she is capable of anything if she puts her mind to it - even becoming a princess. But you also know it's not easy to become a princess - she'll have to work hard, and she's capable of it but you'll have to guide her hand, most certainly. Better she become a princess than go off to war, though; you could not stand to see your baby girl die on the battlefield. Whether she actually becomes a princess or not . . . well, that's up to fate, isn't it? All you can do is try your best. ]
A wooden cradle sits in the room beyond, which is otherwise plain. Inside, a baby sleeps peacefully. When she stirs, calling for her parent, you are there to cradle her back to sleep. ]
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[ Slowly, the scene changes, fading in and out with various silent scenes—the baby coos pleasantly, giggling jovially when you (presumably) make faces at her; she tries to pick herself up and falls over, but she does not cry; a disagreement between you and her lead to a thoughtful discussion; the young girl carries a large laundry basket to do chores; she buys a pet bird, looking so proud for having earned the money all by herself; then the wall becomes opaque. ]
[ In the middle of the open doorway, a young girl the age of 10 stands, smiling at you. A bird with beautiful plumage rests on her shoulder.
This is your daughter. You tried your best to rear her, and she's been good to you. You know she is capable of anything if she puts her mind to it - even becoming a princess. But you also know it's not easy to become a princess - she'll have to work hard, and she's capable of it but you'll have to guide her hand, most certainly. Better she become a princess than go off to war, though; you could not stand to see your baby girl die on the battlefield. Whether she actually becomes a princess or not . . . well, that's up to fate, isn't it? All you can do is try your best. ]
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Now it's back to business I guess. ]
It seems we're on our own if we want to catch the human traffickers and change the peoples' hearts.
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I have two separate thoughts for what we can do next, but I doubt that we can accomplish both at the same time.
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My first thought is we can make a public campaign in the areas outside of the capital to try to change peoples' thoughts about Plague Bringers--similar to how we used good deeds and charity to improve Joy's image in town, we could try to win the hearts of the people by claiming to all be Plague Bearers, and working with Joy to do so.
Our second option is to go undercover and attempt to lure them out by posing as potential buyers--nobles from another city or another country, even--and seeking them in the cities beyond.
They're both risky options. For the first, there may be people who would like to hurt us, the way they'd like to hurt those Plague Bearers behind the wall--they might even try to turn us over to the authorities to ship us off to the border. With our abilities they'd only be able to torture us, not kill us--but that in itself would still be an unideal outcome. As for the second, well. That presents its own obvious danger and sliminess.
Our third option, and perhaps the most dangerous, is to join the military--all of us together--to try to raise an insurrection from within the ranks of the army. If we have the support of the military and the plague bearers alike, then even if the nobles didn't like it, we could do as we please. [ pause ] Undoubtedly, though, this option would require the most bloodshed.
[ she. she doesn't seem too bothered by that, though..... ]
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For option one, the problem with that is how very anti-plague the people of the capital can be. They're not above violence, we've already see that. We can do it, but we should be prepared for, er... getting stoned.
The third option, we probably couldn't bring Joy to the military. The consistent response we've got from the military is that our friends are willing to help us, but there's only so far they can go. We only have three weeks, we'd need a lot more time to convince everyone.
Option 2... I think we could pull that off.
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... However, it might be a larger problem than we have the time to handle. If there was only one thing we could successfully accomplish in the time we're here, and nothing larger at stake, no--systemic problem--then simply finding and eradicating the slavers would be sufficient.
But I worry, about the world that we'd be leaving behind then--for the people behind that wall, and the children who will continue to be born and shunned--for Joy herself, even.
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We can make a start, and light the spark of revolution, but she has to be the one to finish it.
We need to ask her which plan she wants.
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Regardless of our actions here - as long as a King sits upon the throne who won't do anything about the situation, or even hear the people's grievances, our success will be limited.
What this Kingdom needs is better leadership. If Joy still wants to meet the Prince...
[ We just raised a hero, didn't we? ]
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No. We need to do something to save them too. But I think...
We only have three weeks, so we need to do something big to really win people's hearts if we go that way. And we would only be able to start a change. Joy would have to be the one to finish it.
We have to make sure she becomes the princess.
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Even if we take out the slave trade, that's not gonna help the people living in the Capital, behind the barrier. If we even want a shot at everyone coming out of this better off, we need to try and get at the root of the problem.
And who knows? If we're showy enough, we're bound to get soe attention from the wrong kind of people, right? Maybe we'll lure them out just by doing our thing out in public.
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Perhaps babies and children have been targets before because they're defenseless. However, if we posed a danger to their livelihood, it could drive them to make a move. ... We could lie, and claim that we have a young infant in our care as well? Perhaps even claim that Joy's bird is a an infant Plague Bearer, transformed into a bird.
In either case, if a showy display doesn't work for luring them out, we could try one and then the other, if everyone is amenable. Though I worry that we may not have much time left to do everything.... we simply have to try.
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I kinda want to take stock of what we know about the political situation here, before we make any decisions. 'Cause whatever we do next may either end up ineffectual or cause complete upheaval.
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no that's like 80% a joke ]
I wonder how much overlap there is between the council people an those who deal in the trafficking of humans. We're running out of time, though--if we intend to investigate the Council, we'll need to do that either before or at the same time that we do whatever else we're doing.
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However, they might be able to get word from the Councillors' guards
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Also, apparently the legitimacy of his rule and previous monarchs is...built on this discrimination. Like, from what we've heard. The barrier seems to be him trying to push some sort of reform while still toeing tradition, but I doubt trying to protect them in this way is viable in the long term.
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