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ways_back_room2016-01-25 06:14 am
bjornwilde) wrote in ways_back_room2016-01-25 06:14 am
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It's the start of another week to slay or make friends with, as you prefer to think of it. Hope y'all in the East Coast are doing well with the Winter Apocalypse 2.0.
I've recent starting this smartphone game called Ingress. The basic idea is that a new element has been discovered which, in large concentrations, opens portals to another dimension. On the other side of this portal are aliens that are giving out portal technology like candy, cause they just want to help humans evolve. In the game, you have to chose a side, the Enlightened, who work with the aliens, or the Resistance, who don't think the aliens have humanities best interests at heart.
For today's topic...if your pup were to start playing this game, which side would they chose based in the information I've given?
I've recent starting this smartphone game called Ingress. The basic idea is that a new element has been discovered which, in large concentrations, opens portals to another dimension. On the other side of this portal are aliens that are giving out portal technology like candy, cause they just want to help humans evolve. In the game, you have to chose a side, the Enlightened, who work with the aliens, or the Resistance, who don't think the aliens have humanities best interests at heart.
For today's topic...if your pup were to start playing this game, which side would they chose based in the information I've given?
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Your question:
Ragnar: New places to discover? Give them to me! -- Enlightened
Teja: Preserve the customs of our people! -- Resistance
Father Harman: Aliens coming to help us? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. I can't imagine they are any more benevolent than our vampires. -- Resistance
Dorian: This is the future!! -- Enlightened
Lady Margolotta: We must join the Century of the Anchovy! -- Enlightened
Katrina Crane: I can adapt, but do I want to? Does this serve my purpose? -- picking the side that is winning in her area
Madame Thénardier: Do I have to do anything? Nah, thanks. -- not playing
Jólasveinar: You what with the what now? Is there food? Why not? -- not playing
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Perhaps when I have a new job.-
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Resistance other reasons: Legolas would be against the very idea of causing damage to the fabric of the world, and would be actively opposed to any use of this technology.
Melinda May would be cautiously Enlightened while gathering all possible intel for how to destroy the aliens when/if it comes to that.
Darcy's neither, she's just here for her sweet sweet portal tech. If allegiance to the Enlightened is required for portal tech, she's not allying herself with them even for that and may be considered "default resistance" but is closer to "so can I get a visa to Asgard?"
Sebastian is like "oh, wow! Aliens! Giving me things! This seems perfectly normal, what kind hearts they have."
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Gaeta, for very obvious reasons, would be Resistance. Dude kind of started a whole mutiny over that sort of thing. I think Curtis might be, too, because he continues to have major trust issues and doesn't believe anyone just gives people stuff out of the goodness of their hearts. He may not be quite as distrustful since coming to Milliways, but that shit takes a long time to squash.
Bolin, on the other hand, would go OH WOW THAT IS SO COOL THANK YOU MYSTERIOUS ALIEN PEOPLE :DDDD and come down on the Enlightened side.
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Yeah, it takes a while to reach a level where your portals don't get immediately squashed. I feel you. :( And even at high levels, you'll have people called "Guardian hunters" who dig through the comm channel for portals that've been unflipped for a while -- usually just before 90 days, since that's when you get a high-level Guardian badge -- and deliberately hunt them down. It's super-shitty, but not technically against the rules, so. I made it to 88 days only because my guardian portal's in a hard-to-reach area of a government building.
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Quinlan: He knows altruistic organizations exist and believe in themselves, but they never see the problems within themselves.
Sabine: After the Empire, she can't believe in mysterious organizations with grand, but vague, goals.
Selina: She's anti-authority and would have more fun being the Resistance.
Luidaeg: For much the same reasons as Selina.
Rollo: He just loves a good fight.
Sam: Simply because ALIENS. Unless Steve went with the Enlightened.
Enlightened...
Ahsoka: She's grown up within an altruistic organization and so believes in them.
Hank: Humanity needs the help and TECH!
Amelia: Simply because the Enlightened seem to have the upper hand (at least in my neck of the world) and she likes humans.
Izana: How could you not fight for what is best for humankind?
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Charles-cautiously Enlightened but he wants to have some conversations about possible evolutions and what's prompting everything.
Quentin-Like Charles, he'd be Enlightened but prepared for it to all go wrong. He's really good at figuring out rules and what he needs to do to keep those he cares about safe. Toby would probably end up Resistance and he'd end up with her.
William-Resistance, no one gives you anything without expecting something in return.
Moist-Enlightened to get all he can from it.
Jane-Enlightened to learn more but cautious as she wants to see how everyone's treated.
Sameth-Enlightened for the sake of wanting to learn more.
Ivan-Resistance, technology isn't given out this way without a major catch and wormholes can cause trouble quickly.
Demeter-Resistance, it sounds like some of the more generous ideas of her family and those never end well.
Tumnus-Enlightened but not terribly involved, portals to other worlds can be wonderful.
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Enjolras: Enlightened, actually! Look, among the ideals he was willing to die for were a lot of 19th century ideals about science and Progress and the gradual improvement of humanity, and the equal distribution of access to knowledge and opportunity. (Are there problems in the implementation of 19th century ideals about the improvement of humanity? YOU BET. He's aware of some of those now, thanks to Milliways. But a lot of the basic principles are still important to him.) I'm not saying he'd instantly trust the aliens to have humanity's best interests at heart, but he's always going to come down on the side of giving out knowledge/education/resources like candy rather than closing oneself away from them.
If you mean "if he were playing a smartphone game" rather than "if he were in that world"... uh, the answer's still true, but also he wouldn't play a smartphone game, sorry.
Cosette: If she actually lived in that world, Enlightened. Cosette wants everyone to get along and be friendly!
If she were playing the smartphone game, she'd pick Enlightened, but she'd also be fascinated with the entire thing. She might do a couple of playthroughs on different sides, to explore... a lot of things. Video games, and also political thoughts (for example, having any.)
Thor would be the aliens, of course.
Or else he'd be a representative of other aliens going HEY SO THESE GUYS ARE PROBABLY NOT THE ONES TO LISTEN TO, HEY PORTAL DUDES BACK OFF MIDGARD, depending on the situation.
If he were playing the smartphone game, he'd... find it kind of redundant (and technologically so quaint omg) to play, but he'd rec it to all his human friends as a thing to think about.
Kazul would be too addicted to Bejeweled to look at it.
(Oh uh and it's hard to pick which side she'd be on in real life because of genre issues, but probably Enlightened While Beadily Staring At The Fine Print.)
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I swear my lunch time walks at work have gotten a mile longer.
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(Although it changes my answer for Cosette for the playing-the-game version, because 19th century bourgeois ladies don't have a ton of freedom for wandering around alone poking into things. She's got that internalized, even at Milliways where it applies less. If she could get Marius to have fun with it too, they might play it together, though!)
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Bahorel would go with the Enlightened option too, thinking it's the most practical, because if the aliens really are just wanting to help humanity--hey, maybe they are! -- or just bored or something, then that's great. And if the aliens aren't so nice after all, then maybe this way humans will have time to study their technology and know what to do in defense when/if an attack comes. When you have a chance to sorta-peacefully learn about a dangerously more powerful group, you learn, that's all.
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Blue for the WIN!!!