speakveryclearly: Kanaya looks down at a computer screen casting purple light on her intense face. (Serious)
Kanaya Maryam ([personal profile] speakveryclearly) wrote in [personal profile] gamehead 2013-06-08 04:05 am (UTC)

I have. For the first... [it looks like she's doing math in her head for a second] thir-teen years of my life I had no experience, and grew up on a planet exclusively populated by other members of my own race. Then after a series of incidents [tiny beat] the vast majority of other trolls died. As in only half a dozen were left alive. As part of the same incident, we came into contact with the human world. [For some reason she seems unsure she's answering this question correctly.] There were three particular humans with whom we were able to interact via instant messenger, and then one of them came to join us on our asteroid, while the other two were on a separate journey in a ship. Our plan was to meet in the same location three years from that time - that was the shortest time in which the ship could traverse that distance, while the meteor... the meteor had to arrive at the same time.

And if there is one thing that I have learned from these experiences it is that Earth is not a straightforward civilization. You describe the world around yourselves in arbitrary terms rather than expository. You cloak your communications in sarcasm and irony not because you must to express admiration or contempt but simply because you can. You think... think it's better to vote someone dead or put them in jail than physically kill them...

The troll version of this game probably would have been very different indeed. The human version we see before us - when you consider that even in death the wolves are obligated to conceal from the prey their true nature - yes, I would say the quintessential human trait is not the ability to kill or vote or come up with a cruel method, but the ability to lie. It's something all of us can do that wolves and rabbits cannot.

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