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[not_apriest]

[Aramis is in the garden with coffee and a book.]

I've been reading through what will be France's history in most of your times. Did anyone here experience either of what they refer to as the 'World Wars'? The notion of a violent global conflict is...

Unsettling.

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[killjoyteaboy]

Sorry, I'm a bit young to have been there for either one, but I have to ask --

[He doesn't look young enough for D'Artagnan.]

Would you be Aramis or Athos?

[not_apriest]

[Aramis cocks his head slightly, caught a bit off-guard by the abrupt change of subject.]

...Aramis. I take it you've read that book.

[killjoyteaboy]

Well, yes, and a friend of yours greeted me on my arrival yesterday.

[Technically he'd been around for a few days, but being a teenager makes it not count as far as he's concerned.]

Ianto Jones -- it's a pleasure.

[not_apriest]

[Aramis offers a hand at that. It seems to be what's done in their time.]

Are you new?

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[airshipswank]

[ Exciting was the word Buckingham would have chosen, but to each their own. To Aramis his loser talk, which the duke finds to be an especially delightful irony, given that the Musketeers have served him his excuse for war on a silver platter. ]

Do you now? Your last approach to foreign politics hides your... unsettledness rather remarkably well.

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[not_apriest]

You were the aggressor and war with England is not a war with the world.

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[airshipswank]

I was-- [ Buckingham presses the flat of his palm to his chest, blinks in utter bafflement, and probably somehow wills the light in his room to form a halo above his head. ] Has His Majesty's peace proposal offended France? Did... my very visit incite your attack on the Tower?

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[not_apriest]

Don't be obtuse.

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[scorchedlily]

[Someone is watching this exchange with a great deal of interest, and the sound transmitter carefully muted.]

[seekingbrother]

I...I haven't personally, but my brother read about them recently since he comes from a few years before the second one begins. [Al grimaces.] He made me promise to not read about that one for my own sake, but the first...everything I've read is horrifying.

[not_apriest]

All war is horrifying. Why these in particular? The scale of the loss of life?

[seekingbrother]

Mmm. I mean, my home country is no stranger to war, but...not on that sort of scale.

[not_apriest]

Indeed. It looks like civilian populations were ravaged without regard.

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[tellingthelies]

[Lying Cat stares at this post for awhile before responding simply with a derisive snort. A World War? Is that all? What kind of backwater planet is he from?]

[not_apriest]

...Hello?

[tellingthelies]

[She switches to text.]

WRLD W AR?

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[psalmed]

...you mean there is more?

[Someone stopped reading after the Revolution.]

[not_apriest]

Considerably. None of it all that uplifting, I'm afraid.

[psalmed]

...is any of it uplifting?

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[rues]

[ clarisse is much too young to have fought in either, but considering her dad is literally the god of war, she's heard a lot of great war stories — when she actually gets to see her dad, that is. which... isn't often, but she'd rather not think about that. ]

Fun fact: you can blame the gods for World War II. Well, blame their kids, anyway.

[ clarisse. how is that a fun fact. that is not fun at all. but, hey, she's a war kid. she's not really unsettled by it as much as she probably should be. it's just who she is. ]

[not_apriest]

The...gods?

[The thing he's having the most issue with here is definitely the distinct lack of monotheism.]

[rues]

[ clarisse sighs heavily and rolls her eyes. she's lost track of how many people she's had to explain the gods to. ]

Yes, the gods. Ever heard of Greek mythology? All real. Got your living proof right here. [ say hello to your not-so-friendly neighborhood demigod! ]

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[mph]

It sucks, but it's getting really common now, at least when I'm from. Everyone wants to know everything about everyone and everyone's got nukes and mutants stronger than nukes. I'm surprised we haven't had World War III yet.

My grandpa was in the camps though.

[not_apriest]

...Which camps?

[He hasn't exactly read more than a basic summary.]

[mph]

[ Oh boy, here we go. For as blase as Tommy tries to be about most things, genocide isn't exactly a breezy subject. ]

Long story short? The Nazis rounded up all the Jews they could get their hands on and put them in labor camps that really were just elaborate murder camps. Saying that it was bad would be an understatement.