If there was a prime minister before some war, then it stood to reason there's not one now. And that Japan had lost said war. Maybe they got absorbed into this empire or maybe they just forced their young and able men to fight for Britannia. Whatever the case, why is it always a war? No matter where you go, even in hell, there will always be someone vying for power.
"It's a long story." They are still walking, through the blood strewn streets of hellburbia. It's almost a fitting backdrop.
"Britannia invaded Japan eight years ago. When they conquered a territory they stripped it of its name, giving it a number instead. Japan became Area Eleven. The people were 'elevens'. There was a route to citizenship though, people could become 'Honoury' Britannians." It's weird explaining this. It's such a basic fact of life in his world that explaining this history was as weird as if he were trying to explain the concept of weather.
"One of the ways to do that was to join the army and I did that. It wasn't so much that I wanted citizenship but... I wanted to change things. Make them better. I thought I could do that, from the inside. If I worked my way through their system, rose through their ranks then they would..."
It hadn't worked, it had been stupid and he knows that now. But he had once held it so highly, that the end never justified the end, that to change things it had to be from within. "So it was my choice, to become a soldier. Being a knight... I was the first. The first eleven... Japanese person, the first number at all to become a Britannian Knight."
Something that had not been met with enthusiasm by the Britannian elite.
The way Suzaku trails off when speaking of his wants, of his dreams. It makes Tech think he didn't have that happy ending, and not necessarily because he wound up in hell. But he went in with the ideal to make things better, to maybe make the government or emperor listen. And something changed. Maybe the government shrugged him off or maybe the change happened within Suzaku himself.
Tech is quiet, but before he realizes it, he's placed his hand on his brother's -- no, not his brother's -- shoulder. Tech can't remember the beginnings of his life, but he does get this sense that he was once happy and enthusiastic to create -- to bring the latest technology to the world. And over the years, things got corrupted. More and more, he got jaded by the world and by the desires of people and by his boss Mr. World. So he can definitely relate to getting twisted by time and circumstances if that's what happened to Suzaku.
"So I see being an overachiever is just in your blood." He offers a teasing smile and gives him a little nudge. His expression becomes more serious, pensive. "You can still make it better, you know. I've maintained this thought that if they can drag us to a variety of different worlds, we can then go to whatever world we want. I don't plan on returning to my world. I'm going to find a different place to live with Ava and start a different life. You don't have to go back to being Suzaku the Knight. You can find someplace else, be the person you want to be in a world you want to live in."
He shakes his head. "The future's not set in stone. And as a god who very much represents the future, you should listen to me. I know what I'm talking about." He winks.
He looked at him when his shoulder was touched and then bowed his head. He's not quite smiling, he rarely does but his eyes lighten.
He's not sure he believes Tech. He wants to. But then again should he? If he was given a choice could he walk away from his world?
Be a person he wanted to be. But that was against everything he had promised. His hopes, his desires, sacrificed for the world. Forever. That was the deal.
A deal that had been interrupted by him being here. Who knew if they could even escape?
So he just nodded. "You sound like you know what you are talking about."
He did. And he didn't want to stomp on that enthusiasm, that lightness, that hope.
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If there was a prime minister before some war, then it stood to reason there's not one now. And that Japan had lost said war. Maybe they got absorbed into this empire or maybe they just forced their young and able men to fight for Britannia. Whatever the case, why is it always a war? No matter where you go, even in hell, there will always be someone vying for power.
"Was it ever something you had a choice in?"
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"Britannia invaded Japan eight years ago. When they conquered a territory they stripped it of its name, giving it a number instead. Japan became Area Eleven. The people were 'elevens'. There was a route to citizenship though, people could become 'Honoury' Britannians." It's weird explaining this. It's such a basic fact of life in his world that explaining this history was as weird as if he were trying to explain the concept of weather.
"One of the ways to do that was to join the army and I did that. It wasn't so much that I wanted citizenship but... I wanted to change things. Make them better. I thought I could do that, from the inside. If I worked my way through their system, rose through their ranks then they would..."
It hadn't worked, it had been stupid and he knows that now. But he had once held it so highly, that the end never justified the end, that to change things it had to be from within. "So it was my choice, to become a soldier. Being a knight... I was the first. The first eleven... Japanese person, the first number at all to become a Britannian Knight."
Something that had not been met with enthusiasm by the Britannian elite.
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Tech is quiet, but before he realizes it, he's placed his hand on his brother's -- no, not his brother's -- shoulder. Tech can't remember the beginnings of his life, but he does get this sense that he was once happy and enthusiastic to create -- to bring the latest technology to the world. And over the years, things got corrupted. More and more, he got jaded by the world and by the desires of people and by his boss Mr. World. So he can definitely relate to getting twisted by time and circumstances if that's what happened to Suzaku.
"So I see being an overachiever is just in your blood." He offers a teasing smile and gives him a little nudge. His expression becomes more serious, pensive. "You can still make it better, you know. I've maintained this thought that if they can drag us to a variety of different worlds, we can then go to whatever world we want. I don't plan on returning to my world. I'm going to find a different place to live with Ava and start a different life. You don't have to go back to being Suzaku the Knight. You can find someplace else, be the person you want to be in a world you want to live in."
He shakes his head. "The future's not set in stone. And as a god who very much represents the future, you should listen to me. I know what I'm talking about." He winks.
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He's not sure he believes Tech. He wants to. But then again should he? If he was given a choice could he walk away from his world?
Be a person he wanted to be. But that was against everything he had promised. His hopes, his desires, sacrificed for the world. Forever. That was the deal.
A deal that had been interrupted by him being here. Who knew if they could even escape?
So he just nodded. "You sound like you know what you are talking about."
He did. And he didn't want to stomp on that enthusiasm, that lightness, that hope.