♪02 (BBS) / oh god i'm so sorry for tl;dr

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[After taking Luka's advice, Rin has written a short essay and then... posted it. With the translators help, of course. Forgive how it's badly written, for the English class is clearly not finished and she doesn't understand run on sentences and the like. At 16:30 anyone is free to see Rin hovering over her translator's shoulder in the Library, half-whispering the words so that it'll be written just right.]

TITLE: Discrimination of the Junior Cadets in this Garden.

I do believe, fellow Cadets, that there is a serious problem at hand! Those of us considered under age are also seen as unable to complete duties that the older Cadets are handed so easily. This, I believe, is unfair! So I have written an essay. An essay about equality between all students, young or old! About giving us the chances that the others are given and we are not. Like flying the Garden! And other things. Don't let us forget the Disciplinary Committee and its leader. That guy. You know the one I'm talking about. Tall, blond, rude, smells bad.

So we'll start easy. Clubs and Committees. Older students have not been given a second look when joining any of these, and are handed the responsibilities without question. If a younger student were to ask for the same privileges, would they be given the chance? I think not! They would be judged, and all immediately assume that because we're young and/or small, we can't do the job! But this is absolutely incorrect! I know I could do just what the older students do, and I bet twice as better because I'm smaller and lighter. The more difficult things like going in high places or small spaces, could the older students do this? No, but I could! Ask the younger students to help! You don't know what we're capable of without letting us try!

Imagine trying to hang up special lights for the Garden Festival, but you choose an older student to climb up the ladder. Then they fall! They fall, they break a leg, and they blame you. This would be terrible. But what if you chose me, or another young student? Why, we would have it done as quick as butter, and if we got hurt we would heal quickly because we're kids, and that's just what we do. That Disciplinary Committee can't be taken seriously with all sour faced adults! Nobody will trust them without a cute face around to look at. Take this into consideration!

So rethink your choice when choosing one of the other simply because of age.

However, when it comes to piloting the Garden, I understand that you need someone with experience. What if I told you I have spent a lot of time playing video games in which I pilot a plane? That's experience! And who ever learns it right off the bat? I think, if you start a piloting class, you could have plenty of pilots available in order to give the others rest. One person doing the flying all the time has to be tiring, and without anybody to take up the slack it's just troublesome and it'll definitely get old. Not to mention, I personally would love to be given at least one day to fly the Garden. And it's for a good cause, I promise! It may fly, but I've driven the Road Roller for years and years, and I know how to flatten people just right! I could do it with this Garden, and it would be twice as effective.

Haven't you ever thought, "gosh, that person is so annoying, I wish I could just flatten them without getting in trouble"? Well you can! I'll do the damage, and you won't get your hands dirty. The other Gardens will be jealous that you have the gusto to use this Garden in such a way. If this idea is not approved of, than I only ask that I get one day to command the controls. You see, when the day comes, there is one particular person that must be punished. Punished because I know, we all know, that he will arrive in greed, alone and without the rest of our family! So, this must be done.

Don't you see? The young have amazing ideas! Don't just leave us on the side until we get old and boring like everybody else! Let us do our best!

RIN.

[And she's fairly proud of herself, even though she probably should have just written it down and sent it to the Headmaster rather than publicly posting it. Really, she doesn't mean any harm.]

Comments

OH GOD PLEASE FORGIVE ME.

[cadetshota.livejournal.com]

[He's treating this entire post like something the Senate would write. As in copious amounts of documents scrawled in elderly handwriting and sent to the Imperial Palace for review and his signature... all that stuff... yeah...]

[certainescape.livejournal.com]

*it

[certainescape.livejournal.com]

and, well, you don't have to get all shakespeare on us just to prove your point!

[cadetshota.livejournal.com]

[certainescape.livejournal.com]

what, you always type like that?

[cadetshota.livejournal.com]

[certainescape.livejournal.com]

speech is the vocalized form of human communication. i never said i didn't understand what you were typing :| it's bad form to be mean to someone just because they disagree with you.

[certainescape.livejournal.com]

if you're seriously in charge of a kingdom, don't you get pr lessons? the more of a public figure you are, the more you're going to get attacked for looking down on others. even if they deserve it. which i don't!

[rebellingheart]

I don't really have anything too relevant to say, but I just wanted to let you know that they way you type is really cool! It sounds so official and important!

[cadetshota.livejournal.com]

[rebellingheart]

I figured that much, it was just really fun to read that's all.

[cadetshota.livejournal.com]

/pats

[rebellingheart]

I'll be on the lookout for your particular brand of typing in the future then.

[spiralclasm.livejournal.com]

[Vaan barely reads this. He only skims because 'blahblahblah I write too much' but the words 'sky' and 'pira--' catch his eye. And he starts re-reading the entire thing.]

LARSA!?

HEY IT'S VAAN! this has gotta be you right?

[cadetshota.livejournal.com]

[spiralclasm.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

i didn't know you were here, but just like you to write something that long.

kjfd THERE IS AN OPPONENT

[roadrolling.livejournal.com]

I don't need practice, I know what I'm doing!

A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS. Oh gosh they would not get along as friends;;

[cadetshota.livejournal.com]

which is too bad because they're funny like this XD

[roadrolling.livejournal.com]

If that's the case, then I can't practice if they don't let me pilot! Hey, you're a ruler or something, I don't see why you couldn't pilot the Garden if you wanted to, too. Don't let them put you down!

XD it's okay; one day they'll meet :D

[cadetshota.livejournal.com]

[He totally ignores the ruler comment and focuses on the topic at hand.]

Back up! Er...

[spiralclasm.livejournal.com]

hey, he's got a point..

it's cool that you wanna pilot the Garden, who wouldn't, but you don't even know what you're doing yet.

oh, and i'm for the piloting class. maybe they could let us practice on it.

XD

[roadrolling.livejournal.com]

I know well enough. You steer left, it goes left. You turn right, it goes right. Just tell me where the gas pedal is and it's cake after that!

I'll petition for a piloting class!

[spiralclasm.livejournal.com]

i don't know if it works like that, but okay. hey, it might..

and if they never let us try it, how are we gonna know anyway? we need real experience.

i'm behind you! piloting class

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

You're thirteen?

Well, you've got a good head on you, I'll give you that... but I had a hard enough time reading that nonsense up there! This post is so stuffy I nearly suffocated.

I agree with you and all, but next time, just get to the point!

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