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doesnotkneel ([personal profile] doesnotkneel) wrote2014-05-24 02:31 pm
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Room 512, Saturday Morning

Edward wasn't scaling up the dorms. He wasn't that bloody ill-prepared. What he was, though, was bored - bored enough to try and see just how difficult it would be, scaling up the building. Or getting out of it. It was a fairly tall building and if it caught fire--

It'd be nice to know another way out.

So he'd climbed into the window and was now sat perched on the windowsill, glancing down, occasionally trying a ledge with his foot while the lizard part of his mind tried to make out a path that wouldn't end in certain disaster.

Just another old day in the dorms.

[[ open post, open door ]]
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[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-24 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm Dauntless," Four said. "I don't flinch away from danger, but I don't go chasing it down, either. We have a short enough life span as it is."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-24 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Dauntless?" Edward said, shooting him an amused look. "Ah, I'm sure we can find something that daunts you in a tavern somewhere."

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-24 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Any time," Four said, grinning. "I can drink and fight just fine."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-24 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's what they all say," Edward said. "Mostly when they've already got the drink in them, mind you."

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-24 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Four smiled again. "I don't need to be drunk to know I can handle myself."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-24 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Get in a lot of fights, do you?" Edward said, sitting down on his bed, looking amused.

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-24 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Four said with a little shrug. "It's part of Dauntless initiation works. Hand-to-hand, then with weapons."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-24 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Edward squinted at him. "Wait," he said, "This isn't some word you're just throwing about, is it? What are you talking about?"

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-24 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's my faction at home," Four explained. "Dauntless--the Brave Ones. A bit like a tribe, I guess. Society's divided into five factions to stop human nature from killing each other again."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-24 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think I missed some steps in this tale of yours," Edward said, after a brief pause and with a small chuckle.

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-24 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Four chuckled too, happier and more at ease than normal. "Sorry. I forget who's heard this song and dance. At home, the only thing left is the city I live in: humanity turned on itself a few centuries back and basically killed themselves. Our ancestors built a big wall and came up with the faction system, pretty much divided along the major personality traits of all of our citizens. Dauntless decided people weren't brave enough under the old system and our training tries to negate that problem."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-25 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
It sounded both like a fiction and a very dubious way in which to tackle such a problem; Edward frowned. "So instead of divvying up people based on their birth, you've moved to doing so based on their character?" he asked. "How's that working out for you?"

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-25 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Pretty good," Four said with a shrug. "We haven't had a war in generations."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-25 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Seems a bit dull," Edward noted. "Is it hard to move between groups?"

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-25 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"You only get the chance to switch once," Four said. "In a Choosing Ceremony when you're 16. You get to take a test to see which faction might be the best fit for you, then you choose in front of the entire society. Faction before blood--it doesn't matter where your family came from; it's where you belong that matters."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-25 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Edward still looked skeptical, but then, it sounded a bit far away to his ears. "And that stays the same all your life?"

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-25 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Generally," Four said. "Dauntless don't tend to have the highest lifespans ever..."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-25 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"You sound disposable," Edward said. "At least, to the ones who are running things around there."

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-25 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"We're the soldiers and the police," Four said. "Our jobs are to protect the others because they don't have the temperaments to do it for themselves."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-25 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Who determines what goes in this test of yours?" Edward asked.

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-25 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's been tested and tweaked by the Erudite," Four said. "They're our educators and scientists. You're presented with a series of scenarios and the choices you make give you the faction you'd match best with. Of course, you're not required to choose the faction you're matched with, but I think most do."
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-25 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Edward let out a snort. "Not so different from my time after all, then."

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-25 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh?" Four replied, leaning in the doorway. "How so?"
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[personal profile] doesnotkneel 2014-05-25 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"The people who hoard the knowledge dictate things for the rest of you," Edward said. "You can run out of pace, but you don't get treated too well if you try, I'd imagine."

[identity profile] dauntless-four.livejournal.com 2014-05-25 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Four's lips quirked up. "Not especially well, no. The facionless are hardly thought of as human at all by most people."
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