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[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

Hello citizens of Paixao and those in between worlds. I am Marcus Praetoris, and I have decided, rather last minute, to submit my name for the upcoming elections. I came to this decision when I sat outside my home and took a look at those moving through the streets. I found that I was troubled by how our city has grown and changed so extraordinary as time has gone on, and we have shifted far from our customs because of our lack of leadership.

This is wrong.

With this election, I believe that it’s time we return to the traditions that we know to be true in our hearts. Please, my citizens, stand by me so that we may reclaim our city and nourish it back to its proper standing.

Comments

[voice]

[cowardly-hero.livejournal.com]

Just outta curiosity here, how will returning to your old customs affect the cities visitors?

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

The visitors have corrupted our city's ways. Their views must be remedied.

Conformity.

[voice]

[cowardly-hero.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised? You know, for some reason I just I can't see this ending well. But knock yourself out, Marco.

[tenshinomakai.livejournal.com]

Any potential leader who does things last minute is no leader at all.

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

Your opinion is noted.

[tenshinomakai.livejournal.com]

Well, here's another one! I don't trust someone who just comes out of the blue and starts slinging buzzwords like "tradition" and "conformity." And I know I won't be in the minority on that!

[whodoyou-see.livejournal.com]

[Xion doesn't like the sound of this 'conformity' business either.]

Conform how, exactly?

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

Let me ask this: do you have views of your own, morals from your home that you wish dearly could be upheld?

[whodoyou-see.livejournal.com]

I guess.

[Voice]

[i-killedmufasa.livejournal.com]

Oh, now isn't this interesting?

A leader suddenly rising up to protect the ways of a people who go about their daily lives like no more than ants scurrying about their mound?

If I didn't know better, I would say you sound scared.

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

I am scared, for my people.

[Voice]

[i-killedmufasa.livejournal.com]

Scared for a people who can't seem to exert any more will than a leaf blowing in the wind?

Oh, you must be brimming with compassion.

[onabluemoon.livejournal.com]

What would these 'customs' be?

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

To start with, at the very least, how the female outsiders have gone about flaunting their impurity about our city. To come from a society with such little morals...

[onabluemoon.livejournal.com]

Different worlds have different beliefs about how one is to dress. You can't expect newcomers to confirm to your 'rules'.

[mastertemplate.livejournal.com]

[to himself, but loud enough so Marcus can hear it] This is like dealing with Uncle Sam all over again...

[back to normal]
Hel-lo! Praetoris, is it? Fascinating name.

My name is The Master. A fascinating name as well, I know, but that's 'cause I picked it. And might I be the first among all the other candidates to ask what the hell it is you're doing?

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

Excuse me?

[space-jesus.livejournal.com]

Conformity, I fear, is not so easily achieved. In attempting to secure it, you doom yourself and your people to the very destruction you seek to stop.

I have seen this happen countless times. An inflexible leader is soon broken, and his people with him. Adaptation is the key to survival.

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

Adaption has doomed us. We are where we are today because of that adaption, and it has only brought us devastation.

[keyofthesky]

Traditions? Conformity?

What do you mean by that?

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

Do you not have your own traditions of your homeland?

[steamboatqueen.livejournal.com]

Elections? Customs? Traditions?

Aren't we all kidnapped from our own worlds?

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

No. Paixao has always had its residents before outsiders began to appear at our gates; long before.

[Voice]

[blackwatermage.livejournal.com]

[Someone has been listening to the other conversations and isn't sure she likes what she is hearing. It's strengthening her suspicions.]

What are your traditional values? This place does look as though it has a lot of history behind it.

[paixaonpcs.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you did not know where to look. Some of the most sacred of things are not always in plain sight. Sometimes, they cannot afford to be.