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[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Yasogami High School
When: 6/28-7/1
Rating: Warn if you go higher than PG-13
Summary: Open log for the Persona 4 event! Everyone is spending some time as students and instructors at Yasogami High School in Inaba, Japan.
The Story:
For the weekend, everyone is either a teacher or a student at a Japanese high school. Enjoy Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and look forward to exams on Monday.

The full event description is located here and the plot post is here, with a Q&A thread where you can ask questions.

Comments

[bibliocorn]

...It could use a little more eloquence in the response, but mostly yes. Edouard was an innocent. He did nothing to Dantes, and yet he was killed due to Dantes' thirst for reve-

[He clocks the pictures.]

Um. I don't think that was quite what Dumas pictured for his character, honestly.

[powerofmabel]

Are you sure? I've read a lot of manga and tragic heroes always have eyes that look good brimming over with tears of anguish.

[bibliocorn]

[Sweetie, no.]

I don't think a French antihero would quite fit into a manga somehow. But points for bringing something new to the text.

[powerofmabel]

[You know there's a Count of Monte Cristo anime/manga out there somewhere, Sunburst.]

Thank you. That's what literature's all about- forcing a new interpretation to make the old one make more sense for a modern audience. [She stabs her eraser into her desk for emphasis.]

[bibliocorn]

[There absolutely is and he hates it.]

That's not- that's not exactly what literature is about and likely a theory best brought up in media studies. For now, let's focus on this text- and the moral quandaries within it.

[powerofmabel]

Right. [She takes a deep breath.] Revenge is bad and doesn't help anyone, and if you have a problem, you should deal with it like a woman, because trust me. If Edward had been a woman, this would not have happened. Am I right, ladies?

[Mabel please.]

[bibliocorn]

[Oh boy here we go. He kind of stares skyward.]

As much as I completely back and encourage your feminist leanings, I'm afraid you won't really find them in a nineteenth-century French novel. But yes. That's correct, revenge doesn't help anyone.

[powerofmabel]

[Mabel steeples her fingers.] He should have just confronted his enemies and if they didn't listen, force them to.

[Which is different from revenge, because she says so.]

[bibliocorn]

That's- that's largely the same thing, Miss Pines, just more direct. And given he was supposed to be a dead man, unmasking himself so blatantly would have probably got him dragged back to the Chateau d'if

[powerofmabel]

And plastic surgery was definitely not an option?

[bibliocorn]

Nnnnnnnot in that time period. No.

[Mabel, sweetheart, why does your mind work like this? Are you gonna be a tiny serial killer one day? He has some real concerns. ]

Besides, the point of the novel is that revenge isn't worth it. That persuing it is simply planting the seeds of your own misery.

[powerofmabel]

[She huffs. There is really no solution where Edward gets the girl and also makes the people who wronged him aware of how much they suck, is there? Rude.] So the answer is just start a new life in another country and move on? That feels miserable to the audience.

[bibliocorn]

[Sometimes, you don't get what you want.]

Unfortunately so. He chose to live his life, instead of allowing revenge to control it- and he was happier for it. He still had someone who loved him for who he was.

[powerofmabel]

I guess if he didn't die sad and alone, that's not so bad.

[bibliocorn]

There is that. As soon as he chose to step away from his past, he had a future to step into instead. Possibly not the ending he wanted, but the ending he needed.