tifa lockhart. (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
starshower) wrote2023-12-14 06:08 pm
starshower) wrote2023-12-14 06:08 pm
🌠escordvi inbox.
text 🌠video 🌠voice 🌠action 🌠bottled message
text 🌠video 🌠voice 🌠action 🌠bottled message
text 🌠video 🌠voice 🌠action 🌠bottled message
no subject
[The sadness in her voice is drowned out by the cup of coffee, and she sips hers, leaving it black and bitter.]
Was there really no one else who could save Minrathous while your leader was fighting off in Treviso?
no subject
she's accepted what happened, and she doesn't blame rook any longer, but it still hurts. it's the kind of event that sticks in one's mind. it doesn't go away. ]
They sent a few of our teammates to help, but there wasn't time to mobilize anyone else. We barely had allies at that point and they were all dealing with their own problems. The Shadow Dragons fought as hard as we could, but we're a resistance group. We're not an army. And let's be honest: no one outside cares enough about Tevinter to help, even if they knew in time.
[ being who she is, neve is still very muted as far as emotional responses go in this moment, but for someone who knows her as well as tifa does, it's easy to hear the tension and pain in her voice and to see the same in how she holds herself, the way her arm gestures as she speaks. this event changed her, in ways nothing else has before or since. ]
One of our leaders, the Viper, was blighted. We don't know how long he has until he turns. The Shadows, the only resistance in Minrathous, are now scattered. With the Venatori cult in power, Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain now have the entire Tevinter Empire in their grasp.
[ there was no good choice. neve knows this well. but the picture she's painting now is that the choice ended up being save the civilians in one city at the cost of handing the ancient mages in charge of the blight an entire empire of power. they still haven't seen the full ramifications of that she's sure. ]
no subject
You did what you all could. I know that much.
[She would never think that they didn't, but it still hurts nonetheless to hear that they couldn't save them all. Especially hearing that no one besides those who did try to help didn't care to step in and give their aid.]
You guys sound like us... Avalanche, I mean. Not the crew here, but back home. We were... a kind of resistance group, too. Fought as hard as we could to save a lot of people, but... there's only so much you can do in the end.
[That is something that Tifa is very clearly still trying to come to terms with, as she brings the coffee to her lips to hide her frown and sips.]
no subject
[ to the rest of thedas, tevinter is the land of slaves and blood magic. not many would think it a nation that deserves to be saved. and like rana had said when she and rook crossed paths after the attack: if rook had been in minrathous instead, maybe it would have made a difference, or maybe they'd be dead, too. there's no way to tell.
tifa's soft tale gives neve a moment to breathe, to bring herself out of the memories and the pain of explaining everything. something else to focus on. someone else's tale. ]
What were you fighting against?
[ she hasn't talked specifically about the shadows and the parts of tevinter culture they were fighting against, but maybe that's something they can slowly get into together. tifa's first, though. ]
no subject
[A crooked smile at Neve before it vanishes behind her cup.]
They're called Shinra Electric Power Company, but the name doesn't really say much. They're a corporation who takes up all the life blood of the Planet, killing it.
[And while she doesn't agree with Avalanche's more extreme methods, she joined their fight for a different reason. Something a little more selfish than fighting for the Planet, but she won't get into that. Not here.
As she goes on, she makes a very concerted effort to keep her tone even and calm.]
They're selfish and don't care about the people. They'd let all of us rot if it meant that they had more power, more money.