I'm watching a movie. With the lights off the change in accommodations isn't quite so noticeable.
Imagine if Scarlet paid a visit to...I don't know, say Gongaga, and was so captivated by the charms of a humble and badly-dressed reactor technician with a beard that she decided to resign her board position to live there permanently.
The reactor technician also owns a plot of land that he grows trees on, only to cut them down and prop them up dead and decorated in people's homes.
The idea of Scarlet in jeans and flannel just sent a cold shiver down my spine. Is this entertainment? Willingly? Do I need to ask you for your code phrase for extraction?
[No-Shave November? More like Don't Do It December.]
Decorative. Scarlet hasn't had the time to get herself one since she started working at her board position and Flannel Reeve finds this shocking for some reason.
Red does seem to be a thematic color. Also green and silver. It's tenuous, but you're right that there might be a connection. Around here, tenuous is still more likely than a coincidence.
Worse. The suggestion is that her board position is actively detrimental to her ability to recognize the ritual, much less engage with it. I think the phrase "soulless corporate robot" was used.
While it doesn't seem impossible to observe such a ritual while also holding a corporate job, if forced to choose between the two I can't imagine landing on the side of a social ritual involving trees.
[ local man who has never said "i love you" out loud asks, ]
Is that really love, then? It seems that he should be supportive of her goals. And if the tree issue is so important to him, then they can compromise or part ways.
[ it's not what tseng expects rufus to say, so it takes a couple read-throughs to absorb it all. an excuse to give tseng a gift. funny. tseng was just thinking the same about rufus. ]
I'm sure they will. None of the transformations here have lasted longer than a handful of weeks.
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Imagine if Scarlet paid a visit to...I don't know, say Gongaga, and was so captivated by the charms of a humble and badly-dressed reactor technician with a beard that she decided to resign her board position to live there permanently.
The reactor technician also owns a plot of land that he grows trees on, only to cut them down and prop them up dead and decorated in people's homes.
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You wouldn't resign your post for Flannel Reeve and his mortuary trees, would you?
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[ somehow he manages to make this single text sound deeply insulted. how dare you even ask that rufus ]
What ia the purpose of the tree in the living quarters?
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[No-Shave November? More like Don't Do It December.]
Decorative. Scarlet hasn't had the time to get herself one since she started working at her board position and Flannel Reeve finds this shocking for some reason.
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I see. The trees hold some sort of cultural significance, I assume.
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Apparently gifts go underneath them. Like a birthday...tree.
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[ despite himself, tseng is intrigued. ]
Is the suggestion that Scarlet should care more about this tree-and-gift ritual and less about her board position?
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Worse. The suggestion is that her board position is actively detrimental to her ability to recognize the ritual, much less engage with it. I think the phrase "soulless corporate robot" was used.
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And for the beard man, presumably.
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Is that really love, then? It seems that he should be supportive of her goals. And if the tree issue is so important to him, then they can compromise or part ways.
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Maybe the beard man doesn't have ambitions of his own. Sidelining hers for his trees could be her way of convincing him that he's important to her.
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I see flaws in this plan, but far be it from me to judge the merits of a (fictional?) couple's relationship.
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Regardless, she's willing to give up her ambitions for trees. I don't take her for a pinnacle of strategic thinking.
It does look nice with the lights on it, though. The tree. They put a star on top.
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[ tseng will allow that it probably made his ass look nice. ]
Ambitions or lack thereof aside, are there aspects of this cultural ritual that interest you?
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[There's a pause here, but shinra is typing... appears all through it, so it's evidently not one designed to make Tseng wait.]
I wouldn't mind a ritual-sanctioned excuse to give you a gift. Assuming they ever return access to our funds and amenities.
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I'm sure they will. None of the transformations here have lasted longer than a handful of weeks.
I wouldn't mind an excuse either.
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What are your thoughts on the ritual tree?
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But if we were to locate one, I would think we should make good use of it.
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We'd need to decorate it. Per the custom.
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