This would need some delicate explaining. The idea of telling Yylfordt didn't exactly thrill her, especially since he was a little bit like her, but in the opposite direction, if nowhere near as militant. He was casually bigoted, her aunt, her family, were outright monsters.
"I'm ..." another sigh. "It sounds backwards, but on Jylland, Class is ... a thing. People there can have land and titles and my family does. It's an old line. Some of the others, like the family the Noah belong to, are similarly old and landed and titled and they have their fancy Kekkei Genkai to go with it. My family doesn't, and some of the ones without them went the other way, and consider themselves superior to everybody fucking else. Other races, other species... they consider Mistants to be tainted filth, and they're not quiet about it."
She turned to look at him, unhappiness all over her face.
"You can imagine how well it went down when I was born," she said. "It's a minor mutation, but it still got me a tag. That woman, Bellatrix, wanted to have me struck off the family tree so I couldn't taint the line again in the future so that if I had any descendants, they wouldn't count to spoil the purity of the Black line. They traditionally marry among a couple of handfuls of noble bloodlines, ones without Kekkei Genkai, and don't even associate with people they consider beneath them. Her coming here is bad. The Palace is full of Mistants and Selkies and Al Bhed and ... whatever it was that Kuja is, and she's short tempered and has no problem calling people filth because they have blond hair, or grey skin or whatever else. She's going to say something, and something will happen."
Bellatrix was insane. She would come to the Lowerworld, where she didn't belong, and bitch about their traditions and act like she was entitled to special treatment, as if her name meant anything down here. She'd already badmouthed both her, and Yylfordt, and complained about the lack of hospitality...
"She does non-traditional magic, spells outside of the Mage arts. Some of them are really nasty."
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Date: 2019-01-13 08:40 pm (UTC)This would need some delicate explaining. The idea of telling Yylfordt didn't exactly thrill her, especially since he was a little bit like her, but in the opposite direction, if nowhere near as militant. He was casually bigoted, her aunt, her family, were outright monsters.
"I'm ..." another sigh. "It sounds backwards, but on Jylland, Class is ... a thing. People there can have land and titles and my family does. It's an old line. Some of the others, like the family the Noah belong to, are similarly old and landed and titled and they have their fancy Kekkei Genkai to go with it. My family doesn't, and some of the ones without them went the other way, and consider themselves superior to everybody fucking else. Other races, other species... they consider Mistants to be tainted filth, and they're not quiet about it."
She turned to look at him, unhappiness all over her face.
"You can imagine how well it went down when I was born," she said. "It's a minor mutation, but it still got me a tag. That woman, Bellatrix, wanted to have me struck off the family tree so I couldn't taint the line again in the future so that if I had any descendants, they wouldn't count to spoil the purity of the Black line. They traditionally marry among a couple of handfuls of noble bloodlines, ones without Kekkei Genkai, and don't even associate with people they consider beneath them. Her coming here is bad. The Palace is full of Mistants and Selkies and Al Bhed and ... whatever it was that Kuja is, and she's short tempered and has no problem calling people filth because they have blond hair, or grey skin or whatever else. She's going to say something, and something will happen."
Bellatrix was insane. She would come to the Lowerworld, where she didn't belong, and bitch about their traditions and act like she was entitled to special treatment, as if her name meant anything down here. She'd already badmouthed both her, and Yylfordt, and complained about the lack of hospitality...
"She does non-traditional magic, spells outside of the Mage arts. Some of them are really nasty."