post palace takeout! [week 5]

[beathollow]

( at some point a bedraggled lot in yukatas manage to make their way to the dorm, shower and patch themselves up. and then mafuyu makes a very earnest request that they all go out for dinner, and, well, apparently many struggle to refuse her.

this is how they find themselves in something akin to a denny's or an ihop at like, midnight.




as one does. )

Comments

[vogelfrei]

Why aren't you one? Personal choice or circumstance?

[ He's not going to judge hard if it's just personal choice to not bother, but with the heritage it feels like a pertinent question. ]

[goei]

The Kinnou-tou existed ta try and remove the shogunate from power, so I feel like that kinda goes without saying. Plus we're not serving a lord or anything a samurai would normally do.

Even though I died before it was over, the revolution we were involved in basically was the end of anyone bein' samurai at all, once it succeeded.

[vogelfrei]

[ It's weirdly frustrating to not know a lot about the shogunate or the history of Japan as a whole. McGillis is going to have to hit the library after this. ]

All of this is very far in the past for my world and most records have been lost... Mind summing up the key points of what you were fighting for?

[ He's not asking for anything in depth, he knows that's not really Izou's place in things, but he can presumably sum up the base idea. ]

Revolutions have always held great appeal to me.

[goei]

I mean I'm the wrong guy ta ask, Ryouma was the one all wrapped up in politics, not me.

[That said.]

Basically, the shogunate started relaxin' the whole policy of keepin' foreigners out, but the way they were doin' it, everyone was saying they were letting 'em just run roughshod all over. It was especially affecting all of us in the west where a lotta the trade was happening and the people in the capital always were lookin' down on us anyway.

So the goal was ta take down the shogunate and make a new government that properly served the emperor and all the people of Japan, not just the rich guys who were benefittin' from the way things were.

[If any of this is wrong it's Izou's fault for misremembering and not mine. it's IC.]

[vogelfrei]

[ McGillis would have judged Izou heavily if he'd refused to answer altogether, but instead the man actually delivers a perfectly decent explanation! Look at that, you can do it after all!

Thanks to the general lack of historical documentation in the Post Disaster era, McGillis continues to lack enough context to truly evaluate Izou's political affiliation from this, but it's a start. ]

Not a bad reason to fight a revolution. Did it succeed, in the long run?

[goei]

[Izou is honestly smarter than he gives himself credit for. Not by a lot but. Some.]

Yeah! I dunno how much I actually helped, but the rest of 'em made it happen. Ryouma's a national hero and now Japan's one 'a the most powerful countries in the world!

[HE'S VERY PROUD]