Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-3991308-20150906100513/@comment-3991308-20151110100052

So many words, and so many ideas. Yiannis nodded, looking as if he were concentrating.

“Of course it’s easier for my tale. It’s proper,” he said in that arrogant voice of his. “It follows what people call the fairytale formula. You know, the thing that makes all fairytales fall into place in a regulated, structured way. The thing that keeps the system from falling apart.”

What was the system, anyway? This guy was making Yiannis think about things that were deep, rather than what he usually thought about. There were the original authors, of course, most long dead, and their successors, who wrote their own works, but only upheld those written by the originals as “genuine” fairytales. Yiannis knew the Grimms kept those rules in place with Ever After, as did other successors, except for that one Andersen guy (Yiannis shuddered) who did nothing but feature in tabloids alongside his millions of love affairs.

"I guess you think yourself a little bit of an eccentric, huh?" he said. “Tons of kings and queens would chuck you into jail for saying things like that. No exaggeration. I’ve seen my liege have to do that a few times.”

Was that weird? That was weird. But it happened to often in kingdoms and other places, that at this point, it was seen as normal. At least Yiannis saw it as normal. That was the way his King did things. That was the way his kingdom functioned. That was the way of life. Yiannis couldn’t imagine doing it any other way.

Thankfully, Sam brought up something that was in Yiannis’ comfort zone of not-seeming-like-an-idiot-while-speaking. “Ah yes, men controlling the world!” Yiannis grinned. He knew how to talk about this. At least, he thought he did. He had feminist cred. That had to count for something. “Like, I’m all for feminism! Some feminists at our school even called me a feminist! It was great! But if so many fairytales are built on the idea that women are suffering – which they are, by the way, since they get uh… monthly pains and have to go through childbirth and deal with guys catcalling them on the street and blaming them for anything that goes wrong to them –, and suddenly we make a movement so that women AREN’T suffering, then what’s going to happen to those tales?”

That was worrying. Yiannis was worried. After all, he worried about women all the time. In his mind, just because he was gay, it didn’t mean that he shouldn’t stop protecting them!

"Yeah, I got to agree. Everything's so flashy now days. There’s a reason why we’re called the Selfie Generation. Because everyone of these idiots around us are obsessed with themselves, instead of proper things.”

Proper things? What were proper things, anyway? Yiannis paused, wondering what kinds of suggestions for ‘proper things’ he would give. Charity projects, for one. Protecting your liege, for another. Good music, other than the hiphop BS blasting out in almost every speaker at EAH?

“Everyone around us with their nose in a phone instead of a book, taking photos instead of living in the moment,” Yiannis frowned. “I was honestly born in the wrong generation.”

((Yiannis is purposely written as a pretentious cynic. Although he claims to be open-minded and progressive, he actually disses a lot of progressive things because he is rather set in place with his morals and quite prejudiced.))