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[May 7] [Suikoden II] The Language that is No Language
Title: The Language that is No Language
Day/Theme: May 7, 2010 "The dream of a common language"
Series: Suikoden II
Character/Pairing: Riou
Rating: G
Runes don't speak like people speak. There are no words. It's direct and simple, emotive. Its mind to your mind. With an everyday sort of rune, there really isn't any communication that's more complicated than the instinctual going on between you. You want to cast a spell, you focus on the rune and think of that spell. If you, the two of you, have that power, you can cast the spell.
The more powerful the rune, the more intimate the connection between man and magic and the more powerful the communication involved. I tried to explain this to Nanami one day while we were in Jeane's shop helping to sort our store of rune crystals, but she didn't really know what I was getting at. Jeane just sort of smiled and nodded. Rune was the rune mistress. Of course she would understand. For all I know, she can understand runes better than any of us.
I brought up these things hoping to make her better understand my relationship with the rune that chose me. I don't know if it worked.
The rune was a heavy burden. It constantly strained toward battle, thinking only of its twin and opponent. It drained me to be constantly under that pressure. I felt so weak. I didn't know how to communicate with the Bright Shield Rune without words. As much as I dreamed and hoped for a reconciliation with Jowy, it didn't seem to understand feelings- or at least not my feelings. It wasn't human enough.
At the promised place, things changed at last. It turned out that I was better off trying to learn the language of runes than forcing the rune to learn mine. It turned out, to communicate- Jowy, myself, both halves of the rune-equilibrium was all we needed.
Day/Theme: May 7, 2010 "The dream of a common language"
Series: Suikoden II
Character/Pairing: Riou
Rating: G
Runes don't speak like people speak. There are no words. It's direct and simple, emotive. Its mind to your mind. With an everyday sort of rune, there really isn't any communication that's more complicated than the instinctual going on between you. You want to cast a spell, you focus on the rune and think of that spell. If you, the two of you, have that power, you can cast the spell.
The more powerful the rune, the more intimate the connection between man and magic and the more powerful the communication involved. I tried to explain this to Nanami one day while we were in Jeane's shop helping to sort our store of rune crystals, but she didn't really know what I was getting at. Jeane just sort of smiled and nodded. Rune was the rune mistress. Of course she would understand. For all I know, she can understand runes better than any of us.
I brought up these things hoping to make her better understand my relationship with the rune that chose me. I don't know if it worked.
The rune was a heavy burden. It constantly strained toward battle, thinking only of its twin and opponent. It drained me to be constantly under that pressure. I felt so weak. I didn't know how to communicate with the Bright Shield Rune without words. As much as I dreamed and hoped for a reconciliation with Jowy, it didn't seem to understand feelings- or at least not my feelings. It wasn't human enough.
At the promised place, things changed at last. It turned out that I was better off trying to learn the language of runes than forcing the rune to learn mine. It turned out, to communicate- Jowy, myself, both halves of the rune-equilibrium was all we needed.