born on a sunny day beneath the tangerine sky

[derogatory]

1. what did you want to be when you grew up? is it different now? (everyone has those "when I grow up" dreams, don't even pretend.)
2. what happens after you die?
3. Babylonian political affiliation? this could get epic.
4. where do you see yourself ending up? take that as you will.
5. anyone on the network you don't know, but you'd like to? or you've just been stalking? tell me about them, you bunch of freaks.
6. and then tell me a story.

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[flameregalia]

1. What I wanted to be when I grew up? I don't know. I wanted the sky and my freedom. I guess there was a point where I just wanted to be normal. I wanted to live like the people who support me. I don't hate what I am and I don't think it makes me superior to anyone either. But for a while, I just wanted to see what it was like to live without worry. I guess it didn't work that way, and I really wasn't using AT as much because Kilik hurt me. But I gave all my efforts for both the side of me that's one of the Gravity Children, and the part of me that could be human. Ohh, this isn't a very good answer is it?
2. What a cute question to ask me. I have no more an idea than anyone else.
3. I am with Simca and the sky. The Flame Road takes precedent, I'll admit that. I'm afraid of what's outside the dome, or what will happen if I broach the topic. We are stuck underground again, possibly forever. Sometimes I think it's a chance to be like everyone else, and sometimes it feels like a prison. It's very complicated, living in this place.
4. I should slip into a formal retirement soon enough. With Kilik here I can't let my guard down completely, but it's getting harder to fight. Kazu is such a good heir.
5. Ky Kiske. Kanda Yuu. Karolina Dean.
6. I told Sora first. I loved Simca but there would always be something different about him and the fire that he started in me. He grinned and accused me to jumping to a decision that I might not be able to stick to. He brought up Minami's daughter and other girls I was close with. I think now when I remember it, it was the only time Sora ever tried to change my mind. The rest of the times we disagreed about something, he didn't hear it. But then, that time he argued with me.

Just when I felt like crying, Sora pulled me so close it hurt. He told me not to regret my decisions. "It isn't a choice," I plead into his hair. "It's who I am." Sora pulled off my headband and petted my hair like I was one of his dogs.

"People change," he said. I hated him so much at that moment, but I always got over it.