You did say there's not much you gems do for fun before, didn't you? With all the time on your hands, it's hard to imagine. [ then again, they're fighting a war. ] What's it like where you live, anyway? I assume it's not always cold and wintery like that.
There are normal seasons - winter, spring, summer, and autumn.
[ They guess they've never thought about what the most essential facts of their homeworld are, outside of the existence of Lunarians. It's not as interesting as the wild lives of humans, that's for sure. ]
But, probably the main difference between the places we come from is that there isn't a lot of other life aside from gems where I live. There are some forms of sea life, and bugs... but most life got wiped out by a series of meteors hundreds of thousands of years ago, before gems started being born. The weather is pretty similar to here, aside from the winter being more extreme... and the size is not so different from the town either.
[ They shrug. ]
That's really all there is. Like I said, there are different places on the land that have names - but most of the land is just open fields. When it's not frozen over.
[ meteors... what the hell. That makes him blink over at them again, but there's little he can do other than accept it as fact. Why not? ]
And this little piece of land you all live on is only the size of this town? Have you ever tried to find other continents, or anything like that? Maybe you can find some place the moon people can't reach you - or find other gems, even.
[ They scoff a little, like the idea is ridiculous. ]
In all the records I've read, no gem has been able to walk out far enough into the ocean to find anything... and when the sea freezes over, I've never seen anything but ice in every direction.
[ A beat. ]
Even if there were other gems, they wouldn't be like us without Sensei. We might not even be able to communicate.
They probably wouldn't be able to speak at the level we do at all. Sensei teaches us language.
[ Come to think of it, they guess Lupin probably doesn't have any idea what gems are like right after they're born. It's probably not too far off from human young - unable to speak or walk all that well. ]
We could communicate non-verbally, I guess, but without Sensei, I doubt they'd be able to see very clearly. We're born naturally without eyes, and need to be given them. Does that make sense?
[ oh. that makes sense, actually. With gems not having parents (presumably), they'd need someone else to teach them anything... although it does make him realize that he knows very little about how gems actually come about.
Being born without eyes is an entirely different matter, and he cranes his head to look at them better, eyebrows arching in disbelief. ]
-- "making sense" might be a bit generous. You're born without eyes? You haven't any parents, either, right? How are any of you supposed to survive without a Sensei-type figure around?
That's what I'm trying to tell you. It's pointless to look for other gems...
[ They'd either not survive, or have developed a completely different society than the other gems on earth. They stare back at him, huffing out a breath. ]
Even if they did somehow survive, they'd probably just get captured by Lunarians pretty soon after their birth.
[ well... Lupin's no biologist or anything, but that sounds like a bizarre way for any animal to live. If gems count as animals. Do they? He supposes Cairngorm is more like a big hivemind of lots of little animals... which is weird to think about, so he doesn't for long. ]
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You did say there's not much you gems do for fun before, didn't you? With all the time on your hands, it's hard to imagine. [ then again, they're fighting a war. ] What's it like where you live, anyway? I assume it's not always cold and wintery like that.
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[ They guess they've never thought about what the most essential facts of their homeworld are, outside of the existence of Lunarians. It's not as interesting as the wild lives of humans, that's for sure. ]
But, probably the main difference between the places we come from is that there isn't a lot of other life aside from gems where I live. There are some forms of sea life, and bugs... but most life got wiped out by a series of meteors hundreds of thousands of years ago, before gems started being born. The weather is pretty similar to here, aside from the winter being more extreme... and the size is not so different from the town either.
[ They shrug. ]
That's really all there is. Like I said, there are different places on the land that have names - but most of the land is just open fields. When it's not frozen over.
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[ meteors... what the hell. That makes him blink over at them again, but there's little he can do other than accept it as fact. Why not? ]
And this little piece of land you all live on is only the size of this town? Have you ever tried to find other continents, or anything like that? Maybe you can find some place the moon people can't reach you - or find other gems, even.
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[ They scoff a little, like the idea is ridiculous. ]
In all the records I've read, no gem has been able to walk out far enough into the ocean to find anything... and when the sea freezes over, I've never seen anything but ice in every direction.
[ A beat. ]
Even if there were other gems, they wouldn't be like us without Sensei. We might not even be able to communicate.
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I think the world's much more vast than you guys realize.
[ but he'll leave it at that. ]
Not able to communicate...? Why not? I suppose they might speak a different language, but...
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[ Come to think of it, they guess Lupin probably doesn't have any idea what gems are like right after they're born. It's probably not too far off from human young - unable to speak or walk all that well. ]
We could communicate non-verbally, I guess, but without Sensei, I doubt they'd be able to see very clearly. We're born naturally without eyes, and need to be given them. Does that make sense?
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Being born without eyes is an entirely different matter, and he cranes his head to look at them better, eyebrows arching in disbelief. ]
-- "making sense" might be a bit generous. You're born without eyes? You haven't any parents, either, right? How are any of you supposed to survive without a Sensei-type figure around?
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[ They'd either not survive, or have developed a completely different society than the other gems on earth. They stare back at him, huffing out a breath. ]
Even if they did somehow survive, they'd probably just get captured by Lunarians pretty soon after their birth.
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[ well... Lupin's no biologist or anything, but that sounds like a bizarre way for any animal to live. If gems count as animals. Do they? He supposes Cairngorm is more like a big hivemind of lots of little animals... which is weird to think about, so he doesn't for long. ]
The more I learn, the less I understand.