Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-29839052-20160405233950/@comment-27847292-20160407190441

Aptos wrote: P: Well, they are paid like the rest of us. There isnt, like, money. We don't really have families, and then you are looking at it the wrong way. You said yourself you enjoy guarding your friends, that was your assignment. You have free will. You also have an obligation. Your choice to follow to your morals obligations simply happens to contradict your desire to do what you want. You can make a choice, and note te consequences. It is not always shattering. Sometimes you will note other consequrnces for non lethal offenses.

As for what you are saying on purposes, it is true. You were made for a purpose. You were designed to enjoy your purpose, and take stride. You are enjoying your purpose of guarding magnetite, and everyone wins. The castes are simply levels of organization, humans have that too. What they do have separate from gems, is money. Socioeconomic boundaries. It is just as, nay, more harsh than castes. It restricts individuals, discriminates them. Makes them pay for basic rights. You all have basic rights, ans have a purpose, and enjoy them.

As for humans, they choose what to do based on what they enjoy. If someone had them set up to get to do what they enjoy, they'd take that. You were knowing with what you enjoy as a gemsstone. We know what you enjoy. We let you do it for the ones that we can tell that you will enjoy.

As for what I do with pearls, it is actually quite common on earth. Referred to as maids, nanies, butlers. And while they get paid less then who they are employed by, here eveyone is paid the same. Are you unhappy ? Pyrite: My PREVIOUS assignment was also a Bloodstone, a big one. She yelled at me for not being a big, a 'normal' Pyrite. She threatened to poof and shatter me if I didnt do something right. It wasnt something I enjoyed, something I obliged to. It was, in fact, something I was FORCED to do. I HATED working for her. She threatened me so much, and not because I was doing anything wrong, as a matter of fact she was rarely attacked, but because I was, as you call, overcooked. An overcooked runt. I started getting a mentality that this will never change, and a philosophy of 'I am too small for a Pyrite, thus I deserve death and despair.' She was cut in half one day, and I got a new assignment: a Magnetite that was also small, because apparently 'I cant handle being with a regular Gem', and I was the #1 suspect for her murder. Me and Magnetite didnt even LIKE eachother at first. I thought she might want fun, but she said she expected me to just 'be a normal Pyrite'. That triggered me, and we argued on what 'a normal Pyrite' means. She decided to not let me speak the whole journey. Days later, the four other Pyrites she was assigned with, all which were normal, mind you, were poofed and shattered by a REBELLIOUS Pearl that actually HATED her caste, and a rebellious Quartz. I threw a smoke bomb at them, and me and Magnetite ran away. She started crying because she had no one to take care of her, and I told her she can take care of herself, but she just had to believe in herself first. Years later, we are all best friends. We help eachother, not because I was assigned to her, but because we knew how we felt and decided to keep guarding her. My 'free will' was to stand around, and in the back too, because I was but a low-rank guard. And if 'payment' is abuse, I dont want ANY of it. Not now, not anymore.