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| User: | anime300 (490264) ~*~ The Livejournal of Walker Pennington ~*~
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| Name: | Walker Pennington | |||||
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| Location: | Rancho Cordova, California, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1984-04-09 | |||||
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| Bio: | (The following scroll was discovered tucked into a copy of Kakita's The Sword. Its writer has never been traced, and must therefore be presumed to be still alive as, were he to be found, he would certainly be killed.) Courage and honor are like a bridge. You never know their true strength until they are tested, and then they either crumble or bear you across. Samurai say that the honor of a Ronin is worthless, that they are creatures worse than Eta, animals that can be trusted to do nothing but cause terrible violence. Villains to be cut down on sight. I say that it is the Samurai who are weak. They hide behind their families and their alliances, living in their high-walled castles and feeding off the toil of the common folk. They do not understand the world they rule. They do not know what it means to survive. They praise the virtues of Bushido: Honesty, Compassion, Courage, Sincerity, Duty, Courtesy, Honor, but do they understand them? Listen well to my words. How can a man be Honest when his words are not his own? When a Samurai parrots the words of his lord, he is but a puppet, and Honesty is impossible. To be Honest with oneself, and true to your own desires, that is the Honesty of a Ronin. Compassion? The Samurai go out of their way to assist one another within their family or clan and call it Compassion. Tell me when a Lion has stooped to help a Crane, or a Scorpion has gone out of his way to assist an impoverished Phoenix. To help one within your family is not Compassion, it is simply looking out for yourself and cementing alliances. When a traveling Ronin meets a stranger and shares his meal with no thought of reward, that is the Compassion of a Ronin. What is Courage? To the great armies of the clans, Courage is easy. But what is Courage when victory is assured? What does it mean to die for a cause when it is certain others will carry the tales of your glory? To deny the employment of a wicked master and face cold and starvation, to die in a shallow grave for a worthy cause no one will ever remember--that is the Courage of a Ronin. And Sincerity. A Samurai's word is the same as his action? Prove this to me, for I have yet to see it. A man on his own must be as good as his word, or he will swiftly find that the world has no use for him. That is the Sincerity of a Ronin. Duty? To be resposible for the consequences one is born into? The Samurai live a life of wealth and privilege. The only consequences are those they throw upon themselves. A wave-man must live with the consequences of his actions every second, for at any moment his aberrant existence may be thrown into peril and only his past deeds will serve to prove him worthy. That is the Duty of a Ronin. But what of courtesy? Are not Ronin uncouth and discourteous? Do we not spurn the polite society that the Samurai have built and laugh at the works of the clans? Perhaps. I know I have. But why should we not? The Samurai do the same to us. Courtesy breeds courtesy, and respect can grow only in its own soil. That is the Courtesy of a Ronin. Honor? There are those who say that the Ronin have no honor. I have no arguement. Except to say that those who say such things are blind and ignorant fools. Our actions speak for themselves. Each wave-man is his own legend. That is the Honor of a Ronin. | |||||
| Interests: | 13: angel, anime, asia, comics, literature, manga, movies, music, pepsi-cola, role-playing games, star wars, swords, video games | |||||
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