[ SECRET POST #5025 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5025 ⌋

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Comments

[starzki]

As I said above, I think this is the WHY immortality was bestowed upon certain people. I think the power that gives this ability to people WANTS them to fight and specifically chooses fighters and brings them together for this reason.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I was mostly joking, but I think that's a fair interpretation. In the movie, at least, there was a focus on making it look like there was some sort of bigger force driving their actions.

THAT SAID, as others have noted, there are many ways that people could contribute to that bigger goal outside of military-style fighting (and it was not at all unusual to die at younger ages back in the day, if that were a concern) so it seems kind of short-sighted to limit the immortality power to one type of skillset.

[starzki]

I don't disagree, but as I said above, the scope of immortality might change this is a bit. Over centuries and millennia, very few modern professions that currently help people existed back then, at least with our current understandings. And who knows what will persist into the next 1000 years? Sadly, there will still probably always be fighters and soldiers.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, but you know that doctors and artists and accountants have existed for thousands of years, right? there's lots of ways of helping people that don't involve stabbing.

[(Anonymous)]

Previous anon - yes, exactly. Something doesn't need to be a profession as we know it today to be an important and useful skill.

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(Same anon) it's also kind of a silly argument because it suggests that immortals are not capable of learning and adapting with the times when that is clearly not the case. For example, they all used guns in addition to their old-timey weapons. Someone who was, say, a midwife or something could easily have continued to practice and become ~credentialed as a ~professional in modern times. Copley's research also showed they did other things besides fighting, presumably to develop skills and make money in addition to killing all the time. It seems to me that a person's mindset or attitude would be more important for helping humanity than the fact that "well, there are always wars to fight".

Anyway, now I want a story about a healer who was killed for witchcraft and became an immortal who spent centuries following after the others and patching up the injuries they left in their wake.

[starzki]

*imagines a scene like after the Bride massacred the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill*

Your character: *sigh*

I like it.

[starzki]

I think Nicky is shown being a medic in one of the pictures in the movie (not sure about the comics). He's also shown as having gone to college. I think at least some of the immortals are doing other things than fighting, especially when they're on their own.

So. Yeah. I'm not disagreeing.