a journalist in luka runs up to vi with a mic and asks what he thinks of bevelle. we are listening!
⊹ @braskide got a man who is pissed off.
❝Bevelle is built on fraud. It's a scam. They're taking us for a ride, don't you people see it?❞ What a way to open an interview question! The old man selling Kilika-style fish skewers looked away, so did the women sitting there at the fountain waiting for their dates. Half of the Luca Goers drifted to the nearest bar ( they heard some gossip that Sir Auron was there. )
The journalist tried to withdraw their microphone, but Virote reached out and grabbed their wrist, bringing the microphone back to his face. No, he's not done! Let the man speak. ❝We're lambs sent to slaughter, all of us. All of you, you watching this. Don't you people, like, see that? Don't you? They distract us with blitzball and the temples acting like they care. Like prayer matters. They don't care about any of us. Half of my family is dead. But, they're looking at me like I'm a disgrace because I dropped my pilgrimage. Praise be to Yevon, they say. They make us dependent on hymns and trying to be morally right or whatever. To follow scripture and be scared. Isn't that, like, you know, like really messed up? Be pure, keep your head down. If you die, it's all in the divine plan.
Bevelle is the pinnacle of this. A city for the purest. All of those phony monks and their cronies. Isn't it super obvious—?! They want Spira to suffer, so they can stay in power. They want to keep creating summoners to screw over. They want terrified, pious devotees. They don't want us to be free from Sin. They don't! The Maesters don't care. They never will. I think nothing of Bevelle except the worst. I hope they all drown in the grief they've put us through. Prayers aren't gonna save us. Letting our religious leaders guide us will send us into even more turmoil.
The Maesters deliberately fan the flames of their hatred towards the Al Bhed to create a common enemy and a scapegoat for Spira's problems and Bevelle's hypocrisy. They have the absolute gall to label an entire race dangerous simply for refusing to accept the lies that prop up Yevon's power. The teachings against machina make the Al Bhed easy targets, distracting the population from Bevelle's issues. Do you want another thousand of this madness?! By the way, Maester Mika can kiss my a—❞
