introductory mingle: CARNIVALE

[riverviewmod]

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: overflow post for the Carnivale celebration
when: July 1st - July 9th
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

This is not the Carnivale post. This is just a tribute.

Optional overflow post, since the Carnivale log has hit Captcha. If you don't mind Captcha, feel free to continue using the previous one, or put up a top-level on this one with links to your previous threads and continue here, free of being put to the robot test with every tag.

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[withstyle]

Humans, mortals, the vast majority of society. [Izzy rattles off, pausing with her food for a moment to focus on Taako. How to explain what's always been accepted, and known, as a shadowhunter to someone who isn't familiar with the culture? And the history....]

Some mundanes wind up finding out, but overall it keeps peace and keeps both mundanes and downworlders safe. Or, at least, that's the intent and the way that it's always been done.

[Simon, though now a vampire, proves the point that it isn't necessary to keep it from all mundanes, but...it's always been this way.] There's a history of mundanes reacting...badly to even the ideas of witches, let alone anything else. Shadowhunters keep mundanes from being turned, hurt, or anything else. And from downworlders being hunted down. Besides, most downworlders can't be seen by mundanes unless they use various magical means.

[Not the best explanation, but it's not exactly easy to give shadowhunter history 101 in a casual situation like this.]

[spellslots]

Well, that sounds dumb as shit.

[It's not necessarily judgmental, just kind of confused. He's sure that whatever's going on in her world works for her world, but he can't really wrap his head around the idea that a) people without magic would hurt people with magic just... because they can or b) most of the world's population not being able to see an entire subset of people.]

I mean, most of my friends are wizards, sure, but like, Magnus isn't gonna kick my ass just cause he's got no magic and I do.

[withstyle]

[Izzy laughs, a bit of a smile pulling at her mouth. When you don't have all the details--or know the full history--she can't blame Taako for thinking that it sounds dumb. It does. In theory they should all be able to just...co-exist without secrecy and problems.

That theory hasn't ever worked in practice, is the problem. Fear, a lack of understanding, and so much more has attributed to the decisions that have been made to protect both sides of this issue.]

There's a lot of history that I'm skipping over to simplify it. It does sound dumb when you try to simplify it...and if you're used to just being open with what you can do and who you are too. [Izzy understands. She's not one of the smartest shadowhunters of her generation for no reason--it's never been an empty boast on Alec's part.]

It's not a perfect system. It's been broken for a while, but back home there are a lot of laws set in place that are antiquated...that a lot of us would like to change. [Though, revealing everything to the mundanes isn't on said list; there are other more pressing problems, after all. And other mistakes that the Clave has made that haven't been forgotten.] It's worked, mostly, though. Keeping both safe. Mundanes generally believe that fae, demons, witches, etc are just stories. And when they haven't...it's led to some violent times...burning accused witches at the stake, hanging them for 'making deals with the devil', and the like.....acting out of fear and a lack of actual understanding. So...it's just been left as it was, to protect mundanes from downworlders and downworlders from mundanes. Both sides pose a certain amount of risk and danger to the other in the right given circumstances.

[Izzy shrugs lightly before taking another bite of her food.]

[spellslots]

You know, the more I hear about humans that aren't from my reality, the shittier they sound.

[Or at least, the whole society that humans have built, where there's this weird insider/outsider culture, sounds shitty to him, considering a lot of that doesn't exist in his world. There's some minor tension between races, but nothing serious and nothing as bad as some of the stuff he's heard about Earth in particular. Especially when it comes to people with powers, whether it's aliens or metas or "downworlders".]

[withstyle]

Some of them. [Izzy agrees, knowing that she can't deny the truth, especially not when there really are a number of humans--of people--that are shitty. She won't deny the truth. That doesn't mean that she wouldn't protect them. And it doesn't mean that they all fit into that category, but because they exist it's just been better, in the end, to hide.]

For all the shitty ones there are good ones too. [Simon comes to mind, despite the fact that he is no longer a mundane...though it's not fault of his own.] But there are enough of the first kind that it makes a difference. [Izzy shrugs; this was not where she thought this conversation was going considering she had initially just been going out in search of something good to eat--sampling the food.]

There's good and bad in every race, though. [Izzy shrugs, offering a small smile.] I think that's enough serious discussion about the way things work where I'm from, though. Don't want to dampen the celebration.

[Izzy winks, playfully dismissing the serious tone that the conversation had begun to veer into.]