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[therapeutics]

[ and at that, julia leans back. yes, she had inquired, but she also hadn't expected anything quite that detailed. ]

And when, in all of this, did you come in?

[phaseshifted]

I was born during the quieter years.

[There is where she draws the line. Anything else-Sirens, what she saw, what she knew-that is hers to keep.]

[therapeutics]

So what was that like? I mean, obviously, there was some commotion you were obviously thrown into.

[phaseshifted]

You asked about the place I came from, not my childhood, Dr. Hoffman.

[Not today. Not ever, if she can help it.]

[therapeutics]

Well. They're interconnected. They always are. It's not that far of a leap.

[ PSYCHIATRY!!!!!!!!!! ]

[phaseshifted]

Would you mind explaining it to me a little more? Maybe, for example, how your world and childhood connect?

[SLAM DUNKS IT INTO YOUR COURT JULIA]

[therapeutics]

That world has circumstances, obviously. It would affect the way you were raised and the environment for you mentally.

[phaseshifted]

Can I have an example?

[therapeutics]

[ no. ]

You know, I really don't think it's that hard of a distinction to make.

[ but nevertheless. she pauses, glaring in the meanwhile, and sighs. ]

I grew up in a very traditional time period in a patriarchal household - a patriarchal society. Therefore, I was made to feel lesser and subservient because I was a girl. As a reaction to that, I made the choice to rebel and utilize my intelligence to become a doctor, which not very many women did in the fifties and sixties.

Does that clear things up?

[phaseshifted]

[...Lesser because she was a girl? That's a value only the really backwards clans hold onto, and even then...it's weird to consider.]

It's good you didn't let them being completely wrong hold you down.

[therapeutics]

Of course they're wrong. But it's the way things were.

[ and still are, at least back in the 70s, but it's getting better. kind of.

and the question's getting spun back around. ]

I take it you don't have problems like that where you're from.

[phaseshifted]

It isn't nonexistent, but it's rare. Women and men alike are seen as equally capable-your skill matters more than your gender ever could. [She smiles, bringing up faces in her mind.] One of my friends-she leads her group of treasure hunters, and no one would question that she's the smartest of them all.

[therapeutics]

It's a case of survival, then. Given your environment, it's every man - or woman - for themselves, leaving little room for distinctions like that.

Interesting.

[phaseshifted]

Mm.

[Casual enough to be tossed off as a random motion, Angel crosses her arms so she can touch her markings. Every woman for herself.]

And you live in a place where people take their relative comfort and use that freedom to be assho-I mean, awful people.

[therapeutics]

It has more to do with religion, than anything. Supposedly, a book written millennia ago and translated by who knows how many people gives people the freedom they need to be assholes. [ nope. just say it. it's all good. ]

[phaseshifted]

[She can nearly feel him over her shoulder, holding it tight, going Language.]

...I'm sorry.

[What else do you say when people are that wrong?]

[therapeutics]

Oh, don't be sorry. Technically, you're a part of it now.

[ LMFAO WELCOME TO ENGLAND??? ]

[phaseshifted]

I am?

[Nah she'll stay with her progressive society thanks]

[therapeutics]

It's technically Earth, isn't it? Very far in the future, but still.

[phaseshifted]

[Angel shakes her head.]

Pandora is an entirely different planet.

[therapeutics]

You're just figuring that out?

[ gurl. ]

[phaseshifted]

What I mean is that you can't compare it and this Earth. Not by a long shot.

[not even with the fact you have humans on both-this planet is far too tame and its people react accordingly.]

[therapeutics]

You'll have to tell me more sometime. [ so she can jump to horrible conclusions about you. ] It sounds fascinating.

[phaseshifted]

When we get to know each other better.

It's your turn, anyway, to tell me about your planet.

[therapeutics]

Oh, I had no intentions of taking turns. I told you, anyway. My country, at least, is still founded in some bullshit religious ideals, and I've hardly seen the rest of the planet.