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potedeiabard) wrote2021-12-29 11:08 am
potedeiabard) wrote2021-12-29 11:08 am
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A Quick Philosophy Course.
For roleplaying purposes, I'll keep a handy philosophy cheat sheet on Gabrielle. Containing below quotes and ideas that she hears/adheres to on the show.
✒ The rules of Survival (Taught by Xena): If you can run, run. If you can't run, surrender and then run. Get the captors to fight each other while you run. If you can talk your way out of a situation, do it. A weapon and fighting should be your last resort.
✒ Sword in hand (Taught by Xena): The moment you pick up a sword/weapon you better be ready to use it, this means you have to be prepared to face the consequences of what may happen when you do.
✒ Blood on your hands: When you have the blood of someone in your hands, everything changes. The world looks different, everything feels different. The death of an innocent weighs heavier on the shoulders than the death of a tyrant, but both carry an emotional load on the soul.
✒ Good can be corrupted: This means two things. Good people can be corrupted to evil, naturally, but another side of this coin is that GOOD can be corrupted. Meaning, people who intend to do good and would go through strangely cruel ways to achieve it. They mean to do good, but their ways are corrupted and/or their goals are entirely selfish.
✒ Some Evil Cannot Be Rehabilitated: In her core, Gabrielle believes that most of evil can be redeemed and changed towards the path to good (after all, Xena went from a warlord to hero after years and years of correcting her mistake, earning her spot in heaven). However, one can only try so much to fix things, but some people cannot be fixed and they will stubbornly die in their ways.
✒ Vengeance does not solve anything: How many times has Gabrielle seen people seek vengeance and seen the damage it caused, only to still feel an empty void of darkness? She's dangerously treaded close to cold revenge twice, maybe thrice -- but she's always swayed in the end. She understands it, she knows it, and has learned to navigate it. She strives for justice, to do what's right, not vengeance.
✒ A Good Day of Fighting: Gabrielle knows very well that Wars are terrible, terrifying, violent and, unfortunately, inevitable. If war can be stopped, she will make sure to stop it, but if conflict is too great and it cannot be stopped, she knows something must be done. In those cases, when death surrounds her even if she's won, she has to remind herself that it was a good day of fighting and that it was all for a cause.
✒ Fight for a cause: Gabrielle began as a pacifist and now is more or less a pacifist warrior. If you have to fight, fight for what you love and believe in. This is what drove a major conflict with 'The Way of Love' an entirely pacifistic route that she could not follow. Sometimes, you have to grab your sword and defend your people. Let the cause always be good.
✒ "It is better to be a warrior in the garden, than a gardener in a war." A (slightly paraphrased) Chinese Proverb encapsulates Gabrielle perfectly, in my opinion.
✒ Moral of the story: Every story has a message and a reason for being, a lesson you can take away. Gabrielle knows this both as a storyteller and as a warrior. There's always a bigger lesson in it all, especially the harder decisions and the most difficult events.
✒ The rules of Survival (Taught by Xena): If you can run, run. If you can't run, surrender and then run. Get the captors to fight each other while you run. If you can talk your way out of a situation, do it. A weapon and fighting should be your last resort.
✒ Sword in hand (Taught by Xena): The moment you pick up a sword/weapon you better be ready to use it, this means you have to be prepared to face the consequences of what may happen when you do.
✒ Blood on your hands: When you have the blood of someone in your hands, everything changes. The world looks different, everything feels different. The death of an innocent weighs heavier on the shoulders than the death of a tyrant, but both carry an emotional load on the soul.
✒ Good can be corrupted: This means two things. Good people can be corrupted to evil, naturally, but another side of this coin is that GOOD can be corrupted. Meaning, people who intend to do good and would go through strangely cruel ways to achieve it. They mean to do good, but their ways are corrupted and/or their goals are entirely selfish.
✒ Some Evil Cannot Be Rehabilitated: In her core, Gabrielle believes that most of evil can be redeemed and changed towards the path to good (after all, Xena went from a warlord to hero after years and years of correcting her mistake, earning her spot in heaven). However, one can only try so much to fix things, but some people cannot be fixed and they will stubbornly die in their ways.
✒ Vengeance does not solve anything: How many times has Gabrielle seen people seek vengeance and seen the damage it caused, only to still feel an empty void of darkness? She's dangerously treaded close to cold revenge twice, maybe thrice -- but she's always swayed in the end. She understands it, she knows it, and has learned to navigate it. She strives for justice, to do what's right, not vengeance.
✒ A Good Day of Fighting: Gabrielle knows very well that Wars are terrible, terrifying, violent and, unfortunately, inevitable. If war can be stopped, she will make sure to stop it, but if conflict is too great and it cannot be stopped, she knows something must be done. In those cases, when death surrounds her even if she's won, she has to remind herself that it was a good day of fighting and that it was all for a cause.
✒ Fight for a cause: Gabrielle began as a pacifist and now is more or less a pacifist warrior. If you have to fight, fight for what you love and believe in. This is what drove a major conflict with 'The Way of Love' an entirely pacifistic route that she could not follow. Sometimes, you have to grab your sword and defend your people. Let the cause always be good.
✒ "It is better to be a warrior in the garden, than a gardener in a war." A (slightly paraphrased) Chinese Proverb encapsulates Gabrielle perfectly, in my opinion.
✒ Moral of the story: Every story has a message and a reason for being, a lesson you can take away. Gabrielle knows this both as a storyteller and as a warrior. There's always a bigger lesson in it all, especially the harder decisions and the most difficult events.