Hope Estheim (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
actualizedname) wrote2012-02-26 01:58 am
actualizedname) wrote2012-02-26 01:58 am
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These are just the ones that tell what Hope is doing or thinking at any given time and not the plot ones. I refuse to do the plot ones, THIS IS A LOT ALREADY.
Yaschas Massif - 10 AF
Hope wonders if I have any questions about this world now seven years in the future.
Serah: What does it mean to be the director? Are you the leader of the Academy?
Alyssa: i would say he's one of the Academy leaders. But pretty soon, I'm sure he'll be taking charge of the entire institution.
Hope: I think my position is more about taking responsibility than taking charge. But someone has to shoulder that burden if the Academy is going to move forward.
Serah: Has the Academy figured out what the paradoxes are?
Hope: To put it simply, they're temporal overlaps.
Noel: The past and future mixing together?
Hope: Exactly. I'd been studying possible connections between the paradoxes and the disappearance of my friends. But it was only recently that I realised something. That the phenomena transcended time.
Serah: Hope … you've been at this for years.
Hope: Yes, but now one of those friends is here in front of me. And the discoveries we've made will benefit not only the Academy, but the future of humanity.
Noel: You're the boss around here, Hope? You two look about the same age.
Alyssa: Yes, but age has nothing to do with seniority. When I was still a trainee, Director Estheim was already leading a full team.
Hope: I do wish she wouldn't go on about it.
Alyssa: But you've earned your position, Director.
Serah: Hope! Why are you so all grown up now?
Noel: You can't seriously still need an explanation for that, can you?
Hope: Well, Serah. You've travelled seven years into the future. And though it's been a relatively short period for you, I've continued to age at the normal rate. Does that explain things for you?
Serah: I know that! What I meant to ask was why you seemed so mature for your age. I'm no scientist but even I understand that seven years have passed. Wow! Did you really think I was that dense?
Hope: N-no! Of course not! Please, you must believe I would never think that of you.
Alyssa: Nice save, Director.
After meeting with me again, Hope seems lost in memories. What should we talk about?
Serah: How's your dad doing? Snow told me that he helped out Lightning and everyone, even when it wasn't the safest thing to do.
Hope: He's doing well. He actually worked with the provisional government to help found the Academy
Serah: Your dad is pretty busy, huh?
Hope: Right up until he retired. Decided it was about time. He says it's in the hands of the younger generation now. My decision to join the Academy was my way of following in his footsteps.
Serah: I wonder how Sazh and little Dajh are doing?
Hope: We've been out of touch. Sazh took Dajh to live on Gran Pulse and he was flying airships the last I heard. Then suddenly they both disappeared. I … I searched everywhere but never found them.
Serah: Look at us, all gone our separate ways.
Hope: Yes, and I can't tell you how much it means to have you here now. Sazh and Snow may have set off on different paths, but I started to think that in the end we're all headed toward the same goal.
Serah: Actually, Hope, we were able to catch up with Snow.
Noel: Just three hundred years in the future. If you can believe that.
Hope: I believe it. Good old Snow. I'm glad to hear he's alive.
Serah: He's alive, but he was trying to protect the crystal pillar by himself. The worst part was we had to leave without being able to tell him where we were going.
Hope: Have faith. I think I understand what Snow's going through. He's trying to save Vanille and Fang. Not to mention Lightning as well. We're only here today because they chose to bear the weight of a world.
Hope has been analysing the Oracle Drive and the images that appear to be Lightning. What should I ask him?
Noel: You were using an interesting weapon back there. Is it one of the Academy's latest inventions?
Hope: I'd be the first to admit that there are many other weapons more powerful. I have a soft spot for the boomerang though.
Serah: Let me guess. That's the weapon you used when you fought with Lightning and Snow, right?
Hope: It reminds me of a time I never want to forget.
Academia - 4XX AF
Hope has travelled 400 years into the future. What should I ask him?
Serah: So… have you learned anything else about Lightning since then?
Hope: Actually, I had this dream. While I was asleep inside the capsule I could hear Lightning talking to me.
Serah: You heard her?
Hope: I'm sure it was your sister's voice. She told me I had made the right choice, that I was on the right path.
Serah: Lightning. She's still looking out for us, isn't she?
Noel: Huh. So Lightning knows what will happen in the future. I don't need her to hold our hands or anything but is it too much to ask for a little sisterly advice?
Alyssa: If she gives too much information to you, it could change the path of history. You could think of her silence as everything is going as planned.
Hope: That's just the way Lightning operates. Only those who hold onto their resolves, who find their own path through time, have the right to change the future.
Noel: No compromises, huh?
Serah: I think Lightning is preparing for a battle and she doesn't know what the outcome will be. When that time comes, she'll need people by her side she can rely on.
Noel: So the Academy just keeps getting bigger, huh? i'm sure you guys must be right at the center of things, helping them run the city.
Hope: Right now, the Academy also effectively doubles as the government. All our efforts must be focused on surviving the future disaster.
Serah: Then, does that mean you're in charge, Hope?
Hope: I'm here in more of an advisory position. As far as this age is concerned, I'm just a curious relic from the past. I don't want to ruffle any feathers.
Serah: Hope, just out of morbid curiousity… What would happen to Pulse if Cocoon actually fell?
Hope: The results would be catastrophic. From that height, the impact would devastate all life on Pulse. That's why the speed of the fall needs to be controlled. We plan to slow the rate of descent and achieve a "landing" instead of a crash.
Noel: That'll still cause a lot of damage.
Hope: It's unavoidable with that much mass. So before Cocoon falls, we need to evacuate anyone who might be at risk to a safer location.
Serah: A safer location? You mean, off the ground?
Hope: That seems to be the best solution. As well as being a new home, our man-made Cocoon will also provide refuge for the coming disaster.
Noel: How did you get here anyway? This time capsule of yours, it doesn't work like a gate, does it?
Hope: In simple terms, we just put ourselves to sleep. For about 400 years. The device cannot actually travel through time, so there's no going back to the past.
Serah: That must've been a tough call.
Hope: It was a choice to wake up to a strange world centuries in the future. I'd be lying if I didn't have second thoughts.
Noel: What about your family? You'll never see them again.
Hope: That was no longer an issue for me. My father had already passed away by then. i had no one to leave behind.
Noel: What made you decide to build an entirely new Cocoon? What's wrong with the one you have now?
Hope: Cocoon is the world that Fang and Vanille sacrificed themselves to save. We did our best to restore it. But with the way it was designed, it could only be maintained with the power of a fal'Cie.
Noel: It can't be kept afloat by humans…
Hope: Correct. We might utilise the power of a real or artificial fal'Cie to make it work, but is that the kind of future they were trying to protect?
Serah: Well, not Vanille, that's for sure.
Hope: I came to the same conclusion. And that's why we drew up plans to construct a new Cocoon.
Yaschas Massif - 10 AF
Hope wonders if I have any questions about this world now seven years in the future.
Serah: What does it mean to be the director? Are you the leader of the Academy?
Alyssa: i would say he's one of the Academy leaders. But pretty soon, I'm sure he'll be taking charge of the entire institution.
Hope: I think my position is more about taking responsibility than taking charge. But someone has to shoulder that burden if the Academy is going to move forward.
Serah: Has the Academy figured out what the paradoxes are?
Hope: To put it simply, they're temporal overlaps.
Noel: The past and future mixing together?
Hope: Exactly. I'd been studying possible connections between the paradoxes and the disappearance of my friends. But it was only recently that I realised something. That the phenomena transcended time.
Serah: Hope … you've been at this for years.
Hope: Yes, but now one of those friends is here in front of me. And the discoveries we've made will benefit not only the Academy, but the future of humanity.
Noel: You're the boss around here, Hope? You two look about the same age.
Alyssa: Yes, but age has nothing to do with seniority. When I was still a trainee, Director Estheim was already leading a full team.
Hope: I do wish she wouldn't go on about it.
Alyssa: But you've earned your position, Director.
Serah: Hope! Why are you so all grown up now?
Noel: You can't seriously still need an explanation for that, can you?
Hope: Well, Serah. You've travelled seven years into the future. And though it's been a relatively short period for you, I've continued to age at the normal rate. Does that explain things for you?
Serah: I know that! What I meant to ask was why you seemed so mature for your age. I'm no scientist but even I understand that seven years have passed. Wow! Did you really think I was that dense?
Hope: N-no! Of course not! Please, you must believe I would never think that of you.
Alyssa: Nice save, Director.
After meeting with me again, Hope seems lost in memories. What should we talk about?
Serah: How's your dad doing? Snow told me that he helped out Lightning and everyone, even when it wasn't the safest thing to do.
Hope: He's doing well. He actually worked with the provisional government to help found the Academy
Serah: Your dad is pretty busy, huh?
Hope: Right up until he retired. Decided it was about time. He says it's in the hands of the younger generation now. My decision to join the Academy was my way of following in his footsteps.
Serah: I wonder how Sazh and little Dajh are doing?
Hope: We've been out of touch. Sazh took Dajh to live on Gran Pulse and he was flying airships the last I heard. Then suddenly they both disappeared. I … I searched everywhere but never found them.
Serah: Look at us, all gone our separate ways.
Hope: Yes, and I can't tell you how much it means to have you here now. Sazh and Snow may have set off on different paths, but I started to think that in the end we're all headed toward the same goal.
Serah: Actually, Hope, we were able to catch up with Snow.
Noel: Just three hundred years in the future. If you can believe that.
Hope: I believe it. Good old Snow. I'm glad to hear he's alive.
Serah: He's alive, but he was trying to protect the crystal pillar by himself. The worst part was we had to leave without being able to tell him where we were going.
Hope: Have faith. I think I understand what Snow's going through. He's trying to save Vanille and Fang. Not to mention Lightning as well. We're only here today because they chose to bear the weight of a world.
Hope has been analysing the Oracle Drive and the images that appear to be Lightning. What should I ask him?
Noel: You were using an interesting weapon back there. Is it one of the Academy's latest inventions?
Hope: I'd be the first to admit that there are many other weapons more powerful. I have a soft spot for the boomerang though.
Serah: Let me guess. That's the weapon you used when you fought with Lightning and Snow, right?
Hope: It reminds me of a time I never want to forget.
Academia - 4XX AF
Hope has travelled 400 years into the future. What should I ask him?
Serah: So… have you learned anything else about Lightning since then?
Hope: Actually, I had this dream. While I was asleep inside the capsule I could hear Lightning talking to me.
Serah: You heard her?
Hope: I'm sure it was your sister's voice. She told me I had made the right choice, that I was on the right path.
Serah: Lightning. She's still looking out for us, isn't she?
Noel: Huh. So Lightning knows what will happen in the future. I don't need her to hold our hands or anything but is it too much to ask for a little sisterly advice?
Alyssa: If she gives too much information to you, it could change the path of history. You could think of her silence as everything is going as planned.
Hope: That's just the way Lightning operates. Only those who hold onto their resolves, who find their own path through time, have the right to change the future.
Noel: No compromises, huh?
Serah: I think Lightning is preparing for a battle and she doesn't know what the outcome will be. When that time comes, she'll need people by her side she can rely on.
Noel: So the Academy just keeps getting bigger, huh? i'm sure you guys must be right at the center of things, helping them run the city.
Hope: Right now, the Academy also effectively doubles as the government. All our efforts must be focused on surviving the future disaster.
Serah: Then, does that mean you're in charge, Hope?
Hope: I'm here in more of an advisory position. As far as this age is concerned, I'm just a curious relic from the past. I don't want to ruffle any feathers.
Serah: Hope, just out of morbid curiousity… What would happen to Pulse if Cocoon actually fell?
Hope: The results would be catastrophic. From that height, the impact would devastate all life on Pulse. That's why the speed of the fall needs to be controlled. We plan to slow the rate of descent and achieve a "landing" instead of a crash.
Noel: That'll still cause a lot of damage.
Hope: It's unavoidable with that much mass. So before Cocoon falls, we need to evacuate anyone who might be at risk to a safer location.
Serah: A safer location? You mean, off the ground?
Hope: That seems to be the best solution. As well as being a new home, our man-made Cocoon will also provide refuge for the coming disaster.
Noel: How did you get here anyway? This time capsule of yours, it doesn't work like a gate, does it?
Hope: In simple terms, we just put ourselves to sleep. For about 400 years. The device cannot actually travel through time, so there's no going back to the past.
Serah: That must've been a tough call.
Hope: It was a choice to wake up to a strange world centuries in the future. I'd be lying if I didn't have second thoughts.
Noel: What about your family? You'll never see them again.
Hope: That was no longer an issue for me. My father had already passed away by then. i had no one to leave behind.
Noel: What made you decide to build an entirely new Cocoon? What's wrong with the one you have now?
Hope: Cocoon is the world that Fang and Vanille sacrificed themselves to save. We did our best to restore it. But with the way it was designed, it could only be maintained with the power of a fal'Cie.
Noel: It can't be kept afloat by humans…
Hope: Correct. We might utilise the power of a real or artificial fal'Cie to make it work, but is that the kind of future they were trying to protect?
Serah: Well, not Vanille, that's for sure.
Hope: I came to the same conclusion. And that's why we drew up plans to construct a new Cocoon.