It's easy for me t' make a snap judgement 'cause I'd be lyin' if I said I haven't thought back on it all sometimes with a less open mind.
[ he can be completely petty occasionally and will own this. ]
But really there were lost causes on both sides if it makes ya feel any better. People always lumped me in with the Imperial Loyalists, but it was more complicated than that. In the end, it felt like the whole thing was balancin' on the edge of a blade; fall either way and it'd be a matter'a war, jus' who was fightin' who would be different. Keepin' the foreigners out, fightin' the shogunate, fightin' each other. In the end, it was all just a waste. A waste of good people an' good ideas.
[ maybe that's a particularly blunt take on the whole thing, but when it comes to the political landscape of those days he tends not to look back on them fondly. ]
But I'm doin' alright for myself around here, I suppose. I never wanted t' be in politics, but it figures if I'm gonna end up in politics, it'd be here.
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[ he can be completely petty occasionally and will own this. ]
But really there were lost causes on both sides if it makes ya feel any better. People always lumped me in with the Imperial Loyalists, but it was more complicated than that. In the end, it felt like the whole thing was balancin' on the edge of a blade; fall either way and it'd be a matter'a war, jus' who was fightin' who would be different. Keepin' the foreigners out, fightin' the shogunate, fightin' each other. In the end, it was all just a waste. A waste of good people an' good ideas.
[ maybe that's a particularly blunt take on the whole thing, but when it comes to the political landscape of those days he tends not to look back on them fondly. ]
But I'm doin' alright for myself around here, I suppose. I never wanted t' be in politics, but it figures if I'm gonna end up in politics, it'd be here.