Re: Do Nekovalkyrja younglings have to serve in the military
That doesn't compute to me. And I don't say that in a mean way.
I think there is such a thing as a nekovalkyrja being okay with being a nekovalkyrja. A nekovalkyrja wanting to have an offspring to propagate her own race, and not settle for something more like the human race.
I also think it's fairly natural for a nekovalkyrja mother to expect her offspring to follow in her own footsteps. If all she new was the Star Army, and that she deems it a worthwhile environment and purpose for her daughter, she might encourage said daughter to go there and perhaps find the same sense of fulfillment and purpose she found.
That I get.
However, we roleplay these characters too. And one unfortunate fact of serving the Empire in the army is that there is a lot of pain, heartache and suffering involved.
Would I really want my child to go through that? Would following my footsteps, gaining something in my sense of purpose, and so forth be something I'd truly want to cling to,and appreciate my society forcing on my child?
Yui is likely one of the nekovalkyrja that has suffered the most in this setting. She has made the Star Army her life. She's very pro-neko. She's had multiple youngling daughters. Many of them have followed after her in that same army. Some of them died in that same service.
Yui is likely a great driving force behind the notion that nekovalkyrja born out of self-cloning would be soldiers, but she's had those daughters. She's loved those daughters. She's had the heartache of losing them. It strikes me as counterintuitive for her, with her baggage, to overly encourage that thought.
The army is important. If there were no nekos in it, Yamatai wouldn't survive. That is important. But the neko is Yamatai's dominant race, nd as much for her daughters as for the nekovalkyrja that have been created/born after her, Yui seems to wish for a better future where they are all safe. Where there's more to life than just fighting and the purpose of being ready to fight.
Yui could be proud to see her race be powerful, but she might also want to avoid those whom are misguided to go wayward and benefits enemies with their prowess. Then it'd be nekos still loyal to her beloved nation that would be endangered by that. This is a good reason to support the demilitarization mechanic of the NH-33 Tennyo.
But forcing a youngling born of her to go for military service, to be obligated to, especially if her environment could offer more. That just strikes me as appalling - and that's with me working hard to take a in-character point ofv view. I dont think the OoC musings of 'how should things go' shown thus far in this thread does this question enough justice.
I think that if Yui answered to a higher authority, and that this authority demanded that Yui's younglings be forced to serve in the military, Yui's more naturalreaction could go along the lines of "Who are you to tell me how I should raise my children?" - even if Yui might agree with the notion.
Sorry Wes. Not meaning to tellyou how your character should think. But to me its very a suspension of disbelief thing.
