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galileosunshine · 7 years ago

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Those Who Return to The Sea

Pairing: Umi/Riko Rating: General audiences Tags: AU, alternative timeline, crossover, crossover pairing, slow burn romance?

Summary: In participation of an original song writing competition, Riko decides to write a song expressing her love for Umi. An AU where Umi and Riko are both attending Otonokizaka High. Umi is a third year, while Riko is a first year.

Chapter 1: Inspiration

Words: ~2k Read on AO3

Hey everyone, I started a multi-chapter fic!!!! It’s kinda nerve-wracking to think about, but I’m really excited! ^^ As it is the first chapter, none of what is said in that summary actually happens. Chapter 1 is just how Umi and Riko first meet. I hope you enjoy and will look forward to what’s going to happen!

A hand slammed on the wall next to her face, trapping her against the cold brick surface. In any other circumstance, Sakurauchi Riko would've welcomed such an act of dominance. It was one of her most embarrassing fantasies from her yuri comics and novels. But in her novels, they were always done out of a possessiveness that stemmed from love and desire.

The only emotions she felt from her wall-trapper right now were anger and resentment.

"You think you're better than us, huh?" The voice that belonged to the hand sneered. The source of the voice was an upperclassmen in the same music program Riko was in, named Kuroki, and behind her was an entourage of other classmates, also upperclassmen. Their scowls told Riko they didn't mean to help.

It was after school, and Riko had just finished her extracurricular piano practices for said music program. She barely made it out of the school doors when several of her upperclassmen stopped her and asked for some of her time, and slightly taken aback by their suddenness, Riko could only nod her agreement.

She should've suspected that they didn't mean well when several of them surrounded her back, effectively blocking off any option of turning back, and herded her like a small animal to a courtyard behind the school. And that's how she found herself pinned against the wall.

"You think you deserve that chance in the original song writing competition more than us, don't you?" the girl pinning her, Kuroki, said.

"I...I don't think that," Riko managed to squeak out. She looked down to avoid the eyes of her assailant, brown orbs darkened with malice that bore into Riko and made her want to sink into the wall behind her and disappear.

"So now you're proud and a liar." Riko shook her head fiercely.

"N-no! I just want to..." Riko tried to say something to justify herself, but her voice was shaking too much now.

"I saw that look on your face when the teacher said your name, so smug and self-congratulatory."

Riko shook her head again. She didn't know what look was on her face then, but it definitely wasn't that. She was just as surprised as the rest of them, and frankly she felt entirely undeserving of the choice. But Riko was too scared to say anything in her own defense.

"Let me tell you something," the other girl said, almost snarling her words. "Just because the teacher chose you, a first year, to enter the competition doesn't make you any more special. You need to learn your place and show a little more respect for your upperclassmen. Otherwise, you're going to find yourself in a whole lot of trouble."

Riko's heart pounded, and now it wasn't just her voice that was shaking, but her hands and knees as well. She gripped the strap of her school bag tighter to steady herself. Why was this happening? She always thought she was a rather unassuming girl, and never tried to do anything to stand out. Her piano skills were her only talent, but she didn't think it was something to marvel at either. So why....?

The other girl leaned in closer, and Riko flinched. "I'll make you a deal. Tell the teacher that you're withdrawing from the competition. Then we'll-"

"What's going on here?" a piercing voice rang out from behind them. Riko's upperclassmen spun on her heels to see where it came from.

A cobalt haired girl stood across the green of the courtyard, dressed in the traditional dougi attire of the archery club - a white sleeved top and blue hakama, along with a black breast plate. She was relaxed and her arms hung loosely by her sides, but her utter stillness hinted at a storm boiling beneath the cool exterior. Her scornful gaze cut across the field like a knife, stopping everyone in their tracks.

Riko's upperclassmen dropped her hand from the wall next to her face. "This is none of your business," she said. But unnoticed by her, the other classmates were shifting nervously and backing away.

"Sorry, but I'm going to make it my business," the blue haired girl responded, her voice low, calm and cadenced in a way that exuded authority and confidence in her own abilities. "It is a duty of a samurai to protect the innocent and defenseless."

Riko's assailant snorted. "What's with that? Quit being so self-righteous. And this isn't the 1600's. What are you, some kind of medieval history fanatic?"

"Wait, Kuroki-san," one of the other girls whispered, fidgeting. "Do you know who you're talking to?"

"No, and I don't care," she spat out and crossed her arms. "Get lost, this is just between us and the first year."

The archer scowled, then took several even steps forward. She carried her presence ahead of her, and several girls moved back instinctively. "Let her go."

Those few words hung in the air like fog, and Riko's vision blurred with spots. Her heartbeat pulsed in her ears so much so that she barely heard the exchange at all. Somehow, the tension of the confrontation was even more frightening than being threatened earlier. On one hand she was grateful for the help, but on the other, what if a fight broke out? It was multiple people against one person, and she'd feel horrible if something were to happen to her rescuer because of her. She wanted to scream at the blue haired girl to just leave her be, but she was trembling too much to even do that.

"Hey, let's let Sakurauchi-san go," Kuroki's friend said again, grabbing her arm. "That's Sonoda Umi we're talking to, the student council vice president. She could report us!"

"What!?" Kuroki's eyes squinted in momentary confusion. Then everything clicked, the blue hair, the archery uniform, the stern demeanor. She reeled back.

Umi took another step forward. "Yes, and it's not above me to give you suspension for bullying," she said, working off of her now revealed status. "Or even restricting some of your school privileges, including that of entering out-of-school competitions. Then you'd no chance of being in the original song writing competition."

Kuroki gritted her teeth. "So you did know what was going on."

"I always make sure to get a grasp of the situation before jumping in." Umi's mouth turned upwards in a small smile. "Now go, and I won't report this."

The other girl seethed in place, and for a second Riko thought she might attack. But then, begrudgingly, Kuroki pulled herself away from Riko, storming off while muttering under her breath. Her other classmates soon followed, and then it was just Umi and Riko standing in the silent, green courtyard.

Riko let out a shaky breath she was holding in and collapsed on the ground, holding her hand close to her chest. She let her school bag drop unceremoniously beside her, too exhausted to carry any of its weight.

Thank goodness it's over, Riko thought while trying to steady her breathing. As the green blur of the grass sharpened in her sight, an outstretched hand appeared in front of her.

"Here, let me help you up," Riko's rescuer said.

Riko looked up to see the face of the cobalt haired girl, a small breeze making small strands of her long hair float leisurely in the air, and the rays of the setting sun behind making a halo around her face. So beautiful...and handsome, Riko thought. Her eyes and smile were soft and healing, and just looking at them made Riko feel like she could breathe easier. It was completely unlike the steely, almost dangerous air she gave off earlier.

The smile turned into a worried frown. "Are you alright?"

Riko blinked, then gasped as she realized that she had just been staring at the other girl for several seconds. "Ah, sorry! Yes, I'm ok."

Snapping herself out of her trance, she took Umi's hand. It was rough, probably from time spent training in the dojo, but it was comforting in a way - firm, resolute, dependable. She meant to help herself up, but Umi lifted almost all her weight up like a feather.

"That's good," Umi said, and smiled again. Riko unconsciously took notice that they were almost the same height. Umi seemed so much taller earlier, so grand. The difference was slightly unsettling.

"Thank you for saving me," Riko said timidly. Then, remembering her etiquette, she gave a deep bow. "Also, I'm sorry you had to get caught up in my personal problems. If there's any way I can make it up to you..."

Umi tilted her head as a small bow in return. "Don't worry about it. As I said, it's a samurai's duty to defend the helpless, and I have to uphold the honor of my family name."

"Sonoda..." Riko whispered. She mulled the name over in her head, promising to remember it. She had to pay Umi back somehow for helping her, even if Umi said she didn't have to, and if anything she had to at least remember her name. Then, after registering Umi's words, Riko broke out into giggles. "Duty, doesn't that sound a bit old-fashioned?"

"Maybe," Umi chuckled and nervously tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear, suddenly feeling self-conscious. "Well, I'm also the student council vice president. I think it's my business to worry about the other members of the student body."

"Still, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if a fight broke out and you got hurt because of me."

"I could've taken them, if it came to that," Umi huffed and smiled self-assuredly. "Of course, violence is to be avoided if possible, so I'm glad things worked out the way they did. I'm glad you're okay."

Riko was silent, unsure of how to respond. No matter how considerate people said they were, Riko wasn't sure if many would be willing to jump into a situation like that.

"Well, I better get back to my archery practice," Umi said. "I wasn't doing very well today for some reason, so I was just taking a stroll to clear my head."

"Oh...alright."

"Ah, your bag," Umi remembered, and stooped down to pick up the gray school bag that had fallen earlier. It was dusted with specks of grass and dirt, and Umi patted it off as best she could before presenting it to Riko.

Riko on her part hesitated, looking at the bag forlornly before taking it. Riko didn't understand why, but she wanted Umi to stay. It was comforting in her presence, she felt safe. She wanted to say something, anything, to keep talking to Umi. The guilty part of her that reveled in cliche romance tropes thought that maybe she should pretend to collapse, and then Umi might at least help her back up again. The feeling of being lifted up by Umi's firm hands was so nice. But her manners kept her from doing so.

"I'm off then," Umi said, to which Riko nodded her response. After walking away several steps, she suddenly turned to look back, smiling sheepishly. "My apologies, I forgot to ask for your name."

Riko blinked. She had forgotten too. "It's Sakurauchi. Sakurauchi Riko."

Umi nodded, mentally saying the name back to herself. "If you ever find yourself in trouble again, you can always come find me. I'll either be in my classroom, 3-A, or in the archery dojo. It's nice to meet you, Sakurauchi-san!" With a wave, Umi took off in a light jog.

"Nice to meet you too, Sonoda...senpai," Riko whispered to herself. She found herself rooted to the spot, unable to tear her gaze away from where Umi was just standing. In a daze, she clapped her hands to her face, finding it warm against the cool spring breeze.

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subscriptlaw · 5 years ago

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Prominent Conservative Voices Against Trump

Support for the president wanes after poor response to the pandemic and nationwide protests.

Supporting Donald Trump, or at least his actions, has become harder lately. Trump’s response to the pandemic and to nation-wide protests against police brutality have shown the president’s ego controls his policy actions.

The following prominent conservative voices have spoken out against Trump:

James Mattis

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.”

James Mattis, the highly respected Marine general who acted as Trump’s Secretary of Defense before resigning in late 2018, initially declined to criticise the president. He said he did not want to harm existing officers’ opportunity to defend the country. He said he owed a certain period of silence, but that he would not keep quiet forever.

Mattis’s silence lasted until Trump used tear gas on peaceful protestors for a photo op. Here are Mattis’s words of condemnation:

IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH

I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.

When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.

We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “battlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.

James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.

Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.

Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.

We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one another. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite.

Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals—will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.

Read a discussion at The Atlantic.

At the NYTimes see condemnations of Trump by other retired military leaders regarding Trump’s use of troops against Americans.

50 GOP Former National Security Officials

“Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be President. He weakens U.S. moral authority as leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S. institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and independence of the judiciary.”

Before Trump gained the Republican nomination for President, his group of critics in the Republican party was large. By the time Trump became President, the leading voices in the Republican party were all Trump supporters. But here are some GOP officials who refused to kneel to Trump and spoke out clearly from the start.

Shortly after Trump gained the Republican nomination, 50 senior Republican national security officials issued a letter stating “None of us will vote for Donald Trump.” Here is what they had to say:

The undersigned individuals have all served in senior national security and/or foreign policy positions in Republican Administrations, from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. We have worked directly on national security issues with these Republican Presidents and/or their principal advisers during wartime and other periods of crisis, through successes and failures. We know the personal qualities required of a President of the United States.

None of us will vote for Donald Trump.

From a foreign policy perspective, Donald Trump is not qualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief. Indeed, we are convinced that he would be a dangerous President and would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.

Most fundamentally, Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be President. He weakens U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S. institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary.

In addition, Mr. Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he has little understanding of America’s vital national interests, its complex diplomatic challenges, its indispensable alliances, and the democratic values on which U.S. foreign policy must be based. At the same time, he persistently compliments our adversaries and threatens our allies and friends. Unlike previous Presidents who had limited experience in foreign affairs, Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself. He continues to display an alarming ignorance of basic facts of contemporary international politics. Despite his lack of knowledge, Mr. Trump claims that he understands foreign affairs and “knows more about ISIS than the generals do.”

Mr. Trump lacks the temperament to be President. In our experience, a President must be willing to listen to his advisers and department heads; must encourage consideration of conflicting views; and must acknowledge errors and learn from them. A President must be disciplined, control emotions, and act only after reflection and careful deliberation. A President must maintain cordial relationships with leaders of countries of different backgrounds and must have their respect and trust.

In our judgment, Mr. Trump has none of these critical qualities. He is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood. He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate personal criticism. He has alarmed our closest allies with his erratic behavior. All of these are dangerous qualities in an individual who aspires to be President and Commanderin-Chief, with command of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

We understand that many Americans are profoundly frustrated with the federal government and its inability to solve pressing domestic and international problems. We also know that many have doubts about Hillary Clinton, as do many of us. But Donald Trump is not the answer to America’s daunting challenges and to this crucial election. We are convinced that in the Oval Office, he would be the most reckless President in American history.

See the letter and its signatories here.

Colin Powell

“This is not the way the country’s supposed to run, and Congress is one of the institutions that should be doing something about this . . . [T]he Constitution started with, ‘We the People,’ not ‘Me the President.'”

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell did not sign the 2016 letter from national security officials opposing Trump, but since then, Powell has made his disapproval of the President clear. Most recently, Powell pledged his support for Biden in 2020, calling Trump a liar and saying Trump is bad for the country.

Trump’s foreign policy actions contributed to Powell’s disapproval of the president. In October 2019, President Trump caught his military advisors off-guard with a sudden decision to pull troops out of northern Syria. The U.S. troops were in northern Syria protecting allies and were still necessary to maintain stability in the area, according to senior U.S. officials. Trump’s move baffled many, as reported by Fox News.

Following Trump’s decision to pull the troops, Colin Powell — who had until then restrained his criticism of Trump — spoke out:

The Republican Party has got to get a grip on itself. Right now, Republican leaders and members of the Congress, in both the Senate and in the House, are holding back because they’re terrified of what will happen to any one of them if they speak out,” he said. “Will they lose a primary? I don’t know why that’s such a disaster, but will they lose a primary?

And so, they need to get a grip, and when they see things that are not right they need to say something about it, because our foreign policy is in shambles right now in my humble judgement.

Powell brought up a time when Trump made his own nonsense meteorological hypothesis about the trajectory of hurricane.

In my time, one of us would have gone to the president and said, ‘Mr President, you screwed up, so we’ve got to fix it and we’ll put out a correction.’ You know what they did this time? They ordered the Commerce Department to go out and backup whatever the president mis-said. This is not the way the country’s supposed to run, and Congress is one of the institutions that should be doing something about this.

The media has a role to play, we all have a role to play, you’ve got to remember that all these pieces are a part of our government. Executive branch, Congress, Supreme Court, and of the Fourth Estate, and we’ve got to remember that the Constitution started with, ‘We the People,’ not ‘Me the President.'

See the 2019 interview here.

Conservative Columnist George Will

“In life's unforgiving arithmetic, we are the sum of our choices. Congressional Republicans have made theirs for more than 1,200 days . . . May I never crave anything as much as these people crave membership in the world's most risible deliberative body.”

One very prominent conservative columnist is willing to go as far as to say the Republican party should lose its control of the Senate in addition to the Presidency to restore the loss of morality caused by Trump’s infiltration into the party.

For more than 40 years George F. Will has been a leader of conservative political thought. Will won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977, was a contributor for Fox News from 2013-2017, and now contributes for MSNBC and NBC News as well as writes a column in the Washington Post.

Will denounced his membership in the Republican Party as soon as Trump became the candidate. His words today call for the complete destruction of the Trumpian GOP.

In his Washington Post column, Will has words to describe Trump and then even worse words for the Congressional Republicans enabling Trump.

Will’s words regarding Trump:

This weak person’s idea of a strong person, this chest-pounding advertisement of his own gnawing insecurities, this low-rent Lear raging on his Twitter-heath has proven that the phrase malignant buffoon is not an oxymoron.

The president’s provocations — his coarsening of public discourse that lowers the threshold for acting out by people as mentally crippled as he — do not excuse the violent few. They must be punished. He must be removed. …

This unraveling presidency began with the Crybaby-in-Chief banging his spoon on his highchair tray to protest a photograph — a photograph — showing that his inauguration crowd the day before had been smaller than the one four years previous.

And regarding Trump’s enablers, the “senators who still gambol around his ankles with a canine hunger for petting”:

Senate Republicans must be routed, as condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration, leaving the Republican remnant to wonder: Was it sensible to sacrifice dignity, such as it ever was, and to shed principles, if convictions so easily jettisoned could be dignified as principles, for … what? Praying people should pray, and all others should hope: May I never crave anything as much as these people crave membership in the world’s most risible deliberative body.

In 2016, the Republican Party gave its principal nomination to a vulgarian and then toiled to elect him. And to stock Congress with invertebrates whose unswerving abjectness has enabled his institutional vandalism, who have voiced no serious objections to his Niagara of lies, and whom T.S. Eliot anticipated:

“We are the hollow men . . .

Our dried voices, when

We whisper together

Are quiet and meaningless

As wind in dry grass

or rats’ feet over broken glass’ . . .”

Read the article at Washington Post (subscription required); discussions at MinnPost, CNN.

Republican Voters Against Trump

“I’m a Republican because I believe in free markets and free trade. Donald Trump is a crony capitalist and protectionist.”

“I don’t believe Trump is an actual Republican. We all took it in and voted for him, but I don’t believe he truly cares about Republican values.”

“I like to say he hijacked the party.”

Each of us has a prominent voice in our own communities. That’s the idea behind this group of voting Republicans who are voicing their disapproval of Trump. On the organization’s website, Republican Voters Against Trump, you can scroll or search videos created by voters expressing dissatisfaction of the president.

The group will spend $10 million campaigning against Trump, publishing ads like this one.

See coverage at NYTimes and Huffpost.

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sparrows-old-blog · 8 years ago

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I’ve been looking through old notebooks and folders pretty much all afternoon today and I found written in one an old conversation (conveniently dated January 12, 2016) between @ichicurosutorei and @jurgenronaaz. Here for your reading pleasure is the tale of Crossdressing Ichi. You two have changed a lot since then, but your voices (in the literary sense) haven’t changed a bit. xD

I: I WANT MY JACKET BACK. I’M STILL IN THIS COAT. I mean yeah it’s pretty cool and a few people told me I look nice... But I want my jacket. My masculinity is in potential danger.

J: Bro, trench coats are the most masculine of all coats. You look like Vash the Stampede with less dorky hair.

I: Yes. But see. This is a WOMANS coat.

J: Yes, but you make it a man’s coat, just one that’s shaped a little different. Bro, just think of it like this. You’re wearing a gosh dang trenchcoat. You’re Neo. You’re a bad-at-dollar-dollar. [yes, that is the actual quote] Heck, it’s my firm belief that any clothing item can be made manly with enough determination. You could rock a tutu if you really wanted to.

I: I’d prefer not to, though.

J: *nods*

I: Think of it like this. I’m a little anime boy, adorable and innocent. Save this little boy. From the fangirls. That want to dress said boy. As a girl.

J: Ah, yes. Good point. Here. *Hands Ichi a crossbow* You shall need this. It’s dangerous to go alone, take this.

I: This little boy wants to be a good man. A gentleman of high degree.

J: Oh, okay. *replaces the crossbow with a shield* Try this instead.

I: Nein. I need a gauntlet. So I can challenge them all.

J: Aaaah, yes. *hands Ichi a metal gauntlet* It helps if you use a proper one. You might win a few before you even finish issuing the challenge.

I: I’ll throw it down at their feet. And demand a challenge.

J: No, you have to smack them with it.

I: They are women. I will not hit women when issuing a challenge. That is not gentlemanly.

J: Good point.

I: I’ll hit them DURING the challenge as part of it. But not before. After issuing the challenge I’ll hit them with the gauntlet.

J: Okay. *nods* Anyway, yes, use the gauntlet. Defend thyself. And remember: lift with the knees, not the back.

J: Remember, open the door for your lady.

J: Rip it off its hinges.

J: Fight off other men with the door.

J: Assert dominance.

I: Aye. But I’M TRYING TO SAVE MYSELF

J: *hands Ichi a jetpack* It’s dangerous to go alone, use this.

I: FROM WOMEN

J: I’ve found that the best way to deal with your problems is to run away from them until they go away.

I: WHAT MEN DO I NEED TO FIGHT OFF THEN?

J: All of them.

I: How about I hit the women with the door.

J: But that would not be gentlemanly.

I: Ah.

J: I’m afraid the only way to deal with hostile women in a gentlemanly manner is to flee, or get them to turn on each other.

I: But it’s part of the challenge. So it’s okay.

J: Good point. Doors at high noon!

I: Self defense.

J: Aye. So, a door duel. This shall be interesting.

I: Maybe I’ll go about this another way, and just not put myself in those situations?

J: That could also work!

#sparrow rambles #frens #I kept typing cat instead of coat and quietly giggling to myself

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83 Hypothetical Questions – Fun, but nearly impossible to answer.

Coming up with the hypothetical questions can be a fruitful way to expand a conversation from dull everyday topics to something far more interesting and fun.

You can develop a set of questions to ask that are unique, outside the box, and have really memorable answers. And they can really be used in any situation, from dating… to getting to know a new friend.

So… try some of the hypothetical questions below to spice up your next conversation.

Contents

Best

To Ask A Girl

To Ask Friends

Interesting

Random

Funny

Deep

How To

11 Best Hypothetical Questions

Always start with the best, right? These hypothetical questions allow for some great conversation about all the best speculative topics.

Here are the 11 best hypothetical questions:

1. You’re walking in a forest and you found a black suitcase. Inside it, holds 1 million dollar and a piece of paper stained in blood with a single word “Don’t”. Would you take the suitcase home or leave it?

It’s the start of a great story, if people make the right hypothetical choices.

2. You are at war. Deciphering an intercepted code, you learn two things about your enemy. A single spot in their defense will be at its weakest in ten days, and they will attack on of your cities in five days. What do you do with this information? What is the most efficient course of action?

Is victory or defending others the most important thing in life and war?

3. If you could really sell your soul to the devil, what would you sell it for?

The oldest bargain on offer, but what would actually make it worth it?

4. You find a book and begin to read only to discover that it is your life. You get to the point that you are at now, do you turn the page knowing that you will not be able to change the events to come?

Would knowing the future be exciting or spoil the adventure?

5. If you were really a robot, would you want to know?

A deep question about how we define ourselves.

6. If you got to choose between fifty years of being incredibly happy or to live forever and be unhappy what would you choose?

What price would you pay to be immortal?

7. If you could learn any one skill in the world without trying (like Matrix learning style), which would you pick?

Find out what skills people really wish they had.

8. You are offered a pill that makes you 25% more intelligent but permanently removes your hair including eyebrows. Do you take it?

A fun way to examine the worth of beauty vs. intelligence.

9. If Jurassic Park were real, would you visit it?

An incredible vacation, although that park does have questionable security.

10. If a zombie plague were to start right now, where would you hold up?

Who doesn’t enjoy a good hypothetical zombie apocalypse?

11. If you could change one thing about how the human body has evolved, what would it be?

Give everyone jetpacks on their feet, obviously.

11 Hypothetical Conversation Starters Questions

Getting beyond introductions is perhaps the hardest part of a conversation.

To life hack those problems, just use some of these hypothetical conversation starters to introduce interesting and amusing topics everyone will want to talk about.

Here are the 11 powerful hypothetical conversation starters questions:

12. If you were a superhero, which of your friends would you pick as your sidekick? And what would your respective powers be?

A question about friendship and cool powers. Sure to get people talking.

13. What historic figure would make the worst ghost to be haunted by?

Who would be the most annoying or terrifying ghost from all history? A lot of options.

14. If you could ask your future self from the year 2050 one question, what would it be?

Find out what people really want to know about the future.

15. Would you accept a $30k/week job offer where you get paid to sit in a pitch black room and do nothing for 8 hours a day?

How much is that money worth to you?

16. If you could only listen to one band for the rest of your life, what one would you pick?

This isn’t just a favorite band, it’s one that would keep you from going crazy after so much repeated listening.

17. Would you rather travel for the rest of your life (only staying in one place for like 3 months), or never leave your home state again?

This tells a lot about how a person approaches life.

18. If you could breed a hybrid animal of any two species, what two would you choose?

The options are endlessly amusing: from the dog-whale to the pig-fish.

19. What amount of money per month would it take for you to give up your mobile phone forever?

A dollar sign that says more about phone obsession than the cash in hand.

20. Would you rather be a deep sea diver or astronaut?

Decide the best hidden world to explore.

21. Would you prefer to live in the Sahara or in Antarctica?

Which extreme is worse?

22. If you were to lose all five of your senses, how would you know if you were truly alive?

A really deep thinker that leads to some very existential questions.

11 Hypothetical Questions to Ask a Girl

Use hypothetical questions to ask a girl something she hasn’t been asked a million times. These questions will help her to really open up and tell you about herself.

Here are the 11 powerful hypothetical questions to ask a girl:

23. If you had to give up television or the internet, which would you choose?

Find out where she goes for most of her screen time.

24. If you were the President of the United States, what would you do on your first day?

A great way to find out about her feelings about society and what needs to change.

25. If you owned a bar, what would it look like?

Give her a chance to design her ideal watering hole.

26. If the job “President of Earth” actually existed, who would you want to be doing it?

Is she power mad or timid at heart?

27. If you were going to a famous historical figure dress up party, who would you go as?

A great way to find out who and what she admires.

28. Would you rather live for another 60 years but not be able to leave your house ever again, or live for 10 more years and be free to go where you wanted?

Is life about the time or the quality of the experience?

29. If you had to describe your life in 20 words or less, what would you say?

Get her to summarize her whole life for you in a couple sentences.

30. If you could relive the last year, would you change any decisions you made? If you would, which ones?

This opens a whole conversation on regrets and missed chances.

31. If you could have complete knowledge of any 5 things, what would you want to know?

What is she really curious about?

32. If you were invisible for 12 hours, what would you do?

A fun question that lets her imagine all the hijinks she could get into.

33. If you ran Google, what would you do differently?

Save the world or make even more money: get her priorities.

11 Hypothetical Questions to Ask Friends

Having some hypothetical questions to ask friends makes sure you never run out of fun things to talk about. Use some of the questions below.

Here are the 11 awesome hypothetical questions to ask friends:

34. In the event of a zombie apocalypse, what would your hand weapon of choice be?

Always go for the chainsaw.

35. If you could organise a car race for you and your friends where you all drive the same car, what car would you pick?

Just imagining the car race makes the question worth asking.

36. Which Ninja Turtle is the best? And which would beat all the others in a fight?

Perhaps the toughest question on this list.

37. If when you die, you are given the choice between finding out what is next or staying on earth as a ghost to wander the planet alone for eternity, which would you choose?

This makes people question how brave they are when facing the unknown.

38. Imagine you are on top of a 40 storey building, there is a giant inflatable landing pad at street level, its big enough that you have a 95% chance of surviving the jump. Would you jump off to save a friends life?

A lot of pressure on this one with other friends sitting around.

39. If, for some reason, computers had never been invented, do you think the world would be a better place? Explain your answer

Deep and sure to lead to a long, interesting debate.

40. If you could buy any existing .com domain, which would it be?

Mantelligence.com. Obviously.

41. You’re fighting a war, you can pick between having a tyrannosaurus rex or a tank on your side, which do you choose?

Fight the hypothetical battle out between the two for extra fun.

42. How do you think your life would change if you didn’t need to sleep? What would you do with the extra time?

A deeper question that lets everyone examine how they use the time they have.

43. Would you rather know all of the languages in the world, or know how to play all of the instruments?

Communication or music: what’s more important?

44. If you had to get $10,000 by tomorrow and no bank would give you a loan, what would you do?

This can lead to the best bank heist ideas at the table.

12 Interesting Hypothetical Questions

Hypothetical questions are, at heart, all supposed to be interesting questions. Use these to add a little more quality to your next conversation.

Here are the 12 best interesting hypothetical questions:

45. If a person could go to the center of the earth, what would be his weight ?

A question for the physicist at the table.

46. Does the fact that we don’t know of anyone from the future time traveling back to our time (or our past), prove that time travel will never be possible?

This can lead to all sorts of explanations why we don’t see time travelers everywhere.

47. If animals had evolved at the same rate of humans (in terms of intelligence), what do you think would be the dominant species on earth today?

The emperor penguin: it’s more than just a name.

48. How would the world be different if humans commonly ranged anywhere from 4 foot to 12 foot tall?

Other than different sized doorways, what else would happen?

49. What do you think would happen if it was somehow proved there was no god and every religion is pointless?

A tough question full of huge consequences.

50. What do you think would happen to the world if somehow one religion was proved beyond a doubt to be correct and all the others (including atheism) were useless?

A twin to the question above. It’s sure to lead to lively debate.

51. How would you change your life today if the average life expectancy was 400 years?

A deep question about how our assumptions about time affect us.

52. Two kingdoms are poised to erupt into war, the course of which will kill many of the populations on both sides. War can be avoided through marriage of a princess from one kingdom to the prince of the other. The marriage will be loveless. Should the marriage be forced?

Is the good of many outweighed the misery of a few, or not?

53. If the government gave you the responsibility of coming up with a plan to combat online piracy, what would you do?

Put yourself in the public policy chair and solve one of the world’s biggest problems.

54. If you were a scientist, you rather discover something huge, but die before tell before telling someone, or discover nothing at all?

Is the point of discovery the knowledge or the fame you get from it?

55. Do you think the world would be a better, worse or just different place if all land was connected (like it was millions of years ago)?

Would we get along better or far, far worse?

56. How long do you think you would survive if food stopped being shipped and you had to grow it / forage it yourself?

Find out who you know is a real survivor.

11 Random Hypothetical Questions

Sometimes, the best answers to hypothetical questions come from random questions. Throw a few curve balls using these questions.

Here are the 11 awesome random hypothetical questions to ask:

57. How would you change how you live your life if life was like a video game where you respawn back at home after dying?

A great way to imagine the crazy adventures respawning would allow you.

58. If you had to describe each of your friends with you right now only through hand signals (like sign language), how would you do it?

A lot of fun to be had from translating those hand signals.

59. If you had to be renamed after one of the planets in the solar system, which would you pick?

Uranus is obviously right out.

60. Do you think the world would be a better place if someone like Iron Man really existed?

Dream up a world of superheroes and imagine the real consequences.

61. Imagine you lapsed and cheated on your partner – you felt horrible and knew you’d never do it again, would you confess?

One of the all-time tough hypotheticals.

62. If you were the captain of a pirate ship, what would you name your ship? And what would your title be?

A great game to play over a few rums.

63. If you were to have either a teleporter or a time travel machine, which one would you want?

Would it be better to go anywhere or anytime?

64. What would win a fight between a rhinoceros and hippopotamus?

Work the battle out yourselves.

65. You can make one change to any winter olympic sport to make it more exciting, what would it be?

Ice hockey with a beachball or bobsled without the sled?

66. If all swear words became socially acceptable, what existing word would you use to replace them?

Try it in practice for extra fun. Oh, cottage cheese!

67. If you could send yourself from 10 years ago a message no longer than 20 seconds, what would you say?

Invest in Bitcoin? Or would it be more personal?

9 Funny Hypothetical Questions to ask

If hypothetical questions are good for anything, it’s a good laugh. Use these hypothetical funny questions to ask something sure to add a little comedy to your conversation.

Here are the 9 best funny hypothetical questions to ask:

68. Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

A question for the ages.

69. Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?

This may require philosophical, and potentially messy, answer.

70. Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

Sure to get a groan and a laugh, but what would it be called?

71. Why are there no ‘B’ batteries?

Sure to elicit an online search for these mythical object.

72. When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?

A real test in defining terms.

73. If a kid refuses to sleep during nap time, are they guilty of resisting a rest?

A question sure to get an exhausted laugh from every parent.

74. If God sneezes, what should you say?

You bless you?

75. If a bunch of cats jump on top of each other, is it still called a dog pile?

Or is it a cat dog pile?

8 Deep Hypothetical Questions to ask

Add some depth to your conversation with hypothetical deep questions to ask. Use these hypothetical questions to lead your conversation in far more thoughtful directions.

Here are the 8 powerful deep hypothetical questions to ask:

76. You lost your fortune, everyone turns on you. You manage to get $1000, what will you do with it to work on creating wealth again?

A unique way of examining the best ways to get rich.

77. Would you rather one of your dreams came true, or two of your best friends’ dreams?

Selfishness or altruism, what matters more?

78. If time can be divided into infinitely decreasing segments, does that mean we live infinitely long in just one second?

A great way to examine the nature of time.

79. If the whole world was going to die out, would you sacrifice your self to save it or let yourself live and everything else die?

Is your world defined by you or by everything around you?

80. If the world was “reset” to the same state it was 5,000 years ago, do you think by the time the alternate world got to our timepoint, would it look much the same? Or would it be quite different?

You’re asking if things must happen as they have or if it was all chance.

81. Would you live your life differently if nobody would ever judge you for anything you did?

Do you behave as we do because of our morals or because others watch and judge us?

82. How do you think the world would be different if advertising didn’t exist? Do you think we’d all be better people, “wanting” less? Or is it human nature to “want more”?

A question straight to the heart of what it means to be human.

83. If animals could talk, or at least communicate in a basic, intelligent manner, how do you think the world would change? Would you still eat meat?

A vegetarian vs. meat-eater question for the ages.

Downloadable List of Hypothetical Questions

Here is a downloadable list of hypothetical questions (right click the image and select Save Image As…):