Zeroth Directive

Archive III

Blaze talks about her childhood from time to time. She has always had a fiery temper and straightforward nature, never afraid to make a stand, whether at school or among the kids in town. She protected the weak kids, and raised her not-so-strong fists against bullies. Her actions, of course, earned her plenty of scolding from her father. Her father was very different from her, and Blaze never once saw him argue with someone else. He always preached the principles of conflict avoidance and treating others with magnanimity, as written in the classical Yanese texts. 'One time, I said to him: 'You always tell me to be patient, to endure, but what if the bad guys don't stop? What if there's no way for the victims to get justice?' 'Dad thought about it for a long time before putting his hand on my head. He said that if the time comes when there is no choice, when backing down is truly no longer an option, and when I'm sure I must stand up for justice... then I should make a stand.' The young Blaze did not really understand what her father said, but listened and tried to keep her temper in check. There was no particular drama to the story of how Blaze contracted Oripathy. When her father left Victoria, she, already a young adult, began working at a local factory in order to ease the burden on her mother. Such factories in remote regions, with lax oversight and inadequate Originium safety measures, always have their share of Infected workers, but Blaze befriended everyone, treating them all as equals. Blaze found out that the owner of the factory, who had promised to supply medicine to Infected workers, was refusing to provide even basic painkillers. At first, he claimed that his request was still being reviewed by the governing noble, but Blaze soon realized that the medicine was being held in a warehouse outside the quarantine zone. In fact, medicine was being brought into the warehouse on a weekly basis, before being smuggled out in small batches and sold to the highest bidder. The factory owner had never intended to make good on his promise. When the workers protested, the owner had soldiers brought in to 'keep the peace' and round up all the protesters. Watching her friends go down one by one because of illness, Blaze went to the door of the factory and begged them to bring medicine, only to be met with the soldiers' cold, indifferent looks. That was when Blaze realized that the time when backing down was no longer an option had come. Blaze smashed a hole in the wall of factory and led the workers' charge into the medicine warehouse. That was the incident where she contracted Oripathy. Blaze's life was turned upside down, heralding the events that would eventually lead to her joining Rhodes Island. 'I still think of Dad's teachings sometimes. He wasn't wrong, but I don't regret what I did one bit.' Only much later did Blaze learn about her father's past. It made her eyes go wide first, then brought tears to them. She never imagined that her gentle, timid father had long since made his own stand for justice. They had been separated by thousands of miles, but were walking on the same path, in a way. Once again, she seemed to feel the warmth of that hand on her head.

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