Siam Revolution IC

[Leslie]

Today Evanna, Erasmus, and Zoey were all joining the ever increasing peaceful protests at Solana Park in the center of the capitol city, Siam City. First it started out as a small protest against the government of Siam, being done at the park because that was the most open place for people to spread out to protest, but it quickly was gaining momentum. At first there was maybe 100 people gathered, but people started to take note of the protesters from social media websites, walking in the park, and so on, and because of it, there were probably a few thousand people peacefully protesting at the park now. So peacefully in fact that most of the people were just sitting around currently reading books, holding signs up, and so on. Nothing indicating the protesters meant any harm to anything or anyone. Peoples reasoning varied greatly for protesting. The average wages for citizens getting lower and lower, a ever collapsing school system, forced conscription into the military, increase in environmentally-dangerous practices like the large increase in the countries logging industry, to name only but a few examples of people protesting.

Evanna's reasoning for protesting was definitely related to the forced conscription into the military. Recently she found out that in the next few weeks she would be sent to a military training camp if she wanted to or not, and since she had little interest in joining the military at all, she wasn't all too happy about that and decided that she was going to join in the peaceful protests, seeing a good reason to join in now. She wasn't certain how much it would accomplish or not, but thought it was better then doing nothing. And just being here she could tell that there was generally a pretty big movement against the government arising, and it made her feel even more certain that she should be here for the protests that she could also hope would be game changing for the country as a whole if the government listened to them, and the protests got big enough to be payed attention to.

While some of the protesters may of looked serious about their protesting and/or grumpy, angry people, Evanna didn't give off that impression at all. Some of the protesters looked like they could be people that if things went downhill quickly for some reason, they might not be the most pleasant protesters. Evanna on the other hand looked like a rather happy teenaged girl protesting, looking rather happy for protesting against going into the military. Which was probably because she was generally a happy girl, and being at her first protest was an interesting experience for her. She was one of the protesters currently sitting on the grass reading a book. She didn't even have a sign, but she was hanging out near a random person who did have a sign protesting the forced conscription into the military. She also had her camera bag and cellphone with her, thinking about filming the protests and putting the video on YouTube. Depending how things go, she thought the camera could be very useful. Even her cellphone camera could be pretty useful to her as far as she was concerned, but she had little use for either at the moment, except maybe to call her boyfriend and family later. She thought about talking to some of her fellow protesters, but right now she wanted to finish more of her book.

Erasmus just arrived to the protests with his daughter by his side. They didn't quite seem as cheery as Evanna, but that was likely related to them having a kind of rough last few days. Zoey especially was having a hard time the last few days, and she was a little scared going to the protests so he had to convince her that everything will be okay. But she wasn't scared because she was afraid it would go bad in the sense of the government responding badly, but because she was afraid of the protesters themselves, because she knew some crazy people went to the protests. But her dad reassured her that the people like that were a minority and she had no need to worry too much. They reasoning for protesting was being kicked out of their home without much of a warning, thrown on the street with nowhere to go......all because the government wanted to build a new government building smack dab on their house. They didn't even bother paying them money to move, and just decided to kick them out. This didn't go over well with Erasmus, and Zoey was having problems with the whole being stuck on the street thing. She was adapting, but the whole change right now was making her down. It was making Erasmus down, too, because being kicked out of your house wasn't a pleasant thing by all means, but he could handle that whole thing better then Zoey could. He honestly thought that with the government doing thing like that, that maybe, just maybe there would be someone here that might cheer Zoey up, preferably someone near her own age that she could socialize with now that she was out of school. But of course the main reason for being here was to protest the government with everyone else for their own personal reasons.

For now, they just walked through the park, looking at how many people there was. Which he noticed was substantially larger then when he checked the park only a few days ago. He wandered around the park to find a good place to hang out and to get a perspective on who and what type of people were protesting, and what for. From what he could tell, it was all sorts, for many, many different reasons, and he could tell that this protest was pretty serious business with many varying issues people had with the government. He was really hoping the government would listen to their protests, and do something, but from what he knew of the government he doubted they would just change things because a few thousand people were protesting. He could only hope, though, and he knew all too well doing something was better then not doing anything and complaining about how crappy the system was and talking about how the government won't listen anyway.

[Edenecho]

The Flares pulled up to the park in two large grey vans. This would be their first day at the protest. Originally they were just going to write inspirational music, things were changing now, and the Flares were really starting to see how corrupt and evil the government was. So now they were going to join the protests. They all hopped out of the vans. Atlas went to the back and pulled open the double doors of the van he had been driving, while Soren opened the other. "Falcon, Soren, you get the stage. Gen, sweetheart, you can help me with the instruments. Everyone seemed happy with their jobs, and went to work. Soren and Falcon pulled out two pieces of a stage that were stuffed in the back of the truck Soren had been driving. It was a small stage, but it was a stage big enough to fit them and their instruments. They carried it over to an open area one piece at a time, then set it up. Meanwhile, Atlas and Gen pulled the instruments and speakers and overall musical stuff out of the back and carried it over to the area where the stage was being set up. "You go the wireless amps?" He asked Gen, who gave a nod and darted back to the truck. She came back carrying a large amp, which she placed on the stage.

Atlas headed over to grab the other amp while Falcon and Soren got the other stuff. Once everything was over there, they got started with setting it all up. Gen set up her drums while Atlas got his guitar situated. Soren set up a keyboard, which he knew how to play even though it wasn't mentioned. He just wasn't like, super awesome or anything. Falcon set up his bass and the amps then they all started doing sound tests.

Once all that was done, and they had a microphone set up and everything, Atlas addressed the protesters. "Good morning, Siam protesters," He said into the microphone. "We are a band called Revolution, though despite the name we would like to keep this protest peaceful. We're here to provide you with musical entertainment as well as musical motivation. And, just for note before we start, today we're doing covers of songs, so if they lyrics sound like we're trying to get you to revolt, we're not. So," He looked at the rest of the band, who gave a nod, then said,"This is a song to the Government."

They all started playing Take a Bow by Muse.

[Leslie]

Evanna quickly found her attention drawn to the band that was currently setting up on a stage, and she completely lost track of her attention on her book, so she put it down and focused her full attention on watching the band set up. Once they were all set up and they started to speak, she just listened, and once they started to play Muse, she smiled brightly because she always found herself liking Muse' music. Something hit her and she quickly rummaged into her pocket for her cellphone, then turned it on and started to film the live show. She didn't feel like wasting her main camera battery on music, because that was more meant for more serious protesting footage, especially if things went bad. But her cellphones video camera was surprisingly good quality, anyway. While filming them she looked perfectly happy, and like she was enjoying herself and the music.

As someone started to talk on stage about playing music and the music started to play, Zoey looked up at her dad and her dad gave her a nod, like they knew what each other were thinking about. Erasmus wandered over closer to the location of the stage, and sat on the grass in front of the stage, Zoey quickly following behind him and sitting down on the grass next to her dad. As the music went on more and more, Zoey found herself starting to smile brightly, and Erasmus seeing this started to smile, too, because it was the first time he had seen his daughter truly smile in a long time. Not seeing her smile and act sad and scared about everything going on related to being kicked out onto the street tore at his heart. If there was one major motivation for being here, it was for his daughters sake. To make something change for her. He put his arm around his daughters shoulders and pulled her to his side, and she leaned against him and smiled some more. "Love you, dad" She said to him, though he barely heard it over the music. He stroked her hair and said "Love you too, Zoey", and then the both of them just went to focusing their full attention onto the concert.

Overall the atmosphere of the place had turned to focusing on the band, with some people still reading off other places. People were gathering around the stage area from various places in the park as they heard the music start playing and someone talking like they were about to play some music. There was quite the impressive crowd gathering around the stage for them now, and a lot of the people looked like they were quite enjoying themselves. A fair amount of people started to cheer, and one guy shouted "Down with the government!" but was mostly drowned out by the others in the crowd that were just cheering. Everyone's response seemed to be generally positive towards the band, and it brought a whole new level to the protests, and a way for people to enjoy themselves with listening to music, and dancing to the music. Which some people had started to do, some even while holding their protesting signs still. In other words the band would probably be quite pleased with the reaction to their music.