I've probably said it enough, but her Master.
It is an interesting case, in that Virara holds fanatically to the belief system her Master inculcated her with, but also holds animosity for the woman in equal measure. The odd nature of their relationship has a lot to do with this, as Master very likely knew from the start that Virara only accepted the offer to learn lethal martial arts so that someday she could free herself and murder her teacher. Yet Virara had no concept of human bonds, and before she engaged with Master, her thought process was much more on the level of a wild animal than a sapient being. So both Virara's sense of self and intense hatred bind her to Master, and neither can be extricated from one another: Master is the strongest, so she is right. She is the strongest because she is the greatest at martial arts, and martial arts are connected to murder. Murder is different from killing in that an animal kills to survive, while a Spoken can kill for reasons other than pragmatism. Animals kill, people murder. Therefore, to be a person, Virara has to follow Master's way of living, because she is an unparalleled genius at murder. Virara's intense desire to kill out of animosity rather than fear for her life was the first real human emotion she experienced, so in a sense it was like a second birth. There is obviously a lot more to being a sentient being, but given that this emotion was what anchored her to her newfound way of thinking, those other elements are often drowned out. She was "uplifted" out of a survival-focused half-madness into a blank slate that was starting to resemble a thinking being. A lot of characters remark that it seems like a rather twisted "mother-daughter" relationship, but that's probably only part of it.
With this intense dependence in mind, Virara wants to kill Master, but at the same time will not suffer slander upon her and will even violently rebuke people who too aggressively dispute things that she has taught. Virara categorizes all things in the world that she didn't learn from Master as "vulgar" in a somewhat neutral "low" or "unsophisticated" sense, rather than whether it's useful or not.
It is an interesting case, in that Virara holds fanatically to the belief system her Master inculcated her with, but also holds animosity for the woman in equal measure. The odd nature of their relationship has a lot to do with this, as Master very likely knew from the start that Virara only accepted the offer to learn lethal martial arts so that someday she could free herself and murder her teacher. Yet Virara had no concept of human bonds, and before she engaged with Master, her thought process was much more on the level of a wild animal than a sapient being. So both Virara's sense of self and intense hatred bind her to Master, and neither can be extricated from one another: Master is the strongest, so she is right. She is the strongest because she is the greatest at martial arts, and martial arts are connected to murder. Murder is different from killing in that an animal kills to survive, while a Spoken can kill for reasons other than pragmatism. Animals kill, people murder. Therefore, to be a person, Virara has to follow Master's way of living, because she is an unparalleled genius at murder. Virara's intense desire to kill out of animosity rather than fear for her life was the first real human emotion she experienced, so in a sense it was like a second birth. There is obviously a lot more to being a sentient being, but given that this emotion was what anchored her to her newfound way of thinking, those other elements are often drowned out. She was "uplifted" out of a survival-focused half-madness into a blank slate that was starting to resemble a thinking being. A lot of characters remark that it seems like a rather twisted "mother-daughter" relationship, but that's probably only part of it.
With this intense dependence in mind, Virara wants to kill Master, but at the same time will not suffer slander upon her and will even violently rebuke people who too aggressively dispute things that she has taught. Virara categorizes all things in the world that she didn't learn from Master as "vulgar" in a somewhat neutral "low" or "unsophisticated" sense, rather than whether it's useful or not.
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