future is now more like future is wow

[resonantblue]

Who: fin and visitors?
Where: FIN DORM
When: Day 165, post-game

[how'd that game treat you? or, for those who didn't go, how did NOT going to that game treat you?]

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Pours him a cup of green tea from the thermos Maki brought over earlier and sets it next to him]

[asonoficeandfire]

[looks up]

Ah... thank you.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Checking for obvious injuries, like the fussy (but aloof) parent that he is]

[asonoficeandfire]

[there are none, at least not visible. his knuckles are a little scraped up, but that's it]

...what is it?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Nothing.

Were you able to work through what you wanted?

[asonoficeandfire]

Mm. I just didn't want to come back here while being angry. That memory was ... a little different.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

... How so?

[asonoficeandfire]

I exploited one of my father's weaknesses. It was... a temporary victory, it didn't do much.

... I did it while exposing myself for his strongest attack. I could have dodged it, but I didn't, all so I could get an attack in. I'd been waiting for him to use it, and I goaded him into it.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Were you expecting it to do more than it did?

[asonoficeandfire]

I don't think I was thinking straight. All I wanted was to prove something to him.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And did you?

[asonoficeandfire]

No, of course not.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

If you want to get out of his shadow, you need to get an absolute win over him.

Not just a potshot.

[asonoficeandfire]

I know that.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Is he talking to Duality right now. Or himself.

We just don't know]

Do you?

Because you really only get one shot to do it right.

[asonoficeandfire]

I don't remember enough to know if that moment has happened or not yet.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Is there any downside in planning to put him in his place a second time?

[asonoficeandfire]

No... but it's not really my focus here, or I don't want that to be my focus when I want to... protect my friends here instead.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[A little bit of a sigh]

He's going to continue to haunt your memories though. And now there is a precedence that you might not get a choice of when you get to take them.

[asonoficeandfire]

... at least I know what to expect.