Mingle time!

[wotanon]

Who: Idols and Fans
Where: Anywhere
When: 426, anytime

[ How about a bit more mingle in order to get those requests in! ]

Comments

[rainshaveceased]

What an odd question. In what regard?

[deicider]

Small talk doesn't interest me much. In whatever regard you feel like. Being here, being with humans, the duty you held.

[rainshaveceased]

That I still hold.

I am grateful to have received another chance to complete my duty, of course, and to see my brothers again. Little has changed otherwise.

[deicider]

[nods at the correction.]

Found anything here to charm you?

[rainshaveceased]

To... charm me? No, nothing in particular.

[deicider]

Like your brothers. It can get boring here if you don't pick up a few hobbies, or a few lovers, or both.

[rainshaveceased]

I am not as easily bored - or distracted - as them.

[deicider]

I wouldn't call them easily distracted.

Here's avante.

[Description here]

[rainshaveceased]

Ah. This looks more like something you would commonly find on our star.

[deicider]

On my own star, this would be considered fitting hundreds of years in the past. But I'm from much further into Earth's future than most. Most of the worlds represented here aren't space-faring, or are only in the infancy of space exploration, but on my star we've been doing it for half a century.

[rainshaveceased]

...If I may ask, what is the society on your star like?

[deicider]

[Cardinal gestures Elidibus to take a seat if he wants, and puts on some water for tea.]

... More similar to yours than it is to most other versions of Earth you'll find here. It's one of the reasons Alexander and I get along so well. Up until recently it was peaceful, we haven't had a war of any kind in hundreds of years. People are free to do what they love, obey the laws of the government they choose.

[rainshaveceased]

[sits politely!]

But that changed recently?

[deicider]

[nods.]

I don't have memories of it yet but yes, there's going to be a war.

[rainshaveceased]

My condolences.

Do you remember the causes of it?

[deicider]

Thank you.

Me, partially. I shot someone through the head to try and stop it‐that was my duty—but they were brought back to life. The war had been a long time coming even with my siblings and I doing what we could to slow it down, but that was when everything crystallized. Too many tensions coming to boil at once.

[rainshaveceased]

[nods, thoughtful]

That is the way of it all too often. Though it does seem odd to me that such conflicts would exist in an unsundered world.

[deicider]

Conflict is normal among all humans that I know of. We're not Ascians. My world is an outlier, and we strive to embody many of the same ideals as your world does.

[rainshaveceased]

I suppose. But even so...

[trails off and shakes his head to dismiss the thought]

Let us return to what we came here for.

[deicider]

The tea just finished anyway. [And Cardinal pours the water.] But what?

[rainshaveceased]

Nothing. Merely a passing thought of no consequence.

[deicider]

Can you predict the consequences so accurately?

[rainshaveceased]

I can in this case.

[deicider]

Fair enough. Wait here a second.

[Cardinal disappears into their room and comes back with a suit, minus the mechnical bits.]

This was a gift from Alexander, actually. You can change in my room if you want, or the bathroom.

[rainshaveceased]

Of course it was a gift from him...

[emet why are you such a soft]

But yes, thank you.

[he's going to take the suit and go change in the bathroom]