it's a mingle!

[wotanon]

Who: imeeji!
Where: imeeji!
When: day 439ish?

[ do you have effects from the game? do you have errands to run? chaos to cause? what's up my lads can i get an ups in the chat ]

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[auguryofinnocence]

[Hey???? He Does Not See It. If he ignores it it's not real he doesn't have to admit he wants to kiss his embarrassing brother? ...Or any of the other shit.

Anyway why does he feel like it wasn't a good enough explanation!]

...None of it puts me in the best light, once again. But I suppose I am resigned to that.

[rainshaveceased]

It did not give me a terribly poor impression of you, if that is your fear. Quite the opposite, I feel you make significantly more sense now.

[auguryofinnocence]

...Do I? Well, I will take that, at least.

[rainshaveceased]

[pats his arm. there there buddy]

[auguryofinnocence]

I am not sure how, but, alright.

I would like to think you would have liked Nero, at least.

[rainshaveceased]

Is he similar to you?

[auguryofinnocence]

Hm, yes and no. There are certain ways I hate to see that he is exactly like me. But of course I was not around to influence him. He is not so serious, and couldn't be cruel if he tried, too willing to be kind even to me. But not naive, and he knows his own worth.

He was rather impressed with your society, too.

[Proud dad,]

[rainshaveceased]

He sounds like a wonderful person. I hope I can meet him someday.

[auguryofinnocence]

He is. He's a good kid. ...Well, man.

[But whatever. That's his kid, he's a kid.]

I would certainly like to bring him to Amaurot. At least to visit.

[rainshaveceased]

Of course. None of us would be so cruel as to deprive you of your family.

[auguryofinnocence]

No, of course - the trouble there is with them. We adopted a sister here, she is human, as is Raven of course, and Nero moreso than not. Their lives will be short. And he has a family himself, not enough money, asking him to leave even for a short time may not be possible.

[rainshaveceased]

...Ah. I see.

[those sure are big ol mortal problems. how does anyone deal with those, it is a mystery.]

[auguryofinnocence]

[Who knows! He tried to be like it's ok I'll get you money but apparently murdering people for theirs is bad and won't earn much? For some reason they don't want to get turned into demons and eat people for immortality? Weird.]

Every day I am made more glad to not be a human. It all sounds terrible.

[rainshaveceased]

I still find it quite difficult to believe there are worlds where such an existence is not the result of a sundering.

[auguryofinnocence]

Yours seems about the only case of its kind. Even the rest of us who are not mortal tend to have some sort of catch.

[rainshaveceased]

So it seems. The implications of our being the exception rather than the rule are... unsettling, to say the least.

[auguryofinnocence]

[He shrugs.]

The rest of us are not necessarily so unhappy with it all. Parts certainly, and some more than others, but not as a whole. My son could, I'm sure, but won't hear anything about living more than a mortal life. The mentality of your people and your way of life are impossible for me to imagine. It is far better than humans as far as I am concerned, but I like what I am. Even the drawbacks I find worthwhile.

[rainshaveceased]

And that is not something I can understand at all. How could anyone - especially anyone with a complete soul - feel content with a life full of pain and sorrow? Surely that is only because it's all you know.

[auguryofinnocence]

Hmm... When you put it like that you are right, of course. Who is content with that. But even so... Had I been born on your star, as one of you, I would not be at all myself, there is not even the smallest possibility, right down to my interests.

But I enjoy being as I am. I have worked hard to exist and that is satisfying to me. If I could not be myself, why would I wish to exist at all? There are experiences I would trade certainly, yet... Not enough to be someone else. That's how I see it, at least.

[rainshaveceased]

...

Do you disagree with our previous efforts, then?

[auguryofinnocence]

What? Not in the least. I understand why your shards would be against it, but that does not mean I have any sympathy for them.

Quite the opposite. To them it may seem as I described, but isn't it the other way around? They were once someone else, that is who they should be. ...I know better than anyone that it is better to be whole, so I would think finding out they are not would be enough to drive them half mad.

[rainshaveceased]

To them, the lives they lead are all they know. They cannot imagine what it would be like to be anything else. And so, I believe that being told they are merely incomplete shards is more like an insult to them. A statement that what they see as a full life is not enough, never can be enough, no matter how hard they strive to improve their lot.

To them, the world unsundered is too distant to even be an echo of a memory, their previous lives no longer anything to do with them. Their desire to preserve the world they see as theirs is very understandable indeed, no matter how mistaken.

[auguryofinnocence]

Yes, understandable. But still, to find out you are missing part of yourself... Even without memories of bring complete, or any desire to see it. I cannot imagine being unaffected by that.

[rainshaveceased]

I should have known you would understand. My apologies - even knowing that you support our cause, I am all too used to being met with hostility.

[auguryofinnocence]

[He shakes his head.]

There is no need to apologise. I did say I hardly expect you to simply trust me, did I not?

There is much about what you have done that it might seem one with my history should hate. But regardless even of any other reasons I have to think you are right, I hardly need any reason. It is not being done to me, so why should I care?

You are the ones I care about, so why would I not support you, even if it did somehow bother me?