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[wotanon]

Who: Avante and guests
Where: Avante dorm
When: Day 509

[so how are the knights doing today?]

Comments

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ Uwah.... ]

Is this the sort of jewelry you made at home?

[gemuinemanagement]

At home I mostly made protective charms
But it was important that they look good, too, so people would wear them

[heavyliesthecrown]

I am somewhat curious about what they looked like.

[gemuinemanagement]

Light blue stones
They glow a little, but it's hard to tell when it's not dark

[heavyliesthecrown]

Is it the stones that held the ability to protect them?

[gemuinemanagement]

It is
I don't have any special powers myself

[heavyliesthecrown]

Are they somehow blessed?

[gemuinemanagement]

There is said to be a god that lends his power to them
Although I don't know if you'd call it a blessing
People who mine it from the mountain tend to live short lives

[heavyliesthecrown]

Is your whole world just like this, or specifically the place you came from? It sounds... fairly dangerous.

[gemuinemanagement]

I don't really know
I've never left my village
It needs me to protect it

[heavyliesthecrown]

And yet they treat you unkind...?

[gemuinemanagement]

They don't believe the thing I'm protecting them from exists
And I'm weird, and creepy, and things like that

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ A gentle bop on the head. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

What was that for

[Rubs his head.]

[heavyliesthecrown]

I shall not allow you to speak poorly regarding a person I have come to like and admire.

[gemuinemanagement]

I was just trying to explain why they're unkind to me

[heavyliesthecrown]

And in doing so, you are internalizing a very poor opinion of yourself.

[gemuinemanagement]

What should I say instead?

[heavyliesthecrown]

You could begin by ceasing the adverse habit of uttering-- or, well-- of typing anything disparaging of yourself.

[gemuinemanagement]

I'll try my best
What do I do when how I'm used to being treated comes up, though

[heavyliesthecrown]

"I am weird. I am creepy."

The tone makes it sound as though you believe that yourself. Rather than relaying the incorrect words of others.

[gemuinemanagement]

"People called me weird and creepy"
Would that be okay?

[heavyliesthecrown]

That is, while still unfortunate, better. It still frustrates me that people treated you so outrageously, but at least it doesn't sound as though you have internalized their outrageous opinions.

[gemuinemanagement]

It's okay
The people here are much nicer
So I'm alright

[heavyliesthecrown]

It does warm my heart that you have grown to feel that way.