[Snarling at him - of course he doesn't want to do that? He's spoken enough about how he doesn't kill, but--]
And what about when he massacred us? When he cut us into pieces? When he ordered us frozen and smashed into bits? What about when he burns us to ash for nothing? Maybe they should feel some of that pain. Maybe it's the only way they'll ever understand!
[in response to lio's anger, he's entirely calm, if solemn; perhaps eerily so, considering the attitude he usually puts on.]
... I just think that even if you get what you want in the short term, the future you'll have paved for yourself and the people you want to protect is a very different story.
I said it before—what lies ahead, within your lifetime and after, is longer than you can even fathom right now. [...] But I suppose I wouldn't know.
[He understands? He understands and that's why it's so upsetting, why it hurts so much when he tries to think about it.]
You think I don't understand. My whole life-- We Burnish do not kill. Other leaders of the Mad Burnish did, they burned indiscriminately, without reason, but I wanted, needed to be different. I would not be the monster they claimed us to be. We left escape routes, we did not harm anyone we could avoid, we tried to live in peace, but it was never enough.
That's part of why the idea you'd do it makes me sad—and why I don't understand the fact that even here, when time is effectively paused for you, that you refuse to think of any other possible way.
Do you feel as though making that threat is the only means of control you have over the situation?
[He opens his mouth, like he's going to argue, then turns his head away again.]
Galo has said he will help, but-- [Oh, there it is. Still. What can a man do against the crushing weight of Eco-Fascism?] Time isn't paused. It's still passing. Every day I waste time here, more of them suffer.
Well, you can stress over only so many problems at once. Make progress in getting out of here, then figure out what you're going to do back home. Still, when the grief and desperation are less immediate, your mind is less clouded.
... Besides, even just being here has opened your eyes to things that you'd have thought abnormal, right? Maybe you'll find a solution you couldn't think of before. Smashing into the city as an angry dragon and yelling out demands is probably, like, the most basic action you can take.
Mm... well, I obviously can't come up with anything specific since I don't know the details of your situation.
But we don't even know how we were brought here, so who can really be sure of how we'll return? You might be able to go back to your world in a different location—one more advantageous to saving your people.
Not to mention the rest of us here. If a pathway can be opened between our universes, some people might offer to go back with you to help out.
[All of this is totally beyond him. Anyway, who could open up pathways between universes? That sounds like some made up science bullshit, like fire being aliens or something.]
. . . This is all assuming I do not die beforehand.
... Well, yeah. Any one of us could die at any moment.
[which is about all he gets out before it's lio's turn now. i feel the need to mention that that's not a dragon, lio doesn't have to be scandalized. it's more of like. a giant crab monster.]
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madburnout) wrote2020-03-06 07:33 pm
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... I hope you didn't actually burn the city down, though.
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. . . I was going to. [But.] As I said, that is the last thing I remember.
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If he has not released them, I will have no choice.
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And what about when he massacred us? When he cut us into pieces? When he ordered us frozen and smashed into bits? What about when he burns us to ash for nothing? Maybe they should feel some of that pain. Maybe it's the only way they'll ever understand!
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... I just think that even if you get what you want in the short term, the future you'll have paved for yourself and the people you want to protect is a very different story.
I said it before—what lies ahead, within your lifetime and after, is longer than you can even fathom right now. [...] But I suppose I wouldn't know.
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You think I don't understand. My whole life-- We Burnish do not kill. Other leaders of the Mad Burnish did, they burned indiscriminately, without reason, but I wanted, needed to be different. I would not be the monster they claimed us to be. We left escape routes, we did not harm anyone we could avoid, we tried to live in peace, but it was never enough.
I don't want to do it.
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That's part of why the idea you'd do it makes me sad—and why I don't understand the fact that even here, when time is effectively paused for you, that you refuse to think of any other possible way.
Do you feel as though making that threat is the only means of control you have over the situation?
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Galo has said he will help, but-- [Oh, there it is. Still. What can a man do against the crushing weight of Eco-Fascism?] Time isn't paused. It's still passing. Every day I waste time here, more of them suffer.
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... Besides, even just being here has opened your eyes to things that you'd have thought abnormal, right? Maybe you'll find a solution you couldn't think of before. Smashing into the city as an angry dragon and yelling out demands is probably, like, the most basic action you can take.
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You have a better suggestion?
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[That isn't like. A pep talk style chiding. He just knows this guy isn't stupid.]
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Mm... well, I obviously can't come up with anything specific since I don't know the details of your situation.
But we don't even know how we were brought here, so who can really be sure of how we'll return? You might be able to go back to your world in a different location—one more advantageous to saving your people.
Not to mention the rest of us here. If a pathway can be opened between our universes, some people might offer to go back with you to help out.
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. . . This is all assuming I do not die beforehand.
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... Well, yeah. Any one of us could die at any moment.
[which is about all he gets out before it's lio's turn now. i feel the need to mention that that's not a dragon, lio doesn't have to be scandalized. it's more of like. a giant crab monster.]
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. . . What?
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What?
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You are--. . . something different from a human.
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[wow finally got there, huh. the memory like. Straight up said it.]
You play act.
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Nah, I really am an idiot. Even the other gods think so.