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GG: I...
GG: Won't... pretend I understand what it is to be in your shoes exactly. That would be arrogant.
GG: Nor will I press you about this in the future, against your stated wishes. That would be unkind.
GG: But please allow me to say this.
UU: ...i'll not demand yoUr silence, i sUppose, given the patience yoU've shown me.
GG: Thank you.
GG: I want,
GG: I have always wanted,
GG: this planet to be a world with no profane altar of sacrifice at its center.
GG: We are no longer bound to fulfill the arbitrary whims of Paradox Space, nor are we consumed by the vengeful ghosts of dead history, as they were on Alternia and the old earths.
GG: There's real magic in this world, Callie.
GG: The fundamental logic has shifted--miracles happening everyday--can you REALLY tell me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that prior embodiment is inexorable destiny?
UU: kind. well thoUght-oUt. but... specUlative.
UU: maybe if we had Unlimited grist for very specific and esoteric alchemization experiments, but we don't, and we'll never be able to get more.
UU: and what remains needs to be kept in reserve for emergencies that concern the people, not for wasting on the pitiable whims of a stUnted monster.
UU: and oUr powers... the aspects and classes expressed as powers and capabilities. these are laUghably far from Unlimited in their scope.
UU: what aspect presides over self-loathing-cure transformation? what aspect covers becoming a cUte troll girl for no fUcking reason besides yoU irrationally want to and need to? what class enacts this hyperspecific pointless miracle?
GG: Couldn't it... I mean, couldn't it be capital-S Space? Didn't our Sylph and our Witch turn into the vampire and fauna of their deepest dreams?
UU: as a person who regUlarly cosplays a bona fide investigator, sUrely you mUst be aware of the difference between correlation and caUsation.
UU: yes, jade got dog ears, a tail, and sUper-scenter nose powers from fUsing with her prototyped dog sprite.
UU: yes, my sister-in-law became a rainbow drinker as part of an Uncommon bUt hardly Unheard of qUirk of jadeblood biology, which probably speaks to the critical evolUtionary importance of jadeblood sUrvival.
UU: pUre coincidence. two examples does not an axiom make, no matter how generoUsly wishfUl thinking is applied.
UU: who's to say that all space players are destined to become everything we believed in as kids? u_u
UU: i wish that i coUld do that! i wish i coUld be strong and bold and hopefUl and make the impossible happen from sheer willpower, bUt...
UU: i think i need to accept that life. jUst. doesnt work that way.
GG: Who are you to say how life works?!?!
UU: jane...!
GG: I mean... I'm sorry! But!
GG: How would you even know? You've been living in the real world for all of five years. Five. Measly. Years. And hasn't that time flown by? Hasn't there been barely any time to reflect in the flurry of building and charting and establishing?
GG: Life is raw, distilled possibility. Pure unpredictability, untameable. You have absolutely no idea where things are headed, or how big the universes are or how many there are or what is possible given everything that exists in all of them and every one of their timeline-iterations.
GG: And to be honest, the skeptic in me says that the odds of there being 'nothing' out there that can make your wishes come true are slim to none!
GG: Complexity and vastness will always fall in our favor.
UU: ...