GODLY AUDIENCES: LUKE FON FABRE

[divus]

Comments

[dupelicate]

They're all... pretty different. I guess I would've thought you'd all be from the same place.

[he still isn't eating or drinking anything—just sitting here quizzing Beauty instead.]

[divus]

[It's unfortunate that Beauty likes talking...]

Oh, no. Actually we didn't know each other before the ascension. We've only recently started to get to know one another and work as a pantheon.

[dupelicate]

None of you knew each other?

...No wonder you're having a hard time getting along. It can be pretty rough to start with.

[LOCAL SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DISPENSES WISDOM TO A GOD LIKE HE KNOWS SHIT]

So, where are you from, then?

[divus]

So I've heard. None of us are entirely sure how we came to be as a pantheon, but we are. Some of us are friendlier with each other than others though.

[THANKS LUKE. APPRECIATE IT.]

As for myself, I'm originally from France.

[dupelicate]

France?

[searching memory...]

That's a country! [WELL DONE] It's in the same place as Japan, right? [DOUBLE MEMORY!]

[divus]

That's right, Earth. [No, Luke's adorable...] I lived in Japan as well. I suppose you've spoken to others here who have, too?

[dupelicate]

Earth? [He hasn't heard that one, before. But considering its usage, it's probably...] Is that the planet's name?

Yeah, I met a couple people. Seems nice. [probably.]

[divus]

Yes. No one's told you about it? [And better question.] Fabre-kun, where exactly are you from?

[dupelicate]

Not really. Just their country's names.

Me? I'm from Auldrant—that's the planet. And Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, if you're asking for the country.

[divus]

I've never heard of either of those. [Luke's an alien...] What was the country like? Were you happy there?

[dupelicate]

Uh.

[Yikes.

Still...]

Yeah. Yeah, I was. It's a nice place.

[divus]

I'm interested in learning about the worlds of the participants to help shape the creation of the new world, you see. If I take the best parts of the world, perhaps it will be more accommodating for those who will inhabit it.

[dupelicate]

That sounds nice in theory... but, don't you think that people like their worlds because of the good and the bad?

[out of nowhere, apparently, luke has Opinions on this.]

You can't really be happy if you've never known what it's like to be sad sometimes.

[divus]

To counter that, don't you suppose there are varying levels of good and bad and that's what creates the ideas of good and bad?

There's a difference between knowing sadness, and in living in misery.

[dupelicate]

Oh, yeah. [agreed]

But I don't know if all the good parts of different places would make one good world. Some of those places would have to become kind of the less-good places, wouldn't they?

[divus]

I never really thought of it that way, no. But good and bad are subjective in their own way. [...] In the end, I want to strive for a world where life expectations can be changed based on your own wants and desires.

[dupelicate]

[hmm]

...What if someone's wants and desires hurt someone else's wants and desires?

[divus]

In theory, people would be able to come to a compromise. But I'm still in the progress of figuring out a diplomatic approach for such scenarios.

[dupelicate]

Hey, you know who could help with that? Piety!

[divus]

You do realize you can't recruit a god for another god, don't you?

[dupelicate]

...Oh, yeah. [um,]

I guess that wouldn't really work, huh.

But couldn't they, like... help you?

[divus]

It's possible one of us could vouch for another, but it's still a competition, Fabre-kun. As much as I'd like to help the others, and as much as I like several of the others, we still have to play on our own.

[dupelicate]

But with our help. [right.]

Is it against the rules for the gods to help each other? I guess it would be, huh?

[divus]

In a sense, yes, though we can make bribes and offers to participants to encourage them to defect to one god or another. But for other things it's a bit trickier, especially when we each have our own powers and abilities to offer.

[dupelicate]

Huh.

[...]

This might be a weird question, but can you actually eat any of this?

[He indicates the tea spread.]

You know. As a god.