GODLY AUDIENCES: LUKE FON FABRE

[divus]

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[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.

[divus]

[There's a laugh.] When we're not masked? Yes, most of us can eat and drink just like we could as mortals.

[dupelicate]

[...

Something in his expression seems to be demanding "prove it", but to his credit, he changes the subject again.]

Did you make them yourself, or just summon them? Did you have, uh, the ability to cook when you weren't a god?

[divus]

[HE CAN'T LUKE, AND IT'S KILLING HIM :(]

Summoned! I've never really learned to cook as a mortal, though I was starting to learn before the ascension.

[dupelicate]

So are you following up on it now? [what is this 20 questions]

[divus]

I've thought about it. It's easier here to snap my fingers and have whatever I want in my grasp, but there's something to be said about doing things on our own, isn't there? [It's unfortunate that Beauty will answer literally everything.]

[dupelicate]

[there was probably some other reason you go and talk to gods, but whatever it is, Luke seems more interested in debating the intricacies of...home-made baked goods.]

Yeah, I mean, can you really call yourself a god if you can't even make cookies?

[divus]

I never really thought of that before. Shouldn't a god have a handle on their power rather than focusing on cookies? But then again cookies can't be too hard. Can they?

[Ponder, Ponder.]