GODLY AUDIENCES: SIEG

[divus]

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[heartmunculus]

Sisi?

... No. Things should get a chance to grow and change. Conflict can come out of that, especially for people.

[divus]

It's a nickname.

[Don't worry about it.

More importantly, Ruin claps her hands together.]

Yes. You get it! A world can't work if some things don't come to an end so new things can begin. That's the kind of world I'm going to make.

[heartmunculus]

So a world where things will... grow and change? And when they're done with that, something new will take over?

Did I get that right?

[divus]

Exactly. ♡

[heartmunculus]

Was that what your world was like? Or... was locked in stagnation?

[divus]

[Ruin shrugs delicately.]

There were some very old ideals and customs that needed to be destroyed. But nothing was changing, and people were suffering for it.

[heartmunculus]

Trying to talk to the people with the old ways of thinking... they were the type who wouldn't listen?

[divus]

Worse than that. They were the type to try and punish people who spoke out against them.

[heartmunculus]

So talking to them would've been entirely impossible... Were you able to change things in the end?

[divus]

I was in the middle of it when I ascended. The new world I make won't have any place for them.

[heartmunculus]

But... won't there always be people like that? Who don't want to change their ways?

There might not be the same people, but... ideas like that, once they're there, it's hard for them to change... barring extenuating circumstances.

[divus]

It will be an entirely new world. Ideas like that won't be there to start with.

[heartmunculus]

Don't ideas like that happen eventually? Humans discriminate. Those ideas weren't there in the beginning, but over time they took root.

Are you saying that will never happen? How?

[divus]

If they come up, they won't last long. It won't be like my world.

[heartmunculus]

Are you going to step in? How is this going to work?

[divus]

I'll give them better teachings to start with. That should help, but if it doesn't, I'll send people on pilgrimages. They'll learn a better way. ♡

[heartmunculus]

I hope if you win, your world turns out the way you want it to.

Pilgrimages? What are those like? They involve travel, right?

[divus]

Yes. You go from place to place, re-learning the teachings along the way.

[heartmunculus]

Was that something you've done?

... Or was it just common where you're from?

[divus]

I've never done on myself. But everyone I know who went on one came back very different.

[heartmunculus]

For the better? How many people went?

[divus]

So many people went. It was hard to keep track! ...my parents went on one, when I was young.

[heartmunculus]

They didn't leave you alone, did they?

[divus]

[she looks down]

...they did.

[heartmunculus]

... I'm sorry.

How old were you then?