It wasn't exactly like this, but it was something similar. They were in teams of two, and only the partnership that survived to the very end would get their wish.
Usually you just had to kill the Spirit they summoned instead of the human. The spirits are copies of Heroic Spirits, so it's not like you're really killing a person, they could potentially be re-summoned for the next war. The idea was to minimize the amount of permanent death.
Sometimes teams will still try to kill the human partner instead. Sometimes it's easier and if you can kill the human you'll terminate the Heroic Spirit as well.
Things being fixed and people coming back after something happens to them... that's normal where I come from. So it's like, what's the big deal? It was all okay there. It will be okay here, too.
It took some getting used to. It wasn't... always normal. But it is. ...was. Before I became a god.
[It probably still is, back in that world - but she's not a god anymore.]
It's a little different for gods. Supposedly we come back, just like all of you, but like... [She makes an aggravated-sounding noise.] We swore oaths that the participants would come back, not the gods. Becoming vulnerable is supposed to make us participants, pretty much, but we're still also gods. That's why Fortune couldn't fight back.
I care about him - I don't want to take the risk that it turns out he's not a participant, if something goes wrong.
Do you want it to be normal in the world you make too?
... I see. Did you think somebody wouldn't let him back? [Is that why that rule was there last week? Fight back?] Hm, are gods also bound by the rules that they make each week?
We're approaching the end, but I think he's going to be alright.
...before I ascended, someone important to me told me that I could serve a purpose... but I have to want it. And that's the kind of a world I want to make - the kind of world where people can achieve great things if they want it and work for it. Being able to bring people back from that sort of thing might be part of that...
[But she's not entirely sold on it. It'll be whatever the people who live in her world decide, probably.]
I don't know that it's that people wouldn't let him back, I'm just worried about there being some kind of technicality. When we're vulnerable, we're affected by both gods' rules and participants' rules. Are we participants because we can be killed? Or are we still gods since we still can't hurt the participants? If it turns out we're not participants... one of us might not come back after all.
[She doesn't know, and that's what really scares her.]
We're not supposed to be bound by the rules we make week to week, though. I think that was... Ruin's attempt at seeing if she could fight back.
[And, well.]
We all saw how that turned out. Obviously she couldn't.
[When she starts talking she really doesn't stop. It's a littler familiar and he seems distant for just a moment. He doesn't think she's spilling any really important secrets here, because there's no way he could ever place her.]
Did you think people were unable to achieve great things before? When I was on earth the people I was surrounded by- a lot of them did extraordinary things in their lives.
... I see. What are you going to do if Fortune or Ruin don't come back?
[Maybe Piety knows, but that's a big maybe and Sieg's not sure what to make of it either. Did they have a plan for this? It sounded like they didn't.]
[yeah, "shutting the fuck up" is not a skill that Ambition ever mastered]
People can achieve great things, it's just a matter of whether or not they're given the chance to. Where I come from? There are those who work, and those who shine.
[She shrugs.]
By which I mean, there are people who get everything without working for it, and people who work for it but get nothing. How stupid is that? My world will be better - one that Ladybug could be proud of.
[...wait
she pauses, realizing what she just said, and points at him, completely ignoring his next question.]
Don't tell anyone I said that last part. I mean it!
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You know what that's the closest thing I, the player, can think of.]
A little bit like that, yes.
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That's really weird.
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I won't disagree.
That's the reason people keep fighting over it.
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[squinting behind the mask, probably]
So in your world there was a contest just like this one, basically.
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Usually you just had to kill the Spirit they summoned instead of the human. The spirits are copies of Heroic Spirits, so it's not like you're really killing a person, they could potentially be re-summoned for the next war. The idea was to minimize the amount of permanent death.
Sometimes teams will still try to kill the human partner instead. Sometimes it's easier and if you can kill the human you'll terminate the Heroic Spirit as well.
... So this place runs softer than I'm used to.
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[hm]
Is that why you're so... [Her voice trails off and she gestures vaguely.] You know, not freaked out about a lot of this?
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At the same time, a killing game like this isn't that strange to me either.
What about you? Is it odd knowing that the dead will come back?
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Things being fixed and people coming back after something happens to them... that's normal where I come from. So it's like, what's the big deal? It was all okay there. It will be okay here, too.
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... You didn't react well when Cunning was close to zero followers.
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[It probably still is, back in that world - but she's not a god anymore.]
It's a little different for gods. Supposedly we come back, just like all of you, but like... [She makes an aggravated-sounding noise.] We swore oaths that the participants would come back, not the gods. Becoming vulnerable is supposed to make us participants, pretty much, but we're still also gods. That's why Fortune couldn't fight back.
I care about him - I don't want to take the risk that it turns out he's not a participant, if something goes wrong.
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... I see. Did you think somebody wouldn't let him back? [Is that why that rule was there last week? Fight back?] Hm, are gods also bound by the rules that they make each week?
We're approaching the end, but I think he's going to be alright.
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[She hesitates.]
...before I ascended, someone important to me told me that I could serve a purpose... but I have to want it. And that's the kind of a world I want to make - the kind of world where people can achieve great things if they want it and work for it. Being able to bring people back from that sort of thing might be part of that...
[But she's not entirely sold on it. It'll be whatever the people who live in her world decide, probably.]
I don't know that it's that people wouldn't let him back, I'm just worried about there being some kind of technicality. When we're vulnerable, we're affected by both gods' rules and participants' rules. Are we participants because we can be killed? Or are we still gods since we still can't hurt the participants? If it turns out we're not participants... one of us might not come back after all.
[She doesn't know, and that's what really scares her.]
We're not supposed to be bound by the rules we make week to week, though. I think that was... Ruin's attempt at seeing if she could fight back.
[And, well.]
We all saw how that turned out. Obviously she couldn't.
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Did you think people were unable to achieve great things before? When I was on earth the people I was surrounded by- a lot of them did extraordinary things in their lives.
... I see. What are you going to do if Fortune or Ruin don't come back?
[Maybe Piety knows, but that's a big maybe and Sieg's not sure what to make of it either. Did they have a plan for this? It sounded like they didn't.]
I hope nobody is at zero next week.
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People can achieve great things, it's just a matter of whether or not they're given the chance to. Where I come from? There are those who work, and those who shine.
[She shrugs.]
By which I mean, there are people who get everything without working for it, and people who work for it but get nothing. How stupid is that? My world will be better - one that Ladybug could be proud of.
[...wait
she pauses, realizing what she just said, and points at him, completely ignoring his next question.]
Don't tell anyone I said that last part. I mean it!
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I won't tell anybody about Ladybug...? I don't think anybody knows who that is.
Where I'm from there are people who's names are carved into history- though I'm not sure that was their intent at the time.
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[She crosses her arms.]
Really? What kind of names?
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Jeanne d'Arc, Astolfo, Achilles, Jack the Ripper and Chiron are some of them.
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I've heard of Jeanne d'Arc. We learned about her at school.
[no fucks given about the others though, apparently]
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[The others, well, maybe they don't come up as often.]
She's kind and forgiving. I was lucky to meet her during the Holy Grail War.
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Did she win it?
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Because the circumstances were strange the War needed an arbitrator. It was her duty to make sure things went as smoothly as possible.
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[squints]
So she was basically Patience?
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