GODLY AUDIENCES: SIEG

[divus]

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[heartmunculus]

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.

[divus]

I don't know... maybe. Right before I ascended...

[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.

[heartmunculus]

[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.]

I hope nobody is at zero next week.

[divus]

[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!

[heartmunculus]

[He looks completely and utterly lost. Who???]

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.

[divus]

They don't, and I want to keep it that way.

[She crosses her arms.]

Really? What kind of names?

[heartmunculus]

Alright.

Jeanne d'Arc, Astolfo, Achilles, Jack the Ripper and Chiron are some of them.

[divus]

...

I've heard of Jeanne d'Arc. We learned about her at school.

[no fucks given about the others though, apparently]

[heartmunculus]

Are you French?

[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.

[divus]

[SHRUGS. She's not confirming that.]

Did she win it?

[heartmunculus]

She wasn't playing for the Grail. As a Ruler she had nothing she wanted to wish for.

Because the circumstances were strange the War needed an arbitrator. It was her duty to make sure things went as smoothly as possible.

[divus]

...

[squints]

So she was basically Patience?

[heartmunculus]

Yes, but she had to keep getting involved because people kept breaking rules.

[divus]

You guys break the rules.

[sometimes.]

[heartmunculus]

I haven't broken any.

Assassin of Black kept involving people who weren't part of the game and killing them. So we had to stop her.

[divus]

How did that go?

[heartmunculus]

We did, but pretty much everybody there hallucinated dead children raining down from the sky.

[divus]

What the [some really loud noise in the temple drowns out the "fuck" she is not allowed to say because she's from a children's show]

[heartmunculus]

Between the horror it definitely felt like that...

[divus]

Well, I hope this contest has been better for you.

[minus the

broken leg]

[heartmunculus]

I haven't seen any dead bodies raining from the sky, just um, those knives.

So I think it's going better.

[Also he hasn't died this time!]

[divus]

Well, hopefully we'll keep it that way.

[hopefully knives are the only thing... that will get yeeted...]

[heartmunculus]

[Knives... and cups...]

I guess that's up to the participants to decide.

[divus]

Isn't everything?

[heartmunculus]

... Is anything besides the rules up to gods?