... I think that being honest about what kind of person you are is for the best. You guys keep saying that we shouldn't decide who to pick based on who's the nicest to us, but on what your beliefs are and our own goals.
Yeah. I already did that in the old life anyway. [Hm.] Sometimes deception's the only way you'll live, but in a game like this it doesn't benefit me. If people don't believe in my vision or what I said for or their own goals, it won't work anyway. It's the same for all of us, so why give them false expectations?
Yup. If you align with a god you don't actually believe in for numbers' sake, their power's kinda screwed. It's like...okay, did you ever read Peter Pan? Or see the movie, I guess. [He waves a hand.] Anyway one of the things from the play is that she's only revived thanks to belief from the people around her. Think of it like that.
You don't believe, the whole thing isn't as strong as it could be and the vision doesn't come true.
[Why does Cunning know about Peter Pan? Great question.]
Definitely the new world. The wish is up in the air since technically you guys would have won...but I also wouldn't leave something like that up to chance. Would you?
Oh I definitely think there are people aligned with some of us just because they want to win. A god's number goes up, others follow because it means there's a high chance of that god staying ahead. That's the thing that's starting to piss me off.
I guess that's what happens when you offer people what they want the most. They don't really pay attention to anything else.
[ taka really wants to win, but on the other hand, he sadly wants to do things the right way because he wants to make things difficult for me, francy. ]
People get desperate, they end up throwing away all kinds of logic just to get what they want. That's what makes power so dangerous in the wrong hands. [There's a sigh, a hand scrubbing over his…mask. Goddamnit.]
But you know people are just going to ignore me saying it because I'm a bloodthirsty god who supported a killing game, I'm a bad guy, whatever. You can see where the problem is.
That's the thing. Nobody's, like, really evil. Evil ideas and really messed up logic, sure, but evil's subjective. If I had to pick there are a lot better names I could've been besides "Cunning." "Cleverness", "Tactical" and "Knowing" would've worked and don't sound half as bad.
…we were all human or close enough at one point. Humans screw up, that's what we do, but would you judge a god by what they did in their mortal life?
[ but hm... even merriment said something similar, of how there were other things he could have potentially been called. ]
I think that it's probably still important, since... a lot of your motivations for why you're a god now probably came from that, but... you're going to spend a lot more time as a god than you will as a human if you're immortal.
[There's a huff that's probably disbelief, but he lets that go.]
Most of us, anyway. I'm just saying that sometimes things happen post-ascension that changed our overall plans, or made things different than what we thought about as humans.
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That'll be kind of hard, if you were hiding it.
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... I've been wondering. Is there a deeper meaning behind "it won't work"?
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You don't believe, the whole thing isn't as strong as it could be and the vision doesn't come true.
[Why does Cunning know about Peter Pan? Great question.]
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Is it in the case of both your new world and also our wish?
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... do you think there are more people who are with their god because of a convenient reason, or because they truly want their world to happen?
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[ taka really wants to win, but on the other hand, he sadly wants to do things the right way because he wants to make things difficult for me, francy. ]
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But you know people are just going to ignore me saying it because I'm a bloodthirsty god who supported a killing game, I'm a bad guy, whatever. You can see where the problem is.
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[ it's getting exhausting watching cunning fight against the mask at this point. ]
You're not that bad. Kind of harsh and rude, and I probably wouldn't agree with some of the shit you do, but you're not evil.
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That's the thing. Nobody's, like, really evil. Evil ideas and really messed up logic, sure, but evil's subjective. If I had to pick there are a lot better names I could've been besides "Cunning." "Cleverness", "Tactical" and "Knowing" would've worked and don't sound half as bad.
…we were all human or close enough at one point. Humans screw up, that's what we do, but would you judge a god by what they did in their mortal life?
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[ but hm... even merriment said something similar, of how there were other things he could have potentially been called. ]
I think that it's probably still important, since... a lot of your motivations for why you're a god now probably came from that, but... you're going to spend a lot more time as a god than you will as a human if you're immortal.
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Most of us, anyway. I'm just saying that sometimes things happen post-ascension that changed our overall plans, or made things different than what we thought about as humans.
Never take any of us at face value.
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[ he's been doing his best to be openminded about them anyway. ]
... and I'll see about making people suck less.
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What else can I do for you today?
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[ he wonders what else he could say, but decides he better not. ]
I'll see you later.
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