[ but also makes sense as to why he is so fond of her. he remembers senri saying that cunning and disorder didn't actually care that much about ambition, but it didn't really... seem right. ]
Is it? [Senri maybe had a biased picture since Cunning said he couldn't actually always rely on the girls, but that's his own issue. He shrugs though.]
But thanks. […] I almost failed back in my own world, so I'm not sure I'm ready to fail somebody else in this one. It's why I'm trying to win. At least if she's with me she can delegate and still have somebody else to take the pressure off.
Then again, I think she's starting to change because of you guys, too.
[ making people have character development and all. ]
... still, in the end, when we leave it's going to be you and the others she has. So I think it's still good to want to help her, even if she's growing up.
Yeah, you really are. I had a whole argument about it with Zoe. [He frowns lightly but immediately ignores it.]
...like I said, it's different when you have kids. [Cunning definitely sees Ambition, and this other mysterious person from his past, as his daughter.] She's going to probably fight me all the way to the end but maybe I don't mind as much. Kind of a bummer to think about how things'll be when you're gone again.
I'd like to maybe avoid a competition like this one again though.
I think our pantheon learned the hard way not to do this again. Don't sweat it.
[...] I'm not exactly old or responsible enough to have kids of my own, but yeah. That's what I mean. Sometimes you meet a girl inside a dragon's cave and get a little too attached, and sometimes you get a hammer thrown at your face and adopt a seven year old to create a little family.
[And there is, perhaps, where terrorfam came from.] ...so maybe Ambition's a little similar to Annabeth. So what?
or... sometimes it does. he thinks back to the relationships he's made here, and how the people he ended up counting on the most were just sort of thrown at him during a hectic moment. ]
[A derisive snort.] Thanks, but I fucked everything up pretty bad the last couple of years of my life. [...] I always said that I had to be the dad for the three of us, because all three of us had shitty families and shitty lives and powers none of us knew how to really use and had to figure out on the way. I was going to be a good dad and protect them.
I want to win to be a better god than my own dad, and to make up for everything I did back then. I'm not sorry, it still needed to be the wake-up call Olympus got, but there was maybe a better way to do it.
I mean... just because you won't be the leader doesn't mean you still can't do shit.
[ he's still not entirely sure what the logistics to running a whole ass pantheon is like. ]
Your dad wasn't the ruler, right? That was Zeus. So if you end up in a similar position that he was, you can still be better. You could still try to shape things the way you want them to be, it just wouldn't be in the huge grand gesture that this competition was going to hand you.
Depends on who's ruling. If it's somebody like Love or Beauty I'm definitely out of the running. Piety and I at least have an agreement going, but...well. You've seen his numbers, too.
I get what you're saying. I think this place is starting to drive me crazy. Do you know how boring it gets around here? All you end up doing is thinking if you're not careful.
Possibly. He's hard to get a read on because he doesn't sit still long enough to talk to. [...] But that's what it is day in and day out. Checking out the wings when you guys aren't looking, looking for Disorder, training, stealing stuff from Merriment...it gets old after a while. I'm ready for the new world already.
Not in a space like this, nah. In the new world...I'm guessing we're going to have areas a lot like our wings. I think. I don't know if we ever got that far in our discussions.
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[ but also makes sense as to why he is so fond of her. he remembers senri saying that cunning and disorder didn't actually care that much about ambition, but it didn't really... seem right. ]
We'll try to keep an eye on her.
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But thanks. […] I almost failed back in my own world, so I'm not sure I'm ready to fail somebody else in this one. It's why I'm trying to win. At least if she's with me she can delegate and still have somebody else to take the pressure off.
Then again, I think she's starting to change because of you guys, too.
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[ making people have character development and all. ]
... still, in the end, when we leave it's going to be you and the others she has. So I think it's still good to want to help her, even if she's growing up.
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...like I said, it's different when you have kids. [Cunning definitely sees Ambition, and this other mysterious person from his past, as his daughter.] She's going to probably fight me all the way to the end but maybe I don't mind as much. Kind of a bummer to think about how things'll be when you're gone again.
I'd like to maybe avoid a competition like this one again though.
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[ there's a pause. ]
When you say kids... do you mean some of the girls that can kick your ass?
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[...] I'm not exactly old or responsible enough to have kids of my own, but yeah. That's what I mean. Sometimes you meet a girl inside a dragon's cave and get a little too attached, and sometimes you get a hammer thrown at your face and adopt a seven year old to create a little family.
[And there is, perhaps, where terrorfam came from.] ...so maybe Ambition's a little similar to Annabeth. So what?
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[ it doesn't.
or... sometimes it does. he thinks back to the relationships he's made here, and how the people he ended up counting on the most were just sort of thrown at him during a hectic moment. ]
You seem to be a decent like, pseudo dad.
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I want to win to be a better god than my own dad, and to make up for everything I did back then. I'm not sorry, it still needed to be the wake-up call Olympus got, but there was maybe a better way to do it.
If I don't win...what do I have left?
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[ he's still not entirely sure what the logistics to running a whole ass pantheon is like. ]
Your dad wasn't the ruler, right? That was Zeus. So if you end up in a similar position that he was, you can still be better. You could still try to shape things the way you want them to be, it just wouldn't be in the huge grand gesture that this competition was going to hand you.
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I get what you're saying. I think this place is starting to drive me crazy. Do you know how boring it gets around here? All you end up doing is thinking if you're not careful.
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[ taka just makes out with his boyfriend ]
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And maybe making out with his girlfriend but like. Whatever.]
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Be nice to him, he's an old man.
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[ he looks pleased about that ]
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You should probably figure that out.
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Working with people can be a huge drag.
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[ as in, not good at all ]
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