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[The video opens on Karakael halfway through what appears to be a workout. He's twirling a large black flag, flicking the cloth and doing twirls with a flexibility that belies his frame. He fumbles several times as the video watches, but protrudes such an air of confidence in his work that it is sometimes difficult to guess whether a mistake was intentional or simply a demonstration of the difficulty.

Finally, his mask grins gold, he twirls, and sends the black flag vaulting to the ceiling...

where it hangs, ripples of color pulsing through the apparently black fabric. He watches, smirking, as the slow-field catches and freezes the dark-flag's movement.]

Have you ever noticed how malleable time is around this place? A hundred stories repeat over and over, while others skip and start across their timeline as their actors appear and disappear from this place while others linger on, plodding through their world's time with out noticeable upset.

Its amazing, if you think of it. My galaxy skips along at three times the speed of most of the other worlds connecting here, and yet friendships can still be held and companions found.

How about you? Have you checked this community one day, only to find months worth of material when you returned the next? Or the opposite - years passing for you yet the community remaining the same?

You thoughts are, as always, appreciated.

- Karakael

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Tch.. really does seem like every world is the same, no matter how weird they might be on the outside. [ She sighs. Having lived on the streets for a while now, Kyouko sure has seen the more ugly parts of society. ]

I mean, what you just said could apply to practically any world here.

Indeed. And most within my galaxy as well.

In fact, the only worlds I can think of as exceptions are those who simply kill their excess population, False Utopias, or a place with a very involved god.

.. I get the other two [ and she's prefer to avoid the last topic, if anything ] but what's those.. "False Utopias" or whatever s'posed to be?

Mankind's attempt to create perfection. To erase the ills of the past and birth a new society where pain, war and suffering are a mere memory. To create a Utopia.

But, given the problems we have already discussed, surely it is no surprise that those lofty ideals are often monstrous in execution. A world who's population is happy because of narcotics, one where its leader replaced all human life with automaton or places where the elderly commit mass suicide...there are many ways in which the quest for perfection is poisoned.

While I was an Inquestor, it was my duty to hunt such places and engineer their demise.

That just sounds messed up..

[ She groans, moving to grab some food out of the pocket of her hoodie and shoving it right into her mouth, chewing thoughtfully. ]

What kinda person would think that a world where everyone's a robot is perfect?

A severely disturbed, power-mad god. Which are unfortunately not that uncommon in my universe.

The idea of multiple gods is still weird to me anyway.. guess we're lucky there's only one in my world.

[ Or.. well, that's what she believes strongly either way, thanks to her father. ]

'specially if the others are like that. I wouldn't care 'bout that kinda god, they can just bug off.

Well, all the true gods are either dead or gone. Humans, no matter how powerful, are not much of a replacement.

Unfortunately, humans are much harder to get rid of than your average holier-than-thou godlet.

.. That's where you're wrong. 's not like all gods are gone everywhere. There's still one right there in my world.

Can't say there ain't people who try to act like they're god and get to decide who lives and who dies though, yeah.. those are annoying as heck.

Perhaps they haven't abandoned your world, but they certainly have abandoned mine.

Mmm. One gets used to it, though. I think that's half the trouble. Playing god can be rather addicting.

If someone tries to act like they're god, they're better off being killed. The world doesn't need those types. [ Because they hurt people selfishly and she hates that.. but she's always pretending selfishness is her own life's policy, so she can't say that part out loud. ]

In that we are in agreement. The best thing I ever did was convince the whole lot of impostors to commit suicide.

... Really? [ She's a little more quiet than usually. Maybe more contemplative rather than just being her usual loud and over the top self. ]

What did ya tell 'em?

I told them that we were impossibly broken and our corruption was destroying the galaxy. No good future could exist with our taint still alive...so the only way to save it would be for us to die.

Well, that was the idea, at least. It was a bit more example-driven in execution.

Huh, can't believe they actually went along with that. I mean, I thought they'd be more selfish than that. Seriously selfish people don't even care if the world they live in is doomed as long as they can make it to the end.

We had been selfish for so long there was nothing left to possess. We had taken it all, but no matter how much we stole, there was nothing that could conceal the hollowness inside.

In the end, I think none of us could ignore the pain any longer, and it was easier to die than try to save oneself.

...

So it's more something like the coward's way out in that case then, I guess. Giving up instead of fighting the pain.

Some might say that there is a point at which it is pointless to continue fighting. When something is broken beyond repair...it is both cowardly and kind to end it.

Mercy is the word I've heard most often in regards to such things.

I think most people I know would call it "wrong". [ Wrong to end something - most specifically a person, but anything along those lines, right? Kyouko can still vaguely get herself into that mindset, but she's a little more hardened than most kids around her. ]

.. but they're goodie-two-shoes either way, so it doesn't matter.

Most people you know are likely young and have yet to meet many of the truly broken. Things change when you see the true shape of the world around you.

But...perhaps your friends are right, and in your world there are no people who would rather die than live in perpetual pain.

Nah, there's people like that here.

[ ...

A shiver runs down her spine. She decides to quickly move on, not wanting to elaborate much on the topic. ]

Although the witches here drive some people that way too, so they should know better to begin with.

Ah. The creatures like my Charlotte, correct? Would that it could be so simple to free one from pain in other worlds. Killing a witch is sometimes easier than dealing with the underlying problems.

'course killing witches is easier. Ya just beat 'em into the ground. Sure, ya can just try to beat certain ideas in or out of a person's head, but there's no saying if it'll work. People are stubborn.

Indeed. They hold on to their pain much longer than any other species I've ever encountered. I wonder if we get some perverse satisfaction out of it.

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