first one to make that doctor who joke loses

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Everyone! All of you!
Broadcast: Maybe!
Action: Definitely!
When: Anytime during the toxic moon event!

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[boy oh boy, isn't everyone just so excited to explore this... charming... place...?

this is a game-wide mingle and the timeframe isn't super-important, so throw in with whatever you want! play war games, go shopping for gas masks, get lost in the wilderness, hide up in the Iskaulit and refuse to set foot on the moon, anything goes.

here's the main event info post for reference! have fun!]

Comments

[precedented]

Yes, when I was younger.

[ Sometimes he even wonders if he is ever original, if any thought was purely his and not diluted by his birth and exposure to the entirety of his family's past. But Aather and losing his memories cemented his sense of self. He'll never lose his hold on it again. ]

But not all confusion is bad. Even questions of the self can be a positive experience.

[killedwithlove]

It was confusing for me, but I only had two of us to sort out. Now when I live memories, I know it's not me.

[He make an opening move on the chess board.]

[precedented]

[ A little rueful. ] A useful talent to have. Some in my family were not so lucky.

[ Poor Alia. Very rarely does a moment go by when he doesn't think about her tragic fate. ]

[killedwithlove]

I was very... lost. For a long time. Maybe it just felt long. I was alone and confused and lost but I was helped and I put myself back together eventually.

[There's a flicker as he tangles his psychic fingers in the memory without even thinking about it.]

A choice, a trial or fly free, the chains choke and shudder and she flies, free, the air against her skin and the wind singing in her ears.

I'm sorry.

[precedented]

[ He hums lightly. ]

Bi-la kaifa. Her water returned to the desert. And she chose her own end.

Time and memory distorts people like us. Remembering the day to day is agonizing when you see months and years in the river.

[killedwithlove]

She flew to her freedom. She didn't regret that decision.

[Her self, small and shattered, lingers in the memories and Cole tastes her fear, her whole life, scared and fighting.]

I don't see what will be. Just what is and was. What hurts.

[precedented]

Sadly, she had many regrets.

[ He knew them, tasted them in the air. She shed water. Fremen do not do so lightly. ]

That in itself can distort what is and what is present.

[killedwithlove]

I nearly drowned once. Cullen pulled me out of the water.

[It seems like a non-sequitor. Leto will know it is not.]

Does it? I don't really understand time. I know it happens. But it confuses me.

[precedented]

And you stopped drowning.

[ He moves a piece, his attention elsewhere. These were words that sank to the bone, that opened wounds. ]

Because you can see what was and what is together, a bird's eye view, the hermit on the crest of the dune. I see the desert. I see the winds that blow. Which is why, little guidichar, it is confusing. It stops being linear.

[killedwithlove]

It isn't linear.

[He knows the word, at the moment, because Leto knows it. He moves a piece and then picks up another, turning it in his fingers and stroking the top gently.]

That's just how most mortals experience it. I didn't, not until I was living in this... hm. On this side of the Veil.

[precedented]

And we are no longer mortal men.

[ If he sounds a little bitter, it washes away quickly. ]

Would you change anything if you could?

[killedwithlove]

I never was.

I was a spirit before I was something like a human. I'm not very good at being human, but I'm learning.

Anyway, I don't want to be human. I just want to be me.

[He thinks.]

I don't understand.

[precedented]

[ He laughs softly. ]

Humanity, I find, tend to be a state of mind and heart rather than one of physicality. But I know that is a odd point of view.

[ For men are beasts too. ]

Change your nature, for example.

[killedwithlove]

[Cole stares at him, and his lack of comprehension is almost tangible.

The idea of changing himself is alien. To be this changed, this complex a creature, it is far beyond anything any spirit form his world has ever been.]

No?

[precedented]

[ His lips quirk, in deep amusement. He should have known better, but it was an interesting query to put forward. No, Cole could not fathom that kind of change. ]

No, I suppose not.

[killedwithlove]

I did change.

I was Compassion. I'm more now.

[So much more. But to come from something so wholly consuming and simple, even being this close to human is an unimaginable change.]

Cadash said we changed every day. Every day we were a person we weren't the day before and wouldn't be tomorrow. Then she fell off her stool and lay on the floor laughing.

[precedented]

We go forward, we go back. Assuming we only go one way means we disregard our past. But she is right. Who you are today is different from who you are before.

[ And they pay for the past. ]

You could even say we kill our selves with every midnight. I find that a little too dramatic for my tastes.

[killedwithlove]

I went forward and back and all around.

But I can't go on the ceiling very well now. The ground tries to be stickier than it was.

[Damn that gravity, making him obey it.]

... no. We don't. Why midnight? Why not sun set or sunrise?

[precedented]

I don't know. I just picked whatever I felt was appropriate.

[ Leto may have plenty of deep thoughts, but a lot of times he's simply fucking with everyone. Questioning and never answering, he likes to go in circles. ]

[killedwithlove]

Round and round in circles he goes, where he stops, nobody knows.

[His voice is softly sing song.]

[precedented]

Except I'm not running with the hands of time, I am the hands of time.

[killedwithlove]

No.

[Cole made a move and started plucking at the threads of the cloth wrapping his hands.]

You see. You make changes on those visions. But it existed before you and will once you're gone.

[precedented]

Well, hopefully it won't exist to narrow down the paths of others. I plan to reintroduce chaos to the universe.

[killedwithlove]

Sera likes chaos.

That's why she plays pranks. She likes chaos, thrives in the distraction and confusion and discord.

[precedented]

[ He hums lightly. A similar view point to Loki, really. ]

Chaos isn't necessarily discord, though discord may be sown along the way. The idea is that I want a universe of surprises to exist, not determined by fate or destiny.