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[complicatedliar]

Who: Agony Aunt Agatha (a mask cunningly worn by Loki and Leto)
Broadcast: Fleetwide text
Action: None
When: Right now

[Attached picture: A friendly, smiling, white-haired old lady. She's got the kind of face you can trust, radiating good humor and worldly reasonableness.]

Hello, intrepid explorers and darling drifters!

I know you're far from home and all your friends, family, and other loved ones. Your Agony Aunt Agatha is here to listen to your troubles and give you sage advice. I've lived a lot of years and seen a lot of things--and trust me, your problems have a solution, no matter how odd or insurmountable they feel.

Write in anonymously or with your name, whatever you're more comfortable with. Auntie Agatha doesn't judge (mostly), and your secrets are safe with me!

Keep smiling, sweethearts,

Your Auntie Agatha


(OOC: Replies may come from either Loki or Leto, but will purportedly and untraceably be from delightful Aunt Agatha. Doesn't she look charming?)

Comments

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[precedented]

A fatalistic point of view. How can you say you only bring trouble to others?

Are you a mind reader to know what troubles they have?

[text]

[bythewaves]

Because that is all I have brought, it seems. So it was foretold, and so it has been.

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[precedented]

I would be wary of foreknowledge, especially as one of noble birth. You always decide how you face what has been foretold.

Is this how you intend to show your pride?

[text]

[bythewaves]

Oh, it was inevitable - that much has become increasingly clear as the years have rolled by. We chose the road we took, and so our sins are on our own hands - at the least we cannot say we were not warned.

What room is there for pride for those dispossesed?

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[precedented]

There is always room in life.

[text]

[bythewaves]

Even for a ghost?

Re: [text]

[precedented]

If you are, then you are a very substantial one.

[text]

[bythewaves]

I am as good as one, no more than a cautionary tale.

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[precedented]

And yet you exist to ask and learn more. Perhaps even a cautionary tale can encompass its fate and leave room for the future.

[text]

[bythewaves]

Perhaps, but I cannot see it.

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[precedented]

All the more reason to extend your knowledge while you have the chance.

[text]

[bythewaves]

In a world unknown, what point would there be? My home has nothing of this sort of thing.

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[precedented]

There is always space to learn in a new world. New frontiers, new experiences. You would do well to try them.

[text]

[bythewaves]

And should my curse follow me to this world also? What then? To evil ends will all things turn, we were told, and so it has proven.

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[precedented]

Don't think so highly of yourself.

[text]

[bythewaves]

Highly? Rather the opposite, I fear. Only regret and grief has shadowed my steps since we were told so. To think that things would change just because of a change of location would be optimism beyond my capacity, I am afraid.

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[precedented]

And yet it speaks of how highly you pedestal your own regret and grief that you will let it dog you to another world.

Those who value only their own experiences think only of themselves.

[text]

[bythewaves]

There is no one else left for me to think of, for they are all dead.

[ A pause and then ]

Well. One is here, but he is dead, and why he walks now neither of us know.

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[precedented]

Then find someone to think about.

[text] OMG Maglor stop being an ass

[bythewaves]

Such as?

[precedented]

A person.

And not court your grief as if it needed to be catered to.

[bythewaves]

And if I should do so, and only grief should follow, what then?

[precedented]

Then the fault will lie on you.

Your curse exists for your world. You are the one carrying it beyond.

[bythewaves]

Then so be it. May your hope prove truer than mine.

[precedented]

My hope exists for the multitude. I keep none for myself.