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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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[astrobleme]

Can I ask a question for a friend?

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[complicatedliar]

Of course, I'd be happy to help out your friend.

[Resisting the temptation to write that as "friend."]

what is anon [text]

[bythewaves]

I think some problems are beyond all solving.

[voice]

[summerschild]

You're not my aunt.

Text;

[onlyanapple]

...Betty White?

text.

[fuga]

Who would offer secrets to a woman that claims to be a false relation? It is foolish.

[text]

[precedented]

In that state of mind, nothing will ever be solved and stagnation awaits you.

[ text ]

[precedented]

Do you want one?

text.

[astrobleme]

[Hey, he's in need of some deniability here.]

Okay. This person - my friend - has spent their entire life believing something important about themselves. Really important. And then one day they realized that thing might not be true after all. And it's upsetting to them. I don't know what to say to them or how to comfort them.

[text]

[bythewaves]

Stagnation can be comforting, in its own way. Besides, sometimes it seems that it would be better to stagnate and vanish, rather than bring trouble on others.

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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.

Re: [text]

[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.

Re: [text]

[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.