THE PLANET MINGLE

[princessia]

Who: EVERYONE!
Broadcast: Maybe, if you want?!
Action: The Planet
When: From May 11th until the end of the month

[ Willing to venture away from the casinos and investigate the nearby green planet? Here's your chance, now that it's in range!

THIS IS A MINGLE. GET HERE. ]

[ Make your own prompts, explore the planet, spend a night there, piss it off by taking its plants, whatever! MAY STAR SYSTEM OOC POST for your reference on getting through the orbit, what's on the planet, etc.! ]

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[killedwithlove]

I don't really know anything about forgiveness.

[openhands]

Compassion and forgiveness are often quite similar, Cole.

[killedwithlove]

Are they?

[For a moment, Cole almost flickers, paler, gaunter, something more like a ghost of a starved man.

But then it's just Compassion with her.]

Maybe they are. Rhys empathised and forgave.

[openhands]

Not everything is forgivable, but some pain cannot be relieved until you learn to forgive.

[Naturally, she thinks acutely of Anthony. For so long she held nothing but anger and hatred in her heart towards all mages, and fear of blood mages. It wasn't until she could learn to forgive while never forgetting what happened to Anthony that she could heal from the loss.]

[killedwithlove]

[Compassion reads her and considers it. Cole did not forgive. Cole had not been pushed to forgive, but he also never thought to blame all templars for those that hurt Cole.]

Solas told me to forgive the templar who killed me. But Cadash and Varric showed me how to just feel without having to act instead.

[openhands]

And you are at peace with it? [she asks slowly.]

[killedwithlove]

Right now? Yes.

Normally? No. Dying of starvation is a terrible death. Weeks alone, hungry, trying to make it one more hour by eating the moss and lichen on the walls, sipping the dribbles of water that turn to small waterfalls when the rain soaks the city above.

[For all that he remembers, in that moment, a bit less Cole than usual, he can just recite it like any of the hundreds of other horrors he knows.]

[openhands]

[Cassandra will never fully understand how it is that Compassion is able to take on that pain, to feel it as its own without going insane and yet be able to speak of it like a near well-practiced speech of some other, less disturbing topic. There is a part of her that thinks Cadash and Varric were both wrong. He's not a person and feeling that way does no one any favors. But what's done is done and there is something more striking in what he says than his holding onto the anger and pain.]

What's different between right now and normally?

[killedwithlove]

[He hums softly, thinking about it.]

I think, right now, I'm more Compassion than Cole. I remember being Cole, but it's a bit more distant. I feel for what he went through.

Usually, being Cole is closer, cloying, calming, comforting and...

It doesn't hurt as much at the moment. That... peopleness is there, but not here.

[openhands]

[That's...new. Cole's always seemed quite permanent in his impermanence with an inextricable bond between Cole and Compassion.]

Does that have something to do with the planet, Cole?

[killedwithlove]

Yes. Probably.

It's almost like the edges of the Fade. It sings here.

[openhands]

It sounds as though you should also be careful while you're here, Cole.

[killedwithlove]

All right. I will be careful.