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Because the temptation was gone?

[catposting]

[ he chuckles darkly. ]

Not exactly. If something works... even if you hate using it, it's stupid not to take advantage of a tool. Especially if you want to survive.

Dominate or be dominated. That's how it always was.

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Mm... what could it be...

_{[ it's a game now. ]}

Power makes obligation, too.

_{[ if he'd cone to life as just another Genome like every other that happened to have a soul, there goes all that grand destiny. ]}

I mean, I realized swiftly that Gaia basically belonged to me, and if I didn't act like it, I'd lose it. And... look at little Milord Sunshine. The only times I see him acting alert are when it's requisite of him.

If you don't have the hammer,
The window stops being just another door.

...A harmless stray cat really can do anything he likes.

2/2 actually

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_{or is that really just saying "temptation" again...? I have a hard time picturing people not being motivated by temptation SOME way or another.}

[catposting]

It's not-not temptation.

But I'd liken it more to parsimony. I'd grown too used to not having to lift a finger to get anything done.

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Ahh. One fears we lost our edge and flexibility, applying naught but the mallet.

no blood again yadda yadda

[catposting]

[ he gives a shadow of a smirk, but otherwise keeps staring at the ceiling. ]

I can still do it. The skill has more restrictions on it than it does back home, but if the target is fully alive and fully an animal...

... well, who knows if that guy's alive, anyhow.

Re: no blood again yadda yadda

[finalbows]

Our wolfly liege is... probably something a little beyond life and death, if I had to hazard a guess.

Re: no blood again yadda yadda

[catposting]

... Figured as much. But if I see the shot, I'm taking it.

why did i not get a notif for this!!!!!!

[finalbows]

_{[ in an idle drawl, ]}

Golbez would have gotten on well with you.

[catposting]

Mmm? What's he like?

[finalbows]

Last I recall? Working for the good boy side to kill the dark god. Though... he's got... no pretense about it. Just that unapologetic conviction to try...

Even though it's his death warrant.

[catposting]

Good thing I'm already dead.

[ shrugs, eyes coming back into focus. ]

Besides. I have something I need to do before I disappear. Losing to some eldritch puppy isn't an option.

[finalbows]

~~?

Tell me~.

[catposting]

[ looks contemplative. ]

Maybe when you're older.

[finalbows]

Oh, for-- we're back to THIS again!

[catposting]

[ stretches, shifting to make himself more comfortable on the Rose pillow. ]

I made a promise to someone, is all. A very wicked person. [ yawns. ] You'd find them pitiful, I'm sure.

1/2

[finalbows]

[ doing math ]
[ doing math ]
[ doing math ]

2/2

[finalbows]

You presume a lot, of my opinions of others.

[catposting]

Is that so?

[finalbows]

I reserve my pity only for the most particularly pathetic.

1/2

[catposting]

[ lmao, Rosebell. this one would break your heart. ]

[catposting]

Well, I've been wrong before. Time will tell, I suppose.

... You should at least try to sleep before tomorrow.

[finalbows]

<sub>[ you caught him yawning...

wearily, ]</sub>

I suppose.

1/2

[catposting]

[ he searches Angie's eyes for a moment, palms pressed against the pillow, and almost looks like he wants to say something else.

(To be honest, by the time I got here, I thought I'd forgotten how to feel much of anything.)
(But you...)
(I would have killed you. I would have brought you back. And you never would have known.)
(I'd break your heart, too. For your own good.)
(You're not the only wicked one here.)

(And that puppy wasn't my only teammate.)

(Stay.)
(I miss you.) ]