AUDIENCE 🚀 DION

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[agamid]

... You confuse forcing someone to live with protecting them.

[ sorry dion is so like sometimes people should just die (for their own good) ]

But I will not argue this with you further. It is a noble cause to protect the lives of those one holds dear.

[trenchant]

You seem resolved to your cause... It looked like you were protecting him from a heartbreak worse than what you inflicted.

[ shut up he still wants to fight no i'm kidding he doesn't ]

That cause is to fight a god?

[ he loves the bible............ ]

[agamid]

[ trying to decide if knives would be ultima kin

well, anyway. he frowns. ]

Indeed, Ultima... It is a being that arrived on Valisthea eons ago and gave rise to humanity. Now it means to sacrifice us for its own purposes.

If we do not fight, then our destruction is assured.

[trenchant]

[ they are kind of cut from the same cloth but knives is a baby in comparison ]

In another world, mankind's creator thought you all crops for them to reap. [ He does actually find this interesting, though he isn't sympathetic. ] But man thought to rebel...

[ like the Old Testament. ]

[agamid]

Wouldn't you?

[ since he's so adamant about of protecting his own ]

[trenchant]

... I already am, as a creation of man.

[ turntables ]

[agamid]

[ damn ]

I will assume that does not mean you feel any affinity with me.

[trenchant]

You are right.

[ It makes logical sense to him that it isn't too different from his struggles and self-righteous campaign, but he's blinded by hatred, by rage, and by fear. ]

Mankind can rally troops and armies to wage war, but my sisters are incapable. They only have myself and my brother to stand for them. For all of us who have been exploited to our last breath, I cannot bear sympathy for your kind.

[agamid]

[ dion has no idea what knives is talking about, but his words do make him think of bearers, being used until their bodies give out and turn to dust.

... ]

Very well. I won't argue against you, but... my teacher recently reminded me that the bloom of a flower is not defined by its roots. People are different, and I believe you will lose out on making valuable allies by regarding them as all the same.

[trenchant]

[ you're also basically a bearer, dion, but with a fursona

Knives is silent, considering it for maybe a moment, but racism is too strong. i resist domestication. ]

Did heed their reminder despite your plan to die in the battle against god?

[ attacks him again ]

[agamid]

[ frankly i think it would be very funny for knives to bad end the game because of racism ]

Perhaps I am hoping you are a better student than I. [ he sighs ] I do believe in change and growth.

But I am uncertain how deep the wells of mercy should go.

[trenchant]

[ let's see what the living does, i guess. This makes his eyes narrow because this is just a trick. Of course he would be a better student, but not for human ways. ]

I don't need your well wishes. [ He is prickly!! ] You sound like a haunted man. We have an alleged clergyman among our number, if you seek divine forgiveness.

[agamid]

[ ok then die asshole?

anyway, he just snorts ]

I do not expect nor deserve forgiveness as I currently am. I shall make amends in Valisthea, and let the people whom I have wronged decide.

I suspect your suggestions from a desire to get rid of me more than any well wishes for the torment of my soul.

[trenchant]

I would be surprised if that would be enough for a tormented soul ready to offer their life on a platter.

[ DION JUST THINKING THIS IS BANTER WHEN KNIVES IS JUST A FERAL ANIMAL HATEFUL TOWARD HUMANS ]

I don't want to chance the effects. My memories are not for anyone to see.