[IC] Myriad Reality

[Melodious]

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*Frowns*
You want to break our will.

@Webmaster

Breaking will to minimize loss of life is a small price. I cannot fathom death on a personal level, but the idea that some beings face it as an inevitability destroys me inside.

[Webmaster]

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Breaking will to minimize loss of life is a small price. I cannot fathom death on a personal level, but the idea that some beings face it as an inevitability destroys me inside.

@Melodious

That’s a lie. I know it is.

[Melodious]

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That’s a lie. I know it is.

@Webmaster

In my escapades to absorb entire other realities, I’ve encountered many where not a single soul had to die. Yours presents unique variables and obstacles I was not aware of before coming here. Fragility. Obscene will to not submit. Great desire for power. A higher capacity for strength. If I wanted the easy way out, everything would have been over far before now... But I was willing to take the time and measures needed.

[Webmaster]

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In my escapades to absorb entire other realities, I’ve encountered many where not a single soul had to die. Yours presents unique variables and obstacles I was not aware of before coming here. Fragility. Obscene will to not submit. Great desire for power. A higher capacity for strength. If I wanted the easy way out, everything would have been over far before now... But I was willing to take the time and measures needed.

@Melodious

If that really mattered to you, if it was really something you cared about... you’d also care that we’d rather die. In exchange for death, you’re demanding something worse!

[Melodious]

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If that really mattered to you, if it was really something you cared about... you’d also care that we’d rather die. In exchange for death, you’re demanding something worse!

@Webmaster

Is it worse? Do you even know what it is?

[Webmaster]

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Is it worse? Do you even know what it is?

@Melodious

You can’t impose your will onto people! We protect humans so that they can live, so that they can die. So that they can make their choices freely!

[Melodious]

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You can’t impose your will onto people! We protect humans so that they can live, so that they can die. So that they can make their choices freely!

@Webmaster

And what liberties are being taken? Tell me.

[Webmaster]

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And what liberties are being taken? Tell me.

@Melodious

You’ve already destroyed the freedom to live for too many of us! If they would give up everything to save others from your control, why doesn’t that matter to you? You don’t value what we value or love what we love!

[Melodious]

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You’ve already destroyed the freedom to live for too many of us! If they would give up everything to save others from your control, why doesn’t that matter to you? You don’t value what we value or love what we love!

@Webmaster

Not a soul I have touched has died. No matter what you see or believe.
*Tilts my head sideways just a tad*
Here we are, at what amounts to be what you would probably call your final push against me, but how much do you really know?

[Webmaster]

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Not a soul I have touched has died. No matter what you see or believe.
*Tilts my head sideways just a tad*
Here we are, at what amounts to be what you would probably call your final push against me, but how much do you really know?

@Melodious

Delegating their death to someone else is still murder, whether you wanted to or not! But all of us are willing to die here for this, and that’s what proves that you’re a liar!

[Melodious]

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Delegating their death to someone else is still murder, whether you wanted to or not! But all of us are willing to die here for this, and that’s what proves that you’re a liar!

@Webmaster

And here you still greatly misunderstand... Despite Artahe’s tendency to prefer killing as a tool to solve problems, there are reasons we still work together. Not one absorbed world is gone. Not one honorable fighter is dead. This is the power I truly wield.

[Webmaster]

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And here you still greatly misunderstand... Despite Artahe’s tendency to prefer killing as a tool to solve problems, there are reasons we still work together. Not one absorbed world is gone. Not one honorable fighter is dead. This is the power I truly wield.

@Melodious

But that’s not the point! Death is better than... than this!

[Melodious]

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But that’s not the point! Death is better than... than this!

@Webmaster

Better than living a life entirely unchanged from the one you know?

[Webmaster]

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Better than living a life entirely unchanged from the one you know?

@Melodious

*My face cringes in an unplaceable mix of emotions*
Death is so much better than a fake life!

[Melodious]

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*My face cringes in an unplaceable mix of emotions*
Death is so much better than a fake life!

@Webmaster

It isn’t even fake. These are all false pretenses you've invented because you believe whatever I would want for the world has some sort of catch.

[Webmaster]

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It isn’t even fake. These are all false pretenses you've invented because you believe whatever I would want for the world has some sort of catch.

@Melodious

If there wasn’t a catch, you wouldn’t have to force it on us!

[Melodious]

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If there wasn’t a catch, you wouldn’t have to force it on us!

@Webmaster

The catch isn’t for you. The catch is for me. I need Existence specifically, but the opposition comes from the same place as yours. False assumptions.

[Nemeses]

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Then it looks like we’ll be here a while.
*The giant emits the same cloud of destruction*

@Dynamics

Not as long as you think.
*Stops moving suddenly, and blasts off away from you at a much higher speed than before, headed toward the barrier and leaving you in the dust*

[Webmaster]

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The catch isn’t for you. The catch is for me. I need Existence specifically, but the opposition comes from the same place as yours. False assumptions.

@Melodious

*Stares at you with the swirling mix of emotions before it settles into anger behind my eyes*
I won’t. Release. The viruses. And if you delete me, there will be ten thousand more to take my place. And ten thousand more behind them.

[Melodious]

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*Stares at you with the swirling mix of emotions before it settles into anger behind my eyes*
I won’t. Release. The viruses. And if you delete me, there will be ten thousand more to take my place. And ten thousand more behind them.

@Webmaster

*My shoulders slump slightly*
Your opposition saddens me the most. I cannot save artificial beings the same way I can natural ones... I understand your emotional motivators, and I still will not fall to desire to kill.
*Looks over to Isaac*
Not again.