Stratocracy

Myriad Reality

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*Squeezes my cheeks with one hand and looks up, considering the suggestion*
Mmmmm~...

@Etcetera

The greatest service anyone could ever do for a guy like that is to keep their memory alive. We can all turn our backs on his place in history, together.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks at you with an indecipherable look*
He made me. I'm still here.

@Etcetera

If you’re all that’s left of him, then do you want to know the ultimate way to spite him? Let him be forgotten. Stop living your life with him in mind, and let him go.

Myriad Reality

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*Shrugs and fractures the cup into several pieces and twirls it in the air, splashing hot liquid on and around us*
I thought I knew what he meant for me to be. I found out it was wrong. Now I'm sort of lost.

@Etcetera

*Wipes my face clear of it*
He was a lot of things I could say, but I will highlight the fact that he was a smart guy who knew what the consequences of what he was doing would be… Let me ask you, because I do not know myself. Is he gone?

Myriad Reality

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I do what I do since I want him to hate me. It's not that hard.

@Etcetera

Making him hate you by becoming what he wanted? There’s definitely a gap in my understanding, there.

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*sighs and looks intently at @Stratocracy*

I definitely don't see like that's the case... she keeps messing up! Still!

@The Multiverse

You don’t fix years worth of hurt on a moment’s notice. It takes time.

Myriad Reality

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*Snaps and refills my hot chocolate*
Help how you see it. When they decide I should be this way or that, it makes me mad.

@Etcetera

I’ve been in your mind, you forget that I know that isn’t true. I think that you do what you do because it’s all you know, and that being the case is the result of what someone else wanted for you.
*Goes to set my empty mug on the nearest table*

Myriad Reality

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You mean you want to own me.

@Etcetera

*Shakes my head*
If I helped you get better, but it meant I never got to see you or talk to you again, then it’d be well worth it.

Myriad Reality

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Why do you still want to change me? Just write me off. Let me be free to do what I want to do, and don't get in my way.

@Etcetera

Because you deserve help.

Myriad Reality

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Nope, and I want to keep it that way. He’s just a friend.

@Etcetera

Hmmm... Well, you're right about that much I suppose. I don't need to know something like that unless you wanted to share.

Myriad Reality

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It’s a friend’s head.

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*A distant explosion rips across the land*

@Etcetera

Right. Is it someone I know though? Who is it?

Myriad Reality

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I bet you thought it meant death.

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*Sighs to myself*

@Etcetera

Since we’re being honest here, I can say with full confidence that that wasn’t my assumption. But I had no idea what to think it was, and I still don’t, really.

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*As you do, that familiar magnolia scent manifests again, and it simply brings more clarity as you inhale, also helps you understand Misty's plea in a way she clearly refuses or is presently able to fully grasp*

Hmm? Oh hello there! *I say with an innocent wave of my hand*

@The Multiverse

*Blinks*