Yatagarasu

Myriad Reality

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So it’s the same.

@Legend

How so?

Myriad Reality

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Did mom cheat? Did the others cheat?

@Legend

No. Pretty much just me.

Myriad Reality

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That’s so easy for you to say after you’ve done everything you ever wanted to do and were the best in the world at everything you tried.

@Legend

I haven't done everything. I still have being a good dad on my list, and I'm nowhere near the best at that. Plus, you know that I cheated to do what I did, it's not fair to anyone to compare to that.

Myriad Reality

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*Furrows my eyebrows in visible frustration*
If anything you’ve told me is true, then you have to see that where we are is so much different than them, or you, or mom.

@Legend

Yes, different. Not lesser. Not weaker, or slower, or dumber. Just different. There's no "winning" in terms of a life, Stella. There's no "losing" either. There's just "living" and improvement. To quote a once wise man, "strive to be better, always better... but never perfect." All I'm saying is that you shouldn't hold yourself to the standards you set on other people, that's a recipe for frustration and heartache. I'm sorry that I'm not giving the most poignant or instantly useful advice, but all I can give is my opinion and what I know.

Myriad Reality

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Then is mom lying too? Are all these stories about where you came from and who you are, are all of them just fake? Was there ever any darkness, or Codii, or even some kind of scale? Do our brothers and sisters even exist?

@Legend

Well, that last one is debatable, to be fair. But just because I wasn't necessarily the actual strongest there was at the time, doesn't mean I wasn't up there. That's all I meant; embellishing things to make the stories more interesting for a young imagination. We didn't fake anything whole-cloth, at least, I promise you. Heck, there's observable evidence of most of it, and I'll gladly retell you whatever you want, as well as my memory holds up, at least. You can ask your mother the same things. She knows a lot I don't, and our subjective experiences might conflict, but I've never purposefully lied to you. Er, well, except about Project T.O.K., but I think you knew that already. I wasn't great at hiding that they weren't around to help out around the house, heh.

Myriad Reality

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Did you lie about all the stuff you accomplished? All the stuff they did?

@Legend

I did not. I probably embellished stories about them
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and probably me too
*in a normal voice*
because I'm proud of them, just like I'm proud of you. But your view that they were perfect is only true in my eyes and probably your mother's as well. Objectively speaking, nobody's perfect. And you have your whole life ahead of you to do whatever you set your mind to. You don't have to do everything immediately.

Myriad Reality

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I heard the stories, they inherited so much from you and mom. They basically had everything.

@Legend

Stories from who? Again, their parents' opinions don't count, neither do those of the people working for those parents.

Myriad Reality

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Then why’d they do everything so early? Why were they amazing at anything they tried?

@Legend

They weren't. You're confusing subjective opinions of their parents with objective reality.

Myriad Reality

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How were they not, then? They had everything.

@Legend

That's not true. Just like everyone else, they had their strengths and flaws.

Myriad Reality

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So why were they so much better in every way?

@Legend

I wouldn't say they were, at all, personally.