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Cassandra ([personal profile] ladyfrownsalot) wrote2021-06-10 05:48 pm

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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-02 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"I asked you earlier what 'destiny' was for you for that very reason. Your answer referred to it as 'all that other stuff' and you asked me if it mattered. So I assumed it didn't. I can't know these things if you blow me off."
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-02 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course," he says with a snort. "Cassandra, a children's book nearly killed me once. I'm hardly about to go deciding what is and isn't real in someone else's world, considering. I'm not trying to disrespect the reality of your world. I just don't know it yet."
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-02 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"So... tell me about 'destiny'," he prompts mildly. "How it works. What it's like. How it's real, if you please."
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-02 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
A little gentler.

"What I mean is, how is it determined. If there's books that say so, or a mural or -or some sort of crazy old woman who lives in the woods who says these things and people write them down." He continues. "Whether... someone feels that destiny, like a physical force. Or if events will bend themselves unreasonably to make sure it happens. If it's real, then surely there's... well, a method to it. Ways that it's real. Hopefully, that makes more sense."
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-03 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
A pause, and he's not trying to invalidate her words. But that doesn't sound... right.

"I've never heard of destiny being something someone could take. Is that... if you could explain how that works."
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-03 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm.

"Even though you took it back?"

No compel; he's being careful but he can't stop wondering.
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-03 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, he's picked up on that. Well. Rome wasn't built in a day and no one graduates in an afternoon.

Moving on.

"Have you trusted anyone since Rapunzel?"
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-03 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"...I suppose there's a reason. I mean, other than the fact that she didn't trust you that once."

There better be.
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-03 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Even though you were... I mean. I'm assuming you didn't want your friend to die. And she was determined to do so because... destiny. They didn't... think that perhaps your motivations were reasonable?"
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-03 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps she's looking at his face. Maybe she gets a view of how fucking insane that sounds to him.

"So... she does something foolish that she knew she couldn't control, maims you, and all is well. And you do something that will save her" and he does not say 'stupid' but it's so clear he's thinking it "life. And you're enemy number one. Do I have that right?"
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-03 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"...and has anyone here told you that that is utter bullshit or am I the first one?"
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-03 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Other than, apparently, a kingdom full of monarchist sheep," he mutters darkly.

He's never hated a character from a fairy tale before. Something new and special for him.

"To be fair," he says at regular volume, "some people are more open than others. I can't imagine a person on board-"

Beat.

"All right, I can imagine one person but he's a bit weird. But! Most people would not see that as a logical string of events. Not even a little."
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[personal profile] epistemological 2021-07-03 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"I sold two of my ribs to a man made of a hundred people's parts to hear his story and ask him some questions inside of the living embodiment of being disoriented," he answers back, "which makes my life bizarre. Weird. Full of strange and supernatural phenomena. But that doesn't mean 'logic' doesn't exist."

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