audience: akane

[cyclists]

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[specialdog]

[ A good person...? Good thing Akane is good at keeping up a smile, otherwise her expression might have soured at that. How do you tell when someone is a good person? What determines that? Is Sol making that kind of 'good person, bad person' judgment on all of them here...?

Well, all of that is reading way too far into it. So she's just smiling brightly! :) ]

We're both learning to cook and he wanted to make a big thing of it.

[ as for the other part... ] Do people yell at you less in private?

[cyclists]

[Sol makes pretty snap decisions when it comes to people, so maybe don't ask them about that.

Akane...reminds them of someone though, and it's for that reason they're keeping the conversation neutral as they feel her out.]

That sounds right. He wanted to turn me into a cat. [So that is to say that Minato sometimes just does whatever he wants. Still, they think about that question question...and shake their head.]

Not really. But it's not that big of a deal anymore. Other people are nicer and as long as they're not yelling at Lune I don't care that much.

[specialdog]

[ Akane hums at that last part--honestly she's a dick so she's not that interested in how people treat Sol. So she'll focus on the part she finds interesting. ]

A cat? Like with one of those headbands? He got one for me, too. But I guess you can't really wear headbands under those hoods, huh?

[cyclists]

[Give them a second to hold out a hand and a gray cat-ear headband appears out of nowhere.]

Yeah. It doesn't really stay on that well, but he tried. The hoods are sort of annoying that way.

[specialdog]

Why can't you just take them off?

[ She's sure they can't, but. It's worth asking, at least? ]

[cyclists]

They don't want us to yet. [So yeah, they can't.] Lune thinks it's because the universe doesn't think our old identities are that important when it comes to stuff like this...or something. But they're kind of just there for now.

[specialdog]

If your identities don't matter, then we should be able to see them. Since, you know, they don't matter anyway.

[ She's just throwing that out there as a complaint, not trying to convince Sol. She gets that he can't help it. ]

[cyclists]

They might not matter in the grand scheme of things, or to you personally, but I can think of reasons why they might matter to some other people.

[Shrug! Shit sucks, text it.]

But maybe someday.

[specialdog]

I'll look forward to it!

[ And since she gave her thoughts: ]

... So what do you think, now that you've seen how we're doing?

[cyclists]

[That's a loaded question.]

...if this is what the universe was planning, then none of you should have been brought here. [Are they mad? A little.] You're not doing so bad for being brought here unexpectedly, but it still shouldn't be a thing.

[specialdog]

Ehh, so you agree that it's messed up to bring us here for this!

Do you think we're doing well? Do you think we can actually accomplish whatever we're here for, like Lune-san does?

[cyclists]

I agree, but I'm gonna say it again since people keep forgetting. This wasn't our choice. So. If you want me to say "it's our fault", that's not happening.

[This is probably why people go to Lune.] But yeah, I do. Otherwise you wouldn't be here in the first place.

[specialdog]

Aw, come on. Don't you wanna trash-talk your boss with me?

I'm not blaming you. There's something or someone above you. Right?

[cyclists]

[...]

Yeah. There is. But until I get a better sense of what it wants I want to stay on its good side.

[specialdog]

That's fair! It's your boss, after all!

But me and everyone else are out here dying, so I don't think I can be as sensitive to it.

[cyclists]

I'm not really asking you to be. [How to explain...] That's why Lune and I are only here to be guides and we're not telling you what to do. You're allowed to do whatever you want. That's why it's always been your choice how the universe's core will be shaped.

But I think it's less about the universe and thinking about the bigger picture. How the universe impacts every other world out there.

[specialdog]

None of us can understand something vague like that.

[ Oops that came out pretty harsh. ]

[cyclists]

[They...flip over their paper and start to draw. There's a circle in the center and they draw a "c" next to it. From there, they draw other random circles all over the page labeling them with things like "A", "L" and "S". They draw some lines so some worlds connect to others, but others aren't connected at all. But they're all connected to the center dot.]

What happens here will impact other worlds, including your own. And what happens in your worlds will impact other worlds. And on and on.

[specialdog]

But I don't know which 'my world' you mean.

[cyclists]

[....]

Are there multiple for you, too? [Uh.] Or, I guess...well what do you mean?

[specialdog]

[ hm. interesting.






anyway back to me. ]

Mm. There's one world, and then there's the one I created. Since it's mine, I can control every part of it. So how can other worlds impact it?

[cyclists]

Depends. How did you create that other world? Are you still tied to both of them? [What in the hell is this.]

[specialdog]

I don't think I can explain how I created it, but I only need my new world. It's the better one.

[ canon does not. really explain how she does this. it's fine it's fine it's fine it's fine it's fine. ]

[cyclists]

[...they'll take the bait..]

So...what are you?

[specialdog]

A goddess.

[ No need to hide it from the closest thing they have to authority figures! ]

But it's a secret. ♥