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Good fucking GOD, dude

There's a little indignation, and anger, maybe? And definitely way too much understanding to be strictly okay. ]

Okay, but why does what you were made for matter?

[ coos. agreeably. 'good fucking god dude' is the appropriate response. keep that one. ]

Why, indeed.

[ it matters it matters it matters, it SHOULDN'T matter. regret and resentment and 'they always make it sound so easy, don't they, to do it the right way.' longing. a bone-deep certainty that this is a question that he has already answered wrong, many times, and that it doesn't matter if he changes his answer. ]

I posit to you that to my core I am a self-centered man, Minuet. Them or me, I chose me. It matters... because I did make that choice.

Edited 2024-04-02 16:45 (UTC)

[ "Making it sound so easy to do it the right way" is in fact his job, professionally.

Deadpan, ]

Bullshit.

These aren't the feelings of a guy who grasped self-indulgent fulfillment.

[ opens his eyes. irritable. ]

You weren't supposed to be feeling THOSE.

[ he was trying to filter and failed. unfair. ]

I very much DID do that, up until it was beaten into my head to stop and reconsider my choices.

[ Wry ]

Sorry. That's the ordeal of this ritual.

You haven't said anything about what you want. From here on out, I mean.

[ what, minuet, trying to gauge if he's still a world-ending threat? he's honored. ]

Live out the rest of my days in relative comfort and security?

[ bitterness. he knows it's unambitious. he knows he's become something small and pointless and reduced from the heights of what he could be.

and that it's better this way. ]

I'm retired. There's no point annihilating countries full of interesting things to look at if I'm not going to get my eternal beautiful kingdom out of it.

Edited 2024-04-02 17:10 (UTC)

[ If he were like a hundred years younger and not related to the biggest genocidal pissbaby ever he would perhaps take Angie more seriously, but he, just, ]

Ah, so you agree. You don't really wanna do what you were made for after all.

[ indignant. his speech earlier was so good tho Minuet how could you accuse him of not liking the (murder) bit ]

Must I repeat that I liked it? I had fun. It was thrilling. I've never felt more alive.

It's just that ANYTHING in life to excess, gets tiresome. Would you say you don't like the sunshine? Pretty flowers?

It's just that if you had an unending supply of either, you'd be in trouble.

Edited 2024-04-02 21:22 (UTC)

[ Telegraphing how not-convinced he is. But also just kind of . . . sad, actually. ]

No. I don't think I could ever see too many flowers.

Just for that, I'll summon the flower demon and order it to smother you in a mountain of them, some day.

[ empty threat.
angel devil would never summon a demon, for starters. He's too precious about retaining ownership of his soul. ]

[ That earns a startled laugh ]

I'd be okay with it.

Ugh. I can't take it. Continuing to look and FEEL you make that expression AT me is giving me hives. Let me down.

[ This seems to be the standard villain reaction.

Laughs again and pets his little head with one finger, but then puts him down as requested. ]

[ struts a few steps away for breathing room. ]

Anyway. Now you know. My 'deal.'

I believe it's to your explicit benefit you share in return, Minuet of Bluebell.

Edited 2024-04-02 22:19 (UTC)

You gotta be more specific.

[ he'll decide how much he hates it after that ]

Why do you hear me describe my circumstance, and feel for it that you so intimately understand it.

[ Mmmmmmmm the "how much do I hate that" meter rates this a solid 6/10, so like, whatever, he's had worse literally today ]

"I was brought to being as an instrument," wasn't it?

[ coos. Surprise. Minuet? Minuet of all people. Normally tools like him are more open bleeding wounds upon the world about it. Like Zenith. ]

We could have a club, all of us.

[ "open bleeding wounds upon the world about it" THAT'S HIS SECRET CAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DRY. ]

Now what the hell would we do at this club, Angel Devil?

[ tears don't count. it must be blood.

...is it blood AND tears, minuet ]

Exchange tips on obscure human social cues and customs. [ BITTER: ] I certainly could have used a few, some places along the way.

Edited 2024-04-03 00:49 (UTC)

[ yea ]

You just have to live among them to learn all that.

[ Said like:

]

[ don't you git gud me you secret dollman ]

Twenty years I've done that and I am still learning mystifying new rituals.

[ with mounting amusement im sorry ]

Give it a hundred more, then start complaining.

[ SURE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO GIVE IT ANOTHER 100 YEARS BUDDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ]

[ idly, as if that didn't just make him mentally grit his teeth, ]

How unsympathetic of you, Minuet~. So unwilling to share the wisdom of age with us young studies.

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