[ text | un: trickster ]

[dothelokimotion]

What kind of stories did you grow up with?

What kind of myths and fairy tales were you told?

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[dothelokimotion]

What kind of things?

[realimperfect]

What actual blue sky was like instead of a ceiling with projections, small tales about old buildings and civilizations that have become legends since ...

It's been thousands of years since humans have walked on Earth's surface where I'm from, so the planet itself has become a bit of a thing that's been.. talked about and passed on as a story so often that it, in itself, seems like a fairytale.

[dothelokimotion]

[ What. ]

What happened to Midgard?

[realimperfect]

If I'm assuming 'Midgard' is Earth - nuclear weapons and nuclear winter is what happened. Centuries before me.

I've only ever known it in its cold, constantly snowing form.

[dothelokimotion]

I suppose that was bound to happen to them sooner or later.

[realimperfect]

I suppose so. Not many would risk destruction of an entire planet for the ends of their means, I don't think.

[dothelokimotion]

Perhaps not outright destruction but a slow burn? Denial of what is to come? That's very much human nature.

[realimperfect]

There's no mid-ground with nuclear warheads, though. Those that launched it knew what was going to happen, and that's the part that's maybe the most unthinkable.

But, yes, that is very much human nature. I feel as though you just described my grandfather without ever meeting him.

[dothelokimotion]

It is not an unreasonable conclusion to reach. Though I imagine it still stings that you must suffer their consequences.

[realimperfect]

I don't know Earth in any other capacity than what's left of it. The sting is more in ... the ways my fellow citizens and I were kept in complete ignorance of the outside. After all, there's not much that makes constant cold and bleak views all that appealing, but it's not as dead as it was made to appear.

[dothelokimotion]

Lies have a tendency to leave the worst sting.

[realimperfect]

In a way. There's also a satisfaction in uncovering them and insisting that they stay revealed.

Even if people resent you for it.

[dothelokimotion]

I cannot deny that is immensely satisfying.

[realimperfect]

Ah, so I assume you've done the same in your life, then?

[dothelokimotion]

I try, at least.

[realimperfect]

That's all very vague... But I can appreciate there's another person here who will seek it out instead of sitting here in these constant festivals.

[dothelokimotion]

It is my nature to be so.

But to some extent, I too chafe under the festivals and routine they expect us all to follow.

[realimperfect]

Just need to be mysterious, mn?

They're fun, at first. Distracting may actually be the better word - but sometimes I'd rather just be back wandering the wastes than here at yet another festivity for something I don't actually celebrate.

[dothelokimotion]

I prefer to be contrary in all things.

I suppose it is not meant for us.

[realimperfect]

They mean to keep us happy and occupied while we're here and away from our home worlds, I'm sure, but this is nothing like what my world used to be.

[dothelokimotion]

I do not think they are quite so manipulative, but the nature of this place is very comforting. It is meant to soothe phantom pains and make this a new home. But it does not work if you cannot leave.

[realimperfect]

They don't seem to be, no. Maybe I'm just more careful because of where I was before here..

Well, the tale is that you can leave if you tell them. For right now I'm.. exploring a little more before I ask them to charter me a way back to my version of Earth. I can't hide out here forever, even if home lacks my creature comforts.

[dothelokimotion]

That seems wise. You approach this place logically.

[realimperfect]

I try to approach everything in that manner. No good decisions are made on pure emotion, so far as I've ever seen. Or at least.. decisions without difficulty to follow.

[dothelokimotion]

Perhaps.

But are they fulfilling decisions if all they do is keep you alive?