diluvian | netzach catchall

[ i will never be. ]

I can be civil with most of them, but if they continue to support Libby, my opinion drops and drops and drops.

[ she gets along with fei du pretty well, but it's always something that lingers in the back of her mind when she hangs out with him. ]

But I meant in the big picture of things. They were at the bottom in terms of points.

So it's still... what you told me before, huh.

[man. i don't know if it's even a good idea to ask her myself.]

... wonder if being at the bottom is what got them taken out.

I haven't been told otherwise. Rang and Monika both told me she said the same thing to them.

[ that was the nail in the coffin, but you can confirm it with her. ]

It's likely, and they're both adults. You all are so reluctant to remove the young.

I feel like that's not surprising. Nobody really wants to fight someone young, but... then it means they're ending up with all the responsibility instead.

I know it's cruel to want those as young as Ylfa and Haru to shoulder it all, but there were few options.

[ and she'd much prefer the team that killed her to pull ahead, so she doesn't mind being cruel. ]

Yeah. That's why we were gonna work with Nahida's team-- so they could shoulder it. Ylfa and Haru were our second pick, we just didn't wanna ask them to do it.

...then it turned out they already were.

Go to Sleep was struggling for a bit in the rankings. Ylfa and Gerard didn't hesitate.

This is a workable outcome.

We knew we'd have to catch them up, we just found out pretty fast that we didn't actually have to go for it.

...but yeah, it is. I think it's all gonna be okay.

That's optimistic of you.

[ not that she thought he was super pessimistic.

just a bit fatalistic, maybe. ]

I wouldn't have thought so, a few weeks ago, but with what we've been learning since then? Yeah. I think we can be a little optimistic about our chances.

Is this character development?

You say that like you think I've never been optimistic about anything...

[ she just

looks at him. ]

Well, I have been...

[it's not my fault everything just keeps failing anyway.]

If you have been, it's not where I can see it.

[ half the time, you're on the floor. ]

...okay, for a lot of the time that I've been here, I wasn't.

Oh? So you admit, back in your city, you were.

I'm not a totally hopeless person.

Lethargy is more than half the problem, Netzach.

[he can't help it-- there's a stray thought that comes up at that, it was made to break us and make us hopeless, what could we do-

with a little shake of his head, he tries to dismiss it.]

I know. I've been working.

[ she brings him to the arts and craft store. ]

You wanted to do something about it, didn't you? Back there and here. Both.

[holy shit

his mood visibly improves like, immediately, when he sees it.]

...yeah. And I kind of ended up doing the same thing both times, but-- the first time I died, it was in part because I didn't care whether I was alive anymore.

It isn't like that now. I was okay with dying because it was for something I believed in doing.

Isn't that character development?

[ she was mean about it, but she feels like she was right. ]

...yeah. Yeah, maybe it is.

See? It only took more murder to let you see hope again.

[ she's being facetious. ]

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