netzach catchall

[diluvian]

i know very little about project moon

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[abstractart]

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.

[diluvian]

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.

[abstractart]

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.

[diluvian]

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. ]

[abstractart]

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.

[diluvian]

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

This is a workable outcome.

[abstractart]

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.

[diluvian]

That's optimistic of you.

[ not that she thought he was super pessimistic.

just a bit fatalistic, maybe. ]

[abstractart]

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.

[diluvian]

Is this character development?

[abstractart]

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

[diluvian]

[ she just

looks at him. ]

[abstractart]

Well, I have been...

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

[diluvian]

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

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

[abstractart]

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

[diluvian]

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

[abstractart]

I'm not a totally hopeless person.

[diluvian]

Lethargy is more than half the problem, Netzach.

[abstractart]

[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.

[diluvian]

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

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

[abstractart]

[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.

[diluvian]

Isn't that character development?

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

[abstractart]

...yeah. Yeah, maybe it is.

[diluvian]

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

[ she's being facetious. ]

[abstractart]

Man, if the unrelenting cycle of death was all it took I'd have already been the most hopeful person in the world.

[it's fine he can also be.]