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You've never, ever, ever ceased to entertain.

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Experiment two.
*The blade slams down to vault me high above you, and a complex mechanical blaster emerges from my back, firing a large spell at your body and sword respectively, causing them to repel one another*

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*Manifests a glowing strand of energy resembling rope and, in a flash, warps next to you with the rope tensely constricted around your blade with both of my hands, restricting its movement*

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Artorias:
*the moment you persue this action,I let out a earth-shattering roar, and it seemingly brings magic runes on my sword to life, as a shield forms aorund me of magic just before the attack lands*

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We're just a circus in your eyes, then?

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In my eyes, everything is. Including myself.

*I chuckle.*

I don't find myself particularly funny, so I watch humanity go by.

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*Lifts a hand*
Do you ever think they could aspire to something more?

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Of course they can. Anyone can. Unfortunately, as with all sentient species, myself included, their own drive to "embetter" themselves is often a masked drive to engage in the same primal activity, just with a more advanced veneer. Take the difference between, say, the Punic Wars, the first two World Wars, the Great Asian War of 2040, and World War III. In all cases, they advanced drastically in a technological sense, but, in all cases, their fundamental cause was the collision of rival imperial interests. Rome versus Carthage, France and Britain versus Germany and Austria, the United States versus China, I can go on for hours.

*He leans in.*

History does not repeat, but does rhyme. Humans are human, and fall into the same... primal traps.

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*Nods*
And what if they could evade these traps? Ascend and become something greater than themselves? Every one of those events you listed share a cause beyond human ambition. Their striving isn't the source of their evil, but the bait that brings out the true evil inside of themselves.

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If you ask me, the rest state of reality as a whole is one of conflict, and will be until the last star in the last little timeline burns out. The laws of thermodynamics dictate it; something must transition from a higher state of matter to a lower to perform any form of meaningful work. Gasoline burns to drive cars, stars burn out to heat worlds and make life, and governments fall and men fight to exact societal change. There's nothing morally wrong with conflict, just as there's nothing evil about a hurricane or an earthquake. Conflict, disunity, discord, are all simply entropic forces writ large.

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And yet, we all see their consequences on their victims. Every single issue you listed can be traced back to the same evil, whether directly or otherwise.
*Takes a sip of my hot cocoa*
Mankind's fascination with death. A mistress whose temptations fell the whole race time and time again.

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It's not the worst thing to be fascinated by. I've certainly wished for the Lady to visit me time and again.

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Mm, I've pontificated enough to talk your ear off at this point. What kind of man are you, exactly? If man is even the right kind of word.

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"Man" is a word you can use. As is the female counterpart.

*I switch which elbow I'm leaning on. For a moment, my form flickers, a blurring, crackling haze falling over me. When it clears, I've taken a female form, a young blonde woman in what appears to be an early 21st-century police officer's uniform.*

I never settled on what face to wear.

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*Nods with a smile*
A sentiment and challenge all humans seem to wrestle with. Usually on the inside. Where do you hail from?

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It's been long enough that I don't remember myself. You? You... speak of humans as though you were not one of them, and I can only assume that is actually the case.

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Human, non-human, what a blurry line we find ourselves tightwalking. It would not be unfair to call me a human, but a member of mankind? I'm not so bloodthirsty as they. A small distinction, but an important one.

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A mage, then? I've certainly trafficked with them more than enough for my age.

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*Flips on a pair of goggles*
Then it's time to tear down some silos.
*Jumps off the side and descends slowly with arms and legs sprawled in each direction, suspended by an apparent wire connected to my back*

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*With my gun in hand, I hop over the railing after you, rapidly dropping past you in a free fall with my coattails flapping behind me as I go*