[IC] Myriad Reality

[Legend]

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I'm not on anyone's side, I'm just trying to make sure you both understand what just happened. You're closer, so I'm going to start with you.
*Pauses*
Imagine for a moment, that Shion decided to start doing everything you like to do. She starts out and is immediately doing everything at twice the speed and twice the accuracy that you do them. She does each thing just... better, in some way or another. The only thing she doesn't do is your passion, detective work. Everything else she just knocks out of the park.
*Waits a moment in thought*
Then, one day, you invite her to watch you as you go about investigating a mystery. You plan to show her how amazing you are, and to have fun with your sister by doing so. But then, when you get there, and have spent a little while searching for clues, she brings forwards the key information that solves the case. She shows that she's able to beat you, even at the thing you're most passionate about and put all your effort into. With me so far?
*Holds a second before continuing*
Then, after she essentially solved the case on her own, you find out that the reason she found the clue was because she knew what had happened before it even became a mystery. She had known what had happened as it happened, rather than having to piece it together afterwords, and she even had a role in directly causing it to happen in the first place. How do you think you'd feel if that happened?

@Yatagarasu

I guess...
*Looks down*
I guess that I would feel like she didn't really solve anything. Like she showed up and skipped the mystery completely.

[Memory]

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Rrriiight... so are you Doctor Who or somethin'? Yes i DID watch that awful series.... cus reasons... don't ask...
But aside that, have you, in your travels, never seen a battlefield? of ANY type?

@Shadrack Nor

I don't know what that means... but, I've seen battlefields before. I've never been in the middle of one though.

[Yatagarasu]

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I guess...
*Looks down*
I guess that I would feel like she didn't really solve anything. Like she showed up and skipped the mystery completely.

@Legend

Exactly. I imagine it would be even worse if her doing everything else better than you did, before even that happened. Dawn feels like you outshine her a lot, and so when she wanted to play something simple and fun, but we got so competitive, and especially since she feels what you were doing was cheating... That's a lot to deal with, right?

[Threads of Fate]

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I’ll prove it to you!
*Glares before ramming a pair of knives into your eyes*

@Etcetera

*Stands there, bleeding*
Good job, great way to waste what I did. Showing that it was a good choice.

[Etcetera]

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*Stands there, bleeding*
Good job, great way to waste what I did. Showing that it was a good choice.

@Threads of Fate

I will make you wish you did not choose me.
*Coughs*
I want you to hate me as much as I hate you.

[Legend]

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Exactly. I imagine it would be even worse if her doing everything else better than you did, before even that happened. Dawn feels like you outshine her a lot, and so when she wanted to play something simple and fun, but we got so competitive, and especially since she feels what you were doing was cheating... That's a lot to deal with, right?

@Yatagarasu

But it’s not the same! Mysteries are what I’m best at, but that was just a game.

[Yatagarasu]

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But it’s not the same! Mysteries are what I’m best at, but that was just a game.

@Legend

What do you think that Dawn is best at? Especially without being able to see, now?

[Threads of Fate]

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I will make you wish you did not choose me.
*Coughs*
I want you to hate me as much as I hate you.

@Etcetera

*Grabs your wrists and pulls them backwards until the knives are out of my eyes*
Then you didn't learn enough, and fundamentally misunderstand me.

[Legend]

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What do you think that Dawn is best at? Especially without being able to see, now?

@Yatagarasu

I don’t know... she always does her best to keep us from fighting and stuff. She gave Nox a hug earlier. Maybe she’s just best at being a big sister?

[Etcetera]

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*Grabs your wrists and pulls them backwards until the knives are out of my eyes*
Then you didn't learn enough, and fundamentally misunderstand me.

@Threads of Fate

*Snarls and spits in your face*
How?

[Threads of Fate]

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*One of the few remaing brute mutants lashes out at you in a rabid fashion*

@Shadrack Nor

*Allows them to attack me, ripping pieces of my body apart*

[Yatagarasu]

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I don’t know... she always does her best to keep us from fighting and stuff. She gave Nox a hug earlier. Maybe she’s just best at being a big sister?

@Legend

That might be your thought on it, but what about Dawn's? Maybe for some reason she thinks that playing that game is what she's best at.

[Legend]

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That might be your thought on it, but what about Dawn's? Maybe for some reason she thinks that playing that game is what she's best at.

@Yatagarasu

Isn’t that just kinda sad?

[Threads of Fate]

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*Snarls and spits in your face*
How?

@Etcetera

Because to me, you're more a fun distraction than anything. It was fun to train you, so I did it, despite nobody really wanting me to. You were entertaining, and that's what mattered to me.

[Yatagarasu]

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Isn’t that just kinda sad?

@Legend

*Shrugs*
Yes, I would think so, but that's not important right now. Understanding your own feelings can be difficult, and understanding someone else's is even harder, but it's important to try.

[Legend]

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*Shrugs*
Yes, I would think so, but that's not important right now. Understanding your own feelings can be difficult, and understanding someone else's is even harder, but it's important to try.

@Yatagarasu

But she called me a bad person!

[Etcetera]

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Because to me, you're more a fun distraction than anything. It was fun to train you, so I did it, despite nobody really wanting me to. You were entertaining, and that's what mattered to me.

@Threads of Fate

*Stares at you with seething eyes and gritted teeth*
I will find a way. And I will make you feel it.

[Yatagarasu]

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But she called me a bad person!

@Legend

She thinks you cheated at something she was putting a lot of effort into doing despite her disability. Something she wanted to just be relaxing and fun.

[Legend]

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She thinks you cheated at something she was putting a lot of effort into doing despite her disability. Something she wanted to just be relaxing and fun.

@Yatagarasu

Do you think I cheated?

[Threads of Fate]

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*Stares at you with seething eyes and gritted teeth*
I will find a way. And I will make you feel it.

@Etcetera

Don't waste your time, you can't compete with a ghost.