Threads of Fate

Myriad Reality

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Because I’ve got bare-minimum standards for our family? Is that it?

@Meta

Because you view things in a way that makes it so that nobody can ever meet them but you.

Myriad Reality

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*Frustration flashes across my expression*
What’s that supposed to mean?

@Meta

That you don't think the same way as certain other people. In a more direct sense, you're stuck in your ways.

Myriad Reality

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Because none of you are the best, and I’m the only one tryin’ to get there.

@Meta

Mm. For someone who sees as well as you, you really have trouble seeing things that others might find obvious.

Myriad Reality

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I’m going to be the greatest detective who ever lived. And I get better at it every day! What matters is that Clouds are the best, no matter what anyone thinks.

@Meta

Then why do you want so badly to prove it?

Myriad Reality

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*Closes the book*
I’m making myself better. I’m the only one who cares to live up to our family name. I’m the only one who has plans to make something of herself! So you tell me, what are any of you doing?

@Meta

Mm. You say that, but how are you improving? Why are you so obsessed with how others see you?

Myriad Reality

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No, because they already proved their worth. We haven’t done anything yet, other than have seizures or lie to people for no reason. It’s pathetic.

@Meta

Mm. And what are you doing to change that? How would you suggest the rest of us do so, also?

Myriad Reality

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That’s not what I said. Why don’t you want to be better than them, or better than dad? If he thought that way, none of us would be here.

@Meta

I have no need to be "better" than them. Being "better" is subjective, and besides, competition with people who can't or won't compete back is pointless, is it not?

Myriad Reality

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Mom, dad, and our better siblings have gone through way worse. If they could handle it, every one of us should be able to.

@Meta

Just because others have had worse experiences, that doesn't make someone else's experiences lesser. Besides, father is... not a fair comparison to anyone in that regard.

Myriad Reality

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You could also just put up with it. A Cloud should be able to handle pain.

@Meta

Mm. I do wonder how you would bear with it.

Myriad Reality

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*Turns the page*
Getting over the sight-o-phobia you all seem to have?

@Meta

When it hurts to open your eyes, you tend not to do it. New methods are only thought up every so often.