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[doctopoda]

Display Name: Otto Octavius
Profile Photo: is a selfie taken by your tentacle still technically a selfie



[This is just a very short message, sent out a day or two after the end of the Confluence. Otto had wanted to believe it was otherwise - had spent time looking for the boy. But he's seen this before. It's clear what happened.]

Just so everyone knows: the older Spider-Man vanished in the Confluence.

Comments

[doctopoda]

Oh, yes, I live in fear of housed and fed teenagers.

[like, what?]

I'm not sure what risk there would be, but it's worth it.

[levelshift]

[Ugh, this is Yomikawa all over again. What is with adults being kind towards wayward youths??]

In other words, you're terrible at keeping your guard up.

Burglary, property damage, vandalism. Maybe you let someone into your home who is a complete sadist. There are a lot of possibilities.

[doctopoda]

All acceptable.

[It's possible that he tends to treat his own welfare with some casual disregard, but never mind that!]

It'd be worse to risk leaving an innocent person to suffer. God knows I've gotten a lot more help than I really deserved.

[levelshift]

[Accelerator is definitely picking up on that. Either this guy is really dumb or he doesn't care about his own wellbeing, and he's got the sneaking suspicion it isn't the former. It'd be really easy to just call him soft, though something else sticks out to him.]

What do you mean? Why wouldn't you deserve that much charity?

[doctopoda]

Burglary, property damage, and vandalism?

[Which is quite plainly not a proper answer! But hey! He has a point!]

[levelshift]

[Yeah what, that's a villainous answer! What is going on here. Why are his words being thrown back at him!!]

The fuck? Are you saying you get your kicks committing crimes?

[doctopoda]

Of course not.
All I'm saying is that I don't feel like I have any right to decide which new arrivals are worthy of compassion or not.

[levelshift]

Then who do you think does? Those fucking guilds? Law enforcement? The government of whatever city you first land in?

[doctopoda]

Definitely not.
Which is why I like to help out unregistered metas.

[fuck the guilds?]

[levelshift]

So it comes full circle, then.

[Fuck the guilds!]

Well, I'm sure there are plenty of people here who appreciate your charity.

[He is having none of it, because he's like that.]

[doctopoda]

[Otto would really like to say: don't let your pride bite you in the ass. He's been there before - in rather different circumstances, but all the same. Sometimes you just have to accept that you can't do it all.

But that's not going to help anything, is it?]

Maybe so.
But I get your point.
Take care of yourself, then.

[levelshift]

[Relying on other people is hard when you've spent most of your life aggressively isolated from them.]

Yeah, yeah.