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[nepotis]

Display Name: natalis.pueri
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Notes: anon post, cw possible references to alcohol use in comments

if it was your birthday
and you could ask whoever or whatever brought us here
this Confluence or whatever the fuck
if you could ask them for one birthday wish
what would you ask for?

Comments

[nepotis]

how'd that even work?
obviously not well.

we don't have any magic or anything where I'm from, so I'm still getting used to it.

[bestversion]

we just found a spellbook and rolled with it.

[ her parents would probably be mad, but spellbooks wasn't on the banned list of magics to fiddle with?? so it's not on her. ]

i don't think it's a thing with a lot of rules imo

[nepotis]

that sounds like something out of a kids' Halloween movie.
what were you even trying to accomplish?

[bestversion]

a place we could call our own.

without guilds dictating what we could and could not do.

[nepotis]

well that seems to have worked out just great for you.

[bestversion]

just because it didn't work out doesn't mean it wasn't worth trying.

[nepotis]

sure, just maybe next time don't fuck around with otherworldly magic bullshit.

[bestversion]

"Otherwordly"? Magic's normal here.

[nepotis]

is this not "another world?"

[bestversion]

Just because it may not be our world, doesn't make it otherworldly. Honestly, it's pretty similar to mine.

[nepotis]

agree to disagree.
this world is like my world, turned up well past 11.

[bestversion]

in what way?

[nepotis]

we only have one guy who's out there wearing a costume, fighting crime. not a whole institutionalized system full of them.

[bestversion]

I've always had that. The Avengers, the Guardians, X-Men.

[nepotis]

guess you must feel right at home here, then.

[bestversion]

Home's what we make of it.

[ she doesn't like the term otherworldly. it feels like a way of rejecting things that are different. ]

[nepotis]

it is.
so what kind of home do you want to make for yourself?

[bestversion]

I'm not sure yet.

But I do know I'm not Team Guild.

[nepotis]

not big on playing "Hero" for the masses? toeing the company line?

[bestversion]

No. That wasn't why I became a hero.

[nepotis]

why, then? what possible reason could you have for putting on a mask and fighting overpowered freaks?

[bestversion]

Because I have the power to do so. If you have power, what's the point of it if you're not going to make someone's life better?

[nepotis]

to make your own life better?
not everyone is so selfless.

[bestversion]

This is how I was raised. My parents help people. My community helps people.

Does it matter if no one else is selfless as long as someone is trying to be?

[nepotis]

that's a hell of a responsibility to take on for one person.