dormheads | [ AUDIENCE: TAICHI YAGAMI ]

[oh yea the glass has been cleaned up at least]

... You already know one key difference.

[chad isn't fuckin dead]

Okay, well, what about if I don't want to constantly remind you you're dead just to bring you back? Is that always gonna work?

It doesn't exactly bother me, so you might as well try.

[...]

[...]

I feel like...there has to be something else in your life you'd rather remember than just that moment. Anything at all.

It's less about what I'd rather remember and what's most significant.

Then...what else is significant to you?

In terms of what doesn't overlap with my fake life? What I fought for.

[... so, still adjacent to his death, but that's how it is sometimes.]

[that's sort of the same thing, you know.]

...I never really asked what that was. I know you did what you had to in order to unseal the god, but was that your goal even before all of that happened?

... Essentially, yes. The important thing was always to put an end to the corruption seeping from the sealed god, once I knew it could be done.

[i wanted to defy fate.

Taking matters into your own hands seems very important to you. I think maybe that's why I've been having a hard time thinking about the possibility of just killing you if we have to.

... If it comes down to that, I'd still rather die than be used to hurt someone else.

[that's how it's always been, and this place won't change that.]

...if it comes down to it, and only then. [...he doesn't want to necessarily tap into those little thoughts he's hearing from hugo but he's also thinking this might be the only time he gets any sort of answer.]

...what exactly did you mean by defying fate?

[...

he looks like he's thinking about whether he wants to say anything or not, before—]

I told you before that the god's corruption manifested in our world through... symptoms. [...] What I meant was people like me. Our powers are proof of the world's taint.

[of course that's what he meant. don't like that...]

...are you born with your powers? Or are they powers that come up later because of the way the world is?

We're born with them.

What exactly are they...?

[he holds up a hand, as dark-elemental energy swirls for a moment, before fading.]

Think of them as an especially strong form of magic, I suppose. The key part is that they typically either torture the wielder to death or drive them to insanity.

[huh, it does kind of look like lux's light magic. also wow i'm glad hugo truly is a jan character.]

...yeah, I don't think I would ever want to let that happen to me either. There isn't any way to stop it besides, like, dying?

[STOP WHAT DOES THAT MEAN]

I wouldn't say it's inevitable. You primarily lose control if you give into the temptation for power, or to despair and hate. [i have no intention of doing so. i have no interest in those things.] But it doesn't entirely matter, when how society perceives you is equally important.

[dead people with tragic backstories.]

Let me guess. People with powers are treated poorly because the powers are supposedly the taint of the world? [he doesn't sound thrilled about that, actually.]

[simply,]

More that people aren't keen on taking chances with walking time bombs.

Stupid. That's not always a guaranteed thing though right? If you don't give in to the power, you can manage it.

Usually, when it becomes known that someone has those powers, it's already because they're losing control.

In any case, that's why it was critical to remove the source of corruption first. People's perceptions will never change until that's dealt with.

[he thinks about that.]

No different than how people see our friends back home. Even when they were doing good and fighting for our side, a lot of people only saw them as bad. I'm still not sure how people will see them now.

[there's something wry in hugo's expression—almost a light smirk, actually.]

Changing people's beliefs is a far harder task than something like fighting a god. But, sometimes, it's equally necessary to step up.

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