anyway. xie lian pauses, there, as he's considering the horrible idea of taking away someone's free will, because... like he's having a sudden realization, he says, softly. ]
...Is that what happened to Qi Rong? [ oh. ] When he...
...when the spectres attacked him, when I was fighting against him that first week, he lost his entire will to fight. You saw - as well as anyone, you saw what sort of person he was. He stopped shouting and arguing and just... stood there.
[ wait did we just big brain here. As soon as Xie Lian starts to bring up it up, realization dawns on Dokja's face as week, ]
...I'd say that's exactly what happened. [ Or at least the closest example they have in this realm so far. ] When your daemon settles, it isn't considered to be a sense of losing your free will. Because as you said, you grow, you learn. You just reach that level of maturity naturally.
[ But removing the source of the Dust, your actual free will... damn. ]
... ] ...For...the type of person that he was, even Qi Rong did not deserve that.
[ xie lian spares no love for his cousin, and that has never been a secret, but the idea sits wrong. even to the end, xie lian had tried to protect him from the spectres, had felt the weight of their terrible exhaustion aching down on his shoulders even just fighting against them. his willpower was strong, and he fought them off, but for qi rong, there was no escape. ]
How vile. [ but unsurprising. ] To take away someone's will, to bend them to your wish and desire without allowing them any choice in the matter.
...That is why we must continue to speak with each other and teach each other of our worlds, and why the Watchers must be tasking us with those things each time we ask for a power. We must continue to explore, and we must continue to learn. To grow. [ ... ] To continue generating Dust.
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anyway. xie lian pauses, there, as he's considering the horrible idea of taking away someone's free will, because... like he's having a sudden realization, he says, softly. ]
...Is that what happened to Qi Rong? [ oh. ] When he...
...when the spectres attacked him, when I was fighting against him that first week, he lost his entire will to fight. You saw - as well as anyone, you saw what sort of person he was. He stopped shouting and arguing and just... stood there.
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wait did we just big brain here.As soon as Xie Lian starts to bring up it up, realization dawns on Dokja's face as week, ]...I'd say that's exactly what happened. [ Or at least the closest example they have in this realm so far. ] When your daemon settles, it isn't considered to be a sense of losing your free will. Because as you said, you grow, you learn. You just reach that level of maturity naturally.
[ But removing the source of the Dust, your actual free will... damn. ]
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... ] ...For...the type of person that he was, even Qi Rong did not deserve that.
[ xie lian spares no love for his cousin, and that has never been a secret, but the idea sits wrong. even to the end, xie lian had tried to protect him from the spectres, had felt the weight of their terrible exhaustion aching down on his shoulders even just fighting against them. his willpower was strong, and he fought them off, but for qi rong, there was no escape. ]
How vile. [ but unsurprising. ] To take away someone's will, to bend them to your wish and desire without allowing them any choice in the matter.
...That is why we must continue to speak with each other and teach each other of our worlds, and why the Watchers must be tasking us with those things each time we ask for a power. We must continue to explore, and we must continue to learn. To grow. [ ... ] To continue generating Dust.
[ whoa ]