dahut

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Oh, no! That's so sad! Why does he hate you?

[A CONTENTIOUS FAMILY RELATIONSHIP...]

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Oh, well. Family of monster slayers and all.

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You still raise them, though, don't you?

[AND THEY KEEP COMING BACK??? What kind of whackass symbiotic relationship.]

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Of course I do. It's not like they're ever going to actually kill me.

[ he is not even remotely worried this is going to backfire on him ]

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[FUCKING HELP OWNER IS REALLY OUT HERE well. He is apparently some sort of amorphous eldritch creature, so.]

Hm... I guess it's just a bit of a difficult concept to grasp.

[You can be raised by someone and not be willing to soup an entire island for them?? Wild.]

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[ DAHUT NOT YOUR FRENCH ISLAND SOUP ]

Is it? Because of the ties?

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[SOMETIMES THINGS MUST HAPPEN............]

It's not an unfamiliar concept that the person raising a child can be terrible, exactly... [His stupid island is full of examples of that.] But it's just a strange arrangement, from the outside! That they would keep sending their children to you and you would keep raising them despite how contentious it would naturally be. Are you fond of any of them? Are any of them fond of you...?

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[ he actually thinks about how to answer this. ]

They are fond... until they are not. And then depending on how it goes, they may come back around later on. It is complicated. But the way they pass down a power that runs in their family depends on it, so it must keep going.

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That does sound very complicated...

[All yall with your fuckin magic bullshit worlds out there having POWERS and DEMONS and all kinds of WEIRD SHIT. He'll be so glad to return home where the worst he has to worry about is bad science.]

...Does it bother you? Raising someone under such complicated circumstances, knowing that you might part ways unkindly?

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[ GEE I WONDER WHO IS DOING THE BAD SCIENCE. I WONDER WHAT HE HAS TO WORRY ABOUT. HUH DAHUT. HUH. ]

Well, it kills time.

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[WHO......... WHO IS DOING THIS TO HIM AND HIS NATION............ 🥺 who let all these mad scientists loose into the wilds... who's plotting the soupening... who did this.......

Dahut's pondering over something he'd heard once, and over sweet Owner's own final thoughts, and being a curious bitch with no filter, he has to ask:]

Do you want to die?

[(THREATENING) no it's just asked curiously.]

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[ dahut you can't just ask someone if they want to die

however, owner does not seem bothered by the question. ]

I do not think I would be what people considered suicidal. However... after a long enough time, life does start to become more and more meaningless.

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[goes to ask luke why he isn't white while he's at it

But he just seems to consider this for a moment, thinking about all the time he's lived so far and wondering if, should he have had the MISERY AND MISFORTUNE to live hundreds of years more which surely hasn't happened to anyone in Arpechele, he'd also find life meaningless by its end.]

Do you think you can find new meaning in something later, after it's already lost its meaning to you once?

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[ you're also white dahut. ]

I do not know. Perhaps. You never know what may happen-- after all, being kidnapped onto a spaceship is not something I would have ever expected to happen.

[ owner can't say that that's boring. ]

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Aha, that's true! Same, same! [What a wild multiverse they live in... apparently...] Well. I hope that you find one of the two, at least.

[Meaning or the sweet release of death.]

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Oh, thank you!

[ he appreciates the wish for death! ]

But I am prepared for neither.

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[A SMILE AND A NOD yeah! You're welcome!! But then he just looks faintly confused.]

You aren't? I could understand not being ready to die yet considering you have your inn to run, but why aren't you ready to find new meaning?

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Hm, well, at the moment I am a bit preoccupied with my employees... so I cannot really run off on a journey of self-reflection while they are being ridiculous.

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Oh! Right, I think you mentioned something about this ages ago...? [IT'S ONLY BEEN SIX WEEKS.] You could always hit them over the head and take them along with you.

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No, no, they'd complain! One of them wants to stick close to home, because he has something he wishes to accomplish, and it would be rude of me to take him away from that for an unknown period of time.

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Aha, well, it'd probably be hard to slice out a peaceful little bit of self-reflecting time if you're dealing with people complaining all the while. Especially if they have other things to do! The complaints would never end!

[MAYBE DON'T KNOCK PEOPLE OUT AND KIDNAP THEM TO A FIND YOURSELF GET-AWAY IN GENERAL.]

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[ the way this was their original complaint about coming here ]

Exactly, exactly! You can tell them it is for their own good, but they will not understand... and the nagging begins...

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[COMING FULL CIRCLE...]

Usually I'm the one doing the nagging because the people I work with- [SCIEN.] -are a mess, but whenever other people nag at me, it's always over the silliest things and it gives me such a headache... I would never wish that on you!

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Thank you...

But it is fine, I do not mind waiting. I do have a lot of patience, considering.

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A necessity when you're so long-lived, I guess...