charles

[discomfort]

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[riverbeans]

There are better ways to grow than through hate.

[discomfort]

That's not what he decided though. And I am not the one to try to take him off that path, as I brought him to it.

[riverbeans]

... Why? Maybe I'm just too human for this, but I can't see how having people hate and curse you, generation after generation, is worth it.

[discomfort]

Because it is not about what I get out of it.

Perhaps, one day, one of them will end the cycle. Until then, I will be there.

[riverbeans]

[...]

And you're satisfied with that life?

[like, genuinely questioning.]

[discomfort]

Captain...

I am very far past the point of trying to be satisfied with my life.

[riverbeans]

Well, that's depressing.

[discomfort]

Whoa... I'm being called depressing...

[riverbeans]

[he shrugs, smiling wryly.]

Sorry, Vice-Captain, but someone's gotta say it.

[discomfort]

Well, that's fine by me! I have been called far worse, as you can imagine.

[riverbeans]

That's also pretty depressing...

[discomfort]

You can stop saying that.

[riverbeans]

If you insist, but I'm still thinking it.

[anyway as punishment for making me think i'm making you watch 12 fckin minutes of octopath (6:52 - 18:43)]

[discomfort]

[ the way i knew he is a king and what the sprite sort of looked like but i had no idea his name wasn't charles so i was confused for the first five minutes of this

but he simply watches the memory play out. ]

... mm.

[riverbeans]

[the amount of people who have been like "jan it took me a while to figure out where charles was in this memory"]

Mm-hmm.

[discomfort]

... how did that turn out?

[ just. casual. ]

[riverbeans]

Uh... a pain for quite a while?

[dryly.]

[discomfort]

But it's been resolved?

[riverbeans]

Should be! Hopefully no one else with a god complex, bitterness towards the world, and the power to go with it is running around.

[discomfort]

Ah.




Is that likely?

[riverbeans]

Well... there's probably a fair amount of people out there with some combination of the first two. People are like that, and I won't deny the world is an ugly place at times. [a beat] Thankfully, having the same amount of power that Sazantos did is very unlikely.

[please no more]

But if it does happen all over again... well, we'll just fight 'em like the last time.

[discomfort]

I see...

Captain, you really are like some sort of hero.

[riverbeans]

[wryly,]

Somehow, it feels a little weird hearing that from you...

[discomfort]

[ that makes him chuckle ]

I guess I am not the sort of person who should be discussing heroics.

[riverbeans]

Heh, maybe just a little.

But I don't need to be called a hero, anyway. It's enough if the people of the future are happy.

[which starts with not making your kid eat you. he is still judging that tradition and will never stop.]