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[thevoidlooksback]

Heeeeyy. Hey muuuuun... [The shadowy creature grins widely--too widely! Mouths aren't supposed to open that far.]

Why ever did you make me this account? You're not taking me anywhere. You can't even be bothered to work on the usual journal entries for me. You've barely made me any icons.

I'm hardly complaining about the break from my seal and those ludicrous Ironses, but come on. This is wasting your time. I thought you were working on another one of us for a game. I know I'm charming, but there's limits.

[His grin disappears again.] ...WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE SEAL'S STILL IN PLACE.

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[whitescalesbigmouth]

Seal...?

What seal?

[thevoidlooksback]

The one from those damned Ironses... It forces me to "behave". [Accompanied by highly aggrieved air-quotes.] It's only in place as long as one of them's alive--and APPARENTLY it doesn't MATTER which DIMENSION I'M IN.

This is unacceptable. [How do you grind teeth that shape? Somehow this guy's figured it out though.]

[whitescalesbigmouth]

Well if you're being forced to behave, then I'm guessing there's a very good reason as to why that seal's on you in the first place.

So excuse me if I'm going to keep my distance.

[thevoidlooksback]

Good reason? It's the same reason ANY slave's put in shackles--he's of a different opinion on the subject of his freedom.

So you tell me: is that a "good reason"?

[whitescalesbigmouth]

...It depends on what you did.

[thevoidlooksback]

I existed. [Sour pouting.]

[whitescalesbigmouth]

No, really.

I want to know the reason you're sealed before I can decide whether or not it's a good idea for me to get involved with you.

[thevoidlooksback]

I existed and I didn't belong to them?

Look, I don't know what you want from me. They wanted to control me, and now they do. Why does anyone ever want to control anyone? Don't ask me, I'M not the one going around enslaving people.

[Also boogeymen are incredibly dangerous, there's that.]

[But surely that's irrelevant.]

[genocidol]

It is the nature of those in positions of control to wish to restrict, it seems.

[thevoidlooksback]

Yeah? [Wary.]

...So are you in control, or restricted?

[genocidol]

I'm rarely limited to a singular role... Though when I am in control, I am more interested in expansion than contraction.

[thevoidlooksback]

So... even when you're in control, something else is still controlling you? [He grins mischievously, but when he continues his tone is more sympathetic than his expression would suggest.] That sucks. Whatcha interested in expanding?

[genocidol]

Isn't that the case for all of us? There are those that theorise that we are all but slaves to any number of things. Causality, our base instincts, fate, the will of a God... A question to ponder; are there any free wills in this or any other world?

[Honestly, he just never shuts up once he gets started... and he's always started.]

Connecting to our next thread of conversation then, my interests lie in my nature and in my choices.

I wish to envelop all things in evil.

[thevoidlooksback]

[He frowns. Something about that doesn't sit right with him. It's probably that 'lets be philosophers' shtick.] There's a difference between having a free will and having your will matter. Way I always understood things, a free will is just the ability to have an opinion on stuff. Even flies have preferences.

[He cocks his head at the next point brought up.] What does that mean? "Evil"s kind of subjective. One man's hilarious prank is another's atrocity and all that. [Shadows, where did you get that metaphor?]

[genocidol]

Some say as such on both matters. I posit that reality is much more concrete than it appears. Its apparent malleability is an illusion created by perception. Good and evil are not things so weak as to be concerned with opinions. The colour red does not care if you think it is blue.

[He's just smiling his same, steady little smile, though his collar ruffles as if a wind blows, the shadows briefly imitating a starry sky by sheer coincidence. Yes. Coincidence.]

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[thevoidlooksback]

The color red isn't real. Mortal eyes just think certain things look "red" because of how light refracts and shit. Lyle learned that in school. [He seems a little bored. Then he perks up.] Hey, "illusion created by perception". You already agreed with me! No take-backs!

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[thevoidlooksback]

[He frowns again.] There is LIGHT in your shadow. That is wrong. So wrong. Stop that. Look, how can reality be concrete if your can have LIGHT in your SHADOW.

[genocidol]

Or is it that the colour red is very much real and only glimpses of it can be comprehended? Just in the way that light is in every shadow- but to discover it is so far from the norm that when it is witnesses, it seems unnatural.

The truth is that people of all types suffer a similar flaw- they can't imagine a world outside of their own mind. Attributing endless things to their mental state, they cannot even realise the complexity of the truth, let alone try to unravel it to understand.

[thevoidlooksback]

No no no, light and darkness EAT each other. Why do you think I carry this parasol everywhere? ...Unless you mean "inside" as in "inside somebody's belly". Like how black holes swallow up light. Or people curry. Except people always regret the curry and drink too much water after.

The flaw I've noticed in most people is their assuming everyone else thinks the way they do. They can't imagine a mind different from theirs. That's the main reason humans can't possess each other, probably. And why you assume everyone lives in their own private lala-lands.

Sounds like you think everything is real and absolute EXCEPT for people and their minds--those are APPARENTLY imagination. What's imagination? Is everything we think is real really just the color red HALLUCINATING? Are you even serious.