Canon is God is Dead, Voice testing Satan what is my life

[theadversary]

You know, I was getting ready to be extremely pissed off at once again being someone's puppet. Let alone a stupid ape's, tapping away at a plastic lump...

But recent events have lead me to certain revelations as you're well aware. I think this would be the perfect time to test out that advice my little ifrit friend gave me; if you can't be in the role you love, love the role you're in.

Well, he did it without the reference to 1970s folk music, but he was a little stiff.

Getting back on topic then! Since I am, as you have kindly informed the universe at large 'the adversary'... Lets get adversarial, shall we?

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[serpentoflight]

"Apes", you say. Is that how you see humans?

{with that excessive number of eyes}

[theadversary]

That much is indisputable. Scientifically speaking, that is. Though I suspect you're questioning the implication.

[Hey, another Satan that doesn't wear pants. They should form a club.]

[serpentoflight]

I have nothing against apes. I'm interested to learn about how they evolve elsewhere. The variety isn't so limited where I come from.

{Of course. Pants get in the way of all those wings sprouting from head to ankles when in the mood.}

[theadversary]

Ah, evolution. It took me a while to get that one to stick, but now disbelieving is considered proof of stupidity, even in religious circles.

[Because in a world where religion (apparently all religions) are indisputable fact, the devil probably did make it up.]

I can't say I've anything against humans either. But I am above them and I will never bow to any of them.

[serpentoflight]

As belief or as certainty?

{Stagnation is not something Satan wishes to see anywhere.}

I used to have something against them when I was acting foolishly. {Nothing but a friendly complete planetary genocide to have an epiphany on a barren rock.} I have been wiser since those days.

[theadversary]

As a biological process. [Things still change, but hey. Weird world of every myth is true makes things confusing.] Things still move on, move up. Move down. Change never stops. The world revolves and the world grows.

As I have and as, apparently, so have you. C'est la vie, eh?

[serpentoflight]

Yes. We're also capable of evolution.

{at least to mature, even if their bodies can be stagnant despite the shifts.}

[theadversary]

Something I intend to do a lot of. Amazing isn't it? I've been alive since the dawn of time and still just the right combination of words-

[Snapping his fingers.]

And the whole fabric of reality rearranges itself in your head.

[serpentoflight]

What will you do to arrive to the next stage?

{a nod, understanding how that is like. how reality and the world just changed with an effortless thought.}

Do you believe is possible to be successfully adversarial in a stagnant and cyclic place as this one?

[theadversary]

I can't say I know. Unlike a certain someone, I can't know everything. Puzzling out everything as it happens... I suppose I'm winging it. If there is no plot... It's up to history's greatest plotter to do something about it.

[A scratch of his chin. Free thinking is his bag.]

Life is what you make of it.

[serpentoflight]

It is. Life of our own choosing and doing as one wills it.

Without that freedom, existence would be meaningless.

[theadversary]

Geeze, don't rub it in.

[Since he doesn't actually have that much freedom, really. He's in his role and can't change it.]

[serpentoflight]

You cannot choose.

[disconcerting. the idea to be stagnant somehow is a little worrisome.]

How...?

[theadversary]

Honestly I'm not entirely sure. Because it was assigned to me, because humans can't imagine me as anything else... [Since the relationship between human beliefs and the 'mythological' is strange and two way in God is Dead- Cherubs ceased to be four headed creatures of wrath and became cute winged babies due to that alone, but others keep their 'truth' when it is believed differently.]

Maybe poor luck. Or I'm just such an asshole, there's just one spot I'm qualified for. I'm working on finding out.

[serpentoflight]

Humans are able to decide how you are supposed to be?

[This is new information. Just as disconcerting as the other one.]

The constrains of your world should not apply in this realm. Perhaps you will be free to be as you wish.

[theadversary]

Fortunately, I'm not omniscient. So I have the delightful task of thinking about all this and learning exactly what the truth is.

[If that is sarcasm is not is frankly impossible to tell.]

I might try doing something horrendously nice just to see if it doesn't all turn to shit.

[serpentoflight]

Hm. Acting the opposite of who you supposed to be is a good way to test.

[Honestly, Satan never found too much trouble to balance his/her act, but it is just a cosmology difference.]

Do you want to be "nice"? If you are only using it as means to an end, it might be condemned to failure.

[theadversary]

I don't know what I want, honestly. I put all my eggs in one basket and didn't really think about what would happen when I devilled them.

[He gives a shrugs, sighing.]

Pretty sad for history's greatest schemer not to think one step ahead of himself, isn't it?

[serpentoflight]

I will not reproach you, because I cannot deny I acted very foolish in the past.

[A light head shake. Only to realize it too late.]

You have a chance to amend that.

[theadversary]

Making amends. Yes, we all get that chance, don't we?

[His wings twitch a little.]

But of course, we have to acknowledge our mistakes. And I still ultimately put the blame on that all powerful fuck up.