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[clement]

I'm glad you're weighing your options carefully, and not leaping into anything without due thought. The possibilities are exciting, aren't they! So many fresh voices and faces... and that nervousness will fade in time.

Don't let me influence you while you decide; I know you'll choose well.

In the meantime... is it permissible to ask general questions of people here?

I'd like to know what you all hope for.

Comments

[motherofnemesis]

Looking before you leap is generally considered smart.

That's an interesting question.

[clement]

I think it can't hurt, in this instance. Perhaps she should directly ask yours what she wants! That seems to hold a certain amount of weight.

Isn't it? You don't have to answer, of course.

[motherofnemesis]

Probably couldn't. As for direct questions - people answer those?

It's polite of you to give people an out.

[clement]

I do. [completely and conveniently disregarding the fact that he runs on optimism and openness]

Thank you. [beat] Is there a question you'd rather answer?

[abeltorun]

A day when the zoms are all gone. [A day when he can stop being Runner 5.]

[clement]

Zoms? [the undead are the worst]

[abeltorun]

The walking dead. Zombies. [Freaking hell, they suck.] Probably not much hope for seeing them all finally stay dead, but... a guy can dream, you know?

[clement]

Ah, yes! They are called Black Lanterns, where I'm from. The other Lanterns and I put them down, and stopped their herald. I do hope, and strongly, that your resistance is as successful as ours was.

[hackingyoursensors]

"World peace" is probably cheating so...I hope I'll always get there in time to save the day.

How about you?

[clement]

Don't worry about dreaming big--Robin, is it? [visibly delighted] Earth has so many heroes.

[hackingyoursensors]

Honestly, Earth needs all the heroes it can get.

You got it! I don't recognize you, though. Have we met?

[escarabajo]

I hope everyone gets to go home eventually. I'm stuck in, uhm, kind of a bad place.

[clement]

Then I hope for the same. [a beat] What kind of a bad place?

[escarabajo]

It's a kind of messed-up gladiator tournament thing.

Really screwed up.

Really.

[brutalize]

Hope is a trap.

[clement]

Do you think so? Why?

[brutalize]

It just- [a beat: someone who doesn't adhere to sith dogma and rote phrases?? WHAT DO] I've seen it. Used. As one. [yes, yes, eloquent.]

[clement]

Oh, I see. [deeply pondering, suggests, ever so gently] Some feel it better never to hope and be denied what they dream of. But hope can never be denied forever--only deferred. If someone told you otherwise, they were misinformed.

[howillusive]

Hope's really not the question to ask, is it? Hope only goes so far, one must act to see it come to fruition.

[clement]

Perhaps it could be said that hope is the blueprint for action.

Would you prefer if I asked what you would act for?

[howillusive]

It would sound a bit less like a fairytale then, yes.

I suppose the answer would be for humanity's progression forward. To greatness.

[clement]

Aah. [bright smile] In some ways 'greatness' is as nebulous a term as hope, don't you think? Could I ask you to elaborate on it?

Sorry for the threadjack, but... eeee it's a TIM.

[abeltorun]

Gotta say? I agree with you on that one.

C8

[howillusive]

Who wouldn't?

:)

[abeltorun]

I dunno. Slackers? [One-shoulder shrug.] What matters is how you get it done. Best to not... well, y'know. Cost too much in people or resources.