looking at beyondtherift because fucking Brian

[greywings]

As if Hell wasn't a teenage girl itself, imaging hitting puberty and finding out that whether they be a saint or some dick who sets kittens on fire, you are gonna spend your entire existence defending a stranger.

And that "stranger" is going to be also, whether you like it or not, so important to you that if you fail and they die...well. Why am I explaining this to you? You already know the details.


And yes, I get you love the whole reluctant guardian angel motif, "isn't it just full of possibilities"?
Too bad it is those possibilities that scare me.

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[yourownwrists]

...how did I not think of that possibility before?

I really hope mine doesn't set kittens on fire. I really hope the universe doesn't think people who set kittens on fire need protection.

I'm incredibly anti-kittens being set on fire.

[greywings]

Who knows. Maybe kitten-pyroman will one day inadvertently cure cancer.

Or discover a new and improved way to cut cocaine. The possibilities are endless really.

[A pause.]

So you too, huh? You have one yet?

[yourownwrists]

But the kittens! :/ I want cancer cured as much as everyone else and... I am sure the cocaine addicts really want some of that... happening... real soon.

But is it worth the price of the kittens?

[Slight pause from him too.]

Uh, yeah, me too. Not yet. You could always try not looking anyone in the eyes if you want to avoid! But some people think it's fate and you're screwed no matter what.

[greywings]

Pff, I can't say that sounds like a workable fix. Besides...we are going to have to make so many adjustments as it is when it happens, might as well do whatever we want for now.

[Definitely one of the people who thinks it is inevitable right here. She gives a small smile.]

And no way is it worth the kittens.

[yourownwrists]

I don't think it is either but I know people who've done it. Wear like sunglasses.

[He thinks it is pretty inevitable too.]

THANK YOU. It is not. Maybe I should be guardian of the kittens.

And hey, just cause we have to protect them doesn't mean we have to be okay with them doing whatever they're doing.

[greywings]

The only way it looks like any one of us could stay sane is to one day become like them...but I don't know.

We can not like what they do all we want, but we're stuck with them. And we're going to have to care about them.
But hey. Maybe we'll get lucky. Maybe they will be normal.

But even then, won't we change because of them? I can not imagine someone having that much meaning to my existence and it not-- I don't know. Taking away something.

[yourownwrists]

Yeah, I know, and there's the whole feelings bleedover so if they are going Yay kitten burning, we're feeling the Yay too even if we're disgusted with it.

So over time that would... change you.

I try to be more optimistic, but I know it's happened before. There are a lot of mean, hateful people out there. It'd be like poison to be connected to that.