[@route_29] Dropped from Mayfield. Also regarding something mentioned...

[pumpkinpie]

Can't be helped the game was going to end.

You've got your buttons on another game with that Other me- Other Other me.  o~hoo. And if you're not certain on that I'm al~ways over in Johto.

Kiddo... it's your choice and all, but I'm not so keen on being punched. [It's only a possibility Other Father, and it'll only be by unsure daddy-figures; it was due to happen one day.]

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[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

You might want to stop kidnapping children then.

[pianokeys]

We're just giving them the love they need and deserve.

[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

By kidnapping them away from their families to a place made from "dreams" and trying to sew buttons into their eyes.

I'm a writer. I know classic fairy tale set ups when I see them.

[darkenedgales]

If you end up being punched, you'll probably only have yourself to blame.

[pianokeys]

[Oh.]

They need the buttons to stay in the Otherworld.

[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

Why.

What makes it so essential to take a child and blind them?

[pianokeys]

I'm o~nly doing my what I was made to- [oh. oh he wasn't meant to say made. oh.

he pauses, a little embarrassed.] My job.

[pianokeys]

It's just how our world works, and everything's right in our world. [There-for it's okay to sew buttons into eyes!]

[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

There's no such thing as a perfect world.

And the only people who claim there is are usually trying to hide some dark secret.

[pianokeys]

[No. There isn't.]

I only want what's best for our children. [And that's his pure, honest wish.

But you should see her, Harry... she's not fun to oppose.]

[darkenedgales]

[It's your (un)lucky day and Crow will actually ignore the part he wasn't supposed to hear! Because priorities.]

If your job is to separate kids from their families, then don't act surprised when people won't take that bullshit!

[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

Uh huh.

And yet you said none of them choose to stay with you.

[pianokeys]

[He likes it when slip-ups go unnoticed.

See, we've got one tiny difference in this conversion now since the one on Father's day, Crow... A certain evil-aligned man accidentally taught Other Father anger- well, okay, so he learnt how to be passive-not-so-aggressive.]

They came to us in the first place, Crow, not so sure their real parents are doing their job.

[But the comment is also a genuine thought.]

[pianokeys]

And they don't want the buttons, so we let them go home. [He hates that he has to keep this lie up.]

[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

Then why do you keep taking them in the first place?

Look, I know every child isn't in a happy family life. Believe me I do. But taking them into another world where they never grow up and get buttons sewn into their eyes is not the answer.

[guardian_chimera]

Another doll? You look like something my creator would of made.

[pianokeys]

[He gives a small, throaty laugh.] I'm not a doll.

[guardian_chimera]

Then what are you?

[pianokeys]

That's their choice to make.

[pianokeys]

The Other Father.

[guardian_chimera]

Other Father?

[The Chimera knows vaguely what the word father means but it never applied the term to its' creator.]

[darkenedgales]

Yeah, and you're doing so much better by sewing buttons in their eyes.

[It would be hard to miss the sarcasm and dryness that come with the statement -- because seriously, how is THAT supposed to be good parenting?]

[pianokeys]

[A nod] 'Could be yours too, if you wanted.

[Wait.. do you have a soul?

never mind, they adopted an octopus once.]

[pianokeys]

It's the only way they can stay with us.

[It is to Others! Well, not entirely. The Other Father does still believe that they need the buttons to live there though, whether it's true or not.]

[guardian_chimera]

I don't know what the purpose of that would be.