On the new Roxy at his game and possible arrival of more Alpha Kids

[docfoul]

I think you need a reminder of how our relationship functions once more, Ms. Mundane. It's simple: you attempt to play the puppeteer to the best of your abilities, and I indulge you until it would be plainly uncharacteristic of me to do so. Do we agree? Good. Now, as we both know, this activity often requires you to imagine what could be going through my brilliantly appealing head. Pure guesswork, of course, as the only one who knows what I am thinking is none other than myself. And I will grant you this: yes, I would be puzzled by the latest developments. On one hand, we have someone who can only be reasonably explained as a result of the human children scratching their session, as they were always meant to do in the near future. On the other hand, the influence that the community has had on my darling protégé is such that she is unlikely to accept my advice when the time comes. Quite a conundrum, this. Does the alpha timeline rise above the Supreme Derailer of Canons after all? Or has friendship, romance, and an ill-tempered clown ruined things beyond repair? And here is where we arrive at the point you are so clearly missing: it's not my problem, but yours. I am, aside from omnipotent and all-knowing, a very intelligent man. Would this riddle truly keep me wallowing in uncertainty for so long? Would it? In case I need to make my message clearer for you, here goes: Deal with it.

Comments

[sandinmyboots]

Oh! I know this one! I've ruined things beyond repair! Wo ho ho ho ho!

[grimdarkseer]

Personally I can't help but be thrilled that your plans are falling apart so readily but for some reason my mundane sympathises with you.
Presumably it has to do with the deviation from the alpha timeline that this will lead to, given that there is no likelihood of me listening to you now.

[tinfoil_angel]

You're rather confident in your intellect

[Careful Scratch, he has some properties of a guardian himself, including an inability to die but if you're going to say he's a guardian though his source would be a purple sun]

[docfoul]

Well, no. From a purely objective point of view, you haven't done that much. Not alone.

[docfoul]

I appreciate her sympathy. But it's not simply about "my plans", Rose.

[docfoul]

Rightfully so, I assure you.

[tinfoil_angel]

Oh really? Then I'm surprised you're being so calm around me with that near-omnipotence you have.

[grimdarkseer]

Of course it's not.
Always about some grander picture with you, but it doesn't matter any more because you've failed.
And before you even really began to try, at that.

[docfoul]

There isn't much reason for me to worry in a strictly non-canonical environment.

[docfoul]

It was through no fault of mine. And have I really failed, when the alpha timeline still exists?

[tinfoil_angel]

Mm I guess that is true. Though I guess normally you are calm only on one occasion have I even seen you be emotional.

[grimdarkseer]

It still exists, for now.
And your fault or not, that doesn't change the fact that you lost your hold on me before you could turn me into your puppet.

[docfoul]

And when was that? I ask not for my own sake, of course, but for my mundane's.

[tinfoil_angel]

When you discovered Vriska had your orb in her possession.

[docfoul]

Does it matter?

[docfoul]

You have read the comic, then. In any case, I have put that unfortunate incident behind me.

[tinfoil_angel]

Even if I didn't, unlike Vriska my abilities don't have any species bounds.

[docfoul]

Hmm. I can imagine you and the clown working together to foil my every move out of nothing but spite. The mental image alone annoys me.

[tinfoil_angel]

I wouldn't need Gamzee's help. Actually I'm not sure I would trust a sober Gamzee to help me.

[docfoul]

Not that clown. Kefka. Besides, would Gamzee betray his messiahs? Haa haa.

[tinfoil_angel]

Oh I see.

Gamzee thinks he IS his messiahs so somewhat of a moot point in his sober form.

[docfoul]

I'm not concerned with what he thinks.

[sandinmyboots]

I'm like a little wind at the top of a mountain covered in snow. I just nudge and....look at below!

[grimdarkseer]

I suppose that's something we're both set to find out.

[docfoul]

Don't flatter yourself.

[docfoul]

Or you, at the very least.

[grimdarkseer]

And what is that supposed to mean?

[docfoul]

It means that I already know the answer.

[sandinmyboots]

What's that? I'm completely right? Why, thank you, Doc Scratch! What a compliment!

[grimdarkseer]

Of course you do.

[docfoul]

Is that the best you can do?

[sandinmyboots]

What? Didn't you realize that I was already your peer?

[docfoul]

Since you can't seem to catch on, allow me to tell you what I mean: Your attempts to rile me up are ineffectual and sad.

[sandinmyboots]

Do you think that you're already clear?

[docfoul]

I always was.

[sandinmyboots]

So, you already fear!

[docfoul]

That one was worse.

[sandinmyboots]

The quality was already near.

[docfoul]

Booo.

[sandinmyboots]

So, you already sneer?

[docfoul]

Hiss.

[sandinmyboots]

You already want me off a pier?

[docfoul]

Groan.

[sandinmyboots]

At least I'm not from Cavia. Then I'd already be Nier!

[docfoul]

For some reason, my mundane just stifled a laugh.