voice testing a shaky muse.

[imusntrunaway]

It doesn't matter what I think about the games you're looking at. My opinion doesn't matter. Why are you bothering to ask me?

... I don't like any of them. That's what you want to hear, right?

... sorry.

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[psychiclilies]

Then maybe you should speak up a little louder.

[imusntrunaway]

Shouting doesn't always help you to be heard. It just makes you very... [annoying? imposing?] loud.

[psychiclilies]

Well if you ask me, it doesn't make you loud. It just means you have an opinion you want heard. Sometimes they listen sometimes they don't, big deal. [She shrugs.] I'd rather be opinionated and speak my mind than be a wimp.

[imusntrunaway]

I-I see. [That reminds him a lot of Asuka, actually...]

[psychiclilies]

[She's a little like Asuka like that.]

Where're you headed anyway?

[imusntrunaway]

Um, I-- it's not decided yet.

But she's been looking at soul_campaign and exsilium... she's still looking...

[psychiclilies]

Yikes.

[imusntrunaway]

It... it wouldn't be too different from home. If I did go.

[psychiclilies]

If it's not going to be too different then what's got your panties in a twist?

[imusntrunaway]

...

Do you think about why people fight?

[psychiclilies]

Sometimes. Why?

[imusntrunaway]

It's something I thought about a lot. And I--

Fighting is painful. It doesn't matter who you fight against. I've fought many, many times, but... I don't like it. I hate it. It's always the same pain.

[psychiclilies]

Kid [never mind the fact that he's older than her] that's why you fight though, isn't it? Even though it's painful, nobody else is going to feel the same pain. You're protecting them. That's what matters, isn't it?

[imusntrunaway]

... I'm not so selfless.

[psychiclilies]

Neither am I. But if nobody else is going to do it, who will?

[imusntrunaway]

... if I'm sent there and I'm told to fight, I'll fight. Even if I'm no good at it. Even if I have no one to fight for. Because I... I don't want to be a burden.

[psychiclilies]

There's always going to be someone to fight for, or something. Look at it as a way to improve how you fight. Whining about it isn't going to do you any good, idiot, and the only way you're going to stop being a burden is if you buck up and grow a backbone.

[imusntrunaway]

You make it sound so easy.

[psychiclilies]

That's just what they teach us at Whispering Rock.

[imusntrunaway]

Whispering Rock?

Is that a... government base?

[psychiclilies]

You could say that. It's a government training facility for psychics to whip them into shape to become Psychonauts.

It also doubles as a summer camp.

[imusntrunaway]

Psychonauts... are they like soldiers?

[psychiclilies]

Psychic soldiers, yeah.

[imusntrunaway]

And you're okay with that? How young are you?

[psychiclilies]

I'm ten, not that my age should matter, and I'm more than okay with it. My dad's Grand Psychonauts Chairman so one way or another the Psychonauts are in my future.