voice testing/poking around for a game

[salvagedsoul]

"No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made."

So, tell me... What choices were made for you?

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[sixthanimorph]

And why I should I tell something like that to someone like you?

[salvagedsoul]

Because you want to tell me, don't you?

[sixthanimorph]

You don't know that. You don't even know me.

[salvagedsoul]

I know enough about your kind. My question obviously prompted something inside you. So, tell me.

[sixthanimorph]

... Whatever. Alright. All my choices were made for me. All the important ones. Like that's anything new.

[regretzio]

[strum]

♪ Kaworu, Kaworu, a mystery to decode
Managed to convey
A series' worth of gay
In a single episode ♪

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[salvagedsoul]

[He just laughs.]

That's one way to enjoy music...

[terreifying]

Mommy and Daddy raised me! And they gave me a better EVA than 00 because that one had Aunt Naoko in it.

[And that is why this Rei is an AU.]

Also, my mun dropped me in this Tower of Animus game, but it's fun and I don't really blame her.

[salvagedsoul]

Huh. You're different.

...heh, yes, I don't think you'd synch very well with Naoko.

[terreifying]

You don't look too different from my Kaworu.

[Except for the fact that he hasn't started talking about remaking the Angel race the old fashioned reproductive way yet.]

She kept on trying to kill me.

[salvagedsoul]

Even inside Eva? Well. To be expected.

[terreifying]

EVAs can think as well as we do. They've got some trouble talking to people not their pilots, but Mommy made them smaller avatars and they can talk to us that way.

[She frowns a little.]

I don't really know why she wants to kill me so much, though. Mommy says she wants to kill Shinji too.

[timespacemessiah]

My choices were made for me by my mother and father. And all they did for me was show me how incomplete and unpure the human race truly is. Something needed to be done so that the universe could meet the ideal standard.

[salvagedsoul]

[This seems to seriously amuse and intrigue him.] My... that sounds familiar.

In what way are they incomplete and unpure?

[timespacemessiah]

Their spirits are corrupt. Their hearts are weak and lead them to delusions. They feel things such as sentimentality or anger: such emotions are useless and keep us from realizing our true potential. This is why the universe should be purged of human spirit, if only the ancient powers of time and space could be bent to start the world over again...

[salvagedsoul]

With your hands doing the bending, right?

You're just as imperfect as the rest of your kind. You know this.

[timespacemessiah]

Yes and yes are the answers to both your statements. I will bend time and space with my own hands, and while I am an imperfect, incomplete human being right now, I shall transcend that when I claim the original powers and become a god! I shall ascend to a higher existance and once I've wiped out and remade the universe, I'll make every living thing the way they should be...devoid of spirit!

[imsorry]

Whaaat? I don't think I understand what you mean....

[Why are you using such big words??? Haru's little brain can't keep up with something as philosophical as that!]

[salvagedsoul]

Sometimes you get to make decisions in life, and sometimes others get to make decisions for you. Right?

[imsorry]

Oh, that's right! I get it now! And sometimes you get to make decisions for others yourself, too, but that's not always the good thing to do. Right?

[salvagedsoul]

It's not about good or bad. It's about how your options at any time can be limited by forces outside of your control.

[inutile]

[Um wow some people don't make it to adulthood Kaworu please check your privilege???]

Someone might argue with you on that, you know. Maybe you're assuming too much by saying anyone has even limited freedom once they become an adult.

Does that thinking make you of the deterministic mindset, or would you call yourself more of a libertarian?

[salvagedsoul]

It isn't black and white. The Stroube quote highlights the mixed situation seen in reality.

[inutile]

Yes, I know. I've read his works.

...I understand the point he was making, but I'm still not so sure any of us call truly call ourselves free. Maybe some things really are that black and white.

[salvagedsoul]

That depends on what you consider qualifies as "freedom," right?

I am choosing to speak with you right now.