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[deaths_fool]

Must I sing again? My songs may move the beasts and rocks, but they cannot move implacable death. What use are songs that cannot bring back my lost love? What good is music that will only cause grief? Better you let me rest, torn to pieces and forever silenced.

And I do not wish to celebrate the New Year. It but indicates that another year has passed without Eurydice.

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[dualreaping]

Whether or not this woman rests with you, your loss will carry on. What use is there in dwelling?

[deaths_fool]

I can do nothing but dwell, for nothing else has meaning to me. My friends have all gone to their own tragedies and the world idolizes my name and not my person.

[Jason, Medea, Atalanta, Hercules...how much did the world really know of them after their demise?]

Eurydice was the only one who let me be who I really was.

[dualreaping]

Your obsession with dwelling on this woman is the source of your despair. In my time I've seen it plenty.

But I don't expect you to understand.

[He's Death after all, folks like you losing a loved one and acting like this are a dime a dozen.]

[deaths_fool]

Then we can come to the mutual understanding that we won't understand each other.

[dualreaping]

Would you not simply pass on and join her in death, if it troubles you so.

[afoolsjourney]

[This is kind of...strange.]

[deaths_fool]

[You said it.]

Did you stumble upon my raging at my mun? If so, I apologize. That must have been a great deal to hear.

[afoolsjourney]

There's no need to apologize.

[deaths_fool]

Ah, I forget. You are a special one who does not consider it a burden to listen to the woes of others.

[He was like her, once, before his own misery overwhelmed him.]

[afoolsjourney]

I've never heard about yours, though. At least, not until now.

[dealwiththedevil]

My my my... I haven't seen height or hair of you in an age.

[deaths_fool]

...Excuse me?

[In his constant mourning, he was bond to miss a few things. Especially since every new face just blurred together into one confusing mass in his tear-stained eyes.]

[dealwiththedevil]

No, I suppose you wouldn't remember me. It's a shame. You were ever the life of the party.

[deaths_fool]

Then you must have known me from before my encounter with Death. I am a changed man now.

[No, less of a man, more like a shade even flimsier than those of the Asphodel Fields.]

[dealwiththedevil]

I knew of you quite well, son of Oeagrus. There are not many with your gifts, and I do like to keep tabs of those who may be in need of myy services. [He grins maliciously]

Tell me, how did things work out with that pretty little wife of yours?

[Like he doesn't already know.]

[kotodo]

[Well, this is a first since he came to rest within this child's mind. Still, if there was anything he has noticed from her...]

Music ist a powerful tool. Verily, even that which imparts grief could be utilized to aide those who have sealed their emotions away.

[He knows how that feels, man.]

[deaths_fool]

[A slow shake of the head.]

I can only have them release their tears. I cannot fix what comes afterwards. I cannot help them stop crying.

[kotodo]

Yet it ist the first step. The second ist when they must learn to stand anew. Time and life wait not for god nor man.

[deaths_fool]

They can take steps forward, but I will wait.

[Wait until he can find a way to defeat death.]

And what of those who will only sink in their misery?

[Obviously, he doesn't realize the hypocrisy in this statement.]

[deathboss]

...Everyone has to die, eventually.

[Hmm that might be slightly hypocritical, considering what he did.]

[deaths_fool]

But must it have been before me? Must it have been twice?

[He does not comment on the hypocrisy. Those words would have had the same effect coming from anyone's mouth.]

[wantedittobeagame]

...death sucks.

[Yeah, that's all he has to say. He kinda got really fond of someone that was already dead, so he feels for you dude.]

[deaths_fool]

It is an inevitable cruelty, but it too can be surpassed.

[wantedittobeagame]

Yeah, I guess so.

...doesn't mean it won't always hurt.

[deaths_fool]

It will hurt, and fester, and tear you apart. You will feel like chasing them into death. And there those who do choose that simple route.

[But Orpheus is a hero. He is stubborn and he will never despair.]

And there are others who will seek to reclaim those taken by death. Yet, that is a feat that only heroes can try.