Might last minute app at towerofanimus now oops

[mywayofhelping]

I certainly hope you're properly considering this, mun. You are just catching up now with your previously committed characters, correct?

I am glad you remembered how busy you're likely to be during the month you were considering sending me there. However, rushing me in now seems impulsive. I know you've practically gotten it fully written, but that's simply because you've already tried me at four places previously. I'm growing tired of this. You'd best be certain before you try again.

[:)] I know you're impossible to convince once you've made up your mind, though. Just don't claim you weren't warned.

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ALEXXXXX 8D sadjsahdsgd

[hardedge]

Don't hold your breath, you're better off staying homeless.

YESSSSS

[mywayofhelping]

I'm well aware of that. My mun previously had an acquaintance of mine there and I was quite all right with it not being me.

[Even though I held off apping him elsewhere in favor of that which he didn't like oops.]

We can have Alex? x3

[hardedge]

And you still wanna come anyway knowing that? [Dude. You're losing brownie points.

Silly muses, xD get huffy easily.]

Maaaaybe...

[mywayofhelping]

No, I don't. She's been set on this for a few months now, however. I'm not certain why she decided to rush it now.

Re: Maaaaybe...

[hardedge]

You know you're gonna hate it here, but I guess if you can't stop your mun, give her hell.

[mywayofhelping]

She was against the idea at first. But after some...consideration, she changed her mind. I'm a bit shocked she held out this long.

[Like realizing he'd try to get in league with the admins =D]

[hardedge]

You're in for a world of hurt. [But what does he care.]

[mywayofhelping]

Perhaps. But then again, perhaps not.

[hardedge]

It's easy for people to spout that when they're on the other side. [He hasn't even made it through a real event yet too.]

[mywayofhelping]

I assure you I'm quite informed. I don't expect to remain unscathed in that place, however I'm also certain my stay could be much worse than the likely outcome.

[hardedge]

From what I hear, it can't get much worse than this.

[mywayofhelping]

Apparently you aren't aware of the full extent of what these people are capable of doing. Nor do you seem to realize their willingness to do those things.

[hardedge]

Miroku told me all about them. [And he knows he already has it worse than the monk does but he preferred it that way.]

[mywayofhelping]

I'm afraid being told about them and witnessing them are two different things.

[Since Felix doesn't wanna talk to him really...]

Because I can!

[tobearchildren]

Pardon my friend's crude nature. [Hi, hi, InuYasha has a short fuse.]

I see you're bounded for a game again??

[Alex shush, he doesn't want his demon friend to know everything at once.]

Yaaaaay

[mywayofhelping]

I'm quite used to crude people, I'm afraid.

Yes. It appears the groundwork is already fully laid.

[seekinganswers]

We both know what my mun has to say about that.

[Sheba would be voicing her vehement "No, don't do it!" ... if this Alex wasn't from a canonpoint where he was disguised. Sure, she has her suspicions, but she's not going to try and run him off without confirmation, and she's not in the right mindset to try and read his mind right now. Even if she was, he could easily keep her from finding anything.]

You sound sort of like someone I knew once. If you're anything like him, you'll probably be able to handle yourself just fine. [Alex was insufferable, but he was also capable. She can't deny that.] It's not a nice place, though.

[mywayofhelping]

[...Disguised. Sure, let's go with that. If she's not gonna ask, he won't tell her. Doesn't mean he won't be a troll, but yeah.]

I'm sure I can take that as a compliment. I have heard it's quite horrible. Rest assured I'll be as careful as I possibly can.

[Unless his mun forces him into crap. Which she will.]

[seekinganswers]

I wouldn't take it if a compliment if I were you. He was capable but he was also sort of a jerk.

[She says it casually, watching his face to gauge his reaction. Of course, if her suspicions were right, there probably wouldn't be much there for her to read, but it's a safer bet than trying to read his mind is.]

It's easy to say "I'll be careful." I said that too, when I first got there. A lot of things happen that aren't really within anyone's control.

[mywayofhelping]

That all depends on which you believe to be the more important quality.

Of course they do. One's actions greatly determine whether or not the outcome will be horrible in those situations, however.

[designatedhealer]

[Speaking of muns forcing characters into crap... yeah, no flimsy little mask is going to keep her from recognizing her cousin. Kraden had managed to figure it out quickly, and Mia has known Alex for most of her life.]

You'll be okay if you go there. No amount of scheming on your mun's part will keep you from... [Her voice trails off and she sighs heavily.] ...from accomplishing whatever it is that you hope to accomplish.

[mywayofhelping]

[...Hi awkward times with cousin... And seriously Mia, if he had wanted to disguise himself, he would have.]

... I appreciate the vote of confidence. I'm certain her schemes won't affect me much.

[Since she has to be IC and doesn't know what they are now exactly...]

[designatedhealer]

I'd be surprised if they did.

[She's not sure anything affects him, really. The Wise One had stopped him, but the Wise One had the power of a god. Nothing else had been enough - not loyalty to his clan nor loyalty to his immediate family, not his conscience, certainly not whatever schemes Saturos, Menardi, and the other Proxians had cooked up.]

...but please, be careful. From what I've heard of the Tower of Animus, it isn't a place I would wish on even my worst enemy.

[mywayofhelping]

[Not having a brief affair with a lady either =D

But...wow, he's slightly surprised by her comments after the way her son bitched him out.]

I appreciate your concern. Then again, I suppose that's in your nature. It does sound quite awful, but I've already described the nature of her decisions.

[designatedhealer]

[A dude's gotta defend his mom, bro. Especially when his mom's the type of person who has trouble wishing harm on someone even when they deserve it. That doesn't keep her from getting annoyed, though - which, incidentally, is what she is right now.]

Yes, it's in my nature to hope for the best. Just as it's in your nature to dash those hopes.

[...Rief had to get it from somewhere.]

Some of my friends will be in that place with you. I'd appreciate it if you left them out of your schemes this time around. They have enough on their plate without you using them to further your own goals.

[mywayofhelping]

[He'll just keep smiling. That's the kind of attitude he was expecting. He knows she has every reason to hate him. This is why he was trying to avoid her for the rest of her life.]

I assure you, I won't do anything unnecessary.

[designatedhealer]

Your idea of "necessary" is very different from most definitions.

[It's not that she hates him. It's more that she knows she can't trust him, and that he's done things she can't forgive. "Hate the sinner, not the sin," and yet she has a hard time letting go of the fact that he betrayed her.]

[mywayofhelping]

[He thinks for a moment.]

No, I don't believe it is. Something necessary is something that needs to happen or dire consequences are risked. That's the generally accepted definition.

[designatedhealer]

Tell me, Alex: What "dire consequences" would there have been if you hadn't betrayed everyone who ever got close to you?

[She knows that ultimately, Alchemy did need to be restored. What she's more upset about is that Alex set out to do it without a word to her, that he didn't even try to explain, and that he used saving the world as a means to an end to become more powerful. It's selfish and self-serving and that he's done his best to avoid her ever since makes her more angry than anything else does.

But she supposes their friendship in childhood was just a means to an end, too. After all, he had to have someone to hone his skill in Psynergy with before he left Imil forever.]

[mywayofhelping]

The world was falling apart, Mia. I'd be shocked if you didn't remember that.

[designatedhealer]

I know that now. But it wasn't you I heard it from; it was a stranger.

Did you really think so ill of me as to believe that if you tried to explain I wouldn't at least try to understand it? I'm your cousin. I trusted you.

But I guess that never meant anything to you at all.

[mywayofhelping]

The only time in which I could have explained it to you wasn't one you were willing to listen during. If anything, it likely could have made matters worse. You learned it in due time, so what does it matter now?

[Aaaand ignoring the rest of that, because he prefers you disliking him. Even though he still likes you. Hi I'm your messed up cousin...]

[designatedhealer]

You'll never know if I was willing to listen or not, Alex. Because you never tried.

[It's likely that she wouldn't have believed him; she was born and raised to protect Mercury Lighthouse, after all. But people change. Alex changed somewhere between their childhood and the start of their quest - Mia changed during it.]

It matters a lot to me. But I don't expect you to understand that. I don't expect much of anything from you anymore.

[mywayofhelping]

I'm still able to make educated guesses. The odds were heavily stacked at that point, I'm afraid.

I didn't expect that you would. [Your girly-voiced son gave him a huge lecture, okay?]

[designatedhealer]

[Hey now, don't go making cracks about her son who doesn't actually exist yet in her time.

Mia sighs heavily. Speaking with him is exhausting - but when else is she going to get the chance to? He seems compelled to answer her, here; she's sure if she ran into him anywhere else that he'd leave her in an instant.]

I see. I would congratulate you on finding new friends that your odds favored, but it doesn't seem as if you want anything to do with them now that they've outlived their usefulness as well.

[mywayofhelping]

[Yep, it's called "his mun is evil". He didn't wanna reply in the first place.]

Mia, I simply meant the odds of you understanding at that time were not high. I'd rather you not put words in my mouth.

[Even if he did tell Felix that last part, shhhhh.]

[heatflash]

Alex. I must say, this is a...surprise.

[mywayofhelping]

I was rather surprised myself. Some of these other people are terrible influences on her, I'm afraid.