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[You'd think Dave would have learned his lesson about anonymity, but maybe learning doesn't stick so well at ass in the morning when he can't sleep. At least it doesn't seem like he's really trying to mask his identity, here. It's just...a plausible deniability thing, maybe. Probably, given the content of his message.]

what was growing up like for you
like
how was your childhood
were you happy

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[styxiedust]

I don't know, I don't think they did--at least not in the conventional human sense. It's not as though I was their child and they were obligated to care for me. I think they just wanted me to leave and I obliged.

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thats still fucked up though!
youd been with them and yall cared for each other and they just told you to leave??
how is that caring????

[styxiedust]

Yes.

And I'll emphasize that guardians doing something like that is absolutely not normal or acceptable.

But like I said, I'm not a human, and they were human. What I'm able to remember is a better life anyway than where I presumably was before.

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just
just because something someone did to you got you eventually to someplace better
doesnt mean it wasnt a bad thing they did

[Dave, she already said. Grumble grumble.]

[styxiedust]

Right.

Now, you can say that for me. What about yourself?

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what

[styxiedust]

You asked if I was happy as a child, finding something happened to wrong me made you indignant and assert that what happened was wrong. That the people who did it were bad.

People only ask these sorts of questions when they're trying to compare their own experiences. More often than not, they can recognize injustice happening to others but not themselves.

So, I ask you, can you look at your own past with the same criticism as mine?

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thats
i didnt come here for that i was just asking a question
like jesus if i wanted to get psychoanalyzed and shit id hand exorbitant amounts of money to someone with a mustache and a fainting couch
do you have a mustache and a fainting couch

[styxiedust]

No, and you don't have to pay me either. I just care about people is all. I made a living out of caring for people.

They're usually dead but that's beside the point.

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youre
a corpse therapist????

[styxiedust]

That's a new one on me. Most call me "Reaper" or "death god."

I think death god is pretentious, though, so don't call me that.

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oh
well
shit
of course this would happen to me

[styxiedust]

Oh?

Tell me about it, if you'd like.

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well you know like
its a theme
death and time and all such bovine droppings

[styxiedust]

Time and death also imply rebirth and change. Change is the common reading of death in tarot.

We don't have to talk about that if you don't feel safe.

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its ok im used to fucking dying all the time

[styxiedust]

That's unfortunate. Yes, I'm aware you already said you're used to it, but I have every right to feel sad about it.

[...Though, this sounds familiar.]

Do you have a Gallade?

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uh

[Oh god why does this happen every time he does this. EVERY! TIME! He really needs to stop doing this.]

yeah................
why

[styxiedust]

He asked me for advice once.

He's concerned about you, too.




Would you like me to switch this channel to private? I realize we're both anonymous, but if you'd feel more comfortable that way.

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[...]

yeah ok

Private 5ever

[styxiedust]

[...And un-anon, because really, why bother keeping it up?]

Right then, hello. I'd venture to say this is our first meeting, but I won't fuss about formalities.

Did you want to start with any questions?

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well first of all i want to know when wart got so fuckin chatty
he never talks to ME except with eye gestures and elaborate shrugs

[styxiedust]

He says he doesn't know how to approach you most of the time, and he never gets a feeling of you being "safe." He seemed very worried.




By the by: Wart? For a Gallade? Cute.

[callbacks]

yeah hes an adorable nerd



he really said that about me