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Giovanni 'Sarcastic Little Shit' Rammsteiner ([personal profile] ofobedience) wrote in [community profile] futurology 2017-04-26 12:31 pm (UTC)

[Frustrating, indeed. Death, to his mind, is the true mercy, and he often struggles to see things from the perspective of the others here, doesn't understand their reverence for life when he comes from a world that promotes no such thing, where lives are thrown away by the dozen every day. Living is a brutal ugly thing, and perhaps it isn't what he would have chosen back then, but if he were able now, if he were in a position to make that choice with hindsight as his guide...he'd have died with Lily and the rest of them, before what came after had its chance to warp him into something else, fractured and lost and slowly losing himself.

Would that he could.]


I can see your point, I suppose. It would be useful, to know what one would choose for themselves, were the choice available to them. Not that such a thing was ever afforded to me, in my own world.

[And it's still a difficult thing for him to think about, accustomed as he is to placing his life in the hands of someone so far above him as to be blinkered by Her light (or should that be darkness?), but on this one matter he is sure of what he wants. To die with some part of himself left in tact. That so many of the others here are unwilling to see this as a possibility, a choice someone might make-- it gets beneath his skin, crawls there sickly.]

And I won't disagree that we need to understand each other better. But everyone here, they're so deeply entrenched in their own beliefs that they're unwilling to so much as listen to other perspectives.

[Not that he's made a particularly eloquent argument, in the past, unwilling as he is to talk about his own circumstances.]

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