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[otomechapilot]

I'll do the cooking show after the Jaunt, I didn't have time to prepare it, but...

What's this I hear about Tower falling?

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[otomechapilot]

Sara nods, and she has about the same reaction at the Codex.

"Yeah. About right for what happened. Temperance went first, and is why the Arcana started the... ritual?... again.

But do you know what the dead ones mean? What they represent?"

[crouching_sin]

Hm... definitely possible I should talk to Justice about that. She's been very straightforward with me so far.

[otomechapilot]

Oh my god, please, her most of all. A cruel and unusual punishment for the murder might be able to hurt her.

...are you her Chosen?

[crouching_sin]

I would prefer it didn't, because... yes. I make no secret of this, really.

[reallymean]

"Relationships aren't inherently healthy," Allura replies. "Let alone inclusive. Many of the Arcana seem to behave as the darker side of their idiom as often as the positive side, if not more so."

[otomechapilot]

“Lovers acts more clueless and unhealthy and stalkery than makes sense given her - ideas,” Sara insists. “And a story from Jean, from her - thier? - perspective made me realize why. She was afraid of what I’m talking about. It’s why they attacked the Hermit - to force him to stay.”

“Because Hermit is individuality, and without him, they had nothing left to keep them separated.”

“Without morals -” she flips Hierophant face down - “or Balance -” then Temperance - “There’s not much left keeping Love from being Lust.”

[modernliterature]

"Let me guess. They were the nice guys."

[otomechapilot]

“I wouldn’t go that far, but they represented Morals, Balance, and Hope, among other things.” Her voice is flat. “And if they reflect each other, that means we’ve seen then as they are without morals, balance, and hope.”

“...which explains a LOT about the Lovers, in particular.”

[reallymean]

"So you believe they can be changed by one another's presence or absence, and not just by the impact of their actions, or of ours," Allura sums up. For her own part, she isn't entirely convinced - but the theory certainly has its merits.

[modernliterature]

"I don't suppose there's one of them labelled 'Immortality' or 'Spooky Kidnap Powers.' "

[otomechapilot]

“It gets better: the people who wanted a revolution killed Revolution,” Sara says. “And Ruin, And Revelation, and the being who’s job it is to say ‘maybe hands off the red hot stove.’ You don’t have to believe they affect the World by existing to be worried about that.”

[modernliterature]

"So this was one of those very brilliant plans," Caleb says, sighing. "Ja. Okay. Well, anyway, my stupid idea is, if we can crash their party with the kind of portal you call Bridges, can we listen in on them with the kind of mind-trick you also call Bridges? That's it, that's the big idea."

[otomechapilot]

“Lovers and Devil were worried enough to try the first Grid,” Sara reminds her. “Magician was worried enough to stop them from killing Hermit, or worse, from rewriting what the current Hermit’s Individuality meant with that virus.”

She frowns. “The Arcana beleive it. Their actions scream that they do from the rooftops. That’s a good enough reason to be worried about Ruin, Revelation and Revolution dying.”

[otomechapilot]

She thinks about it.

“...I don’t see why you couldn’t,” she says. “I’m trying to think of why it might be a bad idea. The only thing that comes to mind is... how much bigger a mind that knows all the beginnings, say, are.”

She hums. “...I’m only guessing now. If it’s been tried I don’t know.”

[reallymean]

"For now, at least," Allura says. She straightens, head tipping backward as she searches the leaves of the tree above, as though it might hold some answers. "The Arcana are born or...created somehow. Emperor confirmed it, even if he was cagey with the details. I'm not convinced strengthening the Arcana is in anyone's best interest, but if it is, it might be possible to rekindle one of the ones who was lost."

[otomechapilot]

“Wouldn’t you be cagey with ‘so where do babies come from’ with someone you think of like your child?” Sara says, only half seriously. “Where does any idea come from?”

Sara considers. “All jokes aside... like. I don’t think they’re evil, but I don’t think they’re good. They’re not human. There’s a reason they remind Gil of his Gentry. Maybe if they asked, I would have agreed. They didn’t ask. So now what?”

She thinks of a mace-like weapon, shining as a star.

[otomechapilot]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 10:07 AM reallymean - DW Comment < dw_null@dreamwidth.org> wrote:

[modernliterature]

"If they plot and scheme what to do with us, I'd like to try and overhear," he says. Good idea, bad idea, what's the difference, really? "I'll start working on that. I have a pretty big brain myself, I'm sure it will work out just fine."

[rustyhonesty]

"At least Fortune seems more likely to actually, you know, listen, unlike some other Arcana."