coming clean (starplot)

[reallymean]

I'm sure some of you have already discovered the reason for Liminal Space's current shape, but for those who haven't, Star is one of the living Arcana once more. Their restoration wasn't my work alone, but it was my idea to make the attempt, and my plan that we followed. The resurrection, and any consequences it might have on the Jaunt or Jaunts to follow is my responsibility. Not my team's, not the result of some plot by the Arcana or any outside forces. Mine.

Before anyone asks, I don't have any intention of resurrecting the rest of the fallen Arcana. I don't think it could even be done the same way a second time. With one exception, we don't know enough about how and where they died - and I suspect even making the attempt would be so against the idiom of that exception as to guarantee failure.

Comments

[amadine]

It's not someone. They're not people. And the attack on Tower might have been incredibly stupid, but it was also incredibly well-deserved.

[thornsofmalkav]

Just because they're living concepts doesn't mean they're not people too. Weird and different kinds of people, but still people. But you know. Don't ask me. I'm just the person doing a multi-year anthropological study on them.

And whether or not the attack in Tower was deserved, I can still feel shitty that my theories helped them do it.

[amadine]

They're no more people than the King in Yellow and his brethren. And you're no more objective or virtuous than any other cultist. If you're very, very lucky, they'll have discarded you before you have a chance to realize that yourself.

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh my god, I am not a goddamn cultist. I am a scientist, this is my fucking field, and there is a goddamn difference between studying someone and worshiping them.

Whatever. It's not like you're objective either.

[amadine]

No, you're a deluded child desperate for attention and validation.

At least I know what's worth saving. And what's worth trusting.

[thornsofmalkav]

I am not a goddamn child. I am nearly thirty fucking years old, no matter how young my body is. I---

You know what?

Fuck this. I don't need to justify myself any more than I have already.