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Ah, hello everyone! I'm Vash, one of the new arrivals. It's nice to meet everyone :)

Forgive me if this has been asked before, but has anyone actually met Echo or gotten a chance to speak with them? Because I was thinking, there's so many of us from so many different places, and between all of us I'm sure there's a solution Echo hasn't found where nobody needs to lose a universe, right? Echo's just one person, after all--there must be some angles to this situation they haven't even considered yet, and if enough of us approached them at once, maybe they'd hear us out.

Thanks for your time!!

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[ Sandalphon doesn't answer for a good while. The silence stretches long enough that it seems he won't respond one way or another. In truth, he's mired in the question of whether Lucifer's omission was truly a lie, for he had said nothing at all.

Having such a cold, callous creator who saw him as an object, it was a marvel how kindhearted Lucifer was... But he was ill-equipped to express himself when Lucilius had never nurtured that more humane side of him. A side that only began to grow when he spent time with Sandalphon. ]

My transgressions far outweighed his. [ Perhaps his own deep melancholy radiates through his text just as Vash's sadness had. ] By the time I truly understood, it was too late. But I think he knew.

[ More than anything, Sandalphon had yearned to be useful to Lucifer. He'd just never suspected, in all those long centuries, that simply being there had given Lucifer something nothing and no one else did. Now that he knows...death divides them. ]

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[Vash waits, even as the silence stretches on and on, almost desperate for the answer with an intensity that surprises even him. And selfishly, when it arrives, he feels relief. Vash does not know, of course, why Sandalphon was made or what he has done because of it, but his chest was already aching with thoughts of Nai. It never really is too late, in Vash's opinion, to change. He has spent a hundred and fifty years waiting and hoping for Nai to come around, to find room for forgiveness and mercy in his heart and live alongside humanity, for all its flaws and sins.]

Even so...that his feelings reached you eventually, I don't think that's nothing. I'm glad.

[This is such a normal and fine reaction to a complete stranger. There is no overinvestment in Ba Sing Se.]

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[ Having traveled in close proximity to a Captain with room in his heart for every freak and degenerate in the skies, Sandalphon has encountered something like this before. Has cliffed something like this before, but look, he got a redemption arc. It's fine.

For all of that, he still finds himself surprised to encounter it from someone he has only shared a few words with. ]

I am grateful to have understood him in the end. I only wish it had been sooner, for his sake, but I can't change what is done. His wishes remain with me, even here.

[ Lucifer, he thinks, would be a better champion. A better example of why their world deserves to live on. But he will do all that he can, as the one who remains. ]

But I have digressed from the initial topic of conversation, haven't I?