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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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[If the conversation were in person, this is where he'd smile in that lonely way he does, the one that wants you to believe everything will be okay.

He can't do that in text. There's no response on the other end for a time, not even typing dots. At length:]

I don't want anyone to be hurt.
But that's not always possible.

[At least he can live with being the one who's hurt, if it has to be anyone.]

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so then it's okay if it's you?

[ Fabian may be a little dumb. In some ways. But apparently even he can read that into Vash's words. Sometimes the thing someone is really saying is hidden within what they don't say, rather in what they do say, and this is a clear example of that to him. ]

you do realise that's being a hypocrite right
there are people who care about you as well
i don't think they will be very happy when you get hurt
in fact you getting hurt IS what would hurt them in that case

it's much better to instead fight right alongside the people you care for
to be in it together