un: STARDUST | Text

[bad_habit]

[This is so dumb, he can't believe he's doing this. But it's come up a lot lately for for a number of reasons and he just needs to talk about it. Okay? Okay.]

is anyone else a little worried about what happens if your world ISN'T deemed worthy of being saved???

like

what if your worlds not all that great to begin with??


it ain't like anyones given out any standards of judgement or anything
but what if you know yours isn't really a good candidate to continue to exist
what if you've already tried before to prove to someone else that your world has every right to be there with limited support from the general masses,
who don't seem very interested in trying to prove to be anything other than shitty??



what if yours ends up on the chopping block?

what happens to you and everyone you know...??

Comments

un: sandalphon

[prevail]

It's a risk for all of us, regardless of whether our world is "good" or not.

My world has been under active threat before all of this. Others have mentioned the same. What would make you or yours any less worthy?

[bad_habit]

yeah, i mean
fair
but still

yeah, mine too
i'm sure they still are considering my friends and i shook the hornets nest before i found myself here
...
i mean
aside from the raging atrocities committed on the daily????

[prevail]

You haven't told me much about your world, if memory serves.

I didn't get your name, for that matter.

[bad_habit]

my world is Hell
and i don't mean that in the figuritve sense
i mean in the LITERAL sense
like i live with Lucifers daughter
kinda Hell

and i'm Angel
and ya i get the irony

but it's a little hard to make a case for a place like that
i mean i literally spent the last 8 months doing JUST THAT
and
i ain't sure we did
tbqh

[prevail]

Lucifer has no offspring—

[ Hold on, give him a second to remember there's a variety pack of Lucifers littered across the worlds for even Bahamut doesn't know the reason. Ahem. ]

...Pay that no mind. My Lucifer differs greatly from others.

If even one person yearns for better, isn't that a reason to have a second chance?

[bad_habit]

[That may have broke him if not for the fact that a spaceman definitely told him he'd also been to a different hell recently.

This multiverse is a strange, strange place.]

…
is yours short af too??
[Asking the important questions, truly.]

i hope so
i really fuckin hope so
but i can't help but think i might not be the right man for the job
like
there probably was better options from my world
course there's probably worse ones too
but still

[prevail]

[ Sandalphon will forever maintain his Lucifer is Superior but he's extremely biased. That is his favorite being in all creation after all. ]

No, my realm's Lucifer is a little taller than me.

There are better and worse options than me as well. Perhaps they don't choose from the extremes and want someone more representative of the whole?

[bad_habit]

[Angel doesn't really know his to be honest. So he isn't about to be a good candidate for 'best boss ass Lucifer' debate, admittedly.]

we DO have very different Hells i guess
mine probably wishes he was that tall

i guess
it just feels like a lot of pressure all of a sudden especially after
well
everything that's happened recently
it didn't seem so hard not that long ago
and now it feels, different??

I dunno if that makes sense.

[nimbuster]

Guessing you stop existing.

[Thanks, Cloud, very helpful.]

But like you said, we don't know what the standards are. They could be looking for anything. Besides, there's shitty people everywhere. All we can do is take it one day at a time. Worry about the future when it gets here.

Who'd you try to prove it to before?

[prevail]

[ Advantage Sandalphon, he'll claim that win-by-default without an ounce of shame. ]

We don't quite have a hell as you describe. The Crimson Horizon comes closest, but this was not Lucifer's domain; he presided over the evolution of the Skies.

I've come to doubt the intentions behind these missions, after the previous one. Even so, we have no choice but to endeavor.

Should my world survive and yours not... There is room for you and your people in the Sky Realm.

[ Yes he's tossing this out there just like that. ]

[bad_habit]

but existing is basically all i do![Okay so he does more than that but still!]

yeah but my world is literally just a collection of shitty people
like the worst of the worst
in some cases
i guess there isn't much point in stewing on it
cause there ain't much i can do aside from
keep on keeping on
ugh

Heaven.

[bad_habit]

[And he can have it. Now if it was Charlie that'd be something different but if the others message is truth than he doesn't have to worry about that apparently.]

what's the evolution of the skies??

i dunno for me it seems to have a common theme
and it mostly ends up with me not looking very good in this worlds eyes
i mean i just get the robots to like me again
and then i destroy half the damn forest

[It sucks, but he just keeps on keeping on. As much as someone can making silly bracelets that are probably going to hurt them in some way. It's a lot to think about so there's a huge pause between that and his next message.]

thanks, seriously.

[prevail]

[ No such princess in the sky castle. Primals don't have children, being artifical and all, nor do they really have the concept of such relationships. Siblings yes, parents no. ]

Do the flora and fauna of Hell not change and adapt over time? Evolution is a form of growth — adaptation.

You were being manipulated, so that can't entirely be blamed on you. For that reason, I refrained from mentioning you when speaking of it... But I don't think we have privacy here.

I don't want you to think your people have no hope. Whatever form it may take, there must be a way.

[nimbuster]

Doubt that. You're here, aren't you?

Yup. We all got a job to do, so don't get lost in the sauce. Stay focused. It'll keep your mind off the future.

That figurative or literal?

[neverleave]

If your universe is deemed "unworthy", I guess it get obliterated with you alongside it.

But I doubt that any universe is better or worse than others. A universe can have billions of worlds. The part you come from is meaningless in the grand scheme of things and so are whatever criteria Echo comes up with.

text; un: MAXIMUMLEGEND

[maximumlegend]

the answer is that this entire thing is dumb

the idea of worthy and unworthy worlds i mean
like who is even going to decide that
if a world is doing its best to exist and it isn't hurting anyone else along the line then it should just be allowed to exist
even if someone might find it shittier than another world

un: coffeefiend

[ichoosefight]

I worry about this almost constantly

if it's any comfort, I don't think we'd be here if we weren't going to be given a fair chance? even if most people suck, most people aren't here. we are, and we're the ones being judged.

I'm sorry if that makes it worse

[bad_habit]

yeah?

i suppose ya right
i mean we all have a fair enough shot i suppose
cause its just us

but me isn't all that great either i mean
i fit right in for a long ass time

[bad_habit]

it might be total bullshit
but it ain't just this place that has an idea of worthy vs unworthy
this ain't my first rodeo

as for WHO should decide that
no one
but if someones got more power than you?
they fuckin LOVE to do just that

[bad_habit]

hopefully you get to go too
if ya don't it'd suck to stick around.

well i firmly believe that things are probably a bit more EVEN then anyone wants to admit
but that does't mean that Echo can't
and what IF your part ISN'T so meaningless
cause THAT'S the part that's being judge
for like
the whole kit kaboodle

[bad_habit]

yeah, apparently i'm not so easily squished

yeah
who'd think the nonsense this place puts you through actually DOES keep you focusin on trying to prove your worth
though i could do without some of the bullshit of said nonsense
to think i bitched about trust falls to prove your worth
ffs

literal.

[ichoosefight]

I know what you mean. 'me' hasn't always been great either. it took a long time to convince people that I deserved a first chance, let alone a second. and knowing that everyone I care about might die doesn't make me feel especially worthy.

I don't know how Echo feels, but I think it matters that you try.

un: goldenapples | text

[utinam]

[The questions will leave Nuvia silent as she listens to the text to speech repeating it a couple of more times. Whoever this was, they weren't the only ones feeling this exact way. It makes her wonder if they're okay?

So, she'll try to check up on them!]

I don't know how to read. I'm using a text to speech program to do with for me. If anything looks weird, just know it is due to that fact. I won't get upset if you point out any mistakes. It won't hurt my feelings.

[With that said, she'll pick her words carefully.]

Are you okay?

[bad_habit]

i guess i've never noticed?
i suppose that sounds dumb

no but i mean, i made it that way
i let it lure me
just like i always do with that kinda shit

[And that had been the hardest part of it all. How easily he felt for those sweet whispers, only to be so totally taken by it.]

i never think i cared about that kinda stuff but to be honest
i do
i want them to have that
i want them to WANT that

[Which is why he hadn't given up quite yet. But he'd been admittedly a little stressed about it. He hadn't really had to do this all on his own before.]

[prevail]

Don't diminish yourself.

I have assuredly done more and worse. But my feelings are my own, and it was unnerving to have them drained from me.

[ It's public knowledge in his world that he caused the Cataclysm, so he isn't all that shy about being honest regarding it. ]

You don't sound at all unworthy to me, saying that. Setbacks aren't failure.