ANON SEEKS ANSWERS TO LIFE'S DEEPEST QUESTION

[erogappa]

What is love?

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[erogappa]

How the hell is it addicting?

[fortunesmiles]

Well, doesn't it feel like you can't help yourself? Even if you know it's bad or dangerous for you, or the other person? Even if you know it's better to keep your distance, you simply can't stay away, or make yourself stop caring about them and thinking about them...and even trying makes you feel so much worse. Doesn't that sound like addiction and withdrawal?

The people I love tend to get killed, but still, if he were here...I don't think I could keep my distance from him. Even though I don't want him to die...

[erogappa]

That's not funny.

[fortunesmiles]

Ah? I wasn't trying to be funny...did I say something wrong?

[erogappa]

I'm not an addict and he's not a drug. It's not like that.

[fortunesmiles]

I wasn't really talking about your situation...I don't even know who you are. I was just talking about what it feels like to me...

Does it feel like that for you too?

1/2

[erogappa]

No.

2/2

[erogappa]

Fuck you.

[fortunesmiles]

I'm not really sure what I did to bother you so much...why did you ask a question that might have answers you don't like?

[Ah, maybe he should text Minako? She had offered to help him with social situations like this...]

[erogappa]

You want to give me answers okay I'll take answers. What wisdom are you storing up for "dangerous"?

[fortunesmiles]

Well, as I said, when I love people they usually end up dying. But that's not really applicable to people who don't have Ultimate Luck...

Still, I can only really talk about the kind of love I know, right?

[erogappa]

That's my kind too. All of us here, that's our kind. People die every day here, didn't you know? We pretend they go somewhere else but they're just dead.

[ Unless this Averruncus person meant they died for a different reason? ]

You didn't kill them right?

[fortunesmiles]

Don't they disappear? I mean, it's entirely possible they could be dead, but to make both bodies and entire temples just vanish...it seems more logical they've been moved. Of course, that doesn't mean they're guaranteed to be alive or not, but clearly moving things around is no obstacle for whoever or whatever is responsible for the disappearances, so we can't say they're dead when there's no evidence of it. But we can say they've disappeared because that's self-evident.

Ah, no! It'd be silly to kill the people I love for no reason, or to then talk about it like it was something I couldn't help if it was something I did on purpose... [Komaeda does leave the door open, there, that he might kill someone he loved if he had a reason.] But no, I haven't killed anyone that I remember...although I do have some amnesia, so I guess that's not really a definitive answer, is it? But the people I love who have died were killed by my luck. As I said, my talent is Ultimate Luck - both the good and bad kind. I have both the best and the worst luck one can imagine...and whenever I have one kind of extreme luck, the other kind soon follows to balance it out. So people I'm close to often end up dying because of my bad luck. My luck likes to keep me alive no matter what, so when my luck is at its worst, it just kills people I care about as the next best thing.

[erogappa]

Are you serious? That's the worst thing I've ever heard.

[fortunesmiles]

That would be a strange thing to lie about...but it's definitely true. I've won the lottery multiple times, been in plane crashes on desert islands, been kidnapped by a serial killer, had family killed by meteor strikes, survived murder attempts, been brainwashed by the personification of ultimate despair, had my memory erased...and then there's ending up being brought here to be a god. The odds of that have to be pretty astronomical too, right?

If it wasn't for extreme luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all!

It does come in handy sometimes, though. I hardly ever have to spend money at vending machines.

[erogappa]

That's a really fucked up thing to have to keep track of.

Can you control it, or does it just happen?

[fortunesmiles]

Mostly it just happens. I can influence it a little, though; if I make something bad happen to me, then something good will usually follow. Of course, it's not that useful, because the good luck is proportionate to the bad luck, so minor bad luck will only get me minor good luck. And causing myself major bad luck...well, even if I wanted to, sometimes the good luck just cancels out the bad luck, if that makes sense. Like when I played Russian roulette; if the bad luck was risking my life, then the good luck was winning.

Besides, sometimes what my luck considers good luck...it may be amazing and unlikely, but it might not be something I'd really consider worth the bad luck. When I got kidnapped by that serial killer, my good luck was finding a winning lottery ticket in the trash bag he kept me in, but I was already rich from my parents' inheritance before that, so the actual value of that good luck wasn't a whole lot.

[erogappa]

Normal people might think that not getting killed by a serial killer would be good luck.

[fortunesmiles]

I suppose normal people have more to live for.

[fortunesmiles]

But in any case, it wasn't luck that he let me go! He just found out I didn't have anyone who'd pay a ransom for me, so he decided I wasn't worth bothering with.

[erogappa]

I cant believe he didn't kill you. Maybe you really are lucky.

[fortunesmiles]

My luck does tend to prioritize keeping me alive! Even when it's honestly ludicrous...but when you only have extreme luck, pretty much everything that happens to you is ludicrous.