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[alittleglow]

Posted: May 8th
From: Nightshade

How scan you use this thing without toucvhing it all the time
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Also how often do we need to goto the human wold? It's awful tethered and I don't know how anyone cn stand it!

[This elf needs a stylus or someone to show her how to do something other than text stat. At least the autocorrect is picking up most of the errors, but... yeah.]

Have moist of you been human before coming here?, I have no memories , but I still know I'm not. I'm supposed to help humans bit I'm not really sure why. Why do we help people? What purpose dies it serve?

[She's 100% serious. Helping humans seems to be her one purpose now, and her god seems really keen on it too, but she still has no idea why.]

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[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun being Shun, he's paying attention when the images change, and he recoils slightly at the sight of the flat, big-eyed face. Most of the non-humans he's met here aren't overtly so...but then again, at least one shapeshifts to hide it. He's still using text, though, so the reaction goes unseen.]

Reapers carry souls to the afterlife after people die. Construct probably isn't the right word for the other person, but they're made from human wants and greed as far as I know. I'm not sure what term they'd prefer.

[It takes him a little longer to answer her next remark, because he actually makes the effort to consider how she might be seeing it for a second rather than immediately leaping down her throat for proposing something like that as he usually would. If she's not human, it's possible she's only passingly familiar with them.]

Trying to control humans with fear leads to uprising and rebellion. Gaining their trust and favour is a hell of a lot more reliable than terrorising them, especially in the long term.

[alittleglow]

[That... doesn't really sound strange to her at all. Logical, really. Even if she didn't know it, the world she came from operated on some rather similar principles.]

So, embodiments of human ideas and emotions. I don't think I'm something like that, but perhaps I'm not dissimilar.

[After all, she seems to be able to embody just about anything a human wants, even if it's just an illusion.

She makes a pensive little noise, considering.]

There are many more humans, and their world is full of dangerous things. Our existence is a lot more dependent on them than the other way around. So... we are more like their servants?

[revolutionfalcon]

Basically. There's probably more non-humans than just them and you here, but obviously I haven't met all of them.

It depends on how you look at it. For a god and shinki who enjoy helping humans, or at least don't hate it, this situation gives them powers and a platform to help people they couldn't otherwise help. Gods aren't obliged to take all prayers, either - they can choose which ones they want to take. But someone who doesn't like humans and feels obliged to take prayers to gain power would probably feel more like this is a servile position.
I suppose you could also see it as a two-way servitude, if you're considering it servitude. Faithful humans leave offerings and dedications to the gods they want the help of, and there's no guarantee of help, so in that way they're servile to the whim of whatever god they're praying to.

[alittleglow]

That sounds a lot like the reward for work well done is more work, doesn't it?

[She doesn't exactly sound plaintive, just... puzzled. As if there is a logical step there that she just cannot take, and ends up floundering instead.]

But... you say it's a kind of exchange. Where Gods sometimes give humans what they want, and humans maintain their existence through hope that it might one day be them. [A brief pause, and then she adds more softly:] Or the fear that they never will, if they forget the Gods. Isn't that so?

[revolutionfalcon]

[Well, she's trying. That's more than Shun can say for plenty of humans he's met.]

In a sense. Most people take prayers they're interested in anyway, as far as I can tell, so it lessens the feeling of it being work.

That's right. It depends on the humans you're dealing with as to whether they hope it'll be them or fear it won't be, but it's not one-sided either way.