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[Text] One man washed on an empty beach

Posted: May 31st 2016
From: Anon

Say you hated a specific god. Maybe you only distrust them instead of hate them.

Then they die, and a reincarnation takes the god's place. Maybe it even looks like the same, but the old memories are gone.

Could you give that reincarnation a second chance in spite of your old feelings?

[Schuldig's become more contemplative thanks to his new, empathetic feelings towards his own followers and what would happen if their prayers stopped being answered. Thanks, Eros.]

[[OOC: All answers are anon text unless stated otherwise.]]

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Did you hate Athena?

I can't avoid seeing them as the same. There may be reasons for their behavior before, reasons that they don't know now, but they are still the person who would do those things with the correct motivation.

No. Barely knew him.

I'm seeing the opposite. I'm seeing people who had a clear dedication to a cause that no longer care about it, so their natural reactions to things are no longer 'I must accomplish this for the sake of that goal!' and the usual... extremes that people take for the sake of that. Instead, he's a shell, seems like he'd barely hurt a fly. That doesn't seem like the same person to me at all.

Oh, I see. I misinterpreted; excuse me.

Someone might, for a cause, go to any extreme, and without that cause, enjoy a quiet and peaceful existence. The man who has forgotten the cause and lives peacefully would still go to any extreme if you gave him a new cause.

It's not the man who has changed.

Athena did get me thinking about this, so it's not entirely off-base.

How do you know a man is the same - without memories to go on - except by their actions?

Expose him to similar events and watch.

You should probably reconsider that without knowing the events - or cause - I'm referring to.

If you don't experiment how will you ever learn?

Oh it's not about experimentation.
I know exactly what I'd *have* to do to him.
But getting back to my original point, doing something like that...
Well now, it wouldn't endear me to the public at all, and here I am trying to be respectable again.

Respectable again? Oh, my. What could have made you lose that status in the first place?

[ Unbeknownst to Hakkai, that question makes Schuldig start to wonder himself - namely whether or not he still actually thought any of it was fundamentally wrong in the first place. The deep amounts of consideration it requires starts to fight against the hold Rin has over him, so he can only answer vaguely. ]

Nothing that I wouldn't do again if necessary.
Sometimes those things have to happen.

How very interesting. Well, if your little experiment with your familiar person isn't worth it, you'll just have to take it on faith that he's the same.

Nice turn of phrase.
We'll see how it turns out.

[He's laughing mainly because oh if only Farfarello could hear 'take it on faith.']

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