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[konekopersia]

And it's yet another newcomer! At least this one has been lurking for a while and won't be asking the usual obvious question.

"How much does this place change people?"

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[burntonight]

"Haven't been here enough to know. Some people come here changed. At least from what everyone else expects." Ken has an unlit cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, his hands in the pockets of his beaten-up brown jacket.

[konekopersia]

Before asking, Mamoru thought he had lurked enough to avoid being shocked. Oh boy was he wrong! Ken smoking??

"You sound like you're speaking from personal experience, ah... Hidaka-san?"

[burntonight]

"Aa, and you look like you're one of the ones that would be expecting someone else." Ken smirks and reaches up to light his cigarette, cupping his fingers around it.

[konekopersia]

He nods slightly. "I used to work with him in a flower shop." This Ken seems older. Perhaps he's just older than Mamoru thinks?

[novembersghost]

"Quite considerably I'd say. Though that depends on the context." This from the young blonde in glasses seated a a nearby table.

[konekopersia]

"Would you care to elaborate on that, ma'am?"

[novembersghost]

"For certain people it opens them up more. Allows them to be more sociable. For others releases their inhibitions. For some it allows them avenues to better plan their future making them more focused. And for some it drives them insane."

[konekopersia]

"To be more sociable? That might fit with what I observed. Do you think that improved social behavior might also strength a person's moral compass?"

[tastes_of_honey]

Quite a bit, usually. Tends to broaden the mind. Unavoidable really, with all the alternates and weird things running around.

[konekopersia]

Mamoru is understandably wary of Schuldig, but he also knows about the AVF. ...not that Schuldig's games are limited to the physical. "Being able to adapt to unusual things is a good quality." Mamoru's question, however, is prompted by his confusion over Schwarz apparently wanting him alive. They're his enemies, you see.

[tastes_of_honey]

::Mamoru, sweetie, if Schwarz didn't want you alive you'd have been dead years ago.:: Of course. Though I already had that ability.

[konekopersia]

Mamoru is confused by a very specific and pointed ass-saving! Especially since it was followed by the decimation of his security team.

"Have you noticed any ways that it affected you specifically?" And this is Mamoru expecting to be told to fuck off, but it's worth a try!

[haganenomore]

"I'm going to assume that you don't mean on a physical level," Ed says, tail swaying lazily. "As for the emotional and mental levels, I guess the answer is as much as you let it."

[konekopersia]

"Ah, no. I'm aware of the LOLs. Do you think it can change you even if you don't want to be changed?"

[haganenomore]

Ed considers that. "Well, I guess, to a certain extent, yeah. If only so you don't end up gibbering in a corner somewhere because of being unable to cope with the weirdness."

[konekopersia]

Mamoru laughs ruefully. "Gibbering isn't the effect I'm suspecting." He can't even picture this person gibbering. Ever.

[nobodys_son]

It helped my planning. I saw how things went wrong in other realities, and that led to changes.

[konekopersia]

"That is very useful." Warning about what his hair dresser was going to do would have been great! "But I was wondering more about how it might affect one's... moral compass."

[nobodys_son]

::There's a raised eyebrow somewhere under all those bangs.:: It might make you less likely to assume you immediately know everything and can accurately judge a situation.

[konekopersia]

"Could it change an enemy to an ally?" He doesn't much want to say more in the way of details, but he won't be surprised if his alternate can guess what he's talking about.