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[lucycoded]

[The video feed starts with a screen of bright blue; one that only shows itself to be something other than a technical error when a wisp of white rare to the sky today peeks into view. The microphone rumbles with the breeze whipping across it. After a moment of this, things seem to calm, and the camera is turned on Kazuhiko's face

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voice;

[cruelwonder]

[Slowly getting the hang of this book...]

When a person is not human any longer?

voice;

[lucycoded]

[A new voice.]

You sound like you don't believe something like that is possible.

voice;

[cruelwonder]

I do. But some people can go through outward changes that make them "inhuman" far before any inward changes occur.

I was curious as to what your definition of "inhuman" was.

voice;

[lucycoded]

Does an inhuman physical appearance lead toward an inhuman heart and mind in your view?

I can't seem to settle myself on an opinion that is not contradicted at one point or another. I believe that there is something good and decent in everyone, despite past choices and actions. But as for a state of being and the transition... I'm not sure.

voice;

[cruelwonder]

Not especially, no. One can be strange while still looking quite normal.

Perhaps your definition, then, should be a loose one. Every person is different. What may be odd to one is not always so strange to another.

voice;

[lucycoded]

And in this world, vis versa happens often as well.

A loose definition would accomodate the varieties of people, and while it's uncomfortable to not have concrete answers on things, it's something I can accept. I'm interested in other's opinion's though. Such as yours.

[While he's not in the least bit unaccustomed to strange things, that's not exactly something he enjoys talking about. One subject normally leads to another.]

voice;

[cruelwonder]

I've found that when people give in to the cruelties that their minds tell them to do, they begin to lose who they are.

...But then, I've known people who have been inhuman and cruel all their lives and have never once changed. I can't speak for others, I'm afraid. I don't even think I could say I believe people are always inhuman or not.

voice;

[lucycoded]

Have there been so many cruel people in your life?

Humans have too many variables to fit into clearly defined trends, no matter how hard we try to make them. But to have people fit into those categories more distinctly, I don't know if that would make things easier or not. If things were simple and straightforward, if things were as they were and always would be, without lies of deceit or choice.

Do you think that those people who've lost themselves to cruelty, or those who were always lost, have a chance to regain themselves?

voice;

[cruelwonder]

More than I would like to recount.

[The asylum, the orderlies, the nurses, and Wonderland...]

It is a shame that people have to hurt when people who are simply...terrible to others cannot be found through some sort of clear method. But I don't know how that could work.

I don't know. I'm cruel too.

voice;

[lucycoded]

You have my sympathy...

[While there have been few who were cruel to him directly... watching the malice spread among people like a disease was painful enough to strike a genuine sympathy.]

I don't know if there's any way for it to work beyond theory. But hope drives process I guess.

Why would you say that?

voice;

[cruelwonder]

It's all right...

[She doesn't want to speak on it, anyway.]

You seem like a good person to want to try and find such a system. It could help so many people.

[It could have helped her, anyway.]

Because I am. I have forgotten things that I should never have lost in the first place. I have allowed things to happen that are too wicked to speak of.

voice;

[lucycoded]

[And so the subject is omitted.]

I wouldn't say that, but I appreciate your words.

[And a pause. A situation so similar.]

If forgetting important things and being powerless to stop suffering are reason enough to call someone cruel, then I would fall under that classification myself. Motive... is where I would say guilt lies...

voice;

[cruelwonder]

To forget in order to erase my own pain... It was inexcusable. But you are right; if motive is where the guilt lies, then I am somewhat innocent.

The victim never fits the punishment.

voice;

[lucycoded]

People handle things differently. It's painful for some to know and remember things. I'm not so sure I would call it inexcusable. Having those memories wouldn't make you able to change the far past, it would only scar your future with that pain.

Memories can both victimize and empower.

voice;

[cruelwonder]

To stay in the dark is worse. You can be manipulated and abused by anyone who wishes to do so.

voice;

[lucycoded]

[A small pause, mulling over the information he's only recently been given.]

I suppose that could prove true.