Though my last inquiry garnered a respectable amount of information, I am still missing many pieces which are necessary to complete my appraisal of the situation regarding the chips
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[text; locked]vonkarmicMarch 30 2010, 03:13:48 UTC
('Congratulations'? The sentiment itself - objectively - is overly formal and almost out of place, something found on a greeting card that you purchased when you had nothing additional to say to the person to whom it was to be addressed. However, Franziska is secretly a little surprised - and pleased - that she received any sort of birthday wishes from her father at all, but that feeling is soon followed by a sharp pang of sadness.
The complexity of Discedo and its many disparate timelines made possible something that - in their own world - she knew would never happen; there, Franziska at the age she is now is something her father will never be able to see for himself, and Franziska is unsure as to how she feels about that. Dare she take solace in the fact that her father would never really know of her failures? - if Miles Edgeworth's experience with returning home, and the memories he retained, was to be taken as an anomaly, that is. Franziska had heard of enough people who had gone home and then returned to Discedo without their prior memories to still retain a significant amount of hope on the subject. She disliked entertaining the notion that the things she had experienced here would be with her forever.
Still, she knows better than to voice any of this aloud, and instead replies curtly:)
Again, thank you ... though it is hardly an achievement that deserves congratulations, as it required no real skill on my part.
The ability to stay alive in times like these is not one to be taken for granted, Franziska.
[Or is it? After all, death as it existed back home is unachievable in Discedo, and while the longest Manfred has heard of anyone from outside worlds spending in this wretched place is more than two years, but less than three, who knew how long these 'scientists' expected to hold their experiment for? While people recovered from fatal injuries, what of natural causes? This strikes an odd chord with Manfred, as he knows he is, physically, one of the older members of this society. If one were to die of those causes, would they still be revived?
Would the death happen again?
Simultaneously, it is a question he does not want answered, yet a question which will gnaw away at the edges of his curiosity until it is.]
[text; locked]vonkarmicMarch 31 2010, 05:07:21 UTC
(Well, she won't argue there.)
But if I were to do so, I would just be revived one day later.
(Franziska's tone is confident, but internally, she was still a bit unsure about that. Certainly the majority of deaths worked that way in Discedo, but did they all? -- the incident with Miles and his delayed revival still bothered her.)
[text; locked]vonkarmicMarch 31 2010, 06:16:10 UTC
I suppose that would depend greatly upon what, exactly, the scientists do with our bodies when they retrieve and revive them. That, and how long they take to do so.
The complexity of Discedo and its many disparate timelines made possible something that - in their own world - she knew would never happen; there, Franziska at the age she is now is something her father will never be able to see for himself, and Franziska is unsure as to how she feels about that. Dare she take solace in the fact that her father would never really know of her failures? - if Miles Edgeworth's experience with returning home, and the memories he retained, was to be taken as an anomaly, that is. Franziska had heard of enough people who had gone home and then returned to Discedo without their prior memories to still retain a significant amount of hope on the subject. She disliked entertaining the notion that the things she had experienced here would be with her forever.
Still, she knows better than to voice any of this aloud, and instead replies curtly:)
Again, thank you ... though it is hardly an achievement that deserves congratulations, as it required no real skill on my part.
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[Or is it? After all, death as it existed back home is unachievable in Discedo, and while the longest Manfred has heard of anyone from outside worlds spending in this wretched place is more than two years, but less than three, who knew how long these 'scientists' expected to hold their experiment for? While people recovered from fatal injuries, what of natural causes? This strikes an odd chord with Manfred, as he knows he is, physically, one of the older members of this society. If one were to die of those causes, would they still be revived?
Would the death happen again?
Simultaneously, it is a question he does not want answered, yet a question which will gnaw away at the edges of his curiosity until it is.]
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[See? Franziska is clearly made of better stock than that Edgeworth brat.]
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But if I were to do so, I would just be revived one day later.
(Franziska's tone is confident, but internally, she was still a bit unsure about that. Certainly the majority of deaths worked that way in Discedo, but did they all? -- the incident with Miles and his delayed revival still bothered her.)
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[His own mortality is not a topic he wishes to dwell upon further, but he finds that once he's started, he's quite unable to stop.]
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Also - now, of course, she's under the impression that he doesn't want to talk to her at all.)
Understood. I shall keep that in mind the next time I consider initiating a conversation with you.
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Ensure that you do.
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