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[heartsneverdie]

There are always shadows, no matter what. Though some parts of the Nexus are too well illuminated for their own good, some parts

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[sceadu_gemynd]

Well, that's certainly intriguing - nd even more so to another who has a tendency to tend more to the shadows then the light. And even he didn't he'd've wandered over over anyway. Hey Kurt, have a Nobody and the mun can totally not remember if this version has met Kurt before or not, woops.

"It would help perhaps, if I were capable of fear."

[heartsneverdie]

Yes, he has. "An outsider's perspective, then?" he asks, head tilting slightly. "If your kind can consider the issue that far. What sense is there to it?"
Last time he was Nexus-side, he sure as heck didn't know what a Nobody was in any accurate sense. Things have changed. ...Or maybe will change.

[sceadu_gemynd]

Good to know, I thought it might have been the other one. "Perhaps it stems from the fear of the unknown; from the fear of dying. Those such as you and I have passed through death relatively unscathed but to those who haven't realizing that they will be as nothing in literal sense can be disconcerting."

That would be a 'yes, he can consider the issue that far.'

[heartsneverdie]

He's not in the most charitable frame of mind towards Nobodies at the moment, but still - makes sense. "Even when they are told that the nothingness and the darkness is not always the end?"

[cjellibelly]

Svlad's a little wary of the tentacles, but he's still not sure this isn't all a dream. It's a pretty fascinating dream if it is. "If you're asking about fear of the inevitable you've gotta first establish whether or not you really believe in inevitability. Goes hand in hand with things like fate and destiny and a firm belief in inevitability is almost a dodge of the effect of free will on the course of reality."
The fat little boy babbling about metaphysics is no older than twelve, if that.

[heartsneverdie]

Hey, completely understandable. And the entity in front of him is at least trying to seem as gentle as is possible for - something like that. "Even with free will, there are things that can't be avoided, aren't there?" he says. "Or there are things that are more difficult to get around, no matter what you decide."

[cjellibelly]

"Things can be difficult, but on a grand scale I don't know that they're inevitable. I mean, being dragged to the doctor or dentist seems pretty hard to avoid, but technically I could kick me mum and make a break for it, run away from home. There'd be consequences, I wouldn't like 'em, but knowing that possibility exists in some far alternate parallel dimension means it's not, technically, inevitable. Reality's a kind of a... a branching tree or something, right? A fractal, like every instant splits off into a million others. Don't that knock inevitability on the head?" He pants a little to catch his breath after that.

[heartsneverdie]

He nods, with a smile. "I've heard of the theory. And it does - I'm hardly the person to talk to on that issue, mind." Taking a second to think, here - "But how far does it really extend? Ultimately, there are points where... outside of here, I suppose... it's hardly worth considering things viable options."

[protosnake]

Azbo thinks nothing of Kurt's appearance.

"Everyone fears death a little. It's an organismal thing."

[heartsneverdie]

This? Probably something that'll help, as far as he's concerned. "What's the point of it, though?" he asks. "There's a difference between - wanting to preserve yourself - and going around scared of the fact you won't always be able to."

[protosnake]

"What's the difference?"

[heartsneverdie]

He pauses, trying to work out a way to word it. "One is - more general than the other, perhaps. The self-preservation drive can be carried out in other ways than to run from the idea of the end."