Song 3 :==audio==

[hylian_courage]

Do you believe in destiny? I'm told that I'm destined to do a lot of things, but I wonder if it's true.

If it's true that I can't go home... then...

Comments

[pimp_hat]

Psh, da only destiny joo have be da one joo make for joorself.

[hylian_courage]

Sometimes it seems like I don't even have control of that.

...just look at us all here, now. There's a good example.

[pimp_hat]

Kid, shit's always gonna be comin' joor way. It be how joo handle, how joo survive dat makes joo who joo are. Dat's what shapes joor destiny.

[hylian_courage]

No, you're definitely right about that. But... [sighs.]

[lilyground]

What's "destiny"?

[hylian_courage]

It's the idea that everyone has something they're meant to do in life, or meant to become. That part, we don't have control over. But we do make decisions for ourselves on the way there.

Like, if you're meant to kill...

[...maybe that wouldn't be appropriate. How to explain this to a little kid?]

...if you're destined to eat a cake. You could either buy the cake, or make it yourself. But eventually, you eat it either way.

[lilyground]

Ohh.

So "destiny" is why we're all here?

[hylian_courage]

Well, if destiny's true, then this is a part of it... so yeah.

[psychoticracer]

Hell no. Predetermination is for victims.

[hylian_courage]

Hmm. Can I ask why you're so sure?

[psychoticracer]

Once you really watch the light fade from someone else's eyes and know you've caused it, there's not much doubt left that the power of life and death rests in your hands.

[hylian_courage]

[Pause.]

The power to kill is in our hands, of course. But that decision can just be one of many on the way. Our destinies are different.

....Seeing that has never made me doubt destiny.

[waywardassassin]

Destiny's bullshit. It's wrong all the time. Was for me, anyway.

[hylian_courage]

Destiny can't be "wrong". That goes against its definition.

[waywardassassin]

What if it was right for everyone else?

[hylian_courage]

Hm. Explain?

[nanoblast]

I believe you make your own way, but there are certain people that come through life that you're.. Well, just meant to meet.

[hylian_courage]

So, you do believe in it.

[nanoblast]

To some degree, yeah. I think the Holy Light just points us in a certain direction. Up to us if we follow it or not, though.

[hylian_courage]

Well... that's not really destiny, is it? You can't really have... half-destiny. It's either real or it isn't.