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[everything_rots]

The sun has returned.

The 'Sun' has not.

[He places an odd emphasis on 'sun,' and there's another period of silence. The camera is aimed at the window, at the sky outside.]

Without the Sun, [the emphasis again] there should be no Moon.

[...]

I wonder.

[MORE SILENCE.]

What does darkness mean to you?

Comments

[looseleafbook]

Pullin a philosophical question outta your hat there?

[everything_rots]

Hat?

[He... kind of gets it, translator and all, but still.]

[looseleafbook]

Yeah, out o'tha blue 'nd all that~ [But no one said Lavi had to make sense, either.]

[everything_rots]

Ah.

Curious. 'Darkness' out of the blue.

Did you intend that?

[breakspromises]

So...are you a poet or something?

video forever o/

[everything_rots]

Nothing of the sort.

text forever cause I'm lazy fff

[breakspromises]

So you just like speaking in prose?

lazy together ;;

[everything_rots]

No.

It is spoken, but not prose.

[threedoctorates]

The inherent absence of light.

video.

[everything_rots]

Simple. Perhaps a bit too much so.

Your mind is enclosed -- so is it in the darkness?

video.

[threedoctorates]

I suppose you could say it has been.

Where I'm from, it's my profession to study the human mind, and I've seen some of the darkest minds humanity has to offer.

video.

[everything_rots]

Hmph.

Only humanity.

[audio.]

[l_shrugged]

It depends on the context.

[And the tone denotes offhandedness, as though briefly interested in speaking while terribly distracted.]

Mm... darkness, as we experienced recently, is what the human mind perceives as the absence of light due, in reality, to a deficiency thereof. This concept of darkness is more aptly a deficiency of photons.

[The sound of chewing, and perhaps he is just a bit bored. Despite a distaste for socialization, three months of solitude seems to have bolstered his endurance. That and he does miss philosophizing with Light.]

And you, the meaning?

video.

[everything_rots]

[A pause while he listens, apparently.]

As you say it, darkness would be the lack of light rather than a substance of its own.

[Another short silence.]

For myself? [A quiet 'hmph.'] A domain.

[audio.]

[l_shrugged]

Scientifically, yes.

That said, being that darkness needn't be dominant to exist indicates that it is the base. Light requires a source. Darkness is the lack thereof; interestingly the canvas of life, in a more romantic sense.

[Listening.]

Elaborate?

video forever on this end

[everything_rots]

Romantic, in the sense of...?

It can be painted over, but with difficulty, then.

[...] In opposition to light.

Voice

[i_love_squats]

What's the difference? You know, between sun and Sun?

[The darkness?] It means...loneliness.

Video.

[everything_rots]

The difference?

Who knows?

[...interesting.] Yours?

Video.

[i_love_squats]

But there is a difference?

[Hmm.] I guess, whoever's lost in the dark.

Video.

[everything_rots]

Yes.

Why would they be there?