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Lightning Farron ([personal profile] soggypastry) wrote2013-09-17 05:59 pm
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You two doing alright?

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When you've been in this world long enough to see and do everything it has to offer, what's left? How do you spend the rest of your time here when there's nothing left to do?
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soggypastry: (peer out into destiny)

[personal profile] soggypastry 2013-09-19 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe, but no one said the playground was infinite, either. Eventually you will run out of possibilities, and you're left right back where you started.

What do you think happens then? More people will ask the same question I did, and probably get the same answer you're giving me now.
doitrockapella: (BOW ❖ holy shit was that an honorific)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2013-09-19 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Being left back where you started suggests you never changed along the way. I don't think that's particularly likely.

As for what happens then — I imagine the next logical step is to find the way out.
soggypastry: (snow-talk him down)

[personal profile] soggypastry 2013-09-19 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
What, so you think there's actually a way to get out of this world by choice? You haven't been here very long, have you?
doitrockapella: (DEADPAN ❖ would you like a hint)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2013-09-19 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That can go both ways, you know. Have you been here so long that you're willing to give up and resign yourself to the apparent inevitable?
soggypastry: (and i am the martyr)

[personal profile] soggypastry 2013-09-20 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Three years, and I'm the only one from my world who never went back. So yes. I have been here "so long". Some impossible things can't become possible.

[Or rather, she's just too tired to keep on trying when her reason is supposedly dead.]
doitrockapella: (CONFIDENT ❖ why yes i speak jive)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2013-09-20 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
In a period of three years, Thomas Edison contemplated over three thousand different theories of how to create the light bulb. When he finally prevailed, he's said to have remarked, "I didn't fail a thousand times; it was an invention with a thousand steps."

Failure lies in writing something off as impossible, not in trying without succeeding.
soggypastry: (snow-talk him down)

[personal profile] soggypastry 2013-09-20 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Right. I'm guessing that this Edison guy wasn't dragged from his home and left to rot here. He had everything he needed, from the sounds of things. We don't.

I've already tried getting back. The badges are useless. None of the cities hold any clues on how to send off-worlders home. Whatever brought us here may as well have sent itself to our worlds, for all the luck anyone's had in finding it so far. And you think telling us how a person who's not here succeeded because he didn't give up is going to help somehow?
doitrockapella: (DEADPAN ❖ would you like a hint)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2013-09-20 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's certainly going to help more than giving up and accepting this place as an inevitability will. I can't imagine anything would ever get done if the going response to apparent futility was to lie down and accept it.
soggypastry: (long walk back)

[personal profile] soggypastry 2013-09-20 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Right. If pretty words and inspiring lectures did any good, I'm pretty sure we'd have found a way back by now.

But who knows. If you really believe in what you're saying, maybe you'll be the one to find a way out of here. Think you'll get that lucky?
doitrockapella: (BACKFLIP ❖ spread these wings of mine)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2013-09-20 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
If I find a way out of here, it'll have nothing to do with luck.

What is it that you're so desperate to get home to?
soggypastry: (swooooosh goes teh camera)

[personal profile] soggypastry 2013-09-20 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Sure it won't.

And your answer's right there. My home. That's what I'm so desperate to get back to.

[The people she left behind...or the ones that have been sent back. Maybe this world gave her more friends and another family, but she wants to go home. As crazy as it is these days, it's home.]
doitrockapella: (BOW ❖ holy shit was that an honorific)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2013-09-20 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Are you expecting it to go somewhere while you're gone?
soggypastry: (and i am the martyr)

[personal profile] soggypastry 2013-09-20 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
No. I just want to get back before anything can happen to it. I belong there, not here.
doitrockapella: (POCKET ❖ it's my bar of chocolate)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2013-09-20 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
And you're angry because this world seems to think otherwise.
soggypastry: (snow-talk him down)

[personal profile] soggypastry 2013-09-20 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
If you've got that much figured out, why even bother asking?
doitrockapella: (PLEASED ❖ aww yeah let's get educational)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2013-09-20 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
If you're going to be this hostile to everyone who tries to hold a conversation with you, why even bother asking?
soggypastry: (peer out into destiny)

[personal profile] soggypastry 2013-09-20 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
Because I'm not after conversations about my private life. Just answers. Do you need a better reason?
doitrockapella: (EXPLAIN ❖ istanbul not constantinople)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2013-09-20 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
You're after answers that you don't believe exist. So either you're wrong about there being nothing left for you, or you're lying now.

Either way, it's not the most advantageous position to be occupying in a discussion.
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