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[daemonized]

ARDYN IZUNIA

Ardyn Izunia. Professor of law. Lord of law. Liege of law. The one grading your papers. Leave a message.

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[playdolls]

Who knows, maybe I'll win the power roulette and I won't need anyone else's help at all.

[daemonized]

You've a way to go yet, or so I hear. Claws are mild compared to what I've seen and heard about in others.

Besides, wouldn't these changes be at all disturbing for you?

[playdolls]

They're not disturbing. They're interesting.

[daemonized]

To have changes forced upon us that no one asked for is /interesting/.

[This is text, but... deadpan.]

[playdolls]

The mechanism of that force alone should intrigue you. What would *you* do, if you could change the natures of those around you?

[daemonized]

I would question whether or not I had any right to change such natures in the first place.

[playdolls]

That isn't what I asked, you pedantic ass.

[daemonized]

And yet you can garner the answer from it, all the same.

I'm glad, you know, that the power to change this city does not lie in your hands. No offense, Pitou.

[playdolls]

I garner that you're narrow minded.

What of curing diseases, deformities, disabilities? You wouldn't even take the time to consider that?

[daemonized]

Of course I would consider it.

[This is a man who would go around and heal people all day if he had the choice.]

But I would also question whether or not that kind of power is my responsibility to bear. Shaping the entire world, just because I believe it should be changed.

No different than Retrospec forcing changes upon us without our permission.

[playdolls]

Maybe it's for our own good.

[daemonized]

[They can't hear it, but the loudest scoff ever goes here.]

I'm having trouble seeing how regaining the abilities and, more importantly, the /memories/ of a man like that other Ardyn does anyone any good.

[playdolls]

What? You don't like him? Isn't he as charming and clever as *you*?

[daemonized]

[The sarcasm isn't lost on him, but instead thoroughly ignored just to be frustrating.]

Oh, just as much. But he's also manipulative and hateful, and I could do without those traits for now.

[playdolls]

I don't think you get a choice in the matter,
Ardyn. We are what we are.

[daemonized]

Some of us are not so willing to accept that, Pitou. Letting the other me overwrite the man that I am now. I put a bit more stock in this life than to let it slip away so easily.

[playdolls]

Sounds doomed. Sounds foolish. Good luck with that.

[daemonized]

[He'd feel more exasperated, but. This is Pitou. This is reason enough to not be too terribly perturbed by how they're so sure of his inevitable decline into villaindom. Not because he thinks they don't understand what they're talking about, but they often disagree. Quibble. It's just a given at this point.]

What makes you so sure that'll be the end result? You don't believe who we are now has any influence whatsoever over who we might become?

[playdolls]

Nurture all you like, your nature is still intact.
You justified being manipulative and hateful once, despite your objections now, what will it take to nudge you there again. Less and less each time.

[daemonized]

Your assumption being that the justification in this world might align with whatever existed in the "past", if we are to call it that. The narrative is still incomplete. I don't know what motivated that man. Don't be so quick to discard nurture, as if it will always be the one to lose the battle.

[playdolls]

You'll know sooner or later, won't you? Are you ready? Or will you cower.

[ Hadn't this all started with Pitou calling him a coward. ]

[daemonized]

You don't give me enough credit, as if often the case. I won't turn away from whatever happens.

[playdolls]

I don't give you any credit, Ardyn. I thought you knew that.

[daemonized]

And yet look how tightly I hold onto that small flicker of hope that, someday, you might just consider doing so.

[playdolls]

Doomed. Foolish.