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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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[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.

[daemonized]

Stubborn. Fatalistic!

[playdolls]

Oh my, such a big word you spelled.

[daemonized]

I have plenty more if you'd like to hear them.

[playdolls]

Prompto said you gave him a dictionary as a gift?
What is wrong with you.

[daemonized]

He told you that?

[Okay look it was a little more complicated than Ardyn just giving Prompto a dictionary out of the blue... it was a running joke. Kind of. But. The boy did need it.]

Did he also tell you that he made use of it?

[playdolls]

That is not the point, you tedious old man.

[ WHO GIVES PEOPLE DICTIONARIES IN THIS YEAR OF OUR LORD???!?!?!?! ]

[daemonized]

It was an appreciated gift! That officially overrides any point that you were trying to make.

[ARDYN IZUNIA DOES, IT WAS FUNNY OKAY but also practical.]

[playdolls]

Just teach him to google,
there a practical life skill.

[ For an impractical puppy of a boy. ]

[daemonized]

Are you telling me that searching for a word through the dictionary, utilizing one's powers of alphabetization, is /not/ a practical life skill?

[playdolls]

I'm saying it's an archaic one. Just like you.

[daemonized]

You realize I'm only 37, don't you?