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[craftpunk]

🜲 It's Woden. 🜲

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[craftpunk]

Well. It was... revealed to me by someone else.

[reexamined]

This is sounding less like discovering godhood, and being bestowed it, you realize.

[craftpunk]

I know what it sounds like, but it's not.

It's... all about discovery. All Ananke does -- did -- was let us in on the secret.

[reexamined]

I won't say I understand, because I don't. But it sounds interesting regardless. Who's Ananke?

[craftpunk]

She's...the one who found us, and brought us together.

The one who pulled the strings.

[reexamined]

That's an interesting choice of words. Saying someone else pulls the strings would imply a "puppetmaster" aspect. Is this true?

[craftpunk]

Nobody pulled strings like Ananke.

So, in short, yes.

[reexamined]

How powerful does someone have to be to be the one who pulls strings on a god?

[craftpunk]

A god in her own right, obviously.

[reexamined]

One stronger than you.

[craftpunk]

Maybe. But she's dead now. It doesn't matter how powerful she is now.

[reexamined]

Technically, I'm dead. I died before arriving here.

So I wouldn't write her off as no longer a threat. Unless you don't interpret her as a threat.

[craftpunk]

That depends.

Mostly on what she could hold over our heads this time.

[reexamined]

Ah, she was blackmailing you.

Was it because of your predilection?

[You know, that weird racist fetish.]

[craftpunk]

Yes and no. She's the one that awakened us, and she's the one who knows how it will all end. She's been with us before. In the past.

Kind of like a guide, but an asshole one.

[reexamined]

I think if I had a dollar every time you were oddly cryptic, I would be wealthy enough to buy an oil bath.

[craftpunk]

Likely, yes.

But it's not going to change my ability to obscure the truth. I'm not well-liked for a reason.

[reexamined]

Did you think I'd be put off by your opaqueness? I occasionally get the impression you intentionally don't want others to like you, so you say things in a specific way to attempt to push people away.

1/2

[craftpunk]

What?

[ NO????? ]

[craftpunk]

That's ridiculous. Who doesn't want to be liked.

[ I-- IT'S NOT LIKE THAT BAKA

It is absolutely like that. ]

[reexamined]

Maybe you also get something out of being disliked. Sometimes I do.

[craftpunk]

[ Being disliked means a lot of things. There's a pause. ]

What could you possibly get out of being disliked?

[ Other than nobody else leaving you for who you really are. ]

[reexamined]

No one tries to befriend you, which is advantageous when you know you both have nothing in common. You don't have to worry about others, it's overall easier than developing relationships.

Sometimes, when you know you aren't going to be winning anyone's opinion of you anyway, it's fulfilling to just evoke an even more powerful negative response.

Wouldn't you agree?

[craftpunk]

[ A long pause. ]

Something like that, I suppose, yes. I hear it's common.

[ A shift, then. Like he's moving. ] I like to keep people at a distance.

[reexamined]

Why?

[He knows he's probably not going to get an answer. But he might as well ask.]