text, un: mafuyu

[restringing]

If someone who died in your world came back in this one
What would you do?

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[unhappy]

Avoid them.

text, un: bellabelle

[doreimi]

That depends a lot on the person, I think. If it's someone I wanted to see, or someone I didn't.

Actually, this really happened to someone I know, here. I think it was...sort of hard for them, honestly.

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[ex_empoison405]

Well, that depends on the person in question, don't you think?

If it happened to a friend, I'd hug them and tell them I missed them, of course!

There was someone else I knew. And... Well... Let's just say some people are better off staying dead.

[restringing]

No matter who it was?

text | un: kishibe

[penpoint]

It depends. There's some circumstances where this is a good thing, and some where it is not.

[restringing]

Mmm... I think so too
But I can't decide

It would be hard on anyone, I think
Even if they were happy

[restringing]

But is that it?
It wouldn't affect you more than that?

text | un: adler

[disasdeer]

I think it'd mostly be bad and I would not want to engage with a lot of people that I've known who have died.

[doreimi]

Yeah...it's hard for the person who lost them once, because when that person died, something about their relationship naturally ended. It's hard to know how to start something like that up again, or what it should look like if it does.

But for the person who died...I think it's just as hard? Because they have to go on knowing that the future isn't really theirs anymore. It feels like getting left behind, a little. You know?

[restringing]

Separately is okay
How would you react to either of them?
Good or bad

[unhappy]

all the dead people I know are probably grudge-y.

[restringing]

I understand... I think
Were any of them close to you?

If it's ok to ask

[restringing]

All of them?

[Listen, he knows that Emerald is from someplace distinctly unlike his home, but imagining a scenario in which everyone who died holds grudges is more than slightly unsettling.]

Why?

[ex_empoison405]

Of course it would!

I'd be afraid for everyone's safety if he ever showed up. I'd warn everyone I know about him and go fight him, myself, if he tries anything again.

And yet... I would still feel sorry for him. To go back to not existing anymore if he ever left after being here sounds like a cruel fate, regardless if you're rotten at heart or not.

Which is why I hope none of my friends ever die on me as long as I'm around.

[disasdeer]

Yes. They were. There was no one like them, either. But I don't know if coming back would be good for anyone who died.

[restringing]

You've thought a lot about this

[It takes him a solid five minutes or so to respond this time, as he keeps rewriting his words over and over again.]

I have too
No matter what, it's going to hurt
Because you can't go back to the way it used to be even if someone comes back

I don't know what it would be like to come back knowing that you can't have a future
And could be taken away again at any time

Anyone would find that hard

text; un:phantom

[yumenope]

Be thankful for the second chance.


( he isn’t sure it’s his place but — )

Are you all right?

[restringing]

I think... I might agree with you

For me, it was someone incredibly important
But even if he came back he'd be unhappy

It hurts to lose someone
If you were hurt like that too
I don't think them coming back would take that away

[doreimi]

I've had a lot of time to think about it. And it sounds like you have, too.

It's...complicated. Not just the part about how it might be taken away. It's actually pretty easy to get used to that, because you've already had your future taken away once, you know? So it's just more of the same.

The harder part is when the people who care about you can't understand it, not like you can. And you know they want so bad for you to treat this like a second chance, but it isn't just something you can substitute for the first one you lost.

[restringing]

Even if it's a second chance that wouldn't last forever?

Yeah
People have been talking about coming back
And I couldn't stop thinking about it

[penpoint]

[ Well. He has personal experience here. ]

The good? I'd try to spend time with them.

The bad? Hoping that I don't see them. There are many bad people who have died and this place would be better off without them.

[yumenope]

Better to have loved and lost than to never love at all, they say. Or something like that.

While it’s terribly selfish to wish the fate of this world on anyone, I suppose it beats the afterlife.

text | un: stormflower

[sleepinglotus]

It already happened.

We were honest with her about it. There was no point to lying and it just would have made things worse.

[restringing]

So he's an enemy?

[It's extremely hard to make assumptions about people without knowing anything about them or where they're from, but someone who fights innocent people (?) sure sounds like an enemy or villain.]

It is a cruel fate
But I don't know if it's more cruel to not come back at all
Or come back and have everything taken away again

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[provenforce]

He did. I'm grateful for a second chance with him, and I'll do anything I can to not waste it.