un: phoenixevolution

[manufactured]

So many questions about relationships, about partnerships and the like, since I've arrived here. For those that choose to engage in such things, I suppose my primary question to you is why.

This is a world where affection is a commodity; I would think it more beneficial to most to treat it as such. There seems to be little point in dedicating oneself to others that are in just as much of a coerced situation, short of making it seem slightly more bearable.

While I'm sure this will be harped on as pointlessly cynical by those with nothing better to do, I consider it more a point of curiosity. It's interesting to me that some will invest themselves so fully into something that essentially doesn't matter – to the world or otherwise.

[...It's not so much cynical as it is making you sound at least mildly like a psychopath, Wesker, but whatever.]

Comments

[whateternityis]

Some of both.

[manufactured]

It certainly must be unfortunately, if this is preferable.

[It's not all bad here. But he can think of many, many places to start a relationship that are not this?]

[whateternityis]

Preference has little to do with it. We took big enough risks as it was, and then matters were resolved, and then we were here. [Which doesn't make this any less of a nice vacation, for any number of reasons.]

If anything, we had the proper conversation a bit sooner than we might've done at home. Doesn't change the fact that everything underpinning it was already long since there.

[manufactured]

How long have you known this individual? Through morbid curiosity.

[whateternityis]

Six millennia and change.

[manufactured]

[...That's fine.]

Supernatural, undead, cursed, or something else entirely?

[whateternityis]

[Arguably, Falling is the biggest curse of them all, but that only applies to Crowley.]

The first, unless you count angels and demons as 'something else entirely.'

[manufactured]

...I'll grant supernatural for that, yes. Which side?

[whateternityis]

I'm the demon.

But technically, we've both quit. Weirdly, thwarting Armageddon wasn't a popular move with either set.

[manufactured]

I wouldn't have thought of such a thing as being something one could just quit.

[whateternityis]

Quit in a professional capacity, not an existential one. [...At least, not an existential capacity they've had any time or opportunity to really pin down beyond 'that probably happened but bugger if we know what it means.' They've both changed, but they don't know exactly how.]

They didn't really want to keep us on after the Apocalypse faff anyway, so.