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[handsomefoil]

There are some questions that I have been mulling over for quite some time now. As someone who has returned home once before and returned back to Prismatica with their memories in tact on multiple occasions (apparently some people return, only to be a blank slate), I've had the utmost displeasure of experiencing a harrowing bit of dissonance: My obligation to the world I grew up in, and the freedom I craved in such a liberating sandbox environment as Prismatica. The longer I allow myself to settle down here, the more reluctant I am to leave, and each subsequent ping-ponging back and forth (especially against my own will) leaves me with a heavier heart.

Seeing such a varying degree of opinions both on the network and in person, I've always been curious as to how people feel about their status as a "moonblessed" citizen and in turn, their unpredictable predicament.

If and when the day of reckoning and/or returning is upon us (and should the higher powers be so kind to provide us a choice at all), would you ever wish to return back to your own pocket of the universe? Or multiverse, if Prismatica is indeed set within a different universe altogether?

What would hold you back?

Or if there is nothing holding you back:

what would you take back with you (memories, tangible items, people, etc)?

Or! Bonus question:

In an ideal situation, (let's just throw all propriety to the wind here for a moment) how would you like things to be? This one might be a tricky one. I think this could also easily tie in to the second question, for reasons I assume I don't have to spell out.

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[handsomefoil]

I see. There's really no easy way to compromise, is there? Especially if you practice monogamy.

Simpler, true. I can't argue with that. But would you really wish to forget them? Is their memory not worth it?

{ He's mostly playing Devil's Advocate here, but he's also been slowly making...friends...and more... so this conversation interests him more than he'd like to admit. He'd usually be the first one on-board the Clean Slate train, and yet... }

[greenbriar]

[ Henry can't see it, but the scoff Cardan gives at being accused of practicing monogamy is highly offended.......... which may or may not be the reason his marriage is not doing so hot in the first place. ]

My forgetting would hardly affect them, nor would my remembering.

Would you choose to remember?

[ What he's not saying is that either way, he will outlive most of his mortal companions by centuries, maybe millenia. The kind of goodbye proposed by leaving Lunatia is not so dissimilar to that. ]

[handsomefoil]

{ Maybe he'd be less annoyed if he knew Henry meant it as a general You... but alas, text.

His response is interesting, though. Curiously apathetic (from a Stoic standpoint, anyway). It's not a mindset that he himself comes across often. Of course, one statement does not make a person. He doesn't know this guy. The statement merely makes him curious. }

I see.

I would. I like the person I have become because if them, despite what my past self would've believed. Whether it's improved my quality of life or not I've yet to fully discover, but life is short. It's worth the attempt.

[greenbriar]

And would your mind change if your life was not so short?

[handsomefoil]

{ This takes him longer to think about than usual. }

Not sure. I'd like to think I wouldn't.

But who knows what time could do?