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[darkcharge]

I don't know how you losers manage to get anything done. Before I didn't really understand why people didn't just do what they needed to and then move onto the next thing.

It's because of all these stupid emotions. Not only are they distracting, they just enable weakness. You sit there and think and process before doing something productive. Then you have to process some more because you had feelings over what just happened.

How do you even live with yourselves.

Excuse me, brother, but I want a refund.

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[darkcharge]

What good stuff would that be?

[oncebrokenway]

At the risk of sounding sappy enough that you'll discount everything I say
Happiness?

[darkcharge]

You're absolutely right that's disgustingly sappy and I should discount everything you say.
However.
I'm going to humor you.
What, pray tell, would even cultivate this happiness you speak of?

[oncebrokenway]

Well
For you, specifically, I have no idea. That's something you'll get to find out.
Things you like. Things that satisfy you. Things that take care of a need you have.

Whatever does the opposite of hurting you, basically.

[darkcharge]

Usually the things that I like or satisfy me are highly discouraged.
As for the rest?
I don't have an idea of what that could be.

[oncebrokenway]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here:
I don't think you have any idea what you like or what actually satisfies you.
Because you couldn't feel those things before.
I think what you're thinking of is things that helped you cope with always being in pain
and, speaking as somebody who has gotten real cozy with bad coping mechanisms before, things that help you cope are NOT necessarily the same as things that make you happy.

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[darkcharge]

[ What's frustrating is that this is probably 100% correct. Only thing is that Vanitas doesn't really recognize anything as a good or bad coping skill. Just a coping skill. He does what he's had to do to survive and to feel some measure of relief from the chronic pain.

But who is this guy to tell him these things? ]

[darkcharge]

So who was it that gave you that impression.
Sora? Kairi? Ventus?
Inquiring minds need to know.

[oncebrokenway]

Educated guess from personal experience and what I know about you.

[darkcharge]

Which you shouldn't know anything unless you talked to someone.

[oncebrokenway]

Maybe Sora mentioned it first? Or maybe it was Ven...

Can't remember exactly, but "Vanitas is Ven's other half and he's made of negative emotions" came up on one of our debriefs with Yen Sid.

Nobody was specifically tattling on you, if that's what you're getting at.

[darkcharge]

It is what I was getting at.
Some of that I can understand being in a debrief.
However not all of it could have come from a source other than myself.
Hence it had to come from someone I told.

[oncebrokenway]

I don't know what you want me to tell you, man.
All I know is the debrief stuff.
Then I made the amazing leap of logic that being a broken-off half of a heart made out of darkness and negative emotions probably hurts?

[darkcharge]

:|
You really think I am going to believe that.

[oncebrokenway]

You don't have to.
But it's not like I get anything out of lying to you.

[darkcharge]

Maybe to get my guard down.

[oncebrokenway]

So I could... do what, exactly?

[darkcharge]

Bring me down.

[oncebrokenway]

I've got no reason to do that.
I've got nothing personal against you and the War's over, so unless you decide to make yourself an active threat I've got no reason to mess with you.

[darkcharge]

Revenge. Justice.
Just because Light banishes the Dark.
There are plenty of reasons.

[oncebrokenway]

Revenge usually isn't worth the pain of taking it, even if there was something I wanted revenge on you for.
There wouldn't be any justice in striking you down.
And as for Light banishing the Dark? If that's all there was to it, I'd be next on the chopping block.

[darkcharge]

There wouldn't be? Are you so sure?
I've done some pretty horrible things by your standards.
Your darkness is only permissible because your generation doesn't know any different.
Had you been brought up like the others before you, the attitude would be different.
Or not.
They adore you so naturally you wouldn't be next.

[oncebrokenway]

Well
I don't know details about what you've done
except, I guess, scared some little kids?
but that's not exactly punishable by death
beyond that, I'm just following Ven's lead and he clearly doesn't think you've done anything unforgivable.

as for darkness.
Are you so sure about that?
I've done some pretty horrible things by our standards.
And it's not like anybody else thought my darkness was okay at first.
Even Sora didn't.

[darkcharge]

Others do. Ventus did at one time.
Now he's just
Weird.

[ Because Vanitas doesn't understand where Ven's newfound interest in him comes from. ]

So you did. And maybe they didn't approve of it at first.
Now they do though. Now you're still accepted as one of their own.
They'll embrace you no matter what.
That's the point I was making.

[oncebrokenway]

Sometimes people change their minds when they get a new perspective on something.


...I know they will.
I'm just saying, that if it really was as simple as Light always hating Darkness
then they wouldn't.
I don't think I got a second chance because I'm special.
I think it's because things aren't that simple.