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Awwright, I'm in the mood for a ~question meme~ for Glacies and John Doe! Let's go back and forth until we're exhausted from words. I will also accept thread planning and CR plotting, because I've been remiss on that front, oops.

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John plans to raise an eyebrow, murmur 'huh', and walk away from it. He has long since planned to just remain forevermore in Imeeji. It's hard to manipulate the variables enough to get the ends he wants, but he knows that if he holds onto his space then he is denying one more person the trial of going through this place and potentially being lost forever . . . It's funny that it isn't to support anyone, but he really can't picture himself in that kind of position. He's just prepared to be left alone at the very end of times with the demons sighing at him, because he did it again . . .

Glacies is and will always lean towards going back home immediately with no catch. She has a lot of work, and she has been slotted as one of those key pivotal people in how things shake out in her world, so she can't really ignore it. For me and her, that time will likely come after she's shown some growth on par to what the alternate end to her canon gave us and also whenever she completely fuck-owns Absinthe into getting off his bullshit. Glacies would, of course, like to remain and help everyone else out where she can, but she also knows that people who know her and care for her would understand that she has a lot of other things on her plate, so she can't really stick around for any longer than she truly has to.

And, now, it is time to talk to me about Absinthe and Emet.

John! I really enjoy John a lot and this is something he would totally do, but John!

Absinthe is probably the person he is most comfortable around. Their banter is engaging, he's mellow enough to just let things be, and he's surprising calming to be around. Now he knows a lot of this is an act, but oh, well, he's taking it.

Absinthe will always have his respect for what he did with the Starscourge before his imprisonment --- that selfless sacrifice. It reminds him of his people and how they sacrificed themselves for each other, and he has such deep awe and almost reverence for that. So even if they were to have a falling out, Absinthe will always have his respect. He will be placed on par with his people which Emet has nothing but love, appreciation, and awe for.

However, Absinthe's stated goal of revenge is just plain dumb. To put all that effort, all that planning, all the grit for what? When it's over, he'll be no happier than he was before. Worse yet, he wants to go to his grave shortly after. If he isn't going to find peace or solace or some amount of world where he is happy after the fact, then there is no point. He won't tell him that to his face because at the end of the day it is Asbsinthe's choice. Absinthe is smart, he weighed the options, and while he believes he came to the wrong conclusions he won't bully him about it.

Emet-Selch also as sees a lot of parallels in himself compared to Absinthe. A worldwide tragedy, a betrayal, and then being thrown into a world that doesn't seem your own. He's pretty sure if he was in Absinthe's shoes he just would have stopped, simply put. So he can't really begrudge him his desire to end it. It fortifies just how lucky he was to have his two companions even if they didn't necessarily always get along. He always had them. He can't imagine attempting it alone. (Subsequently it also just fortifies his horror that out of the three of them only Elidibus is left, and Elidibus will absolutely break under it all.)

He also can't imagine being imprisoned unable to die for two thousand years in isolation. That almost chills to the bone more than the state of his soul which is a mess! A mess and something that looks exceedingly painful. Honestly, he really did start his research on the Starscourge to cure Absinthe's soul. No one deserves that. The fact that he blights other souls is really quite sickening to him --- another huge strike against the pointless revenge --- and if it could be cured, it would be better for everyone involved on the planet. This is why he approached Glacies to see if he could give her a tool to fight the Starscourge as farfetched as finding an actual solution is. He knows a cure will undermine Absinthe, but he can't in good faith not try to find a cure. He will still use it for a rejoining, but that excuse was mostly for Absinthe.

Emet-Selch has come to the conclusion that he can't really do it anything for Absinthe that will have much impact. So he has decide to see if he can at least give Absinthe some semblance of joy before he goes off and does his revenge. He's not arrogant enough to think he can make him happy, but a pocket of good memories here or there wouldn't go amiss and he certainly has earned it.

Outside of his horrible circumstances that is FFXV, he genuinely likes him! His dry humor, his wit, and Emet-Selch does derive a lot of comfort from Absinthe. Of the people he's told about his goals, he wasn't worried that Absinthe would be upset by it. He finds great joy in the banter they have back and forth. He can definitely push more boundaries than he can with anyone else. Also despite being a decaying zombie, somehow Absinthe's physical presence is a comfort which Emet-Selch isn't sure why, but just accepts it all the same. Absinthe is also incredibly frustrating at times, but that is part of his charm. He's a delightful puzzle!

So to contrast Absinthe and Glacies. Absinthe represents the comfort at the end of a very bad day where all you want to do is blanket burrito. Glacies is the inspiration, the goodwill towards others that makes you want to get up in the morning and appreciate the day.

It's weird. Not sure how it came to this, but here it is.

For both John and Glacies, if they had to yeet one unit from existence, which unit would it be and why?

John would be extremely torn between Baritones and Zrael for yeet purposes. If it came down to it, he would probably pick Zrael since they are a lot less active in ways he can pick up. Baritones is a greater threat in the long run, but they are also the threat he is familiar with and he can engage. So, they can stick around while he just takes out a problem that refuses to be managed at all. Also, they are threatening his fucking son, so they can get the fuck out. Bye, Felicia.

Glacies would also lean towards Zrael. It isn't for lack of love, though she is light on CR with them as well, but they have caused a lot of problems that she can see and not help with whereas she is actually working and engaging Baritones. If Zrael wasn't really, really Zrael, she would probably be looking towards power sets that make her really wary. The issue is that the people can't be divorced from the powers available to them, so it would be a game of balancing who can she live with dooming to some unknowable end versus how much does she not trust anyone to ever have this ability. Given enough time and awareness of what is going on, she would absolutely switch to Baritones, though. Y'all are collective assholes, and you need to stop that.

I have not done a single solitary MMO since Ragnarok. Sell me on XIV. Also, I have spent 500+ hours in Don't Starve if that helps in the selling process.

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