Audience: Harrowhark Nonagesimus

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Comments

[bonetiddies]

[Oh my GOD. Tiny.]

As do I. And yet, I believe I would dislike it if I were made to wear that. Can it not be removed?

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[VERY TINY, yeah, and also, incredibly sassy, because the look he gives her is the flattest look in the universe.] No, it can. I'm just wearing it because I love it so much. [harrow]

[bonetiddies]

[I'm love him. Harrow loves him, too. She rolls her eyes at the comment.]

Obviously, I do not believe you are wearing it by choice. What I meant is, what efforts have you made in determining whether there is a means to remove it.

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If there is a way, I haven't figured it out past ripping it out. Unfortunately that tends to be fatal. [:T]

[bonetiddies]

If they're protruding so deeply, certainly. There's a possibility of using the medbay to stabilize you, but I wouldn't risk it, not with the possibility of bleeding into the brain.

Though I recall that at some point, someone stabbed Envy and he returned to the living after?

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Yes. We don't die permanently. That would be how I know that it tends to be fatal. [sometimes you try to rip things out of your head and it doesn't go so well.]

[bonetiddies]

Ah. It came back, then.

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Mm. Came back worse.

[bonetiddies]

[Truly the epitome of pride that he is just suffering torture and chose not to mention it ever. She gets it, dude.]

. . . I dislike the idea of leaving you to suffer this way. But clearly it would be foolhardy to continue to use brute force to remove something supernatural.

I have wondered, about your appearances. When you became the Avatars, they changed. Is that when your crown appeared?

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[stubborn pride, for sure. he's seen enough in harrow to know that they're a little similar in that respect, which is why she gets to see his face.] Around then. [he nods.] I haven't spent much time thinking about it. Isn't something I can change.

[bonetiddies]

The process of becoming Avatars remains a topic which cannot or will not be discussed?

[probe]

Don't really know a lot about it, if you want honest.

[bonetiddies]

How can that be? You simply - one day transformed into this? Or is it something you cannot recall?

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We've been here a while. It just started happening. Probably because we agreed to do this.

[bonetiddies]

You agreed to do what? Become Avatars? Guide us?

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Become Avatars. Not all of us agree on guiding any of you.

[bonetiddies]

Which suggests there is more to your role than guidance, or else you would have paid a painful price simply to be allowed to eavesdrop, something I recall you do not care for.

What is an Avatar, then?

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[on the one hand, he's pleased she listens and remembers? on the other, gross, don't remember or perceive him on any level.] Someone who indulged too much.

[bonetiddies]

[You're perceived, bitch.]

You framed it first as a choice, now a consequence.

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It can be both.

[bonetiddies]

I have wondered. If you wished to leave, could you?

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[this one takes some thinking. and then he sighs.] No. I wouldn't.

[bonetiddies]

I meant to ask whether you would be free to, but that is interesting as well. Why?

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Unfinished business. Can't leave until it's settled.

[bonetiddies]

I have a sense I already know the answer, so forgive the waste of a question. But might you say what that business is?