I dunno. I mean . . . it depends on the person. It depends on what's going to happen? [Taako remembers a time where he lied to a lot of people that everything was going to be fine right before the apocalypse consumed them. So. He can't exactly judge too harshly. On the other hand.] There's people who can't move forward if they can't believe that everything will be okay. That want to be told things will be okay in the end. But I don't think it's, uh, necessarily right. You can't take the choice away. Sometimes you have to look the ugly shit right in the face to know how to deal with it.
[Elsa said so, too. Do you like agreeing with a Disney princess? (Well, she didn't exactly say that, he just interpreted it that way.)
Anyway, it should probably be alarming to me, but Taako is saying some things right now that he really vibes with.]
Look at it in the face to know how to deal with it. . . [Yeah. Yeah. That's right, isn't it?] What if they think you can't? Also, what if they think if you can't deal with something, you might explode and destroy a lot of people and things with your psychic powers?
Every time he thinks and goes hm, and well, he opens his mouth like he's going to say something, and then closes it. And then opens it again? At least he's really thinking it over.]
You know, once, someone took away my memories of Lup. She'd, uh, died, and this person thought they knew the best way to handle that and all the other things spinning out of her control - powerful magical artifacts, impending apocalyptic doom, that sort of thing - so they thought the best thing to do was to erase my mind and put me somewhere where they thought they [air quotes] "make sure I was okay." She thought she was really doing the right thing.
But the flip side of that is, um, I'm going to kill her, the next time I see her?
Mm. . . I think, talking to people a little, I understand it. [Sometimes, someone has psychic powers that will literally blow up in your face.] But it still makes me angry.
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Date: 2020-10-25 02:27 am (UTC)[At least he didn't say Emet-Selch?]
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Date: 2020-10-25 02:44 am (UTC)[ . . . ]
I don't like being out of the loop. Been out of the loop a lot of my life, and it's bullshit.
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Date: 2020-10-25 02:48 am (UTC)I don't like it, either! It isn't okay to go around telling lies!
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Date: 2020-10-25 03:01 am (UTC)[Now hold on.]
Let's not go making blanket statements like that. A lie can serve a purpose, when used with expert precision.
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Date: 2020-10-25 03:11 am (UTC)[Hmm. He can even see that, sort of. He can think of lies that have helped people.]
What about lying to people and telling them it will be okay when it isn't okay? What about that kind of lie?
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Date: 2020-10-25 03:27 am (UTC)He sits up at that.]
I dunno. I mean . . . it depends on the person. It depends on what's going to happen? [Taako remembers a time where he lied to a lot of people that everything was going to be fine right before the apocalypse consumed them. So. He can't exactly judge too harshly. On the other hand.] There's people who can't move forward if they can't believe that everything will be okay. That want to be told things will be okay in the end. But I don't think it's, uh, necessarily right. You can't take the choice away. Sometimes you have to look the ugly shit right in the face to know how to deal with it.
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Date: 2020-10-25 03:32 am (UTC)Anyway, it should probably be alarming to me, but Taako is saying some things right now that he really vibes with.]
Look at it in the face to know how to deal with it. . . [Yeah. Yeah. That's right, isn't it?] What if they think you can't? Also, what if they think if you can't deal with something, you might explode and destroy a lot of people and things with your psychic powers?
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Date: 2020-10-25 03:59 am (UTC)Well.
Hm.
Well.
Every time he thinks and goes hm, and well, he opens his mouth like he's going to say something, and then closes it. And then opens it again? At least he's really thinking it over.]
You know, once, someone took away my memories of Lup. She'd, uh, died, and this person thought they knew the best way to handle that and all the other things spinning out of her control - powerful magical artifacts, impending apocalyptic doom, that sort of thing - so they thought the best thing to do was to erase my mind and put me somewhere where they thought they [air quotes] "make sure I was okay." She thought she was really doing the right thing.
But the flip side of that is, um, I'm going to kill her, the next time I see her?
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Date: 2020-10-25 04:11 am (UTC)That's terrible. You shouldn't have to forget about your sister.
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Date: 2020-10-25 04:13 am (UTC)I guess my point is, uh. Telling that kind of lie, where you try and save someone from themselves. Kind of always blows back up in your face?
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Date: 2020-10-25 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-26 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-26 01:49 pm (UTC)I do try.