starseedling: (don't let your memes be dreams)
Steven Universe ([personal profile] starseedling) wrote2019-03-26 02:50 pm

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[personal profile] horkbajir 2019-10-13 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Toby also considers that it could be like his mother is a silent host - the ideal host, the broken host, who no longer thinks or struggles - and Steven the Yeerk, using the skills and talents she no longer has the ability or the faculties for, but that's if anything even more horrible and she's glad she didn't say it.]

Yes, there is that. I could tell a more unfortunate story too, but - yes. It's healthier being surrounded by people who understand how dying and having children works. Our parents and ancestors live on in us, but - more in the poetic sense, I have to think.

Even when someone is gone they leave an imprint. Has it been hard for you?
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[personal profile] horkbajir 2019-10-13 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[The phrasing she used in her tape would have become heavily unsettling.]

I can imagine, a little. Surrounded by people who knew her. Is being somewhere where her name has no special meaning better, in that regard?

[Toby wonders if she should say that she dreamed of meeting Rose, in one of those strange collective experiences that presages new people appearing. ...Maybe later.]
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[personal profile] horkbajir 2019-10-14 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad to hear that. Legacies are hard enough without being so directly conflated with someone.

That's quite a responsibility. Is it related to what you've said before - some emperor who is changing their ways because of you?
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[personal profile] horkbajir 2019-10-14 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
It must have been hard.

[She's probably heard bits and pieces by now. Toby's faintly, wistfully envious; it sounds like the overwhelming conflict that's loomed over his life has broken and broken for the good.]

Sometimes ruling - well. Being in charge. Sometimes that's the best way to help. But it's a lot to take on, and it closes away some other options. And it means taking on a certain gravity that can be hard to bear. People look to their leaders, even ones they love, in a different way.
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[personal profile] horkbajir 2019-10-18 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Toby rumbles thoughtfully.]

What is your ideal scenario with them? What do you want to happen, specifically?

[She knows how she wants her future to go, in broad strokes. If they survive the Yeerks than the humans will be the next problem. If the humans can see her people as people and to be respected - that would be something. Can she hope for it?]
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[personal profile] horkbajir 2019-10-25 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It makes sense. You don't want everything to depend on you for perpetuity.

[She doesn't know if he's going to die, as humans do eventually; as someone with a short life, though, she doesn't have any denial of inevitable death in her.]

It shouldn't have to all depend on one person, however important that person might be.