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[prophesiedone]

[The sound of a lightsaber is unmistakable. Anakin wields the weapon with ease, running through the techniques in rapid succession. He keeps at it until he is noticeably fatigued. Then he speaks:]

If someone told you that there is a force that connects all things, would you believe them? Do you think there is a higher purpose to this world? Or are some of us stuck here until we lose our minds?

[Is insanity a higher purpose?]

I sometimes wonder if all of this is an exercise in patience. [A quality he lacks. Has always lacked.]

Comments

[prophesiedone]

It's not a "magical frequency". It's the balance that exists - and it does exist - between all things. In the light, there are shadows and only light can chase shadows away. If your world is composed only of light or only of dark, you must come from an interesting...or miserable...place.

[He snorts.] The gods use us. That's old news. My focus has been on keeping myself and others safe. We don't have much control over gods.

[completelycrazy]

What? You don't need some literal connective "force" to have balance, dude. Ecological systems have balance by nature. That's how evolution works. Hell, that's just how science works in a general sense. No world exists that's exclusively one thing or the other. Life is more complicated than that.

[He has too many degrees in this subject and is not afraid to use them.]

If it's "old news", how is the concept of using us as food not something you've thought of before?

[prophesiedone]

By nature. The Force.

[He smirks. This is the look of a man who knows he has won.]

Because I haven't been eaten yet.

[completelycrazy]

No, by nature. Did I say "The Force"? Call it what you want, I guess, but nature is a system of checks and balances that's been built up over millions of years of evolution. It's not magic, or whatever it is that you're arguing.

[Opting for audio over text was maybe a bad idea, seeing as now he's yelling at his phone in the lab... But text wouldn't have gone much better? He'd likely be too wound up to type properly. Ugh.]

It's not--oh my god, are you seriously set in being that literal? The gods draw energy from our emotions, you moron. We're a source of nourishment, but it's renewable. Like how eggs are food but we have to keep the chickens alive to get them.

[This is so basic and he's very incredulous that he has to explain it.]

[prophesiedone]

Nature and the Force are one and the same. [Anakin speaks slowly, sounding a bit more annoyed.] Without the Force, there is no life; no nature. It is the power at the root of all things and it is not magic.

[Though it might seem like it to the untrained eye.]

Maybe. [Just to piss him off.] You're not very fun at parties, are you.