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[thirdreturned]

Many of you seem to be unhappy.

We don't all necessarily want you to be happy, but acceptance and adaptation to your situation would be a start. The only question that remains is: how?

It is clear to us that your species resolves many issues through communication. Unfortunately, none of us understand the human psyche as clearly as others of your species, and so I leave it to you to communicate with and to help one another.

You may consider this post an open forum in which you can discuss what's been bothering you. In turn, I will conceal your identities, so that you may help one another without preconceived biases. If you'd like to reveal yourselves to one another, the option is there, but unnecessary.

Heal. Recover.

I'll leave you to it.

[[This is an event post for the Never Log In event! Remember, characters are compelled to get things off of their chest here, as well as to help others- and of course, please stay oocly logged in for your comments!]]

Comments

Re: anon

[pyralisit]

Even so. Our kind aren't so much appreciated by humans. As far as they're concerned, we're the usurpers stealing the world they built from them, never mind that there isn't much of one left.

Monsters can be people too. I was a beast long before I wasn't human. Becoming inhuman only brought it out of hiding.

I watched the one person I cared for die in front of me and I could do nothing to stop it. That has a way of killing a person without touching his body. His soul is ruined forever, though.

We were made to be resilient, I think. Something has to inhabit the world or else it's a grand waste of space.

Re: anon

[devotional]

May I ask what "your kind" is? You needn't answer if you are not comfortable, and I do not wish to pry... I just wonder what it is that would make humans view you with such hostility when you have been nothing but kind to me thus far.

[ At what the stranger says next, Luna finds herself pausing. She hasn't watched the one she loved die, no, but... she has said goodbye to him. More than once. She never realized how much of their time together had been sent saying farewell until now. ]

It sounds unimaginably cruel, having to watch that. I am truly sorry to hear you have had to endure such a thing. My mother gave her life defending my older brother when my kingdom fell... While I cannot claim to know your loss intimately, I feel I can understand it. At least a little bit.

I do not know you at all, stranger, but you have been kind to me when you've had no cause to be. Your resilience of spirit is as evident as it is inspiring.

anon

[pyralisit]

Wraeththu. We were built to replace humanity and they aren't too thrilled with the idea.

To be so blunt about it, yes. It was cruel. Crueler knowing who did it, regardless of whose hands he used, and knowing I will never be able to reach him to give him the same punishment.

Kind? I can think of several who would disagree. I might even be tempted to.

anon

[devotional]

The difference between our worlds is even more evident now; I have never heard of such a species. Who created you and deemed humanity replaceable?

I know not the details of your circumstances past what you have told me, but it sounds as if you've endured unimaginable pain. Was the person who did this one of your own? Or are humans capable of such a thing where you are from, also?

You have been patient and spoken to me at length about my own concerns as well as my questions about yourself. I would think that constitutes as a form of kindness.

Re: anon

[pyralisit]

God, maybe. Humanity destroyed itself. We rose in its place.

He was. Is, I suppose. Regardless of what I saw--what he made me see--he was involved and I know it. But no, humans don't have the same skills we do.

Does it? Others might call it selfish. It's dangerous to call me kind.