Game 019 [Voice] - There's a Pun in Here...

[neverplaysfair]

With so many people suddenly dying, I was wondering: what's it like to die here, where death isn't permanent? If you've died back in your home world, what's the afterlife like where you're from?

And even if you haven't, does death seem less important, does it carry less weight here than it did back home?

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[neverplaysfair]

Even when it doesn't last?

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

The pain the people who care about you feel is still the same now matter whether it last or not. And death here isn't without consequence. You may be brought back, but you lose something in return, an ability, a sense or a memory...

[neverplaysfair]

Isn't that pain tied to a permanent loss? Or do you feel the same pain when someone goes away for a week?

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

Have you ever watched the someone you love die in front of your very eyes? Just out of reach? And all you could do was watch as they were killed right before you?

Have you ever watched someone you love get weaker and weaker each day from some strange virus that you couldn't find a cure for, no matter what you did, no matter how much you tried healed them?

[neverplaysfair]

That all depends on how you'd define "love".

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

... how I define love?

It's when you'll do anything for that person and want them to be happy and you want to be with them forever.

[neverplaysfair]

Then no, I haven't. I think my definition of "love" is a bit broader than yours.

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

How do you define it?

[neverplaysfair]

Wanting what's best for someone, no matter what sacrifice that means.

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

I see.

[neverplaysfair]

I've never had anyone that follows your definition.

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

I suppose everyone has a different definition. It doesn't make their deaths any less important or painful to bear though.

[neverplaysfair]

It can.

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

How?

[neverplaysfair]

The more people you have that fall under your definition, the less it hurts when you lose each, as you get used to losing them.

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

No... you never get used to it. No many how many people there are.

[neverplaysfair]

Then you haven't lived long enough.

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

... what do you mean?

[neverplaysfair]

You haven't lost enough.

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

How could I not have lost enough!?

[neverplaysfair]

It still hurts.

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

It will never not hurt. Never.

[neverplaysfair]

Then you either haven't lived long enough, or you have a problem with letting things go.

[broken-messiah.livejournal.com]

... I will never forget them.

[neverplaysfair]

That's not what I said.