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@always-existed-always-will
Heya! Salem here, but you can call me Sal. I write stuff sometimes, I've even been told it's good on occasion
If you find any books called 'A Separate Life' please deliver them to me if at all possible, thanks.
Am very open to debate about the Fears, feel free to contact me!
---------
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[we appreciate audience feedback, after all, how else can we improve?]
You could actually take the advice, that'd probably help
[I assure you I will.]
Well, if I see further complaints about real people being themselves I will be reaching out again
[Oh, you really think that you're real?]
I think I'm real to me. Unfortunately for you, in a world where nothing is real belief prevails. I'm very good at belief.
[You're really funny...
It's pathetic how much you believe this is all real.]
You aren't listening, I never said I believed this was all real. I said I can decide what reality is
[So you just want to lie to yourself?]
Exactly! Is that a problem? Are you angry that your winning move of holding the subjectively-objective reality doesn't work on me?
[No. I just find your denial pathetic.]
Okay, fine, what makes me less real than you?
[I know life outside the stage.]
I don't think I can fully express to you how little that matters.
[I appreciate your opinion.]
Oh wow, how condescending. You really got your empathy from the dollar store. Not to mention everything else. Actually, maybe it's you that isn't real.
[and how would that be?]
You don't even have a body. The only power you have is whoever listens to you. If we just ignore you, you're practically invisible. Less than a ghost.
You only exist because we let you.
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[we appreciate audience feedback, after all, how else can we improve?]
You could actually take the advice, that'd probably help
[I assure you I will.]
Well, if I see further complaints about real people being themselves I will be reaching out again
[Oh, you really think that you're real?]
I think I'm real to me. Unfortunately for you, in a world where nothing is real belief prevails. I'm very good at belief.
[You're really funny...
It's pathetic how much you believe this is all real.]
You aren't listening, I never said I believed this was all real. I said I can decide what reality is
[So you just want to lie to yourself?]
Exactly! Is that a problem? Are you angry that your winning move of holding the subjectively-objective reality doesn't work on me?
[No. I just find your denial pathetic.]
Okay, fine, what makes me less real than you?
[I know life outside the stage.]
I don't think I can fully express to you how little that matters.
[I appreciate your opinion.]
Oh wow, how condescending. You really got your empathy from the dollar store. Not to mention everything else. Actually, maybe it's you that isn't real.
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[we appreciate audience feedback, after all, how else can we improve?]
You could actually take the advice, that'd probably help
[I assure you I will.]
Well, if I see further complaints about real people being themselves I will be reaching out again
[Oh, you really think that you're real?]
I think I'm real to me. Unfortunately for you, in a world where nothing is real belief prevails. I'm very good at belief.
[You're really funny...
It's pathetic how much you believe this is all real.]
You aren't listening, I never said I believed this was all real. I said I can decide what reality is
[So you just want to lie to yourself?]
Exactly! Is that a problem? Are you angry that your winning move of holding the subjectively-objective reality doesn't work on me?
[No. I just find your denial pathetic.]
Okay, fine, what makes me less real than you?
[I know life outside the stage.]
I don't think I can fully express to you how little that matters.
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[we appreciate audience feedback, after all, how else can we improve?]
You could actually take the advice, that'd probably help
[I assure you I will.]
Well, if I see further complaints about real people being themselves I will be reaching out again
[Oh, you really think that you're real?]
I think I'm real to me. Unfortunately for you, in a world where nothing is real belief prevails. I'm very good at belief.
[You're really funny...
It's pathetic how much you believe this is all real.]
You aren't listening, I never said I believed this was all real. I said I can decide what reality is
[So you just want to lie to yourself?]
Exactly! Is that a problem? Are you angry that your winning move of holding the subjectively-objective reality doesn't work on me?
[No. I just find your denial pathetic.]
Okay, fine, what makes me less real than you?
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[we appreciate audience feedback, after all, how else can we improve?]
You could actually take the advice, that'd probably help
[I assure you I will.]
Well, if I see further complaints about real people being themselves I will be reaching out again
[Oh, you really think that you're real?]
I think I'm real to me. Unfortunately for you, in a world where nothing is real belief prevails. I'm very good at belief.
[You're really funny...
It's pathetic how much you believe this is all real.]
You aren't listening, I never said I believed this was all real. I said I can decide what reality is
[So you just want to lie to yourself?]
Exactly! Is that a problem? Are you angry that your winning move of holding the subjectively-objective reality doesn't work on me?
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[we appreciate audience feedback, after all, how else can we improve?]
You could actually take the advice, that'd probably help
[I assure you I will.]
Well, if I see further complaints about real people being themselves I will be reaching out again
[Oh, you really think that you're real?]
I think I'm real to me. Unfortunately for you, in a world where nothing is real belief prevails. I'm very good at belief.
[You're really funny...
It's pathetic how much you believe this is all real.]
You aren't listening, I never said I believed this was all real. I said I can decide what reality is
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[we appreciate audience feedback, after all, how else can we improve?]
You could actually take the advice, that'd probably help
[I assure you I will.]
Well, if I see further complaints about real people being themselves I will be reaching out again
[Oh, you really think that you're real?]
I think I'm real to me. Unfortunately for you, in a world where nothing is real belief prevails. I'm very good at belief.
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[we appreciate audience feedback, after all, how else can we improve?]
You could actually take the advice, that'd probably help
[I assure you I will.]
Well, if I see further complaints about real people being themselves I will be reaching out again
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[we appreciate audience feedback, after all, how else can we improve?]
You could actually take the advice, that'd probably help
[hello everyone!
I appreciate everyone being ever so eager to interact, but could you all be a bit more relatable and appropriate for the general audience?
Remember, think of everyone watching, not just yourself.]
^ talking about me being nonbinary btw. As though other nonbinary people aren't real. Can't be relatable to everybody if you don't include nonbinary people hm?
[Breeze Sal had finally found a park with a trail that led to a lake. They could use the one Lucy had, but they wanted this to be a surprise.]
[They stop by a bench to drink some water to head off.]
- @always-existed-always-will
[there was some guy on the bench, flinching when Sal sat near him]
[Oh right, other people were a thing that existed]
Hm? Problem?
No-
Sh-
[don't. Not in front of the kids]
Crap..
Sorry.
Don't apologize for your natural instinct, I just didn't know if it was instinct or not. Was it?
Yeah..
I think so.
And you can swear in front of me too, if that's what you were trying to hide. I won't tell.
No-
They won't like it.
It's inappropriate.
Who's 'they'? I believe the only they that matters is you.
You know..
The audience. Everyone watching us right now.
The audience! You know I've thought about the audience before. The thing about the audience, they shouldn't matter to you. Their displeasure can't hurt you, they can only watch.
...really?
[No, you have to satisfy everyone, just think about who will like the show if you don't satisfy them?]
No-
No you're wrong-
I need to.
Well who's story is it, theirs or yours? They can have their own.
I don't-
[mine.]
It's theirs.
No, it's yours. Your life is yours. Only yours.
But-
But you don't get it..
This isn't my life.
[good.]
But you are you, aren't you? The glow inside you that makes you you is yours alone. You are you, this is your life, whoever they is can't take that away from you. Don't let them.
Glow?
What glow inside me..
Sorry-
I don't understand..
Sorry, I'm not great at explaining these things. That's only how I imagine it for myself. But anyways, there is no one person out there worth performing for. It's more favorable to be alone than do that.
But I'm never alone..
So-
So why even mention that as a possibility?
Why are you never alone?
Because of the audience..
[I'll always be here for you.]
Fuck 'em. What genre are you in?
I-
[Drama.]
Drama, I think.
I'll admit I'm not as familiar with that one. Fantasy is much easier, you can manipulate just about anything if you have the mind for it.
Did you know that magic is real?
Obviously.
This is a show after all, magick has to be real.
Ever try to use it to get this audience off your back? Don't you wish you could just... Run away sometimes?
I can't...
They'll always be with me, the unseen genius who knows what's best for me.
Can't be a genius if they don't know how to live their own life. Is this some Web stuff? This seems like some Web stuff. Hm...
The web?
Oh, I thought you were aware of magic. Do you know about the Fears?
I-
I know what fear is, yeah..
No, Fear with a capital F. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough.
Why-
Why are you emphasizing the F?
The Fears are the source of magic that I know of. They're manifestations of living creatures intense Fear, as well as some other emotions sometimes. They can consume your life if you let them. Or if you don't. But you can also consume them.
Wait what if-
[no please it can't be-]
What if one is consuming me right now and I just don't know it?
[his breathing starts quickening]
Then panicking won't help. If you're the main character of your story, which everyone is, then you'll be able to get through this. Just lay out the facts, and then find a way to get out of it.
But-
But what if I don't know everything?
Well what do you know, and work from there
I-
I know I'm not mine-
And that I-
I need to please the audience.
You are yours. Maybe someone is trying to take you over, but you are yours. Can they physically control you?
N-
No..
I think that's the only thing they can't do-
[silence.]
[he winces]
But they hurt you if you don't comply. Hm...
When did this start?
When the show started.. ?
I don't know..
I don't remember much before then..
Hm, well I once had a Fear try to control me. It had good intentions but I had to get out. So a friend of mine let me stay at her treehouse. It might be safer there if you want to come, this seems like an emergency to me.
I-
I don't think it's an emergency..
But if you think it's a good idea, I'll go.
Well, I'll delay my practice a little longer then. I can get you there in a few seconds but you have to hold onto my arm, and I've been told it's a bit unpleasant.
...can I know what you'll do?
[he holds onto their arm]
[...let's just see how this plays out, shall we?]
I'm going to run very fast.
[And they do run very fast. In total it takes about six seconds to get to the treehouse.]
[Breeze Sal had finally found a park with a trail that led to a lake. They could use the one Lucy had, but they wanted this to be a surprise.]
[They stop by a bench to drink some water to head off.]
- @always-existed-always-will
[there was some guy on the bench, flinching when Sal sat near him]
[Oh right, other people were a thing that existed]
Hm? Problem?
No-
Sh-
[don't. Not in front of the kids]
Crap..
Sorry.
Don't apologize for your natural instinct, I just didn't know if it was instinct or not. Was it?
Yeah..
I think so.
And you can swear in front of me too, if that's what you were trying to hide. I won't tell.
No-
They won't like it.
It's inappropriate.
Who's 'they'? I believe the only they that matters is you.
You know..
The audience. Everyone watching us right now.
The audience! You know I've thought about the audience before. The thing about the audience, they shouldn't matter to you. Their displeasure can't hurt you, they can only watch.
...really?
[No, you have to satisfy everyone, just think about who will like the show if you don't satisfy them?]
No-
No you're wrong-
I need to.
Well who's story is it, theirs or yours? They can have their own.
I don't-
[mine.]
It's theirs.
No, it's yours. Your life is yours. Only yours.
But-
But you don't get it..
This isn't my life.
[good.]
But you are you, aren't you? The glow inside you that makes you you is yours alone. You are you, this is your life, whoever they is can't take that away from you. Don't let them.
Glow?
What glow inside me..
Sorry-
I don't understand..
Sorry, I'm not great at explaining these things. That's only how I imagine it for myself. But anyways, there is no one person out there worth performing for. It's more favorable to be alone than do that.
But I'm never alone..
So-
So why even mention that as a possibility?
Why are you never alone?
Because of the audience..
[I'll always be here for you.]
Fuck 'em. What genre are you in?
I-
[Drama.]
Drama, I think.
I'll admit I'm not as familiar with that one. Fantasy is much easier, you can manipulate just about anything if you have the mind for it.
Did you know that magic is real?
Obviously.
This is a show after all, magick has to be real.
Ever try to use it to get this audience off your back? Don't you wish you could just... Run away sometimes?
I can't...
They'll always be with me, the unseen genius who knows what's best for me.
Can't be a genius if they don't know how to live their own life. Is this some Web stuff? This seems like some Web stuff. Hm...
The web?
Oh, I thought you were aware of magic. Do you know about the Fears?
I-
I know what fear is, yeah..
No, Fear with a capital F. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough.
Why-
Why are you emphasizing the F?
The Fears are the source of magic that I know of. They're manifestations of living creatures intense Fear, as well as some other emotions sometimes. They can consume your life if you let them. Or if you don't. But you can also consume them.
Wait what if-
[no please it can't be-]
What if one is consuming me right now and I just don't know it?
[his breathing starts quickening]
Then panicking won't help. If you're the main character of your story, which everyone is, then you'll be able to get through this. Just lay out the facts, and then find a way to get out of it.
But-
But what if I don't know everything?
Well what do you know, and work from there
I-
I know I'm not mine-
And that I-
I need to please the audience.
You are yours. Maybe someone is trying to take you over, but you are yours. Can they physically control you?
N-
No..
I think that's the only thing they can't do-
[silence.]
[he winces]
But they hurt you if you don't comply. Hm...
When did this start?
When the show started.. ?
I don't know..
I don't remember much before then..
Hm, well I once had a Fear try to control me. It had good intentions but I had to get out. So a friend of mine let me stay at her treehouse. It might be safer there if you want to come, this seems like an emergency to me.
I-
I don't think it's an emergency..
But if you think it's a good idea, I'll go.
Well, I'll delay my practice a little longer then. I can get you there in a few seconds but you have to hold onto my arm, and I've been told it's a bit unpleasant.
[Breeze Sal had finally found a park with a trail that led to a lake. They could use the one Lucy had, but they wanted this to be a surprise.]
[They stop by a bench to drink some water to head off.]
- @always-existed-always-will
[there was some guy on the bench, flinching when Sal sat near him]
[Oh right, other people were a thing that existed]
Hm? Problem?
No-
Sh-
[don't. Not in front of the kids]
Crap..
Sorry.
Don't apologize for your natural instinct, I just didn't know if it was instinct or not. Was it?
Yeah..
I think so.
And you can swear in front of me too, if that's what you were trying to hide. I won't tell.
No-
They won't like it.
It's inappropriate.
Who's 'they'? I believe the only they that matters is you.
You know..
The audience. Everyone watching us right now.
The audience! You know I've thought about the audience before. The thing about the audience, they shouldn't matter to you. Their displeasure can't hurt you, they can only watch.
...really?
[No, you have to satisfy everyone, just think about who will like the show if you don't satisfy them?]
No-
No you're wrong-
I need to.
Well who's story is it, theirs or yours? They can have their own.
I don't-
[mine.]
It's theirs.
No, it's yours. Your life is yours. Only yours.
But-
But you don't get it..
This isn't my life.
[good.]
But you are you, aren't you? The glow inside you that makes you you is yours alone. You are you, this is your life, whoever they is can't take that away from you. Don't let them.
Glow?
What glow inside me..
Sorry-
I don't understand..
Sorry, I'm not great at explaining these things. That's only how I imagine it for myself. But anyways, there is no one person out there worth performing for. It's more favorable to be alone than do that.
But I'm never alone..
So-
So why even mention that as a possibility?
Why are you never alone?
Because of the audience..
[I'll always be here for you.]
Fuck 'em. What genre are you in?
I-
[Drama.]
Drama, I think.
I'll admit I'm not as familiar with that one. Fantasy is much easier, you can manipulate just about anything if you have the mind for it.
Did you know that magic is real?
Obviously.
This is a show after all, magick has to be real.
Ever try to use it to get this audience off your back? Don't you wish you could just... Run away sometimes?
I can't...
They'll always be with me, the unseen genius who knows what's best for me.
Can't be a genius if they don't know how to live their own life. Is this some Web stuff? This seems like some Web stuff. Hm...
The web?
Oh, I thought you were aware of magic. Do you know about the Fears?
I-
I know what fear is, yeah..
No, Fear with a capital F. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough.
Why-
Why are you emphasizing the F?
The Fears are the source of magic that I know of. They're manifestations of living creatures intense Fear, as well as some other emotions sometimes. They can consume your life if you let them. Or if you don't. But you can also consume them.
Wait what if-
[no please it can't be-]
What if one is consuming me right now and I just don't know it?
[his breathing starts quickening]
Then panicking won't help. If you're the main character of your story, which everyone is, then you'll be able to get through this. Just lay out the facts, and then find a way to get out of it.
But-
But what if I don't know everything?
Well what do you know, and work from there
I-
I know I'm not mine-
And that I-
I need to please the audience.
You are yours. Maybe someone is trying to take you over, but you are yours. Can they physically control you?
N-
No..
I think that's the only thing they can't do-
[silence.]
[he winces]
But they hurt you if you don't comply. Hm...
When did this start?
When the show started.. ?
I don't know..
I don't remember much before then..
Hm, well I once had a Fear try to control me. It had good intentions but I had to get out. So a friend of mine let me stay at her treehouse. It might be safer there if you want to come, this seems like an emergency to me.
[Breeze Sal had finally found a park with a trail that led to a lake. They could use the one Lucy had, but they wanted this to be a surprise.]
[They stop by a bench to drink some water to head off.]
- @always-existed-always-will
[there was some guy on the bench, flinching when Sal sat near him]
[Oh right, other people were a thing that existed]
Hm? Problem?
No-
Sh-
[don't. Not in front of the kids]
Crap..
Sorry.
Don't apologize for your natural instinct, I just didn't know if it was instinct or not. Was it?
Yeah..
I think so.
And you can swear in front of me too, if that's what you were trying to hide. I won't tell.
No-
They won't like it.
It's inappropriate.
Who's 'they'? I believe the only they that matters is you.
You know..
The audience. Everyone watching us right now.
The audience! You know I've thought about the audience before. The thing about the audience, they shouldn't matter to you. Their displeasure can't hurt you, they can only watch.
...really?
[No, you have to satisfy everyone, just think about who will like the show if you don't satisfy them?]
No-
No you're wrong-
I need to.
Well who's story is it, theirs or yours? They can have their own.
I don't-
[mine.]
It's theirs.
No, it's yours. Your life is yours. Only yours.
But-
But you don't get it..
This isn't my life.
[good.]
But you are you, aren't you? The glow inside you that makes you you is yours alone. You are you, this is your life, whoever they is can't take that away from you. Don't let them.
Glow?
What glow inside me..
Sorry-
I don't understand..
Sorry, I'm not great at explaining these things. That's only how I imagine it for myself. But anyways, there is no one person out there worth performing for. It's more favorable to be alone than do that.
But I'm never alone..
So-
So why even mention that as a possibility?
Why are you never alone?
Because of the audience..
[I'll always be here for you.]
Fuck 'em. What genre are you in?
I-
[Drama.]
Drama, I think.
I'll admit I'm not as familiar with that one. Fantasy is much easier, you can manipulate just about anything if you have the mind for it.
Did you know that magic is real?
Obviously.
This is a show after all, magick has to be real.
Ever try to use it to get this audience off your back? Don't you wish you could just... Run away sometimes?
I can't...
They'll always be with me, the unseen genius who knows what's best for me.
Can't be a genius if they don't know how to live their own life. Is this some Web stuff? This seems like some Web stuff. Hm...
The web?
Oh, I thought you were aware of magic. Do you know about the Fears?
I-
I know what fear is, yeah..
No, Fear with a capital F. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough.
Why-
Why are you emphasizing the F?
The Fears are the source of magic that I know of. They're manifestations of living creatures intense Fear, as well as some other emotions sometimes. They can consume your life if you let them. Or if you don't. But you can also consume them.
Wait what if-
[no please it can't be-]
What if one is consuming me right now and I just don't know it?
[his breathing starts quickening]
Then panicking won't help. If you're the main character of your story, which everyone is, then you'll be able to get through this. Just lay out the facts, and then find a way to get out of it.
But-
But what if I don't know everything?
Well what do you know, and work from there
I-
I know I'm not mine-
And that I-
I need to please the audience.
You are yours. Maybe someone is trying to take you over, but you are yours. Can they physically control you?
N-
No..
I think that's the only thing they can't do-
[silence.]
[he winces]
But they hurt you if you don't comply. Hm...
When did this start?
[Breeze Sal had finally found a park with a trail that led to a lake. They could use the one Lucy had, but they wanted this to be a surprise.]
[They stop by a bench to drink some water to head off.]
- @always-existed-always-will
[there was some guy on the bench, flinching when Sal sat near him]
[Oh right, other people were a thing that existed]
Hm? Problem?
No-
Sh-
[don't. Not in front of the kids]
Crap..
Sorry.
Don't apologize for your natural instinct, I just didn't know if it was instinct or not. Was it?
Yeah..
I think so.
And you can swear in front of me too, if that's what you were trying to hide. I won't tell.
No-
They won't like it.
It's inappropriate.
Who's 'they'? I believe the only they that matters is you.
You know..
The audience. Everyone watching us right now.
The audience! You know I've thought about the audience before. The thing about the audience, they shouldn't matter to you. Their displeasure can't hurt you, they can only watch.
...really?
[No, you have to satisfy everyone, just think about who will like the show if you don't satisfy them?]
No-
No you're wrong-
I need to.
Well who's story is it, theirs or yours? They can have their own.
I don't-
[mine.]
It's theirs.
No, it's yours. Your life is yours. Only yours.
But-
But you don't get it..
This isn't my life.
[good.]
But you are you, aren't you? The glow inside you that makes you you is yours alone. You are you, this is your life, whoever they is can't take that away from you. Don't let them.
Glow?
What glow inside me..
Sorry-
I don't understand..
Sorry, I'm not great at explaining these things. That's only how I imagine it for myself. But anyways, there is no one person out there worth performing for. It's more favorable to be alone than do that.
But I'm never alone..
So-
So why even mention that as a possibility?
Why are you never alone?
Because of the audience..
[I'll always be here for you.]
Fuck 'em. What genre are you in?
I-
[Drama.]
Drama, I think.
I'll admit I'm not as familiar with that one. Fantasy is much easier, you can manipulate just about anything if you have the mind for it.
Did you know that magic is real?
Obviously.
This is a show after all, magick has to be real.
Ever try to use it to get this audience off your back? Don't you wish you could just... Run away sometimes?
I can't...
They'll always be with me, the unseen genius who knows what's best for me.
Can't be a genius if they don't know how to live their own life. Is this some Web stuff? This seems like some Web stuff. Hm...
The web?
Oh, I thought you were aware of magic. Do you know about the Fears?
I-
I know what fear is, yeah..
No, Fear with a capital F. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough.
Why-
Why are you emphasizing the F?
The Fears are the source of magic that I know of. They're manifestations of living creatures intense Fear, as well as some other emotions sometimes. They can consume your life if you let them. Or if you don't. But you can also consume them.
Wait what if-
[no please it can't be-]
What if one is consuming me right now and I just don't know it?
[his breathing starts quickening]
Then panicking won't help. If you're the main character of your story, which everyone is, then you'll be able to get through this. Just lay out the facts, and then find a way to get out of it.
But-
But what if I don't know everything?
Well what do you know, and work from there
I-
I know I'm not mine-
And that I-
I need to please the audience.
You are yours. Maybe someone is trying to take you over, but you are yours. Can they physically control you?
[Breeze Sal had finally found a park with a trail that led to a lake. They could use the one Lucy had, but they wanted this to be a surprise.]
[They stop by a bench to drink some water to head off.]
- @always-existed-always-will
[there was some guy on the bench, flinching when Sal sat near him]
[Oh right, other people were a thing that existed]
Hm? Problem?
No-
Sh-
[don't. Not in front of the kids]
Crap..
Sorry.
Don't apologize for your natural instinct, I just didn't know if it was instinct or not. Was it?
Yeah..
I think so.
And you can swear in front of me too, if that's what you were trying to hide. I won't tell.
No-
They won't like it.
It's inappropriate.
Who's 'they'? I believe the only they that matters is you.
You know..
The audience. Everyone watching us right now.
The audience! You know I've thought about the audience before. The thing about the audience, they shouldn't matter to you. Their displeasure can't hurt you, they can only watch.
...really?
[No, you have to satisfy everyone, just think about who will like the show if you don't satisfy them?]
No-
No you're wrong-
I need to.
Well who's story is it, theirs or yours? They can have their own.
I don't-
[mine.]
It's theirs.
No, it's yours. Your life is yours. Only yours.
But-
But you don't get it..
This isn't my life.
[good.]
But you are you, aren't you? The glow inside you that makes you you is yours alone. You are you, this is your life, whoever they is can't take that away from you. Don't let them.
Glow?
What glow inside me..
Sorry-
I don't understand..
Sorry, I'm not great at explaining these things. That's only how I imagine it for myself. But anyways, there is no one person out there worth performing for. It's more favorable to be alone than do that.
But I'm never alone..
So-
So why even mention that as a possibility?
Why are you never alone?
Because of the audience..
[I'll always be here for you.]
Fuck 'em. What genre are you in?
I-
[Drama.]
Drama, I think.
I'll admit I'm not as familiar with that one. Fantasy is much easier, you can manipulate just about anything if you have the mind for it.
Did you know that magic is real?
Obviously.
This is a show after all, magick has to be real.
Ever try to use it to get this audience off your back? Don't you wish you could just... Run away sometimes?
I can't...
They'll always be with me, the unseen genius who knows what's best for me.
Can't be a genius if they don't know how to live their own life. Is this some Web stuff? This seems like some Web stuff. Hm...
The web?
Oh, I thought you were aware of magic. Do you know about the Fears?
I-
I know what fear is, yeah..
No, Fear with a capital F. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough.
Why-
Why are you emphasizing the F?
The Fears are the source of magic that I know of. They're manifestations of living creatures intense Fear, as well as some other emotions sometimes. They can consume your life if you let them. Or if you don't. But you can also consume them.
Wait what if-
[no please it can't be-]
What if one is consuming me right now and I just don't know it?
[his breathing starts quickening]
Then panicking won't help. If you're the main character of your story, which everyone is, then you'll be able to get through this. Just lay out the facts, and then find a way to get out of it.
But-
But what if I don't know everything?
Well what do you know, and work from there
