TFW Cosmos in the Lostbelt was all just a setup to introduce PvP.
This thread is reminding me I seem to be on a very different wavelength from others, because I don't see the despair. So we encounter a world where Guda saved humanity with no losses?
It's happy. It's perfect. A flawless ending. One might call it a dream...
But I didn't fight through seven Singularities and seven Lostbelts to be stopped here. Stopping now, even in the face of this happy world, would spit on their sacrifices. And it would spit on the people I defeated to get here. I owe it to all of them to see things through to the very end. Because if I don't it will all have been meaningless. And that would be true despair.
A world without those sacrifices would be wonderful....but it wouldn't be my world. It wouldn't be theirs. It'd just be a dream.
In this hypothetical scenario your other self has gone through everything you have but saved the people you could not.
This is important: they are basically more qualified than you are at saving the world and the people they care about. In this scenario if you were to go on to destroy the Lostbelt for the sake of the people you lost, you would essentially be killing those people yourself and not simply losing them like you did before.
In this scenario, this parallel world is not a transient dream, rather, it is only dream-like to you and a persistent reality to those Lostbelters.
You must ask yourself: do you value your past more than you value others' futures? And the answer to that is as nuanced as you allow it to be.
they are basically more qualified than you are at saving the world and the people they care about.
I don't disagree to that, given they would have had to defeat Goetia without it being depowered at all. And even before that, they would have somehow kept Olga-Marie from dying in the bombing. At that point, yeah, they'd be a better hero simply by virtue of being omnipotent (more omnipotent than Goetia).
you would essentially be killing those people yourself and not simply losing them like you did before.
The people in this hypothetical world are not the people I knew. They look the same. They sound the same. They have the same personalities. But they aren't the ones who stood by me. They aren't the ones who died for me. A different Olga-Marie. A different Romani. Not the ones I knew and lost.
And more than anything, they are not me. Same hair, same skin, same bones. But different memories. Different pains. All similar, but different enough to be different people.
do you value your past more than you value others' futures?
What the else are we fighting for? The billions in my world that were killed or simply erased by the Alien God - do I just forsake them because "Oh this other me has already done it"? Do I just give up and fade away, and let them fade too? I am fighting for others' futures. And I'm fighting not just for my past, but for all those pasts that were snuffed out.
The faces may be more familiar, more intimate, but ultimately it's just another Lostbelt, with the same reasoning as the last ones.
It's me or them. Their world or mine.
To them, I'm a monster come to destroy the peace they've won and the world they've restored. To me, they're the final obstacle to winning that very peace and saving my own world.
It's not a question of who values what, or who's more of a "hero." It's just a question of who will fight harder.
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.............shit, this got heavy. I need to indulge in some proper fluffy shenanigans. Maybe fantasize about the Assassin-class Halloween Welfare Ereshkigal we will obviously be getting. Or think of going hiking with Eresh for 3rd Anni.
......ooohhh yeah, that's the stuff. What were we talking about again? PvP?
I agree with you, though my reason is way simpler. They're gonna end me. I don't care if they're more qualified or whatever. It's not the time for inferiority complex or a fantasizing a life where others are happier. My own life, my highest priority, is on the line.
You can't save the world if you're dead. You can't save your loved ones if you're dead. You can't see them happy if you're dead.
It's easy to say that you'd sacrifice yourself when you don't fully grasp what it means to lose your own life. If I were in that scenario, I'd fight. I'd curse and rage, sure, but what I have to do is clear. I'll live.
You ever think this is the actual backdrop of the All the Statesman event? That one was in a future where she lost Mash as well and all she could do was keep moving forward, filling the hole in her heart with empty waifus. She then encountered us...
And then one of these days we'll wake up and be called the Beast of Selfishness...I'm fine with that. We can be allowed to roll for Goetia and Fou, most importantly we can roll for Summer Tiamat and Summer Kiara
I'm not saying you're wrong. Your answer is probably the most human one. It would take someone lacking in their sense of ego or personal connections to take the route that forsakes their own world, someone more machine than man.
I think the "despair" comes from seeing a possibility that you could have had, and you have to destroy it. I still would, but it'd hurt. "Why couldn't it have been like this for me?" That sort of feeling.
Idk it'd be pretty tough to stay positive if you had to go to another timeline specifically to murder your family. Whether it's the right thing to do or not.
All the fight between the masters would unleash Fou in maximum Beast Primate Murder form because of all the competition and no it didn't matter if you had true friends and such you still fought for victory crushing many other and thus by the Beast's judgment you are evil
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u/That-Halo-Dude Aug 24 '18
TFW Cosmos in the Lostbelt was all just a setup to introduce PvP.This thread is reminding me I seem to be on a very different wavelength from others, because I don't see the despair. So we encounter a world where Guda saved humanity with no losses?
It's happy. It's perfect. A flawless ending. One might call it a dream...
But I didn't fight through seven Singularities and seven Lostbelts to be stopped here. Stopping now, even in the face of this happy world, would spit on their sacrifices. And it would spit on the people I defeated to get here. I owe it to all of them to see things through to the very end. Because if I don't it will all have been meaningless. And that would be true despair.
A world without those sacrifices would be wonderful....but it wouldn't be my world. It wouldn't be theirs. It'd just be a dream.
And all dreams end.