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interesting question for kameko. i think she struggles a lot with 'gifted kid syndrome'; which, if you were a ""gifted kid"", you know exactly what i'm talking about. that post-education existential crisis where you suddenly stop being treated like a god just because you're objectively book smart, and the consequential lingering feeling of "I MUST CONTINUOUSLY BE PRODUCTIVE AND IMPROVE OR I AM A FAILURE, THERE IS NO TIME TO RELAX".

so, as odd as it sounds, i think the only time she would ever feel at peace is after accomplishing some kind of high stakes task. it'd probably act as a sort of validation to prove to herself that she is still capable and worthy of the titles bestowed upon her; a brief reprieve from the constant fear she'll be replaced, if you will.

i thought about going with the really cheesy answer of "when she's with her gorlfren uwu" but honestly, i can't imagine her ever being able to be at peace with her girlfriend around. it'd be like having a whirling tornado of golden retrievers high on pixie sticks orbiting around you, each of them asking seven hundred questions at the same time

"My biggest challenge..." Varian looked down and thought. "There's, ha...There's a lot... But one specifically that's sticking out to me right now is trying to convince Cassandra that the path of hate was a dangerous track." He said. "Before you ask, she's okay now! She's following her own destiny!" Varian smiled, it seemed like he wanted to change the subject.

Their cause is really pretty simple. They make it sound grand, because that's how they think of it - but, no. They're kind of an... errand runner(?) for any spirit that wishes to use them. Passing things on, changing things they can't, generally trying to keep the world in line and balanced. Now, this could include acts for or against good folk, bad folk, random strangers... empathy isn't really something Fie can access after their resurrection, they just... do the job and justify it because 'it's the most important thing'.

AKA "if I don't, there's no guarantee I won't lose whatever favour I have with the afterlife and literally die right here for reals"

I'd say it's pretty uncontrollable in terms of interacting with other spirits - like, he can't stop them from finding him. Can't get them to leave him alone, either. He used to be able to control it and put boundaries in place while alive, but any walls are firmly down now.

Fie definitely takes notice of the dead more than the living, and seems to be all the more alive when he's around other spirits or supernatural beings. It's really hard to pull them away from a task if they've been asked to; they'll usually favour their (not always kind) spiritual 'benefactors' over anything that any living person tells them.

Are they happy? Well... I'm not sure they remember what any of that feels like.

He stared for a moment, it appeared this answer took him aback.

"Well, if you insist on an answer. I indeed wanted to be a dentist when I was a child... You see, I had been bullied as a child by my schoolmates and one of them beat me up one day and caused a lot of damage to my teeth, some of them were even knocked out. I had to get surgery done by the dentists, the damn hypocrites they were and they told me to never eat sweets each time I went to get my braces checked. Mind you, the bullies bullied me about my braces too, they were the very noticeable, old-fashioned kind. Out of curiosity of waiting one time, I went to peer into the offices and I saw them eating candy themselves, as if they didn't just tell me it was bad for my teeth. It bothered me, because dentists are against candies and foods that'll decay your teeth, right? And to do the thing they tell others not to do, was hypocrisy. I got so mad at them, I refused treatment. My parents were upset, but I didn't care." He explained,

"I'm rambling... But anyway, point is... I decided to research dentistry, despite my hate of dentists. Because I wasn't going to be a sorry excuse for one like those who treated me when I was young." Diastema adjusted his glasses.

"Do forgive me for the long, traumatizing backstory."

Fun fact: in Sol's first ever RP, I planned to off the poor guy in the end.

Obviously, I couldn't bring myself to lol.

But, it is something I think about quite often! Mainly because he's such a juggernaut for the most part. Mentally, that is, and in terms of "my stupid flesh prison needs to keep moving and I don't care what it says". But then, that's one of the issues I guess? He doesn't take care of himself as he should do, which is why he's got these issues in the first place.

Bearing in mind that Sol is - well, Sol - he'd be highly offended at the idea that he's afraid of death. It's a natural part of life, he'd argue. The most natural part. And besides, it isn't like there's anything he can do about it.
that, and at the crux of it, he thinks it would be a relief. He knows that, deep down, he's really bloody tired and he can't fight forever ;-;

Still, he's human (as much as he pretends otherwise) and these things are instinctive. He's been in situations where he's been incapacitated, both by having a weapon held to his neck, and apparent mutiny from his own body. Strangely, it was the latter that scared him the most. Nowadays, he's fastidious with his medication - even with suffering from hypertension anyway for a lot of his life, it was a still a shock to end up in hospital for it a few years back.

Now, he's more careful.
But, he insists, not because he's afraid.

All this to say that, I'm not certain there'd be a good way. But, whatever it is, he knows it will get him. I think he'd prefer to go down fighting - quite literally, at that - rather than fall victim to the frailties of his own body. Even at the very end, I can't imagine dignity would be far from his mind.

Even so, with all that... you better believe he'd be fighting like hell to stay alive, when it came to it. He's not about to leave his daughter on her own, just yet.