What am I even doooing

[darkpulse]

[Wow, who's this Umbreon-looking lady and what is she doing here? If you dyed her hair blue and pink, she'd look a whole lot like that one Misdreavus who hangs out around these parts. BUT THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE IN SO MANY WAYS.

What the heck is going on? Time paradox? Resurection shenanigans? YOU, DEAR PLAYER, GET TO DECIDE.

Either way, she is looking very perturbed by this whole ordeal.]

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[darkpulse]

[Yes.]

Of course not. Gods are too fickle for their affections to mean much, anyway.

[betterthanawiki]

You precious thing, you really can't fault us for fickleness, can you? Seems an awful lot like the Umbreon calling the kettle black, don't you think?

[Those itty-bitty flippers are just gonna. Squish Blacky's cheeks. Who's a cute puppy? You are. Yes you are.]

Why, your hot-and-cold attitude toward me would have worn my patience out ages ago, if I didn't adore you so much.

[darkpulse]

I'm not--!

[WAIT NO she's not going to fall for it and let him bait her. NOPE. Nor is she going to admit even to herself that he might be right. What she will do is squish his cheeks right back. It's easier when his face fits in one hand.]

Hmmph. I would have thought that was precisely what you love about me.

[betterthanawiki]

[Such an affectionate pair. Okay, no more smushing of cheeks. Pixie's just gonna squirm on outta there.]

It's an awfully dangerous thing to assume that you understand the gods, dear creature! You're certainly bold as always, aren't you?

[darkpulse]

When so many of you walk among mortals so freely, it's so easy to forget that there's any difference between us... how careless of me.

[betterthanawiki]

Perhaps I'm the one being careless. I suppose I should expect you to do an awful lot of forgetting, shouldn't I?

[darkpulse]

[Ouch.]

...I'm sure it's easier than remembering every little detail. I'd simply go mad.

[betterthanawiki]

And that, dear creature, is the difference between you and I. If you can hold onto one thing, then do try to remember that much.

[darkpulse]

I wouldn't want my only memory to be of you. That would just drive me crazy anyway.

Surely there must have been one thing in your thousands of years that you'd like to forget about.

[betterthanawiki]

I am the Being of Knowledge. Emotional things like regret and sentimentality have no place within my domain. There are, perhaps, things that were painful to me, but I could not forget even if I did happen to be willing to indulge in such nearsighted band-aid solutions.

[darkpulse]

Not your domain. Did you feel anything when you did it? Or did you simply lack the will to refuse as well?

That must be the true curse of the Lake Spirits.

[betterthanawiki]

Ahh, I wonder.

[No straight answers, as always. Uxie simply smiles.]

Would you believe me, dear soul, if I told you that I loved a mortal once?

[darkpulse]

[That's got her interest. But why would he tell her a thing like that? Mind games, probably. There's no reason to believe him right after his teasing about favourites.]

...

[What does she even say to that? If it is true, she wants to know more, but she knows he's probably not going to tell her. DAMN IT UXIE.]

I... really don't understand you nearly enough to judge whether such a thing can be true or not. What are you willing to tell me about it?

[betterthanawiki]

Ah, it's a sad tale, this one. I should have known better than to let my heart get the better of me, but... she was so dear to me, that girl. Even if I knew it would only end in heartbreak, I foolishly pined for her. I meddled when she asked it of me, instead of merely remaining the impartial observer I was created to be.

I destroyed the one I loved, dear creature. I opened my eyes before her, and shattered her like glass.

[darkpulse]

[If it is a lie, it's a cruel one. She can't even bring herself to look at him. Does she assume the girl is her, or that there was another in Uxie's long lifetime with such eerily similar circumstances? Or is he just trying to evoke some emotion in her to throw it back in her face with some smug insult? Either way, it hits too close to home for Blacky's liking.]

I don't think there are ever happy endings when two from such different worlds are involved. ...I'm sorry.

[betterthanawiki]

I ought to have known better than to be so blind. I know that.

[He won't hold her inability to look at him against her, considering he's been unable to look at her for every moment except... well, you know. Uxie just shakes his head, that little voice of his soft and low.]

Perhaps you weren't so wrong to call us cursed.

[darkpulse]

If only emotions could ever be reigned in by reason. That curse plagues all of us.

I, ah... It means a lot that you would tell me something so personal. But I'm sure you know that as well.

[betterthanawiki]

[It's cool, babe, it's all non-canon anyhow.]

Of course I do, dearest. But one must display trust in order to earn trust, isn't that right? I am not proud of the occasions when the heart drowned out the mind, but I shan't try to bury them.

[darkpulse]

[Uxie, you're not allowed to know things even beyond the fourth wall.]

...Ah. That was your goal, was it? To earn trust... so you can somehow make a fool out of me. [She should have known. HE REALLY HAD HER GOING...]

Ahaha... Surely it's easy enough for you to do that without half as much effort, you wicked thing...!

[betterthanawiki]

[UXIE DOES WHAT UXIE WANTS.]

So suspicious! If this is how you act when I extend the olive branch... well, I suppose I oughtn't extend it anymore!

[And he drifts in closer, to plant a loving little pixie smooch right on her forehead.]

This wicked thing shan't bother you anymore, then. Is that what you'd like?

[darkpulse]

I... No, it's just... I don't mean to insult you, and I'd be ffffine with you staying...

[Damn it. Why does she even care when it's obviously all some kind of trick. But what if it's not. MOST INFURIATING PIXIE IN THE WORLD...]

I am a huge ass, aren't I.

[APOLOGIES ARE HARD. Especially when she still doesn't know how she feels about things.]