pc catchall with connor (tootsiepop)

[requiemed]

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[tootsiepop]

... I understand your point of view. But remember that this is a competition. Only one god will win, and not everyone can have their wish granted.

[Hm.]

[requiemed]

[She sighs.]

I know. I just wish... people would find less awful ways to compete. You know?

[tootsiepop]

I know.

[Echoing that sigh.]

Ambition said murder was never an obligatory part of this competition... But the chain of deaths can't seem to stop by themselves.

[requiemed]

[As her frown deepens, she nods.]

I wish there was something I could do... Or something that all of us could do.

[tootsiepop]

So do I. There has to be something that can be done to put an end to this. But we've failed to discover it so far.

[requiemed]

[There's a pause as she debates the best way to answer that, but...]

You don't have to say it like that. You haven't failed any more than the rest of us have.

[tootsiepop]

I am failing at my intended purpose, however.

[requiemed]

You’re doing everything you can. It isn’t your fault other people are assholes, Connor. Seriously.

[tootsiepop]

You're aware my programming disagrees with that statement.

[requiemed]

Maybe your programming could chill for ten seconds and admit that I'm right.

[tootsiepop]

You know that's not how it works, Zoe.

[requiemed]

Yeah, I know. A girl can dream.

[...]

Hey, Connor?

[tootsiepop]

... Yes?

[requiemed]

I know you think you're not doing enough here for people. But - I think you've helped me a lot more than you realize.

[tootsiepop]

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Ah.]

... Thank you, Zoe. I am glad you think so.

[He just experienced A Feeling and he hates it, wtf.]

[requiemed]

[Her smile is sincere, even if there's something a little worried about it.]

It's not that I think that, it's that I know.

[tootsiepop]

How so?

[She's done a lot more for him, even if he won't say it.]