EVE'S HEART

[aprettygirl]

A dark veil slips over you, obscuring your vision; it’s cool and clinging, and blocks out all outside sensation. You drift downward . . . as you do, you grow more and more aware of the pulse of your own heartbeat, until it’s a ringing, unpleasant throb in your ears.

. . . after some time, it’s interrupted by a soft splash, and you feel solid rock underfoot.

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Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

"One understands someone better if they walk in their shoes a little . . . is the actress's concept behind that game, I believe. Though I think she would have spared you the outfit if you didn't want to wear it."

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

[Hm. I have to think about that for a bit... On the one hand, I kind of have bad experiences with people approaching me with nothing but sex on their minds, on the other hand...]

...Maybe if Pitch was there.

[Not that it... would actually work with Pitch at all, but still.]

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

She tilts her head. "Pitch?"

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

[Oh yes, I didn't tell any active members of Jasper about that, did I...?]

Star kind of... confessed to Pitch once. Got rejected completely, though.

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

". . . are you sure he wasn't being clueless?"

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

Star had to explain it three times before he got it, so she's pretty sure.

Got a "but we're friends, and we should stay friends", though.

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

"Boys. Perhaps he'll feel differently when he's had time to mature."

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

...Maybe...

[But I dunno, I get the feeling that instead, someone's going to take him away and it will all be for nothing in the end. And he might hate me because I'm a homicidal maniac, and... Maybe I'll just be depressed thinking about it now.]

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

"You're looking sad again . . ."

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

It's because Pitch doesn't like monsters like Star. Sorry about being like this even though Star's in your heart.

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

"Perhaps what he doesn't like is that you call yourself a monster...? You're more human than I."

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

[We're using different meanings here, again.]

Not quite what Star means, but... You know, Star wants to kill everything, and that's...

[Not really something Pitch can ever accept, so.]

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

"Oh . . . yes, all right."

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

Even if Star changes so Star can always hold it back, it's... probably going to stay that way. But Pitch would hate Star if he knew that, right?

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

". . . you two are a bit of an extreme case, but there is a difference between being unable to accept someone else's desires and hating them."

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

...Is there?

[Well, let me think about this... I know people have thought I'm a freak but still okay to hang out with... Is it a bit like that...?]

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

"If you hate someone for one aspect of themselves, without trying to understand them . . .?"

She shrugs.

"Unwise."

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

...Seems like people do that anyways, though? Maybe it's just my world, but like...

Star couldn't even talk back home, and people made that into a bunch of other things that didn't have anything to do with Star. It kind of happened so often that... It has to be normal, right? Like, people wouldn't keep doing it if it wasn't normal, right?

[Well, you said I'm a pessimistic girl from a pessimistic world, so let me word that in a more coherent way this time so you can tell me how that's off.]

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

She takes a deep breath and lets it out.

"It may have been normal under the circumstances, in your world, but that doesn't make it universally normal; and neither does it make it right."

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

Never said it was right, but... That's really not normal?

[You mean people aren't judging me right now? I always just kind of assumed people were judging me and everyone else for every little thing they did.]

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

"It's . . . it's not, no, Star."

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

Oh.

[Well, okay then.]

Oh, right, wanted to ask you this for a while, but... Hard to ask in the real world... Do you think there's something wrong with being selfish?

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

"That's very broad. What kind of selfishness...?"

Re: bones of the matter

[mirroredvalue]

Like someone doing things for others so they like them back.

[I'm sorry, this is still the gifts game stuff. That was a sensitive thing for me, since it's kind of how I approach interaction with other people as a point.]

Re: bones of the matter

[aprettygirl]

True Heart is, at least, more patient than Eve was.

"Mmm . . . there's nothing wrong with it, really. If you give gifts selfishly, then you're giving gifts selfishly, but you're still giving gifts, and you're realistic about your reasons for doing so.

I still maintain that unselfish altruism is a thing that exists, but if you think differently, then you think differently; and if you yourself are not that sort of person, then you are not."