IC Contact for duplicity

[arkfall]

Leave your messages here

Comments

[arkfall]

You would be gone. The thing that would be in your place might have achieved your dream of gaining humanity but it would not be you.

[goldenglasses]

I am more than what I am! [He doesn't hide how much this hurts. That it seems to him that his brother cares more about what he is rather than who he is.] I am a person first and a Plant second. Even if I wasn't Plant I'd still be your brother! Does that really not mean anything to you!?

[arkfall]

[This conversation is maddening to him.]

Why do you think you would still be my brother? We would lose our connection and you would no longer have the body that was formed along with mine.

[goldenglasses]

The lives we've lived together? That would mean nothing to you!?

[arkfall]

I don't know why we're talking about this. It didn't happen.

[goldenglasses]

We're talking about this because it seems you care more about what I am than who I am! I am more than just a Plant!

[arkfall]

I'm telling you that those two things are instinctually linked. Changing what you are fundamentally changes who you are. I'm not sure why you seem offended by that concept.

[goldenglasses]

It's not like flipping a switch! Who I am is my life experience and personality! If I suddenly became human that's not going to change the way I think!

[arkfall]

What the fuck do you mean by that? Brain chemistry matters, Vash. Even a human can understand that. Change the brain, change the personality and the way they think.

[goldenglasses]

Tomoe seems to me like the exact same personality she's always been. Maybe Plants and humans have the same brain chemistry.

[arkfall]

She doesn't seem the same to me at all.

[goldenglasses]

Maybe because you're finally paying attention to her.

[arkfall]

What do you mean? She was one of the few humans here I bothered with at all.

[goldenglasses]

Yeah, you bothered with. That doesn't mean you were really getting to know who she was.

[arkfall]

Why does this matter to you so much? I am confused by this entire conversation.

[goldenglasses]

It matters because it sounds like you won't care about me anymore if this place suddenly turns me human!

[arkfall]

I would care. I would fight to find out how to turn you back.

[goldenglasses]

And if you can't? If it's impossible?

[arkfall]

I would not be able to cope with that. It would be dangerous for all involved.

[goldenglasses]

And that's a problem. It shouldn't matter what I am, but who I am. Even if I'm changed I'm still your brother. I would still love you as a brother. I would still be me deep down.

[arkfall]

I would still be angry at them for harming you in such a way.

[goldenglasses]

But I wouldn't be in pain. It isn't painful to be a human.

[arkfall]

It...

[He makes a frustrated sound.] How would you feel if they forcibly lobotomized me? Or her?

[goldenglasses]

That's different! That's messing with your head, brain, and trying to change who you are.

[arkfall]

I didn't ask that. I asked how you would feel.