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[ Guess who's back who's back again? ]

Heh. So I'm back again. Thankfully, I don't think you call can get rid of me quite so easily.

[ For those new to the party, Woden's helmet is in full view of the screen, his camera the only reflection. He's sure to take up the whole thing, so his specific location can't be defined from the helmet's reflection. His tone is musical and amused, like he's just experienced something funny. ]

You know what the amusing thing is? I'd already been punished for my earlier transgressions. I'd been killed and beheaded for the things I had done. Beyond that? I've been quiet. I've lived my life, I didn't even interact with the people who felt so... betrayed by my actions. I kept my nose clean -- [ A beat, and a tip of his helmet. ] -- relatively.

Do you know what being good? What being quiet and diminuitive got me? It got me murdered in my own home. [ He leans back, now, and he's most certainly not at home. He, in fact, looks to be in the middle of nowhere, a dark room, other than the bright whites of screens that illuminate from behind the camera. They are all static in his helmet. ] Let me reiterate, for no reason. I did nothing, and because of my reputation, or my odiousness, someone thought it would be fun to murder me.

I would like you all to think on that, the next time someone speaks ill of another person's reputation here. We are... the sum of our actions, yes, but for some, those actions are immediately forgiveable. For others, it doesn't matter how many times we are killed, or punished. It's never enough, to try to change our lives, and make up for it. It's ironic, how easily manipulated you all are, isn't it? How you all don't even question the people you trust?

I digress. I suspect I'm only complaining into the void, regardless.

[ A pause, and he lifted a finger, as if he had another point, his helmet tipped. ]

I suppose I should wish all the other fellow fathers out there, a happy father's day, shouldn't I?

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Well, I think if you;re going to hold yourselves to a high standard, one should be consistent, don't you?

Or is it the good ones who should prescribe to "do as I say, not as I do"?

Ideally, yes, but no-one ever is. I only really know of one person in existence that bothers to follow the rules instead of setting their own or warping them.

Maybe people just stopped caring. It happens.

Yes, well, it would be fine, if public opinion were not skewed to only favor the popular ones, don't you think?

Sure, but that's how it always is. Your whining won't change that.

[he actually-- does dislike that, quite a lot, but he's not not petty enough to commiserate with woden over it.]

Probably not, but what is it they say?

Representation matters? Doesn't saying things out loud mean that at least it's in the public discourse?

Is that what you're really trying to do here?

What else could it be?

Uhh... impotent whining?

Ah yes, is that the impression you had?

If only I could make things so simple, like that.

You could. Not everything has to be deep, you know.

Ah, but if I conducted myself so simply, I would be a bit embarrassed.

I've always been the sort to prefer to conduct myself with a certain level of intelligence. I'm certainly not just going to whine. That's childish.

Oh. When did you do that? I'd like to see it. For... interest. Argument's sake.

[this is going nowhere and riptide is very stupid. perhaps this is part of woden's eternal punishment...]

Ha ha.

[ With the vocoder, it's very low, and plain. No emoting. ]

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