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[systemize]

[The comm tag reads Stormer and is untraceable.]

Someone asked me recently how I'd define moral and immoral, but I think my perspective's a little skewed. How do you define it?


> private to Magicman
I need to ask you for a favor. Do they have you listed as an adult here? I wasn't sure what your official age would be.

> private to Isaac
I think I have your software finished. I can send you the file to download and you can check if it needs troubleshooting.

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[glowsferatu]

oh youd be surprised how well i might not know what im doing
ive given them very good reasons to suspect otherwise
but i may get some acknowledgement in certain areas

[ or she'd get more if she wasn't so consistently prickly. but she's been raised to think like an adult, she knew when her mother died she'd have to take over the job. but she was thirteen, there's some she could have managed mothering an entire future, if it hadn't all gone wrong anyway. ]

but if you didnt want some resolution to all of this
if you were content to leaving it as it is
whether its continuance is dubious or not
would you even be asking the question

[systemize]

[Cadel doesn't know what he's doing as much as he'd like to, either. He panics and makes a mess of things, which leads to incidents like nearly drowning in concrete in a basement. That had been terrifying.]

I probably shouldn't be complaining either. My age has saved me from a lot of legal repercussions for bad decisions. And Saul isn't too bad about letting me help, but I can tell he doesn't want to.

What I want isn't ever going to happen. [For Prosper to love him like the kind of father he wants, to approve of him and leave him alone and probably, also, stay in jail.] I'll have to settle for him not hurting anyone to get to me again.

[He still can't bring himself to type if that means he's dead, so be it. Cadel is worked up just saying what he has.]

[glowsferatu]

thats the unfortunate path things have a tendency to go
you just have to find your way to keep the people important to you safe
and maybe determine how youll live with yourself after

[ he has plenty of reason to be apprehensive, nothing comes without consequences. there's always going to be a cost to pay, and it's just what he expects. ]

which one is saul if you dont mind

[systemize]

That's a lot more honest than what most people say to me.

Saul is my adoptive father. My mom's Fiona. At home, I mean. I don't have parents here.

[glowsferatu]

no we rarely do
but there are always those who think its their place to fill that role
and some of us even fall for it
as though replacing those people who raised us is something to do heedlessly

[ well that's suddenly bitter. ]

[systemize]

I've gone through a lot of parents. [Cadel has to actually stop and count to come up with a number.] If we're including unclaimed biological relations and legal relationships, I'm on my sixth set.

Most of them weren't people I wanted. But I wouldn't beat yourself up about "falling for it". I've done this six times and I still do, sometimes.

[Although he's not willing to admit that this subject is directly related to their subject immediately previous.]

[glowsferatu]

some of us dont have that luxury
it would only make me appear weak

[ because she feels like she is, so often, that the easy thing would be to give in, to let someone else shoulder the burden. but if she doesn't, even if she could really trust someone else to, what would be the point of her?

it's her duty, she can't well pass it off on someone else. ]