audience: cloud

[mygod]

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[egodist]

I've done it a few times.

But I do take my responsibility seriously enough if people seem like they have genuine questions about their situation.

[residentmerc]

Do people actually try to contact you just to hang out?

[ he thinks it is very likely, it's just. he also think that mental image is hilarious. ]

[egodist]

Are you about to start asking me relevant questions about the situation?

[ aren't they just

hanging out right now, cloud ]

[residentmerc]

I started with 'em.

[ wow!!!!! this is scien's fault in the first place???? ]

[egodist]

[ confused look????

didn't they just talk about aerith????? ]

[residentmerc]

....

I meant to start with them.

[ look ]

[egodist]

[ help

he laughs

he's not mad about it. he harasses cloud about his brain soup but it's not personal or meant to be antagonistic, scien just sucks ]

Be my guest.

[residentmerc]

No, it's too late. Guess we're hanging out now. There goes your antisocial cred.

[ his is gone by aerith's presence alone nvm when yuffie was also there ]

[egodist]

I will accept being antisocial three-fourths of the time. That is doable. It used to be closer to nearly ninety-nine percent.

[ so they can hang out? i guess? ]

[residentmerc]

All the way down to seventy-five percent? I'd have thought you'd go eighty. Ease yourself into it.

[egodist]

I already endured far worse people far more often in my original world before all this started...

This is at least closer to sustainable.

[residentmerc]

Bad work colleagues?

[ cannot imagine scien having friends back home ]

[egodist]

[ haha wow about that ]

Just people who need things.

[residentmerc]

[ erases the other virches ]

... Weren't you a doctor...? [ ISN'T THAT JUST PATIENTS? ]

[egodist]

Ah, no, those were fine. I agreed to take those cases on.

But sometimes I would get interrupted from that to deal with politics and administrative tasks.

[residentmerc]

Why were they making you deal with stuff like that?

[ administrative tasks he gets but politics????? scien what is your life ]

[egodist]

Technically, I've been elected the people's representative in place of the monarchy.

[ he's

the de facto leader of the country is why

absolutely hilarious ]

[residentmerc]

... They elected you?

[ on PURPOSE?*

*he's so fuckin rude ]

[egodist]

That's what I said.

[residentmerc]

... Not a position you could turn down, I guess?

[egodist]

[ he sighs... and his expression turns more thoughtful ]

... the country was in a state of crisis. The majority of the population had already thought of me as their god for the past hundred years, and since they assumed that I would be the one to bring them salvation, it made the most sense to them.

The current system of government is set up so that they'll be able to govern themselves, but when it was in its growing pains, they needed some reliability. To them, that was me.

And then I left because I didn't want them to grow complacent.

[residentmerc]

[ HE'S GETTING SO MUCH LORE AND EVERY ADDITIONAL PIECE IS JUST MAKING HIM MORE CONFUSED ]

... Not exactly what I thought you meant when you said elected. [ and politics. he kind of envisioned something a little more. votes, and a little less. save us god scien. ] Is that how you wound up here? You left because you didn't want the people to be complacent?

[egodist]

[ is it any wonder why scien's ego is what it is when literally everyone thought of him as a god

god yawns ]

Yes. It's also a byproduct of most of my projects being done... No one had a great need for me anymore, I didn't want to keep doing paperwork for the rest of my natural lifespan, and it would be a disservice to my country if I solved all of their problems forever.

So I left.

[residentmerc]

[ people with god complexes are the worst, actually.... ]

They have a replacement ready, or did you leave them scrambling for one? [ it sounds judgmental but he is honestly. mostly curious the only form of government he has experienced are mayors and a major corporation who suffers from nepotism he cannot imagine how you'd both go around replacing a god and also make them do paperwork.

well. that is sort of what sephiroth was in soldier but we are not going there ]

[egodist]

If I had a replacement ready that I picked out myself, wouldn't that ruin the point?

[ he left them scrambling. he really said go and survive without me now ]

The structures are in place and there's enough good, prominent people on the island that I trust it won't all go to Hades immediately. I wouldn't have left if I thought everything would fall apart just from my departure.

But I would rather take a period of momentary struggle rather than a century of stagnation.