Won't we all, someday? That is the nature of life, after all.
[ it is not, ness knows, strictly an answer to the question as it was asked. she hedges as a matter of habit, and less out of reluctance than difficulty knowing where to begin with anything more direct. they are at war, corypheus threatens the world, circles remain dangling over all their heads like a knife—this is not so simple a question.
some answers are easier, though. she can start with them. ]
More specifically, should Corypheus prove victorious, I don't believe anyone would truly end up happy in his world, not even his Venatori. So I may end up unhappy then.
[ she smiles, though, the picture of optimism. ]
I don't wallow in that possibility, though. We will defeat him, and that future won't come to pass. Whatever unhappiness lies in my future, it will be mundane, and fleeting. Hardly apocalyptic.
[ Hardly apocalyptic. Wanda wishes she could look at a glass and see it as half-full again. She used to, once. Now, she sees the glass and its cracks, and how the water is slowly slipping through the fissures while others may not notice.
But Ness deserves a Wanda who isn't beaten down by… everything. ]
I like how you view things. [ It's said kindly, and she means it. ] How do you remind yourself to be happy when things feel… not so happy?
[ How does someone like Ness pick herself up? She's someone Wanda would consider naive, but… perhaps she needs that naivety to help her get through this universe. ]
[ she doesn't mind, based on the considering hum she gives to indicate that she's thinking on the question—but she doesn't know how to answer easily, either. it takes a moment for ness to have an answer formulated that she's happy with. ]
I'm alive, [ she says, soft with a bit of wonder, like that wasn't a given, ] against all odds. I'm here, surrounded by heroes, contributing tangibly to the most noble cause I can imagine.
[ it probably sounds like a bunch of bullshit—too lofty and altruistic to possibly be true. ness presses ahead even so. ]
Whatever makes me unhappy, whatever personal annoyances I experience—I can change them. I have time and ability, and anything is possible with the correct application of both. Happiness is inevitable, then, on the long scale of the universe. So why not choose it now, if I can?
[ there are things that hurt too badly for happiness to be a choice, of course. ness is no stranger to those. but when she can choose, when it comes to the things she feels softly enough to make that choice...
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a million gomens, feel free to drop!
[ it is not, ness knows, strictly an answer to the question as it was asked. she hedges as a matter of habit, and less out of reluctance than difficulty knowing where to begin with anything more direct. they are at war, corypheus threatens the world, circles remain dangling over all their heads like a knife—this is not so simple a question.
some answers are easier, though. she can start with them. ]
More specifically, should Corypheus prove victorious, I don't believe anyone would truly end up happy in his world, not even his Venatori. So I may end up unhappy then.
[ she smiles, though, the picture of optimism. ]
I don't wallow in that possibility, though. We will defeat him, and that future won't come to pass. Whatever unhappiness lies in my future, it will be mundane, and fleeting. Hardly apocalyptic.
sorry, my dude; i got blipped!
But Ness deserves a Wanda who isn't beaten down by… everything. ]
I like how you view things. [ It's said kindly, and she means it. ] How do you remind yourself to be happy when things feel… not so happy?
[ How does someone like Ness pick herself up? She's someone Wanda would consider naive, but… perhaps she needs that naivety to help her get through this universe. ]
If you don't mind a stranger asking.
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I'm alive, [ she says, soft with a bit of wonder, like that wasn't a given, ] against all odds. I'm here, surrounded by heroes, contributing tangibly to the most noble cause I can imagine.
[ it probably sounds like a bunch of bullshit—too lofty and altruistic to possibly be true. ness presses ahead even so. ]
Whatever makes me unhappy, whatever personal annoyances I experience—I can change them. I have time and ability, and anything is possible with the correct application of both. Happiness is inevitable, then, on the long scale of the universe. So why not choose it now, if I can?
[ there are things that hurt too badly for happiness to be a choice, of course. ness is no stranger to those. but when she can choose, when it comes to the things she feels softly enough to make that choice...
why not make it? ]