[Owen looks up at the sky, brows scrunched together in a frown. Trying to stop it?]
Some things are like forces of nature. You can't stop them - you can only prepare for fixing what gets broken, and sometimes that's yourself.
[There had been a time where he had tried. Oz was always too dangerous to approach, only softening after meeting Arthur less then a decade ago, and Mithra was always too unpredictable and Figaro was always cruel. He had tried sucking up to Mithra, tried avoiding Oz and Figaro, tried his best to work around those he knew were more powerful then him...
But he's just as prideful as the rest of them, just as stubborn, and just as determined to carve a place for him in the permafrost of their home. Conflict was inevitable. Losing to the likes of Oz and Mithra was also inevitable, but cowardice was worse then death...
He can't just come out and say that, though.]
Humanity? People don't show me any humanity because I'm not human and I never will be, in their eyes.
[He doesn't even mean that in a metaphorical sense this time.]
I'm the evil wizard they want me to be. I'm doing them a favor by keeping it simple.
[He also definitely hasn't given up?? He's going to get the upper hand some day, and then he won't be the one dead on the ground. He just has to be patient until then and grit his teeth. Dying one thousand times doesn't matter when he'll get the last laugh.]
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Some things are like forces of nature. You can't stop them - you can only prepare for fixing what gets broken, and sometimes that's yourself.
[There had been a time where he had tried. Oz was always too dangerous to approach, only softening after meeting Arthur less then a decade ago, and Mithra was always too unpredictable and Figaro was always cruel. He had tried sucking up to Mithra, tried avoiding Oz and Figaro, tried his best to work around those he knew were more powerful then him...
But he's just as prideful as the rest of them, just as stubborn, and just as determined to carve a place for him in the permafrost of their home. Conflict was inevitable. Losing to the likes of Oz and Mithra was also inevitable, but cowardice was worse then death...
He can't just come out and say that, though.]
Humanity? People don't show me any humanity because I'm not human and I never will be, in their eyes.
[He doesn't even mean that in a metaphorical sense this time.]
I'm the evil wizard they want me to be. I'm doing them a favor by keeping it simple.
[He also definitely hasn't given up?? He's going to get the upper hand some day, and then he won't be the one dead on the ground. He just has to be patient until then and grit his teeth. Dying one thousand times doesn't matter when he'll get the last laugh.]