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You know you shouldn't be doing this.
How many times must your friends insist on how pointless arguing with people on the internet is until you get it? You are, after all, well aware on the negative impact on your mental health, as well as how little is any positive change they can bring, if any. You know that.
Yet here you are.
I can't believe this, you write. How can the descendants of WV and PM behave this way? They literally fought across universes for us, and we can't do the same for others?, you insist.
I mean speak for yourself I'm pretty sure I'm the descendant of one Prospitian that hid away until Jade teleported them, an unwelcome answer appears
LOL, adds one
saaaame, continues another
You hit the table in disgust.
But if it wasn't for them, you try to argue, none of us would exist. We are here right now because they decided to fight.
I mean good for them but just because the trolls think that they are too good for ectobiology
Oh hell not this again
IT ISN'T ABOUT THAT, you slam your hand against the table, hard. Ow.
Wdym? that's literally what they're fighting about.
Oh my god, you say. How can they be so oblivious?
Haven't you checked the news since the Creators came back or something?
Yeah, and? Trolls obvs think themselves too superior to our lowly reproduction method. Like, sorry we can't all have a "natural" way to reproduce that doesn't involve machines.
Holy shit. You gotta be joking. Please tell me you're pranking me.
No, why?
You drag your fingers across your face. Why do you do this to yourself again, you wonder.
A new text appears.
The Troll Kingdom fight is not our fight. (As if you don't know that pretty well.)
But it should be!
Why? It's Troll and Humans business. We have nothing to do with that.
You groan. Great, a speciescist. As if the convo wasn't bad enough already.
We all live in the same planet, don't we? If nothing else, what happens to them will affect us too, eventually.
At least, you have to try to make him see something. Just one thing, a glimmer of it that may not change him completely, but might send him down the right path
You simply have to try.
How long has it been since the war started again? And caparaces like you keep spouting the same thing. Yet here we are, unaffected.
You groan.
Fine. Say we are never affected. Shouldn't we have at least the dignity to help?
This has nothing to do with dignity. That's their problem, not ours. What do we have to do with that?
Nothing currently, you answer bitterly. But that should change.
Why?
Basic decency, you mutter to yourself. But these kind of assholes don't care for that.
Because we should honor the sacrifices and risk our ancestors took to get us here, you finally answer. We should follow on their example, and help bring this war to an end.
What example?
What do you mean what example, you think annoyed. But you know you shouldn't answer with that.
For once, WV fought to unite the Black and White kingdoms, and now nobody would consider our colors to truly matter.
Besides some awful people, but you don't add that. The conversation is tiring enough already.
So? We were all the same species. That's complete different.
No it isn't! Have you never read an history book? White and Black were considered completely opposite, never to join. It's literally the fundamental part of our origins!
So?
This caparace is starting to truly piss you off.
So!? WV united BOTH, and they fought together to dispose our true enemy: the RULER OF THE LAND, who was the one who was getting everyone killed for their petty desires. Gee, doesn't that sound familiar!?
Not really.
OH MY FUCKING GOD. Jane! Jane is the enemy!
Jane isn't even a president, much less a King. Or Queen.
Yeah, ok, this is definitely bait now, you realize. Any person of Earth C knows what a joke the President is. And yet, you persist.
Your friends will call you a moron later, and they will be right.
LOOK. The point is, WV fought for us. He knew what an horrible future would be if we were still fighting a war amongst ourselves, and did his best to bring us together! And yet, our Kingdom insists on remaining neutral on the same barbarities happening to others! On this circumstances, I'm ashamed to call myself a caparace!
Sounds like a skill issue. And anyway, what do you want us to do? To go get ourselves killed?
We should be doing something!, you insist. We can't just sit around watching others die!
Should I remind you that our right to just "sit around" is exactly what WV and PM fought for?
Oh hell no. You aren't going to let this asshole use them in an argument like that.
But they would never remain neutral on something like this! Karkat Vantas was one of WV closest friends! You seriously think he wouldn't fight by his side if he was still around!?
It truly sickens you to think of the founder of the original Can Town seeing the sorry state of the world right now. How horrified would he be, witnessing the destruction of his legacy.
And, of course, the smug fucker on the other side of the screen decides to make it worse.
It's not like he fought by his side when they were still on the session.
HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. How FUCKING dare they!? You feel yourself trembling with rage.
He LITERALLY was the one to throw the rings into the volcano!!!! Rings that, shall I remind you, PM brought to him after defeating Bec Noir!!!! Which was after she chased him through the Furthest Ring for THREE. YEARS.!!!!!!
And? I didn't say he didn't do anything. I said he didn't fight alongside Vantas.
Fuck. Gods. Seriously. Why are you even bothering with this? There is no point, and you know it. You are never going to change their mind. You aren't helping anyone with this. You for sure aren't helping the trolls by getting into online fights. You're just wasting time.
You feel pathetic.
You know what? I'm done with this conversation. You're just a stupid speciescist, and I should have blocked you already.
Excuse me? /I'm/ the speciescist? You should look into the mirror sometimes.
...Ok, what the fuck. You remove your finger from the block button and decide, very stupidly, to reply.
What the hell are you talking about.
Please. "We should, as a species, help the trolls"? If it wasn't because they didn't make it here, I would say you clearly were made from Prospitians from their session.
What. The. Entire. Fuck.
You're kidding me.
Me? No. You're the one insisting we should be doing something as a species. Like we're all still programmed to help the Players? Like they're the important ones, and we're the NPCs to their fights? No. You, with your insistence that we do something collectively, are so prejudiced it makes me sick.
You stare at the screen.
After all, they finish, if you truly felt that strongly about troll rights, you would be actually fighting for them yourself.
You blink.
You disgust me.
Their last message stays in your screen. Robotically, you reach out and turn off your computer.
You feel as though you can still see it, the cruel letters dancing across your vision.