capeandcowl | Third || [Voice]

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I do not use this thing often; I see little point in it. Many people use this Network to ask questions, I’m not sure if I see much point in that either. It’s not like we will remember the answers we are given here. We will return home and things will cycle on. People will die and destruction will continue. People know this, yet they still ask questions. Maybe it’s good enough to get an answer here, even if you will not remember when you leave. Or maybe people ask because they are simply curious. That is part of why I wish to ask a question: simple curiosity.

What does it mean to have a soul? Some say the soul decides if you are good or evil, without one you’re simply a monster. What is a soul? What does it mean to you?

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You are wrong. It is something deeper than that. It is something that can be taken.

Maybe all of that can be manipulated, but...

Look, in the most literal sense: what do you see when you look into the mirror?

Something that should not be.

No. Come on. I said the most literal sense.

No matter what you think of yourself, you can look in the mirror and tell you're you, right?

Not all the time. There are times when I look very different.

Okay, sure. I mean... I've gone from white to green and back again, for a bit there, but I could still tell I was me. I never saw a mirror and thought, "Ooh! What's that?! Can I eat it?"

You're self-aware. That's what I'm trying to get at. And look? You're waxing philosophic with a bunch of other self-aware beings!

'Soul' is just some word they use to define a bunch of other realizations and feelings. If you still feel and you know you're alive, you have thoughts... You're still not an animal, so you're cool.

You are extremely optimistic aren't you? When I look in the mirror there are times I do not know who I am looking at.

Yeah, well I gotta be. If I was a pessimist, I'd be long gone.

And I'm not trying to be all metaphorical, you know? Everybody has those moments, where you wonder what you are or what you might be someday. Hell, everybody can have those years, but... You're obviously not some mindless, driveling thing, so I think you can relax a little bit.

It is more complicated than that. I should not be. But I suppose in a way you are right. I am not a mindless thing.

You are Kitty's friend?

Uh... Yeah. I'm Gar.

Hi.

I am Illyana Rasputin.

Pretty name.

Nice to meet you.

Thank you. Kitty calls me 'Yana. Some of the others do as well. It is easier I think. Have you known her long here?

Yeah, like... Well, almost the whole time I've been here. Nine or ten months, I guess.

That is good that she has had friends outside of those from our world.

Yeah, well... She's got most of my teammates, too.

She's really easy to get along with, you know? So... It's probably not surprising that she knows, like, everybody.

That is good.

Yes, I know. That is why Piotr liked her.

That's... Her old boyfriend, right? Peter?

Everybody seems to like him, too...

Yes, it's Peter. He is not her old boyfriend though.

Right, well... He old boyfriend right now. Um. Everybody else is from the future, soooo... She's not dating him.

She's just, you know... Going to. Eventually. I guess.

Correct. He loves her very much. It hurt him badly to lose her. They did not get enough time to be happy, nobody ever does in our world. Maybe he will come here someday, he would be happy to see her.

Sure. I'll bet.

You do not sound like you would like that much. Why?

I've actually heard this guy mentioned a lot... Um. I dunno'.

What I feel isn't any less legitimate.

What you feel?

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