things just happen so much don't they

[adamantlyardent]

WHO: Cecelia, a cast of tens
WHERE: All over (except Jeopardy -- frick u, Jeopardy)
WHEN: April
WHAT: ACTIVITIES
WARNINGS: teeeeeeeeeeenager


Yo hit up whyellewhy to plan shit let's party

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[consulinchief]

Oh I don't know, Evan was around 12, so if anything these kids are older than what I'm used to dealing with.

[That said, he kind of does know what she means. It isn't that he hates doing the work, but he is getting restless.]

And what is the typical narrative, exactly?

[Because "normal narrative" went out the window for Roland the second he saw the missile fly past his motorcade.]

[adamantlyardent]

[she gets a brief look of distaste at the kid-king reveal, finding that rather unappealing. another off-book concept -- rather, a concept that doesn't really speak to her. child kings just sound inherently...bad.]

Well, I'm not sure about what's conventional for your world, but for what I knew of mine? Most folks never had to worry about their life being immediately shaken all out-of-sorts by way of lackadaisical fate-gods plucking people on a whim. Any world-shaking changes tended to stay in that world, so your path tends to stay rather...easier to forecast, mm?

It's only the special or...specifically cursed sorts who seem to get rattled by fate more than normal.

[consulinchief]

[He sees that look.]

No one forced him. He created Evermore from nothing, and helped to save his world. He might be young but he's extremely capable.

[Sure, Roland wrote most of the policies, but he was just helping.]

I like to think of it as we were all chosen to help this world for a reason. Besides, if what they say is true, and when you go home you forget all about your time here--whose to say that a lot more "normal" people didn't have adventures just like we did?

[adamantlyardent]

[irritably:] Then what even is the point?! If I learn some great, worldly lesson or secret, and then, poof! Back home, forgetting it completely, what does it even matter? This is so stupid. Gods, at least I could remember popping in and out of the Feywild? Not that I learned a lesson really, but it's the principle of it.

[consulinchief]

[Roland really should have seen this coming, and is kind of mad at himself for the fact he didn't.]

Perhaps it's not about us, but the people here and the lives that we change. Perhaps it inspires our subconscious to work in a different path.

[Perhaps it's all a colossal joke played on them by the universe.]

What's the Feywild?

[adamantlyardent]

[feywild? who cares. frick the feywild! she's on a roll:] Ugh. I don't want to be the vehicle for someone else's emotional or mental growth! That's the kind of stuff that can happen after, like, you die or something, you know? When you don't even care anymore!

[consulinchief]

[Roland cares! It sounds interesting!!]

The things you do for others doesn't only impact them after you die, Cecelia. That's not how that works.

[adamantlyardent]

[defensive:] Yeah, well...I still think it's stupid. Not that what I'm up to here is really going to benefit me back home right now, but in the event something I pick up here does...I'd be very put out to learn I'd been scrubbed free of my own experiences!

[consulinchief]

If you learned it once, why couldn't you learn it again?

[adamantlyardent]

[UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH telling a teenager to learn the same thing TWICE? ROLAND?]

Why should I have to? It's dumb! Why can't you just agree that it's dumb? Because it is.

[consulinchief]

[LOOK IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE HE WAS A TEENAGER AND HIS SON IS NOT TEENAGE YET.]

Fine, then it's dumb.

[Is he just saying this to make her feel better? You bet!]

[adamantlyardent]

[she eyes him, knowing he's just saying so to appease her. how dare.

stiffly:] I've got work now, so I'm turning here. I suppose that means farewell?

[consulinchief]

[He nods slightly.]

I'm sure we'll run into each other again.

Thanks again for the help, Cecelia.