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[ex_purity762]

On this network I've seen a lot of things. People have always seemed divided on issues, and how to treat the Blood Keys looks to be no different. There's been a lot of anger here, and to be honest, I can understand that.

But others have expressed why they feel it's wrong already. There's nothing I could really add to that. So what I would rather do is ask you all a question.

Who do you want to be?

I don't ask what you want to be, because I'm not sure how much of a say we have in that. But we can decide who we are, and maybe knowing each others' answer to that will help us better understand one another.

So I'll start. I want to be someone who can help others. It doesn't matter how big or small that help is - but I want to be capable of that. Not just for my family, but the people around me who need it.

I'd like to know your answers too, if anyone's willing.


[ooc: Not sure if I need to mention but if you guys want to reply to each other, feel free to!]

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[reapsthewind]

I want what I've always wanted. I want recognition, I want someone to acknowledge what I can do, and I want to be in a position where I have a chance to make a real change. A real difference...

If I'm given half a chance, I know I can do it. All my life I've been denied those chances and I feel like...

Whoever's memories I'm getting? She was a general of some sort. I can use that. I can learn from her mistakes, I can be better.

[ex_purity762]

I think that's a great thing to aspire to; making a difference. What kind of changes would you want to make?

[maven]

One who helps and is helped.

[ex_purity762]

I find that pretty relatable. Do you know what ways you'd want to help others?

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[envisaging]

I want to be someone who can help others and care for the people I love. And I don't want to lose that part of me.

That's always been the case.

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[ex_purity762]

I can understand that. Sometimes, I worry I won't be "me" anymore, with the things that're happening.

But force of will has to count for something, right?

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[parkourbot]

idk if who i wanna be matters
i think it's pretty obvious i'm gonna end up a robot either way so like
i hope i'm not one of those murdery ones at least

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[ex_purity762]

Isn't a robot more of what you are, rather than who?

I'd like to think there's more to our identities.

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[moarnomsplz]

I'm with you, I want to help.
I want to stay me, too. I don't know if I will but I hope so.

I want to find out what happened to other-me and I really want to find out why this is all happening to us.

I want to save the world even if that sounds super cheesy.

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[ex_purity762]

Cheesy or not, those sound like good goals to me.

I hope we'll continue to be the same at heart, regardless of what we learn or how we change.

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[destinedforrock]

I want to be someone, certainly! [Her tone's a bit mild - she doesn't want to go too terribly deep and dramatic into what she's taking as a get-to-know-you conversation prompt, but it does more or less invite being personal.]

I grew up completely unable to interact with my own family like - a member of the family - [And it's only due to a recent switch that she calls them her "family" now.] - I can't tell you how refreshing it was to be part of something for a change!

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[ex_purity762]

That sounds like it would have been lonely. I may be wrong, but I think I'd feel that way.

By part of something, do you mean people here?

[espigeonage]

That's a good answer.

I suppose as far as I've seen the other me isn't too bad. He wants to save people. Physically and by talking to them when they're in a bad way. And he's really lonely but he has good points about that. He's braver than I am. Kind of driven. idk.

Maybe the big thing is that I can't fight, I don't want to fight. He doesn't feel the same way though.

[ex_purity762]

Thank you. The people I've heard from thus far have good ones of their own, in my opinion.

So you're different in that way... Do you know what you want to with that?

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[anequal]

[he would respond with text, he would, but this is Pierce's number and Pierce knows him and this is such a topic that he has to say it out loud, to someone he trusts]

... I just want to be me? Like, I don't know who I am yet. The whole college, job, family thing. But I want to be me.

I don't... want to be Armin? Someone said she knows people whose personalities change. I don't want that.

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[ex_purity762]

[Generally he'd stick with text himself, but Anthony's a friend. And he's using audio, and it feels wrong to respond differently]

'Armin', huh? Have to say, I'm pretty partial to the name you've got, as it is.

I've worried about changing that much too. It's scary, the idea of being overwritten, or something. Of being some other guy who looks at the world differently.

But I want to believe we've got some choice in that. We haven't forgotten our lives here, right?

[amajin]

Questions like this always trip me up, I keep forgetting that a lot of people on this network are real young. It just doesn't seem fair that you all get to be in the prime of life and I'm all creaky!

But I mean, I kinda want to keep doing the stuff I've been doing for all this time. I kind of am who I want to be, I sort of want to keep it that way. Become a better version, if that's even possible. The thought of it boggles the mind, really.

Nah, I'm kidding and I get you're trying to be serious here. I feel you, too. I want to help others, too. That's been what my career's been all about, really. As much as I pump my fist like a crazy man when I finally figure out the precise turning radius I need on my rotors to make a finger joint respond to pressure, I'm more excited knowing that because of that, somebody's gonna have a hand they can use again.

Which reminds me, I also wanna make sure no kids get killed in all this. And that includes the Blood Keys, who mugged me once but kind of just seemed like dumb kids to me. And they bought the worst current-gen game system with it when they took my credit card which, just... God. They need to stay alive if only to keep them from making the same mistake twice.

[ex_purity762]

I don't think there's a problem with a little levity, where there's room for it. After all, if we're serious and grim all the time, our spirits won't be very high.

Does your business involve prosthetics then? I may be wrong, but it sounds that way. I can only imagine that sort of thing helps a lot of people.

I haven't really gotten to know any Blood Keys, but that does sound like they're not the big shady villains some people make them out to be. Maybe whoever's making them into cyborgs is the real "bad guy" here. I wish things hadn't escalated the way they did, since maybe they're not that different from us.

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[schild]

I want to protect as many people as i can, but especially the people close to me. In any way I can... I want to be someone people can rely on, I guess.

Well, I'm working on it, anyway. :^)

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[ex_purity762]

I think trying your best is all anyone can ask. I'm sure you'll be able to look out for the people close to you. That's something I'm trying to work on, as well.

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[dododo]

I've always striven to be someone who helps people and keeps them alive. I'm going to keep doing that, for as long as I can.

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[ex_purity762]

That sounds like a noble ambition to me, and I think you're not the only one. I'm sure that you can succeed.

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[chernobolt]

i wish to be myself - not as in 'i wish to remain unchanged by the pulses' but more of...i want to be what makes me happiest, without having to pretend to be something else.

and also to make those close to me proud. but i suspect that if i achieve the first the second will follow as well. :)

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[ex_purity762]

You're the first to put it that way, I think. I want to believe there's room for the people we are, and whoever else we're becoming. And maybe you'll wind up being the best of both.

I'm sure you're right that those two goals are connected.

[phoenix_temple]

I want to be someone who's useful.

But the longer I think about that, the less likely it seems.

I'd just like a chance to pay the people back who helped me, or pass their kindness on I guess.

[ex_purity762]

Why would you think that you can't be useful?

There are many ways people can help others.

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[betroth]

someone who can be depended on. no matter what we have to face. i won't be scared, if i can prove that.

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[ex_purity762]

I'm sure that you can. Where there's a will, there's a way, right?