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[lingeringhope]

[Hope's voice is clear and clipped.]

If you would like to leave a message, you may do so here. I can't promise to respond. I have many demands on my time, and this sort of thing is far down the list. Still, if you would like to, you may.

Comments

[purpleknee]

Physically they're the same. I'm still a person, I'm only considered nonhuman because I'm functionally immortal. [JERK, no okay, maybe it wasn't meant as a slight? No, it's Hope, he had to have meant it as a slight. Hope's a jerk. Man, he hates him a lot! Ugh.] But where I am from, hearts have a lot to do with a person as well. They can actually break, for example, and when one doesn't have it they become

different. They can't feel things correctly and could do things they might not have normally.

Anyway I'm not really interested in an actual physical heart from you. Mine still exists, it just isn't in my body. There are two people that make me feel like I did when my heart was still with me, but neither of them are here and neither of them deserve to be here. Something that keeps me more stable by returning me to who I am instead of changing me would be the ideal, if you can manage to not screw that up.

[lingeringhope]

So your heart governs your emotions and the way you treat people? The way you feel? It should be possible to make something like that, though it won't be easy. And it certainly would not be free.

[purpleknee]

Gee I'm shocked. What do you want?

[lingeringhope]

You would need to help five different people. Do something that truly helps them and provides them with hope. Also, you would have to be polite to me.

[purpleknee]

Go fuck yourself.

[aaaaAAARRGH]

Would you be so kind as to do that, sir? There, that's polite. I've helped people here before you know, they're just already gone. I don't suppose you would want to include those people, please and thank you with cherries on top?

[lingeringhope]

Ah, I knew you were capable of it.

And no, I'm afraid not. You must understand these are not simply hoops for you to jump through for my personal entertainment. By completing the task, you give me the extra power needed to create your heart. I cannot reach into the past and use power that has already been spent.

[purpleknee]

[holy shit the saccharine thing actually worked thank ozma this is text and hope is an idiot he's not immediately off on this opportunity]

Yes, fine. Just admit that it is partly because you get a kick out of it though. Go on, it's not like my mood could get worse right now.

[lingeringhope]

You do realize I do not watch what you do all the time? I very rarely 'get a kick' out of anything anyone does. I'm too busy.

[purpleknee]

The idea of it! If you didn't, I wouldn't have to be polite to you on top of it.

[lingeringhope]

Ah, yes. That part is only for my personal satisfaction.

[purpleknee]

I really don't like you, to put it politely. But fine, you've got a deal.

[lingeringhope]

I don't think you like anyone.

Good luck.