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[featheradrift]

WHO: Wanderer (featheradrift) & Various
WHAT: November Catch-all for random threads!
WHERE: Anywhere and everywhere???
WHEN: All of November
WARNINGS: Marked in threads

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[justscribing]

[Unfortunately, he was very preoccupied with getting out of being Acting Grand Sage. Nevermind his lack of childish whimsy.]

And why do you think it is that most people don't?

[featheradrift]

Why would they? Most of them have never interacted with one, and never will. To them, a god is just a greater being who protects them and ensures the nation prospers. They exist, sure, but not in their life. And because they're not human, which they would understand, being one themselves, they just don't stop to think how similar gods are to them.

[ It's less of a god thing, and more that gods aren't really relevant to the average person's life past the protection and blessings they grant their nations. Perhaps the only exception was Fontaine's Archon, who showed her face to the people everyday, and was quite vocal about what she did and didn't like.]

[justscribing]

[Why would they, indeed. The assessment isn't wrong--it's less that people have any particular view on how gods should be, so much as gods don't affect their day to day lives and so they simply don't think about them compared to other things. More immediately things.]

Was this a perspective you held before? [Before the circumstance that brought him into the court of gods. It may not have started with Nahida.]

[featheradrift]

[ So this was the angle Alhaitham was going for. Well, he'll be truthful, so long as he's asked. ]

Humans have never changed in this regard, nor have the gods. It's always been this way—the relationship between humans and gods.

[ He never did like to answer questions in a straightforward manner though. ]

[justscribing]

[A brief quirk of his lips.] Which says nothing about you in particular, unless your assertion is that you're no different from anyone else. I find that hard to believe.

[featheradrift]

[ Alhaitham continues to be infuriatingly perceptive—a trait that he both likes and dislikes. He is quick to catch onto what the drifter attempts to obscure with his words—that his statements about humans and gods don't ring true for him. Because he is neither human nor god, and will never be either. ]

Has anyone ever told you you're far too perceptive for your own good? It's going to get you in trouble one day.

[ As if overthrowing an entire government wasn't already trouble for the man.

But this question—to ask him what he thought of gods before meeting Nahida—it's tantamount to asking him how he felt about his creator. Someone he no longer cares for, and no longer wants to think about—though the sting of abandonment will never fade away entirely. ]

Gods have never been so distant to me as they have been for humans.

[ That is what he will admit. ]

[justscribing]

[It was, after all, the thing about him that made Azar mark him as a threat. It's what got him tangled up in a plot to overthrow their government. Het Guy, however, is not a guy who is a threat with that realization.]

I see. [But he can see this is the extent of what he'll be allowed to learn this time. Hat Guy is cagey, and it's surely for good reason.

Well, there's food to enjoy anyway.]

[featheradrift]

[ And he'll let Alhaitham enjoy the food in silence if he has no further questions to ask. Though he'd be willing to divulge much more so long as the topic doesn't stray into his past too deeply, he's not about to encourage the Scribe to ask more questions.

Anyway, Alhaitham might note that the Wanderer has not touched a single bit of food this entire time. ]