Video 04 → No, Really, I'm Just Curious.

[irregular]

[Filtered from Weiss]

[Ken, wearing a blue apron, is standing in what appears to be the stockroom of Nectar.]

So...

[He hesitates for a moment, gazing around himself apprehensively, clearly worried he might be overheard. When he turns back to the screen, he closes his eyes briefly and takes a deep breath, as if steeling himself for something.]

What would it take to make you decide you couldn't be yourself any more?

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[alphaophiuchi]

[Draco questions your self-questioning hypothetical questions. Especially ones that make him think.]

Quite a lot. I can't think of many reasons why I wouldn't want to be myself. [then mostly to himself:] Except maybe that.

What kind of question is that, anyway?

[doctor-tatsu27.livejournal.com]

Having no other choice.

[He's seen it happen before.]

[seiryuu-warrior.livejournal.com]

Why do you ask?

[Yeah. This struck him though he's not showing it.]

[stoicism.livejournal.com]

[Only before coming to Somarium did Frank begin to embrace his true self. By no fault of his own, he'd spent years repressing all forms of emotion and attachment to others, repressing his memories. To go back to that life is something he can never allow himself to do. This question piques his interest.]

...Why would you willingly decide to be anything other than yourself?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

This is about Omi... isn't it?

I really shouldn't be doing this but OH GOD you pinged her.

[xwargoddess.livejournal.com]

There isn't anything that could make me give myself up. That's the coward's way out, okay?

[This hedges a little too close to what she fought and died to prevent: parasitic brain slugs that take away your free will and make you into their puppets. And there is nothing that pisses Rachel off as much as those 'voluntary Controllers' who willingly surrendered their lives to the Yeerks, who willingly betrayed themselves.]

I don't care what the problem is. Get pushed, push back. You fight as hard as you can, but you don't give up. You don't give in.

If 'not being yourself anymore' is the only solution you can think of, keep thinking.

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

... If I felt like my current self couldn't do anything, I guess--though I've never been in that kind of situation, so I can't say for certain. It's not really something I believe in doing, either way.

[always-forgot.livejournal.com]

In what way?

[kyudousha.livejournal.com]

Nothing. Deciding to not be yourself is the same as refusing to acknowledge what you really are. And if you aren't willing to put effort into acknowledging yourself, then what are you willing to put effort into?

[noodlearrms.livejournal.com]

Nothing, because that's dumb.

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

Maybe it depends on how much you know about yourself in the first place.

[theignorantfool.livejournal.com]

[Ed doesn't really pay much attention to interacting on the Dreamberry, but this caught his attention. Or ... he was responding, before even realizing it - eyebrow quirked.]

Why would anyone do that?

[boat-lights.livejournal.com]

Oh? Is this a personal question?

[popstar]

[Well, that hit pretty close to home. She's not exactly looks straight at the Dreamberry's camera when she answers.]

There's a lot of things that could make someone think that, I guess.

[carpo-vita.livejournal.com]

[... Somewhat of a rhetorical response, but...]

Yourself.