[video]

[vertrag]

[ seeing as how its body isn't actually made for speech, the voice in this post is telepathic projection and can easily be recognised as such. Bitties will just receive the post in their heads thanks to Kyuubey's agreement with the bitty brigade to provide eternal hivemind reception.

YOU'RE WELCOME. ]

Greetings! My name is Kyuubey. I've been here for some time now, but I need advice from you all... Well, primarily from the humans amongst you. Namely, what should my purpose be in this universe, when my job was to save mine? If I am the result of a failed line of causality, and this a place that collects the detritus from inadequate realities, what is the purpose of our continued existence? We cannot cease to exist from our own desire, which would imply that we are meant to be, but can anyone claim to have contributed something to this reality? Does anyone believe they have a future, or any potential whatsoever, as long as they exist in this tower?

I'm asking only because as unbalanced, emotional species, you are much more likely to produce a rationale for your existence! The logical answer - that we have no future and no present - doesn't really work, does it? We're gonna keep going anyway... I thought I'd find out what you thought, and see if there was something I can do.

Well, it doesn't matter much. Since I have as little meaning here as you guys, let's all be friends!

Comments

[Video]

[onhigh]

[Welp. Here we go again.]

Just because we can't affect things outside of this tower doesn't make our lives meaningless, Kyubey.

[Video]

[vertrag]

As expected, Madoka! What gives our lives meaning, in your opinion?

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[mayatama]

[ Most of that went over Maya's head, really. ]

Wow, you're really cute... I'd really like to be friends with you, Kyuubey! [ A short pause. ] But what exactly are you?

video

[vertrag]

[ it's cool kyuubey's used to dealing with teenage girls of all densities. ]

To you, I'm an alien.

[video]

[prayed]

[oh wow, now there's somebody she had hoped to never have to see again!]

Why don't you start by getting the Hell out? What are you even doing here?

[because obviously he's making a conscious choice to be here.]

[video]

[vertrag]

I've been here for a while! Long time no see.

[video]

[liquidouroboros]

[never mind your existential bullshit, the soldier is confused.]

...What in the hell are you.

[video]

[vertrag]

From your perspective, I am an alien.

[Video]

[littlelifeforms]

I am not human, but I have lived amongst them and studied their behavior for a long time, I hope my answer may provide you with what you need. I would like to begin by defending humanity. You called them an unbalanced and emotional species. that is correct. However, all species are unbalanced, emotional or not.

Furthermore, your initial statement implies that life requires a meaning. However, life in itself requires no such notion. Nature gives a biological purpose to life and sentient beings give a meaning to life. Nature nearly always purposes us to reproduce and perpetuate life.

However, the meaning of one's existence is chosen by ourselves, not by nature. It is a notion that exists neither in nature nor in logic. You resonate that we have no meaning and do not matter because we cannot contribute to this reality or because we have no future. This is an incorrect and narrowed vision that reduces the meaning of life to limited notions.

As an example, many live without purposes, without a meaning. Instead, they cherish the act of living itself. Some lives with the purpose to learn and gather knowledge. For one such person, this tower gave them a chance to accomplish their purposes.

[Video]

[vertrag]

I don't understand. Even your hypothesis relies on the possession of emotions.

video;

[ub001]

[ Telepathy? How interesting, it doesn't appear to be a Contractor. ]

What might you be?

video;

[vertrag]

An alien.

[eighteen_winters]

If we exist for nothing else, we can always devote ourselves to helping others.

[vertrag]

I see! That implies that other people have a meaning or purpose that you wish to support in lieu of your own. Do you mean that our aim should be a mutual delusion?

[Video]

[justiceinheaven]

[Nanako looks very confused; wait, how is that little guy talking...?]

You said a lot of big words... but you want to know what to do here?

Um... you're cute. You should be someone's pet.

[Oh god, Nanako, what are you doing.]

[Video]

[vertrag]

[ ornamental? Well, that was its tertiary function: to appeal to children. It's not ideal, but... ] I will take that under consideration.

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[oathshackledbird]

[At first, Diarmuid almost passes the post by. The....creature posting it is odd enough, but nothing that really catches his attention with everything else he has on his mind.

And then he sees the creature's name and everything stops.

He knows that name from talking to Mami.

Lancer's eyes are flat and angry when he makes his response via filtered video because some things are not talked about in the open.]

You...

Video/Filtered

[vertrag]

[ that's an interesting reaction. ]

Do you have an answer?

[puppy_lancer]

[From the very beginning, the creature's sanctimonious, know-it-all tone rubs Lancer wrong.]

and then there's those who only have a future in the Tower
even if they don't know what it'll be like
they have a future
look at the way everyone influences everyone else
that's what we contribute, if nothing else

[vertrag]

The conclusion you are all reaching seems to be a mutual delusion of use. That is, as long as you are useful to another being, you have a reason to exist... which is false, isn't it? If none of us have a reason to exist, then there is nothing to be gained by assisting anyone else.

Video

[thiscloakisgreen]

[What were those...were those words in his head? The psychic dampeners in his mask were working, but there are still few powerful enough to get through. A few...precautions would need to be taken with that.]

...?

[Oh. That explains a lot.]

Let me speak perfectly clear to you, alien, for I shall not repeat myself--I do not believe for one moment that my world was destroyed. As for my reasoning, one could merely make the statement is that I just know from experience and leave it at that. A pitiable race such as yourself, whom has no individuality until recently, would never understand when Doom says that it is only the individual itself who defines what goal he or she has for itself.

I, too, have goals in mind. And being thought "silenced" inside a forsaken Tower of "Animus" does little to curtail my designs. If delay them for a while.

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[vertrag]

Unfortunately, I witnessed my universe being unmade.

[ wow Kyuubey is baffled. The concept of individual agency is so entirely human that it just sits there, a buzzing presence around Doom's mind. ]

video;

[blackwitch]

Kyahaha! [ This girl here is just giggling. ] S-o-, is it okay for non-humans to answer too..?

video;

[vertrag]

I won't stop you.

[myblueskies]

[Wow for a telepathic projection right into his head this had so many big words that Romeo didn't understand. He might need to go and get that dictionary again now that he knows how to use it...]

I'm glad you're back Kyuubey!

[vertrag]

Thank you, Romeo.

video;

[carabina]

You have an odd way of making friends.

[ Hey Kyuubey, guess who found out what witches really are. ]

video;

[vertrag]

If honesty is a fault in making friends, then I am already at a disadvantage.

[ Kyuubey's having its race's equivalent of an existential panic attack, leave a message. ]

Voice

[firstofthefallen]

To have little meaning is still to have meaning.

Voice

[vertrag]

Then I should not question it, but rather accept my existence as its own proof?

[starofpleiades]

...eh? An emotional species?

[Sorry, she never got that speech, on account of Jyuubey being quite cuddly and lovable]

[vertrag]

That's right. Humans possess individuality and emotions, a combination that makes you ideal for irrational decisions.

[video]

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

[Oh hey look it's something that isn't human or troll. What an interesting place this tower is.]

I'm not sure about the purpose of my existence right now either, but I think just living is good enough for now. I'll find a goal eventually, and so will you.

[video]

[vertrag]

You sound very confident of that.

[ video ]

[deusexyandere]

... I don't believe any of that.

[ video ]

[vertrag]

That's your prerogative, naturally.

[ voice ]

[oforder]

[ Interesting... he's asked himself that very same question several times. In fact, a lot of this could have been spoken by him, if it weren't so ineloquent. That said... he has since answered that question himself.

A world not his own was not without its own opportunities. ]

It has been a while since you've last appeared.

[ The sound of a wine glass, with the faint sound of opera in the background. ]

But I did not gain the impression that you had such a lack of ambition in our last talk.

[ voice ]

[vertrag]

Is that so? If I have changed, it was not a conscious decision, but a symptom of the universe's destruction.

[Voice]

[magiciansempress]

Why not try making your own, new purpose? Find something that's needed and that you're good at and fill that need.

[How is this so hard, Kyubey.]

Really, we create out own purpose. That's how it's always been.

[Voice]

[vertrag]

I currently provide telepathy for the human children in this reality. That could be considered my only function now.

[video]

[foodchains]

That would be your take on it, huh?

[Not that she doesn't agree, but she doesn't go around spouting it off like a Snapple Real-Fact at least. The expression she offers is incredibly jaded, though very obviously annoyed in some deeper part of her.]

You obviously have some reason to keep going. Waiting for the universe to reroute itself, right? Don't think I'm not onto you, fuzzball.

[video]

[vertrag]

It sure would be nice if that happened!

video

[beknightedheroine]

...You really are freakin' unflappable.

_{[There's a begrudging amount of actual awe in her voice.]}

video

[vertrag]

Of course. [ this is about as far as it'll ever get to an identity crisis, honestly. ]