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[ 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.

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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!

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There were other methods, but none were anywhere near as efficient as that one. It was really convenient that we discovered humans, otherwise we would have been forced to settle for a less optimal solution.

I guess it's difficult for you to comprehend, since you never made it into space, but there are countless types of life in the universe. It's natural for your opinions to centre around your own planet and the people you know, don't misunderstand. Of course you'd prefer that your own species be kept whole! When we found you, humans had barely discovered communication, but your capacity for emotion was phenomenal. No other species comes close.

You are right. I lived for the first time a long long time ago. We had no idea what might be beyond the stars back then. We were more worried about where our next meal might come from or if war was just a day away.

[A dangerous look enters his eyes.]

Understand this. Just because we are more focused on ourselves doesn't make us any more foolish than any other species that might be out there. For all I know, your species made us this way. You already admit to changing other things about us.

However, I find it hard to believe that of all the other species you claim are out there, humans are the only who can fill this role. What has happened to make so many of the other races emotionless, hmm?

Other species have emotional capacity, but only humans are capable of individual emotions whilst still existing within close social groups. It isn't foolish, but it makes you seem more irrational. That's an admirable trait - even though you are all so different, you manage to live on the same planet with relatively little infighting.

It's a normal mistake to imagine life beyond your planet looks and behaves like you, though. Don't worry about it.

I don't know why you seem to think this makes us irrational. I would say it makes us adaptable not irrational. However, considering how much you seem to look down on us, I guess I shouldn't be surprised you would rather choose a negative explanation than a positive one. Forgive me if I don't really believe that you find the way we live all that admirable. Your general attitude and earlier comments would suggest otherwise.

At least you seem willing to admit that it's not wrong of us to assume others out there might be like us. How are we suppose to know any different when we have not run into anyone else? Yes, we can imagine, but that imagination is still based only on what we know.

Such traits are undesirable in my own species, and our language reflects that. Anyway, if you value adaptability, doesn't that mean you acknowledge that humans have the potential to accept the symbiotic relationship between us?

Not that it applies here, of course!

I don't understand why such traits would ever be undesirable. That is probably why you look at things in such an odd manner. Your people would be better able to understand us and others they hadn't given up those traits.

[Diarmuid pauses for a moment before answering that question. While on the surface it seems innocent enough considering their train of discussion, he knows it's anything but.]

Humans have great potential for just about everything. That doesn't mean they should be taken advantage of as your people have. I will never agree that any partnership but one with full disclosure of the rules and consequences should be allowed. And if that can't be done, as you so claim, another way must be found no matter now long it takes.

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