[SOMEWHERE, SOME TIME AFTER THE TRIAL... North and Minato will be crossing paths again. North pauses for a moment once she spots him, almost like she's debating something, before she addresses him with—]
You said you wanted to understand people like that. [Referencing... their inadvertently appropriate conversation from earlier today.] Have you changed your mind?
[ It's somewhere outside the meeting hall that they run into each other, Minato seeming to have just exited the building despite the trial having been over and done with hours ago.
He looks up at North, trying to think back after all that's happened— and then shakes his head. ]
No... I want to understand people like that all the more, now. You don't? Even after seeing that?
[She huffs, giving him a look of mild disbelief. Almost like she just saw someone wonder where the paint on their palm came from after sticking their hand in a bucket of wet paint.]
What's there to understand? People like that— They only see those around them as objects to be used for their own entertainment. If you're searching for ways to empathize with them, you're going to be disappointed.
[ But that doesn't stop him from trying every time, setting himself up for failure and never being surprised when he falls short again and again. Learned helplessness was supposed to kick in sometime, he thinks, but he never learned. ]
I still don't think it's that simple, though. Something like entertainment. People are... so complicated. I can't understand them at all. Do you think this "darkness"-- the "universe"-- is more or less complicated than people are?
[ Hop in where??? He follows behind her, only because North said "we" instead of "I'm," though all this does is convince Minato that North doesn't know what the difference between the words is either, so they're both going to consult a dictionary. ]
Either way— Off to the library they go! Once they get there, North is going to nyoom in the direction of... wherever the dictionaries are, tbh. And then, assuming he's still with her, she'll just
[ Minato's reflexes are enough that he instinctively reaches out and catches the book, but his strength is only at the point where he stumbles back two steps and then sits down hard on his ass. ]
...Right.
[ He crosses his legs so he can lay the dictionary on his lap. ]
Sentience... "A sentient quality or state." Or, "a feeling or sensation as distinguished from perception and thought." ...Sentient is defined as "being responsive to or conscious of sense impressions." Awareness...
[ hmm, that's going in circles, so Minato flips over to sapience instead. ]
Sapience is defined as "wisdom and sagacity." Sagacity is "the quality of being sagacious." Sagacious means to have "keen and farsighted penetration and judgment," or "discernment."
So what this means is, I am sentient, but not sapient. [ Because Minato is aware, and he's aware that he's dumb. ]
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You said you wanted to understand people like that. [Referencing... their inadvertently appropriate conversation from earlier today.] Have you changed your mind?
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He looks up at North, trying to think back after all that's happened— and then shakes his head. ]
No... I want to understand people like that all the more, now. You don't? Even after seeing that?
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What's there to understand? People like that— They only see those around them as objects to be used for their own entertainment. If you're searching for ways to empathize with them, you're going to be disappointed.
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[ But that doesn't stop him from trying every time, setting himself up for failure and never being surprised when he falls short again and again. Learned helplessness was supposed to kick in sometime, he thinks, but he never learned. ]
I still don't think it's that simple, though. Something like entertainment. People are... so complicated. I can't understand them at all. Do you think this "darkness"-- the "universe"-- is more or less complicated than people are?
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[Well... It's not like it's her business, anyway. She crosses her arms, frowning.]
That would depend. Are they people on their own right, or just concepts granted some level of sentience?
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He can't really answer that second question, though, and can only manage a shrug while he tries to think it over. ]
...Does it matter? Whether they're people or concepts?
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closes it ]
...Yes.
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touches
her forehead.]
We're going to the library.
[AND THEN she'll start walking away regardless of whether or not he's following. hop in, loser.]
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Either way— Off to the library they go! Once they get there, North is going to nyoom in the direction of... wherever the dictionaries are, tbh. And then, assuming he's still with her, she'll just
grab one of the heavier editions—]
Catch.
[—and chuck it in his direction.]
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...Right.
[ He crosses his legs so he can lay the dictionary on his lap. ]
So, the S section...
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she moves to lean against a nearby table, crossing her arms. she'll give him a moment to flip through the pages, before asking:]
You got them?
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[ hmm, that's going in circles, so Minato flips over to sapience instead. ]
Sapience is defined as "wisdom and sagacity." Sagacity is "the quality of being sagacious." Sagacious means to have "keen and farsighted penetration and judgment," or "discernment."
So what this means is, I am sentient, but not sapient. [ Because Minato is aware, and he's aware that he's dumb. ]
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minato.]
Yeah.
That sounds about right.
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In that case, the universe to me feels like the opposite. It's doing something, but... I don't know yet if it can be reasoned with.
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[he's so brave.]
It would be too optimistic to hope that something like that can be reasoned with.
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[ and threat of violence ]
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With words? I don't think so. There's only one language that's universal among people like that.
[it's threats of violence.]
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That would be the one.
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I guess that is the most straightforward way of doing things.
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[Well. Sometimes you gotta get stabby, too, but it's fine.]