albatrossomen: (Contemplate)
albatrossomen ([personal profile] albatrossomen) wrote in [community profile] eyemind2021-08-17 02:13 pm

UN: Presage : Audio - Musings

I have been feeling philosophical of late and would like to pose a question to you all:

Tell me, what does the concept of purpose mean to you?

[It's a simple question with a lot of meaning. Someone's been ruminating, but he's not about to come out and admit that's what this is actually about. Instead he'll hide it in philosophical discussions for fun, which he does find quite a bit of fun. Mortal perception has always been fascinating to him.]
dealwiththe: (090)

video; un: lux

[personal profile] dealwiththe 2021-08-18 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's doing video just for the eyeroll factor. ]

Ugh, you are so much like Amenadiel sometimes it's sickening. Purpose is and should be self-defined. Your purpose is whatever you want it to be. Even if that means brooding and pondering and generally wasting everybody's time.
metamorphotic: (before they dig that knife into you)

audio; un: justnick

[personal profile] metamorphotic 2021-08-18 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Always sounded like a lotta horseshit to me.

[nick rivenna, eloquent as always.]
dealwiththe: (124)

[personal profile] dealwiththe 2021-08-18 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You have to ask yourself one simple question, my many-eyed, icicle-wielding brother-from-another-mother: what do you truly desire?

Once you figure that out, you'll have a purpose.

And of course time can be wasted. Wait too long, and opportunities will pass you by, moments are missed, and then you have regrets.
metamorphotic: (walk away - save yourself)

[personal profile] metamorphotic 2021-08-18 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno. [she shrugs, even though this isn’t video.] When you’re a kid, you do stuff ‘cause it’s what your parents tell you to do. When you get older, you do stuff ‘cause it’s what ya gotta do, y’know? Get a job so you can pay the bills. Keep working so y’don’t end up homeless and starving. Some people think they gotta get married and have babies, so maybe that’s their purpose, but I would’ve died before I ended up like that.

[indeed, nick imagined she’d be dead well before her current age. maybe that has something to do with her lacking a sense of purpose.]

You’re not talkin’ ‘bout destiny or some shit like that, are ya?
dealwiththe: (073)

[personal profile] dealwiththe 2021-08-18 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
A bit.

[ He’s not elaborating on that. ]

Anyway, good luck figuring it out. I can’t mojo you so you’ll have to do it the hard way.

[ He’s so helpful. ]
metamorphotic: (you can bet)

[personal profile] metamorphotic 2021-08-19 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Pft. Maybe if you’re rich.

[what good indeed. nick isn’t terribly politically-minded, but even she would agree that capitalism is bad.]

I’ve been a bartender for most of the time I’ve been old enough to work. My purpose there was gettin’ people drinks, sometimes breakin’ up fights. Back in Dualis? I got roped into workin’ with a buncha shitheads tryin’ to overthrow Big Brother. My purpose then was gettin’ a feel for people they wanted to recruit, talk to ‘em an’ try to sense if they’d join the cause. I even did some of the heavy lifting for ‘em - before your time, I think, I shut down the entire city power grid.

[ah, memories. nick goes quiet for a moment, shoving down an internal wave of guilt reaching for the surface. she was supposed to protect the heart, and she failed at that purpose. vergil, mello, marie - everyone had been captured and executed, except for her.]

Is any of that stuff I was born to do? Hell if I know. Way I see it, purpose is just something you tell yourself you got so you keep goin’. Could be anything.
dealwiththe: (101)

[personal profile] dealwiththe 2021-08-19 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Lucifer actually has to think about that for a moment. How did he begin figuring it out? The easy answer would be when he met the Detective but while that was part of it, and changed a lot of things for him, there's no saying if he'd ever have been in a position to acknowledge it, let alone embark on an actual relationship with her, if not for - ]

Well, I got therapy.
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[personal profile] dealwiththe 2021-08-20 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
If Doctor Linda was here I'd already have introduced you - she's quite good!

[ Lucifer never misses an opportunity to praise the amazing and talented humans in his life! ]

I mean, obviously. She's managed to course-correct the Devil himself.
metamorphotic: (and quit your lying face)

[personal profile] metamorphotic 2021-08-20 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[during her time kicking around the multiverse, nick has lived with gods and monsters, mutants and metahumans, and she’s not entirely human herself, so. she wouldn’t find the fact that murmur is a celestial even a little bit strange.]

Yeah, I guess so? I don’t really know what I’d be doin’ with my life if I wasn’t workin’. Singin’ and playin’ a guitar ain’t really a purpose either - not for me, anyway. That’s just somethin’ I got into on accident.

[mmmm let’s go with no, she hasn’t been told.]

Wait, what? Are you fuckin’ kidding me?
dealwiththe: (117)

[personal profile] dealwiththe 2021-08-21 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
And I'd be quick to point out that it is literally her job to help others process traumatic events. Besides, she's been through much worse.
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[personal profile] dealwiththe 2021-08-21 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not the specific venue I would've chosen for a vacation, and frankly if a murder happened I have no doubt the Detective - and by extension myself - would be on the case.

Besides, if Doctor Linda needed a vacation I'd give her one. Send her anywhere she wanted to go.
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[personal profile] dealwiththe 2021-08-21 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Obviously. We make a fantastic team, the banter, the red herrings, the chases, the puns! It's been ages since I've solved a murder with the Detective, maybe we'll have one soon.

[ He's not wishing death on anyone in particular, of course! Just... nostalgia. Sigh. ]
metamorphotic: (cover me in mud and leaves)

[personal profile] metamorphotic 2021-08-22 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[it takes nick a few seconds to translate that what he means by that is no, he isn’t joking. equal parts anger and fear pulse through her; she just can’t catch a break.]

That artificial fuckin’ shithead that I spent years dodging so it wouldn’t fuckin’ kill me is here? [she huffs a flat almost-laugh.] Y’know, I can’t even pretend to be fuckin’ surprised at this point.

[there’s a loud bang as nick’s boot makes impact with something solid nearby.]

Fuck.

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