[voice]

[purewhite]

[Watching the snowfall is making Rosa think about a lot of things, mainly her home. She is curious, however, about a few things involving Luceti as a whole.]

If our fate is to never leave this place, but to inhabit it after all of the tribulations we've endured as of yet, would it please you or upset you? Would you rather return to your home world, or stay here in a new home?

[A pause, she has to think of this one herself.] Considering no time at all had elapsed when I returned home, I... I'm not sure how I would feel about it at all. Though, if we were to die here, from old age or otherwise, perhaps we would return to where we left off?

[Maybe that wouldn't be so bad, but she's leaving that unsaid.]

Comments

[Voice]

[mistlegacy]

I want to be with Kain. If that means staying here, then so be it. I miss my Eidolons, but I won't give him up.

[Voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

I thought as much. Any memories of this place fade once you return. You may see it in dreams not long after, but those fade too, in time.

[Written]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

Despite all I've endured... I would rather remain here. I won't risk losing what I've gained.

[Written]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

You have gained much... though, you should get your voice back soon too. Then, you would be complete through and through.

[Voice]

[toujoursbouton.livejournal.com]

You should be reborn here. That way it will be your home and you won't have to be sad.

[Voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

Reborn... perhaps that is what they seek to do. It's fully possible. Though there are some who aren't sad too that live here.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

I want to go back- No. I must go back. Whether or not time advances during my- our absence.

[voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

We'll return, I'm sure. But the first time I returned I awoke in our bed where I had been when I was taken.

[voice/private]

[lunarianlegacy.livejournal.com]

[Ceodore sees this and falls into an extended broody thinking session. People can come and go at any time. He's seen it time and time again, with his parents, more recently with Frey. At any time it could be any one. A very large part of him wants to stay, even with everything they're subjected to. For Selphie. For Frey. But... ultimately, that's selfish. There's no guarantee that all will turn out as others have said and he hasn't seen it come true. No, there is desperate unfinished business awaiting him at home, and bigger crises yet to face.

When he finally does speak up, it's quite sober and obvious for once Ceodore thought before opening his mouth.]

I have good reasons to want to stay here, but... I know I can't. Staying here's not a choice. Not for us.

[voice/private]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

I think a few people have good reasons to want to stay. Rydia and Kain come to mind. I'm sure others do too. We will most likely return to where we left off. Though, it is possible that the Malnosso will keep us here, too.

[Voice]

[odastillhatesme.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty difficult question to answer, Miss. [Even if Sanji already has his answer. It hasn't changed, not since the beginning]

[Voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it is for many here. I know some who wish to return, and others who do not. It is a place for the dead to live once again, to reunite with those we've lost, but... when we return, it will be no different.

[floralphantasm.livejournal.com]

No matter how long I wither away here I will still want to return to my gardens in Gensokyo. Anyone who finds themselves wishing to stay here over returning home are idiots through and through. [Said in a fairly deadpan manner. How can people come to want to stay here?]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

There are those who have reason, mainly any sort of relationship they have with someone else. They don't want to lose what they gained here.

[voice]

[forgiatura]

Wantin' to stick around here's just bein' irresponsible, ain't it? We've all got our own worlds waitin' for us.

[voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. But for some, they have gained more than they could ever have in their own home.

[Voice]

[breaks_destiny]

If our fate was that then no one would return to their worlds at all, not even temporary.

That said, as long as I have a choice in the matter I'm not leaving. Not until the Malnosso are gone and people from other worlds stop being dragged here against their wills. I can't wish to return to Earth unless I'm sure that none of my friends or anyone else, no matter which world they are from, will be trapped in this world again. By the Malnosso or by whatever it is that drags us here.

If reaching that confirmation takes me a whole lifetime or more, so be it. The world I left is one of happiness, my battles are over, so all I'll return to will be a bright and happy future. It's not a bad idea, of course, but it's one that can wait.

[Voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

Maybe, maybe not.

[But she'll listen to Keiichi. He sounds very noble, wanting to do what he spoke of.]

If that's the truth for you, then you have a purpose to be here, from the sound of it. To stop the Malnosso. They'll have to stop at some point. Perhaps it will be you who helps to stop them?

[Voice]

[justonename.livejournal.com]

I just want Ken-niichan, Konzen and Ten-chan come here already. We were trying to run away from the world we were in, even if this isn't the place we aimed for, it's still a good place! There's no Heaven's Army here chasing us and there are lots of people I care about!

[If he returns it will just be to keep running away, won't it? And to not know if Ken-niichan and Ten-chan are fine. He doesn't want that, this place is good for him.]

[Voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

You have a reason to stay here then? Many would rather return home, but few that have said anything to me have expressed a desire to stay.

[It's not a bad thing, to want to be safer than in a homeworld, but Luceti being safer than a homeworld? That's almost strange! Rosa won't say that, of course.]

[Voice]

[uccellodifuoco]

Maybe someone who doesn't have any responsibilities or duties can come to want to stay here. A peaceful and uneventful life without duty is the same thing here or there.

I'm not one of those. I don't care if time doesn't pass while I'm here, I've things that I must do and staying trapped here playing house isn't among them.

[He won't go as far as to say that those who want to stay are idiots, it's a personal decision after all, just like someone may like the sun over the moon or something like that. But it's clear he thinks that anyone with anything close to a duty should want to go, otherwise they are just being irresponsible.]

[Voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

Even if they do, there may be things that they have now that they cannot in their own world. I do not agree or disagree at all, I've no opinion on what someone else may desire, and if that is their wish, then so be it. I know that some who I had encountered before here were dead where they were from. This place does give them life again.

[Voice] no, this isn't a spam attack at all

[curiousgenius.livejournal.com]

You're kidding, right? Our fate can't be something like that! I can't stay here living here my whole life! Here without my family or my friends or without a proper shopping center and where the most advanced thing is a switch! Okay, there are those teleporters and the Battle Dome thing, but still! This place is too rustic and lost-age for a woman like me!

And I have things to do back home as well! I want to get a boyfriend and get settled down and have kids! And I want to take care of the company and bring it further in the top! My genius can't be let out in a place like this, do you know what I used to do back home? I built things, I invented great machines that helped people! I made hover-cars and spaceships, I even worked with alien technology!! And do you know what I'm doing here? Opening a beauty salon. Don't take me wrong, being beautiful is important and it's kind of fun to help others with that, but it's totally not my job of choice. So if I was forced to stay here for the rest of my lifetime, I don't care if I get sent back after all of it to continue on where I left it, someone will hear a piece of my mind!!

[Just as poor Rosa is hearing it now.]

[Voice] SPAM ME MORE, DOG.

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

[...let Rosa recover from Bulma for just a moment.]

There's no way for you to build things like that here now?

[Voice]

[imxperfectlife.livejournal.com]

[Luka makes an anguish sound as she hears the message. If their fate was to never leave? To stay in Luceti forever? That's a terrifying thought. She doesn't want that, she doesn't want to stay here forever! Even if everyone says that time doesn't pass by, her mother will be worried and she misses her. And she has an exam next week there, an important exam, it's the exam in which she's definitively going to aim for a perfect score and then... Then she will have her perfect life. She will study and get to a great university, and then find a great job. Something realistic and natural, something logical. Staying here, much less wanting to stay here... She can't do something so irresponsible.]

N-No... I w-wouldn't like to be here forever. I w-want to go back home. M-My mom w-would miss me a-and I have an exam... S-Staying here, w-why would anyone want to stay in this place?

[Voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

There are some who have reason to stay. Love. Life. It's a safer place than their own home. I do not blame them for their decisions, nor do I blame those who wish to escape here. A prison with subtle bars, is all this place is.

[Voice]

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

...Personally, I'd rather stay here. This is my home. Where I've found people I now value as family. And they're more important to me than anything I left back on my world.

[...For the moment, he neglects to mention the other reason he'd rather not go back.]

[Voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

You sound like two of my good friends. They were wed here. A friend of mine who had lost his life in my homeworld was here alive again. This place is good for some, it sounds like. Perhaps the Malnosso will give us a choice when we've done all they wish?

[voice]

[proudprince.livejournal.com]

[Upset? Not really a word in his vocabulary.]

I will get out of here, whatever methods I have to use to do it.

[voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

There aren't many methods of doing so. Those in charge here take people and let them leave as they wish.

[Voice]

[mountain-sage.livejournal.com]

So time really does stand still in our worlds while we're trapped here? I must say I'm relieved to know that.

[Because he's been wondering about it forever.]

That said, I've a mission to complete in my world, so it is imperative that I return as soon as possible.

[Voice]

[holyblade.livejournal.com]

Yes, the first time I left this place, I awoke where I had been sleeping before, a year after being taken to this place. I only regained my memories of this place when I came back.

...of course. It seems like from answers to my questions that some have a duty to perform in their own worlds. No time passes, but to not return to a place with one outcome over another... it could be disconcerting.

[voice]

[beardpuddle.livejournal.com]

[Should he be offended by the mentions of old age? even though he lasts at least 17 more years in canon...

To return after a natural death is an interesting proposition indeed.