But my thousands of years are equivalent to a century. Stories don't work off of numbers and science, after all.
Think of it this way, I was born to a terrible father. He died when I was a child, and I was adopted into another family. Unfortunately, that family also had its issues, to say the least.
What does any of that have to do with the literal years? I was a child for all of it, younger than I am now.
Stories don't, but statistics do. Longer life, more experience. More wins, more triumphs. More tragedies, more trauma. It's pretty simple.
Not that I think those things are...best judged by numbers, and I'm not really gunning for the gold in the Trauma Olympics, here. I just like numbers better. They're easy. They're clean.
There wasn't much of value in the old man's brain. Still, I admit there are times where I find myself wondering why he acted as he did, or same as you, how accurate the stories of my exploits are.
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Date: 2022-07-06 08:21 pm (UTC)Think of it this way, I was born to a terrible father. He died when I was a child, and I was adopted into another family. Unfortunately, that family also had its issues, to say the least.
What does any of that have to do with the literal years? I was a child for all of it, younger than I am now.
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Date: 2022-07-06 08:33 pm (UTC)Not that I think those things are...best judged by numbers, and I'm not really gunning for the gold in the Trauma Olympics, here. I just like numbers better. They're easy. They're clean.
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Date: 2022-07-06 08:40 pm (UTC)I am only thousands of years old because humans decided I must be. It's not as if I have a Midgardian birth certificate.
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Date: 2022-07-06 08:54 pm (UTC)But I’ll give you this much: None of it is actually easy. But us humans? We're pretty good at lying to ourselves.
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Date: 2022-07-06 09:48 pm (UTC)Level with me.
Giving birth to the eight-legged horse … true or false?
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Date: 2022-07-06 09:54 pm (UTC)Well, that’s a shit deal.
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Date: 2022-07-06 10:51 pm (UTC)I suppose I could try to talk Allison into some makeup, though I'm not sure if SFX makeup is a thing she can do herself.
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Date: 2022-07-06 11:11 pm (UTC)In my case, I've shapeshifted older before, but oddly those forms do not feel like my own.
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Date: 2022-07-06 11:18 pm (UTC)Something about you knowing it's not real probably takes away from it, somehow, huh?
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Date: 2022-07-06 11:22 pm (UTC)I'm not sure how it is in your case, hence why I offered.
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Date: 2022-07-07 12:09 am (UTC)You think you'll die before you get there?
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