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[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Ageswapping
When: July 15-17
Where: Everywhere
Summary: A breach in the space-time continuum is messing things up.

Continuing from HERE!

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For Chikusa

[darkestbefore]

[ From here. ]

[ Her mouth drops open in surprise. ]

They are not!

[kokuyoyo]

Yes they are! If gods were real, then bad things wouldn't happen.

[He crosses his arms stubbornly.]

So they're fake.

[darkestbefore]

That's not true. [ She frowns at him. ] The gods don't make bad things happen. People do that. Or sometimes they just... happen for a reason. [ That's what adults said, right? She'd heard it a lot when her mother died. ]

[kokuyoyo]

But aren't gods stronger than normal people?

[Something is fishy here, and he frowns right back.]

[darkestbefore]

[ She blinks at him because what does that have to do with anything? ]

Yes?

[kokuyoyo]

Then gods should be able to keep bad things from happening! Or else why are they gods!

[He leans forward, face heating up as he gets worked up about this.]

[darkestbefore]

[ Yona cocks her head to the side to consider that. ]

But what if bad things for someone is a good thing for someone else? What then? It's not that easy.

[kokuyoyo]

Yes it is. [He tips his chin down, definitely scowling.] How can a thing be good if it's hurting someone else?

[darkestbefore]

Maybe because it's not just good people that pray for things. Or sometimes even if people are good, they don't always agree, and want different things, right?

[kokuyoyo]

Why would gods listen to bad people that pray to them? [But he doesn't even wait for her response before his eyes go wide and he whispers the answer that's hit him.] Gods are corrupt....

[darkestbefore]

What? No, we're not! [ Her protest is heated at that. ] But there's all kinds of gods who get prayed to! Not all of them do nice things, but they still exist.

[kokuyoyo]

[If anything, he only scowls more, and starts fiddling with the rocks.]

It sounds like the only difference between gods and people is that gods are stronger...

[darkestbefore]

[ She hums thoughtfully at that. ]

Maybe that's a little true? Aren't the gods the ones who made people? Maybe they made them like themselves.

[kokuyoyo]

Then I don't like gods.... [He scowls down at the rocks in his hands.] They're just like grown ups... Worse than grown ups.

[darkestbefore]

[ Yona frowns at that. Then she shifts, rounding the pile of rocks until she stands beside where he crouches and reaches out to pat his head consolingly. ]

It's okay. Not all gods are bad. Just like not all grown ups are bad. You'll see. I'll help.

[kokuyoyo]

[Even being patted on the head has him flinch a little, shuffling back and glancing at her from beneath his bangs with mixed distrust and uncertainty.]

How?