008 | OVERFLOW

[godsoffortune]

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[eternalshield]

Of course. Why would gods need shinki if they weren't? Mortals and normal humans have all kinds of things gods don't, or else gods wouldn't get involved with them so much.

[He knows. He's seen.]

[cyberfly]

....

[ This is not something he's really thought about. It's not that he sees shinki or humans are somehow lesser. But he didn't really think of them as especially useful either. ]

Like what kind of things?

[eternalshield]

[Well, just drawing upon his own experience in the lack of mortality:]

A concept of time, for one thing. Gods don't always understand the effect it has or what can be wrought by it.

[cyberfly]

...because they don't die.

[ He supposes that makes some sense. Shinki all used to be living, and then they died. Does that mean they understand the concept of time better? But how can you, if you don't even remember living? ]

[eternalshield]

Mm, nor age! So they don't understand things like urgency, because it has never affected them.

[That second question he can't answer-- how do they have personalities if they can't remember living, either?]

[cyberfly]

... I guess not.

[ He seems to know a lot about gods, this one. Or is it about immortality? ]

Does that mean you'd rather be a mortal, then?

[eternalshield]

Mm, Zeno thinks so. People wouldn't want to be immortal if they weren't mortal to begin with. What's that they about the grass on the other side? People want what they can't have.