11-22-2016, 11:44 PM
William quirks his mouth up to the side before reaching up to run his hands through his hair. His hands are dirty. his hair is blond, and now it is less blond in some places.
"Decay gets things done. The basics stay the same- it's the mover of everything. Creation may make things, but it's the job of Decay to say when it's done and over with. Decay has to be the responsible one, the one that plays quality control of the universe.
"It sucks being the responsible one. I mean, yeah, there's a sort of pleasure in having that kind of thing to fall on you- it feels good to be needed but I get the impression that Decay? Is taken for granted. Cursed when it's seen as inconvenient- when something either doesn't stay around long enough or it persists long after most would consider the prospect useful.
"I assume that decay was discerning at first. Or at least wants to be. Quality control. Responsibility. That jazz. But Creation can put out whatever it pleases and stasis doesn't give a crap- if there was a mistake? Surely Decay will clean it up, right? Cut off the little oopses that Creation can't go back and fix," he stops himself, lets out a long breath and looks between the two of them, "maybe I'm projecting. I'd be pretty damned resentful after awhile if I were in decay's position. The original purpose might have been to be a helper and a full partner, but Creation does what it wants. It strikes me as the type who has all of these big plans and doesn't think of the logistics."
"So, Decay gets tired. There's so much to keep up with and Decay knows that, eventually, all of this has to end. Creation is a great big party but inevitably everything has to end and Decay will be alone and then there will be nothing. Without a job, without things to work forward, Decay would cease to exist- it would get to rest, until, you know, everything starts all over again because cycles.
"But when you're quality control for the universe, you start to see faults in everything. You start to get tired, and inevitably you just want the damned job to be over, or at the very least you just want to get rid of enough stuff that you can have a clean slate in the morning. If we don't help decay along, we end up with stuff ending up in the garbage that we might not have wanted to end up there."
He shrugs.
"I think that's it. I think that Decay started out wanting to facilitate Creation into making something beautiful and transformative with the knowledge that it will all inevitably end and they'll start all this over again, proooobably with a big brother/big sister complex of knowing what was really best. The end and inevitable goal is to make sure that things blossom and then inevitably wither, but Decay got tired of being crapped on and drowned in all the work it had to do and runs a real big chance of saying screw it, we're starting over and scrapping the whole us project."
"Decay gets things done. The basics stay the same- it's the mover of everything. Creation may make things, but it's the job of Decay to say when it's done and over with. Decay has to be the responsible one, the one that plays quality control of the universe.
"It sucks being the responsible one. I mean, yeah, there's a sort of pleasure in having that kind of thing to fall on you- it feels good to be needed but I get the impression that Decay? Is taken for granted. Cursed when it's seen as inconvenient- when something either doesn't stay around long enough or it persists long after most would consider the prospect useful.
"I assume that decay was discerning at first. Or at least wants to be. Quality control. Responsibility. That jazz. But Creation can put out whatever it pleases and stasis doesn't give a crap- if there was a mistake? Surely Decay will clean it up, right? Cut off the little oopses that Creation can't go back and fix," he stops himself, lets out a long breath and looks between the two of them, "maybe I'm projecting. I'd be pretty damned resentful after awhile if I were in decay's position. The original purpose might have been to be a helper and a full partner, but Creation does what it wants. It strikes me as the type who has all of these big plans and doesn't think of the logistics."
"So, Decay gets tired. There's so much to keep up with and Decay knows that, eventually, all of this has to end. Creation is a great big party but inevitably everything has to end and Decay will be alone and then there will be nothing. Without a job, without things to work forward, Decay would cease to exist- it would get to rest, until, you know, everything starts all over again because cycles.
"But when you're quality control for the universe, you start to see faults in everything. You start to get tired, and inevitably you just want the damned job to be over, or at the very least you just want to get rid of enough stuff that you can have a clean slate in the morning. If we don't help decay along, we end up with stuff ending up in the garbage that we might not have wanted to end up there."
He shrugs.
"I think that's it. I think that Decay started out wanting to facilitate Creation into making something beautiful and transformative with the knowledge that it will all inevitably end and they'll start all this over again, proooobably with a big brother/big sister complex of knowing what was really best. The end and inevitable goal is to make sure that things blossom and then inevitably wither, but Decay got tired of being crapped on and drowned in all the work it had to do and runs a real big chance of saying screw it, we're starting over and scrapping the whole us project."