[ whistles as the box collides and ducks so the swinging lightbulb isn't in danger of beaning him in the face ]
About the nature of power.
We're helpless, certainly, but so are all the other units. They're all hoping that someone likes them enough to save them— we're saving your friend's unit. After this, we have that power. We saved them from their fate. If you're infamously disliked, there's power there too-- fear, the possibility someone will graciously show you charity. Everyone likes an underdog, after all.
The truest form of being helpless and lacking power here is to be forgotten all together.
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[ He picks up one, and after a moment works out where to tug so it will snap and the faux-pearl beads will fall into his hands. ]
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What. Point.
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About the nature of power.
We're helpless, certainly, but so are all the other units. They're all hoping that someone likes them enough to save them— we're saving your friend's unit. After this, we have that power. We saved them from their fate. If you're infamously disliked, there's power there too-- fear, the possibility someone will graciously show you charity. Everyone likes an underdog, after all.
The truest form of being helpless and lacking power here is to be forgotten all together.
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What're you saying? That we can turn dying miserably to our advantage?
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Correct! Or not dying miserably, if we are so lucky!
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Fine. Whatever. We'll sit down and scheme or plot and make use of this, just––later.