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[greatcherubim]

All the dragons are still around, I see. If you need any help putting out fires, please let me know. I'd be happy to assist.

Today is a time of rebirth and renewal. Please forgive me if I'm a bit philosophical. If you don't celebrate Easter Sunday, then I will doubly ask your forgiveness. But I wonder...

Have you ever wanted to reinvent yourself, or allow yourself to be born all over again? Who would you become, if you could?

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[beyourarmy]

That question's almost pointless with me. I think I'm the result of something like that. But I did wanna be like Kira for a while.

[greatcherubim]

Do you mind if I ask why?

[beyourarmy]

Because he was cool, collected, and made my life easier, more fun. I admired him, for all of that, for just being himself. I wanted to be like that, instead of me, hot-headed and stupid.

[greatcherubim]

You aren't stupid, Messiah. You have passion. Properly channeled and utilized, that is something the world sorely needs.

[beyourarmy]

I've accepted I'm an idiot. I really am, sometimes.

But I guess I have stuff like that, too.

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[thermonuclear_birdbrain]

I'm just fine the way I am. Also, I like my dragon! It's a lot warmer in here.

Lots of the dragons here look weird, though. They have big wings and is really stumpy. Dragons in Gensokyo are long, like snakes, and have skinny bodies and manes and so on.

If I could be born all over again...no, I really think I'm fine, and I'd be just the way I am now.

[indecent_butterfly]

Not all the dragons are fire elemental you know. [Although the one Setsuna picked up from someone else is.]

An interesting question though. What would be your answer?

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[bedsidemanners]

Not really.

[greatcherubim]

I will not allow you to talk about yourself that way. A few mistakes do not make you an idiot.

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[greatcherubim]

[There's a fondness leaking into Gabriel's voice.] I'm not surprised that you would like it. I'm glad the temperature is more to your liking this way.

I know the kind of dragon you're thinking of, I believe. I've seen them in pictures, and I've seen statues of them, but I have never seen such a beast alive. I don't think they come like that, where I'm from.

Mmm. I'm glad to hear you say that. Self-acceptance is important.

[greatcherubim]

I can help with those that are. I should be able to assist with the ones that are water elementals, too.

My answer? Well, I wouldn't change anything about myself. I'd decide to be born into a different world. What would be yours?

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[greatcherubim]

I expected nothing else from you, Raphael.

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[bedsidemanners]

Well. Maybe I'd wish to be reborn without a refractory period.

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[greatcherubim]

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[greatcherubim]

I was asking a serious question, Raphael. I wanted to start a dialogue wit the people here.

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[bedsidemanners]

And I gave you a serious answer.

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[greatcherubim]

That was not a serious answer. That was you being glib.

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[bedsidemanners]

You have no idea what that adjustment would do to my quality of life, Gabriel.

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[greatcherubim]

How I wish there were true. Instead I'm all too aware.

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[bedsidemanners]

[feigning consideration]

On the other hand, I suppose I'd get even less work done at the office. Have I been less discreet than I realized?

[beyourarmy]

But.... [Just startled silence after that.]

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[thermonuclear_birdbrain]

Oh! Well, I'm...uh, trying to get mine into a more reasonable state. It's a little huge and kind of angry. But when I tell it how to be nice, you can see one up close.

The really big ones in Gensokyo are gods. They're usually not fire-breathing, though -- more watery. But this is a small one.

Hope I can take it home with me to Hell -- I think it would like the fire.

If you like the heat, I'm set up in the Temple now. Luke told me where to go. Turns out that even if I go underground, I can't go back to Hell...I guess I really am stuck here, huh...?

[Her normally excited and strong voice dims to something sad and quiet.]

[indecent_butterfly]

In a way, this One has already done so.

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[sympathyforme]

Yes, I have.

Me.

[greatcherubim]

But nothing. You are not an idiot, Messiah.