liv - he does this every time something upsets him, i swear. get some new material.

[darknessb4me]

[Filtered away from graduated inmates and from Tirion, Martha, and Sarah. Audio.]

We are defined by we do. Identity therefore is not an idea or a definition, but a series of acts taken. The future tends to come to abrupt and violent ends, so your life is measured by your past. What you have done is what you are.

[He smiles.]What you have done

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[yeahscience]

[Because this is a question that's never far from his mind...]

So once a scumbag, always a scumbag. Right?

[darknessb4me]

Depends on who told you you were one in the first place.

[yeahscience]

Maybe no one needs to.

[darknessb4me]

Who are you?

[darknessb4me]

There's no permanence here. Nothing we do here matters at all. Just what we did at home.

I don't take orders from you, Nygma. I'm not sure where you acquired that impression.

[darknessb4me]

What? No, it's not the port. I liked the port. How is that relevant?

[Not here, but if she was...this face, forever. Arthas, what are you up to?]

[terminatefate]

bein scared of graduation like a boss

[darknessb4me]

*puts a blanket over his head* Dun be scaaared~

[terminatefate]

[championoftime]

What about what happens to you? How much does it comprise what you are? And how much of what you will do constitutes what you can be?

[darknessb4me]

The passive person allows themselves to be defined by what the world does to them, instead of what they do to the world.

What someone can be is not relevant here, because ninety nine times out of a hundred, what you will be is dead, just like you were before you came.

[championoftime]

But you're still leaving out what you will do. What you won't do. And if things that happened to you didn't change you, no one would hever become angry and lash out when they did.

[darknessb4me]

No one will do anything here, is what I'm saying. Once you've arrived, you can't do anything of significance.

same filter.

[darknessb4me]

By the same token, some of us can be defined by our defiance. I'm sure you know people like that.

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[darknessb4me]

I suppose where you're from defines you. But can't you also turn around and do the same to your world? Or society, or whatever?