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[glubbin]

Look, I'vve been real careful. Not steppin' on any toes, goin' around on my owwn and doin' wwhat I gotta do to keep alivve around here. [ huffs. ] And doin' it alone, no less. Wwhich is harder than it looks, I'll havve you knoww.

[ and he does sound like he believes anyone at all could need reminding of that fact that there are things out there

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[magerights]

You've been on your own out there? Why?

[magerights]

How can all of you... are there not that many of you? Or is it something else?

[glubbin]

There's not really too many. Most'a us are dead. The wwhole race wwent right out the wwindow wwhen meteors came crashin' dowwn on Alternia.

It wwas pretty amazin', in it's owwn way. Not howw I wwas plannin' on sendin' all the landdwwellers out, but. . . [ shrug. ]

[magerights]

[He's not sure if he should say something, offer some sympathies that would sound hollow to his own ears, but that last part surprises him.]

You were planning on killing them? Why?

[glubbin]

It wwas an age-old feud. I wwouldn't expect you to understand.

[magerights]

Why does everyone say that? Don't bother actually presenting a rational argument about why you're fighting or oppressing someone, just say that you've been doing it for years, so why stop now? Does no one ever see the problem with this?

[glubbin]

See, this is wwhy I said you can't understand. Genocide is a force a great beauty.

... Plus, questionin' it probably wwoulda gotten me culled, and that wwas not something I wwas signin' up for wwillingly.

[magerights]

Beauty? What could possibly be beautiful about something as horrifying as that?

[Anders knew his own crimes, while not exactly comparable to something like that, were also terrible. But he'd never claimed they were something to be admired. They were just... necessary.]

[glubbin]

You should read up on your history if you can't understand wwhat's so beautiful about it.

[ Eridan is admittedly only ever planned out the killing of all the landdwellers - and having many botched attempts at creating a doomsday device. He was only really guilty of being a giant douchebag by talking plenty big about genocide before he actually killed two of the twelve remaining trolls. ]

[magerights]

Somehow I don't think we have the same history in mind.

[But there was the history of the elves, which was far from being beautiful in his opinion.]

[glubbin]

I'm talkin' about Alternian history.

[magerights]

Which you can't expect me to be familiar with, can you?

[glubbin]

No. Wwhich is wwhy I'm havvin' to repeat myself sayin' you wwouldn't get it.

[magerights]

[Anders sighs and rubs the bridge of his nose irritably.]

You were the one telling me to read up on it, in case you've forgotten.

[glubbin]

'Cause it wwould do you some fuckin' good.

[magerights]

[Very patiently, like trying to explain something obvious to a particularly dense person.] And how can I read up on a history that isn't my own?