I think so. At the least, I wasn't unlucky enough to be possessed by a demon.
[she's physically hurt but she does seem to be holding it together decently. though there are some little flashes of ugly, envious thoughts. Of course the others feel they can just fall apart on us.]
So it was really just fighting. [chewing her lip.] It was just - we remembered an entirely different life, where we were mages, and we were considering escaping, but then things went quite violent.
[ ah... he frowns a little but he's seen people be insane now after cyoas. or maybe it's just normal human ('human') ugliness in the face of a hard situation. ]
Oh, yeah. Richie told me he believed in a totally different life, too.
...Anders makes it sound like being a mage is really hard.
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Y'know, that's the one conversation I had with Saber before they died. How unlucky they were to end up on two of these.
[ and then francy passed the curse on ]
I dunno if things like pain are things that get easier when it's predictable...
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[she doesn't just mean two cyoas, she is not a stranger to frequent pain.]
It shields you but also turns you into someone who is all defensiveness, all hardened edges.
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That what you think you are?
[ hard, shielded edges. ]
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[she's been working on it, but it's still an accurate description.]
It's not a bad thing, entirely.
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Did it help you today, with... whatever happened?
[ she does seem pretty put together, all things considered. the others she showed up with were kind of a mess. ]
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[she's physically hurt but she does seem to be holding it together decently. though there are some little flashes of ugly, envious thoughts. Of course the others feel they can just fall apart on us.]
So it was really just fighting. [chewing her lip.] It was just - we remembered an entirely different life, where we were mages, and we were considering escaping, but then things went quite violent.
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Oh, yeah. Richie told me he believed in a totally different life, too.
...Anders makes it sound like being a mage is really hard.
[ he has received the lecture ]
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[anders' life is like, way too dark for a cyoa.]
I know they are all treated as though they are dangerous, though in this, we actually were quite dangerous.