arthur doesn't have any real negative associations with Seph, is the fun part. John likes him, he helped them both out during a flood and Arthur's inclined to leave well enough alone for other people's inmates

but he's a philosophy nerd so this one struck his interest

coeurl i doubt arthur's saying anything new when Seph's been in TLV this long but it's still neat

John is so happy they're chatting

most people don't get it. I think Arthur might be the first to really comprehend it all

he had an extremely similar breakthrough with Sweeney recently floofdoodle

so i think he's coming into his new niche of "Maybe You Can't Comprehend The Horrors As A Human But I'm Built Different"

cos yeah there's a difference between like. knowing that sephiroth is insane bc of hearing all of humanity all at once all the time forever, and another to be like. oh, that includes all the shitty little bitch thoughts that you're too polite/sensible to act upon. that includes fantasies and nightmares and trauma entirely divorced from context

humans as a society are known to act collectively for the general betterment of themselves and others, but it doesn't come without a SHITLOAD of bitching or fighting

Seph's been around longer than Sweeney, even

I'm pretty sure

Yes. He has 2 months on him

oooh, close

Fitz has 3

Those are the only ones I know of that are older

but yeah arthur coexisting in the way he does with John i think has done wonders for his like. general comprehension of Weirdness, haha

and is a big part of why he's so Unimpressed sometimes

in CoC as your san drops your comprehension of the horrors can rise

w e l p

arthur thinks he's philosophical but he's just slightly unhinged

it never fails to crack me up that Kahl is like. sephiroth has a point but zero solidarity

KAHL. the omnicidal king of collateral damage

smacks kahl with a newspaper

look it's been a lot time since he tried to wipe out a whole universe

for lack of ability to do so or lack of trying

provided the narrenschiff doesn't count

re: bigger universes, six of one half dozen of the other

he can't destroy his mom's universe and he doesn't want to destroy any of the others particularly

but he's gonna destroy Peter's island so

Peter deserves it!!!! and that's mostly not a whole universe

just one little hell ok ok

yup! very good de-escalation and focusing!

blade_works talkin bout Mako Poisoning

also tinwateringcan!

at least he hasn't mentioned cloud getting mako poisoning

yet

arthur just has to ask if he knows anyone who's gotten it

and he'll be like

oh yeah

cloud had it

went into a coma

yep...