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dang shes horrible
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Blinded by rage and hatred... you might as well be blind of everything in general to understand better.
Hopefully he starts to reflect and learn from there. :/
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oh damn...
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The goddess might be rather oblivious as to what she just might have created as what end all life. No one that angry ever forgives.
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I am reminded of an old anecdote/parable about a man walking along a road, and he comes across another man with a donkey and cart. The second man can go nowhere because the donkey has sat down and refuses to move. He tried everything to get the donkey back on its feet. He's tried gentle words, lightly tugging the lead rope, and offering treats. He's tried yelling, cursing, and yanking on the rope. Still the donkey refuses to budge. The first man stands there, silently observing the second man's efforts. After a few minutes he approaches them, picks up a fallen branch, and breaks it over the donkey's head. The donkey jumps to its feet and starts pulling the cart again. The second man looks at the first, befuddled. "I tried everything," he laments, "why did the this stubborn jackass listen to you and not me?" The first man looks at him and calmly replies "The first thing you have to do is get his attention."
That's Nigel. He's the stubborn jackass. And I fear even this measure will be entirely too subtle to get his attention. He is entirely too wrapped up in his narcissistic, paranoid pity party.
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Nigel has a point
But he also needs to get over himself.-
I don't see that he does, though. He went into this whole thing like it was a grade school exam; that as long as he could memorize and regurgitate the "right answers" on command everything would go his way. Life doesn't work like that. The position he desired doesn't work like that. It requires empathy, compassion, understanding and, in short, "people skills." Absolutely none of which he possesses.
That's not to say I don't entirely feel for him. I grew up with an endless onslaught of comments about my "potential" and how I wasn't living up to it despite always maintaining higher than average grades. Academic performance was everything: if I wasn't getting better grades then I was just wasting everybody's time and especially my own. I was never much of a "people person" and didn't bother with extracurricular stuff; it was all about the grades. Then I graduated, life backhanded me in the face, and everything I thought was my "grand accomplishments" through the years meant nothing. No college gave a rat's rectum about my "potential." Neither did employers, romantic partners, or anyone else for that matter. Heck, I'm 37 now and still have no clue where "my place in this world" is.
Maybe it's the advantage of age/experience but I look at Nigel and I don't see a "wronged prodigy." I see an idiot with an over-inflated ego, who's missing the most obvious answers in life because he's still laser-focused on how he was the "biggest fish" in what he doesn't realize was a very, very tiny pond.
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I think we actually largely agree here. Like, best case scenario, Nigel finally eats that big slice of humble pie that he's been trying to avoid eating for his entire life up to this point, finally getting over his bitterness that got exacerbated when his parents basically unpersoned him because he didn't get Guardian first try. The point I think that he has is that he was wronged... but Nigel is taking out his frustration on the wrong person. Or, Goddess at this point.
There will be a time, I hope, that he gains some humility. Until that time, he's going to be stewing in his own juices. Here's hoping that new perspective of his allows for some clarity into what he needs to fix in himself, and he becomes what Luna wants him to be: a Guardian
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That is entirely possible. But there's another old anecdote about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb, with the punchline being "just one, but only if the light bulb WANTS to change." This scenario certainly could "open his eyes" (bad pun, I know) but it's also entirely possible he'll just wrap himself even tighter in his own ego and self-pity and scream that this only proves the whole world is out to make his life miserable.
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We hope that he chooses the brighter path
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Ooof, that's harsh... but at the same time, it's exactly the type of punishment you'd expect from a goddess