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[sellsthneeds]

He arched a brow at that, distracted from his own musings and self-inflicted guilt trip.

"I'm sorry, did you say...argue with your castle? Is...that code for something else, or, are you being literal?"

[agathaheterodyne]

She sighed a bit and rubbed at her face. "Yes, I did, and yes it is literal. The Castle is going to be thrilled at the new weaponry, and then very ticked off when I won't let it test the defenses out an whomever it so chooses. I've known my Castle only a short time and I can already tell it is going to be a long road." But there was a hunt of a grin at that. She was kind of looking forward to it.

[sellsthneeds]

Sentient castles.

Sentient castles that apparently enjoyed bloodshed.

"Yeaaaah," Once drawled, trying to wrap his mind around the weirdness that was Nautilus once more, "you wouldn't want some dumb kid to get hurt."

[agathaheterodyne]

"Oh," she said, waving a hand. "Pretty sure anyone that the castle knows to be dumb would be safe enough, it enjoys screaming."

She blinked, then realization dawned. "And you meant dumb as in unintelligent, didn't you?" A bit of a sigh. "Luckily even the kids around Mechanicsburg know about the Castle, no one would let any of them get near it, even if they tried. Unless you count the fact that the....Castle... " someone was having a dawning realization, "controls the town. Oh... Oh dear."

[sellsthneeds]

"Your castle...enjoys the screams of people."

It wasn't a question.

"Mm..more in the general sense of kids being kids and being impulsive and not always thinking things through." Once raised another brow.

"Your castle that enjoys the screams of people controls a town. That's---poor city planning." He would know. He designed Thneedville down to the smallest detail.

"Maybe you should elect a mayor or something?"

[agathaheterodyne]

"Given who built the Castle, it probably seemed like a wonderful idea at the time," she said, dryly. "My ancestors were not nice people." She shook her head. "No adults in Mechanicsburg would let their children into the Castle unless they were summoned by the Castle itself, or the Heterodyne. Might have been different when my uncle and father lived there, but I frankly doubt it."

Of course, even by the standards of her world, Mechanicsburg was not even remotely normal.

[sellsthneeds]

Once couldn't exactly claim that he came from great stock himself. His immediate family were....fairly awful people. But, even he was fairly sure they wouldn't couldn't build sentient killer castles.

Not that he was a saint.

"You can't help who your family is."

[agathaheterodyne]

She gave a small nod. She knew that all too well. There were the Heterodynes.... and then there was her mother. 'The family I've chosen, I love, the family I was born to.... I've done without them since I was little, and they can kindly get back out of my life now if they aren't going to help."

[sellsthneeds]

Once's family had left him in a toxic wasteland as soon as it became apparent that there was no more money from thneeds rolling in.

"Son, you have let me down."

If his mother had stabbed him, it would have hurt less. When he'd initially done it all for her, and then kept doing it for the money and the attention and the love of people he could buy---

He gave a lanky shrug. "Eh. I don't have either. But, to be fair, I don't deserve either."

[agathaheterodyne]

She gave a snort that sounded a bit rude. "Don't deserve?" she made a face that said she clearly wasn't buying it. "And who sold you that load of garbage? and can you get a refund?" She shook her head. "Family isn't about deserving it or not. The family you're born to has nothing to do with what you deserve, because you haven't earned or lost anything when you're born. The family you find of build....' she shrugged. "Maybe that's still to come."

[sellsthneeds]

"No one sold me on it. I'm a fool, but, I'm not an idiot."

Oh, he'd had a family forged through friendship. The Lorax, the animals, heck, even Melvin---and he'd thrown it away. In the beginning for the first few scraps of affection and pride his mother had ever thrown his way---and then for the money and the fame and the biggering---

Once's expression was filled with self-loathing.

"I deserve to rot alone. Unless."

Not sure what that Unless means there, so Agatha is ignoring it, lol.

[agathaheterodyne]

"No one deserves to rot alone," she said flatly. "Not even Martellus, as much as making him rot alone is one of my aims.' She scowled, considered. "I take it back, there is one person who does, but there are reasons for that. I presume you aren't enslaving the minds of whole races and subjugating whole worlds under your bootheel?"

It's the word the Lorax left for him--

[sellsthneeds]

(Once is still puzzling it out too. It'll take a few decades.)


"I eradicated an entire ecosystem. I wiped an entire species of tree off the face of the earth, ruined the food source for countless animals, and have polluted the local water source to the point where it could literally catch fire and burn for the next fifty years.

The land is poisoned. Nothing is ever going to grow there again. The kids in the city I built are never going to see real nature, only the fake things I designed and built to put in their place."

Once-ler shook his head and grit his teeth. He hadn't intended on sharing quite so much, but, no....no, he deserved having everyone know his shame. Everyone knowing his absolute folly.

"I'm working on ways to fix it, of course..." he muttered. "But, the damage is too severe. The soil kills anything I try to put into it. What I've done is going to take years....at the very least."

Wow I had forgotten. It has been way too long.

[agathaheterodyne]

She whistled. "Alright, that is pretty bad. Nothing that we can't fix." she wasn't even aware she said we, yet. "But you know what makes you different from the sort who DOES truly deserve to rot? You want to fix it, you're working on fixing it. Makes all the difference in all the worlds."

She was thinking hard, though, an odd glint coming into her eyes. If they could lower the toxicity in the soil they could gene-splice some hardier plants to get that part restarted. Water... she could build a filter, the question would be what to do with what it filtered out. The hardest part was probably the extinct species. Even recreating them as monster-trees wouldn't be exactly the same... but it could come close.

Hm......

no problem

[sellsthneeds]

"I still hurt the--people who actually cared about me."

The Lorax's disappointment hurt even worse than his mother's. His mother was disappointed the cash was gone. The Lorax had expected better from him.

"I broke so many promises."

His gray-blue eyes flickered for a moment with regret and pain. "Ah, but, you know what they say about beggars and horses and wishes. I'm still a pretty crummy person. To put it mildly."

[agathaheterodyne]

She nodded a bit. That was a harder thing to fix, if it even could be fixed. "So let's work together, in being better, and on fixing things. For your world and mine."