#sys comic

Jester: Hey…you’ve not been around much

Beast: Isn’t that a good thing? I know many of you feel relieved at least a little. We share the same brain

Jester: Well. Yeah. But it feels wrong

Beast: …

Jester: I miss my partner in crime, I guess

Beast: Well. Yeah. But you’re the real go-getter here. To be honest I’m not all that sure where you end and I begin. You’re the one selfish enough to get what we need just as much as I am. I’m redundant. A bitterness that doesn’t serve us

Jester: Thats not..you know that cooperation isnt exactly the same as being one and the same. Besides, I….I need you to ground me. I repress all thats bad to maintain happiness but someone needs to keep tabs on the reasons we’re like this, you know?

Beast: Yeah well, Mold has taken up that role lately haven’t they? Better them than someone like me. I just. Cause guilt

Jester: Well Mold is made from guilt. And yeah maybe they do let us feel and process the bad stuff but equally so they make us just. Accept it. You actually DO something about it

Beast: So do you.

Jester: … well…..yeah….god! You’re really just gonna make me say it aren't you? I dont do it well!! All I do is hold onto delusional hope because what else is there??!

Beast: I don't do it well either??? Void could easily replace me. They’re objective. And less violent than I am.

Jester: But they’re not personal. At the end of the day it’s our life. It’s…it’s NORMAL for us to be so volatile

Beast: Its not safe-

Jester: NOTHING is safe! None of us are perfect! We all just. Do what we can with the dysfunctional hand that we’ve been given

Beast: …

Jester: I know what you’re thinking. Let yourself feel it. Let yourself be selfish. Nemo isnt here to hold you back

Beast: But it feels different when its about your whole…you know…purpose. God you’re right. I just. I’m just looking to shoulder off the parts of me that I share with y'all and disappear. I dont like this life. And no amount of grandiose little magic could make me truly happy. Not in this body. Not in this context.

Jester: You’re not the only one here who gets species dysphoria you know?

Beast: So even that see??!? Not even that makes me special. We truly wouldn’t loose anything significant of ourselves if I just fade away.

Jester: Someone needs to hold the anger. The cruelty.

Beast: I don’t want that to be all that I am.