[ fourth wall continuations ]

[powerisyours]

Before captcha this time |D

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[crestsmile]

That's something you'll have to find out on your own.

[powerisyours]

I know. I shouldn't be saying these things. I shouldn't be acting so weak. You raised me better than that.

[crestsmile]

I raised you to be you, Xiao Wu.

[powerisyours]

You raised me to be someone the Iron Dimension could count on.

[crestsmile]

That too.

[powerisyours]

It doesn't matter who I am, so long as I can do that.

[crestsmile]

Doesn't it?

[powerisyours]

It doesn't.

[crestsmile]

I don't think so.

[powerisyours]

What do you mean?

[crestsmile]

You can be you too.

[powerisyours]

That is me.

[crestsmile]

Is it really?

[powerisyours]

Who am I, then?

[crestsmile]

That's something you decide.

[powerisyours]

Master doesn't seem to agree that I am who I say I am.

[crestsmile]

You're putting yourself into a box without decorating it.

[powerisyours]

I don't think I understand. I speak and act as I should. I perform my duties to the best of my abilities. Even when it's lonely, or frustrating, or I think it's too much, I don't complain and do as I am supposed to do. That's what it is to be me.

[crestsmile]

Xiao Wu . . .

[ he sighs ]

Loosen up.

[powerisyours]

I can't win with that. When I loosen up, I'm told I should take things more seriously. When I take things seriously, I'm told to loosen up. There is no middle ground because the loosening up is the middle ground.

[crestsmile]

That's confusing.

[powerisyours]

[ tilting his head ]

Which part?

[crestsmile]

All of it.

[powerisyours]

It is what it is. Some people say I play around too much. Other people say I don't play around enough. There is no winning. There is no middle ground for that. Playing at all and not just skiving everything off is the middle ground for all of it, and I don't have it in me to just run out on my duties; it isn't an option.

[crestsmile]

You aren't only your duties