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[The feed will click on, but it's mostly showing a brick wall of an alleyway at the moment. It's moving pretty erratically like Draco's trying to fix something and he's working with his hands. Granted, it's not like he actually knows how to make things work and he has no idea how to use muggle tools, so it's mostly just a lot of banging around until he finally caves to address the city at large.]

Now that that's over...[That is to say, if you want to talk to him about what happened with Thiazi and the corrupted, don't. He's not up for it at the moment save for a few close people.] I might actually need help with something. Only if you understand methods of mechanics.

[Give him a moment to flip the camera to reveal a motorcycle that a friend left to him. Said-motorcycle looks as though someone took a baseball bat to it. It's dented, one of the mirrors is missing and the front wheel is removed from the bike all together, propped up to the side somewhere.] How the hell do I put this back together?

Additionally...[And then he stops. Nah, he's not going to bother mentioning anything about the shop, or about people from home, or anything that's happened in the last few weeks. He's going to stay off of the radar as much as possible in terms of those topics.] Well, never mind. That's it. [And with another bang as he fruitlessly tries to hammer out the dents, the bracelet clicks off. Draco seems to have a talent for ignoring anything he wants to.]

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[It's...a lot to take in, and he's not even sure what to say just yet.]

So...this body is you, but that thing is also you? But neither of them are actually you because you're a giant experiment. Is that what you're trying to tell me? Because you have to realize how odd that sounds.

[ Draco was one of the few to actually understand it ]

That's correct.

They are both me, but neither is completely me. I lack half of myself - my body - and the body [ kaworu touches the small embryo ] lacks its half as well, the soul I carry. When joined together, we become one and whole.

So how long do you have to wait to ever actually return to your original state? Or is that absolutely no longer an option?

If I join Adam again, it will reawaken and begin the destruction of all living beings in order to take the planet for the Angels.

[ so, in other words ]

It's not something I desire, though. [ therefor he can't join Adam. if if his instincts tell him to do it ]

...you can't change what Adam will do?

No. Angels and Lilim aren't meant to inhabit the same planet. And one will aim to erase the other. All children of Adam were killed to prevent Adam's reawakening. [ so was he ]

Isn't that essentially just another form of genocide that only benefits one side?

Yes, it is.

While Lilim erased us to ensure their survival, because they feared us or hated us, Angels simply wanted to become one with Adam. Erasing Lilim was simply a consequence of that; most of us harbored no feelings towards Lilim.

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And no one thought to look for another way to accomplish that goal?

Yes, they did. To join Adam and Lilith, the one who created Lilim. For all to become one.

But that way was rejected in the end. But it should not have happened, either.

Why was it rejected though?

Because you can't accept it. [ lilim, that is ]

If Adam and Lilith joined as one, everyone would be one. The flaws in every living being would be complemented by the strengths in others, the insecurities in people's hearts would be erased, no one would ever perish and everyone would understand everyone.

But Lilim would lose something: individuality. All souls would be gathered and united as one. This would create an existence where nobody existed singularly, but merely as part of the whole.

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[And then it all comes full-circle and Draco seems to understand exactly what Kaworu's been trying to tell him all along.]

...I never realized. There's a price to pay for individuality.

[ kaworu smiles and nods ]

Yes. Not being understood because you are an individual different from anyone else, being hurt by other individuals, hurting for other individuals; those things bring you pain.

But there is good about your individuality. The happiness you find in others, that you have for others and because of others. The fact that you are able to experience unique thoughts and feelings that make you glad to be who you are. And the fact that you can always overcome your flaws on your own, allowing you to be more than who you are right now.

And this is why you will reject an existence without individuality. And this is why in my world, it was rejected as well.

And this is exactly what you've been trying to tell me all along, isn't it? This is what you were trying to say the first time we discussed it. [Mind=officially blown.] I think I understand.

[ Congratulations Draco, you figured it out. Not many do. ]

[ kaworu nods again ] Yes, it was.

it's difficult to understand at first.

It's difficult to understand even when I think I understand it. How does anyone from your world accomplish anything when it's so confusing?

It's something they have to understand for themselves. A lot of people do, they just don't specify it like that.

"I'm happy that I'm with you" is a form of happiness individuality brings, for example.

So what would be the opposite of something like that?

"It hurts that you are gone", perhaps.

Perhaps...so how does someone like you cope with individuality then?

That is how you spend your life trying to find out, isn't it?

Finding people to love, finding something important in your life, finding a meaning.

So in individuality you have to find other people to be individuals with. [And back to not being entirely certain.]

Without others you can't find about yourself, Draco. What you are capable of, what you want and what you like; if there was no one else but you, how would you find out about those things? How would you find out about yourself?

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Couldn't you find out using things versus people?

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