You're lucky, then, to not have felt that way.
That's the funny thing, though, isn't it? -Almost looks like he's smiling-
Every single living thing has a built-in urge to survive — you'll move your hand away from something hot or try and breathe if you're running out of air without even thinking about it, because living things are meant to live, to make more living things.
But you do that because you're programmed to. It's not something you think about, you're just... here. And every day, you find new reasons to die for something — you would die for a friend, or for a cause, or an ideal, or a country.
Anyone can find something to die for, but it's next to impossible to find something to live for.
-Looks at Dot-
-He's not angry this time-
-He seems profoundly sad for a moment-
Yeah. They do.
...
It turned out that everyone didn't want to die, anyway. Erebus was drawing it here. We had to get rid of Erebus first, to prevent another Fall until humanity really did want to be cleansed and made One.
-Nods- In a way. A few of us already have died for it, though I'm sure they didn't really want to.
Death itself being dead is probably gonna cause problems, though. Things like that can't really be killed, but...
-to Dot- I don't really know. I've never heard of anyone stopping Conception before. This is different than the Fall. It's not just humanity being destroyed — it's everything in the world.
We still have to try, though. Nothing else to be done about it.
edited 13th Jan '16 3:47:30 PM by WonderSquid
-to Dot I typed Dot that's what you saw- I don't think he does. I think he wants to, though. He said so himself; he's interested in what's going on, same as us, and he's looking out for ways he can benefit from it.
-to Archer- Sephiroth isn't part of all this. He was the same kind of thing as me. He was the first one made, and the best one, but I was made to replace him, after he stopped listening to Shinra. And then I killed Shinra and Sephiroth, so now it's just me.
-to Steph- He's a vampire that's been killing people and can summon invisible things. We're trying to find him.
edited 13th Jan '16 4:09:59 PM by WonderSquid
-You thought it was Dot, but it was I, Dio-
-heheh-
Dio is... I am not sure, entirely. He is a very powerful man who kills people for fun, it seems. He is a vampire, and he is at the head of a group of people called Gaeans. We only met him once, and he wanted us to work for him or get out of his way. If I recall, he said something about the end of the world, but my memory is fuzzy.

-Feels like a total tool-
-But she figures she had to do it-
-Nods-
Thank you.