[ Tezcatlipoca listens to Matt’s explanations attentively, but in terms of the emotional feedback, there’s… not much. It’s almost like this is something Tezcatlipoca has heard before, like it’s all familiar and he’s just hearing someone else express it.
Which, yeah. Essentially.
He has a view of the world and of history that few other kinds of creatures could have. The only things surprising about what’s gone on here are the stakes (and even then…) and how casually magic was involved. Take the details out, though? Same shit as always. A weak leader is murdered to make way for the strongman. The strongman will get crushed by the people eventually. One winner, one loser, but neither one will matter in the end. The real end. Will anyone even remember, given a few centuries?
But that, too, isn’t anything he expresses. This may not be the campfire he sets up on the edge of Mictlān, but still. He’s always here to hear peoples’ troubles. Be a sounding board when they need it. He’s not the warm, magnanimous presence of Quetzalcoatl, but he loves people too. In his way. ]
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Which, yeah. Essentially.
He has a view of the world and of history that few other kinds of creatures could have. The only things surprising about what’s gone on here are the stakes (and even then…) and how casually magic was involved. Take the details out, though? Same shit as always. A weak leader is murdered to make way for the strongman. The strongman will get crushed by the people eventually. One winner, one loser, but neither one will matter in the end. The real end. Will anyone even remember, given a few centuries?
But that, too, isn’t anything he expresses. This may not be the campfire he sets up on the edge of Mictlān, but still. He’s always here to hear peoples’ troubles. Be a sounding board when they need it. He’s not the warm, magnanimous presence of Quetzalcoatl, but he loves people too. In his way. ]