Oooh!, can I be the quiet enigmatic ninja? You know...the one who seems harmless and affable, and no one really notices him until near the end of a big mission where he just loses his shit and kills people who don't need killing and in unnecessarily disturbing and shocking ways, and so they turn on LordEden because he was the one who vouched for him at the beginning simply by saying, "He's cool, guys...."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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