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DIRK: It's just a little disappointing, is all.

DIRK: Rose and I put so much work into whipping up some zany, adorable, kind of fucked up little dudes.

DIRK: The least you could do is attempt to give a shit about how they turn out.

DIRK: Or was all that hand-wringing about how worried you were that Rose and I were becoming big bad cosmic tyrants with no regard for the poor little mortals buffeted to and fro by the vicious momentum of our designs just virtue signaling?

DIRK: Or worse... foreplay?

DIRK: Wow.

DIRK: Pretty low, Terezi.

DIRK: I expected a lot better of you.

TEREZI: TH4T JOK3Y-BUT-NOT-R34LLY F4M1L14L GU1LT-TR1P MOOSH1T M4N3UV3R M1GHT WORK ON ROS3

DIRK: It doesn't.

TEREZI: BUT 1T DO3SNT M34N SH1T TO M3

DIRK: It does.

DIRK: Not that I needed to bust it out for you.

DIRK: I know you wouldn't just abandon the Deltritans to the cruel march of time and whatever scant preparation you imagine we gave them.

DIRK: You don't trust Rose or I to give enough of a fuck about them, and despite your occasional protestations, you are, for the most part, too good a person to just turn your back on them and let whatever happens happens.

DIRK: I trust that the automated suggestions you put in place, and the conditional map that prompts them, were thought through with an honestly touching amount of care, considering your misgivings.

DIRK: There's no doubt in my mind that even if Rose and I hadn't already basically knocked this creationism shit out of the park, the sons and/or daughters of Deltritus would make it to the Game just fine with even the barest phantom of your counsel.

DIRK: That's why I'm allowing you to do this at all.

TEREZI: 1 DONT N33D YOUR P3RM1SS1ON

Wrong.

TEREZI: OH FUCK YOU

DIRK: And for the record, you're also wrong in your assertion that we don't care about them.

DIRK: We do.

DIRK: I do, at any rate.

TEREZI: Y34H YOUR P4T3RN4L G3N3ROS1TY KNOWS NO BOUNDS

TEREZI: 4NYON3 WOULD B3 GR4T3FUL TO H4V3 4 B3N3VOL3NT CR34TOR L1K3 YOU

TEREZI: ON3 TH4TLL ULT1M4T3LY 3NSUR3 TH31R 3NT1R3 PL4N3T 1S ORB1T4LLY BOMB4RD3D 4ND TH31R SP3C13S 4LL BUT DR1V3N 3XT1NCT S4V3 FOR 4 F3W "LUCKY" JUV3N1L3S

DIRK: That's just how this shit goes down for species *lucky* enough to fucking *matter*, Terezi.

DIRK: Circle of life. Hakuna Matata. Que sera, sera.

DIRK: And you know it.

TEREZI: 1 DONT KNOW SH1T

DIRK: Plato, nice.

DIRK: All this hate on philosophizing, yet here you are busting out the certified classics to counter my rhetoric.

TEREZI: UGH

TEREZI: 1 DONT KNOW WHO PL4TO 1S BUT 1F "1 DONT KNOW SH1T" 1S TH3 B3ST H3 H4D TO OFF3R H3 COULDNT H4V3 B33N TH4T WORTH STUDY1NG

DIRK: Plato was actually pretty badass, but we're straying from the point.

DIRK: Originally, the plan was to pop in every couple hundred years to check on the Deltritan races' progress and to give you a bit of time to guide them manually.

DIRK: Which I maintain would have been pretty fun, and would encourage you (probably fruitlessly) to consider giving a go.

DIRK: But hey, you say you aren't feeling it?

DIRK: Fine.

DIRK: I can make concessions.

DIRK: I've got other agents in play, and as I've said, I know you aren't going to risk fucking your end of the work up.

TEREZI: HOW C4N YOU B3 SUR3

TEREZI: M4YB3 3XT3ND3D PROX1M1TY TO STR1LOND3 D3LUS1ONS OF GR4ND3UR H4S DR1V3N M3 TO TH3 BR34K1NG PO1NT

TEREZI: M4YB3 1M JUST L4Y1NG LOW

TEREZI: 34RN1NG YOUR TRUST SO 1 C4N COMPL3T3LY RU1N YOUR PL4NS FOR 4NOTH3R S3SS1ON

TEREZI: DO1NG 4LL 1 C4N TO TURN SK414S 4TT3NT1ON 3LS3WH3R3 4ND D1SQU4L1FY TH1S PL4N3T 4S 4 C4ND1D4T3

TEREZI: NOT ONLY TO PROT3CT TH3 UNTOLD M1LL1ONS OF FUTUR3 D3LTR1T4NS YOU PL4N TO PULV3R1Z3

TEREZI: BUT 4LSO FOR TH3 S4T1SF4CT1ON OF SH4TT3R1NG TH4T STO1C D34DP4N OF YOURS

TEREZI: 1F JUST FOR ON3 D3L1C1OUS MOM3NT