Regression

[over_under_being]

[Following the fight with Anticross, a certain alien is not leaving her cockpit-equivalent.

But don't worry, not before long the crystal forehead opens and Texotic plops to the ground. A miserable-looking Texotic.]

I... never felt more powerless in my life. It's as if whatever I could do didn't matter.

How am I supposed to destroy threats to Earth, feeling like this? Hope in others to do it for me?

[And hope she did feel in the big finale, but still...]

Hope, despair, all human emotions are too strong. I didn't ask for this.

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[over_under_being]

Hmm.

Hmm.

[Is that the sound Over Being make when they are thinking very hard?]

[chozo_girl]

[Expressionless waiting]

[over_under_being]

There is one thing I want to know.

Because I have a physical body right now. Do you consider me.. a different person?

Than what I was before, as an energy being?

[chozo_girl]

Do you want to be?

[over_under_being]

No.
I'm not a human. I am an Over Being. Even if my race is evil and casts me out for my sins against it...

[chozo_girl]

As you prefer.

You will chamge, however. And you will be a different person than you are now. That, too, is both a price and a strength. You decide to stay an Over Being, and this is your way - but do not resist change entirely, or you will break.

[over_under_being]

That applies to everyone else too, right? It's not just me.

[chozo_girl]

Indeed. But most beings understand this. They do not need that advice.

You seem to cling to stasis desperately and consider any change to yourself a problem. It is understandable, as you have been thrust into a world you are only now equipped to understand. But that makes even more important that you do not cling to your initial ideas without thought.

[over_under_being]

I'm not clinging to anything desperately!

[chozo_girl]

[Expressionless waiting]

[over_under_being]

You say change happens naturally and for all, yes? So I'm not resisting it.

But I'm not welcoming it either. Because that'd mean I'm not happy with myself as I am.

That'd be stupid.

[Tsundere walk away.]

[chozo_girl]

[Samus lets Texotic go without saying anything, letting her the last word as she so seems to desire. When she's out of earshot, though, the bounty hunter smiles slightly]

I suppose it is only appropriate.

[And with that, she turns and goes away as well]