#to understand some of the decisions made by the iterators n the ancients one needs to sometimes like. Take their base perceptions of the-

[spotsupstuff]

With the things said recently regarding Suns being a bad influence on Pebbles, I just want to say that I wholeheartedly agree but that I. Actually dislike Suns willingly giving Pebbles the taboo overwrite instructions from a writing perspective like. The jump from "ultimately means well but is unhealthy and incredibly emotionally insensitive" to "literally handing your blatantly emotionally unstable best friend instructions on how to destroy himself" is not a small one!!! It just doesn't really. Feel like a reasonable thing for Suns to do at least as far as I see. They're definitely still a dumbass though and I want them put through every last one of the situations

gjklsdcmklgjkdscmdl damning them to every situation ever GJSKLCMKL BUT! -snaps fingers n finger guns atcha- i'mma tell you why it makes sense to me personally!

see, when handling the Iterators (and just about anyone from RW's world), one needs to keep in mind their situation and the general set up. their world functions differently than ours, they have different faith, different ultimate goals towards which they wish to lead their lives

irl Buddhism views the living world and situation (Saṃsāra) as a cycle of torture. the ultimate goal is to escape it. it's just how the culture and understanding of the world developed over there. a christian or something might view it as insane, but that is an opinion that should be kept to themselves in order to respect something strikingly different from what they are used to. Buddhism isn't inherently evil for thinking this way

n as well aaaaaaaaall know RW has Buddhism elements in it (whether filtered thru the idea of Theosophy or not is -aggressively shrugs- who knows). therefore we gotta understand that what Suns did was, in a way, that "ultimately means well" thing

all that the Iterators are left with in the world... *is* the Great Problem. hard canon speaking-wise, Suns was most likely to definitely correct when they said that that isn't anything else for them except work on the Problem or be Stuck

and that pearl was supposed to have the answer to it. an ending to the suffering that's just stretching and stretching on, so so much more palpable to the Iterators than irl Saṃsāra is to us. they are fated to end *horribly* if they don't find the solution and THIS might be it

from that angle, the thing they did doesn't sound so bad anymore! it's def still shit cuz like. yeah, Pebs was Not in a good mindset and they should've communicated more with the rest of the group (ESPECIALLY Moon) to coordinate better n prevent all that tragedy, but... Yeah

i like shoving the blame at Ancients for this as well, cuz motherFUCKERS -hits 'em with rolled up newspaper- just HAD to go and want to speedrun a fucking RELIGION instead of proper dedicating themselves to it. feckin no wonder the children are doing it too! it's a line of dumbfuckery!!!!! mama mia! 🤌