Letters to the Phantom

[inside_yourmind]

[You may now write letters to the Phantom!

Each of you will find plenty of stationery in the drawers of your vanities, along with candles, a block of sealing wax, and a stamp with your initial on it. You can use these to seal your envelopes in style!

Letters may be dropped into the flap at the Box Office at any time. Replies will appear in your dressing rooms, occasionally quite quickly. Sitting in your room to keep watch won't let you see how they're brought; they'll just appear whenever you happen to leave or fall asleep. Yes, they can be delivered overnight. Probably don't think about it too hard.]

Comments

[inside_yourmind]

Were we friends?

[holyspit]

Opera Ghost,

I don't know.

But at the trial it sounded like you cared about her.

You said you wanted to fix her.

And I know she could be friends with anyone. Even me or mom.

I don't know if I could really be your friend now, after all this. But it's never impossible, even if you think it is. The Diamonds managed to change, and so did my mom even with as many people as she hurt.

You could too. Maybe then you could actually be happy.

But you'd have to try. I could help you.

-Steven

[inside_yourmind]

My goal has never been my own happiness. And, while I find them intriguing, I am not a Gem.

[holyspit]

Opera Ghost,

That actually means it's probably easier for you to change, honestly. If you know as much about us as you claim to, you know how big Homeworld is on roles and stuff.

-Steven.

[inside_yourmind]

What am I doing, if not simply playing a role?

[holyspit]

Opera Ghost,

You're being really

I can't think of the actual word, but it's when someone's being really picky and literal about what words mean and using that to not answer the actual questions being asked and stuff? You're being really that.

I meant that if people as rigid as White Diamond can even try to change then so can you and I'm pretty sure you knew that.

-Steven

[A short while later, before Steven's received and answer, a second letter appears.]

OG

Pedantic. Pedantic is the word I was trying to think of. You're being really pedantic instead of just answering.

-Steven

[inside_yourmind]

You want an answer? Very well. I cannot do anything other than this. Are you satisfied?

[holyspit]

Opera Ghost,

Cannot or will not?

-Steven

[inside_yourmind]

Cannot.

You and Dr. Browning make very similar assumptions - although you are very different people.

[holyspit]

Opera Ghost,

Thanks, I think?

[Tall Stephen is smart, that's probably a good comparison?]

Okay. Do you WANT to do anything other than this?

-Steven

[inside_yourmind]

Don't thank me. Dr. Browning is not a trustworthy person. That is not to say I would trust you, necessarily - simply that you are very different people.

Sometimes. Spinel tried to destroy the Earth, didn't she, when she learned what had been done to her? But in the end, she still could not defy her purpose. She still wanted to be a friend.

[holyspit]

OG,

If you're going to lie about Spinel at least make it kind of believable.

-Steven

[Give it a couple more memory regains and this'll either be really funny or really sad. If the Phantom were smart he'd get Steven to bet on it.]

[inside_yourmind]

Ah. You remember what your mother did to her, but not that? I suppose things have not yet filled in.

Well, it doesn't matter. [This is what he gets for trying to express a feeling, he guesses.]