Ah, yes, yours makes more sense in terms of the worldbuilding and the Wisdom as a character! I like that.
The Wisdom had been damaged. Yes, it also wanted to fake its own death, but the damage at that point was real.
Heh, I suppose it could very well be accused of faking its own death, but I'm not sure I would characterize it that way, when it ends up as something so much less than it was before. (Maybe happier and more free, but definitely less.)
It clearly didn't think that the Dead Earth plot was the best one - look at its resentful conversation with Kyr where it insisted she understand that she was the one who decided and acted.
Huh! I didn't get that from that discussion (not that it wasn't there, just that I didn't personally get that) -- I mostly got the sense that the Wisdom didn't want the heavy responsibility of deciding itself. But, like you say, going into Universe 3 it kind of had to decide, and quickly. (Which is something I think is interesting in terms of the Wisdom's development!)
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Date: 2023-06-21 05:14 pm (UTC)The Wisdom had been damaged. Yes, it also wanted to fake its own death, but the damage at that point was real.
Heh, I suppose it could very well be accused of faking its own death, but I'm not sure I would characterize it that way, when it ends up as something so much less than it was before. (Maybe happier and more free, but definitely less.)
It clearly didn't think that the Dead Earth plot was the best one - look at its resentful conversation with Kyr where it insisted she understand that she was the one who decided and acted.
Huh! I didn't get that from that discussion (not that it wasn't there, just that I didn't personally get that) -- I mostly got the sense that the Wisdom didn't want the heavy responsibility of deciding itself. But, like you say, going into Universe 3 it kind of had to decide, and quickly. (Which is something I think is interesting in terms of the Wisdom's development!)