We'll kill them all, she assures him.

We will! We will kill them all with such excellent information security that no one else learns either how to make minds or how to hurt daeva, and then everyone will live as happily ever after as ten of my dad are even capable of - maybe they can be distracted with languages for a few centuries -

Gosh, we'll have to find a lot of worlds to keep your dads supplied with languages that long.

Languages are at least things they can't benefit from having ten around on, it's not as if they'd settle for the fact one of them knows some language...

I wonder if any of them are liable to want to fork into daeva.

Giggle. They might do that just for the languages. If Elves can even become daeva, I'm really not sure.

Yeah, it'd be a risk.

Well, now that we can bring anyone back -

Yeah. I decided before I forked that if it didn't work then a few minutes divergent experience was little enough that if Ada had been lost she would essentially still be alive by virtue of my being alive, but.

I'm glad we have this as an option but it is kind of readily complicated.

Yeah. Well. If it helps, I don't think there's very good reason to think that an elf fork of an elf is less likely to be susceptible to daevafication than an elf fork of a demon.

I was sort of assuming Elves didn't daevify because we have backups - maybe if you did the fork in a place Mandos couldn't reach -

Yeah, I was imagining doing this in Hell like my own experiment.

Then I can't think why it wouldn't work. Wonder what he'd be.

You know him better than I do.

It goes off personality?

Best theory anyone's got.

He'd want to be a demon, but I don't know - not sure what personality traits you, Cam, Melkor, Mandos and Varda have in common -

Temperamental suitability to the magic, is how the hypothesis goes.

Then he'd be a demon. Making stuff - that's him.

I mean, one could also describe Emily as "making stuff" but she's an angel, there's a definite difference there...

Yeah, engineering does not a demon make, but inventing a way to steal backups from Mandos so you could leave Valinor and go found a civilization -

Yeah.

Your dad's really cool.

He's amazing. 

Except for the part about being terrible at self-care.