"Yes, ours neither, didn't even get to see him die."

"But if we figure out how to affect adjacency I'll kill every one we run into no problem, all I need is a nice dinner and not an army of automata."

"Hear hear."

"Apparently you've got four Silmarils? That might actually do the trick."

"Yeah. I beat her to it but she did make four, leaned on psionic computation for it."

"I'm having a hard time imagining my father as a girl but I guess if everything else is also switched-"

"Everybody mentioned over the course of an hourlong conversation, anyway."

"And the - social expectations associated with gender, are those switched too -'

"I suppose? In the sense that there are queens regnant and their husbands are less politically relevant? I mostly found that a sidenote to everyone doing without roles."

"I wonder if the swappage is enough to curb the referring-to-alts-in-first-person habit, imagine how silly it'd sound if you said 'my father' about a woman."

"We're still going to call her 'a Fëanor', on some level that's just as silly - how did she cope with her, um, mother getting killed -"

"Not well. Loki might have generic resurrection before eclipsed figure it out, it's been perennially insoluble on my world."

"But no half-dying from grief and asking all of us to swear to a vengeance quest forever, that's something."

"Yeah, dodged that bullet, that sounds like a mess."

"Those are the mes therapy doesn't help. Past a point."

"But mine'll be okay?"

"Oh, she'll be fine - how detailed an answer do you want -"

"More than that, anyway."

"Actually, do we have a solution for the thinking it's real part, if she hasn't sworn anything to notice free will if she gets it...?"

"I am guessing her Sauron had a harder time of that in the first place, with the lucid dreams and the memory refreshes. Also they could get married and unmarried - if you're willing to, Isabella - it's pretty distinctive -"

"I don't think any psions have picked up anything to do with Elf marriages - well, any who are still alive, one of the kids was eighty percent of the way to figuring out magic soul divorce before he got killed - or is there a way to do it same-sex on the standard architecture? -"

"We can resurrect the kids, but yes to the standard architecture - it's expectation controlled, you get married whenever doing anything which either party expects will result in a marriage, my husband and I are married without any extradimensional magic at all."

"Congratulations. Uh, after Boots is done with her how much is this still going to involve feeling like I'm very evil, ballpark."

"...it's entirely fine to just tell mes to stop making their loved ones miserable, you know, and then we'll do that - after Boots is done she won't internally have panic attacks if you touch her but unless you have told her to stop making you miserable she is unlikely to express enthusiasm about getting married for an Elf while."

"Told her not to lie to me, instead."