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Would You Use A Crimson Behelit (Berserk)?

Muchomango

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One day you came across a blood red egg-like object with misshapen facial features. You being the nerd that you are, instantly recognized it as a crimson behelit from the manga Berserk. What would you do with it? Would you use it to become a demon lord or throw it away/destroy it? Or do you keep it in case you might need it in the future?
 
I would likely assume it is in fact a very well made fan replica, because random fictional objects don't suddenly appear in real life. Thus, I would either sell it online or more likely keep it on my dusty shelf where my knick knacks are.
 
It's not a question of whether you would or would not use it. A Crimson Beherit does not come to you by chance, it comes to you because it is the cause for an effect that will happen regardless of how you feel about it. Lock it away, bury it, throw it into the ocean, if the Egg of the King comes into your hand then you will, inevitably, crack it.
 
Ford Prefect said:
It's not a question of whether you would or would not use it. A Crimson Beherit does not come to you by chance, it comes to you because it is the cause for an effect that will happen regardless of how you feel about it. Lock it away, bury it, throw it into the ocean, if the Egg of the King comes into your hand then you will, inevitably, crack it.
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"From your perspective, this must seem like a 24-karat run of bad luck. But, the truth is? The game was rigged from the start."
 
Yes. Because fate/causality is going to arrange things for me to end up in a situation where I will be in the right mental place to see using it as the only real option I have left.
 
Ford Prefect said:
It's not a question of whether you would or would not use it. A Crimson Beherit does not come to you by chance, it comes to you because it is the cause for an effect that will happen regardless of how you feel about it. Lock it away, bury it, throw it into the ocean, if the Egg of the King comes into your hand then you will, inevitably, crack it.
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ZerbanDaGreat said:
I'd simply decide not to.
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I'd also choose not to, not out of unwillingness, but out of a stubborn desire to fate against freewill.

Yes, it might engineer a situation where I have no solution but to use it, but I bet my own stupidity is strong enough to ignore the solution on purposes.
 
Basically far as I can tell it's kind of, if you genuinely wouldn't use it, then it simply would not have come to you. The fact that you've got a Behelit means you are the guy who WILL use a Behelit, because otherwise it would not have picked you, stable time loop sort of thing.

I suspect I would not get picked, though. I have all the ambition of a pumpkin and I can't even bring myself to be mean to NPCs in videogames. I'm a terrible Behelit target, I'm much more likely to end up part of the poor bastards who get sacrificed for whoever does get it.
 
Evidence does indicate that it's possible to avoid completely going through with it with a regular Behelit at least (see: Black Swordsman arc); that same possibility might extend to a Crimson Behelit. Though it's also worth mentioning that even with this data point, it's the only instance we know of where it's happened, so it's probably unlikely that you'll fall into that particular category if you're the one chosen to use it.

Personally, I'd probably assume that I'm going to, one way or another, wind up being part of the Rube Goldberg machine that gets the Crimson Behelit to the person who would actually use it, until the moment that makes it clear to me that that is not the case, in this hypothetical.
 
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