AO Page 194
Posted October 15, 2025 at 1:38 pm

I have always enjoyed Cezar's company, in spite of his "Cezarness". Or, perhaps because of it?

With most other demons I find myself thinking how to best them. How they will try and best me. In the labs I must jealously guard my findings lest they be used for another's advancement. 

But with Cezar... I do not know. If he was simply incompetent, I would have never desired his friendship. There are demons like that, who cannot climb and sink to the bottom. They would drag others down with them out of a desire for mutual destruction.

But I have always had a strong sense that Cezar COULD climb. Climb extremely high, yet he chooses not to. He does not begrudge others their advancement.

An obvious tell I am surprised others overlook is his near constant use of energy. He uses it to float casually, he manipulates it with extreme dexterity, and even in his eyes you can always see it right beneath the surface. He does not have a large pool of it, yet he uses it freely and expertly.

I have never had the ability to store a large amount of energy and have learned to use what I have with refinement. Perhaps that is why I see so keenly how skilled he is, seemingly without thought or effort.

Is he a savant? I think there is more there. But I can tell he is happiest when I do not pry, and so to me, he is simply Cezar.


-Scrambles scientific notation journal, written in a side column labeled (Friendship Thoughts)

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