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Entry tags:
- coco: héctor rivera,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- hollow knight: the knight,
- hyper light drifter: the drifter,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- mass effect: legion,
- original: mira delacroix,
- pokemon sun & moon: guzma,
- pokemon sun & moon: luna,
- undertale: asgore dreemurr,
- undertale: chara dreemurr,
- voltron: keith kogane,
- ✖ no.6: shion,
- ✖ original: nari reno,
- ✖ pokemon sun & moon: lillie,
- ✖ undertale: muffet,
- ✖ voltron: hunk,
- ✖ voltron: pidge gunderson
August Aftermath: Plants Solidify Sunshine
AUGUST AFTERMATH: OVERGROWTH
Who: Everyone
What: You're back, for better or worse
When: August 19th and onward
Where: The Storyteller's Temple on Ensō, and anywhere else
Warnings: Please mark as you go!
What: You're back, for better or worse
When: August 19th and onward
Where: The Storyteller's Temple on Ensō, and anywhere else
Warnings: Please mark as you go!
Optimism Doesn't Change the Facts
By the end of the 17th, the last of those suffering from the Overgrowth have either pulled through or succumbed entirely. For the next two days, their bodies will decompose and the flowers will feed on their remains, flourishing into bright patches of color.
If you perished and choked on your flowery words, never fear. Come the 19th, you will be stirring awake in the Storyteller's Temple. You will be experiencing a few...side effects, as it happens, while your body readjusts. It will take something like a week for those symptoms to disperse, though the Storyteller isn't around to inform you of this.
What is around? Aside from your own freshly revived selves, there are a great deal of flowers, and all of them are sickeningly familiar. Scarlet gladiolus. Blushing dog rose. Soft yellow buttercups. Garnet-colored geraniums. Dark nodules of fly orchids. Rich violets. Periwinkle hydrangeas. Peppered yellow speckles of goldenrod. Jade green zinnias. Red spears of snapdragons. Pale begonias. Pink spangles of mountain laurel.
Don't be concerned. These ones certainly aren't going to be spreading to your flesh anytime soon.
By the end of the 17th, the last of those suffering from the Overgrowth have either pulled through or succumbed entirely. For the next two days, their bodies will decompose and the flowers will feed on their remains, flourishing into bright patches of color.
If you perished and choked on your flowery words, never fear. Come the 19th, you will be stirring awake in the Storyteller's Temple. You will be experiencing a few...side effects, as it happens, while your body readjusts. It will take something like a week for those symptoms to disperse, though the Storyteller isn't around to inform you of this.
What is around? Aside from your own freshly revived selves, there are a great deal of flowers, and all of them are sickeningly familiar. Scarlet gladiolus. Blushing dog rose. Soft yellow buttercups. Garnet-colored geraniums. Dark nodules of fly orchids. Rich violets. Periwinkle hydrangeas. Peppered yellow speckles of goldenrod. Jade green zinnias. Red spears of snapdragons. Pale begonias. Pink spangles of mountain laurel.
Don't be concerned. These ones certainly aren't going to be spreading to your flesh anytime soon.
If your character died during this event, please let us know if you have not already. Death penalties have been reduced for this event, but we still need to account for them!
( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )
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"They'll have the world they desire, and my objective will be complete." A half-second before he realises.
"Oh, that's right.... you wondered why I was important. Now you know that, too." More or less, anyway. He didn't explain Adam, but does it really matter?
No.
"It's all part of Lilim's design, in the end."
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That it works they can accept. That it was an efficient, ethical, or optimized plan they are unsure of.
However, their knowledge of the situation is limited: judgement is likely to be erroneous.
"However, we asked if you desire this."
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"....you keep asking me that. Why? It's not even your world. It has nothing to do with you."
Or your humans, for that matter.
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Legion remains calm, seemingly nonreactive.
It is their nature to ask questions such as this, to concern themselves with such things.
CW fatalism
"Do you think I should? Lilith, the usurper who took the world from Adam.... maybe I should want to take it back?"
But he doesn't. Why would he? He still dies. No matter whose Impact, whose vision of God... whose definition of 'life'... it's not an earth he'll inhabit. So why should he care?
"Truthfully, I don't care either way... whether or not they get what they want. The future has already been read. If there was something else I wanted, maybe... but there's nothing like that."
His is a practical fatalism. But what would he even want?
No. If it's a life with no future, then ending it is kinder. In this, he is the same as any animal.
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They headtilt. The why goes unspoken.
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"Humans are compelled to understand the world by their minds, because of the Fruit of Knowledge... which I do not have. And they experience feelings like longing, loneliness, and love... because they are prevented from truly understanding each other, and so suffer from their hearts. It is a contradictory, confusing existence... but they continue to struggle because they need each other, even if they can never open their souls to each other." He pauses, searching for the language to use. It's... difficult. He isn't meant for this.
"Without others, Lilim is incomplete."
A lonely little piece of a vast whole, a singular Angel comprising billions of parts.
He, however, is one whole unto himself, and his only other part is... the body of Adam itself. Reunion with it, however, would be the death of Kaworu Nagisa, the death of Tabris.
Third Impact.
That's not something he wants either, so there's really nothing.
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Especially about something like this.
"Yes."
They stare at Kaworu for some time, headflaps rippling.
"However, separation is not the sole source of desire."
The Reapers were perfect and complete, and they still desired: their desire was the destruction of organic life, the completion of a vast and unknowable cycle that had been going on for longer than many planets had been lifebearing.
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Their place, taken by Lilim and by Lilith, the usurper.
But...
He doesn't care whose planet it is or whose planet it becomes.
It all ends the same way no matter what he does.
So it was written in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and so it will be.
His brow furrows slightly, his smile again vanishes.
"The source of desire is pain," Kaworu replies. "If pain comes from lack, then what Lilim lacks is completion."
Ergo, Lilim's wants stem from that suffering. What does Adamkind lack?
What does he lack?
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Not that Legion contests it: the goal of the Geth, after all, was to ensure that no Geth had to endure the pain of separation.
They do not possess sufficient understanding of organics to speak authoritatively on their desires.
"Do you experience pain?"
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"This hurts," he says simply. "That's why I want it to stop."
Where are you going with this, Legion?
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Admittedly, this is obvious, given that Kaworu just stated that he desires for the flowers to stop.
Speaking of flowers...
"They grow in response to dishonesty. It is as we told another: your perceptions do not match reality."
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That gets a strong reaction. Strong for Kaworu, anyway; he lifts his hands, staring with incomprehension at the deep green bud in its bed of dark arterial blood.
His perceptions do not match reality.
His brows crease.
If Legion is patient enough, several actual minutes will pass like this, as Kaworu works his way through the big, decidedly Lilim-calibre question. His perceptions do not match reality. His perceptions... do not match reality. His perceptions do not match... reality.
A human would probably have a much less difficult time determining the problem; Kaworu takes several minutes to decide the problem might be his perception of reality. At which point it is necessary to understand reality... the power of the Fruit of Knowledge. What is he supposed to do? He has a brief sensation of something that might be called 'unfairness.'
When he speaks, he doesn't look up.
"What is reality?" He's asking an extremely literal question.
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...
This is a difficult question.
"There are many possible answers to this question. The projections of higher dimensions. A persistent illusion. That which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away."
They could attempt to explain the nature of the universe and the forces that interact to create it. They could also explain how the world perceived is actually a result of how the brain perceives these interactions, and not how things actually are.
"None of them are relevant to the current situation. The reality you fail to understand is your own: judging by this conversation, it is likely you possess a desire of which you are unaware."
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"I want something I'm not aware of?"
That sounds... unlikely. How could he want without awareness?
That's... the human condition. How could he have found himself there? It didn't make sense. Had he been manipulated into it? Was this part of SEELE's design? He doesn't like it. He doesn't like any part of it. If it's even true.
He wants out.
...
Wait.
"..... I think I understand."
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Legion tilts their head curiously.