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lifenet2019-05-20 08:55 pm
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Entry tags:
- blue exorcist: yukio okumura,
- coco: héctor rivera,
- dear evan hansen: connor murphy,
- final fantasy ix: zidane tribal,
- final fantasy xv: ardyn izunia,
- final fantasy xv: ignis scientia,
- hyper light drifter: the drifter,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- marvel: bucky barnes,
- mass effect: legion,
- mushi-shi: ginko,
- npc: the storyteller,
- original: erika fisher,
- resident evil: albert wesker,
- the adventure zone: kravitz,
- the good place: michael,
- undertale: asgore dreemurr,
- ✖ guilty gear: faust,
- ✖ kamen rider: sakuya tachibana,
- ✖ magnus archives: jonathan sims,
- ✖ overwatch: genji shimada,
- ✖ red dead redemption: arthur morgan,
- ✖ red vs. blue: agent texas,
- ✖ the adventure zone: lup,
- ✖ wings of fire: starflight
May Event: Lost in Translation
MAY EVENT: LOST IN TRANSLATION
I Have No Words
Feel free to use this post as an event catch-all for any misfires, island-wide broadcasts, or glitching Stone shenanigans you'd like your characters to get up to! Remember that the Stones of Farspeech do not currently have a texting feature...but that doesn't mean the screen they use to display Caller I.D. can't display text, on occasion. Bear in mind that this screen is small and therefore has limited display options.
If you have any questions, feel free to look over our OOC event post here, and ask any questions as needed!
( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )
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[Despite Michael starting to speak faster in an effort to not get cut off, he's cut off by a woman's voice.]
You've been torturing us! And lying about it!
Now, let's not get caught up on who lied to whom, or which one of us created an entire fake reality in order to cause eternal misery to the others. That's ancient history.
[Another man chimes in:] It was happening until twenty seconds ago!
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[Boy, don't those responses kind of make him wonder, though.]
If it helps any, I'm a firm believer that even the worst of 'people' can change for the better. You were certainly worried about harming others if you lost your memories after the volcano erupted. That is proof of change even if you were doing it for selfish reasons. It sounds like old you wouldn't have even bothered.
[Look, he's in love with his world's one and only Apocalypse. He has little room or wish to condemn someone for the past, especially when they are trying to or have already changed for the better.
Granted, changing for the better is a longer climb for some than others.]
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[sorry, you lost him halfway through the last one]
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Memory Interruption Thre--no it's Four now. Temptation to slam my crystal against the closest rock rising. I'm not certain it will do any good, but it will make me feel better.
I have to admit I am curious as to what a 'time cube' is and how exactly one puts a person into it, but I suspect I will have better luck getting the answer if I go talk to Michael in person than if we continue this way. Note to self: should probably mention that messing with people's memories is bad, but I have a feeling he already knows that.
[If these memories are all going to be reports of some sort, Ignis is going to share a report of his own. It's either that or go insane and Ardyn's already got the title of being the insane one in their duo.]
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I'm sorry, I shouldn't be laughing. How do I explain this? I'm basically an exterminator, and you're cockroaches. My job was to squish you, and poison you, and yet somehow, my very survival now depends on you, the cockroaches, agreeing to help me. That's funny.
We're cockroaches to you?
Yeah. Or dung beetles. I dunno, something small and gross that creeps on the ground in its own filth. Just being honest.
[Meanwhile, Michael In Real Life has similarly decided to just go and physically find Ignis! But he never found out which islet the guy lives on, even if he knew whether he was home or not, so he's just sort of...wandering aimlessly. At least it makes him feel like he's doing something?]
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[And then 'Michael' suggests a dung beetle, and well, Ignis doesn't know what one of those are, but they certainly don't sound like they have many redeeming qualities.]
Or that. Yes, I suppose there is that.
[He sighs and then he tries one last thing to salvage this conversation, because him searching blindly is literally him searching blindly.]
Michael, if you can hear me and are near a mana pool, go to the first islet. I'll be outside of the cottage straight out from the mana pool. Look for the one with all the improvements around it. It's hard to miss.
[Gladio was busy before he was sent away.]
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But hey, Michael turns and heads in the direction provided! It's for the best, not like Ignis could see him from a distance anyway...although, when he sees him, Michael instinctively raises a hand to wave.]
Oh, Ignis!
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[Ignis unceremoniously dumps his crystal into a nearby basket, just barely catching the mention of the spider. It's probably a good thing Michael wasn't in charge of daemon creation back on Eos. Arachne are bad enough already without having multiple heads and being able to fly.
He does get bonus points for creativity though.
With a smile, Ignis greets Michael. He might not be able to see Michael's wave, but he still gives one in return.]
It's good to hear you and not some memory. Would you like to sit?
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[Michael's a little distracted by now being able to actually hear what's going on with the other stone. Boy, that's gotta be from a thousand years ago.]
Have you considered burying that in the woods?
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[Then fire. Then ice... He has a whole list.]
Would it be better if I tossed it into the cottage where you can't hear it?
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[Although he is still not the biggest fan.]
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[Ignis gives the crystal a dirty look, one remarkably strong for a man who cannot see.]
If it's any consolation, I'm not going to demand an explanation if you don't want to give it. I'd be a hypocrite of the highest order if I gave one person who did similar things a second chance and did not give you that same chance.
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[Not like this, at least. Hearing people he tortured before Everything is...different. It was bad. He knows that now, and he regrets doing it, but mostly in a sort of academic sense. He doesn't feel the same keen, stomach-churning guilt that he's felt over hurting his friends, even if he never really harmed them physically. He can talk about it.
Maybe that's a failing in him. It seems like it must be. But if the time ever comes when he can help those people too, he'll do whatever he needs to then.]
I'm a demon. Torturing dead humans is sort of our entire thing. Seems like enough humans have stories about us that it's barely a secret anyway, unless I start lying about my entire species. But I don't do that now, and I'm...well, I'm working on reducing the torture, at least. [Ugh, it sounds shitty when he puts it like that.] Stopping it altogether would be nice, but there's already a good chance I'll die doing this, that's sort of a later-down-the-road thing.
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'Interesting' is certainly one way to describe it. 'Dangerous' is another, much like trying to change a system from the inside is, as it sounds like you are trying to do.
Eos is different from what you describe, from what most people describe, really. We don't have beings such as yourself. Our daemons don't care about torture. They just wish to kill and destroy. The process that creates them generally strips away the ability to think rationally.
[Ardyn being the one exception to that rule, though he would most certainly argue about how rational his thought processes are,]
From what I have hear most worlds that have demons as you describe yourself also have angels. Is this the case for yours too?
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[Ardyn is...he doesn't dislike the man on principle, but he doesn't much trust him. And it's unnerving, having seen how a human can be altered that way. Michael's glad that can't happen back home.]
We've got angels. Fat lot of good they've done anyone.
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Yes, thanks to Bahamut's' meddlesome ways Ardyn would be the main reason why my life is so interesting.
[And dangerous, though oddly enough, he doesn't sound upset about this.]
I would say your angels might be equivalent to our messengers, but our messengers are actually quite helpful, if sometimes cryptic in the way they deliver their messages.
[Thanks Gentiana. How is it that the dogs are clearer in their intentions than you are most times?]
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Wonderful. They sound like glorified bureaucrats.
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Meanwhile, all the humans are still getting tortured that entire time!
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[That's probably blasphemy, isn't it? Oh well, it's not like Eos has angels anyway.]
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[Although you can tell just from the way he says it that Michael doesn't totally hate the idea.]
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The thing about humans is, when they find out a groups of beings are screwing them over? They generally change their minds about how much they like them very quickly. I bet if someone let them see just how useless those angels are, they would change their tunes very quickly.
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[And even Michael can't, genuinely, find an argument for literal torture being all that morally good. Killing, sure - Chidi would balk at that, but not Michael, not if it saved the humans. Torture, though, goes a little farther than just removing a threat.]
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[That really doesn't sound like a good combination, especially if said person has never actually had reason to put all those years of morality study to real life use.]
He's never been tempered by the harshness of reality either, has he?
[He gets the impression this Chidi would probably have an aneurysm if he knew the kinds of things that Ignis has had to do in the name of survival. Morality sometimes has to come in second or lower when lives are on the line.]
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[He probably needs to go to therapy or something.]
He did almost die one time! Would've died, but I went back in the timeline and turned it into a near miss. He got a little better for a while after that. [And then, eh.]
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