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Entry tags:
- altaïr ibn-la'ahad; the magician,
- annabeth chase; the high priestess,
- astarion ancunín; the wheel of fortune,
- cidolfus telamon; the hanged man,
- dion lesage; the emperor,
- edward teach; the devil,
- himeka sui; the fool,
- julia wicker; the tower,
- julie lawry; the wheel of fortune,
- kaveh; the star,
- kyle; the hanged man,
- nebula; death,
- thancred waters; strength,
- zoya nazyalensky; strength
TO: EVERYONE [mid-event #20]
[ This message is sent for all Summoned to see about a week after the dreams and Heralds made their presence known. ]
Hello everyone. I know we're all dealing with a lot right now, but I thought this was worth the surprise eyeball-script.
The Heralds of War likely need no introduction at this point, but some of us still remember when they first arrived a few years ago after a poorly performed ritual in Solvunn. During that time, I'd managed to make contact with Koth and have tried to maintain some communication.
[ Not necessarily advised--Himeka did this of her own accord and curiosity. Those who are aware of her tree-form may have noticed that some of the limbs have been wilting and rotting the more time she's spent reaching out to Koth. But that's neither here nor there. ]
She's not always easy to understand, but when we spoke when they first appeared, one word came through:
"Mission"
For years my friends and I have been wondering what this meant. Now that she's back, I sought clarity. Or...I guess confirmation.
I understand her more easily these days so I reached out to her earlier today and she did confirm that this is that mission. What's happening right now in all of our communities. I'm not sure if war itself is inevitable...but she seems to believe that what she's doing will help there to be peace afterwards.
I know many here have seen war in their own lives and on their own stars before this place. If you'd like to share your stories, I would welcome them. I don't think peace is ever as simple as we want it to be, but as for if this is the only path forward...
I'm rambling a bit. This may not be a grand revelation, but I thought it important to share that what is happening now may have been building for the last few years and mayhaps some time before that as well. Only now, we may have a part to play.
Please take care,
水
[ ooc; This is Himeka's interpretation! So it may not be 100% accurate. Based on the mod response here. ]
Hello everyone. I know we're all dealing with a lot right now, but I thought this was worth the surprise eyeball-script.
The Heralds of War likely need no introduction at this point, but some of us still remember when they first arrived a few years ago after a poorly performed ritual in Solvunn. During that time, I'd managed to make contact with Koth and have tried to maintain some communication.
[ Not necessarily advised--Himeka did this of her own accord and curiosity. Those who are aware of her tree-form may have noticed that some of the limbs have been wilting and rotting the more time she's spent reaching out to Koth. But that's neither here nor there. ]
She's not always easy to understand, but when we spoke when they first appeared, one word came through:
"Mission"
For years my friends and I have been wondering what this meant. Now that she's back, I sought clarity. Or...I guess confirmation.
I understand her more easily these days so I reached out to her earlier today and she did confirm that this is that mission. What's happening right now in all of our communities. I'm not sure if war itself is inevitable...but she seems to believe that what she's doing will help there to be peace afterwards.
I know many here have seen war in their own lives and on their own stars before this place. If you'd like to share your stories, I would welcome them. I don't think peace is ever as simple as we want it to be, but as for if this is the only path forward...
I'm rambling a bit. This may not be a grand revelation, but I thought it important to share that what is happening now may have been building for the last few years and mayhaps some time before that as well. Only now, we may have a part to play.
Please take care,
水
[ ooc; This is Himeka's interpretation! So it may not be 100% accurate. Based on the mod response here. ]
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I refuse to believe it is inevitable.
They are not the first to think their way for peace is the only way.
They will not be the last - they call themselves just or gods. Doesn't matter. They're just cruel.
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If anything, she would have been a welcome ally in many of the wars Himeka herself had taken part in. ]
I'm glad you think so. I've never liked the thought of fate. It's much better that we get to define ourselves and our futures.
What I've wondered about the gods here is how THEY have developed. On my star, there are god-like creatures called Primals that manifest with worship and devotion as the embodiment of the will of their worshipers.
After what happened to us a few moons ago... I can't shake that there is some of that that comes into play.
[ Himeka can still vividly remember what it had been like to change, to draw the life out of the very landscape beneath her. The famine she inflicted because a few were angry with their neighbors. The desire for revenge and to hurt had been enough to shift her gift of bounty to that of endless hunger for herself and naught for anything else.
Is that the same for these gods? ]
Fighting a god is much easier than swaying a nation of people, after all.
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[ But she's tried to become better. As she does now. As she listens to Himeka, because she can't ignore that she cares about her. That she wants to trust her - though she hasn't said as much. Trust is the most fragile gift in the universe, afterall, and the most easily made into a weapon. ]
Fighting a god means only one person has to die.
[ Biting humor and then: ]
There are many variations of gods in our universe. Annoyingly so. I wouldn't claim to know how they are all made or what influences them.
Planets. Born. Created. Self-made. Most of them act the same.
Whatever their purpose is becomes the only thing that matters. My father was among them.
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That's the hope.
[ Even if by that point usually too many people have died to said god, but...details. ]
Wait, do you mean that gods have created planets or that gods ARE the planets themselves?
Your father? Was a god?
[ Was. PAST-tense, that doesn't escape her. ]
Re: priiiivate 8ever
[ Totally normal things... to just make your homebase a corpse. NBD. ]
He would call himself a god. For all intents and purposes he wielded enough power to be one.
He called his purpose in life to bring balance to the universe.
He'd stop at nothing to accomplish it and that's exactly what he did.
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[ It does conjure up a few ideas in her head. The Endsinger, for one, though there's no real reason for it.
As always, Nebula leaves no room for subtleties, yet Himeka can tell there are many more things going unsaid. She gets right to the point--power, even with the "best" of intentions, can lead down a very different path.
Himeka can only imagine what it must have been like to grow up under someone like that. ]
What did he believe would bring balance...?
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[ As was the case with Peter's dad but she.... Doesn't want to think on it more.
Or maybe logicking mcu gods is a headache. ]Destroying half of all life in every corner of the universe.
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[ As always, she seems to think such things are possible. If only a matter of time.
Which is a fanciful thought that is stopped at it's onset as soon as Nebula describes her father's plan. Much too like the Endsinger. ]
He thought that there were too many living things...?
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[ And also was a shit dad to Family so he's dead and he'll die again if they ever saw him again (probably). Needless to say, from her too frank response, Nebula doesn't really take too kindly to them - but then.
This is simply who Nebula is. It's why she doesn't miss a beat to continue, even when the statement is apalling: ]
Yes.
If you were to hear him tell it, he's a savior. His civilization failed to listen to his great plan to rescue it from extinction, so he decided the rest of the universe would have to listen.
At first, he built an army and grew in power. He took that army to different worlds facing their own troubles and picked people at random. Old, young, sick, healthy, poor, or rich - no one was above it and it was always half. He'd leave children parentless and take the strong ones to make as soldiers in his crusade.
[ There's a pause then, as if she considers what to say. As if there's more to say. But either Himeka will get it, or she won't, and she continues: ]
He worked tirelessly, planet after planet. Until he accumulated the power he needed and was able to do it all at once. Half of everything, wiped out with a snap of a finger.
Through to the end he believed what he was doing was right and just. That the universe would be thankful for the salvation, when they saw he was right.
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[ Himeka isn't too fond of being eaten...and it would also undo everything that she and her friends did to stop the universe from dying out. Which is what doubly makes it very concerning what Nebula's father was trying.
Half of all life...it's like a Calamity but so, so much worse. So personal, taking apart worlds one by one. Families. Children. They always make the perfect little molds, don't they? She's seen it.
Himeka has an inkling, but she doesn't ask. Not yet. ]
And you had to watch this happen?
We had a series of Calamities on my star, when there would be a joining of worlds and ours would lose so many. That, too, was ultimately the work of people trying to save their world, but to be able to do that to the universe is...
I'm not sure I can really put my mind around it.
Was anyone thankful?
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[ You can almost hear the humor - the biting agreement. Being eaten would make things more inconvenient. ]
I didn't just watch. I tried to stop it -We tried to stop it.
We failed.
[ And she lost her sister, but this much she does not say. Even if she still feels it in her heart. She presses on because a Gamora still exists and all Gamora are her sister- this one just didn't remember all the things they went through. ]
And no. They weren't. Lives were upended. Governments in disarray. It caused more issues than he would have ever liked to admit.
There are still issues we're trying to fix.
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That must have been difficult, to say the least.
For so much to be lost...no matter how had you tried.
I'm sorry.
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It happened.
And it took years, but we restored it.
Don't apologize. Just forgive me if I don't trust any being who claims that destruction is balance and goes for the throats of those too weak to stop them.
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You're a very strong person, Nebula.
The Endsinger thought something similar, although she wanted to end all life as we know it to save us from the pain of existence.
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[ She ignores it, because if she doesn't ignore it she'll say something wrong. Though neither does she feel she earns Himeka's belief. ]
The pain of existence.
[ She repeats it, half-scoffing in realtime. ]
It's always something like that.
Like they know best in their greatness.
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I can understand it to a degree. For those who life itself becomes much too hard to bare, the alternative must seem better. Kinder.
That's why we need people who want to make the universe a place for everyone. So people needn't want that alternative.
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That's what made it all even worse. In his warped sense of right and wrong, what he did he truly thought to help everyone. There was no malice.
It makes her stomach churn. She almost doesn't respond. Finally, she does respond, with
one single word that probably has too many meanings to declare and hopefully Himeka can gleam them all: ]
Yes.
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Thank you for sharing.
[ The least she can do is acknowledge it. ]