TO: EVERYONE [mid-event #20]

[aquaveiled]

[ 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. ]

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[aquaveiled]

[ The weight of that is not lost on Himeka. To see something to life-shattering, to do whatever you could and watch the worst happen regardless...it would be hard not to blame yourself, even if the task itself might have been nigh impossible. Does Nebula? ]

That must have been difficult, to say the least.

For so much to be lost...no matter how had you tried.

I'm sorry.

[furibund]

[ She does blame herself, but not in that way. If Thanos hadn't managed to capture her he wouldn't know that Gamora (and thus she) knew where the Soul Stone was. He wouldn't have killed her sister. Even if that sister lives now, but in a different way, their relationship wouldn't be changed. ]


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.

[aquaveiled]

Even if you hadn't explained, I would have believed you. I had a feeling you've been through a lot, but I had no idea it would be that.

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.

[furibund]

[ "You're a very strong person, Nebula," Himeka says and she wants to laugh. Some part of her, that deliberate and angry side of her says of course I'm strong. It's the side that knows better, that blames herself for every thing that happened - for every wrong doing she committed - that disagrees. If she was strong then she'd have been able to withstand it (and what? die? that, she knew, would have always been the result of defying their father). And he would have succeeded without her. ]

[ 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.

[aquaveiled]

Or misplaced empathy?

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.

[furibund]

[ Nebula doesn't want to agree with the first part - she really and truly doesn't. But she knows her father. For everything he did, he truly thought he was doing the right thing for all.

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.

[aquaveiled]

[ Nebula is frank as always, but even then, Himeka doesn't believe that these memories are easy to relieve no matter how she portrays them. To have a father like that leads some enlightenment to why she is as she is--more closed off, more serious. ]

Thank you for sharing.

[ The least she can do is acknowledge it. ]