[Voice]

[angelphones]

[There's no video this time, but Katsu sounds tired. Maybe that's why he hasn't turned it on?]

Messiah, noun. Etymology - Hebrew and Aramaic.

Definition one a - the expected king and deliverer of the Jews. Definition one b - Jesus.

Definition two - a professed or accepted leader of some hope or cause.

[He pauses, and there's the sound of a book being set down.]

There's a lot of ways you can take this definition, but most people take it to mean someone who will guide people to a better world. Sometimes it involves punishing the wicked, and sometimes it doesn't.

So, Vatheon. What would you expect someone like this to be like? What would you expect them to act like? And what would you expect them to do?

[The SFC remains on for a few moments longer, as if he's going to say something else, but then he shuts it off.]

Comments

voice;

[closedcircuit]

I would expect such a figure, if not Jesus, to be as Christ-like as possible. I believe that it is an easy thing for humans to want to punish the wicked, to grant them forgiveness is a higher task, something that a messiah would need to do.

As for what I would expect a Messiah to do....That depends a lot on what the world needs.

voice;

[angelphones]

[There's a tiny bit of a laugh at the first part, sorry.]

The Messiah in my world isn't Jesus. I've never met him. I didn't even really believe in angels or God until the week leading up to when I came here. I don't think anyone can deny their existence now.

But forgiving people... I'd like to do that. I would. But the angels are pretty insistent on the 'smiting the wicked' part.

voice;

[closedcircuit]

[Wait...what?]

You've met angels? Or just going based on what other people say?

voice;

[angelphones]

No, I've met them. They... oversee my role, I guess.

voice;

[closedcircuit]

I...see.

Well, I'm sure they know better than I do what the Lord's will is.

voice;

[angelphones]

[It's a good thing this isn't video, because there's just the most gentle of facepalms.]

I don't know it, either.

voice;

[closedcircuit]

You did say that the angels wanted...smiting.

I don't know.

It's hard for me to think that that's what God wants. Or that it's the purpose the Messiah would perform.

voice;

[angelphones]

I've never met God directly. I've only gotten instruction from them.

voice;

[closedcircuit]

But you are...certain?

That they're angels, I mean?

voice;

[angelphones]

... Yeah. If only for how much my brother hates them.

voice;

[closedcircuit]

I take it that there's a story there.

[But Ky's not asking what it is.]

I think that ultimately people have to do what feels right for them, with the understanding that they will be held to a moral standard in the end.

voice;

[angelphones]

Yeah, there is.

[He's. Not going to even go into it now.]

I'm trying. I'm doing what I can. I'm just afraid it won't be enough.

voice;

[closedcircuit]

I understand.

[Ky's certainly familiar with the feeling.]

You just have to hope that it will be.