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caughtinanetwork2012-04-27 05:04 pm
fistfullofmagic) wrote in caughtinanetwork2012-04-27 05:04 pm
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[For some, sleep is where they retreat when the world just becomes too much to deal with. Alas, ‘tis not a perfect retreat.
Upon falling asleep, Dhaos is not greeted with the fare that is usually associated with dreams. Instead, he sees a vaulted ceiling; very old, and very familiar. On the edges of his vision, four faces are visible. Terror sparks within him when he realizes what he’s lying in. He tries to bolt, only to find that he’s paralyzed.
NO!
His words too seem trapped in his throat. A heavy grinding noise sounds as a great stone lid is sealed over him. He wants to cry, scream, bang his fists against the lid, anything to escape that small dark prison.]
[Then the scene dissolves into white. For a moment, all is still and silent. And then, the faint sound of chimes. …Or perhaps it’s water? Slowly but surely, blue overtakes the white until the two meet at the horizon. Then the image sharpens and the blue transforms into the many tiers of a vast sluice. In the center of one of the many pools, a figure in black and red hovers just above the water. The world shifts again, the figure now in focus, surrounded by azure butterflies that seem to glow from within. Stillness again for a time, the only sound the ever present chimes. Then, Dhaos begins to sing.]
Face to the sea
I hear the wind
Calling me to truth
Close your eyes
And dream beneath
The warmth of skies of blue
Longing to rest my weary bones
So long the path
O be still my soul
[When he wakes, the covers are in complete disarray and his face is wet with tears. He lays there unmoving for quite some time.]
((OOC: Both dreams are interactive, so whether you decide to interfere or bother him about it after he wakes up, just specify which part you’re responding to. The song Dhaos sings is the first verse of “Starry Moonlit Night” from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. The game is also the inspiration for most of the second dream.))
Upon falling asleep, Dhaos is not greeted with the fare that is usually associated with dreams. Instead, he sees a vaulted ceiling; very old, and very familiar. On the edges of his vision, four faces are visible. Terror sparks within him when he realizes what he’s lying in. He tries to bolt, only to find that he’s paralyzed.
NO!
His words too seem trapped in his throat. A heavy grinding noise sounds as a great stone lid is sealed over him. He wants to cry, scream, bang his fists against the lid, anything to escape that small dark prison.]
[Then the scene dissolves into white. For a moment, all is still and silent. And then, the faint sound of chimes. …Or perhaps it’s water? Slowly but surely, blue overtakes the white until the two meet at the horizon. Then the image sharpens and the blue transforms into the many tiers of a vast sluice. In the center of one of the many pools, a figure in black and red hovers just above the water. The world shifts again, the figure now in focus, surrounded by azure butterflies that seem to glow from within. Stillness again for a time, the only sound the ever present chimes. Then, Dhaos begins to sing.]
Face to the sea
I hear the wind
Calling me to truth
Close your eyes
And dream beneath
The warmth of skies of blue
Longing to rest my weary bones
So long the path
O be still my soul
[When he wakes, the covers are in complete disarray and his face is wet with tears. He lays there unmoving for quite some time.]
((OOC: Both dreams are interactive, so whether you decide to interfere or bother him about it after he wakes up, just specify which part you’re responding to. The song Dhaos sings is the first verse of “Starry Moonlit Night” from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. The game is also the inspiration for most of the second dream.))
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...I am neither a demon, nor am I yet a king. To be more accurate, my people call themselves Angels. While I have indeed caused many lives to be lost, the humans I fought against took many more of their own with the very weapons I sought to prevent them from completing. I regret this. And yet...I would do it all again if it meant my people would be saved.
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[The rest of it... Ky's been a soldier and a commander, and he can understand some, perhaps. But the religious thoughts...]
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Arrogant...? Are the descendents of Angels not Angels as well? Do you not need to borrow power from the gods to use healing magic on your world?
...Personally, I have spoken to one referred to as a goddess though, if that is what you ask.
[The concept of there being one supreme power is lost on Dhaos.]
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It is arrogant to call yourself an Angel when you no more travel with the grace of God than do the rest of us. Perhaps less.
[Speaking with "a goddess" doesn't help Ky's opinion, not at all.]
So you blaspheme twice instead of once. Do you have a defense of your words and actions to offer?
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...I don't follow. Who is this "God" of whom you speak? Why is it arrogant to refer to ourselves by the name we were given thousands of years ago? How have I blasphemed?
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And because Angels are different creatures, immortal and existing to serve His will.
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Ah. So you believe him the way Lady Martel was once regarded then. A falsehood manufactured around the memory of a kind woman, though I suppose she is not entirely dissimilar to a goddess in her current form.
It is for that same religion that the first few generations of Angels were made from Half-elves. I...suppose we keep the name because even though only the original generation is essentially immortal, we are no longer quite the same as Half-elves.
[Poor guy has no idea that he's making the entire situation look worse from Ky's point of view.]
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God is no myth, no illusion, and to claim otherwise shows that you are inadequately informed of the facts. At best. He is the Creator and Ruler of the universe, who has formed us and guided us.
To worship "Lady Martel" as any sort of goddess is blasphemous and only shows that you have no respect for what you should.
[Ky's hand is at his sword, a sharp warning that he remembers what they said about him being a Demon King.]
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And if this nameless god of yours is indeed guiding all as you say, why is it that wherever I go, people are making the same mistakes? Why is it that people refuse to head my words, even label me as a demon out of fear of my power, when all I ask is peace? Why is it that he has allowed over one hundred-fifty thousand of my people to be killed with one shot of a terrible weapon, for my home planet to begin to disintegrate because of that weapon? And tell me, why is it that on the one planet that I find that has the Mana Seed I need to save my home, some fools who refused to listen to my warnings build the same weapon that caused my need for a Mana Seed in the first place; for no particular reason I might add. Why should I trust in one who clearly cares nothing for my people?
[By the time he finishes, his voice is cold as a winter's night in the Antarctic.]
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Because when He created us He gave us free will. It's that which gives us the power to make our own decision and bear our own consequences. Yes, this means that we have the also deal with the choices that other people make, and sometimes their choices aren't beneficial to anyone, are in fact wrong, but it's only due to that which we can find redemption.
The people who built that weapon will be punished, in the end, and your people will be rewarded for the good that they have done.
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[He growls slightly.]
I can't believe in such a being on principle. If the coral's power isn't harnessed just so, I will be dead as soon as I leave this world, and with me dies my people's last hope of survival.
[Dhaos vanishes, only to reappear behind Ky.]
I refuse to believe he exists, for if he would allow the slow, agonizing deaths of a planet and everything on it... I could not but hate him.
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Of course He is. He's all-knowing and benevolent. Just because you can't see what will happen doesn't mean that everything is chaos. We can all be redeemed, and why wouldn't you want to consider the fact that they may not have died in vain, and that their deaths weren't the ends for them?
Believing in God gives you both a reason to be moral and a reason to continue to fight for what you know is right. It lets you have hope!
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...It is a fool thing to follow a king who will not descend from his throne to walk amongst those he calls his people.
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Your god has given no indication of his existence to us. ...And yet here you are, speaking as if your way of thinking is the only correct way. Judging me when you know so little of me, of my people... of all that I've done, everything I have endured, that I've sacrificed to spare as many of them as I can from a slow and painful death! And no matter what any god might offer for, nothing is worth that sort of suffering!
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...And you refer to me as the arrogant one, for all that from my standpoint I see nothing but a boy who has not outgrown the idea that his view of the world is the only correct one.
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