drops of jupiter.

[redbellion]

[ so that was a lot, especially since it was keith’s first time coming face-to-face with a commander. he knows everyone must be tired and emotionally drained, but they have a lot of things they need to talk about. things that can’t wait to be sorted out. he has to collect his thoughts first, though--he’s not sure how to feel about this exactly, but he knows he’s feeling a lot of things. keith needs time to process everything, and he goes off to be alone for a little while.

eventually, michael, kayneth, ignis, camilla, and bucky bring over some food for the gang. it’s a much needed meal, and maybe some people want to eat in peace. unfortunately, keith is keith, and he thinks now is the best time to have a discussion. ]

Look, I know I’m not in the best position to say this, especially after how I acted back there. But unless anyone has any better ideas, we need to go to that lake and see the Guardian. We have to try. If that’s part of the solution to saving these people and going back home, then there’s really no other option.

[ he’s saying this with a calm head this time. he’s frustrated, clearly, but he’s speaking firmly and with nowhere near the same aggression he held earlier, back when he wanted to attack jupiter.

he doesn’t believe that he can be the leader anyone needs him to be. not here, not back at home. but it’s not going to stop him from trying to do what he feels is right. ]

And if we need someone to scope it out before we act, then I’ll do it.

Comments

[anythingforyou]

You make it sound like they're going to complain far more, the second they start gaining a concrete personality.

[eudaimonikos]

Well. A human dies, and then their soul exits their dimension - this one, for example - and comes to ours. Final calculation and judgement is almost always complete by then, so they just go directly to their final destination. The transition is a lot, so they're not really aware of the processing for the most part.

There's no traffic in the other direction for them. We're still aware of what's happening on Earth, but for humans, that's the end of it.

[anythingforyou]

[Alright, that's everything ready. Once Sena's finished...]

You can do it, Sena. Just take it slowly, this time, and fold the sugar in.

[redbellion]

Sort of. All I know is that you guys were able to negotiate with it, and you didn't need to engage in any kind of battle. [ ... ] Not sure how well that'll go over with this one, but I honestly wouldn't know.

[eudaimonikos]

I'm sure that if humans where I'm from could bio-engineer a deadly...melting virus, they would have already done it.

[Somebody would have, at least.]

We've actually got quite a few melting-related departments, so the concept's definitely out there.

[eudaimonikos]

It has to be, right? Your whole Pokemon farm idea really does have a lot of traction.

[bloodspent]

...The melting's just the first part. Sometimes people stop there and just wander around all disfigured, but usually the melting hardens over and makes this chrysalis that they break out of once they're done mutating into a fucking abomination. They end up all full of parasites that explode out of their spines and stuff.

We've also got these things that melted to the point of getting all skeletal and waxy. You break 'em apart and they just shove themselves back together. They can literally rip their limbs off and beat you with them and then just stick 'em back on, and the whole time they're making a fuckawful noise that your bird would fucking love.

[eudaimonikos]

...well, going to Hell is probably going to be a pretty easy transition for your world.

[He's not really taken aback by the descriptions themselves, because, well, but the fact that these things are just happening willy-nilly on Earth is a little yikes.]

What's even the point of that? Was it accidental, or did somebody just really want to kill their enemies very hard?

[eudaimonikos]

...that's fine, that's what that was for. You know this is going to be a nightmare for you if he gets much larger?

[Pray that Monferno doesn't evolve into a gorilla or something]

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

[God no. He doesn't even want to think about it.]

Hopefully, he'll have calmed down a little by then?

[Hahahaha.

No.]

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Alright...thanks...

[He takes the bowl back from her and starts gingerly mixing the batter again. Much more slowly this time.

Thank god.]

What do I do with it after?

[bloodspent]

It's how we fight wars.

[...So yeah, it's kind of the latter.]

Bioterrorists pretty much run the world nowadays. Most of the time they're just out to make money or raise hell, but we've had two genuine attempts at ending the world in the past four years.

[semistableman]

[That makes him laugh.]

It would be nice. Peaceful, too.

[semistableman]

You'd think.

I'm sure some of the locals have books on the subject, but that leads back into the problem about asking people anything.

[niceoppai]

Maybe it's not that bad if it's, like, common knowledge...? I dunno. I just keep thinking of how Angelica used to throw her weight around with that presidential authority she had if things got tough. It got pretty scary, pointing guns at people and all, but a whole heck of a lot of people were gonna die if we didn't get what we were looking for to stop it.

[eudaimonikos]

Gotta say, your world sounds like it's on its way out anyway.

[Kinda funny? Vaguely depressing? His newfound sympathies towards humans are once again conflicting with his general personality and sense of humor.]

There's only so much killing people need, you know, to be dead. Melting flesh abominations just sound like a PR stunt.

[bloodspent]

I didn't say they weren't sick fucks on top of, y'know. Trying to end everyone.

[He doesn't sound like he minds that first comment, at least.]

Pretty sure one of them was doing it on the logic that he was saving the world. Too many people treating each other like shit. Pretty sure there was pretty bad brainwashing involved with that guy.

[So yeah, he doesn't like this whole Team Galactic thing.]

[eudaimonikos]

Seems like a theme lately...

[God, who here doesn't have nasty history with brainwashing? Just him?]

At least it makes more sense in your world than here in the no-weapons, no-killing utopia. Still delusional, don't get me wrong.

[bloodspent]

Yeah. Kind of makes me wonder what Cyrus' deal is.

[Like, this shit doesn't happen in a vacuum.]

My world's a fucking mess, but at least people are still willing to fight for it. More of that human persistence or whatever. We're not just letting it go to shit; it's just in one of those stages where everything sucks for a while before it gets any better.

[eudaimonikos]

Maybe someone's Pokemon bit him when he was a kid.

[Well, that's more of a supervillain motivation than a real-person one. But then, if Cyrus didn't want people joking about him like that, shouldn'tve been a literal supervillain.]

Yeah, humans are like that. I hope you can work it out. Sounds a little rougher than my Earth's bad periods.

[bloodspent]

[That comment about Cyrus gets a bit of a snort out of him; don't want people talking shit, don't be an asshole.]

It's usually pretty livable. I've heard about scattered stuff here and there - bioterrorists and drug cartels going at each other in Brazil, some weird cult in Spain - but it's not usually all that bad. Hopefully the world-enders will sit the fuck down for a while.

[semistableman]

I figure a lot of it is common knowledge, to be honest. I still don't really want to go around asking people, not until they're able to decide what they want to talk about on their own.

[hyruglyphics]

[ She flinches at that. She... can't entirely disagree, but calling everyone a demon seems so - way too much, to her. But then, Michael is a demon so. ]

... Perhaps so.

[hyruglyphics]

No, just the opposite. [ ... ] I just had another role, and besides that never had the talent for it.

[enjoymyatelier]

Mostly names, really. I'm interested in seeing if that was a coincidence or not.