Week 1.

[azumods]

WEEK 1. As Cynthia had promised, the sun does indeed rise the next morning. Whether you slept or not (and sleeping inside the Pokémon Center you were in before seems totally fine by the attendant), it seems Cynthia kept her word; she left sometime shortly before sunrise, and you haven't been bothered by Team Galactic and those that work for it in the interim. It isn't advisable to return to the headquarters building, however. At least not for the time being. However, a new day does dawn, and with it comes the knowledge that you're in an unfamiliar city, completely on your own. There are several things to be done before you can leave: gathering supplies and provisions, finding maps, obtaining new clothes... Of course, your new "companions" are still with you, and they don't seem willing to leave your side; they'll follow you dutifully, but they still seem...wrong, horribly so, and it doesn't seem to be wearing off. Maybe if you work with them a little...? Try to talk to them, train them, teach them to do things... Who knows? It might do them some good. CURRENT LOCATION: VEILSTONE CITY POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week one of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend! Feel free to investigate the city as you see fit this week; we ask only that you try to stagger investigations and be mindful of what's already been checked. If you wish to investigate, notify the mods in your comment subject for your top-level and we'll get on it as soon as possible!]

Comments

[hyruglyphics]

[ She isn't sure what to say to that. Perhaps she should encourage him that's the case still? But she does only barely know him. She was only giving her first impressions. Her hands coil around themselves at her chest, and she bows her head a moment, ]

... I'm sorry, I interrupted your story. [ . . . ] In short, would it mean that you didn't feel those people were deserving of that punishment?

[ The idea of punishment for dead people is just... that's cruel. It's needlessly cruel. ]

[eudaimonikos]

To make a long story short, yes. The humans I was with - no matter what happened to them, they always banded together and worked to better themselves, to overcome the flaws that brought them to me in the first place. They wanted to help me improve myself, and I was literally only there to torture them.

After I started thinking about it, at first I thought it was just a mistake with them, and that they should have gone to the Good Place after all, but I realized: humans just have this incredible ability to grow. How can we possibly condemn so many of them for eternity over just the first eighty years or so of their existence? [He shakes his head.] It's nonsense.

[hyruglyphics]

[ How foreign. It's so foreign, but at the same time, it's a very valid conclusion to make. Even the likes of say, the Yiga Clan - if the Yiga had repented and broken from their alliance to Ganon, they would have been welcomed back into the Sheikah. Or so she likes to believe. She listens intently to the man's admission, though acutely aware they had only recently met. She smiles at the end though, tightly but... ]

I agree that it sounds unjust, especially where souls continue to be awake after death.

[eudaimonikos]

I'd just brought a case against it in the eternal court before all of this started. Hopefully Janet can handle it okay on her own. Things don’t move very fast on immortal time, I think I might still be able to make it back before it’s over.

[hyruglyphics]

[ Oh... ]

I am sorry that you... left right in the middle of something so important. No one's life deserves to be interrupted, of course, but... it still seems more stressful.

[eudaimonikos]

Just a little.

[He smiles, but it's pretty hollow.]

But I'm sure we were all in the middle of something.

[hyruglyphics]

Something, yes. Though I at least have the fortune of knowing my greatest task lies behind me.

[ . . . Said the teenager. ]

[eudaimonikos]

Really? [aren't you like twelve] What was that?

[hyruglyphics]

That I played my part to defeat the Calamity that plagued Hyrule.

[ It's said with an earnest, genuine smile. She's still... so proud of Link and so pleased she did her part. ]

[eudaimonikos]

The demon-possessed disaster man? What happened with that?

[hyruglyphics]

I was able to fulfill my destiny, and seal away the darkness, once Link and the others had defeated him.

[eudaimonikos]

That sounds impressive. Must've been, if there were a bunch of demons involved. A mortal going toe-to-toe with immortals usually doesn't go so well.

[hyruglyphics]

[ It was a long, long time coming but... mm. ]

It truly was. Link's battle was ... he was incredibly valiant.

[eudaimonikos]

[He meant the compliment for you, actually, but]

Link?

[hyruglyphics]

Link is my friend - and the chosen hero to inherit the Master Sword.

[ She nods and strokes Beldum some more, looking affectionate. ] It was he who faced the Calamity's true form with sword and shield.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, more destiny stuff?

[either he's not aware of how that last comment bothered her, or he's just generally insensitive. maybe both.]

[hyruglyphics]

That's right... it was he who was the chosen wielder of that sword, and has succeeded in every way.