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Aion Teleos NPCs ([personal profile] aionpcs) wrote in [community profile] aionchat2022-07-10 02:52 pm
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THE REGENT'S ADDRESS [OPEN TO ALL]

[It comes on fast, once the Regent has your spirit in their hold. Around you, you may see other Aions stumble in the same moment, as if shaken by the same tectonic motion. An inexorable darkness claws at your senses, and you have only a few moments, hard fought, to reposition yourself so that you don't simply drop to the ground when it overtakes you. It has similarities to Communion, to the way another entity's thoughts and words reach out to your mind, but by the same token it's entirely foreign.

This presence is not like another person, it is like a raging, screaming cacophony that drowns out everything else in its path. Whether you be Kenoma or Pleroma, the Regent's presence in this metaphysical realm is staggering. To the Pleroma, though, it also feels caustic, as if the movement of their aura is enough to erode your own, with time.

Gradually, a new world forms. Unlike other Communions, where you are ultimately grounded in reality, here you can been dragged to what seems to be its own distinct psychic realm. A vast, void-filled courtroom, where only the throne at its front has a defined form. Around you, you see shadows of other people, other Aions, that have summoned along with you... but for the moment they seem spectral and unclear, their identities obscured by the realm's aggressive focus on its master.

The Regent sits at their throne, their body swathed in dark fabrics that drift and flutter like smoke. They have no face to be seen, only a faceted silver mask, without any markings or the barest indication of what might be beneath it. Their size is indistinct, maybe a bit taller than you are. They at first sit reclined, but straight up as their 'guests' arrive.]


It's been a long time coming, my subjects.

[At first, they are the only one that can be heard. Though you feel as if you have some physical presence here, a shadowy body of your own, if you attempt to speak no sound emerges.]

To the Pleroma: well done surviving thus far. Granted, I feel as if my Kenoma have made things easy for you. How strange, that most of you were allowed to wander a city within my empire without recourse. Able to summon that wretched creature to your side, even.

I hope you've enjoyed yourself, in the time you've had, because this will be no more. You've spread your infection in Venera, in Godsblood, and it is only necessary that these wounds be cleansed by the touch of the Kenoma. Your presence gives the people ideas... ideas that would disrupt the fragile peace they've come to enjoy, after so many years of suffering. As a kindness, I will only trim the vine, rather than burn the vineyard. What Venerans have taken up your cause, I will see shorn from my empire. And in Godsblood... an example will be made, as of the Sovereign's moon.

My Kenoma will do this for me. Fight them, if you want. But know that I am no longer asking for your fealty. I am demanding it.

[As if opening their court for questions, you will find yourself more able to act. Those that speak or take action will find their physical forms taking shape, standing in the court as people rather than shadows. If you want to question the Regent, now is the time to do so.

OOC: This post is a free for all! We will try to response as the Regent to people who directly engage with them, but you are also allowed to threadjack and interact with each other if you like. Please note that we will not be responding to tag ins done later than the 12th.]
vapour: (pic#15097146)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
We are going to wait for the moon?

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coerthantorment: (135)

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[As soon as the force preventing them from speaking or acting is released, Estinien already knows what he's going to do. He's furious at the Regent's presence and words, revolted by the way they speak of what happened in Venera. He already knows this may be futile, but he has to at least try.

Though this space is seemingly nonliteral, Estinien summons up his draconic power, leaping into the air. He aims a Stardiver attack directly at the Regent's form. No matter what happens, he refuses to have been said to have tolerated their intrusion.]

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hundredpower: (178)

[personal profile] hundredpower 2022-07-10 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Barnaby feels a tight anger in his chest, but ever the professional, he appears perfectly calm as he speaks up.]

Then we'll await your further orders until then. Who will be made an example of in Godsblood?

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locumstudentesquire: (GRRR BARK BARK)

[personal profile] locumstudentesquire 2022-07-10 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[As pacifistic as he is, as reluctant as he has been to condemn the Kenoma simply on the basis of their alliance? Ryunosuke has no such compunction regarding the Regent.

The whole experience of being pulled in here is terrifying, of course. That this... Entity has the power to force them into a mindscape like this, with the receiving parties not even needing to remove their shards as one would require to participate in a normal Communion? That must take a great deal of power. And then, to not only pull that off, but to make it impossible for any of them to speak or act as well?

He's scared. Of course he's scared. The thing about Ryunosuke, though, is that in dire situations such as this, his self-righteous anger will almost always outweigh his fear. Indeed, he chafes against the restrictions placed on him, against the Regent's very presence, as any Pleroma would, but he perhaps even makes things even harder on himself than he needs to, seething viciously under this imposed state of inaction.

He bursts out at the first opportunity he's given, calling out the Regent directly:]


You--! You torment these people, treat the citizens of Horos in this... This despicable manner! These people who you claim to have authority over, to be protecting... What entitles you to do ANY of this?! What gives you the right!?

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youngprodigy: (∄ speak up)

[personal profile] youngprodigy 2022-07-10 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

I refuse to have anything to do with this tyranny.

[Venera's Aion was an Artisan. He won't stand idly back.]

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lachtara: (Reproach)

[personal profile] lachtara 2022-07-10 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Though the summons is somewhat jarring in its haste, he gathers himself within a few brief moments. It's enough to come to terms with the current state of being and look around to see many more indistinct presences gathered here. Much more than the Kenoma are in number. After the words are spoken and the forms take shape are his suspicions realized.

Oh For the ABSOLUTE Love of-

The scowl that crosses his face is thick with exasperation and for a moment he pinches the bridge of his nose with his fingers. Something can be said for the boldness of this but something quite different can be said about telling the adversary of the exact intent of when to execute plans and give them time to react. Just how many strategic advantages did they seem intent on squandering?

And then the other Kenoma start asking questions of the when and where. Yes, give the Pleroma all the information on their intended targets too, why not.

And then to the Regent, with a voice coached to be calm, "Is there room to ask questions outside of such a public fora," He flicks a hand sharply to the rest. "As it seems we have rather vociferous guests."
vapour: (ujty)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That was the entire point, Emet-Selch. Since the Regent decided to do this in the first place, no reason to go halvesies, as far as Childe's concerned.

Giving you the middle finger Grandpa, he totally knows what you're getting at with that emphasis on outside. >:C
Edited 2022-07-10 20:11 (UTC)

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semicharmed: (spells in the dark)

here for all your aion thread-hoppity needs

[personal profile] semicharmed 2022-07-10 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Call Matt an idiot if you will, but he thought they were here to remake the universe. What does fragile peace have to do with anything? Wouldn't even a robust peace be fragile because of how it all has to end ASAP? He supposes it makes sense to demand the Pleromas' fealty in the sense that their power could really be helpful, but the framing of this is all so ... political.

Here in the realm of communion, it doesn't seem entirely safe to have stray thoughts. Matt works to smother the sub rosa as soon as it arises: This isn't what I signed up for. This isn't what I signed up for--

He's gone very still in his mind, like the Regent is some kind of terrible lizard who won't see him if he doesn't move. That said, you know when someone's trying so hard not to be noticed that they actually become more conspicuous? Fellows Aions may catch him briefly taking on color and delineation before he fades back into shadow. ]
vapour: (pic#15154906)

sorry

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This is bad, knock it off, please.
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[personal profile] subsist 2022-07-10 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this experience is just as unnerving as the time the regent reached through his mind for a more accurate account of what happened at venera. he doesn't have anything to say for the longest time despite the questions he has. it makes sense that the regent won't give out more specific instructions, because why give the pleroma that information, but then &dmdash;

why summon them here at all? ]


... Ah.

[ another possibility crops up in his head. perhaps this is just another way to hit two birds with one stone. ]

Duly noted, Your Excellency. I'm sure our guests appreciate the fair warning.

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[personal profile] snakeandfangs 2022-07-10 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Get tw---

[ he doesn't even think. his fingers go to his hood and he lowers it, ready to let that command out, the first two syllables as loud as he can make them. all he can feel is red hot anger at this sudden intrusive act of drawing everyone into the same place. he can feel his throat already burning, toge ready to do what he has to cripple the shadowy figure in front of them all.

but it's simply recognizing figures around him that causes him to stop, cover his mouth before he goes any further. so all he can do is bristle, stare daggers at the regent, wish that he could do something without causing collateral damage, and pull his hood back up. ]


... bonito flakes.

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vivificantem: (074. goodness and mercy all my days)

i'm so sorry about him

[personal profile] vivificantem 2022-07-10 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Paul says something eventually, the words passionate but not cruel; there's no true vitriol behind them, it just is what it is, and what it is happens to be something he has a lot of feelings about.]

You of the Pleroma act as though your presence isn't the reason that we're doing this to begin with. As though your existence and your influence aren't rendering this necessary.

The more you resist the pull of the Kenoma, the longer your suffering will be prolonged. The longer the suffering of these people you claim to care for will be prolonged. We wish to quell their suffering. I don't find this concept difficult. The peace that you've found here is only temporary compared to the eternal solace that awaits you at the end of days.

You're short-sighted. I do not fault you for this, and I do not hate you for this. But your suffering, and the suffering of all those here, will only cease once you understand, fully.

[And then to the Regent:]

May it be done according to your will.
locumstudentesquire: (FIERCE)

Re: i'm so sorry about him

[personal profile] locumstudentesquire 2022-07-10 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ryu's not normally quite this confrontational, but the whole situation has him just, SO aggro.]

THAT-- [he points, dramatically,] is complete and absolute poppycock!

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[personal profile] recursive 2022-07-10 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
( a thrill of trepidation lances up yuuta's spine, intrinsic and instinctual. the greatest evil he'd ever personally faced was getou suguru, a curse user bent on excising the "mundane" mass of humanity from the world so sorcerers could rule. but in the end, he had just been a man — finally seeing them, the Regent...

feels like something else entirely.

one thing in their address stands out to him, causing his brow to crease in confusion. the young man's voice rises when he finds a time to do so: )


...What do you mean, "summon?"

( it had seemed to him like they had known even less of what was going on by the time they arrived in venera as the Kenoma had. and he had talked with toge about the entity that those of the Innocent legacy had spoken to... as well as learned what he could about what had happened when it had manifested again, toward the end of their time there. he isn't under the impression that it has been at their beck and call for any of these instances... )

We were just as in the dark about what was happening as everyone else seemed to be.

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goldendeceiver: (one perfect partner)

[personal profile] goldendeceiver 2022-07-10 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ How is it that even traveling to another world, this kind of nonsense still happens? No matter where you go megalomaniacs with a thirst for power will gladly stomp across innocent civilians with reckless abandon as long as it gets them what they want.

Damn... and here he thought he'd left the ideology of the True Bolívarian army behind him.

His face is blank throughout the Regent's tirade of threats, and it's only when the Regent is done speaking that his lips twist up in an ironic, agitated looking smile.
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Demanding it, huh? Even after working so hard to ensure we'll want to do the opposite of joining up with you?

[ The smile drops off his face, and his usually breezy tone disappears as his voice lowers. ]

Which you had to know when you called us here to tell us this plan in advance. So what's the real one? To lure us out in the open by using your own citizens as targets, and take us out for good?
vapour: (pic#15040731)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ cool, this is exactly what Childe wanted to say but didn't feel like getting bitchslapped by the Regent for making them look bad.

Thank you for doing this.
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[The whole address is a series of ups and downs, overwhelming to take in all the details. That shadowy figure leaping and taking form, the previously concerned and alarmed Estinien now as quick to attack as several of the others had cautioned... the ease with which the Regent brushes it off, exactly as Undyne hadn't. Alphys bites her lip for at that, biting back tears.

It sounds like the Regent doesn't distinguish between the Aions sworn to the Pleroma, and the entity of stagnation itself, which... She has to, because they really do sound so concerned and well-intentioned in their ignorance, it's hard to see them as enemies. At least Father Paul says it clearly enough that maybe some of them will stop... Except, well.]


D-Do we really have to... invite them to fight us? [She can barely make eye contact, such as it is with the Regent's mask, and wrings her hands together.] I mean, it's already, um, hard enough? If they'd just surrender, we could make things better, so much faster...!

[Not to whine, she's trying to take this announcement of upcoming difficult missions seriously. But she's whining a bit here.]

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dragonmount: (🔆 099.)

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[ the first chance he gets, he opens himself to the One Power.

it isn't easy. the regent's assault on his soul, just by existing, the summons like hooks dragging his consciousness into this place, makes concentration hard. but as he solidifies in this space, he remembers instructions from a man — a creature — he's compared to the regent once, twice, a thousand times; he empties himself of emotion, and he fills himself with the Light.

not to do anything. not yet. but he draws on as much as he can, because the simple act of holding onto the Power makes him feel better protected from the howling darkness radiating off the regent. he feels safer, whether or not he really is. it'll be a problem when they're returned (if they're returned) (no, he can't think that), because safely releasing the Power without channeling isn't a skill he's very good at yet, but — that's for the future. ]


Do you really think getting rid of us will stop people from getting ideas? Wasn't it you who brought us here, or was that another one of your lies? [ now's as good a time as any to ask, but the question is pitched skeptically. ] Loyalty is earned. You can demand nothing, from them or from us.

[ his voice is deceptively steady, for how much his heart is hammering. ]

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[Yuya doesn't speak up at first, in part due to the horror of the Regent's threat. But he does listen, to the Regent, and to everyone who speaks up before him.

And he... understands, a little better than he'd like to, the Regent's stance. But that's a line of thinking he swore he wouldn't follow again. And he hates the idea that some of the people directly hurt by the Regent are supporting it.]


Is it... really other people's suffering you're doing this for, or just your own?

[He couldn't see the people around him when he was drowning under that kind of miasma. Not really.]

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[ Howl recovers from the shock of this 'invitation' relatively quickly. There's something distinctly familiar about the roar of this darkness, the way it overwhelms the mind, and while Howl is just as susceptible to it as everyone else, it comes as much less of a jarring surprise.

He watches everything unfold around him — Estinien's predictable attempt at the Regent, the shouts of anger and disapproval from the Pleroma Aions as they find themselves before the Regent for the first time, the sense of annoyance that some of his fellow Kenomas express at the Regent's decision to do all this — in silence. Internally, a heavy emptiness starts to weigh on him. He knows that this means war — finally, the war is beginning, and things are going to get bad.

And that... is fine. It does not trouble him. He has no objections, nor is he particularly excited. It's what the Regent wants, and so, he must do it. No other course of action makes sense.

Still, Howl is acutely aware of the fact that this is the first time he's seen or spoken to the Regent since his flagrant disrespect of them several months ago. During a lapse in the drama, he takes a step forward, puts a hand to his chest, and bows at the waist. As is usual when Howl feels like he has nothing to say for himself, he says nothing, relying instead on the meager physical gesture to say what he doesn't have the courage to try to express.
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[ The pageantry of it all is delightful, actually. Demanding fealty, even! It's almost like being back home. The Regent, for all that Akua disagrees with laying waste to the entirety of the universe -- sorry, Regent -- she can really appreciate some good, old fashioned, Speeches.

In fact, she's surprised nothing bad happens during the entire thing -- nobody attacks the Regent, nobody miraculously breaks free to threaten them -- and the threat is very real, certainly she knows better than to take it lightly, or disregard it. No, they are serious, and a serious threat wrapped in trappings like this should be addressed with all seriousness.

When she speaks, it's pure Praesi -- or even more accurately: Calamity. The Regent threatens key targets for the Pleroma, yes, but there is often collateral, in large wars like this, it's to be expected.
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Perhaps, Regent, you could offer... [ Hands spread, golden eyes fixated on the veiled entity. ] A reason, for why a world -- all worlds should be "cleansed", as you so described.

[ The Sovereign doesn't shift, but she defers in tone. Unlike most of the Pleroma, perhaps, she doesn't see the Regent as doing any more than anyone in their position would. ]

For some of us who arrived later, we have little explanation, as to why we should accept such a fate. I understand there may be no compromise, and yet... I would at least ask for a...reason, to consider destroying all that lay in this world -- and beyond.

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inutilis: (✞ quiet observations.)

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[ Abel's presence is a quiet one among the uproarious back-and-forth between his fellow Aions and the Regent alike. it isn't until things have tapered down, calmed some, the priest speaks from his place of observation. ]

Is this really who you are...?

[ whether he addresses the Regent or the Kenoma is unclear - perhaps, in the end, it's both.

is this who you truly are? is this truly where you stand?

...can you look him in the eye and say it, unflinching? ]

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[ Everyone's so upset, huh? Of course, Silco appreciates the posturing -- because of course he does. Not only is it exactly the way to make a threat serious, if one makes a threat, and then backs it up, but also, it mentioned the Innocent, and Silco's eyes narrowed, even locked in his seat, flicked towards those that he knew were housing It.

Oh, yes. He wanted to rid that thing in particular, from the world.

After a lull in the conversation, almost lazily, he doesn't even get up. If only he had a cigar to really complete the entire picture.
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Who would have thought that things would eventually escalate? [ He says, with mock surprise, a hand to his mouth. ]

If the...vines didn't want to be "trimmed", perhaps they shouldn't have accepted the rot, hm? You all can hardly be mad now that the Regent has decided to do something about it.
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[ Somehow, the flamboyant wizard is not enjoying all this posturing, Silco's glee included. Jeez, the old man looks like a kid who's just caught a few notes of an ice cream truck jingling by.

Even so, what he's saying is entirely true. Howl puts a hand on his hip as he glances at him.
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Come now, you can hardly blame them for getting comfortable. It has been a few months...

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[personal profile] dragon_rider 2022-07-10 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hiccup's quiet at first — The whirling sensation of being there, in this presence, it takes a moment to gather himself. He listens intently to the words, brows furrowing. For a young man who's often come to respect his enemies, nothing in the Regents words is something he can respect. Even if that small shallow of his heart had agreed with some of it back then — in that people hurt each other and suffer all the time. He still doesn't disagree there.

He's seen it over-and-over again and fought against it each time. But this is different, goes back and not forward, and if there was any will to understand the Regent's thoughts before it recoils naturally as they proceed. As he listens and tells himself what his father once said: Mad men can't be reasoned with. If it's war they want it's war they'll get. ]


Sorry about that, I'm not very interested in taking orders I don't agree with.

[ He breathes out, a hang swinging out in a wide-motioned shrug as he adds: ] Why bring us all here if you're going to blame us on it? You have that power right? So you're choosing to make all of these people suffer for what — so you can force people to play soldiers for you? To make your people suffer?

I was taught that a leader protects their own. So what, where does that put you?
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[personal profile] lifespanned 2022-07-10 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
So that's it... everyone's going to see it happen, now.

[ Great minds think alike, or so she thinks; Misa believes in the benefit of announcing someone's death and killing them publicly, to instill fear and prevent others from rising up. From her point of view, the Pleroma are fine to continue being in opposition to the Regent, so long as they don't make trouble, like the people in Venera apparently have. They're in the wrong, simple as that. As a result, she seems to have little sympathy for the entire matter, remaining quite calm among the outbursts being had around the courtroom. Actually, her eyes track those who make the biggest outbursts, privately thinking to herself that those are the people she should consider her biggest enemies.

An announcement like this is just a given, in order to make a statement, so she doesn't show a reaction of surprise or disgust— it's one of acceptance. ]


If it's both there and there... pretty soon, everyone in Horos will hear about it. Kinda scary.

[ "Will hear" about it, said as if there's no question that the execution and the "trimming" will happen. One gets the impression 'scary' is used here to mean 'scary good,' and not 'frightening.' ]

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[ startling and disorienting is what this is - he's spoken to several people via Communion, even those on "the other side," but it hasn't felt like this before, like he's been snatched out of his own body. If it weren't for the familiar - if shadowy - presences around him, he may have panicked. But Johnny manages to hold himself together. As it is, he's simply on guard, looking towards the front. Towards the Regent. Watching Estinien be tossed aside like a doll, watching the others take stances for and against what's going on...

Fuck. He's reminded of how much this has nothing to do with him. He doesn't want people to die, sure, but he still feels this is someone else's fight. The Regent, faceless and unfazed, is as vague and unrelatable as everything else in this world; the only difference is that he can feel their very existence clashing with his own. It's almost like when someone else's Stand strikes Tusk, though the sensation isn't explicitly painful. ]


... So you're the guy in charge. [ the bad guy or the good guy? he doesn't really know or care. but he does have a lot of questions. ] Why'd you have to involve all of us in this...? If you're so powerful, can't you just rewrite your own existence?

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[personal profile] fightforthejoyofit 2022-07-11 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Well. This is all terribly familiar.

Zenos is not sure what he expected from the Regent - what he's been able to glean has been filtered through the fear or scorn or admiration of the other Kenoma, and so needed to be taken with not so much a grain of salt as an entire boulder, revealing more about his comrades than their leader themselves - but quoting more-or-less verbatim from his own playbook was not it. He is not used to feeling Understood - Himeka has tried, but comes at it from malms in the opposite direction; this seems to issue from ilms away, if that. Granted, the parts about Relieving Suffering are very much not his wheelhouse (he has never concerned himself with the welfare of cattle, and has no intention of trying to do so now) and he bristles a little at the term My Kenoma (were he at all given to empathy, he might wonder if this is how the likes of Yotsuyu's brute felt next to him) but the rest - how one might stoke hatred and cultivate nemeses? The assertion that might makes right? The refusal to be anything but themself? That he knows, and the artistry of it is beautiful, the way a new blade or a hithertoo-unseen beast is beautiful.

He is not sure if he wishes to fight for the Regent or with them (the line between kindred and rival has always been more of a rust-red smear where he's concerned, hasn't it?) but either way his blood sings more than a little. Himeka's challenge does not help matters in the slightest, much as it pleases him to see that whatever happened in Venera does not seem to have dulled her spirits.

At first he simply observes, nothing both the Pleroma most vociferous in their objections and the Kenoma most adamant in their support. Special attention is given to those who've already expressed a hunger to kill - the likes of Rin, Childe and Majorita - wondering if that hunger remains, or if they will balk now. Whatever happens it seems a fight is at this point inevitable, and that, at least, is an uncomplicatedly joyous prospect. Probably.]


So it is to be war in truth [he says, to nobody in particular]
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[personal profile] lachtara 2022-07-11 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Perhaps it may be overlooked - although it is not entirely with the intent of making a point to be seen - but Emet-Selch gives an assessing look in Zenos' direction. He is mildly curious about what this could bring. ]

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[personal profile] passio 2022-07-11 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ dextera is accustomed to this. having his mind invaded, being berated, and having a fight decided for him. of course he’ll push back against the regent—of course he will, because he can’t abide a legitimate declaration of war.

but it’s impossible for him to deny the regent in person. their callous charisma is all too like the archangel, which is precisely what he feared. his stomach twists, and he can only keep his head down and mumble. ]


You’re just like him…

[ in the regent’s presence—the massive draw on their minds and emotions that conjured them all here—dextera finds himself capable of speech. as quiet as he is nonetheless, there’s a mix of emotion in the answer. fear, anger… and pity. deep down, dextera believes the regent is like the archangel, and must have suffered greatly to inflict that suffering on others now. ]

But he was wrong… you must be, too…

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[Hayame has considered what she would do if she met this so-called Regent countless times since she awoke naked and weak as a foal in a hell that others called a shrine. She has fantasized about the sound her arrows would make punching through armor, the way bones might crunch beneath her hooves. But that had been a dream of meeting a physical being in a place that is real, and this-

This is magic, dark and foreign and something she still hasn't been able to master or even bring herself to accept, even as it happens around her. Some of the few people she was bound to by debt are rendered mute and useless with mere flicks of fingers. The shadowy being claims responsibility for the death of the worlds, her world, and all she can do-

Is stand there, shaking with rage. If she doesn't have rage, then it will be fear, and she can't- She cannot show this thing fear. She had not cared at all who was Pleroma and who was Kenoma until this moment, and now... She cannot show this thing or its servants fear, because in a matter of sentences they have become "enemy" instead.

And a warrior- a warrior cannot let their enemies have anything. Not their fear, not their blood, not their heads. (Or in this place...shards.) If her world is gone, then she has nothing but revenge to stop her knees from trembling. And revenge must have targets.

So Hayame doesn't speak at all.

Instead, she stares. She stares at every single aion in the court that bows to or speaks deferentially to the Regent... and it isn't a look that demands answers, explanations, or apologies.

It's memorization. Every silhouette, every shade of hair, every turn of joint, every eye color, every hint of scar or defining mark.

Everything she'll need to try and hunt them down like dogs in the streets once they leave this realm of magic and shadows and return to one where her strength might actually mean something.]
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