HAYAME ➳ PLEROMA (VOICE)

[warmare]

[One member of Pleroma has intentionally avoided Communion for months, but now... perhaps it can actually be of use. Now, she actually requires something that she cannot accomplish through strength or stubbornness alone, so-

A hard, cold voice barely comes through, mixed with an inexperienced jumble of vague (violent, dark) images until the words solidify as:]

Who amongst you has the ability to write?

I require a posting for the Achamite heads.

[OOC: please be warned there will be (cw: beheading) in this post]

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[hippocarnival]

A--achamite like... the guards? Heads?

[...]

WHY?!

[warmare]

What do you mean “why”?

When you fell an enemy in battle, you take their head. It is that simple.

[hippocarnival]

No, you don't have to do that at all? [He about to say she doesn't have to kill then, but stops short because he doesn't actually know who was the aggressor and they are sort of in the middle of trying to save other people from dying.

Even if he hates the idea.] Seriously, it's their heads! What are you even going to do with them?!

[warmare]

Display them to strike fear into the hearts of their fellow Achamites. It is obvious.

[was he... stupid... ?]

[hippocarnival]

Okay, but--that's not--you don't--[BREATHE. Try not to think about the heads.]

You know, some people are already afraid of us just for being Aions. You don't need to... do that to make them afraid. Knowing you'll kill them is... enough?

[warmare]

You think that is enough? If they were sufficiently afraid of us, they would not stomp around these cities like they own them and try to take their people in the night.

[hippocarnival]

... But... the Regent kind of does own them? [That's kind of the whole problem in Horos.] I want to stop what they're doing to. But I don't think trying to scare them with... with their friend's heads is going to work. It's just going to be scary and cruel for everyone else.

[warmare]

Plenty of people who are owned throw off their shackles. They run. They sabotage from within. They kill themselves rather than suffer the indignity.

They have options.

[hippocarnival]

[... Yeah, he does know that. Remembers that fire in Kurosaki, and Yuto. Actually, heads aside, that's where he's seen this drive before. In Kurosaki.

So there's, in the discomfort, a sort of understanding.

But seriously the heads.] So maybe after we save the people of Venera who were already speaking up, we can encourage everyone else to believe enough in fighting back? When they know they're not alone? But, like, without making everyone have to look at heads?

[warmare]

Feel free to use your time playing hero in Venera all you want. Inspire the populace.

I won't stop you.

In fact, the heads of their enemies might even help you in that goal.

[hippocarnival]

... There's no way of talking you out of this, is there? [He doesn't want to terrify the people of Venera, which is exactly what he expects their weird behavior to do.]

[warmare]

I have yet to hear a convincing reason not to.

And since this Pleroma has no one leader... I also have no orders not to.

Do you presume to?

[hippocarnival]

No, I wasn't trying to order you... [He was just kind of hoping he might be able to reason with her because heads are. A lot.]

[warmare]

Then unless you have something useful to say, you may go.