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Texts From Last Night - Folkmore Edition

TEXTS FROM LAST NIGHT


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TEXTS FROM LAST NIGHT GENERATOR

necrosavior: (= making a face)

[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-03 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
One run by foxes...
dreamsofwings: (36)

[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-03 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ RIGHT OBVIOUSLY, ya boy is slow on the uptake here. ]

With the people who have animal heads. It's hard to believe this is a real place at all.
necrosavior: (mood; curious)

[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-03 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I've chosen to go with 'why not?' People are growing tails and wings and horns. Why not a whole ass other head. If that's their jam, it's not like staring into a giant bird face is doing me any harm.
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-04 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
I guess so. Did this kind of thing happen where you come from?

[ She seems so fine with it. Eren is mostly fine with it too, even if it's hard to believe it's real, but that's because he doesn't have normal reactions to things anymore, it's fine. ]
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[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-04 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh, less furry, more bone-y. Definitely weird as fuck.
Heck, I got turned into a skeleteon *here*
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-04 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Bone-y. So there were weird powers where you're from.

There are weird powers where I'm from, but it's not universal. People with the potential to be titans are hated by the rest of the world.


[ Is he going to provide context for whatever that sentence meant? NOPE ]

Are you still a skeleton now then??
necrosavior: (= making a face)

[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-04 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Weird is probably going too far. It's all about what you know, right? If these hotdog stands were manned by skeletons, I wouldn't blink.

1) What's a titan?
2) What do you mean potential?
3) Hated why?????

That only lasted like a day. I'm back to my buffer self and still have great bone structure.
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-04 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess so. It's only weird from the outside.

[ He thinks it's weird, but he has literally zero room to judge "weird" powers. ]

Titans are giant man eating monsters.

[ He's not selling a case for why they shouldn't be feared, here. Please learn to be more descriptive, Eren. ]

Anyone that is part of my bloodline can potentially turn into a titan. But it isn't automatic or guaranteed and most people can't control it. There's only a few people who can control it, and one titan power that can control other titans.

[ He makes no secret that he can turn into a titan; it's something that's probably easy to find out, considering how quick he is to jump into battle. ]

Thousands of years ago, titans were used to conquer people. But that war ended a century ago. Now the rest of the world hates us, even though they've been oppressing us for generations, locking people up, using them to fight in their wars. It's bullshit.
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[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-05 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the end of that shitty war. To be clear, is the oppressing/locking/using part of that war or the last century? Trying to follow along, but it's a little like coming into a comic at the end of a run.

Pssst, are you the super cool titan? The one titan to rule them all? I'm at least betting you're not 'most people.'

Maybe it's just me, your stuff doesn't sound that weird.
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-05 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
It's at least the past 100 years, the way the rest of the world treats us.

Where I come from, we were all forced to forget history. We thought we were the only people in the world and that all of humanity had died 100 years before. But Eldians, the people who can become titans, the ones who weren't trapped on our island were treated like shit or like canon fodder.

So the end of that war wasn't what I'd call a good ending.


[ He might have some SUPER WEIRD BIAS here, but you know! ]

But war is hell so living without war isn't exactly bad either. Still it's hard to forgive people who take away freedom from others.

[ He's aware that this is hypocritical; he'll take away freedom from anyone who comes for him or the people he loves, but he figures anyone would. That's just human nature, right? ]

No I'm not most people. But I'm not some kind of king or ruler either and I don't want to be. I can't use the power of the Founding Titan either.

[ This is somewhat misleading; he has the power of the Founding Titan, he just can't use it without help. But again, he's not exactly bothering to explain everything with nuance. ]

It's not weird to you? I wonder if you'd think that if you saw it in person, someone turn into a titan.
necrosavior: (action; flex (killing it))

[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-05 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
A real shit festival. Shitty war. Shitty peace. Limited shitty details. I don’t have a leg to stand on for what your world needs. Not there. Don’t know. Can’t do squat.

Is… that why you’re here? IME here sounds better.

At risk of talking out my ass, I’d guess it’s a bit meatier / less bony. Otherwise, no, doesn’t seem weird.

There’s one way to know for sure. (Please say you have something like swords or for fighting swords. I need more sword buddies).
Edited (Evil quotation marks) 2022-07-05 15:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-05 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Most people wouldn't agree with what my world needs.

[ Most people wouldn't agree with Eren's solution because it's terrible and fucked up! He's not unaware of that, but he's not about to just tell some stranger what he plans to do/already has done/will do. The timeline of it is jumbled in his head. ]

But it needs an end to war and an end to hating and fearing us for what our ancestors might have done.

[ Some of that history is propaganda, after all. ]

I'm here because I'm free.

[ That's just his standard refrain for why he does anything these days, though he more than anyone is not free at all back home. This is maybe the first time he's ever actually been free in any real, meaningful way, even if he can't voice or recognise that for himself yet. ]

That's an understatement. I'll show you sometime though.

We trained with something like swords but not to fight other people. I don't know how to use a sword to fight someone else with a sword but I could learn. I know how to fight hand to hand and I know how to use guns.
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[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-05 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Dramatic, but I agree with the bottom line. Just remember, nuclear bombs are not the answer.

I look forward to seeing it.

The dream thing was fun, but it's not like I can fight a building or an iceberg.

What were you using swords to fight? No one wants to bring guns to a swordfight where I'm from. We can take things easy at first to get a sense of you know... not pummeling each other to death.
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-06 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's fine, he's been called "suicidal bastard" for years! It's better he doesn't know what nukes are tbh ]

No, you can't fight a building. Anyway, practising against other people can be satisfying.

We were fighting titans. We only learned that guns existed about three years ago. We didn't know titans were once people then.
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[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-06 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! Practicing with other people. Sign me up.

Back up back up. Something is adding up funny:
1. You're a titan ~*~*~not like most people~*~*~
2. "We" = "You + other people" were fighting titans
3. "We" meaning you didn't know titans used to be people 3 years ago
4. Presumably you have always considered yourself a people your whole life (however long that is)

Titan thing is news? < 3 year old news? How much titan-ing have you titan-ed?

Or...?
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-06 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'll train with you. But like I said I've never used a sword against a person in a one on one fight so I have to learn the basics. I'll learn.

[ Not experiencing linear time AND being a cagey pain in the ass is working against his ability to convey this info, rip ]

There are nine titan powers but there are only six of us left who can use them right now. That's what I mean by not like most people.

[ Will he explain that? OF COURSE NOT ]

Those of us on Paradis Island, we were just people fighting titans or so we thought. Titans terrorised us for a century. Most titans are mindless, just giants who do nothing but eat people.

We didn't know the truth at all. The very few people who knew had brainwashed the rest of the population on the island.

I didn't know I could turn into a titan and control it until it happened on accident. I was lucky the military didn't just kill me for it. But I didn't know how it was possible at the time. My father came from outside the island and he passed down his titan power to me. He wanted to free Eldians. So do I.


[ This is sort of a skewed thing to say; Eren and his father are very different in their approaches, for starters. ]

Technically I've been able to become a titan for nine years but I only realised it about four years ago. I've done it a lot since then.
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[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-06 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
One-on-one sword fighting is incredible. Possibly the best thing ever. Though the food here is making a good showing.

I am trying to follow along, but I'm making and dropping assumptions like holding water in my hands.

Three sentient potentially to-some-degree related species: Eldians, Titans, Humans (oldest to youngest). Paradis Island, your home, mostly has Humans and some shittily-treated Eldians. Buuuuut also...

Anyone of the right bloodline can become a titan. It doesn't autoload from birth. (You look a touch like you've reached double digits.) It's... what, when the previous one dies? (if that's the case, sorry about your dad.) (did he not tell you?)

The 6 of you are the special ones (because (?) mindful human blood line?), and there are... numerous (hundreds? thousands?) people eating mindless giants giving you all a bad name.

God. I hope you're entertained by 'stranger explains your world back to you.' It sure is one way to drag you back to reality. This stuff isn't *weird* just not what I grew up with. It's like trying to explain a novel when you've only read the back of the book.

Mine's got tons of flavors of necromancy. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
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tw for god who even knows anymore, sort of cannibalism, death of a parent

[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-06 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
The food here isn't like anything I've ever had so that's a pretty good contender for the best thing ever...

Eldians ARE humans. I have no idea how long humans have existed. The first person to become a titan did that 2000 years ago. Don't ask me about the origin. I don't know it.


[ That's only half-true but anyway! ]

There are only Eldians and titans on Paradis Island. Except we killed most of the titans. We have never found a way to turn someone back into a regular human. The only exceptions are the Nine Titan Powers. We only recently found out how people turn into titans in the first place. It isn't spontaneous. I don't know anything about the science behind it but if you're injected with spinal fluid from a titan, you will turn into one.

My dad didn't tell me anything at all. I found out reading his journal later. You inherit one of the Nine Titans by becoming a titan and eating the previous holder of that power.


[ He doesn't just outright say I ATE MY DAD but... ]

Anyone with one of those powers will only live for 13 years after acquiring it. If they die without passing it on, it will just randomly show up in another Eldian since we're all connected.

The Nine Titan Powers are descended from the original titan I guess.

The king back then when titans first appeared did use them to conquer nations. But they also used them to build great things. People are just people, regardless of whether we can become titans. People are often terrible to one another. But we shouldn't be paying for the alleged sins of people 2000 years ago anymore. We shouldn't be used as cannon fodder to fight wars or kept in camps or murdered just for existing. We should be free.


[ He has no idea if that makes more sense or not. ]

What's necromancy?

[ He's never heard a word like that. ]
necrosavior: (= dab muscles unf)

Re: tw for god who even knows anymore, sort of cannibalism, death of a parent

[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-06 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Right!?!?!!!?! It's like never having had real food before. Just... ash. FYI, an enormous bowl of spicy noodles is fueling all the thinking this entails.

How ironic a name is Paradis Island? It's *almost* Paradise, except you got 1) people who need to be freed and 2) people mostly being killed the shit out of. It's a camp? A less fun camp than you know what we better get here? Which raises the question who the military/horrible life enforcers are, you know? You don't sound awfully religious, nothing like

~~may the secret chamber never be opened. We must live our terrible lives in service to nothing happening.

Which is entirely sidestepping the potentially cultural normal behavior of snacking on your dad. I'm not queasy about dead bodies. Where do you think soap comes from? Munch munch activities leading to more special titans does sound like someone somewhere back when they're like "should we burn these?" decided to let people only live 1 puberty longer.


[Gideon eats a few more noodles before getting into her side of things.]

Most simply, necromancy is magic rooted in death/dying energy. Everyone's alive, but we're all dying slowly right? So there's always a little death energy, more so once someone dies or whatever. That's the big bomb of death energy.

You may be asking, what good is death energy, Gideon? Can't you get soap other ways? (this isn't how we get soap, that's the entirely boring fat --> soap pipeline).

We are still at war, so there's all *that*, but it's more like... the root of most advancements. The fox has whatever she has going on here based on her magic. Home was like, magic to heal, magic to travel (interstellar I mean), energy transfer to get VOOOMPH, magic to protect, magic to talk to the dead, magic to learn about things, magic in dem bones. (bones are great for holding the death magic long term).

When you've got that, that's the base of society and all. Yes, people still generally die and move on. It's not an automatic eternal life (talk about overpopulation problems if it were).

How good did I do?
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-06 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
You can get meat here whenever you want. We barely had meat for years. I can hardly believe it. I hadn't tried spicy noodles. I should.

I don't know how the island got its name but it does seem like a terrible ironic thing.

Only some people where I grew up were religious at all. There was a cult that worshipped the walls that kept us in and the titans out. But religion wasn't really something I ever thought about. What kind of cruel fucking god would have trapped us on that island?

But it wasn't a god. Just people. People did that to us.


[ Eren himself is seen as a godlike figure by some people now, but why mention it? He didn't set himself up to be one. It just happened. He lets them think what they want. The only thing that matters to him is marching ever onwards towards the terrible end that waits for him. Or has already happened. That whole jumbled up time thing again. ]

We have a royal family and a military who make the rules and keep the peace inside the walls on the island. I became a cadet when I was 13. I wanted to kill all the titans. I wanted us to be free. I still want us to be free.

[ Now he wants to kill all the other humans instead IT'S FINE ]

I wouldn't say there was a cultural norm. We really didn't know the truth about the titans. I didn't even remember what had happened or how I became a titan myself for years afterward.

[ UNDERSTANDABLY SO, repressing eating your own dad makes a lot of sense. ]

I think the first titan only lived for 13 years after and now it just happens but I don't know why. I just know that it's true.

[ Not a lie or misleading info this time! Gold star, Eren. ]

Necromancy is using energy created when people die. Storing it in bones. A kind of magic. Am I getting it right?

[ What the fuckkkkk okay he'll just go with it. ]

Do people come back from the dead sometimes then? And what does interstellar mean? A method of travelling by magic, like how we ended up in this place?

[ He literally cannot fathom what this word is; even outside of his backwoods island, no one has done the space travel thing. He doesn't even know there are other PLANETS, or what the stars or made of, or any of that. ]
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[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-06 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Tasty protein, not paste. I am going on a complete tour of all the food and also returning to favorites. I have a long way to go. Plus some people here can cook (wow), so that's even more food.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaa shitty god? IDK, I'm not convinced gods are inherently any better than humans/people/people with animal heads. Someone sucked. Which, IDK how large your island was, but I *get* it. I do. Even though I've been to space.

Soooooooo, theoretical question since we're you know here and not... where we came from, what turns on when you turn off "kill all titans"? Theoretical idea to consider (even if only back at with "kill all the titans"): if you don't get all of [insert group here], couldn't that mean... wow they're going to want to kill the fuck out of [responsible group here]? More war? Sometimes called for, but "everybody dies" is just dumb.

MMMmmmkay, no cultural norm. Didn't remember --> do remember? No shame. Like, I'm not going to eat my dad, personally, but my mom's skeleton became a leek farmer.

Necromancy is magic that uses energy from dying. Even while you're alive, like, cells die and stuff. That's some energy but less energy than a *whole person dying*. Bones are good long term storage if you don't want to use it all at once. Like a battery. Then you take that, and you do the magic stuff with it.

Such as the interstellar thing. Your island was (most likely, like I'd bet skipping meat for a day if I'm wrong confident) on a planet. When you look up, you see the sky and stuff ~*~beyond~*~ that's space. Everything is a looooong way away from each other, like longer than all around the planet. It could take so long everyone dies or the people who arrive are grandkids of those who left. Like wow, sucky right? So, one of the things our people did was using that death energy to *magically* get there faster. You know, more reasonably. Which means space and exploration yadda yadda yadda.
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-07 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Paste? We mostly had vegetables. Potatoes. One potato a person per day for awhile. I really am shocked at just how much food there is here.

I don't think gods even exist.

It's hard for me to describe how big the island is. It's pretty big. It felt infinite when I was a kid, but we were trapped inside the walls. The walls kept titans out, but they kept us in. Like livestock. Most people were just content to live like that but I always wanted to go outside the walls. We didn't even know our island was an island. The ocean sounded impossible, like something someone made up.

The rest of the world is still so big by comparison.


[ That's a lot of philosophical questions she hits him with and he already knows his standpoint, but he also knows he can never be forgiven for what he thinks/what he does/has done/will do. It's already done in his head, though. ]

The rest of the world already wants to kill us. Kill us for daring to come out of our walls. Kill us to take resources from our island. Kill us because they've been told stories about how we're devils. Even the Eldians who don't live on our island were force fed lies so they believe we're all evil. If we fight back, they'll kill us. If we stay put and do nothing, they'll kill us.

If you kill all your enemies, won't you be free? Isn't that how war ends?


[ Is this a rhetorical question? HARD TO KNOW. Even he's not entirely sure. ]

I didn't have a choice when it happened. But I remember everything now.

[ If this was an out loud conversation, that would probably come off a lot more ominous than it does in text. ]

Your mom's skeleton? Is she still your mom as a skeleton with your necromancy power? Or just a skeleton?

You have to actually die to use that magic, but some people do just die and don't come back. Maybe I don't understand.


[ HE DOESN'T but he's trying. ]

A planet. Okay.

I've been to the sky in an airship but I think that's not what you're talking about.


[ NOPE he has no idea how this concept works. Imagine finding out your entire world was really just an island and then finding out that the entire world was a floating rock??? He's not there yet. ]
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[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-07 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
The Ninth House is *in* a planet, like dig a giant giant hole maybe as large around as one of those floats in the parade (did you see that? it's like... a large vehicle but still not *that* large). At the bottom you've got a cathedral carved out of the rock, and further you have terrible living quarters, another deeper shaft to darker colder bits, and carved out most of all... caves where the snow leeks grow. So sure, no one else is on the whole planet, but it's still pretty small. Like an island without sunlight, so you're limited in what grows. Also nearly impossible to get out of. I'd know. Tried 88 times. I catch your drift. (literally, Crux had me on his damn inventory, fuck you too, dude).

tbf I'm not sure how much pins on us believing or not to the existent-or-not gods.


[Gideon rubs her eyes. As far as she's seen (limited), everyone goes for 'kill them all.' Guess how many times that's worked? She's not sure, but she'd bet 0, when you really look at it. Cause it's still happening.]

I agree you need to do something. You've been stuck in a weird box your whole life, told about war and killing each other to death, so hey, it's ~*~right there~*~ Got it. Really. So...

That's what they're doing right? How well is that working for them? You're charging them, so I'd say not great, especially if you bring your 5 special friends. You win. You kill your enemy, and wow, anyone who looks at you is going to go "oh shit, look at what they do. they need to be killed to death." Cycle continues.

Which, not that I know 5,000+ years of details, but two sides have taken that exact stance against each other for thoooooooousands of years. No matter HOW COOL the powers, it's still going on f i v e t h o u s a n d years later. You only have 13 - 4 = 9 years. How're you gonna accomplish what took 2,000 years (yours) to its shitty thing and after 5,000 years (mine) still isn't done?

I am pro-freedom. All for freedom. That's what those 88 escape attempts were about. That's why I love it here. Plus there's SO MANY PEOPLE from who knows how different of places. Ugh, this sounds HORRIBLY NERDY, I should get so much credit for this... but research it? Workshop the problem? Maybe someone else has solved it, and you could figure out how to actually get it done?

I'm just your newest buddy bringing your head back to reality. You don't have to tell me, but if you ever want to... tell me about that everything.

My mom's a bit weird, but she also demonstrates the different things that can happen. So with a body you got:

1. skin
2. flesh/fat
3. gristle
4. blood
5. bones
6. the rest of it

Skin, flesh/fat, gristle, blood, most the rest of it... that all gets processed for soap and brushes and flimsy and stuff. No magic.

Bones. These have enough magic in them a necromancer can turn them into a construct (basically a functional skeleton, despite being dead. They farm leeks. They come to church. etc etc, everything a leek farmer needs). The person's spirit who was there, what makes it *them* isn't involved. It's machinery.

Spirit. So that leaves the body whooooooooosh at death. Most of the time they skedaddle off into the afterlife. Again, necromancers can try and call them back for a chat (my mom wasn't super helpful, just shouted GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON) (one guess what my name is). Oh yeah, she was dead when we got there? Falling down that hole I talked about? Not the point. They were WTF and thus the chat. Wah wah went poorly, everyone went on their way.

Except she did what spirits sometimes can do. She stayed. That makes her a revenant. And she... was around the whole time I guess, but low key. I didn't even KNOW. Fast forward to right before I came here. She traveled with me, found a preserved corpse, and used that to (you'll be surprised I'm sure) fight that war I was talking about. Dead 19 years and still had an axe to grind. Didn't work out.

So that's bones and spirit and what gets done WITH them. Not everyone's a necromancer (I'm not, my mom's not). Necromancers are living people who use the energy of the dying to do all that stuff (it is NOT RECOMMENDED to use your own dying energy; guess what happens? did you guess die? yeah, it's die). But with people and animals and plants and whatever else, you've always got things being born and dying (plus if you're IN the war, everyone's dying all over the place).

Okay, I'm backing up on planets and space. During the day, the sky is blue. That's the sky, that's probably where your airship flew (since it has... air). At night, you see the dark and in the dark you have stars. Day hides that darkness and stars. Those belong to SPACE, which is even higher than the air in the sky. In fact, if you go up far enough, there's no more air. There's just black emptiness until you reach something else in space. Do you have a moon? Like, moons are smaller rocks that circle the planet they're around. Your planet is the giant rock going around the sun. And... as you see with coming here, other places exist BEYOND your planet.
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[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2022-07-07 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
You came from underground? There's an underground part of our city on the island, but it's a bad place. I guess it's a place that the higher ups wanted to forget about. They leave people to rot down there. No one deserves that.

You tried 88 times to get out. Did you ever make it before coming here?

Oh, you misunderstand. The other titan shifters and I are not friends. We're enemies, with one sort of exception.


[ Eren's feelings on Zeke are complicated at best, but their alliance is necessary. Are they enemies in the end? Well, that depends on a lot of how someone chooses to view things. Eren's not really sure. ]

If we don't fight, we die. It's pretty simple.

[ IT IS NOT AT ALL, but Eren…knows how it ends, for better or for worse (spoilers: it's for worse). But now, here, he's not sure what it means for him as a person.

Freedom, the thing he most desperately wants to grasp, but now that he has it, it's hard to recognise that he didn't before, not ever.
]

Why do you think they left us alone for 100 years? They were afraid of how powerfully we could retaliate against them. Now they got greedy and wanted to take everything away from us. I'll never let anyone take freedom away from people I love.

[ Even if he has to kill everyone alive IT'S. FINE. ]

I only have 4 years left. I'm well aware that time is running out.

[ He just doesn't answer that how are you going to accomplish bit; he's not about to write that down where people can see it lol he doesn't understand technology but he understands that this isn't private. He's also self-aware enough to know how fucked up he is, back home, he'll never stop. ]

You think someone else has solved war?

[ Sounds fake! ]

Your mom. Did she exist as a revenant away from her skeleton then? Who the hell turns skeletons into farmers? Are they killing people so they can do that or do people just die naturally and then their skeletons become farmers?

[ HE DOESN'T LIKE THIS, sounds a lot like the opposite of freedom! ]

But your necromancers. Are they soldiers?

[ He latched on to that battlefield thing, probably because it's the most familiar thing he can hold onto in all this new info. ]

What do you mean day hides the darkness and stars? The stars come out at night.

[ Planetary rotation whomst! He knows nothing about this, because how could he? It's likely that the rest of the world has some of this basic knowledge, but knowledge was restricted, and science is something that Paradis was just woefully behind on. If someone there knows any of this, it sure as hell isn't this kid who thinks with violence! ]

We have a moon.

[ It hadn't occurred to him until right now that somewhere, someone lives in a place without a moon. He understands the other worlds thing sort of, but he hasn't yet grasped the vast differences in a more tangible way. This is helping. ]

The moon goes around the planet, okay. But the planet, the whole world we live on, goes around the sun? And there's no air if you far enough up. So how can you travel there? You can breathe because of death magic or something?
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CW: self-sacrifice (death)

[personal profile] necrosavior 2022-07-07 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Personally, I don't recommend it. Most of them were aaaaall for it, but people can get used to IDK anything.

It's complicated. I made a deal to go somewhere else first, then be able to go where I want. However, someone else showed up all "I'm going to kill all of you, it'll be great." After a long series of horrible deaths and horror, there was a boss fight. The only way to win, the only way *anyone* lived... I jumped on a giant iron spike, killing me but letting my necromancer beat the fuck out of the boss. (Which btw pissed said necromancer off, and she pulled a total dick move that did sort of keep me alive?) (it's complicated)

Correction: if you don't fight the right way, you die. You can still fight and die, which wow, accomplishes bumfuck nothing (looking at you, Judith). (We could have used Judith and Marta in the boss fight, but noooooooooooo they had to get themselves killed fighting the wrong person)

Honestly, I got no idea why they left you alone for 100 years. I've seen enough to know other people have *a lot going on* that isn't gonna all be about you. Maybe one of them was uwu for a titan. Maybe they decided they needed to fight among themselves for a bit. Maybe they needed to make more kids. Or someone wrote a dope comic book. I don't know. People do all kinds of things.

I don't know if anyone solved war. I'm pretty sure people have fought differently than you or me. So if you want to get better at it (with or without solving it), study hard and fight smart.

You got it. Revenant!mom completely unconnected to skeleton!mom. The House's necromancers turn the skeletons into construct leek farmers. Say what you will about the Ninth House, but it's actually the house you are *most likely* to die from old age. Everyone's ANCIENT. Some of them it's more like "how are you a l i v e???" Resources are pretty limited. It's basically recycling... with people. They aren't killing anyone for leek farmers.


[She leaves out the reason they did do a little mass murder, that one time. It's fuck-y even by House standards. Plus, it'd hurt Harrow.]

Some necromancers are soldiers, but they're also everything else. Scholars. Doctors. Artists. Diplomats. Priests. You know, anything anyone else is. They're people. Non-necromancers are soldiers too; there's a lot more of those (most people aren't necromancers).

Generally, when there's light, you see things in the light. In the dark, you don't. That also means if you have a tiny candle across a large hall, you probably won't see it if there's 800 chandeliers tossing light around everywhere. But if they aren't, you'll probably see it, even though it's far away. That's basically what's going on on. It's just a different scale.

Yes, moon around the planet. Planet around the sun. It's basically a size thing (smaller thing goes around the larger thing). If you want to go where there's no air, you bring it with you. Like, when you swim underwater real water you hold your breath and come back up to breath MORE when it runs out. Again, we're just scaling up. You bring the air with you. Let's not explain that air can keep being regenerated.

We travel there the way you drive a car or a boat with an engine. It looks different because it's going to space, but concept is similar. Magic comes in if you want to get somewhere faster. You set up two magical devices far away from each other, and a necromancer can use magic to go directly there. Like walking through a door. But in space.

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