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Easter [Video/Action Open]
[What, the world makes a big hullabaloo about Christmas, but not its supernatural conclusion? You can't just proclaim Christ's birth without its telos! This will not stand! Genessia's about to be schooled by the lone man who cares enough about the holiest of holidays.
Ted's there, somehow even more gaily dressed than usual, along with all seven--the number of completeness--of his pokemon behind him.]
Good evening, ye merry gentlemen, and God bless you as we celebrate Easter, the day when the world died only to be reborn from dusk to dawn.
Christ, the paschal lamb, who had been slain but three days prior, was risen by the power and glory of God. Just as sin and death entered through men by the first man, Adam, so Christ became the firstfruits of life. He bore sin and death that he might trample both, and resurrect the sleeping ones yet in bondage to sin.
So Death, the last enemy, is and was destroyed by the Redeemer, who means life and life abundant for all who cleave to him. Take that, Hades! The tombs are emptied, the visible is overcome by the invisible! Rejoice, men and angels and all alike for whom life is freed!
[His pokemon rustle; clearly eager to join in on whatever festivities are planned. Ted turns around, laughs, then spreads his arms, gesturing to them.]
We were graced with parcels of life's abundance one month ago, and rightly rejoiced. How much more, then, for the life and liberty from sin granted two thousand years ago? Happy Easter, everyone; God take you all.
[With that his pokemon make a joyous, clamorous farewell as he ends the feed. With but an hour of Easter left, Ted takes his court of Pan--such wonderful representatives of life!--to the city streets for more happy singing.]
"Christ is risen from the dead, Allelujah!
Every people, every nation,
Soon shall hear the gladsome sound;
Joyous tidings of salvation,
Borne to earth’s remotest bound.
Then shall rise in tones excelling,
Praise for grace so freely shed;
And the Easter hymn be swelling,
"Christ is risen from the dead!"
[It did say every people. Neither Ted nor his personal zoo will be slack in spreading this gospel, oh no! He felt extremely happy, as though he were Adam himself, back with his named creatures in Eden.]
Ted's there, somehow even more gaily dressed than usual, along with all seven--the number of completeness--of his pokemon behind him.]
Good evening, ye merry gentlemen, and God bless you as we celebrate Easter, the day when the world died only to be reborn from dusk to dawn.
Christ, the paschal lamb, who had been slain but three days prior, was risen by the power and glory of God. Just as sin and death entered through men by the first man, Adam, so Christ became the firstfruits of life. He bore sin and death that he might trample both, and resurrect the sleeping ones yet in bondage to sin.
So Death, the last enemy, is and was destroyed by the Redeemer, who means life and life abundant for all who cleave to him. Take that, Hades! The tombs are emptied, the visible is overcome by the invisible! Rejoice, men and angels and all alike for whom life is freed!
[His pokemon rustle; clearly eager to join in on whatever festivities are planned. Ted turns around, laughs, then spreads his arms, gesturing to them.]
We were graced with parcels of life's abundance one month ago, and rightly rejoiced. How much more, then, for the life and liberty from sin granted two thousand years ago? Happy Easter, everyone; God take you all.
[With that his pokemon make a joyous, clamorous farewell as he ends the feed. With but an hour of Easter left, Ted takes his court of Pan--such wonderful representatives of life!--to the city streets for more happy singing.]
"Christ is risen from the dead, Allelujah!
Every people, every nation,
Soon shall hear the gladsome sound;
Joyous tidings of salvation,
Borne to earth’s remotest bound.
Then shall rise in tones excelling,
Praise for grace so freely shed;
And the Easter hymn be swelling,
"Christ is risen from the dead!"
[It did say every people. Neither Ted nor his personal zoo will be slack in spreading this gospel, oh no! He felt extremely happy, as though he were Adam himself, back with his named creatures in Eden.]
Re: Action;
Oh, good evening Anastasia! I see life harries you too. That, dear girl, is a hymn.
[Ask a simple question, get a simple answer.]
Care to join in on the next verse?
[He enticingly flaps a music sheet at her.]
Action;
Meanwhile, Anastasia eyes the music sheet warily but doesn't accept it. She is just so naive when it comes to these holidays.]
"No thanks. It speaks of necromancy."
Re: Action;
Ted peers at the sky with a stupid grin for a few pregnant seconds, then looks down at Anastasia with mock surprise.]
Huh! No bolts of the blue to blast you for such blasphemies. You got lucky this time, Anastasia, no doubt owing to the grace of the holiday. What on earth compels you to say that?
Re: Action;
"Here. It says, Christ is risen from the dead. Is that not necromancy?"
Re: Action;
[With the power of Attract, anything's possible.]
Goodness, no. You may as well say that because a man lays with a woman, a wife is no different from a whore.
[Unless one married a whore; then things get tricky. Also, don't tell Sats about this conversation.]
Re: Action;
"Then what does it mean?"
Re: Action;
"Why, the very meaning of the holiday itself! It means the glorification of the body. It means the justice of God, and the exaltation of one humbled to the bedrock. It means the power of God to beat back the most diabolical of forces. It means the proof and significance of the faith. It means the redemption and salvation of man. It means liberty from sin and a life of grace. It means life itself spurning death forever! Nothing less, and I doubt very much whether anything could be more."
Re: Action;
[Yes, Anastasia is more than just a rebellious girl who wanders off to read manga.]
Re: Action;
[He chuckled]
Hah, I wonder about the humility of that. But yes, one could draw those parallels. You see? The meaning is not so foreign.
Re: Action;
Re: Action;
[Flap flap]
Action;
[Nothing more to say.]
Re: Action;
Oh, well, Limbo is a state of in-between that must be patiently borne. Until one's out of it, time must be wiled away. I have some idea as to how.
[Just roll with it.]
Re: Action;
Meanwhile, it seems her Fairy-type pokemon were getting bored and wandered off to sun bathe. Her Glaceon and Nidoking remained at her side.]
Re: Action;
"Princess, now that your theological concerns are cleared away, I am asking whether you'd like to join us on the next verse. Would you?"
[And he did mean "us", noisy pokemon and all.]