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genessia2017-06-04 01:03 am
deathsought) wrote in genessia2017-06-04 01:03 am
⚜ ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ-ꜰɪʀsᴛ - [ ᴛᴇxᴛ + ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ]
Action: Fairy Haven, Master's Quarters - Open to any member of Fairy Tail or anyone who lives in Fayren Haven
{ It would be quiet; barely audible, depending on where one was in the sprawling compound that Fairy Tail calls home. It was unmistakably Zeref's voice, but there could be none other heard. It might sound as if he were just... talking to himself. }
I almost gave this to them, you know. I was curious to know what they would have done with it.
{ There's the sound of rustling. Zeref sounded slightly sleepy, if one bothered to listen, as if he had only just woken up despite it being the middle of the afternoon. Maybe he was up late? }
What would they have done? Destroyed it? Opened it? They would have been in for a surprise if they had.
{ Whoever he's speaking to doesn't respond. If one bothers to peek into the room... he's speaking to a book laying on a desk parallel to the bed, propped up against the wall. Completely seriously, as if the book were alive and he was somehow expecting it to respond.
Suddenly, Zeref sighs, reaching for the white, outer-layer of his robe, unceremoniously discarded at the foot of the bed. He pulls it on, over the rest of his outfit. }
Why do I bother? I doubt you can hear me, anymore. I wonder if you're even alive in our world without this.
Text - OTA
I'd like to pose a rhetorical question, if I may. Much has been made about the issue of necromancy, in this world. The act of reanimating the dead into 'undead,' as the term I've been hearing up until now.
What I've heard little about is resurrection. Not merely reanimating the dead; restoring life itself. Reversing death. Bringing a soul back from the afterlife and returning it to this world. In my world, it is taboo, regardless of the circumstances or how unfair or undeserved the death was.
Death is ultimately meaningless in this world, at least for those of us with amulets. When one of us dies, we reawaken in the Bay, even if doing so often has a price. Regardless, I've heard some of us say that impermanent death cheapens it.
Why this distinction? What difference is there, truly, between necromancers, and whomever, or whatever it was that brought us here reducing death to a mere transaction?
{ It would be quiet; barely audible, depending on where one was in the sprawling compound that Fairy Tail calls home. It was unmistakably Zeref's voice, but there could be none other heard. It might sound as if he were just... talking to himself. }
I almost gave this to them, you know. I was curious to know what they would have done with it.
{ There's the sound of rustling. Zeref sounded slightly sleepy, if one bothered to listen, as if he had only just woken up despite it being the middle of the afternoon. Maybe he was up late? }
What would they have done? Destroyed it? Opened it? They would have been in for a surprise if they had.
{ Whoever he's speaking to doesn't respond. If one bothers to peek into the room... he's speaking to a book laying on a desk parallel to the bed, propped up against the wall. Completely seriously, as if the book were alive and he was somehow expecting it to respond.
Suddenly, Zeref sighs, reaching for the white, outer-layer of his robe, unceremoniously discarded at the foot of the bed. He pulls it on, over the rest of his outfit. }
Why do I bother? I doubt you can hear me, anymore. I wonder if you're even alive in our world without this.
Text - OTA
I'd like to pose a rhetorical question, if I may. Much has been made about the issue of necromancy, in this world. The act of reanimating the dead into 'undead,' as the term I've been hearing up until now.
What I've heard little about is resurrection. Not merely reanimating the dead; restoring life itself. Reversing death. Bringing a soul back from the afterlife and returning it to this world. In my world, it is taboo, regardless of the circumstances or how unfair or undeserved the death was.
Death is ultimately meaningless in this world, at least for those of us with amulets. When one of us dies, we reawaken in the Bay, even if doing so often has a price. Regardless, I've heard some of us say that impermanent death cheapens it.
Why this distinction? What difference is there, truly, between necromancers, and whomever, or whatever it was that brought us here reducing death to a mere transaction?
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Oh, that reminds me - what sort of desserts do you have in Alvarez? Do you get to have Star Mangoes all the time? [She only got to try one, but it was delicious!]
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That's... { How much time does she have? } Alvarez spans an entire continent, with a population size to match. It may be united under one banner, but there are at least as many cultural differences there as you have in all of Ishgal, cuisine included. The star mangoes are more common in the coastal regions, though, and the islands in the southeast. You can find almost anything in Vistarion, though with any metropolitan area, just avoid the tourist traps.
{ Gods, listen to me, I sound like a tour guide he thinks to himself. What is Mavis doing to him? }
A fair amount of Alvarez's citizens aren't even human, though Machias don't cook. At least, that I've seen.
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Hopefully I'll get a chance to try them all some day - I can't imagine the amount of sweets that I'm missing out on! [Sure, she's not likely to be taking another trip to Alvarez in the near future, but maybe some people from Alvarez could immigrate to Ishgar when the war's over? She's certainly optimistic when it comes to sugary food.]
[Setting her first box aside, she moves on to the second.] Gray and Mira mentioned the Machias, I think. Are they common in Alvarez? [There certainly aren't any in Ishgar, though it would undoubtedly be a huge help to a more tech-savvy guild like Blue Pegasus if there were.]
Action;; bit of headcanon here...
{ He's referring to his 'vacation' on Tenroujima, there. }
Machias are a species of sentient machines animated by magic. One of the Spriggan Twelve, Wahl, was their contribution to the war effort, along with their technology that was built into our airships. Compared to humans, they're a minority, and they tend to keep to what used to be their country before it was annexed into the Empire and they prefer to stay out of imperial politics. But almost all of them were built to be able to use magic. They're a fascinating species, really.
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I see... It's kind of hard for me to imagine an entire society like that, but I guess Alvarez probably doesn't have Exceeds, so it would be somewhat similar for you and them.
((OoC: No worries as far as headcanon goes - I figure we all do that with some aspects of our characters or the setting.))
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{ Not counting Acnologia, of course. Gods save any exceed unlucky enough to cross his path. }
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It's not just them, though. Ichiya has an Exceed friend, and he's certainly not a Dragon Slayer.
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{ He takes another bite of the cake. It's been too long since he's had something like this. Maybe he and Mavis will have to go back, later. }
It does seem odd that that's whom the Exceeds gravitated towards. But then again, that's hardly the strangest coincidence I've observed in regard to the Dragon Slayers. Maybe I should stop overthinking it.
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Cobra also had a winged snake as a partner. Kind of odd that Laxus never got anything like that, but maybe that's just not his style.
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If you're curious, neither did God Serena, or Eileen to my knowledge. { Another bite of the cake. His is almost gone. } If there are any others out there, I don't know about them. But, I guess it's possible that there are more Dragon Lacrima that are unaccounted for out there, somewhere.
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I figured we would have heard of them if there were more, but not even the Wizard Saints knew that Serena had Dragon Slayer magic until the war. [If they had, then Makarov would have undoubtedly told the members of Fairy Tail that before the fighting started.]
I'm surprised that those Lacrima aren't more common, though it's probably for the best. [Putting the power of a Dragon Slayer in the hands of anyone who could pay enough seems like a recipe for disaster, even if there's seemingly no risk of the user turning into a dragon.]
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If they were, Acnologia would have razed a lot more cities to the ground than he has already.
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[She shudders a little, picturing that happening. From what she's seen of Acnologia, it seems like that wouldn't take much effort on his part] I hadn't thought about that part of it, but it certainly sounds right.
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Don't underestimate his bloodlust. I said once before that I found his motivations depressingly shallow. Destruction for destruction's sake. The only reason he hadn't made his move sooner is that, were he to succeed, he'd spend the rest of his life even more bored than he already is.
But as we've discovered, it doesn't take much to get him to attempt to at least partially whet his appetite for carnage.
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He can't be unstoppable, though. Does Eileen get sick when she's on transportation? Maybe if we put Acnologia on a train... [No, that would be too crazy to work.]
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{ A sigh. }
I don't know. She wasn't on my ship. She was with Larcade and Bloodman, and their armies were sailing to the northern coast of Fiore. Whenever I did give her an assignment, she's always been the type to make her own accommodations.
And there isn't a prison, mobile or otherwise, that can hold him. Even if there was, the act of putting him in it would cost hundred, perhaps thousands of lives, and almost certainly wouldn't even be successful.
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Still, there has to be a way to stop him. I'm sure that you and the First could come up with something, given time. [She's 100% confident in Mavis, and she figures that Zeref knows Acnologia's capabilities better than anyone.]
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There... is something we have been working on in the case he were to appear here, but... { Maybe the idea that he can't kill anybody permanently would be a deterrent. Oh, who is he kidding? That just means he'll never get bored, and this world not only has its own dragons (and dragons from other worlds), but people with forms of magic he's never even heard of. This would be heaven to Acnologia. } We haven't tested it, and it would be too dangerous to test anywhere but the most controlled of environments. I would elaborate, but Mavis wanted to be the one to share it with you, first.
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[Seems like now's a good time to change the subject - the idea of Acnologia showing up in a place like Genessia out of the blue is enough to keep anyone up at night.] From what the First has told me, it sounds like things are going well between the two of you.
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It's... not something I ever expected would happen, truthfully. But I'm grateful for it. { A sigh. There's just a little bit of cake left on his plate. He just... stares at it. } Had she not died that night, I would have asked her to return to Alvarez with me. There was a time when I genuinely thought she might have been the Empress the citizens of Alvarez periodically say that they want. Maybe then, I wouldn't have left the Empire whenever I felt bored, or just wanted to get away from the politics.
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Is that why you were on Tenrou Island, then? The politics?
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{ If nothing else, the world would be a very different place, with Fairy Heart not existing, Alvarez's military being backed by Mavis' tactical brilliance, possibly improved relations with Fiore... who knows, Fairy Tail might have even insisted on going with her. Of course, that would still beg the question of how they would deal with Acnologia. Dragon Cry? Hoarding Dragon Lacrimas to create new Dragon Slayers?
Doing what they're considering now, in Genessia, should he ever appear? }
One of many reasons, and the least important. I had grown so tired of... well, everything, that I had chosen to go to a place where I thought would be left alone, and where I could feel Mavis' presence. It was just my luck that a few years later, Fairy Tail would decide to hold their S-Class trials there, and Grimoire Heart would follow them. Seeing how far Pre--... Hades had fallen, and seeing that Acnologia was no longer content to sit on the sidelines, finally forced my hand after all of those centuries.
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I guess our timing for going there could have been better. I don't know how a Master of Fairy Tail, and one of its founders, could fall so far - Master Makarov didn't want to talk about it, and I respected his wishes and didn't ask.
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{ Specifically, if somebody from Alvarez shows up. Being an Emperor wasn't something he advertised, here; not like so many others of royalty who showed up and announced it over the network on day one. }
I have my suspicions. { Finally, the cake is finished. He leans over and begins cutting another piece. } He wanted to use me to create this 'Ultimate Magic World.' He even seemed to believe the old wives' tale about my power being sealed, and there being a 'key' to awaken me. The way he was going on about it, he seemed to think I was the source of the 'One Magic.'
{ The piece cut, he leans back, and brings the plate back in front of him. }
He of all people should have known better. His delusions were not only wrong, they were insulting. And to have arrogantly believed that I would simply go along with his plans... needless to say, he paid for it with his life.
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I'd like to think that the First could bring him back to his senses if he showed up here, but even then, I have my doubts. [From what she heard about his plans, he'd consider most of Genessia to be targets.]
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