...as you can probably tell from the fact that we're even having this conversation, this is not any mere afterlife. It's a world, like any other world.
[Filtered - -78% Secure]priorpyroSeptember 16 2008, 12:22:01 UTC
The 'why' is not very interesting, I'm sure. You have just been moved from one cage to another, less interesting cage; from the chessboard of one madman to another.
But like I said - the fact that you're here brings me hope. Because any game in which you are a piece, well... it all tends to fall apart, doesn't it? [Smile.]
Re: [Filtered - -78% Secure]hauntedrequiemSeptember 16 2008, 14:15:16 UTC
I don't mean for everything to fall apart. It just happens that way. I don't know why my failings should give you hope, but I'm glad one of us can feel it, because I no longer can.
This cage is different, and less comforting then the previous one. And this madman as you call him, is much less tormenting. Does he really expect us to fear him? He seems to have done nothing worthy of fear.
[Filtered - -78% Secure]priorpyroSeptember 16 2008, 20:26:31 UTC
It's not important that you can't feel hope. However... it might be worth noting... I can.
[For the moment, Axel's expression lacks its characteristic amusement.]
Fear... hate... I don't know what the Reaper desires from his victims. And frankly, I don't care if he gets it. I care that he has managed to do something that we... that I...
...heh. That can wait. Hey, Riku - what's the last thing you remember?
Re: [Filtered - -78% Secure]hauntedrequiemSeptember 16 2008, 21:12:51 UTC
That is strange, considering that you're not supposed to be able to feel anything. And I seem to have lost all feeling. Or maybe that happened before I arrived here.
The last thing I remember? I remember going back ho.... going back to Destiny Island's with Sora, and Kairi meeting us on the beach. After that my memory is just sort of blank.
I'm assuming we're not allowed to remember our supposed deaths. That would to easy.
[Filtered - -78% Secure]priorpyroSeptember 17 2008, 12:28:44 UTC
So. He found you, after all. [Private smile.] And for him, I'm sure there was never any doubt.
Ah, no! People arrive in this world with no memory of their death. Those here that sleep seem to remember nothing after their last rest - the rest of us are left with a large gap in our memory; of our supposed deaths and the time preceding it.
Recently I understand that people were allowed to feel the pain of how they'd died, which may have given some people a clue, but for now the Reaper likes to keep his secrets. Maybe even more than we did.
The last thing I remember, it's...
[Long pause, and then Axel waves his hand dismissively.] Tch. No point in worrying about it - it's as useless as everything else I remember. And if I'm right, it occurred well before your happy reunion. I was already gone by then, right?
Re: [Filtered - -78% Secure]hauntedrequiemSeptember 17 2008, 17:01:56 UTC
Yes, Sora has the annoying quality of seemingly always getting what he wants.
Doesn't that go against some fundamental rule of morality? Shouldn't we be able to remember how we died? and I'm sure that the knowledge of ones death, in some cases, would be far more painful then being left to wonder about it.
[Riku looks thoughtful for a moment, before sighing and whispering] My secrets were my own, he had no right to know them.
I'm sure the things that you remember are far from useless. And.... I know you tried help to Sora, and Kairi for that matter. But yes, you were gone by the time that Sora found me.
[Filtered - -78% Secure]priorpyroSeptember 17 2008, 17:15:50 UTC
Annoying, yeah, unless you happen to want the same things that he wants. Then, it's something to be thankful for, hm?
...I don't think he spares us out of kindness. Especially after he let 'em all writhe around in sourceless agony for a week or however long that crap lasted. More like he's keeping that knowledge as his own personal trump card. If he fails to torment us by making us wet, or by making us see stuff, or whatever he cooks up, he's got this nice little ace in the hole - our lives are over, and he knows why. The fact that he hasn't shared that information is... well, it brings me a little bit closer to respecting him. Just a smidge.
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Still... to see you here gives me some hope.
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I wasn't sure if you would remember me.
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You would be surprised at what I remember. And besides, your kind of unforgettable.
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But like I said - the fact that you're here brings me hope. Because any game in which you are a piece, well... it all tends to fall apart, doesn't it? [Smile.]
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This cage is different, and less comforting then the previous one. And this madman as you call him, is much less tormenting. Does he really expect us to fear him? He seems to have done nothing worthy of fear.
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However... it might be worth noting... I can.
[For the moment, Axel's expression lacks its characteristic amusement.]
Fear... hate... I don't know what the Reaper desires from his victims. And frankly, I don't care if he gets it. I care that he has managed to do something that we... that I...
...heh. That can wait. Hey, Riku - what's the last thing you remember?
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The last thing I remember? I remember going back ho.... going back to Destiny Island's with Sora, and Kairi meeting us on the beach. After that my memory is just sort of blank.
I'm assuming we're not allowed to remember our supposed deaths. That would to easy.
Why? What's the last thing you remember?
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Ah, no! People arrive in this world with no memory of their death. Those here that sleep seem to remember nothing after their last rest - the rest of us are left with a large gap in our memory; of our supposed deaths and the time preceding it.
Recently I understand that people were allowed to feel the pain of how they'd died, which may have given some people a clue, but for now the Reaper likes to keep his secrets. Maybe even more than we did.
The last thing I remember, it's...
[Long pause, and then Axel waves his hand dismissively.] Tch. No point in worrying about it - it's as useless as everything else I remember. And if I'm right, it occurred well before your happy reunion. I was already gone by then, right?
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Doesn't that go against some fundamental rule of morality? Shouldn't we be able to remember how we died? and I'm sure that the knowledge of ones death, in some cases, would be far more painful then being left to wonder about it.
[Riku looks thoughtful for a moment, before sighing and whispering] My secrets were my own, he had no right to know them.
I'm sure the things that you remember are far from useless. And.... I know you tried help to Sora, and Kairi for that matter. But yes, you were gone by the time that Sora found me.
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...I don't think he spares us out of kindness. Especially after he let 'em all writhe around in sourceless agony for a week or however long that crap lasted. More like he's keeping that knowledge as his own personal trump card. If he fails to torment us by making us wet, or by making us see stuff, or whatever he cooks up, he's got this nice little ace in the hole - our lives are over, and he knows why. The fact that he hasn't shared that information is... well, it brings me a little bit closer to respecting him. Just a smidge.
...I tried to help 'em, huh? ...that's good.
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