darn tourists (OPEN)
Rei had done nothing during the invasion of the resort planet. Nothing. It was like he'd frozen. He knew how to fight - albeit, he wasn't that good at it - and he'd always considered himself an altruist. When he was a boy, he used to pretend to fight off aliens and save the world, and yet he'd done nothing when it actually happened. He'd retreated.
The biggest problem, he reckoned, was that he didn't know how to react to something like this because he couldn't go forward or back into time and figure out what could happen, what shouldn't happen, what had to happen. When he watched Earth get conquered in a little under a week in the 24th century, he was able to stand back and let it happen, because he knew it would lead to a better planet. But he'd had no reason to stand back when fighting the Ohm... or to fight.
He wanted to shout at himself, to get angry at himself. This wasn't Earth. There are no Guardians here. The rules are different. He wanted to beat things up in the Sensoriums like he'd seen so many other people doing. But that wasn't him. He didn't get angry very much any more, and it usually didn't last long.
So instead of creating hordes of whatever to fight, he created Greece. The Acropolis of Athens, to be exact. He'd chosen to view it around the late 2000s. He'd already seen it when it was still in use, and now he wanted to see it after it had fallen. He'd been on a tour, once, but it had been hard to enjoy it, since tour guides always get things wrong. Besides, they rarely let him touch anything.
He walked throughout the empty ruins, thinking about his place on the ship, his place in the universe as a whole.
The biggest problem, he reckoned, was that he didn't know how to react to something like this because he couldn't go forward or back into time and figure out what could happen, what shouldn't happen, what had to happen. When he watched Earth get conquered in a little under a week in the 24th century, he was able to stand back and let it happen, because he knew it would lead to a better planet. But he'd had no reason to stand back when fighting the Ohm... or to fight.
He wanted to shout at himself, to get angry at himself. This wasn't Earth. There are no Guardians here. The rules are different. He wanted to beat things up in the Sensoriums like he'd seen so many other people doing. But that wasn't him. He didn't get angry very much any more, and it usually didn't last long.
So instead of creating hordes of whatever to fight, he created Greece. The Acropolis of Athens, to be exact. He'd chosen to view it around the late 2000s. He'd already seen it when it was still in use, and now he wanted to see it after it had fallen. He'd been on a tour, once, but it had been hard to enjoy it, since tour guides always get things wrong. Besides, they rarely let him touch anything.
He walked throughout the empty ruins, thinking about his place on the ship, his place in the universe as a whole.