♰ 018: [Video] - [Shadow Thanatos]

[mem_more_rakke]

[Thanatos is standing with his back to the camera but it is clearly him in the frame, the same tall dark presence as ever before. The long rope braid hanging down his back is bloodstained and soaked with rain as are the robes he wears. In his hand, though only the keened eyed would spot it, is a clump of ashen-pink hair

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[Voice]

[andallforone]

[Oh holy shit. That does it. That scar, what he's saying, and those eyes. Yosuke remembered those eyes too well - how could he ever forget them, when the first time he saw them they were staring out of his own face?

Shit. Okay. Best not to panic. Everything'll be fine. He needs to talk to Souji, to Chie, and to Teddie and Rise and Kanji if he could find them. This isn't right. At all.

But... maybe the real Thanatos is about? Maybe if he's still okay they've got a chance.]

Thanatos-san?

[A pause. Dammit, he's so bad at this. What would Souji do in this situation?]

... Are you okay?

[Voice] - Shadow

[mem_more_rakke]

More so than ever friend, for I am revealing the truth.

[Voice]

[andallforone]

Oh. Right.

[Yyyyyep. Just as he'd feared.]

Well, I guess there's a bit in all of us that thinks that way, right?

[Voice]

[mem_more_rakke]

Actually it is pieces that are missing which have made me the evil that I am.

[The voice is serious as ever but with an undertone of terrible power. For a moment, Thanatos's eyes flash red.]

Shall I educate you boy?

[voice]

[myhrta]

Thanatos?!

What happened?!

[voice]

[mem_more_rakke]

Myhrta. It is time you know the true nature of the man I am.

[voice]

[myhrta]

Thanatos...

[voice]

[mem_more_rakke]

Did I ever tell you about my son? The one I created with my very own soul?

[video] (unsure forever)

[akingmuststand]

You view yourself as a cause of these troubles, Thanatos?

[video] - Shadow

[mem_more_rakke]

You have placed your trust in the wrong man, noble prince. Thanatos Rakke is nothing more than a manipulative man, with a soul once so broken it could never be fully repaired.

[video]

[akingmuststand]

Is that so?

[Of all things, he gives a light little chuckle, as if to diffuse his own uncertainty. Truth be told, the amusement is genuine - but so is the trepidation. This description could so easily be tweaked and assigned to himself, right?]

Well, I have to thank you for the friendly notification, even if that prospect is... quite unsettling.

[video]

[mem_more_rakke]

A man must always face the mirror of truth.

[voice]

[lonelyimmortal]

Who is it to judge what is evil and why at is not? Were these not the definition made by man and not the divine one.

[voice]

[mem_more_rakke]

Men are not fools, immortal one. Just as we the immortal are not gods here in Demeleier. Everyone is equal, and as such, they deserve to know the truth about Thanatos Rakke. The disreputable things I have done, evil by man's definition, or not.

[voice]

[lonelyimmortal]

Who would want to claim such a title, it would be boring and hypocritical. Besides in this place there may very well be no God, not that it would matter to most humans.

A Memory Keeper of Death, [a small laugh] death, murder, all are a part of live and living. Man has slain one another for centuries for their own reason and morals, all the while calling the other murderer and wicked.

[voice]

[mem_more_rakke]

I am aware of this.

The majority of those here live by those concepts, and so... I warn them, for their own safety against me.

[He almost told you the truth. That he's saying these things to bait the real Thanatos to him. However, there is no point. He can feel it already, that man is on his way]

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[eulogium]

[ This ... is shocking. He'd seen many Shadows-and been this Shadow for as long as he could remember-but this wasn't the same. He thought, briefly, of Persona, but brings himself back to reality quickly. ]

Thanatos-san ... did something happen? Do you really feel that way?

[Video]

[mem_more_rakke]

I feel it most cruelly, that I have denied the truth about myself to all of you. You all deserve to know the nature of the man I am, and it does not matter how sorry, nor how guilty I remain.

I am decay.

[Video]

[eulogium]

[ Ryoji speaks gently, carefully. ]

What do you mean?

[Video]

[mem_more_rakke]

What I mean boy, is that Thanatos has been, and so will always be, an evil man. The things he, no I have done, they will not be forgotten.

It is an insult to memory to do so, and in that he is also a criminal.