001; video // it's a white, white wasteland~
[On comes the feed, and in it is a blurry video of a scrawny Japanese boy in glasses. He seems to have found his way into the hostel room and is sitting on the bed, still fidgeting somewhat from unfamiliar surroundings.]
So, uh, nobody's going to stand up and tell me I'm on Candid Camera at this point, I guess. This isn't exactly what I envisioned ( Read more... )
So, uh, nobody's going to stand up and tell me I'm on Candid Camera at this point, I guess. This isn't exactly what I envisioned ( Read more... )
It's not torment-filled enough to be Hell and too desecrated to be Heaven. If it's anything like that, it's purgatory, although I doubt that also.
I've never encountered this Tohno Akiha.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Sorry, but I exist only to fight. I don't see the need for anything else.
Reply
I'm not sure what army you were in, Mr. Moriarty, but are you sure it's not breaking any Geneva Conventions?
Reply
Heh. Conventions don't mean anything in the real world.
Reply
Not always, I guess, but there's always a place for normal rules, even if it's just to remember that it's there.
Reply
There's no place for rules in war, kid. Nobody plays by them anyway, unless they want to die young.
Reply
Does that mean you'll also shoot the Red Cross?
But in any case, that's...not always true. Even if you're born to be a monster, you could always choose not to kill. And if there's no need to find other purposes, is there still a need to fight now that you're not where you were anymore?
Reply
Kid, don't concern yourself too much with it.
Reply
[Shiki had last seen Akiha only a few hours ago. Akiha, who asked him to kill her because she didn't want to become the monster she was fated to be. And he decided to die for her sake.
Of course he's going to concern himself too much about this topic, even without the issue of his own blood.]
Why change? Because you want to? Because you're saying things like you were 'damned before I was born'? Even if your parents and grandparents and every single person in your family are despicable monsters, that doesn't mean it's wrong to even try to fight the issue! It's more important to value your life! Why is that hard to understand?
Reply
It's true that I was damned. Even before I was born there was blood on my hands.
[The blood of his unborn brothers, sacrificed to encourage his and Snake's growth...]
What you don't understand is that I don't see the value in becoming anything else. I exist to fight. To kill. There's no reason to do anything else. Someone who hasn't faced battle cannot understand. You can never escape it. It consumes you, until nothing else matters.
Reply
...."important" people are supposed to be found and made, aren't they? Even if you've lost your family, your name, your right to exist as yourself...you'll still have today, and tomorrow, and all the people you could meet. That's enough to make it possible. The only person who won't allow you to is yourself.
Maybe I don't. I'm a civilian, after all. But you don't understand everything, either. If you think killing means making people die, then you don't understand. That's not the important part. What matters is, if you really see no value in being anything other than a killer, why do you sound so miserable about there being blood on your hands?
Reply
I haven't lost anything. Because I don't need it. You can't lose what you've never had. I don't need people. I don't need anything!
And I AM NOT MISERABLE!
Reply
...........ow. My ears. I think you just woke the entire hostel up with that protest, sir.
Really, though, are you sure? Why would you say you're damned if you don't consider that a miserable prospect? If you're perfectly fine with being a killer, it'd just be another aspect of you, like a preference for avocado sandwiches or something like that.
And also, just because you don't need cough syrup to get out of a cold spell, doesn't mean it's not good for you. Or maybe I should say 'you don't need cake to live, but cake is nice', instead?
Reply
Dear god, are you a psychologist? How annoying. It isn't an aspect of me. It is all I am. And I say it because it's true.
And I've never eaten cake. So it's no good suggesting that.
Reply
Leave a comment