yourhatred | thirteen crows (朱) action/voice

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[Itachi doesn't get drunk, not in any way that shows, anyhow. He's the sort of stoic, no-nonsense individual who never appears to be affected by anything, even when he is.

He hardly looks it now, as he makes his way back to his apartment, but the ever so slight unevenness in his footsteps might be a giveaway to some.

Once he's home, he opens up his journal and just stares at the pages for a while before speaking.]

Not everyone deserves a second opportunity. What right do the Malnosso have to say who does?

((ooc: Feel free to catch him on his way home.))

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Observing the reactions of others. But I did assume the obvious.

I wouldn't count that as experience, just as knowledge. Obvious or not it was a good assumption.

Do you find yourself lost here?

Stagnant would be more like it. But being stagnant may just be another way to say "lost".

[He can't do anything here. He can't reach Athena and Shun. He can't reach Seiya. He can't reach the enemy he was chasing. He can't even know if they are fine or not. There's no reason to move on, neither to go back on anything, he knows where his way is and what he has and wants to do, but has no way to reach there.]

I understand what you mean. It's akin to being in limbo.

I would think that the limbo would be better, at least one would know the reasons for being there and there wouldn't be experiments performed by a bunch of supposed adults. Being stuck here by the whim of children makes it just worse.

You rate our captors on the same level as children?

Whimsical, selfish, irresponsible, careless, with too much free time and no morals to control them while being in control of technology and powers far beyond what any rational being should trust them with. Even without going into details regarding the so called "experiments" they like to do they are far from what I would consider adult-like. Them being children would give them a small useless excuse for what they do.

[Small and useless indeed, even if they were just a bunch of kids Ikki would probably beat them anyway if he was given the chance before going back home.]

[Itachi is quiet and thoughtful for a moment.]

Have you seen many of them?

If you mean the Malnosso, we had to escort to safety some during the last draft, or at least they were linked to the Malnosso if they wanted those saved.

[A pause.]

If you meant someone like they are, I've met plenty even before coming here.

[There aren't many ways to describe the Gods anyway. Not even Saori was free of fault, though she did change at least.]

Like them? You know this for a fact?

[He'll ask about those others soon enough.]

I do. I can't think of many differences between them.

And what were they in your world?

What they were? They were Gods, [Then again... Thinking about Julian and Saori...] or at least beings powerful enough to have attained a status that could only be labeled as divine.

[Depends on whether one really accepts the very existence of Gods or not. Personally, Ikki has never cared either way.]

Gods...

You speak of something all-powerful. Do you truly think their abilities are that limitless?

Gods aren't all-powerful, neither are her abilities limitless. They are just powerful enough so that it seems they are so to the average human. The Malnosso are far from being Gods, but they have placed themselves in a similar position, they claim control of our lives and existences, control over the land we stay in, they control everything in Luceti. How's that different from a God that claims to control the whole world?

It's all just a matter of them being difficult to reach, once you get there face to face with them is when you see that there's no such a thing as an eternal, all-powerful being that can't be brought down.

Is this something you've done - bringing down gods?

It can be considered that it's what I was born for. I wasn't alone, though, so I won't claim to have the power myself to bring down a God single handedly. But I'm not weak enough either to just be crushed by them.

You worked with a group formed for that purpose?

Exactly as you said it.

[They were born for it. They were made orphans for it. Even since before they were born, their destinies were already decided to be those facing against Gods and anything that tried to harm the world.]

You chose to do this?

I did, but it's not as if I had much choice in the matter as it was everything settled so we would make this choice. It was this or death.

Do you prefer what you chose?

I see no point in wondering what would have been better. It was my choice no matter if it was settled to be like that or not, so I'll follow it through the end no matter the cost or pain.

[It was what Esmeralda wished for too, what she asked from him with her last breath. They weren't words of love, or even words of forgiveness, they weren't words of compassion, just a mere wish, a belief she had deeper in her heart than he had it. That he was the Phoenix and that his flames would soar through the sky away from that hell, no matter what path he had to follow for it.]

...Has it cost you a good deal?

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