07-11-2016, 11:27 AM
Fiara huffed but held herself in check when Okor finished speaking. He was turning out to be... more than what she'd anticipated. This world was confusing to her, it wasn't black and white, it had so many... gray tones. Her already damaged hearing sent jolts of pain through her head when the marine's massive hand bent the steel and caused creaking which shook her to the bone.
"An... Emperor, I heard that before", she mumbled, trying to force her mind off the pictures that coursed through her head after Okor's speech. Entire worlds that burned? She couldn't even begin to imagine the pained screaming of innumerable souls whose lives were ended by fire and sword. "Would you stop that!" she then yelled sharply when another squeeze of Okor's fist threatened to break the crust in her ears and send more blood down her cheek, neck and long ruined clothing. She pieced together what she knew to make sense of the strange words Okor was using. Emperor... that meant Tenno. So there had been some Tenno seeking to ascend past humanity and become a kami? A God, as Okor named it? She'd heard that term too... God-Emperor, spoken out by a man in white armor of some sort who she had encountered in the Dunes. So that's what that meant.
"So you forsook your leader, your Ten- I mean, your Emperor, to pledge yourself to the Gods, and in their name you slaughtered your brothers, your own family?" She huffed, letting the flames still lick around her wrist before she flexed her fists in a certain way that caused her Blasters to return to their inactive state and snuffed the flames out. She knew how on edge she was right now, and as much as she wanted to slam a fist into Okor's expressionless helmet and blast it and everything inside it to pieces, she knew that it would be an error. Right now, she depended on him more than he depended on her, if they wanted to make it out of here. But if she left her Blasters in their armed state, her hand might slip... an accident may happen. No, she had to contain herself. "Are you not aware that the first Emperor was crowned by Amaterasu, a God herself, and that all his descendants rule under her sign by birthright? How can you serve the Gods if you refuse to serve the one who the gods appointed as their mortal hand on Earth?"
"The Emperor of Mankind claimed the title not by birthright, but by his... actions.”
That note took a fair amount of steam out of Fiara’s engines. An Emperor without noble blood in his veins? To her that was like a bird without wings, or dry water! She could simply not wrap her head around the idea. By his actions... what must one have done to be granted the title of Tenno, without nobility? And even then, how had he gotten the position? A Tenno could only reign with the authority of a kami to back him up.
“Your world must be very... different from mine.” She finally said. “We, the kami, only took care of supernatural beasts, of Youkai, Akuma and such. We let humans take care of one another.” She looked back and forth between Okor and Marcus, passing a hand through her hair. “So... while neither of you are Youkai or Akuma, you are humanlike... yet you both are made to kill? It’s anchored in your very being?”
Marcus replied that time. “I am human only by looks. But really, I am a machine.” He pointed to the shreds of skin beneath which his metallic exoskeleton laid bare.
“I don’t get that. To have one’s purpose solely be to kill, that’s like being...”
“... a weapon?” finished Okor when Fiara was at a loss for words.
“Not even the darkest Youkai I have heard of exist to kill.” She took a step back and yelped when she nearly tripped as her foot sunk into a deposit of semi-liquid Omnilium. Hastily she caught onto some railing and pulled her foot back out of the jelly-like rainbow mass, then looked back at the two of them. Okor’s words about them being unable to die came back to her mind, and seeing the metal beneath Marcus’s skin, the truth beneath a thin disguise, and the once humanlike mass of rot, disease, flesh, armor and intelligence that was Okor, stirred something with her. Pity? Or was it fear? She shook her head and tried to put her usual unhappy and serious face back on. “I’ll go look over that way, see if I can find anything useful. Bodies or writings or something. If it’s got the phoenician alphabet I’ll call you so you can read it.” She then took off, separating herself from Okor and Marcus temporarily. She needed time to think, and she needed to be alone for it.
Although, she did keep what she’d said and began searching for bodies or anything else worth picking up, now with her Phoenix Blasters activated again to provide light.
"An... Emperor, I heard that before", she mumbled, trying to force her mind off the pictures that coursed through her head after Okor's speech. Entire worlds that burned? She couldn't even begin to imagine the pained screaming of innumerable souls whose lives were ended by fire and sword. "Would you stop that!" she then yelled sharply when another squeeze of Okor's fist threatened to break the crust in her ears and send more blood down her cheek, neck and long ruined clothing. She pieced together what she knew to make sense of the strange words Okor was using. Emperor... that meant Tenno. So there had been some Tenno seeking to ascend past humanity and become a kami? A God, as Okor named it? She'd heard that term too... God-Emperor, spoken out by a man in white armor of some sort who she had encountered in the Dunes. So that's what that meant.
"So you forsook your leader, your Ten- I mean, your Emperor, to pledge yourself to the Gods, and in their name you slaughtered your brothers, your own family?" She huffed, letting the flames still lick around her wrist before she flexed her fists in a certain way that caused her Blasters to return to their inactive state and snuffed the flames out. She knew how on edge she was right now, and as much as she wanted to slam a fist into Okor's expressionless helmet and blast it and everything inside it to pieces, she knew that it would be an error. Right now, she depended on him more than he depended on her, if they wanted to make it out of here. But if she left her Blasters in their armed state, her hand might slip... an accident may happen. No, she had to contain herself. "Are you not aware that the first Emperor was crowned by Amaterasu, a God herself, and that all his descendants rule under her sign by birthright? How can you serve the Gods if you refuse to serve the one who the gods appointed as their mortal hand on Earth?"
"The Emperor of Mankind claimed the title not by birthright, but by his... actions.”
That note took a fair amount of steam out of Fiara’s engines. An Emperor without noble blood in his veins? To her that was like a bird without wings, or dry water! She could simply not wrap her head around the idea. By his actions... what must one have done to be granted the title of Tenno, without nobility? And even then, how had he gotten the position? A Tenno could only reign with the authority of a kami to back him up.
“Your world must be very... different from mine.” She finally said. “We, the kami, only took care of supernatural beasts, of Youkai, Akuma and such. We let humans take care of one another.” She looked back and forth between Okor and Marcus, passing a hand through her hair. “So... while neither of you are Youkai or Akuma, you are humanlike... yet you both are made to kill? It’s anchored in your very being?”
Marcus replied that time. “I am human only by looks. But really, I am a machine.” He pointed to the shreds of skin beneath which his metallic exoskeleton laid bare.
“I don’t get that. To have one’s purpose solely be to kill, that’s like being...”
“... a weapon?” finished Okor when Fiara was at a loss for words.
“Not even the darkest Youkai I have heard of exist to kill.” She took a step back and yelped when she nearly tripped as her foot sunk into a deposit of semi-liquid Omnilium. Hastily she caught onto some railing and pulled her foot back out of the jelly-like rainbow mass, then looked back at the two of them. Okor’s words about them being unable to die came back to her mind, and seeing the metal beneath Marcus’s skin, the truth beneath a thin disguise, and the once humanlike mass of rot, disease, flesh, armor and intelligence that was Okor, stirred something with her. Pity? Or was it fear? She shook her head and tried to put her usual unhappy and serious face back on. “I’ll go look over that way, see if I can find anything useful. Bodies or writings or something. If it’s got the phoenician alphabet I’ll call you so you can read it.” She then took off, separating herself from Okor and Marcus temporarily. She needed time to think, and she needed to be alone for it.
Although, she did keep what she’d said and began searching for bodies or anything else worth picking up, now with her Phoenix Blasters activated again to provide light.
Quote:Translations:
Youkai: A collective term for spirits, monsters and similar supernatural beings.
Akuma: Demon
851 words according to wordcounter.
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