POWER LEVEL
354,508
Tech Points
28/75
Forms
Epic Majin [x34]
Zeni
23,106
Majin
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Aug 3, 2022 18:01:40 GMT -5
Post by Majin Liari on Aug 3, 2022 18:01:40 GMT -5
"Its not your actions that disturb me..." Liari sighed heavily, forcing herself to relax somewhat. ...She wasn't going to break down here. This wasn't the place for that... She had to keep calm and relax some... Or at least find some stability in the fact that Shaza was doing his very best to soothe her... He was trying and that had to be good enough... She wasn't about to break down and cry over something like this in front of her newly found brother!
"...I just... I never knew where I had come from... I had just assumed that we Majin were the same as everyone else. Mother, Father, kids, you know..." Liari would slowly rise to her feet, flexing the muscles on her legs so they would stop TREMBLING! She had to remember her nerve... She could hash out her feelings later. "...I... I always thought being my own person was what mattered most in the world, you know...? I thought that... being someone else's lacky or acting like a slave to someone was the worst thing you could do... Then I found out that I was made, not born... and nothing of what I thought was mine... actually was... Or at least, as far as what I remember being born-.... made with."
She sighed heavily and clapped her cheeks with her hands, attempting to SLAP the heartache out of herself... Distract one pain with another pain, right?
"Thank you for your patience, Shaza I... I shouldn't have acted that way... There's a lot of things going on right now, a lot of things that could be hard on anyone and this was just... a little to much for me at the time. I'm better now and I.... Well.... Thanks..." She offered the smaller majin a smile and extended her hand to him for a shake.
"...Anyway, your reason for doing what you do is a good one... People are gonna die... a LOTTA people are gonna die... We gotta save who we can, right...? Its better they live on inside than... disappear..."
WC: 345 TWC: 3350
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POWER LEVEL
13,018
Tech Points
3/8
Forms
N/A
Zeni
7,693
UNSORTED
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Aug 8, 2022 16:26:11 GMT -5
Post by Shaza on Aug 8, 2022 16:26:11 GMT -5
At first Shaza hesitated to stop but eventually returned to the ground before looking once more to Liari. She seemed to have finally calmed down from her despair and while he didn't know exactly what to say at the moment, he simply took her hand while he was thinking. This universe was unbearably cruel, it snuffed the light out of worlds, lives who were destined to great things gone... in an instant while dullards continue their work. Shaza had no love for the actions of mortal kinds, he viewed them as self destructive.
"I see. I can see why you would be... distraught."
Shaza didn't like the idea that she considered him a slave to someone else's will. It infuriated him to no end, but he kept his calm. He was not about to attack another majin without good reason.
"I will say this, I am no one's slave... Nor have I ever been bound to another's will. The librarian who created me made me to sort the books while he was to old to do so. I did so out of my own free will and when the time came for me to leave I did so out of my own free will. We possess that which all things possess and make us sentient. We have free will, the essential necessity to be able to determine who we are."
Shaza looked down at the ground in thought, his mind running through all his experiences while he formed a sentience in his head to match his thoughts.
"We are not slaves Liari, we were created yes... but we were given the mind to be sentient. Unless someone had bound your mind with magics and brainwashed you... you are who you are by virtue of your own free will. Nothing more... nothing less. We are amazing in every aspect, and I do not consider it a displeasure to be created."
Shaza looked to Liari then, before tapping his chin in thought. He supposed that was just going back to the same topic again.
"You are the first to appreciate my work for what it is... and for that I think you. I've worked hard for the last four millennium to save as many lives as I had... but it gets trying at times... to be called a monster or a freak. Its... nice to be praised for once."
Shaza had never received praise for his actions from another. It was a... strange experience. On one hand he didn't feel he deserved praise because it was necessary. It would be like cleaning ones living space and being praised for it... it was necessary. On the other, it felt good to finally be told he was doing a good job. Something he hadn't expected.
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POWER LEVEL
354,508
Tech Points
28/75
Forms
Epic Majin [x34]
Zeni
23,106
Majin
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Aug 10, 2022 15:58:09 GMT -5
Post by Majin Liari on Aug 10, 2022 15:58:09 GMT -5
Shaza tried to justify his own position in the world, stating that he had fulfilled the purpose he was designed for freely, that he could do whatever he wished because he had "free will." ...What a statement. What even was free will to a thing that was created with an express intent in mind, let alone one that would happily follow its preprogrammed instructions? Who was to say that any of what she was being told was anything more than preprogrammed sentiment, a belief that one might be "free" so that they wouldn't question the eventuality that they WOULD, in fact, "choose" their orders? Who was to say that a machine, for lack of a better comparison, could truly comprehend the magnitude of freedom when the entirety of their everything could be broken down to the code and wires that made them up, the preprogrammed nonsense that gave them any relevance at all?
...Shaza was trying, though, she understood that much. In fact, it made her smile, in a somber kind-of-way, his attempts to justify his existence and expand it beyond what his nature might imply. ...Liari wasn't going to be the one to break him of this, this.... innocence. If she had her way, she'd just accept it too, that their coming to be didn't as much define the nature of their existence as much as how they lived it... or some other philosophical conclusion. ...Sadly, that just wasn't to be... but she was happy, at least, that Shaza was content with the life that he had. The majin would swallow her sorrow and keep it tucked away for now, something she could let out when she was alone in a desert. For now, she would give Shaza a nod and look out over the landscape as she let out a sigh.
"People can't understand what it means to take someone inside." Liari stated slowly, her existential dread giving way to something more like existential frustration. "All they see is someone eating something else. They can't grasp that... what you and I do means something entirely different... that it's personal... important." She shook her head and shrugged her shoulders, thinking of Quash and how he condemned her for saving Callion and Kombu in the only way she could have, her fury manifesting only in the thin hisses of steam escaping from the holes on her arms. Her face showed no chance... except maybe the hardening of her expression!
"...This is the first time I've met someone who understood what it means to be what we are." Liari responded, turning to Shaza and flashing him a small smile.
WC: 428 TWC: 3778
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POWER LEVEL
13,018
Tech Points
3/8
Forms
N/A
Zeni
7,693
UNSORTED
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Sept 26, 2022 23:44:52 GMT -5
Post by Shaza on Sept 26, 2022 23:44:52 GMT -5
Shaza listened to Liari as she gazed off into the distance, and simply nodded his agreement. It was deeply personal to take another being into oneself. That much he understood very much after all the lives he had consumed. But a single rush flowed through him as he thought of the horror he had spread in their last moments of life. The screams that followed his wake when he took those lives into himself, the sheer joy it brought him was no different than the purest adrenaline rush.
Now however was not the time to relishing in past joys, as he simply smiled at her words.
"Its alright, they cannot understand. There is a small solace however, that we are beyond their understanding and that we do the universe a favor, even if they had us for it."
Shaza then closed his eyes before crossing his arms, smiling happily while he looked out over the ocean. He was glad another majin had met him, and confirmed he was not the only predator to exist. In the end, he was sure there was more... Now he had to be careful from now on.
"I have much to think on. Perhaps we can speak more on the way to a city? I wish to see this world for the first time and its people. Care to show me Liari?"
Shaza asked, holding out a hand so she might take him to wherever they might go. An offering of friendship for the two of them. Perhaps one day, Liari would understand but for now... he was going to be careful around her.
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"Only A Failure Abandons His Principles And Pride."
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Oct 1, 2022 15:52:18 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2022 15:52:18 GMT -5
Alright...! Shaza: You're looking at getting... 4,699 PL and 2,506 Zeni!
Liari: 4,683 PL and 2,369 Zeni!
TP will be adjusted accordingly!
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