imatreenow: (✘ path)
[It isn't easy, having your eyes pried open and forced to look at a truth you never wanted to see. A few days have passed since Martel looked straight at him and explained that what he had done was wrong, and each minute since then as crawled by slowly, weighed down with tension. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong... The word echoes off the walls of Mithos's gutted heart. He doesn't know what to do or how to feel or what to think. He has spent the past four thousand years trying to organize his world according to strict formulas - it's the only way to get by without being crushed underneath the weight of reality. If it is a human, it can never be trusted; if someone disagrees with him, he lashes out against them; etc. This is where he stumbles. He can't hate his sister. He can't be angry with her. He just can't...it defies everything he knows. So he's left with nowhere to go.

The only coherent thought he can piece together is that he has to prove himself right. Then everything will fall back into place, and Martel will agree with him, like she is supposed to... He also has his own ridiculous uncertainties to finally quell. He opens his journal, pen poised. With his left hand, he covers the journal's camera; no picture will appear with this transmission, only darkness.]


[WRITTEN | filtered away from Yuan; Raine and Lloyd's other groupies; and, as a bizarre afterthought, Martel - 100%]

With this being one world composed from many different ones, it is inevitable that there exists a high level of diversity. Even in each world, different races and groups of people inhabit the land, and predictably, prejudices rise up across groups. Discrimination follows on its heels.

I find myself curious: how would you paint the situation in your own world?

What are your own thoughts toward those who are different from yourself? What are your personal experiences with discrimination and prejudice?

[ACTION]

[And later, Mithos quietly slips outside; he can't stay cooped up in the house much longer. His confusion is suffocating. Martel feels so far away even though she's under the same roof, and it just hurts. He sticks to the edges of town, hoping to avoid anyone and everyone. Doesn't mean he'll have any luck with that, though.]
imatreenow: (✘ overcome)
[When there is far too much on his mind (like now, like always), Mithos finds that it is somewhat helpful to go on long walks about the village. He tends to stick to the outskirts, where people are sparser. Better yet, he occasionally slips into the forest itself, where people are practically nonexistent. (Go ahead, prove him egregiously wrong.)

The New Feather cycle has ended. New arrivals stopped trickling in weeks ago, but he had clung to the hope that Martel would appear any day. Only recently has he accepted defeat. . –No, not accepted; he would never accept a world without his sister. It’s only temporary. Even so...the disappointment is relentlessly sharp, only exacerbated by the nature of the most recent shift.

But the waiting. The being unable to do anything.

He’s at the threshold of realizing that in this world even he is as helpless, has as little control, as anyone else. Realizing, but not accepting it. It is as he told Raine: the instant he stops fighting, it’s the same as abandoning Martel. A conundrum, a paradox. He can’t do anything, but he can’t do nothing either. He hasn’t felt so completely cornered since a time long past, before he ever became the great hero of legend, back when it was just him and Martel.

Then there are certain startling facts he has learned regarding what happened to the world after Lloyd defeated him. The implications. The hundreds of questions he still has.

And there is one more thing, something that remarkably has nothing to do with his sister. At some point in the afternoon, Mithos pauses to rest beneath a tree, taking out his journal. He stares down at it. Every time he takes a small step forward, every time he starts to let go and just freefall, the same doubts come rising up inside him. He opens the journal.]


[voice | filtered to Kaori – 100% unhackable]

.....Kaori? Can I...ask you something?

Profile

imatreenow: (Default)
Mithos Yggdrasill

December 2018

S M T W T F S
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30 31     

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 17th, 2025 04:47 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios