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𓃩 ("cosmically impossible to fix") ([personal profile] redsoil) wrote2022-10-21 05:20 pm
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IC INBOX ( KENOS ).

To Commune with Set is to stand barefoot in an endless, scorching desert. The sun illuminates all, scalding the shadows themselves out from underneath whomever enters his dominion; the arch of gentle, distant, waves of sand mask the precarious chasms, towering dunes akin to mountains. The sense of vastness, timelessness, is of particular notice, lending itself to the alien, eldritch quality of his mind. There is a dark storm in the distance, and you know intimately that this divine being is far from benign. You cannot bargain with a force of nature. You can only survive it.

COMPATIBLE WITH: Exalt, Iconoclast
REPELLED BY: Advocate

warmare: (真面目)

[personal profile] warmare 2022-11-16 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[She has never seen the desert. She has never even seen a beach. All this sand... As he seems to curiously run his fingers through the snow... She seems to use the tip of a hoof to nudge the flowing sand before stepping on it. ... Warm. Perhaps hot.]

It wasn't unmade.

[That response is quick as a lash, and just as stinging. She refuses to believe that's true. There's not a single bit of proof other than the Regent, now that Yima woman, claiming so. And what could unmake a world? Not even in the tale of the gods did they unmake, not on that scale. It was their homes as much as their worshipers.

... A demi-god, fine. She can accept they could trap a demi-god. As for the demon...]


As if a demon could do the same. [A whole world? Hah-] No. That thing took my eye.

[Her grudge against him, what had gotten him killed... was far more petty than the fate of an entire world. But to an archer... perhaps it was world enough. And she's still not satisfied... not after the dryad had undone his death.]
warmare: (決心)

Cw: eye stuff

[personal profile] warmare 2022-11-24 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
[If she had heard even a hint of sarcasm or mockery in his tone, her response would have been swift and burning… But she does not. And so she answers just as honestly.]

They must still be there. We have simply been ripped away… or fallen through the cracks.

[That much she can believe, over entire worlds full of life simply unmade for no discernible rhyme or reason than some woman who masqueraded as her mother claiming that “all things die”.

The world of shared hearts and minds is… strange. Hayame had hardly noticed, somehow, that he had not been a man before… and yet now when he coalesces before her he undoubtably is. Had she been a woman, or just the cold, lonely peaks of snowy mountains she would never see again? He comes closer to her clad in heat and sand and sun and she stands at the barrier between them, wrapped in cold and ice and stone like armor that hides any sort of warmth and longing beneath it.

In actual life… she would never let him close enough to her to do what he does. She would break his wrist for even trying, but one moment he is apart and then he was there, she can almost feel the trace of his fingertips over the curve of her face, and beneath the blizzard she clads herself in… She shivers.

Hayame conceptualizes herself without the eye, because she cannot lie to herself that it is there. But it had not been exposed, because she cannot bear its loss. When Set speaks of it, though… there is a moment when it is, when his fingers almost caress the line of her socket beside an empty hole, raw and exposed with the shriveled remains of her optic nerve bloody and inflamed deep in her skull, her eyelids and lashes framing only a gaping, painful emptiness. An eyeball plucked out so cleanly and cruelly it hadn’t left a single trace of scrape or cut behind on her face.

The eye that remains to her burns, hateful and pathetic and strong in contrast to the cold.

She does not respond to the question of whether she will become more vicious to overcome the shortcomings of her new lack, because it should be obvious. She will. But as for the rest-]


All demons are rotten.

[She doesn’t view the one she’d had the misfortune to encounter as more or less vicious than another.

That was just what they were.]
warmare: (人でなし)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-01-04 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[She should stop him. He oversteps, to keep his hand so near her face, tracing her skin with so little distance between her temple and his fingertips that a part of her almost wished he would just close the distance and touch her skin properly. But how foolish would it be, to try and make him withdraw from her when the dryad had linked their hearts? Even if she banished this manifestation of his form, the mental vision of his body and face as she remembered...

He would still be there, inside of her, in so intimate a realm.

He would still be reminding her of what mockery she found in that clean, gaping wound. If it had been a burn, a slash... the eye could be excused. Just a wound. Collateral damage. But the prettiness of the removal not only marks it as the work of someone (no, a demon) that had managed to gain complete mastery over her for a precious moment in the heat of battle... but it marked her for the humiliation it was meant to be. The target had been her eye from the beginning, so that she might live on obviously crippled instead of granted the dignity of death.

So that she might seek revenge, have it, appearing before this demi-god bloodied and beautiful in her savagery... only to have the dryad be the next one to humiliate her, and take it away, leaving only this curse behind. But he asks her if she is the stalwart, the one who will struggle against a threat to her world and suddenly-

Hayame seizes his wrist, so that she might hold him there in the intensity of what remained of her gaze. (In the process, his fingertips do brush her skin.)]


There can be no end to the places I would go to return to my world.

[He speaks to a woman who had helped to enslave her own kind, all for the sake of trying to improve her own standing. To a woman who had struggled and fought and clawed to be recognized in a world stacked against her from birth. To a woman who knew saving her world would mean that at the end of the very day she returned... she would die. But all things (not worlds) do die. ... And that is where she wants to meet hers, the rest be damned.]

Now tell me your name. And if you are truly the god of war... Give me your blessing.
warmare: (進み出る)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-01-05 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Somehow, in this space of hearts and minds, where it is spirits and not true bodies that meet… it does not seem strange to Hayame that this man (this god) has a shape that is fluid, that one moment he is yay tall and the next he is able to look her in the eyes.

Eye.

When she wakes, she will wonder if there is a strand of her hair that retains that crimson stain even in the true world. Through their touch she feels… everything of him- or rather, vague impressions of everything, both disorienting and grounding… and… she lets go of his wrist, though not before she squeezes it in her grip as if to remind him that she had taken it in the first place. From there… she bows her head just slightly to accept his boon. It is difficult, in this place where their essences are bare… to deny his divinity, no matter how she might have doubted elsewhere.

The blizzard still rages in her “lands”. But as if they have passed into the eye of the storm, the bitter wind and whip of ice is eerily still around only them and the line where cold snow bleeds into hot sand.]


I am Hayame.

[Someone who has never prayed. The gods of men never answered jinba, and she had been raised ignorant of her own kind’s natural worship. But now… she finds enough experience to cobble together her own version of worship.]

If you desire battle, then the violence I do in this world may be yours. If there is an offering you desire more… I would have you name it.

[She could be the woman he had met in the dryad roots, half feral with the surge to fight and a demon’s blood in her mouth, but she could also be this. And if she finds irony in the fact that she who feels so lonely in these foreign worlds might finally find someone willing to stand by her side only for that person to be War…

Perhaps that is what she deserves.]
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[personal profile] warmare 2023-01-08 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Let it be so.

[Later, Hayame will realize that she never asked exactly how this god liked his prayers. She will have to come up with something by herself, and settle for running a comb through the long, dark locks that now contain a single strand of crimson. But until then…

The deal seems complete.

She steps back… and turns as if to go, to head deeper into the blizzard that was her hearts. Where she could ice her resolve and cool the temper that had been inflamed so easily by the demon that now encroached in the other side of the “mountain”, bound temporarily with both men who she had tangled with in the dryad’s roots. Both scenes had been violent… but only one had been driven by hatred, by a desperate need for revenge. And if this god would aid her, if she might use that power or blessing to best the other now that his powers had returned in full…]


… I would ask you not to wander far.

[She is a private person. Just the presence of the two in her mind or hearts or shard or wherever they were… it put her on edge, ever wary for prying or attempts to break down walls. But if she is to have truce with him…

Hayame turns back to regard the god of deserts and wars and protection and all sorts of things she feels in the forced connection between, a sudden gust blowing her long mane and tale across her body and then away, like black pennants above the snow.]


The territory is treacherous and cold.

[And those little hidden caves where she stashed her precious remaining warmth and tenderness…

She wasn’t ready to guide anyone there. … She shouldn’t. Not again.]