Video; un: darkness (Backdated to November 28th)

[survivalthroughhate]

[Maul looks very grim when he starts off the video.]

Since some of you might wonder where he is and since he had messages for me to pass along to some of you, I'm here today to tell you Wesker is dead. I killed him.

[He quickly goes on before any screeching or condemnation can start being thrown his way.]

It was not out of malice, amusement, or anger. It was an act of mercy. The zealots took him and by the time I found him he was little more than a corpse but somehow still breathing. There was no hope for his recovery.

[Maul's eyes shut for a moment, still seeing the eviscerated body lying on the table that looked more like an autopsy victim than someone still alive, lungs and heart able to be seen and still working despite all that had been done to Wesker's body by those seeking his blood.]

I'm not sure how he lasted even that long with what they did to him. I ended his suffering. Hopefully, he will be back in a short time.

[There is a private message afterwards which is only sent out to a handful of people. Vira-Lorr, Luz, Orpheus, and Ariadne.]

He asked me to pass on a message to you.

Comments

[survivalthroughhate]

I didn't feel happy about killing him but neither did I feel sad about it. It was merely something that needed to be done.

[It's moments like this that it is easy for Maul to revert back to the mindset of being a weapon, unable to feel much of anything when he killed someone. Weapons didn't ask questions or consider the morality of what they'd done. They simply did their job and killed without thinking.]

It happened yesterday, so yes, he's not been revived yet. [He pauses.] If he revives at all.

[laminae]

Right. I get it.

[Of course he does, he used to be literal weaponry.]

You don't think he will? But Flynn did.... [Ohhhh Glob what if reviving isn't a sure thing here??]

[survivalthroughhate]

I killed Ben in Deerington when I went on my rampage and he didn't end up reviving. Eddie later told me that it isn't wasn't always a guarantee there. I suspect it is much the same here.

[It at least gave more weight to the deaths that Maul caused, knowing that the person who was killed might be dead permanently the way they were back in his own galaxy. He couldn't take anything for granted here, especially people's lives.]

[laminae]

Oh. Uh.

[That's a big yikes.]

W - well, we're still getting used to this place, so who knows.

[survivalthroughhate]

Let us hope I am wrong, my young friend. But it is not in my nature to be optimistic about such things.

[That's just Maul being Maul.]