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likethelight) wrote in deernet2022-05-21 05:40 am
video; un: an.exorcist
[ Deep breath, come on, you've got this. ]
...just because someone becomes a beast, it doesn't mean they stop being human.
[ The video comes on and it's an older, slender teenager with stark white hair; pale grey eyes and a strangely delicate bright red mark slashed across the left side of his face. He seems to be in a courtyard of sorts, one of Amaterasu's guardian saplings is behind him in full bloom. He's only visible from the chest up, but the chair he's sitting in has handles behind it-- looks like a wheelchair. Whatever is taking the video also appears to be a flying sort of thing that bobs slightly. It's trying to hold this video still, but really... ]
Most of you probably already know this. [ His head cants to the side with a lightly apologetic smile. ] Some of you might even be able to still hear or reach them despite that form.
But not everyone does, and it's still too easy to say "oh, it's safer and quicker to just kill them. You don't save monsters." [ The official creed of the Hunters... but he's diplomatic enough to not say that aloud. ] Or "oh, a Sleeper can just come back." Except it isn't just us. Someone else who isn't... most of them who were human... they aren't like us. [ He smiles softly, but in a way that doesn't reach his eyes. They hood, bittersweet. ]
They're just dead then. The soul suffers until the end. Maybe beyond.
It doesn't have to be like that though. [ He seems a soft-spoken sort with a lilted voice, but his tone shifts then and becomes more certain. ] They aren't just a monster, and they don't have to stay one. Even with what they've become -- the soul is still human. Some part of them still wants to be saved; to be themselves once again. And they can. [ Mostly. At least so far in his experience. ]
Some of us have abilities that can let us purify or reverse what corrupted them and bring them back. Some of us-- [ he pauses, looking for a moment just a touch overwhelmed as his eyes drift to the side, the smallest curl of a touched sort of smile at the corner of his mouth ] ... a number of us, we're trying to do something to change things. At one of the old monasteries in Crenshaw.
[ But he closes his eyes. Deep breath, you can do this.
He lifts his eyes back up to the "camera", his expression schooled now with a quiet sort of determination. Chin up, eyes forward. ]
My name is Allen Walker. I'm an Exorcist. [ Clearer, more certain: steady. Rung like a quiet bell. ]
Who's been able to save someone who became a beast?
[ More importantly: ] Who wants to?
[ It's more determined and clearer still. ]
...just because someone becomes a beast, it doesn't mean they stop being human.
[ The video comes on and it's an older, slender teenager with stark white hair; pale grey eyes and a strangely delicate bright red mark slashed across the left side of his face. He seems to be in a courtyard of sorts, one of Amaterasu's guardian saplings is behind him in full bloom. He's only visible from the chest up, but the chair he's sitting in has handles behind it-- looks like a wheelchair. Whatever is taking the video also appears to be a flying sort of thing that bobs slightly. It's trying to hold this video still, but really... ]
Most of you probably already know this. [ His head cants to the side with a lightly apologetic smile. ] Some of you might even be able to still hear or reach them despite that form.
But not everyone does, and it's still too easy to say "oh, it's safer and quicker to just kill them. You don't save monsters." [ The official creed of the Hunters... but he's diplomatic enough to not say that aloud. ] Or "oh, a Sleeper can just come back." Except it isn't just us. Someone else who isn't... most of them who were human... they aren't like us. [ He smiles softly, but in a way that doesn't reach his eyes. They hood, bittersweet. ]
They're just dead then. The soul suffers until the end. Maybe beyond.
It doesn't have to be like that though. [ He seems a soft-spoken sort with a lilted voice, but his tone shifts then and becomes more certain. ] They aren't just a monster, and they don't have to stay one. Even with what they've become -- the soul is still human. Some part of them still wants to be saved; to be themselves once again. And they can. [ Mostly. At least so far in his experience. ]
Some of us have abilities that can let us purify or reverse what corrupted them and bring them back. Some of us-- [ he pauses, looking for a moment just a touch overwhelmed as his eyes drift to the side, the smallest curl of a touched sort of smile at the corner of his mouth ] ... a number of us, we're trying to do something to change things. At one of the old monasteries in Crenshaw.
[ But he closes his eyes. Deep breath, you can do this.
He lifts his eyes back up to the "camera", his expression schooled now with a quiet sort of determination. Chin up, eyes forward. ]
My name is Allen Walker. I'm an Exorcist. [ Clearer, more certain: steady. Rung like a quiet bell. ]
Who's been able to save someone who became a beast?
[ More importantly: ] Who wants to?
[ It's more determined and clearer still. ]
[ ooc: for those who want to poke around in person, there is also an open mingle log for Sanctuary!
CW: mentions of prior character death throughout ]
CW: mentions of prior character death throughout ]
Re: video;
Well, most days I feel pretty lucky to have some family around. And yes, 'Jedi' is the short version of why I want to help beasts.
[Why he chose to be a Jedi is, of course, the longer, more complicated version.]
And what about being an Exorcist? The definition that comes to mind for me is someone one who casts out demons, but uh...that's, like, entirely from fictional stories from Earth.
There's probably equivalent stories from somewhere in my galaxy, but I don't know them. And none of that tells me how it all works for you.
video;
His demeanor shifts quieter at Ezra's question though; gentle, but pensive. More softly spoken. ]
Mm, it's... not what people ever really think it is, no. I think, really, the closest way to explain is that it's similar to how we think about Beasts and purifying them. An Exorcist exists to seek them out and fight them to protect people, but by fighting them we purify them of their corruption.
In my world, when someone dies and their loved one falls into a despair in grieving them, they're visited by someone who makes them a deal. He says he'll bring their loved one back for them in a mechanical body, except... it isn't their loved one anymore. It's an Akuma. [ He says it very specifically, like it's its own thing. Also, he doesn't know a lick of Japanese. ]
An Akuma is made of a machine, a soul, and tragedy... a living weapon that only knows how to kill. He brings the loved one's soul back and corrupts it, binding it to the machine in order to power it. But it goes insane in the processing, grieving what it's become, and is then ordered to kill the person who wished them back. The person who loved them. They do because they have no choice and are mad with grief... and wear their skin then, going back out amongst humans to find more to kill. The more they kill, the more corrupt they become. The more the soul suffers and grieves the terrible thing it's become. And the more people that are killed, the more people that grieve. The more people that grieve, the more Akuma that are made.
It's an endless cycle of grief and suffering.
That's what an Exorcist exists to fight. We're chosen by a weapon that lets us purify the Akuma by destroying the corrupted body holding it and freeing the soul. It's what we exist for; to fight them and save their souls in the process. [ No matter what... militant church organizations might have to say about it. ] It isn't really about casting anything out at all, but fighting. Destroying. Unlike with Beasts, there's no life left to save; only the soul.
[ He glances down at his hands at a moment because of that, expression gentle but sober. Destroyers. For all his gentle and kind heart, that is what they are. However, also as a result of his gentle and kind heart: ]
My weapon... the form it took lets me cut the corruption but not the flesh. So I'm able to cut the corruption from a Beast without harming the human still within. [ He pauses. ] Even if it's a complicated thing, I'm so very grateful that it's something I'm able to do.
I'd been hoping maybe that by asking this I might find others who have powers that worked similarly to mine, but it hasn't been the case.
[ He likes the idea of being able to not use violence to cure beasthood, using empathy and telepathy instead, but he also recognizes it is a lot trickier and comes with a lot of risks as well. Though, honestly... so does his. Dire ones, if he wasn't able to purge his own corruption if not overwhelmed at once by it. ]
video;
The focus for a Jedi's weapon is a semi-conscious crystal. They choose us, too. Or...when we go through a Trial around crystals, we become attuned to each other.
The crystal acts as a focus for all of our abilities, but the weapon built around it is a physical weapon, that can cut through nearly any material.
On the other hand...has anyone mentioned Swords of Agency?
sorry!! my new job hit like a brick...
The Swords of Agency? No, I haven't heard of that before.... but a semi-conscious crystal? Really?
That -- sounds a lot like how my weapon works. It comes from a crystal, one that has to be fashioned first into a weapon, but that responds to our hearts.
It's called "Innocence."
no worries!
Totally different thing from a Sword of Agency. That was a gift, here, from the Pthumerian called Doorway. Everyone who has Doorway as their patron got one, in February.
It can cut blood bonds, definitely. It might be able to cut out corruption or beasthood. I...haven't tried. I mean...experimenting with someone's soul, basically -
But I guess we have to, to find ways that work?