phantom operatives catchall

[rebelles]

Who • Phantom Operatives + Visitors
What • Guild mingling
When • Oct/Nov
Where • Guild Home

Comments

[justonezero]

...

I don't know if it's related, but... Hien seemed really preoccupied with death the last time I talked to him. It kind of reminded me of the way Misteaks and Mithrun were talking as Tarvos and Macha...

Is it possible he's the terror of death...? Or is it just because he's losing himself...?

[glassbell]

Don't ask him if he's dead. He does not like that. He warned me that I could have ended up like him though, since I nearly died. Hence the... stupid question.

[ Fuurin with the dunce hat here. ]

But his connection to death may have made that a sensitive subject.

[insinning]

...his memories are being erased on a level worse than ours. [ He frowns, thinking] He's angry at Cubia, but resigned too. All of his happy memories disappeared first, then his unhappy ones. Now he's forgetting parts of Fragment too, I think.

[A pause ]

'Death'...I remember seeing coffins in his space before...but more importantly, what does the first phase of the poem say again?

[justonezero]

"Riding the wake is blank, the Shadow of Death, to drown all that stands."

[insinning]

... Hien is terrifyingly good at fighting in a rather violent way, and with his latest appearance...

[ He doesn't want to say it, but it does fit. And it seemed like something Cubia would do to punish Hien.]

[justonezero]

...He's like a grim reaper.

[insinning]

I think he's always enjoyed having to that look to him...I heard stories about what he did to everyone in the arena...

[justonezero]

He told me about that, too.

[glassbell]

That sounds...

Really ominous. I know we might have to, but I really don't look forward to fighting him as a wave at all.

[justonezero]

Y-yeah... I really hope not.

[rebelles]

He brought up death to me, too. Saying things like people would forget the dead quickly. He seemed resigned to his fate.

[ Looking at the board and that 'shadow of death' line. ]

I didn't get the sense that he was trying to collect emotions from me, but it's too much of a coincidence.

[justonezero]

Maybe he's trying to collect data on reactions to someone who's dying?

[rebelles]

I tried to tell him he was giving up on himself too early, but I doubt any of it got through to him.

[ She sounds a little frustrated by it. Maybe if enough people tell him, it'll finally sink into his head slash database. ]

[justonezero]

He got upset at me, too.

[rebelles]

What did you say?

[justonezero]

That I wanted to try to save him, even against his wishes.

[rebelles]

[ Yeah, that sounds familiar. Like Nanashi, Haru had also wanted to save Hien when Hien himself didn't. She's had some time to sit and think on it since then. ]

He told me it wasn't worth living without his memories. I think...we can't push what we believe on him. That would make us like Lily. But if we can find a way to return him to before, he might change his mind.

[insinning]

[ Sinclair wisely does not mention his fighting sessions with Hien and the things discussed within them.

He's pretty sure Hien is just being Hien here.]

[rebelles]

[ Sinclair you had better not be getting yourself beat up! He's wise to keep quiet or Haru would have concerns. ]

[alchemicalbirth]

...I believe you may be correct that he could be the 'terror of death'.

It would be apt, wouldn't it? For a powerful healer to adopt such a role. Lily would likely enjoy such a contradiction.

[ Pause as he realizes he is responding to a healer in question. How funny. ]

Present company excluded, of course.

[justonezero]

I'm not nearly as powerful as he is!

[alchemicalbirth]

Oh, of course not.

At the moment, anyway.

[ Maybe Nanashi will turn into a healer who can scare the hearts of those who don't take of themselves...just kidding. ]

[justonezero]

I definitely won't outclass an admin anytime soon.

[alchemicalbirth]

Have you ever imagined you might outclass anyone?

[justonezero]

Maybe if it was at gaming or something like that...