[video]

[prazerbutterfly]

Mmm...

[He's a mess and it shows. In the era he's from this kind of blasphemy could ruin a good noble's reputation but it was not like he had a good one in this forsaken underground cavern. The small bags of chips, wrappers of assorted candy bars and empty bottles of both glass and plastic that likely smelled of vodka and collected booze littered around showed he hadn't moved from that spot in a while. A week to be exact. He's worn the same clothes a few days in a row and had only left once to dump himself into the lake for a haphazard wash of them. He hasn't been home. He doesn't want to go back.

Tyki might be a dangerous and overpowered person but he was very much still a man. A family man to be precise. This last little 'event' actually hit him rather hard for once.]

Genocide is one of the most effective routes to obtain something. Not without consequences, mind you, but still effective. To erase an entire town, village, nation or species can affect an entire group of another town, village, nation or species.

It's easy. It's simple. Not as hard as other ways of doing things. [From where he is laying flat on his back he's not looking at the phone but down at the city with his hand unfolding from his stomach to stretch out and face a building or two.] There's not much many of you could do to stop a genocide. It would take one blast to remove a group of houses. Another to ensure it was successful. One cut of a person to severe an entire family. One memory stolen to change someone's life forever.

I hope they are happy as they suckle on my sorrow and cherished love I gave to my loved ones while they were here. I hope they are drinking deep of my rage or my blissful confusion. Just remember it takes just one push to send someone to the edge. I can still do it. I'm still considering it. I'm still angry.

Without this city's inhabitants, you'd have nothing to feed on. You'd exhaust yourself bringing them back. Sure, the Door can bring more. They can come back. But how long until you wither up and die.

[action]

[He's up high given the angle of the camera from his phone. It's propped up enough to show his location if anyone could pinpoint the view from Spire #3. For someone like him it didn't take much to find a crook in the polished stone or a curve to lay against in the oddly shaped spire. A normal man would have to climb or find a window or hole to ease their way out of.

Despite his mood company is highly welcomed even if he'll be a little sour. The mere fact he isn't grinning or smiling like he always is can ascertain something is wrong. He's rather serious and taunting nor will he apologize.]

Comments

[Video / Private]

[elegant_and_proud]

[She'd tried to persuade him to come down from his perch a couple of days ago and been unsuccessful. Now she's well-meaning, but considerably more firm about it.

She understands that he doesn't want to be home since he's associating it with his family, but enough is enough.]

Come down from there. You can stay in a guest bedroom in my house as long as you need. You needn't go home first. I will get some of your clothes for you.

[Video / Private]

[prazerbutterfly]

[He can hear that tone. Be thankful he turned video back on even if he shouldn't. Right now he's utter trash and he'll lift his hand to push his hair back just to show more of his face. At least he's able to keep his glamour up.

Hrm, hrm. So firm and demanding. She'd made a fine wife for him.]

I suppose I should. I've completely exhausted my food supply at the moment. Well, what isn't in my house.

[Video / Private]

[elegant_and_proud]

Then come over and wash up. I will set out a large towel for you in the bathroom. By the time you've finished in the shower, I should be back with clean clothing to change into. Showering and changing your clothing will make you feel better, if only a little.

[Enough to not talk about small scale genocide over the network as a possibility, at least.]

Video / Private]

[prazerbutterfly]

Is that a request or an order, my lady? [He's not angry at her anymore. He's had a lot of time to thing. There is a small bit of playfulness to his tone but it's barely there.]

A shower does seem like a good idea. I'll be right over.

[Video]

[fadeling]

[Cole is quite distressed by this.]

They win if you keep it. Rage wreaks reckless ravages, hurts and hurting. You shouldn't hurt people. They didn't do anything.

[Video]

[prazerbutterfly]

[He's not sorry.]

All of them are to blame. All of them feed. Someone will get hurt whether it is me or not.

Re: [Video]

[fadeling]

[Rude]

You shouldn't make it worse. Hurting doesn't help.

[Video]

[prazerbutterfly]

It doesn't. It's why eradication is far more effective. Most of the time no one feels a thing.

This is more of a warning than anything else.

(Video)

[handofsilver]

Do not multiply your sorrow unnecessarily. (Celebrimbor is deeply unsettled by the words and it shows.) You cannot know for sure such a ploy would be successful in causing them to wither. All you might be doing is staining your fëa with the blood of...all of us.

(Video)

[prazerbutterfly]

You're right. I cannot say for certain it would work. As I said the Door could simply bring more. The gods could have an ace up their sleeves. Something could happen before I made the final blow to the lot of you.

My hands, if that is what you said, are far more dirty than most.

(Video)

[handofsilver]

Our lives matter; they have worth and meaning. To end them prematurely would be wrong. (He tilts his head.) Is your power truly so great?

(Video)

[prazerbutterfly]

Hai, hai. Full of meaning at the moment. What a valuable source of a meal and battery we provide for our 'hosts'. Wrong doesn't have anything to do with this. My power is enough. [It is. For several reasons.]

Nothing could be done nor will be if someone outlasts my own power.

video

[unitas]

[ Sharon, herself, is in just as much of a mess. The bags beneath her eyes have turned from a light purple to almost dark blue bruising. She hasn't been able to sleep well, not since Dahlia came and spoke to her and drained her of life.

She understands his anger, his fury, because she feels it, too. But, more than that, she's tired. She's tired of the pain and the sorrow and the fear. ]

I've raved and ranted and tried my hand at destruction; it didn't really get me anywhere, Tyki. [ She sounds almost... defeated. Empty. ] They'll get what they want and there's nothing we can do. We can't even die to achieve peace.

video

[prazerbutterfly]

['You look horrible' is the first thing he wants to say. Very classy, Tyki. Yeah no. It's hard to be playful when all he wants to do right now is destroy. Of course, that would mean countless of bystanders given how small the cave was in retrospect even if there was plenty of room.]

Heh, sorrow and rage would reign supreme before Hope even finished reviving anyone but my satisfaction wouldn't help anyone right now. [Except he knows that last part is true. There is nothing they could really do. His option would be a horrid last resort.] How your song changes so quickly. I've said from the beginning that there was nothing one can do against a god.

video | Private

[unitas]

[ Should he have said such a thing, she would have laughed bitterly. The only time appearances ever mattered was when her hair got too long and too black and she looked too much like a girl on a missing poster. There's something almost tired about her statement and it almost edges along bragging, something she would never do under most normal circumstances ("You were born Special, Alessa", "Demon, Witch, Sinner", "Mother of God", "God") but maybe it all meant something after all. ]

I've kept one god from coming into existence but if it takes a god to hurt a god, I know where to find one.

video | Private

[prazerbutterfly]

[In his world appearances were everything because there wasn't much else for talent to go on. Things were a little off but he never really paid attention to that. He only ever kept up appearances so that he could be the man for his family. He was the public image after all. The bachelor. The one others could marry into. Yet he had far more talent than he ever let on because he wasn't allowed to. Noah were suppose to be a secret. He despised gods.]

The last thing anyone needs is another god, Miss Sharon.

[beanstalk]

I suppose all it takes is to involve Road to turn you into a hypocrite.

[prazerbutterfly]

[No, screw you. He's staying with voice.]

We're all hypocrites when it comes to family, Exorcist.

[beanstalk]

[ No, fuck you, he isn't in the mood to talk. ]

"What's the point if you just come back." I believe that's what you said before.

video

[sonofacesius]

[Congrats! You've managed to piss off Will Solace. It's hard to do but threatening genocide is a pretty easy way to get him riled up. So, there's an angry fifteen year old blond demigod on the screen, scowling furiously.]

That is the worst plan I think I've ever heard. You want to kill all the people here--on the off chance that it will weaken the Gods that brought us here? Did it ever occur to you that to some they might not want to go back to their homes? Or that this is preferable to what they had?

Or that these are Gods and you should show respect. Not murder their inhabitants because your throwing a hissy fit worthy of a two year olds tantrum. Coward.

Also I'd be neglect if I didn't suggest you eat something besides potato chips and candy.

video

[prazerbutterfly]

[He'll tack it on his wall with everyone else he's pissed off. Genocide was a large game of his at home. It's what they did. The eradication of the human race and its gods was a high priority. Once the Heart was dead he wouldn't have to worry anymore.]

Well, it's not that I want to, even if it would be highly effective. It's just that it is an option that could be asserted given the right incentive or push given how much more they wish to mess with the image of my family.

Coward? Because I'm not willing to wait much- Pardon me, but are you suggesting I eat something other than this junk?

Re: video

[sonofacesius]

[Will's glad to know he's taken his priorities and re-associated them here. Nice. Way to give everyone a chance, buddy.]

I'm not saying that was the right thing for them to do. It wasn't and it's not okay. But they're Gods. And killing everyone just to get back at them isn't the answer.

And yeah, you heard me. You're a coward. Killing's the easy way. Try using your brain for once.

And yes, I am suggesting that. Eat a gods damn vegetable. Some protein. Have a complete meal.

[farmboyjedi]

[Luke thinks of Alderaan. Of the Death Stars and the sad truth of that statement.]

Sadly that's true. But one push...one being...one small group can make a difference. I know that to be true. I've lived it.

[prazerbutterfly]

This isn't your home town fairy tale, good sir. This is reality. This is the nature of things here and how they work. We can't do a single thing to stop them. There is no compromise.

[farmboyjedi]

I'm just not the type to give up easy...I have to keep looking into things, seeing what I can find out. There's got to be something, somewhere.