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neon-halloween · 6 months
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Art Details Series: Afternoon Tea
|| George Dunlop Leslie, Walter Granville-Smith, David Emile Joseph de Noter, John Bagnold Burgess, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, Charles Bittinger, Henry Salem Hubbell, Joseph Caraud, Edward Portielje ||
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superiorsturgeon · 8 months
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Touch of Gray
Jaune: *relaxing on the couch with Pyrrha, gently playing with his hair*
Jaune: …hey Pyr?
Pyrrha: *looks up from her magazine* Hmm? What is it, Jaune?
Jaune: Hypothetically, what would you think if I started going gray as I got older…?
Pyrrha: 🤔
Pyrrha’s Vision of the Future:
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Pyrrha: 😍 MMMmmmm…..!
????: …pyrr…
????: …rha…Pyrr…ha!
Jaune: …PYRRHA!!
Pyrrha: AAHH!! I’m sorry!
Jaune: You kinda…spaced out there for a minute, Pyr! Whatcha thinking about?
Pyrrha: *looks away* Oh, nothing~! 😅
Jaune: Now that I’m thinking about it, what if I started going bald like my granddad? That’d be pretty ridiculous! 🥚
Pyrrha: …
Pyrrha: …No. I will fight the universe to stop that horrible future from coming to be.
Jaune: …this conversation took a really unsettling turn. You know I’m kidding, right?
Pyrrha: I will kill the gods for that head of hair. 👿
God of Light/God of Darkness: *just returned, immediately depart Remnant again* NOPE!!!
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howlingday · 4 months
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Brother of Light: Your grandson has gone too far, Salem.
Salem: Oh? Is it because Jaune speaks the truth when you have gone too far?
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walshies · 4 months
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"We will need all of you to meet what's coming. And we will meet it with storm and fury."
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boghermit · 13 days
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salemknightts · 1 year
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listening isnt enough i need to get the song under my skin and absorb it into my being.
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thatorigamiguy · 1 year
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Alive Me
Pyrrha: "Alive me bitch! I need to get that Arc dick!"
GoL: "NO! YOU'VE ASKED ME THIS A THOUSAND TIMES, AND I'LL KEEP TELLING YOU AS SUCH! BESIDES, HE'S WITH ROSE ANYWAY, SO WHAT WOULD IT MATTER?!"
Pyrrha: "Yeah, I know he's with Ruby now! You think that will stop me from fucking him? Hell, I'll fuck her too! They're both total catches, and here I am, wasting away being dead as fuck when I COULD be down their alive as fuck and GETTING fucked!"
    GoL openly gaped at Pyrrha’s aggressive honesty, before gritting his teeth in annoyance.
GoL: "THE ANSWER. IS. NO!"
    Pyrrha narrows her eyes at GoL in annoyance, before a gasp escaped her as she was hit with a sudden epiphany. She turned to face GoD with a gleeful smile on her face.
Pyrrha: "Will you alive me again and put me back on Remnant?"
GoL: "WHAT?! MY BROTHER WILL DO NO SUCH THING-" 
GoD: "DEPENDS. WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?"
    His brothers interruption caught GoL off so suddenly, that it caused him to nearly choke on his own spit before he gave him an incredulous look.
GoL: "WHAT?!"
    Pyrrha flashed GoD a dazzling PR smile worthy of champion fighter, before happily explaining her proposal to the curious deity.
Pyrrha: "I'll not only go down and continue helping to fix your brothers fuck ups, I'll also convert Jaune AND Ruby into being worshippers of yours and helping others understand your words and teachings!"
    GoD put a hand to his chin as he thought her words over, while GoL could only stare on in disbelief at the fact that his brother was actually giving them consideration.
GoD: "MMMMMH, THOSE ARE PRETTY GOOD TERMS..."
GoL: "BROTHER, YOU CANNOT JUST-!"
    Before GoL could finish, Pyrrha chose to propose one last add on that she knew would bring his brother to her side.
Pyrrha: "Plus, it would annoy both Salem, Ozpin, AND your brother to no end knowing that you willingly allowed me back to life but refused to let either one of them pass on, even if it's your brothers fault!"
    Pyrrha knew she had the God of Darkness right then and there when his eyes widened in shocked glee and he clapped both his hands together sending a loud echo throughout the unending darkness surrounding them.
GoD: "AND WE HAVE OURSELVES A DEAL MISS NIKOS!"
GoL: "WHAT?! BROTHER YOU CAN'T-!"
    GoL tried interjecting, only to be cut off as his brother gave him a scathing look.
GoD: "I CAN DO WHATEVER THE FUCK I DESIRE TO DO BROTHER, ESPECIALLY IN REGARDS TO THE DEAD. BECAUSE THE LAST TIME I CHECKED, MY REPSONABILITES PERTAINED TO DEALING WITH BOTH LIFE AND DEATH, AND AS SUCH, I CAN LET HER GO BACK DOWN IF I DAMN SO WELL PLEASE.”
GoL: "I-YOU-HOW DARE-!"
GoD: "BROTHER, ARE YOU TRULY GOING TO DENY SENDING BACK A POWERFUL WARRIOR SUCH AS MISS NIKOS? SURELY HER STRENGTH AND SKILL WOULD AID YOUR IDIOT FAILURE OF A KNIGHT IN ACTUALLY COMPLETEING THIS ABSOLUTE MORONIC TASK AGAINST SALEM?" 
    GoL fought hard to keep his temper under control, his teeth gnashing against one another as he really had no counter argument to deny Nikos from returning to the mortal coil. 
GoL: "...I WILL CONCEDE THAT HER SKILLS AND STRENGTH WOULD BE A BOON TO OZMA’S CRUSADE AGAINST SALEM. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN-!”
    GoL hadn’t even finished speaking when he was once again cut off by his brother, who held a satisfied smile on his face.
GoD: "THEN IT'S SETTLED. MISS NIKOS WILL BREATH MORTAL AIR YET AGAIN." 
GoL: "YOU JUST CAN'T DECIDE THAT RIGHT NOW!"
GoD: "OH, BUT I CAN DEAR BROTHER! AND BY "I CAN" I MEAN, I ALREADY SENT HER BACK FIVE MINUTES AGO WHILE I WAS DISTRACTING YOU."
GoL: "...YOU SON OF BIT-!"
-Back on Remnant-
    Pyrrha breathed in deeply, taking in that fresh, living air, before exhaling it all out. she opened her eyes to take in a bright sunny day, her whole being vibrating with excitement, and before she knew it she was running to the nearby borders of Argus. She let loose a cackle, before she loudly declared to the whole world.
Pyrrha: "FUCKING FREE AGAIN BITCHES! YOU TWO BETTER KEEP THAT BED WARM AND READY, BECAUSE I'M READY AND WILLING BABY!"
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From the Archives of Madness that is @noneatnonedotcom and I’s discord. Something I came up with, because the thought of Pyrrha asking GoD to bring her back alive solely to annoy GoL amused me. Not even being dead will deny her getting laid by that hunky blond of hers, and if she’s gotta share? Well, he’s not called Jaune “Red Heads Do It Better” Arc for nothing.
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iamafanofcartoons · 1 year
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Based on @bestworstcase post
https://www.tumblr.com/bestworstcase/715964277302902784/oz-we-have-to-kill-salem-its-why-im-cursed
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bestworstcase · 29 days
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Out of curiosity (and some confusion), how do you think Faunus came about? Unless I'm misremembering (in which case this would be pretty awkward) Faunus didn't exist in the First Wave of Humanity, and given that the two creation myths we're presented with (not even by an actual Faunus) disagree on almost every point I'd be surprised if there was an actual answer-
you’re remembering correctly that the faunus are unique to remnant. also tonight has been one of my periodic episodes of being unhinged about this so here is some Background Reading.
of the two faunus creation myths one is explicitly a very old faunus oral tradition and the other reads to me very strongly as a syncretism with the (human) brother-cult, in that the earlier conceit of freely chosen, joyful transformation and liberation by a wild but benevolent trickster god is retained but presented within an explicit framework of divine judgment and moral imperative to be peaceful and harmonious or else bring about self-annihilation through conflict. which is exactly the sort of cultural evolution that you’d expect to get from refracting ‘the shallow sea’ through the eschatological prism of ‘the two brothers’ and the doctrine of the brother-cult generally.
(for a real historical exemplar of this sort of shift occurring, see the cultural remapping of ambiguous deities in many pre-christian polytheistic traditions onto the christian idea of The Devil; this is fairly ubiquitous but the most generally accessible case is the popular conception of hades as an evil god and hades as hell, whereas in actual practice hades was the god who ruled over hades, which was where everyone went when they died and encompassed a variety of different areas raging from very nice to okay to unpleasant.)
see also: ozpin’s commentaries on ‘judgment,’ which gestures at exactly this phenomenon. “faunus always cast their god as a wise and noble figure, while human stories portray the same god as a trickster, not to be trusted.” he identifies both tales as faunus in origin (& certainly the characterization of the god of animals in ‘judgment’ is more ‘wise and noble’ than ‘trickster,’ although i think ozpin is also showing his own biases here because the god depicted in ‘the shallow sea’ is a trickster who is also very wise, honest, and fair. so ‘wise and noble’ vs ‘untrustworthy trickster’ is something of a false dichotomy, but also one that maps perfectly onto the gods of light and darkness as depicted in brother-cult doctrine.
<- the way rwby Handles religion is really excellent
anyway. i have a theory.
it’s lightly implied that grimm and faunus came first, humans second. (per WOR: there has never been a time in human history without grimm, and faunus have been around as long as humans “if not a little longer,” and there was a historical period when faunus were more numerous than humans.)
which is incongruous with the faunus’ own creation myths, both of which hinge on humans choosing to be transformed into something new by divine power.
salem squares that circle. salem was the last human of the old world, all that remained of humanity, and by extension she was also the first person of remnant. if faunus came to be before humans were revived, and salem embraced the faunus as her own people as discussed in the background reading post, it’s perfectly cogent for the faunus to be older than this humanity whilst understanding themselves as a people who came from humans, because for the very oldest one of them that was true.
which explains the myth, more than the factual history, but i do think it probably gets at the factual history too, because…
mechanically speaking.
what did salem do when she jumped into the pool of grimm? she combined the waters of life (pure creation) with the waters of grimm (pure destruction) into a new kind of being (herself, a grimm-person) in the same pattern as before (herself, a human-person with free will and a dualistic nature).
that’s, uh, how the brothers created humankind. and the jabberwalker. and the cat by combining their magic (dark’s fire, light’s smoke) into new kinds of beings modeled after themselves.
what did salem hope to achieve by rebelling against the brothers? she wanted humanity to “claim the powers of their creators and perfect their own design.”
and she failed but also succeeded in the end because she Did That—in the very literal sense. salem Remade Herself in the pool of grimm; jinn’s framing of the story through ozpin’s point of view elides salem’s agency at every step and implies an uncomplicatedly suicidal motive for jumping into the pool of grimm, but—i mean–
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—the blacksmith has been right under our noses this whole time because she’s the form that salem gives to the idea of remnant’s souls. the lore put forward in v9 recontextualizes and clarifies a lot of what happens in the lost fable, not just in terms of the interpersonal history with the brothers but also the reason certain things unfold as they do and (most importantly) where the missing pieces might be.
the god of light’s understanding of balance is wrong. death as permanent unconscious stasis is not the natural order of things, it’s an arbitrary rule the brothers made up, and they themselves are beings from a place where death is a moment of rest and healing before rebirth as yourself again. they made humans in their image. balance is something that happens when things are given the time to figure themselves out.
what happens to the nature of life and death on remnant when the brothers remove themselves from the artificial system they created? it’s not balanced. it’s like a ball perched juuust at the upper rim of a ramp after you pull your hand away: it might not start rolling right away, but if you leave it long enough then something will eventually give it a nudge, whether the wind or the vibrations of a truck passing by or tiny imperceptible movements of the earth, and then that potential energy will be released.
the “death is when you stop and don’t change, forever” system was a ball sitting on a ramp in a room with someone who both really wanted to get the ball rolling and had absolutely nothing better to do than figure out how to give it that nudge. for millions of years.
yeah? here’s salem telling ozma “our souls transcend death.” that’s a surprise tool that will help us later.
the natural order of things, in remnant as in the ever after, is change. changing, it rests. ascension is just how it is in the ever after, meaning it’s in balance, meaning it’s the rhythm the ever after kind of settled into over time. the ball is on flat ground down there, jabber and all.
but the ever after didn’t begin the way the brothers’ world did—it wasn’t created ex nihilo with a specific prescription for how life/death were going to work, it was cultivated into a garden from wilderness. (ascension is the cycle of the harvest: when you have finished, when you are ready, the tree calls you back—you’re reaped—and then the seeds of you are sown and you begin again. this is a life/death system that developed through gardening!)
so it’s silly to imagine remnant’s balance will necessarily look exactly like the ever after’s balance. different beginnings, different variables, different environment. neither the ball nor the ramp are identical, so why in the world would the outcome be the same?
here’s pyrrha chanting that it is in passing we achieve immortality, through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death, i release your soul. that is also a surprise tool that will help us later.
but we can look at the ever after to get an idea of what the “lowest energy state” for the rolling-ball of a life/death system is, practically speaking, because—like i said—ascension is a cosmic repetition of how the ever after was made. the garden is populated by living fruits and blossoms of the tree who are reaped and sown in a continual cycle. the proverbial level ground is a pattern that wears in some grooves for the changing to follow. rivers, to change up the analogy a bit, don’t go flooding around everywhere all the time; the water flows through its channels, generally.
so, what patterns has remnant got, potentially?
death either takes a really, really long time (because it was dammed up for so long, the reservoirs is deep) or happens really fast, in a flood (what happens when a dam breaks?)
dying once makes you infinite (salem drowned in the fountain of creation, and became immortal)
dying twice unbinds you (salem drowned again in the pool of grimm, and remade herself into something new)
the “really fast” way of dying can maybe bind you to someone else, changing both of you in ways you may not like (ozma’s soul is continually recombined with another and he is changed against his will)
penny ambrosius bootleg ascension (i hope ambrosius enjoys his probable eventual new role as the chthonic god of remnant’s very complicated afterlife. he cannot possibly do worse than the guy who built the dam.)
however ozma’s curse gets resolved is likely to complete or alter the existing pattern(s)
gestures at the maidens. that’s a “really fast” way of dying that follows both the ozma pattern (the maidens cleave to new hosts) and the unbinding salem pattern (maidens choose themselves and also do not compromise the free will of the host or corrupt or take over the host’s conscious mind or identity)—maidens are twice-dead because they were cut out from ozma’s soul (<- spiritual death) and their cycle began with the deaths of the first four women who were given this magic.
gestures at whatever the hell is going on with silver-eyed psychopomps and the white liminal space between life and death. ruby’s eyes make her a conduit of some kind for that passage through the void; she hears pyrrha’s and penny’s cries for help (and pyrrha’s last words) after they die, and in the ever after she is haunted by penny’s sword. and the light motivated by her desperation to save people she cares about appears to be the white light that fills the void where life and death both part and come together again.
if death is a reservoir behind a dam and it happens either quite fast or very slow, what—or who—are the floodgates? [checks notes] the biological children of the “really fast” pattern-maker absent the interference pattern of salem. obviously.
notably, ozma’s influence as a pattern-maker is constrained to specific things with a direct spiritual or biological connection to himself, which tracks because his reincarnation sitch is relatively new. (likewise, i expect the penny ambrosius bootleg ascension deal will not have far-reaching effects any time soon; there are much older, deeper patterns at work here.)
salem, on the other hand, is two fucking hundred million years old. probably. on account of plate tectonics. which means that she has a much greater gravitational pull, so to speak, and is most likely to be that pattern that life/death on remnant ‘wants’ to fall into. the ball rolls down; water will flow into the deepest available channel.
so she died and became infinite and then died again in a manner she hoped would “take [infinite life]” away from her (TAKE AWAY FROM AN INFINITE QUANTITY AND AN INFINITE QUANTITY REMAINS. WAS SHE SUICIDAL OR DOING MATH.) and so remade herself.
salem wandered the face of the planet alone, awaiting a death that would never come. then she jumped into the pool of grimm. then ???. then the god of light pulled ozma out of stasis and told him “mankind is no more, but in time they’ll come back” and also he’ll kill everyone again if ozma doesn’t make them obey teach them to live in harmony with each other and stop demanding things from the gods :). THEN ozma comes back and there are human civilizations everywhere and all the faunus he encounters are in cages.
remember how the faunus are older than humankind? tha-at would be our “???” gap between salem crawling out of the grimm pool and light digging up ozma. probably.
you’ve got grimm. there have, as it’s said in ‘the shallow sea,’ always been grimm. they survived the moonfall.
you’ve got faunus. they were created when salem remade herself—the infinite life taken away from her brought them to life, in her image, just as original humans were brought to life by the brothers’ power in the brothers’ image (and of course the power salem has now was the brothers’ power and is now hers). this is maybe not what she was expecting to happen but she’s not alone anymore and, unlike humans of old, the faunus can coexist peacefully with the grimm with salem to mediate.
you’ve got the god of light taking a peek to see if perhaps salem is ready to grovel in repentance yet and going HEY WHAT THE FUCK THAT’S NOT ALLOWED…
…and hastily attempting to get the situation back under control by arranging for the “right” creations (he and his brother’s) to crowd out the ones salem defied him by making (WHEN WILL SHE LEARN HER LESSON!) and for good measure sending her beloved to punish her (SURELY THIS WILL MAKE HER SEE THE ERROR OF HER WAYS. BECAUSE SHE’S DEFINITELY THE ONE WHO’S WRONG.) because he is the god of the sunk cost fallacy first and foremost.
of course, the mere fact of allowing mankind to rise again achieves nothing but completing the “very slow” pattern—humans were dead for a long time and now they’re alive again. whoops! this is what happens when you meddle with forces you don’t understand.
anyway i think probably everyone on remnant reincarnates very slowly, not the way ozma does and also not the way ascension happens. i think when you die in remnant a part of you stays behind—infinite—to wander the face of the planet until it finds a way to guide the rest of you back home, in whatever form that takes. (BUT AS A BABY PROBABLY.) ’cause that’s the salem pattern.
points at the autumn leaf dancing around pyrrha’s memorial statue that guides jaune to see her so he can meet her mother and say goodbye. That’s Actually Pyrrha For Real. maybe. probably. a sliver of her soul left behind to find her way. i think faunus have the same cycle but it’s a bit smoother for them because they were never stuck in the old artificial death-as-stasis system and also this is why faunus genetics are so FUCKING weird, it’s because if you’ve got cat ears the first time you have cat traits forever even if in one of your lives your parents are, like, a crab faunus and a tortoise faunus. possibly children of interracial couples are more likely to be new, hence the more genetically logical outcome of usually inheriting the faunus parent’s animal.
but yeah i think the faunus like popped into existence as a consequence of salem grimming herself. that was my working theory prior to volume nine on the basis of mechanically how humans were created but in light of the v9 lore it’s quite literally the most thematically coherent explanation.
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Muffled screaming. Everyone has it backwards
Oz is Darkness and Salem is Light.
Something something destruction is just the cycle of life. It's to clear out the old and replace it with the new. It's to learn and live and die and be reborn. Oz is Darkness, because he lives and he dies and he is reborn. He tears down the old (abolishing monarchies and militaries) and replaces it with what's new (the Academies, a council). He is demonized every time he does his best to help. He believes humanity shouldn't be punished for his mistakes. He offers choice and even knowledge (but not always; but choice is one thing he values above all else). He offers magic as a gift and a tool to use. He learns and grows from his mistakes. He's willing to concede and admit when he's done wrong.
Salem is Light. She is unchanging, undying. She does not age. She believes humanity is lost without Gods, that humanity, while strong, is a fraction of what it once was. She brings life (creating and modifying Grimm). She heals those who need it (Cinders arm, telling Watts to give Tyrian a new tail). But she's stubborn. She's cruel and terrifies people. She manipulates when deemed necessary. She wants to create a new world, one where she's the sole goddess. She hates Oz's gifts to humanity (possibly aura/semblances if my theory is right). She encroaches on Oz's territory and terrorizes those who side with him, and even those who aren't affiliated with him. She's petty and angry and a hypocrite.
I just. Sits down. They're Darkness and Light. They do hold qualities of the other (Salem is Grimm and destructive, Oz is Light and creates things), but it's like how Darkness can create life and Light can destroy.
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sirazaroff · 8 months
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forgot to add but lobe that lion yang is just bare chest out sun wukong style
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Yangs got The Goods™️
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a-cloud-for-dreams · 7 months
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Soulmates— I MEAN narrative foils who have a deep understanding of each other there is nothing unprofessional or scandalous going on here-
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etruatcaelum · 8 months
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[ @qrowings // for salem ]
"Let them go, they have nothing to do with this."
Salem does not remove her hand from the side of the wagon as she meets the frantic gaze of Ozpin’s most faithful spy. Terror hemorrhages out of him, soaking dark and red as blood into the leaf mold, as his vermillion eyes flick from her to the girls: one curled up in the wagon, fast asleep, the other sitting in a dirty, tearful heap at Salem’s side.
The blonde child—Yang, isn’t it?—scrubs at her face with a grimy fist, mumbling, “Uncle… Qrow?” in a voice muddled by utter exhaustion. And then, with another darting, uncertain glance at Salem: “What’s going on? You– you know my uncle?”
“Only by reputation,” Salem says, without breaking eye contact with Qrow. Softly, she adds, “You should take better care to watch over your children. There are far worse things in these woods than I.”
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howlingday · 2 months
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The Fate of Salem
Salem: Why...
Salem: Why do you continue to deny me my vengeance?!
Brother of Light: Because you have been chosen to serve a different purpose.
Salem: ?!
Brother of Darkness: You are to spread true darkness across the world.
Salem: Darkness?
Brother of Light: Soon, the True Warrior shall be made known to Ozma.
Brother of Darkness: And together, they shall lead the people as their beacon of hope and drive back the darkness.
Brother of Light: In turn, you shall be their sacrifice.
Brother of Darkness: The limitless shadow that ushers in the light.
Salem: Why must I be the one to be sacrificed? Have I not already suffered enough?!
Brother of Light: When the True Warrior comes forth, they will summon the powers of their ancestors, and shall at last free you of your suffering.
Brother of Darkness: Then the bloodline of the warrior shall come to an end, and the vengeance you seek shall finally be found.
Brother of Light: So it is ordained...
Brother of Darkness: So shall it be...
Salem: So my purpose is not to be the savior of humanity, but I must be their sacrificial lamb...
Salem: To live only to die by the hands of a child raised by him who had wronged me...
Salem: THAT is the fate you have chosen for me?!
Brother of Light: The very same. Deny your destiny if you wish...
Brother of Darkness: But know that it would grant thee only a life of endless darkness, denied the release of death...
Brothers: WHAT SAY THEE, REGRIMMA?
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salemoleander · 2 months
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Going to the dentist! I am very scared!
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