[ thearchitect ]

[emet_sulk]

[ He's only making a new post because he doesn't want to directly engage the dragon killers (not that it will stop them from commenting on this one, but hey). ]

Tell me, those of you who are mortal: why do you deserve the lives you have been given? Why should we save your depraved worlds from falling to calamity when all you are capable of is slaughtering that which you fear and hate? Your childish arrogance, hubris, and ego destroy far more than I ever could in a millennia, and yet you continue to cry out for your pathetic existences as though any of you mean anything in the grander scheme of things. As though you matter.

Civilisations crumble and fall. Mountains may be ground to dust, or new ones arise from the ocean floor. The world changes, and yet the selfishness of mortals does not.

I pity you short-sighted fools.

Comments

text: un: bladeworks

[unknowntodeath]

And you, who is clearly not mortal, matter then?

Not in this world. You're the same as everyone else.

[emet_sulk]

The same? Oh please.

I have already outlived the rest of you by a thousand, thousand years, and I'll no doubt live thousands more if I remain here. I know very well how little I matter as an individual.

text: hawkeye

[custodire]

Why ask a question if you've already determined your own answer is the correct one?

[emet_sulk]

On the off-chance one of you says something worth listening to.

« text » un: matriarch

[menphina]

Why do you keep doing this to yourself?
You know people are just going to contest you.

[emet_sulk]

Then perhaps they should have thought twice about blindly slaying a creature whose slaughter is ordinarily worth a death sentence.

text; un: adler

[disasdeer]

This reads like a villain monologue in a play.

Maybe get an editor next time you decide to rant like this. I'm sure there's some great ones in Camelot.

Besides, it sounds like you're just searching for reasons to be proven right.

[emet_sulk]

Oh really? And mortals need no reason to be proven right because they ARE right, is that what you're saying?

text; un: Jade

[mushroomaficionado]

That is an interesting question.

I guess one must ask though: why does it matter if we "deserve" to live?

[emet_sulk]

If a colony of insects emerged and devastated your crops every year, what would you do?

text: un akashicknight

[morganknight]

If the whole can lose parts and still be itself, why throw out the whole and not just cut out the rot?

If the whole can't lose parts without being changed, then you have to keep those parts.

whatever you believe, you will never see what you want to see if you discard it all.

[emet_sulk]

What you describe sounds much like what I and my brethren were attempting on my own world. Fixated as mortals are on the present, they resisted quite stubbornly.

un: oftheskies

[ranksinmistlore]

It is in the nature of humes to be impetuous. Would you fault them for acting within that nature?

[emet_sulk]

[ How strange. An Eorzean term from a name he doesn't know? ]

Yes, I would. Man is capable of change - they are simply unwilling.

[Text; UN: DemonsandSugar]

[cultivatingsin]

Your point?

Oh it's the pity, right? Thanks.

[emet_sulk]

Then perish for all I care. When you are gone, the world will be a better place for your absence.

text; un: stargazer

[leicesters]

Wow! You sound like an old timer who woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

[emet_sulk]

Spoken like a child who has nothing to offer in rebuttal except insults.

video; un: coffeefiend

[ichoosefight]

You're asking the wrong question. It doesn't matter if we deserve it or not. We've got it, and we're going to do whatever we can to hold onto it.

Are you any different?

[emet_sulk]

You don't ask the locust whether they deserve to live when their swarms devastate the crops. Creatures who are a blight on the land should be erased.

text; un: tuge

[yunxiguang]

[Sizhui thinks a long time about responding to this... He wasn't a part of the group that defended Celliwig, nor the group that killed the dragon. His stake in this sequence of events is low, and therefore his opinion on all these matters doesn't hold as much weight as those who were more personally involved--nor is he experienced enough to be giving out words of wisdom to strangers. Still, this person sounds... lost, to him. Angry? Certainly. Wounded? Maybe. Looking for answers, or looking for someone to understand his anger? Sizhui won't know the answer to that unless he tries to engage.]

All life matters. Living things do not have to earn the right to live, whether they are human, dragon, immortal, or some other creature. Life is precious without regard to whose it is.

If something lasts for a brief instant, why does that mean it shouldn't have existed at all? How can we judge the worth of someone else's experience when we don't know what that entails?

[emet_sulk]

[ He is tired. So very tired. ]

If that brief life decides to spend its time slaughtering anything it is afraid of, it ought to be the one put to the sword instead.

text; un: manslayer

[hitokiri]

maybe none of it fuckin matters what difference does it make

[emet_sulk]

You care nothing for your world then?

text, un: sciencerebel

[sciencerebel]

Congratulations on making a vast over-generalization of trillions of people without even having any knowledge of what our individual worlds are like. I'm just positively dazzled by your immortal wisdom.

[emet_sulk]

Oh yes? Tell me more about how your world lacks conflict, has people who come together to share all they have, who create, learn, and care for the star they live upon, and who do not allow petty emotions such as greed or jealousy to rule their hearts.

text; un: therightful

[problemsoncauthess]

[ Oh, this is really cute. Ardyn doesn't know it's Emet (although he likely could infer it after some thought), but the hopeless indignation really is charming. Of course he can't help replying - and perhaps even be a little sincere with it, not in the least because there's a number of other people already mocking the lofty tone and accusations. ]

Have you not answered your own question, my friend? That selfishness is the reason why people believe themselves worthy of salvation. I fear it is you who is to be pitied if you wish to believe there may be a better, worthier explanation.

[emet_sulk]

I am well past the point of hoping for anything from these people.

action!! as discussed

[luciing]

[ Oblivious to the network at large and the posts that lie therein, Somnus happens upon Emet-Selch at chance. His greeting comes as usual, delivered in his typical grim monotone: ] Hail, Emet-Selch.

[ Normally, that would be the extent of their interaction, but today the other man appears fairly preoccupied with the communication device held within his hands. Somnus can understand how one may come to be disgruntled while staring at a screen with all of its tiny functions and incessant notifications. Technology is rather perplexing, and frustrating.

It is that which prompts him to speak once more. ]

Is aught amiss?

[emet_sulk]

[ At a certain point, Emet-Selch had been persuaded to go out for a walk to try and clear his head. Hythlodaeus hadn't been able to dissuade him from leaving his device behind, and the Ascian has unfortunately spiralled back into his sour mood upon reading the latest notifications. ]

...Mortal foolishness. As usual.

voice; un: rokumon

[garyoutensei]

I don't really give a shit about any of that.

I have something I need to do. And if you, or anyone else, gets in my way, I'll cut you down. It's that simple.

[emet_sulk]

That's it. Embrace the violence within you - mindless, murderous creatures that you are.

text; un: lilmonix3

[peninhand]

There is something of an error in your statement. You call us mortal, implying by contrast you are immortal. The truth is, you're not. I do not know you, nor do I need to in order to make such a statement. Anything that exists will end someday, no matter what world you come from. It is quite simply the very nature of existence.

Therefore, the difference between you and us is only in the duration of life. To use a metaphor, we are butterflies and you are turtle. Even if your lifespan equals tens of thousands of our lives— You will meet the same end and are subject to the same natural laws as us.

I believe it is the density of one's life and not its duration that matters in the end. I could technically have existed as an "immortal" back in my homeworld. But to me, this would have been a fate worse than death.

I do not have much to comment on the rest of your assertion. It is correct humans are savage creatures that are capable of doing terrible things. But this is ignoring the wonderful and beautiful things they are also capable of. For any given thing, you can paint it in a negative or positive light by focusing on certain aspects and ignoring others-- As you did.

[emet_sulk]

[ This is all very wonderfully written et cetera. However, he's deeply insulted by her opening statement. ]

Did you just try to imply that I don't know my own immortality?

text; un: 7😆H!TA1

[arf]

Uh... I go to school and act in a theater man.
I'm definitely not capable of slaughter. I don't even play the bad guys in our plays!
I don't know about deserve or whatever, idk what you have to do to deserve it, like maybe there's a memo or something but I just want to act and be able to smile for my friends and family.

But like for real if all of the civilizations fall at one time then there won't be anyone left and that kinda sucks too. It'd be like a gap in the ecosystem or whatever you learn in bio!! Then all the stuff slurps up and a bunch of stuff that relied on humans for food dies anyway like puppies and kitties and seagulls!

Do you need someone to talk to? A vacation?

Have you ever been to a puppy cafe, my dude? It sounds like you need to go to a puppy cafe.

Re: text; un: Riverofheaven

[kokuryuu]

[Souma finds Taichi's response so charming that he can't help reading. But then he gets to the end... Oh no.]

Taichi-san what is puppy Cafe?
Is it...
you... eat puppies?

[ooc: hi there, if this is not ok please let me know & I can delete. may we assume that since he joined Mankaika they have met?]

text; un: inkedoutname

[kokuryuu]

[ooc: is it okay if Souma also responds to Taichi's tag above? If you are not ok just let me know and I'll delete!]

[Souma figures he has a pretty good guess as to what this was all about.]

I was upset that they killed the dragon too
It made me vomit a few times
After the sick feeling got better after a day or two I just felt rage

[emet_sulk]

(ooc: yep perfectly fine!)

Indeed. I cannot imagine a higher form of arrogance than to mete out 'justice' without the consent of the majority.

How fare you now?