( closed ) the moment man devoured the fruit of knowledge, he sealed his fate.

[luneminary]

Who: Ryoji and Various.
Where: All across Aldrip.
What: Some closed starters for the Gnosia event!
Warnings: General death and violence, incineration, assisted suicide/suicide, choking, ego death. Will update as it progresses!



This revelation does not come with fanfare. This is one that comes as subtle epiphany, like remembering to fetch your clothes from the laundromat or realizing you forgot to water your plants for the day. This is waking up and realizing something that has been there all along, something that has always existed inside you.

For Ryoji, it is a purpose. He doesn’t know where it comes from or why it is, only that it is ingrained in the fibers of his existence this entire time. It is instinct, a compulsion he cannot fight against — it is not a choice, or a quirk of personality. An instrument is only capable of fulfilling the purpose it has been given.

Nothing has to change, because everything is as how it has always been. As it should be. His regained dark wings remain tucked away, until the moment is at hand.

Humanity yearns for salvation. And he has been born to grant their final wish.

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[laserguy]

[Everything happened so quickly.

There's no possible way for him to react to anything, not when a gnosia attack is in play, and for a moment there's just confusion. Confusion that's replaced by dread, with that feeling further accentuated when Messiah suddenly appears to wrap her arms around him with a certain finality. He almost wants to hold her back because it's Kotone, at least an extension of her, but she disappears and time snaps back to normal with the events of everything that just happened brutally coming along with it.

Along with the blood splattering across his face.

His head slowly tilts, face frozen in numb shock, as he watches Kotone's body fall to the ground. She's not moving. There's blood already pooling around that hole in her chest and Scott stares longer at her form in disbelief, with one shaking hand slowly rising to the blood that's on his cheek. This is real. This is actually happening, isn't it? This isn't some nightmare that he can just wake up from. No matter how many times he blinks, the visage in front of him doesn't change.

There's still that dread, but it's more distant and no longer that constant pressure against him. It feels nothing compared to the suffocating feeling in his chest, like he was one that was stabbed, because he can't breathe. His throat is fully locked up as he focuses on the slumped form of his beloved girlfriend. What's happening-- she can't be dead, even though the wound in her body suggests otherwise. Of course he's not naïve to the thought that one day Kotone would die here, but to have it finally happen, in front of him...

.....

He's screaming, he's pretty sure he is, the only sound that's finally able to leave his throat.]

K-Kotone!!

[There's still that obvious threat in front of him and he should move. Do something. He can't just stand here with tears slipping beneath his glasses; he has to avenge her. Another shaky exhale leaves the mutant as Scott finally focuses on Ryoji, emotions swirling violently within him and he's trying to focus through the veil of tears. He's the grim reaper that killed her-- he's his friend and someone that cares so much about her too. There's two choices (other than getting killed himself) and he better pick now.

It's overwhelming right now, his heart beating faster than before. He's so angry, so upset with Ryoji, but. He can't kill him, even if a small part of him wants to. It's not what Kotone would want-- it's not what he wants.]

I... I'm.

[He's going to do what's right.]