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I'm quite at peace knowing one day my soul will find it's way to an afterlife, at least that is what I hope. But for now I'll exist until one day I am destroyed or decide it is time to 'greet the reaper' so to speak.
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*I shrugged again. I seemed to be doing that a lot today.*
Well, to be clear, I obviously don't have a death wish, but I've seen enough to suspect that I might be one of the closest things to an exception there is. Not really sure how to feel about that. Technically, I'm over a century old, but I've only been awake about... twenty of those years? I've kind of been avoiding thinking about what I'm actually going to do with my unaging self long-term. I'd been distracting myself with world-ending threats, but now...?
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*I hummed in thought, before crossing my arms.*
Not a huge fan of living alone honestly. Despite some of the rather... exotic individuals around here, I think I'd prefer to stick around the keep. After all, worst case, I'll be on hand if something happens.
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*I snorted in semi-disbelief.*
Damn, what a way to nuke my sense of scale from orbit. If you don't consider yourself comparable to a god, then I'd quite hate to so much as breath the same oxygen as something you actually think qualifies.
*Maybe it had simply been so long that I'd forgotten what godly auras felt like. Maybe it was simply that when I was standing before the Pantheons, I'd been too weak to sense them the same way I could sense Alna now. Whatever the case, I quite hoped that such things stayed thoroughly not my problem for a long long time.
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*I chose not to outright dispute that, despite just how... frankly incorrect he was. I couldn't age. My body was not normal, not mortal any longer. Even now, I could only vaguely grasp the theory behind what happened when I self-resurrected. After all, I could only analyze it while dead. This guy wasn't the first Death God and/or concept of Death I'd stood before, and if all those other guys combined couldn't kill me, despite definitely wanting to? Well, I wasn't about to give this guy's promise much credence. Honestly, best case scenario, this "Uncle Death" knew perfectly well the reality and was just playing it off; after all, Death had a reputation to maintain with all these other guys. Outwardly, I merely shrugged with a wry expression.*
If that day comes, sure, but I've long since given up on there being an afterlife for me.
*I snorted and rolled my eyes at the following puns.*
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*My expression was somewhat dry, as I took his hand and shook carefully, still minding my strength just in case.*
Oh, I suppose I guess I expected you to have sensed it already, but I wasn't really concerned about dying. Since most tales of "Death" as a being tend to revolve around those with a bit of concern over the cosmic balance, I was more worried about your stance on people that sort of sit outside the conventional life/death cycles. Which, you know...
*I gestured at Alna and the vampire-looking guy, Vinashy.*
We got these guys sure, and it's not that I can't die, more-so that I don't exactly stay dead. I'm genuinely not even entirely sure how it works myself. That's a bit too high-concept for me, since I did it on accident honestly. But probably, the reason I keep getting banished from other dimensions is that people can't get rid of me otherwise. I mean, the first time around, it was basically an all-star line-up of my world's godly pantheons, and they were pissed that I'd somehow outdone them in terms of immortality.
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*I raised a skeptical brow at that, but shrugged in acceptance*
Okaaay, sure, I'll bite. My apologies, I don't exactly have the best experience with god-like beings as far as altruism is concerned. But sure, I'd be a pretty poor guest if I wasn't willing to act as a defender in times of need.
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*My expression was somewhat dry, as I took his hand and shook carefully, still minding my strength just in case.*
Oh, I suppose I guess I expected you to have sensed it already, but I wasn't really concerned about dying. Since most tales of "Death" as a being tend to revolve around those with a bit of concern over the cosmic balance, I was more worried about your stance on people that sort of sit outside the conventional life/death cycles. Which, you know...
*I gestured at Alna and the vampire-looking guy, Vinashy.*
We got these guys sure, and it's not that I can't die, more-so that I don't exactly stay dead. I'm genuinely not even entirely sure how it works myself. That's a bit too high-concept for me, since I did it on accident honestly. But probably, the reason I keep getting banished from other dimensions is that people can't get rid of me otherwise. I mean, the first time around, it was basically an all-star line-up of my world's godly pantheons, and they were pissed that I'd somehow outdone them in terms of immortality.
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*I raised a skeptical brow at that, but shrugged in acceptance*
Okaaay, sure, I'll bite. My apologies, I don't exactly have the best experience with god-like beings as far as altruism is concerned. But sure, I'd be a pretty poor guest if I wasn't willing to act as a defender in times of need.
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*Even with Overclock V5 running at full bore, the only real warning I had of the second skeleton's repositioning was the reappearance of his aura directly beside me. Thankfully, between my enhanced perception and speed, I had a small eternity to panic in fast-forward, so fast that it ceased to be perceptible in combination with my relatively solid composure. I resisted the urge to cringe away from the very literal touch of death, my personal space quite thoroughly invaded, as I carefully and politely as I could manage reached over to brush the limb off me.*
Collin. I'm new around here... but that's pretty obvious. And "lively"? Ironically, that must be my line, given how chummy you're being.
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*I barely managed to conceal my trepidation, but hopefully, I came off generally amicable. As things were, I was having to enter an almost meditative state to avoid giving too much attention to any one of the absurd individuals I was now surrounded by.*
Uh... Hi?
*Like, what did you even say to the manifestation of "Death"?*
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*I grimaced openly, cringing at the memory of those abominations. Sure, Yandere had been bad on a personal level, an unparalleled nemesis, but Scion?*
Well, I call them whales, but that's more a mocking term so I can focus less on how easily they could destroy... pretty much everything if they started taking us in any way seriously back then. One was killed by pure luck and betrayal of one of their own kind. Only reason we could even kill the remaining one was that he -it- was depressed and suicidal... and also never took humanity seriously until it was too late. We hit him with a weapon that could strike every single dimension he was in simultaneously and managed to cripple enough of his vital abilities that we were able to finish him off before he could recover or escape.
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*Death him-fucking-self? Absolutely wonderful. My flat expression didn't quite convey the existential dread of that concept... more because my very existence was as likely to fascinate as it might personally offend such a being.*
So... Death, huh? Like... THE Death or just A Death? I mean, the multiverse apparently being what it is, I feel like there's a distinction to be made there.
*A moment later, my head swiveled towards the indicated shadow with trepidation.*
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*It was a good thing I was fairly numb to the concept of self-preservation presently, because otherwise my poker face might not have held in the face of the utterly noxious, seething scent of blood that billowed off of the newcomer's soul and battered my senses, even through Alna's aura. At this point, I was starting to wonder if I might have just stumbled into being the "noble general" of some evil overlord type. Between the skeleton's obvious charisma and power, the unstable but loyal cutie as his maybe right hand, and the probably "hyper competent" assassin general now showing up, I was starting to see a potential pattern developing before my genre savvy senses. Just my luck.*
Ah... Yes, a pleasure. Sorry, I'm a bit out of my depth right now, I think.
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*Honestly, my own neck probably should have been getting sore from how much I kept having my attention snapped in different directions. I watched relatively impassively, as Alna conversed with... another skeleton.*
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*I shrugged in turn.*
Eh, you're not wrong. I've not really participated much in holidays in recent memory. The Apocalypse tends to be something of a mood-killer... as does the existential dread of multiverse-ganking space-whales.
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A holiday is a holiday or whatever common phrase you humans use eh?
*Glances to Collin*
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