[And it probably is going to get worse, buddy! Seeing other people's memories is a pain! Especially if it's from someone you don't want to see it, that's for sure.
It takes no more than a touch to the shard for everything to begin changing, everything turning into night, the surroundings transforming into what seems to be some place high on the sky. There's the constant murmur of something very big and very mechanical, a subtle rumbling coming from under Akira -- undoubtedly the feeling of powerful engines. There even is the noise of rotors somewhere nearby. Looks like this location is a gigantic flying machine of some sort.
A pulsing...contraption is nearby, pulsing with a malicious energy. Takes no more than a look to see it's bad news. Where's the person you're looking from, though? Even though you're obviously on someone's point of view, there doesn't seem to be a body. It's like a disembodied conscience, watching on this place.
Doesn't take long for one young man to appear. A knight, apparently. The blight having taken over this machine appears. Only takes one look that's one powerful abomination! Until finally, one voice -- voice Akira probably already knows well -- echoes all over the place: Revali's voice. There's not that much sound, but the things he manages to hear are meaningful enough:
'It defeated me one hundred years ago...' and 'You must avenge me, Link!'
Connecting the dots perhaps isn't the easiest thing to do, but if Akira manages to do so, perhaps he'll realize a certain bird, despite all his -- admittedly well deserved -- bluster and arrogance, got killed in battle a century ago. No wonder he was some disembodied conscience in that memory. Seems the memory ends before the fight between that knight and the scourge begins for real.
Well! Looks like Akira was right after all, at some point Revali really was a spirit. Or a ghost. Something!]
[Takes a moment for Revali to notice someone else has taken a look at his memories. He turns his head to Medli, glaring at her, the penguin glaring back at him in a manner that just looks hilarious on a penguin. Revali tries to figure out which memory she decided to show this guy of all people!
...something that makes him think he's right, huh. That'd be...a memory from after he died, no? There are so many like that one. Hopefully it's not the one where he had to eat crow and admit Link wasn't as worthless as he thought. Now that'd be salt on the wound]
So what if you were?
[He tried to sound like he wasn't bothered, but he failed at concealing how tense he got. He really doesn't like how Medli decided to show to so many people he was dead]
That it proves I know a spirit when I see one. [ But he doesn't seem to really be gloating about it so much, even if there is an amused curl to his lip. [
And it means this is a second chance at life for you.
[When he hears that Revali recoils. For a moment he seems at a loss for words, conflicted feelings bubbling inside him. Second chance, huh. This is his second chance in life.
At times like these, that he's alive again seems like such a joke]
Hmph.
[He doesn't seem happy in the slightest, which makes his following words sound so strange:]
[Medli pulls from his tailfeathers, warning him to stop getting defensive. Complying because really, it's easier to just do that than to go against his own soul, he sighs]
You hardly can move on when there's something you still need to do. I had just finished my duty, and was prepared to move on and leave him alone.
[Any other time he would have said 'better than it should have', given who he was relying on, but...he can't be upset Hyrule was saved. He has to acknowledge that, really]
Not like anything matters anymore, does it? Someone who has been dead for a century cannot return home like nothing happened.
Do you really think people are just going to believe their deceased hero from a century ago has come back? That there won't be suspicion because that hero, rolemodel of adult and children, survived while most of the other Champions perished, and then returned only after everything had been solved?
[He's...pretty sure that'd beget suspicion. Revali is very proud, but curiously enough, his feelings are vulnerable. People he doesn't consider worthless are the ones who can truly hurt his ego and feelings -- and honestly, the entirety of Rito Village fits that.
The thought they may think he cowardly ditched his duties, that he had backed down and betrayed their hopes or crumbled under pressure and fled or something like that...it scares him. A lot]
Besides, even though it will always be my home, I'd be little more than a stranger. After the widespread destruction of the kingdom a century ago, there's one single place Ritos live. It'd be noticeable if a Rito nobody knows appears all of a sudden in the village.
[Everyone he knew is gone. Ritos aren't as long-lived as other races. There's literally no one left who met him. No family, no descendants, no friends. The thought of living somewhere else is daunting, too, because that village is his home and...well, it'd be really hard to not be there again. He doesn't want to go live somewhere else, he wants to be back home, but it's not that simple.
People believe what's in front of them. Do you think I honestly believed in spirits or the afterlife until it came barging into my front door? If you care enough you'll figure out something.
Unless you really just intend on moping until you die again.
[ It's a tough situation but Akira thinks there's no point in overthinking. Take advantage of what you have, full stop. ]
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Date: 2021-10-24 04:06 pm (UTC)It takes no more than a touch to the shard for everything to begin changing, everything turning into night, the surroundings transforming into what seems to be some place high on the sky. There's the constant murmur of something very big and very mechanical, a subtle rumbling coming from under Akira -- undoubtedly the feeling of powerful engines. There even is the noise of rotors somewhere nearby. Looks like this location is a gigantic flying machine of some sort.
A pulsing...contraption is nearby, pulsing with a malicious energy. Takes no more than a look to see it's bad news. Where's the person you're looking from, though? Even though you're obviously on someone's point of view, there doesn't seem to be a body. It's like a disembodied conscience, watching on this place.
Doesn't take long for one young man to appear. A knight, apparently. The blight having taken over this machine appears. Only takes one look that's one powerful abomination! Until finally, one voice -- voice Akira probably already knows well -- echoes all over the place: Revali's voice. There's not that much sound, but the things he manages to hear are meaningful enough:
'It defeated me one hundred years ago...' and 'You must avenge me, Link!'
Connecting the dots perhaps isn't the easiest thing to do, but if Akira manages to do so, perhaps he'll realize a certain bird, despite all his -- admittedly well deserved -- bluster and arrogance, got killed in battle a century ago. No wonder he was some disembodied conscience in that memory. Seems the memory ends before the fight between that knight and the scourge begins for real.
Well! Looks like Akira was right after all, at some point Revali really was a spirit. Or a ghost. Something!]
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Date: 2021-10-25 02:36 am (UTC)So I was right, huh? [ He should feel bad about this but sometimes you gotta take your wins. ]
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Date: 2021-10-25 02:50 am (UTC)[Takes a moment for Revali to notice someone else has taken a look at his memories. He turns his head to Medli, glaring at her, the penguin glaring back at him in a manner that just looks hilarious on a penguin. Revali tries to figure out which memory she decided to show this guy of all people!
...something that makes him think he's right, huh. That'd be...a memory from after he died, no? There are so many like that one. Hopefully it's not the one where he had to eat crow and admit Link wasn't as worthless as he thought. Now that'd be salt on the wound]
So what if you were?
[He tried to sound like he wasn't bothered, but he failed at concealing how tense he got. He really doesn't like how Medli decided to show to so many people he was dead]
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Date: 2021-10-25 03:01 am (UTC)And it means this is a second chance at life for you.
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Date: 2021-10-25 03:52 am (UTC)At times like these, that he's alive again seems like such a joke]
Hmph.
[He doesn't seem happy in the slightest, which makes his following words sound so strange:]
Better this than passing on, I suppose.
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Date: 2021-10-25 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-25 04:06 pm (UTC)[Medli pulls from his tailfeathers, warning him to stop getting defensive. Complying because really, it's easier to just do that than to go against his own soul, he sighs]
You hardly can move on when there's something you still need to do. I had just finished my duty, and was prepared to move on and leave him alone.
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Date: 2021-10-25 04:14 pm (UTC)[ Revali you're talking to someone who knows more spirits than people at this point. ]
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Date: 2021-10-25 05:16 pm (UTC)[Any other time he would have said 'better than it should have', given who he was relying on, but...he can't be upset Hyrule was saved. He has to acknowledge that, really]
Not like anything matters anymore, does it? Someone who has been dead for a century cannot return home like nothing happened.
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Date: 2021-10-25 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-25 09:16 pm (UTC)[He's...pretty sure that'd beget suspicion. Revali is very proud, but curiously enough, his feelings are vulnerable. People he doesn't consider worthless are the ones who can truly hurt his ego and feelings -- and honestly, the entirety of Rito Village fits that.
The thought they may think he cowardly ditched his duties, that he had backed down and betrayed their hopes or crumbled under pressure and fled or something like that...it scares him. A lot]
Besides, even though it will always be my home, I'd be little more than a stranger. After the widespread destruction of the kingdom a century ago, there's one single place Ritos live. It'd be noticeable if a Rito nobody knows appears all of a sudden in the village.
[Everyone he knew is gone. Ritos aren't as long-lived as other races. There's literally no one left who met him. No family, no descendants, no friends. The thought of living somewhere else is daunting, too, because that village is his home and...well, it'd be really hard to not be there again. He doesn't want to go live somewhere else, he wants to be back home, but it's not that simple.
It's a tough situation]
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Date: 2021-10-26 03:00 am (UTC)Unless you really just intend on moping until you die again.
[ It's a tough situation but Akira thinks there's no point in overthinking. Take advantage of what you have, full stop. ]