Event || Melodies of Death

[melodiesofdeath]

Characters: Kalki and you.
Where: Aqures Ixen, 03rd District.
When: August 03rd.
Summary: As promised, Kalki is before the Crystal of Fire. Every character has the possibility to speak to her (or try to kill her). If you want to speak to her individually, please reply to the first thread! If you want to play out the conclusion, please reply to the second thread-- It is a lead-in to the next part of the Anniversary event and will be one single, big thread.
Warning: All of them.

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[melodiesofdeath]

You are missing a key element in this, Sephiroth.

[ This time she did turn to face him. ]

If the Calamity does consume this world, then it shall consume all others. Then what will happen?

[shinrasfinest]

[Next logical step, much like the half-step towards her that he takes. The frown that he's been holding back from falling between his eyes starting to happen but for the most part hidden between his bangs of silver.]

Why would you want it to consume all worlds? Just to end all existence- it doesn't seem to have any reason.

[Unless- Suddenly, sharp as ever he remembers for a moment what a certain little girl had shown him. Perhaps after going through all of the darkness and despair the Calamity would leave in it's wake...]

You think that something good is going to come out of all of this?

[melodiesofdeath]

Of course.

[It sounded like something evident to her, but she shared it with Sephiroth.]

From our limited point of view, everything would be lost, but the truth couldn't be any worse. All of existence will not be lost, it will be contained within the Calamity. The Calamity, or rather God by then, will be able to create a new world. All the lives and worlds will not be lost-- They shall be reborn in a new world.

[shinrasfinest]

[This sounds too familiar...an all too knowing knot of resonance tightens up low in Sephiroth's gut as her previous words to him now ring through to those shadowy corners of his conscious mind that he's put a lot of effort into pushing as far into said corners as possible.

It's impossible, given the strain from the battle, to keep the fact that he did connect with her, from his face entirely. But Sephiroth still makes the effort to.]

...but you don't know that. What's to stop it endlessly repeating; your new world won't be new for long.

[melodiesofdeath]

[She laughed at Sephiroth's words then shook her head.]

Ah, Sephiroth. If only you were to remain this capable of critical thinking in the future, maybe you could become God.

[shinrasfinest]

I am not that man.

[He tries to keep the emphasis from his tone, but it slips through particularly on the word 'not' in this instance.]

Chances are it's all just part of an even bigger cycle; isn't that the very truth of life? Life is always reborn, you seek to change nothing.

[melodiesofdeath]

[She didn't reply to his question, instead turning to the crystal to stare at it once again.]

You are that man, much the same way I was that woman twenty-eight years ago-- I just didn't know it yet.

[shinrasfinest]

[The silence just verifies that she's not thought that far into it; perhaps she doesn't even care. Not that it makes it any more comfortable when he considers the madness that will become his defining trait - washing out all other virtuous things he'd done in his life, to a point where even he himself wouldn't remember them.]

It doesn't matter...[He tries to form words carefully; even if they feel a little hollow.]

Doesn't that give a reason not to simply follow the path now before you?

[melodiesofdeath]

It does matter.

[She turns back to Sephiroth and shakes her head.]

One of us here is running away and avoiding the harsh reality. How does it not matter?

[shinrasfinest]

No. One of us here is purposefully steering themselves down a different path, knowing that the other only leads to defeat. Or rather, an empty existence.

[He wants for that statement to be true so much, yet despite the advise and support he's had from the other Heroes there will always be a small voice that might whisper of inevitability.]

What do you stand to gain, from all of this?

[melodiesofdeath]

No. You know the other path leads to a world where you will be alone against everyone. You do not steer from your path because you think the other one leads to an empty existence-- It is because you are afraid of what you'll have to do, to accomplish what is right.

[With that said, Kalki will go silent.]

[shinrasfinest]

I know where that other path leads. You are wrong in your assumption.

[Silent she might remain, Sephiroth has to get the last word in. Never mind that he doesn't rightly know all of the ins-and-outs of his own future. Only glimpses into a mind which had shut him out with all the force of the God it puffed itself up as.]

Did he- [He refrains from referring to his doppelganger as 'I'- but the question is on his mind so he presses it.] -know you, before?

[melodiesofdeath]

Of course he did.

[She nodded.]

As a matter of fact, I think very highly of him. He nearly accomplished what I hope for one of you to eventually do.

[shinrasfinest]

You mean...

[He looks pointedly away, off to the floor to the one side as he drags his thoughts over the jagged edge of considering his future self. What he had managed to glean were only the central facts but-]

...taking over the will of the Calamity?

[Lets keep it about relevant topics; he doesn't need to go down the twisted way of thinking that he grows to believe that the world owes him a godhood.]

[melodiesofdeath]

[Kalki smiled but turned back to look at the Crystal. She didn't seem to have the intention to answer any more questions.]