{Video | Crescent Moon}

[prince_of_the_moon]

Type: Video
Sender ID: crescentmoon (Sesshomaru)
To: Public
Subject: Answers. He seeks them.
Warnings: Sesshomaru being a grump.

{Silver hair flies in the wind and soft white fur is gently ruffled against a pale cheek. Sesshomaru is quite a striking presence wherever he goes, bearing the signs of his good breeding in the form of two crimson stripes on his cheeks and a purple crescent moon on his forehead. His ears taper into delicate points, too, and his eyes are the color of rich amber. When he speaks, he is accustomed to being listened to and obeyed.

Thus his first appearance on the network is dramatic, yet brief.}

Speak.

{His low voice brooks no argument and his expression is cold. He is difficult to read in the best of circumstances and his current predicament doesn't necessarily signify anything good.}

I am Sesshomaru, Lord of the Western Lands. What have you discovered about this world and the rifts?

Comments

[prince_of_the_moon]

And yet nothing was learned.

{Shaaaaame.}

[telepathicignorance]

For you, maybe.

(They learned a lot. Clearly, it's Sesshomaru who needs to experience just how bad things can get.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

{Does he?}

I have not died.

[telepathicignorance]

So you don't know anything.

(Are they always like this? Yes.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

I have visited the underworld. I know what awaits souls.

[telepathicignorance]

Probably better than what awaited me.

(They weren't allowed to die and stay dead. Even if it feels like they're a corpse walking.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Your soul was not allowed to rest.

[telepathicignorance]

My enemies decided I was too useful to die.

[prince_of_the_moon]

I could help you.

But not here.

[telepathicignorance]

No thanks.

(What. Kill them now? It won't fix anything.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Do you wish for peace?

[telepathicignorance]

I don't think death is gonna bring me any.

(They're pretty sure they're not bound for a peaceful afterlife anyway.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Why would it be denied you?

[telepathicignorance]

I don't want to talk about this.

I escaped that place anyway.

(If freedom didn't bring them peace, the afterlife sure won't.

...Even when death is offered, some part of them still refuses to quit.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Temporarily.

I can give souls peace. Consider it.

[telepathicignorance]

Sure, whatever.

(Somehow, they feel even worse now.)

(The funny part: they aren't actually a victim of necromancy or anything. Just a particularly extreme near death experience that would have been an actual death if it weren't for ridiculously advanced medicine and some mad scientists determination to save them ...so they could subject them to more normally unsurvivable trauma to get more valuable data.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

I carry what I need to see to it. Think on it.

{Tenseiga rests at his hip, useless in battle, but magnificent with the dead.}

[telepathicignorance]

I'll think on it.

(They're absolutely saying this to shut him up.

Perhaps some day he'll meet them in person and realize they aren't actually dead, just well and truly fucked up.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

There is time still to learn.

{Until they rest for good. Somehow.}

[telepathicignorance]

Pretty sure pessimism is the most realistic view, buddy.

(It has been their literal experience.

Hoping for better is just dangerous. As far as they're concerned, it's what got them into this mess.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Then why does it have a different name?

[telepathicignorance]

Probably because someone wanted to feel superior.

[prince_of_the_moon]

Superior in their misery? Ridiculous.

[telepathicignorance]

I meant the "realist" wanted to feel superior.

How did the person who named it that know they're the one with the most correct view anyway? What makes their perspective the most real?

[prince_of_the_moon]

Evidence suggests they are more balanced. {Extremes don't work.}