firespitter: (HORDIKA)
Vakama (Matoran) ([personal profile] firespitter) wrote in [community profile] shardbond 2025-02-10 01:54 am (UTC)

[The Matoran stirs from the rubble.

Raven hisses and spits and shrieks, and the predatory growl in response comes from a completely different direction than before. He's clearly being circled.]


Give me one reason it should be.

The past goes nowhere, and the present only moves when you take what you want for yourself. I choose my duty even if no one else can bother, so what matters if I must do it alone?


[You have a job to do.

--we cannot help Vakama--

You have a JOB to do.

--his visions are only right so far, you know. Often enough that we might follow his lead, even if he simply made it up--

The group pulls at your limbs.

Leave him.


--Did you make that promise when you let Lhikan get captured, or when he died saving your sorry mask???--

You HAVE TO you HAVE TO.]


We work ourselves until we're dust on the ground, and for what?? A meaningless atonement that comes far too late. Pathetic, pitying words to some empty grave. A united front that falls apart under disagreement.

Why should it be any different now than it's ever been?


[Why shouldn't one continue to HATE themselves if it keeps things in forward motion?]

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