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'Why' is such a useful word.
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Why are they in this place? Why is the Endless attacking them? Why was it created? Why is there a portrait of a man that reminds Mars so much of both his father and himself? Why do they have to make sacrifices? Why is all this happening? Why here? Why now?
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In all the chaos, as if to mock him for the endless inquiries that fill his mind, an Unown appears, staring at him with a single unblinking eye.
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Why? Why?! Why! Why… Y.
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Mars holds onto the portrait once the tentacle has been destroyed, the Unown floating by his side, and one by one, he watches as the others make their sacrifices. Memories, an iconic feature, binding blood, and time. What does he have to offer that’s as valuable as all that?
Nothing he’s willing to part with. Nothing that won’t be irreplaceable to him.
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Perhaps could tell
Bill Anderson to make a sacrifice in his stead, make him pay in blood for being the obvious cause of all of this, but while the thought does cross his mind the moment the priest appears and immediately starts giving instructions, Mars does no more than turn to the altar where both devolution stones and rare candy have appeared. He tosses one of the latter towards his Cursola, since she seems to be so very fond of those things.
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”Pasithea.” Musharna. The third among the ones he owns. Sister to fallen Apathe and Pythia. A pokémon that has always served him well, especially at this place, but that because of it may just be the reason why she’s the right choice to make. A pokémon that, when merely looking at her, brings him memories of how much he had suffered because of his own need for answers and how her sisters had gruesomely died when doing as he asked of them.
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”You have done well, I couldn’t have gotten this far without you.” There’s admittance in his words, even a hint of something tender and caring in his tone. A hand reaches for the pokémon, resting on her head as one last passing affection from her trainer.
”Go to the altar.” [break][break]
Mars commands, and his pokémon does as he says.
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The Endless had taken
oscar clayton’s Seismo. Perhaps the answer to freeing the Claydol and destroying the creature is a sacrifice of equal value. It makes sense in Mars’ head, and where there should perhaps be remorse, there’s something else…
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”Why?” The Unown seems to ask as it floats by his side.
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Why. One of the most primordial questions of life.
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When it comes to gathering information – to problem solving – there are five primordial questions to always ask. All of them should have factual answers, and those answers should always go beyond a simple “yes” or “no”. Those questions are often referred to as
The Five Ws, and they go as follows:
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Who?
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What?
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When?
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Where?
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Of course, some also add a sixth question to this list:
”How?”. And, in turn, that’s the one with which Mars begins when standing before the altar where all the sacrifices have been made:
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”How do we free Oscar’s Claydol from the Endless?” He says as if asking the air itself for an answer, as if it were logical to do such a thing, as if once again compelled by something beyond his understanding. There’s barely a pause before the second question is raised.
”What does the Endless want?”[break][break]
And because all things come in threes, Mars knows there’s a third question to add to this – one that stares at him with the unblinking gaze of the Unown-Y floating before him. One personal. One selfish. One that is whispered as he holds on tightly to the portrait of a man that looks so much like him:
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”Why me?”
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After all, is that not the question he had hoped to find an answer to when coming to the church ruins to begin with?
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notes
[break]- Azul is very tired so she'll add a summary later....
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