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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON Apr 27, 2023 17:04:22 GMT

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Beautiful, oh so beautiful, the beauty of the future blooms before her~ Blood drips from open wounds as Xenon dances through the Ultra Deep, skipping along and caressing the cracked Pokeball in her hands with unbound adoration. Beams of multicolored refracted light illuminate the path ahead, the path to the future, the only way forwards. All that lay behind her was destruction and decay, all she could do was move forwards through the present to find her way out of this hellish dimension, to find her way to the future she so desperately wished to show the world~
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Such euphoria she was in, such bliss, she was so happy that she didn't even feel the immediate need to kill the girl she spotted in the distance, she simply wanted to show her the beautiful future she had seen~ Tittering laughter echoes through the world as Xenon skips up towards Tsubaki with a grin, very obviously Rocket by uniform alone. She should be attacking, she should be killing, she should be doing her due diligence as a grunt of a terrorist organization, but all that can wait for now. For now, she simply wanted to show this girl the future~
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"Ahahaha, hey there! Yoohoo, girlie~! What are you doing all alone in this nightmare dimension, waiting for a hot date with a guy?"

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON Apr 28, 2023 6:14:33 GMT

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Ghosts of an ancient past swim in your mind's eye, vivid taste of the void-sea on your lips. You hear the song of a million dead calling out in unison, lamenting the end of the world. Bleached earth, stained in history and blood and a million lousy regrets.

A vision of the future of your world if anyone would only look and see it, what is to come of it all at the end. How or why, you cannot be sure. But it seems as sure as anything, that if it has happened here, so will it happen in the world you hail from.

It calls to you from the bottom of the abyss, something impossible to see from all the way up here. A whisper telling you sweet things, revelations of the day the sky will shatter and collapse in on itself, when all the world will be dyed black. It speaks of it so calmly, so assured of this fate, that you cannot help but take it for the truth.

It feels nice to let go. To accept that no matter what you do it will amount to nothing, a slate to be wiped clean at the end of it all.

Before she speaks, you know she's there. You've seen her somewhere, in another life, you're sure. Or perhaps it is murmurs from the void confusing you. A life you've never lived become your own, for the regrets of a ghost rattling around in your skull.

It's hard to say.

"You could say something like that," you respond with a knowing smile, all the while gazing off into the black.

For what could this be, but the void-sea itself taken you as its own? You are a maiden taken as its concubine, delivered all of its madness through your shared connection. You are the sea and it is you. It has become a part of you irrevocably.

If this is not true love, what might it be?

"Although I don't think that does it justice, do you?"

It's more than a date. It's an engagement.

"I'm due to be married to the sea, you see."

The sea has already stolen your first kiss, and it wants more.

You touch the back of your neck, where the sting of that tentacle still burns white-hot.

It makes your smile grow so wide you feel like your face is gonna split apart.

"... I can hear them crying... It makes me wonder...

"You're a Rocket, so you tell me: The people who used to live in this dead sea, what was their downfall? How come they're nothing but a buncha ghosts?"

You think you have an answer, but you want to hear it from the lips of scum who could never understand.

You want her to give you a reason to hate her with all your heart.

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON Apr 28, 2023 14:42:23 GMT

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Oh? This one was interesting. Far more interesting than she had expected out of the vapid gutter filth that populated the League.
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"Married to the sea is it? They say it's a cruel mistress, but there's always those who love an abusive relationship I suppose~" She purrs as she continues walking towards the girl, only stopping a few yards away as she looks over her shoulder to whatever she might be looking at. The future perhaps? Or maybe the lover who'll always leave her at the altar.
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She hesitates as she ponders the question presented to her, what happened to all these dead people in this dead sea? Why do they cry out for succor as they swim in the darkest depths, chained to their pasts by their own lamentations and regrets?
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"It's simple really. Even as they marched forwards to the future, they could never tear their eyes away from the regrets that clung to their backs, the whispered words of their ancestors from just over their shoulders. It was only natural that they would trip up and fall eventually, they didn't know how to watch where they were going."
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"And once they fell beneath the waters, they were too focused on their silly mistake to learn how to swim back up. So naturally, they drowned."
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It was only a matter of course really, anyone with half a brain could figure out such a thing if they just thought about it for half a second longer than they already had. The only reason people die, is because they don't know how to properly look to the right future. That's all there is to it.

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON Apr 29, 2023 10:21:33 GMT

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You chuckle.

Unrestrained venom pours from your lips as you shake your head, focused on the abyss stretched out before you. Yawning chasm that goes impossibly deep, so wide you can't see across it. There, the answers to everything dwell, if only you'd look at it with the right perspective.

She's right there. Can't she see it?

"No, nothing that deep. Every society's built on the ashes of the old. They learn from the sins of their fathers or die. But a future without a past, that's no future at all. Just stagnant waiting around."

Societies might die, but people keep moving forward in spite of it.

It pains you to admit, but even your sins shaped you. How much you hate yourself for what you needed to do to survive, for what came before what you are now. In that city stained black you refused to be painted by that same brush, found yourself there in that pit of malice and despair and crawled from the depths anew. As much as you despise the past, the current you wouldn't exist without it.

It's not the past that was ever a problem here.

You feel something off. There's something missing here, a fundamental disconnect.

"I'm talking something completely different. Some some illness of this world in particular. Some reason why the antediluvian people of this world got punished, like judgement from an angry god."

There's a manic quiver in your voice as you say it aloud. Like it's looking straight up from that chasm you as you acknowledge it, something larger and more ancient than you could possibly imagine. Slumbering cities in the deep sleep with their dead gods while you walk amid dreams standing at the very edge of reality.

You can't help but laugh again. It's so funny. It's really all so funny.

"Tell me. You're a Rocket, so tell me! The greatest flaw of these people, who saw progress and exploitation of their world as a virtue above all else, and forgot how to love! What does that remind you of, huh!?"

Your turn to her with a wide smile on your face. Mad look in your eyes, you can't help but be frightened by the volume of your own voice echoing down below.

As if it'll wake sleepwalking ghosts.

You shudder. Pull your jacket tighter around your body. But you never lose that intense look for a minute, insistent on getting the right answer from this woman. This woman who might as well be a walking fiction of your own overactive imagination.

If she is, she already knows the answer. She's just being coy.

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON Apr 30, 2023 4:09:44 GMT

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Poison drips from her lips with the consistency of a humorous joke, denial wells up from the bottomless deep as she continues to look out as something Xenon won't see. No, she can't see, she was never touched by that particular future, the ideals she locks her gaze upon were a thousand leagues behind her at a far different crossroad.
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But she can see the humor in this where the girl cannot, she expects Xenon to be able to easily understand her ideals, not realizing that they had two different sets of eyes, two different lenses that could never possibly match the other. Her sight had been warped before this girl could even stand on her own two feet, the lenses she looked through saw a truth that blinded her beyond repair.
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"It's only aimless waiting if you don't have the common sense to put one leg in front of the other."
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She left her past behind after all, and if a nameless girl could do it then surely anyone else could? Ah, but that was expecting far too much, she had always had that problem, she always had expectations that were far too high to reach even for the tallest Girafarig.
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"So that's what you think it was? A punishment from some god, angry with their people for moving too far forwards?"
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How laughable, how utterly pathetic! Xenon can't help but laugh alongside the girl as she clutches a hand to her stomach and loudly vomits her disgust and amusement.
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The look in her eyes, it doesn't scare her, not one bit. She saw it in the mirror every day, it was the look of a woman who had found their truth, someone who discarded the warped and decaying ideals of the past to embrace a future that only they could see. It was something she could never understand, just as nobody could ever understand her future, and she wouldn't want it any other way.
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"Girl, what you expect out of me, you will never find. The greatest flaw of these people wasn't their love of the future, the greatest flaw of these people is that they were too weak to take hold of the future they wanted. A god struck them down for their hubris? Then they deserved their ruin, if you can't crush something as simple as a god for your future, then you deserve to be crunched into the garbage heap!"
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She's in her face before she even knows it, grabbing her by the collar of her shirt and lifting her into the air with an inhuman strength, dangling her over the edge of the abyss with warped glee in her eyes. She shouldn't be this strong, even when she was uninjured and at her best, she shouldn't be this strong. But this world, this ruin, this sneaky little glimpse at the future she craved and the consequences she would reap if she was weak, it made her soul more full and complete then it had ever been.
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"You want to see what these ruins remind me of!? You want to see what progress and exploitation look like, what it means to discard love from your heart!?"
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The cracked pokeball in her hand rattles and quakes as something ancient rattles within, no, something so ultramodern that it shouldn't even exist. A blinding red flash explodes from her palm and forms into a monster of the future, three iron heads staring down at them from behind Xenon as she laughs with mad delight.
"It is raw, unfettered, strength!"

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON Apr 30, 2023 5:19:39 GMT

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The manic, wild look in her eyes is evidence enough that she's seen something larger than herself. That, or she believes that she has. The raw conviction in this woman is beyond compare, except for you, who've seen the depths of dead cities and slumbering gods, the consequence of the very future she espouses.

You can't help but smirk as she unleashes all her vitriol upon you. Ranting of a future that had yet to be born, that might never be born. She's hoping for a future without a past, those who would never learn from their mistakes. It's sad enough that you could cry, and so you laugh.

Wildly, you laugh as she dangles you above the abyss.

"Kya-ha-ha-haaaah... you don't get it, you really don't get it... you forget love, forget what makes us human, and what's left? What future is there for us, if we lose the very thing that keeps it within reach? What use is strength in a doomed world, where none have anything to fight for?"

Your words taste like venom, devoid of life. As if your whole body is being overtaken by the toxin by now, the kiss you received from the patrons of the void-sea. But even they understand, there is nothing without love. To desire, to want for something, to care for more than just yourself. To want something beyond the self, the join yourself with it. Twisted, perverted as it's become in their minds, they still value love.

Because they live in a sea devastated by those who once forgot, they shall never forget.

"Don't ask me... Hear it from the ghosts who lament the end, since you can't seem to see it with your eyes even if you gaze right at it: let everything be laid to rest...!"

You lean back, tempted to fall straight into the abyss. Arms splayed out, happy to be swallowed by the void. A serene calm on your face, you let your feet slip from the edge of the cliff, ready to become one with the sea.

As you do, she appears.

Image of a tremendous floating head with fluttering mane, a phantom that serves as the avatar of a thousand psychic deaths. Her eyes glow, holding your body as you speak words that are not you own through psychic channels, happy to give yourself as a puppet to this walking paradox, a past pruned before its future could come to fruition.

For the sake of strength, power, wealth.

Sheer hubris.

Advancement for the sake of advancement, without consideration for one's place in the kosmos. Those who see in themselves the image of gods saw themselves above everything, forgot that they are but part of a larger whole.

A failed future werein all who were lost thought themselves above nature, above pokemon, above the world itself.

That is what you'll find, hidden in the deep recesses of the abyss.

Yawning chasm of the abyss lies below, where the ancient past beckons for you both. It yearns for you, for it loves you. Though it is much too late,
though it shall never rectify that mistake, the void-sea itself is filled with abundant love for the lack of those who once were destroyed.

You grin.

This is not only the flaw of the people here, after all.

"What does this remind you of, but the Rockets you claim to be a part of?

You who don't know the depths of pain and torment hidden in your heart, you who close it off to the very possibility... what could you possibly hope to overcome without the excruciating naked pain of loving someone with all your being? How could mere strength prepare you for such agony?"

You smile.

Til you're sure your face has split apart, broken in half, you smile.

She who knows the future knows nothing of the past. You, who mourn the past, shall be the only one to inherit the future she covets.

You reach out a hand, psychic wave intruding upon her mind. Showing her visions of circling angels without faces and many limbs swirling around in the depths, living amid decay. They shall never die. They are those who shall inherit this doomed future, the only ones remaining in this world who know what it means to love another.

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON May 1, 2023 2:53:01 GMT

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They laugh and laugh as they barrel towards self-destruction, two madwomen fervently grasping for ideals and shoving them in the other's faces, perhaps blindly hoping that maybe they will be the one to understand, the one to affirm their love and provide the proof of their existence in this cold dead world. But it could never be, they're far too different, they believe far too much, they could never hope to bend for someone else, lest they break under the weight of their beliefs.
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"A future without love..." Her smile fades for a moment as she ponders on the possibility... and then alights anew with even greater fire and passion. "Yes, that's what I want to find! I want to find what ideals give us strength in a future without love! I want to see what beautiful things humanity can make in that kind of future! I want to find out what human strength will craft when it's unbound by its past! I don't know what lies at the end of that road, that's what makes it so damn exhilarating!"
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"And it will be a world, without you!"
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Her fingers uncurl as the girl leans back, letting her fall into the abyss without a trace. But she already knows that it's only beginning, the past she hated so would rise again and again to crush her, it would be no different now as the ghosts of a world without love grab that girl by the nape of the neck and save her from oblivion. Rhodium's eyes intensify in color as it spots that hateful past, servos and circuitry whirring like a growl as it opens its mouths and lets loose a furious roar from the depths of its speakers.
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For the sake of strength, power, wealth.
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The ever turning wheel spins on, grinding the failures of the past to dust as it spins forwards forevermore. She never saw herself as above god, she simply never understood why god was so high and mighty to begin with. Her ideas clash with society and she is thrown away into the trash, destined to be crunched under the weight of the majority. The multitude tightens its hold...
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Ah, but the fire inside burns ever brighter still. Even as she's dragged through the mud, even as she beaten and bloodied, even as everyone tries to force their ideals of love into her heart, it all just burns away as she continues to stare towards that bright future. That beautiful, dirty, haunting future that she knows she can reach, if only she could just take another step forward. And another. And another.
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She was the only one who could find beauty in ruin.
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She spreads out her arms and opens her heart for the girl who could only understand love, she exposes her soul and tears open the bloody wounds so she could understand, if only she could understand!
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"Wrong! Wrong wrong wrong! Love isn't what gives you the strength to overcome! The power to stand tall and crush whatever stands in your way, that could only come from one thing! Rejection! The strength of will to reject the truths of others, that is what gives me my strength, the iron conviction that only I'm right in this world and everyone else is nothing but primitive trash to be tossed in the garbage! This is the armor I encapsulate my heart in, that steel that fends off the world and gives me strength!"
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Death and decay swirl in her mind's eye as a psychic wave of torment washes over her, but its all drowned in a black sea as Rhodium gently touches her shoulder, the unfathomable deepness of the Dark drowning whatever visions she wanted to show her. Their love cannot be seen, will not be seen, for the only future that Xenon has ever cared for is the one only she can see.
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"Now then! Enough talk! Let the victor write the tale of the future, and loser be buried in their worthless past!"
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And with a roaring pulse of dark energy launched at the girl and her ghost, the battle begins.

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON May 1, 2023 3:38:52 GMT

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It does not reach her, for she has already closed off her heart.

A woman who does not understand love, won't even accept the concept, who revels in the idea of a world without, for such a cruel and crushing reality is the future she desires from the very beginning. The evidence all around, heralded by the angels who sing in the deep, longing for you. They wish to learn how to love again.

So why can't she?

You frown.

"Are you so lost that you have no need of your heart?"

Venom wells from within, like a chalice runneth over.

"... Then rip it from your chest. Give it to me, I'll take good care of it."

There is enough love in your heart for everyone on earth. A maddening desire for monopoly, to become one with everything. To join together into something larger than yourself. This woman need not know how to love. From the very beginning, it was an unnecessary, thankless task to try and teach her.

Never mind that.

You'll simply make understand how to love by force.

The image of a false moon shines above, filling the void with an ethereal light. It pools forth, collected upon your wrist as a string of blood-red jewels that begin to shine. She is in concert with you, the ghost in the deep. Fully understanding your commands, she condenses fear itself into a beam of light to contest the dark of a lost future.

There are no words left.

Only nostalgia, for a past that never existed.

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON May 1, 2023 3:52:05 GMT

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"Take it if you can. Let it cut open your stomach as you try to swallow it whole."
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Darkness crashes against the light of the moon, scattering and dispersing as that brilliant beam flies towards Rhodium to cut it in twain. But the future is unpredictable, one never knows what's to come, just as the roulette spins and a trifecta of elemental energy bursts forth from the mechanical dragon's maw clashes with that moonlight beam to halt it in its tracks. Finally the girl has the foresight to step away and behind her future to let it best work, a gentle hand brushing against its metal body and shivering as she embraces it wholly.
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"Come now Rhodium, you know you can do better. Let our world become neon lit as we rise to our fullest potential."
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The girl hardly even exists in her mind anymore as a drop of lightning hits the ground, electrifying the terrain and boosting Rhodium's might as the world bends to its most ideal environment, an electric terrain fueling its wings as it releases blades of air to rip away at the fluttering mane and tear it into so many little pieces.

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON May 1, 2023 5:58:05 GMT

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Mastery of nature cannot affect the past. In all her hubris she thought it might.

A ghost, a mere memory. The denizen of the deep lingers on, but the past is already done. And so a trio of elements does not faze her, cannot change her, cannot even touch her. A trio of beams pass harmlessly through her, through you, and out over the void. To travel forevermore, searching for progress that shall never come.

"Neon colors, fluorescent lights... harsh steel surfaces and sharp edges... a cold, inhospitable world..."

Just imagining it fills you with dread, a reminder of that metropolis you grew up in.

She would see everything beautiful in this world extinguished, all for the sake of intangible progress. Growth for the sake of it is merely a cancer. There is no passion in that heart, nothing that stirs the soul.

She, too, is a ghost. A phantom of a human being who never once lived.

"Only once that heart beats for the first time, til you learn what it means to find something beautiful and fall madly in love with it... I'll engrave it there so you don't forget. Then, and only then..."

You raise an outstretched hand to the heavens, jewels in the shape of bloody tears draped around your wrist. Refracted in their crystalline bodies is a glimpse of what once was, what shall never be again.

An abandoned girl with a rotten heart, who turned her malice outward and rebelled against a past she could not change. Father to whom she may as well be invisible, mother who she had never met. She sought to overturn that which could not be overturned, rebelled against the past, fruitlessly. And what would come of it but he destruction of everything she still held dear?

A realization, that a better future was not possible unless she killed that girl. Smothered her, and let her die.

It was because she grew up without knowing love that her love was distorted. Only once she learned that the hard way, once her love had driven another to ruin, did she realize that a past without love was the reason her future would continue onward like this, forever without change. She would destroy everything and everyone she touched, again and again, until she learned how to love herself for the first time.

To love one's self was to let that rotten girl die.

"... Whatever past made you this way, I'll cleave it in two!"

It is an image of your greatest fear, that she gazes back at you now with empty eyes. You harness that, turn it outward. Ruby jewels shimmer with the color of terror before unleashing a beam of light like a sword, to sever that future in half.

A future you denied yourself.

You bring it down upon her and her robot, their future still unwritten, so uncertain. So easily wiped away with one stroke of fate.

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Xenon Antheil

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Flood

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Nimbasa City

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Ultramodernist

Executive

5'7 height

Look to the future, see in it everything you've ever wanted. Now find the strength to grab it.

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I Saw The Future And It Was A Jellyfish [POSTDORMITUM]

POSTED ON May 1, 2023 6:21:29 GMT

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So it truly is a ghost then, formless and immune to the forces of nature made physical. How amusing, it only made sense that such a worthless past would be just as unsubstantial as a vague fog covering her sight. Even her attempts to blow away that fog with a gust of wind amounted to little in the end, it needed more of an edge to, a bite that only she could provide.
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One might wonder about what could possibly lead a girl to such a mindset, how one could truly believe that love was worthless, how one could fall so deeply in love with the neon lights that they would rather see the world burn than ever acknowledge the lessons of the past. What kind of life did the woman known as Xenon Civitas Antheil live, what kinds of things did she experience that could warp a human being into such a twisted mockery of humanity?
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Hah. Fool. Have you not been listening for even a second of this horrid night? The past never mattered in the first place, it's long forgotten, nay, purposefully carved away from her being. It doesn't matter what kind of past would make her this way, for she never had a past to begin with. All she has is the future.
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"You haven't been listening for a single second you arrogant whelp! There's nothing for you to cleave!"
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Once again a trio of elemental energies crashes into the beam of moonlight, dual beams warping and distorting one another as they bend around each other into a singularity of light and fae energies. But this time, the environment is suited to her advantage. She has made a world nearing the future for just a moment as electricity sparks beneath their feet, lightning invading Rhodium's attack and bending it ever closer to the aspect of Electricity than before. Fire and ice are snuffed in the cradle as what was once a Tri-Attack is warped into a Thunderbolt, breaking through the Moonbeam and striking that ghost with the raw power of the future behind it.
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Even if the future stands without the grounding of the past, that does not mean it is unsteady. It only means it can fly without restriction, unbound by the rules and logic set by others.

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Baki

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oceans of angels, oceans of stars, down by the sea is where you drown your scars

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