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-->A hundred million years afterward, [[HopeSproutsEternal a blue-green fungus appears spontaneously on one of Jupiter's moons]]. [[EndingAversion It dies out within a week]].week.
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* Cerebus' first reunion with Jaka in ''High Society''.
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* Cerebus' Cerebus's first reunion with Jaka in ''High Society''.
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** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to decide if "it was a good investment." After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? [[spoiler: His sword]].
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** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to decide if "it was a good investment." After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? [[spoiler: His sword]].sword.
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* For most of ''Melmoth'', Cerebus is sitting in front of a restaurant, [[HeroicBSOD totally catatonic]] [[spoiler:due to his belief that Jaka is dead]], while a waitress rambles about various subjects like shopping that Cerebus would otherwise have no patience for, but is unable to say anything but an affirmative "aye" to. But a particular rambling about an old crush of hers has much more significance for him:
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* For most of ''Melmoth'', Cerebus is sitting in front of a restaurant, [[HeroicBSOD totally catatonic]] [[spoiler:due due to his belief that Jaka is dead]], dead, while a waitress rambles about various subjects like shopping that Cerebus would otherwise have no patience for, but is unable to say anything but an affirmative "aye" to. But a particular rambling about an old crush of hers has much more significance for him:
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->'''The Judge:''' They hold the world hostage to their threat to reduce the Earth to a cinder. A conflict isn't settled to their satisfaction. Many buttons are pushed.
->A hundred million years afterward, [[HopeSproutsEternal a blue-green fungus appears spontaneously on one of Jupiter's moons]]. [[EndingAversion It dies out within a week]].
->[[SuddenDownerEnding And that's it for life in this solar system.]]
->A hundred million years afterward, [[HopeSproutsEternal a blue-green fungus appears spontaneously on one of Jupiter's moons]]. [[EndingAversion It dies out within a week]].
->[[SuddenDownerEnding And that's it for life in this solar system.]]
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->'''Waitress:''' I'd remember the first time he walked me home. And I ''knew'' he wanted to kiss me. But he ''didn't'' kiss me. And as he was walking away, he turned around... and he... he smiled?
->Even now, all I have to do is remember him like that... and I love him all over again.
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->'''Waitress:''' Do you know what I mean?
->'''Cerebus:''' ''[Has a memory of seeing [[TheOneThatGotAway Jaka]] in the Regency garden]'' [[{{Understatement}} Aye]].
->Even now, all I have to do is remember him like that... and I love him all over again.
->''[pause]''
->'''Waitress:''' Do you know what I mean?
->'''Cerebus:''' ''[Has a memory of seeing [[TheOneThatGotAway Jaka]] in the Regency garden]'' [[{{Understatement}} Aye]].
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-->'''Waitress:''' Do you know what I mean?
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** According to the Judge, the universe was created when the void– the male Tarim (pronounced Tear-im)– rapes the light– the female Terim (pronounced Tay-rim). This shatters the light throughout the universe, destroying Terim and creating the stars. She leaves Tarim only with the words [[InsaneForgiveness "I forgive you. You know not what you do."]] Tarim's first reaction? Shock? Regret?
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** According to the Judge, the universe was created when the void– the male Tarim (pronounced Tear-im)– rapes the light– the female Terim (pronounced Tay-rim). This shatters the light throughout the universe, destroying Terim and creating the stars. She leaves Tarim only with the words [[InsaneForgiveness "I forgive you. You know not what you do."]] " Tarim's first reaction? Shock? Regret?
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->'''Cerebus:''' ''[Has a memory of seeing [[TheOneThatGotAway Jaka]] in the Regency garden]'' [[Understatement Aye]].
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->'''Cerebus:''' ''[Has a memory of seeing [[TheOneThatGotAway Jaka]] in the Regency garden]'' [[Understatement [[{{Understatement}} Aye]].
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->'''Cerebus:''' ''[Has a memory of seeing [[TheOneThatGotAway Jaka]] in the Regency garden]'' Aye.
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->'''Cerebus:''' ''[Has a memory of seeing [[TheOneThatGotAway Jaka]] in the Regency garden]'' Aye.[[Understatement Aye]].
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** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to decide if "it was a good investment." After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? [[spoiler: A sword]].
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** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to decide if "it was a good investment." After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? [[spoiler: A His sword]].
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** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to judge its value. After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? [[spoiler: A sword]].
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** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to judge its value. decide if "it was a good investment." After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? [[spoiler: A sword]].
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** Upon returning back to his hotel room, he enters a brief HeroicBSOD, totally ignoring Astoria's anger at him for leaving without an excuse.
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** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to judge its value. After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? A sword.
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** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to judge its value. After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? [[spoiler: A sword.sword]].
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** Cerebus, thinking Jaka is only there for a handout. [[DontYouDarePityMe This does not please Jaka]].
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** Cerebus, thinking Jaka is only there for a handout. [[DontYouDarePityMe This does not please Jaka]]. Yet Cerebus correctly deduces that Jaka is indeed broke, which Jaka admits, having spent all of her savings on a seemingly fraudulent antique.
** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to judge its value. After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? A sword.
** As she leaves, Cerebus offers her money to tide her over, to which she refuses, but offers him the wrapped antique itself, for Cerebus to judge its value. After she leaves, Cerebus opens it. The antique? A sword.
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** Yet despite his insensitivity, he still wants to Jaka to move in with him. [[GirlNextDoor Alongside Astoria.]] Still, it seems that Cerebus does care about her, but he makes the mistake of suggesting that she will never have to dance again. And when Jaka tells Cerebus that she ''likes'' dancing, Cerebus says that for people to know he was living with a dancer would be [[TheScrooge bad for business]].
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** Yet despite his insensitivity, he still wants to Jaka to move in with him. [[GirlNextDoor Alongside Astoria.]] Still, it seems that Cerebus does care about her, but he makes the mistake of suggesting that she will never have to dance again. And when Jaka tells Cerebus that she ''likes'' dancing, Cerebus says that for people to know he was living with a dancer would be [[TheScrooge bad for business]].
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** Cerebus, thinking Jaka is only there for a handout. [[Don'tYouDarePityMe This does not please Jaka]].
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** Cerebus, thinking Jaka is only there for a handout. [[Don'tYouDarePityMe [[DontYouDarePityMe This does not please Jaka]].
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** When Jaka mentions how Cerebus would have [[Squick kill a yak]][[ArcWords for her supper]], Cerebus offers to buy her one. But to Jaka, [[OldFlameFizzle it wouldn't be the same]].
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** When Jaka mentions how Cerebus would have [[Squick kill [[ArcWords killed a yak]][[ArcWords yak for her supper]], Cerebus offers to buy her one. But to Jaka, [[OldFlameFizzle it wouldn't be the same]].
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* Cerebus' first reunion with Jaka in ''High Society''.
** He begins totally insensitive to her feelings and reason for coming, bragging about his newfound wealth and power as the diplomatic representative of Palnu.
** Yet despite his insensitivity, he still wants to Jaka to move in with him. [[GirlNextDoor Alongside Astoria.]] Still, it seems that Cerebus does care about her, but he makes the mistake of suggesting that she will never have to dance again. And when Jaka tells Cerebus that she ''likes'' dancing, Cerebus says that for people to know he was living with a dancer would be [[TheScrooge bad for business]].
** When Jaka mentions how Cerebus would have [[Squick kill a yak]][[ArcWords for her supper]], Cerebus offers to buy her one. But to Jaka, [[OldFlameFizzle it wouldn't be the same]].
** Jaka asks Cerebus what he remembers about her, and Cerebus describes to her [[GirlOfMyDreams his dreams of a tavern dancer in Beduin]]. He follows this touching moment up with a [[MoodDissonance bad political joke]].
** He begins totally insensitive to her feelings and reason for coming, bragging about his newfound wealth and power as the diplomatic representative of Palnu.
** Yet despite his insensitivity, he still wants to Jaka to move in with him. [[GirlNextDoor Alongside Astoria.]] Still, it seems that Cerebus does care about her, but he makes the mistake of suggesting that she will never have to dance again. And when Jaka tells Cerebus that she ''likes'' dancing, Cerebus says that for people to know he was living with a dancer would be [[TheScrooge bad for business]].
** When Jaka mentions how Cerebus would have [[Squick kill a yak]][[ArcWords for her supper]], Cerebus offers to buy her one. But to Jaka, [[OldFlameFizzle it wouldn't be the same]].
** Jaka asks Cerebus what he remembers about her, and Cerebus describes to her [[GirlOfMyDreams his dreams of a tavern dancer in Beduin]]. He follows this touching moment up with a [[MoodDissonance bad political joke]].
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* For most of ''Melmoth'', Cerebus is sitting in front of a restaurant, [[HeroicBSOD totally catatonic]] [[spoiler:due to his belief that Jaka is dead]], while a waitress rambles about various subjects like shopping that Cerebus would otherwise have no patience for, but is unable to say anything but an affirmative "aye" to. But a particular rambling about an old crush of hers ends very different:
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* For most of ''Melmoth'', Cerebus is sitting in front of a restaurant, [[HeroicBSOD totally catatonic]] [[spoiler:due to his belief that Jaka is dead]], while a waitress rambles about various subjects like shopping that Cerebus would otherwise have no patience for, but is unable to say anything but an affirmative "aye" to. But a particular rambling about an old crush of hers ends very different:has much more significance for him:
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** According to the Judge, the universe was created when the void– the male Tarim (pronounced Tear-im)– rapes the light– the female Terim (pronounced Tay-rim). This shatters the light throughout the universe, destroying Terim and creating the stars. She leaves Tarim only with the words[[InsaneForgiveness "I forgive you. You know not what you do."]] Tarim's first reaction? Shock? Regret?
** [[FiveStagesOfGrief ''Anger'']]. "Nice girls don't explode," after all.
** [[FiveStagesOfGrief ''Anger'']]. "Nice girls don't explode," after all.
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** According to the Judge, the universe was created when the void– the male Tarim (pronounced Tear-im)– rapes the light– the female Terim (pronounced Tay-rim). This shatters the light throughout the universe, destroying Terim and creating the stars. She leaves Tarim only with the words[[InsaneForgiveness words [[InsaneForgiveness "I forgive you. You know not what you do."]] Tarim's first reaction? Shock? Regret?
** [[FiveStagesOfGrief''Anger'']].Anger]]. "Nice girls don't explode," after all.
** [[FiveStagesOfGrief
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** [[HopeSpringsEternal Except she ''is'' coming back]], because according to the Judge, the universe is constantly cooling and constantly slowing its rate of expansion.
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** [[HopeSpringsEternal Except she ''is'' is coming back]], because according to the Judge, the universe is constantly cooling and constantly slowing its rate of expansion.expansion.
** [[ForegoneConclusion But the story isn't over.]] According to the Judge, the last remnants of Terim aren't just in the stars. Her body is the ''moon.'' And furthermore, human beings– in RealLife –will defile her corpse for decades by walking on the moon. He mentions how Neil Armstrong was instructed to collect a sample of the moon's surface in case he had to make an emergency return. [[DeadHorseTrope "As if something that has been dead for billions of years was in some way a physical threat."]]
** And the ultimate conclusion is the most depressing part of all. When the [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates nation of humans]] that had already defiled the moon decide to build giant space weapons. [[BlatantLies "Strictly for defense, of course."]] And it is described by the judge as succinctly as it is devastating:
->'''The Judge:''' They hold the world hostage to their threat to reduce the Earth to a cinder. A conflict isn't settled to their satisfaction. Many buttons are pushed.
->A hundred million years afterward, [[HopeSproutsEternal a blue-green fungus appears spontaneously on one of Jupiter's moons]]. [[EndingAversion It dies out within a week]].
->[[SuddenDownerEnding And that's it for life in this solar system.]]
** [[ForegoneConclusion But the story isn't over.]] According to the Judge, the last remnants of Terim aren't just in the stars. Her body is the ''moon.'' And furthermore, human beings– in RealLife –will defile her corpse for decades by walking on the moon. He mentions how Neil Armstrong was instructed to collect a sample of the moon's surface in case he had to make an emergency return. [[DeadHorseTrope "As if something that has been dead for billions of years was in some way a physical threat."]]
** And the ultimate conclusion is the most depressing part of all. When the [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates nation of humans]] that had already defiled the moon decide to build giant space weapons. [[BlatantLies "Strictly for defense, of course."]] And it is described by the judge as succinctly as it is devastating:
->'''The Judge:''' They hold the world hostage to their threat to reduce the Earth to a cinder. A conflict isn't settled to their satisfaction. Many buttons are pushed.
->A hundred million years afterward, [[HopeSproutsEternal a blue-green fungus appears spontaneously on one of Jupiter's moons]]. [[EndingAversion It dies out within a week]].
->[[SuddenDownerEnding And that's it for life in this solar system.]]
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* At the end of ''Church and State'', the Judge's description of the creation of the universe, with a male void and a female light. While Gerhard's background artwork is stunning enough to invoke a tearjerker for some, the narrative itself is far too breathtakingly beautiful and tragic not to mention here.
** According to the Judge, the universe was created when the void– the male Tarim (pronounced Tear-im)– rapes the light– the female Terim (pronounced Tay-rim). This shatters the light throughout the universe, destroying Terim and creating the stars. She leaves Tarim only with the words[[InsaneForgiveness "I forgive you. You know not what you do."]] Tarim's first reaction? Shock? Regret?
** [[FiveStagesOfGrief ''Anger'']]. "Nice girls don't explode," after all.
** Following this, he enters the "denial phase," the first half of which consisted of searching through every possible excuse for his action, and the second half being crushing the stars formed by the explosion of Terim.
** After this came "bargaining." "I'll stop squeezing your lights out if you pull yourself together." And then "depression." [[MoodDissonance "Even if you do pull yourself together, what with all those dead rocks and hot gases and dirty ice and dust particles, you're going to be a mess."]]
**Finally, inevitable, he enters "acceptance." He realizes that she is dead and is never coming back.
**[[HopeSpringsEternal Except she ''is'' coming back]], because according to the Judge, the universe is constantly cooling and constantly slowing its rate of expansion.
** According to the Judge, the universe was created when the void– the male Tarim (pronounced Tear-im)– rapes the light– the female Terim (pronounced Tay-rim). This shatters the light throughout the universe, destroying Terim and creating the stars. She leaves Tarim only with the words[[InsaneForgiveness "I forgive you. You know not what you do."]] Tarim's first reaction? Shock? Regret?
** [[FiveStagesOfGrief ''Anger'']]. "Nice girls don't explode," after all.
** Following this, he enters the "denial phase," the first half of which consisted of searching through every possible excuse for his action, and the second half being crushing the stars formed by the explosion of Terim.
** After this came "bargaining." "I'll stop squeezing your lights out if you pull yourself together." And then "depression." [[MoodDissonance "Even if you do pull yourself together, what with all those dead rocks and hot gases and dirty ice and dust particles, you're going to be a mess."]]
**Finally, inevitable, he enters "acceptance." He realizes that she is dead and is never coming back.
**[[HopeSpringsEternal Except she ''is'' coming back]], because according to the Judge, the universe is constantly cooling and constantly slowing its rate of expansion.
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* For most of ''Melmoth'', Cerebus is sitting in front of a restaurant, [[HeroicBSOD totally catatonic]] [[spoiler:due to his belief that Jaka is dead]], while a waitress rambles about various subjects like shopping that Cerebus would otherwise have no patience for, but is unable to say anything but an affirmative "aye" to. But a particular rambling about an old crush of hers ends very different:
->'''Waitress:''' I'd remember the first time he walked me home. And I ''knew'' he wanted to kiss me. But he ''didn't'' kiss me. And as he was walking away, he turned around... and he... he smiled?
->Even now, all I have to do is remember him like that... and I love him all over again.
->''[[pause]]''
->'''Waitress:''' Do you know what I mean?
->'''Cerebus:''' ''[Has a memory of seeing [[TheOneThatGotAway Jaka]] in the Regency garden]'' Aye.
->'''Waitress:''' I'd remember the first time he walked me home. And I ''knew'' he wanted to kiss me. But he ''didn't'' kiss me. And as he was walking away, he turned around... and he... he smiled?
->Even now, all I have to do is remember him like that... and I love him all over again.
->''[[pause]]''
->'''Waitress:''' Do you know what I mean?
->'''Cerebus:''' ''[Has a memory of seeing [[TheOneThatGotAway Jaka]] in the Regency garden]'' Aye.
