No, we can't. If we... buried them, it wouldn't be right. We don't know them.
Right. So.
Let's go back a long time. Six thousand years, actually. Back then, I was the only daughter of a rich family. They were too busy with business to raise me, so they had other people do it. Those people were hired and then fired pretty regularly until I was ten or so.
They hired some new hotshot bodyguard person. Her name was Juillegar Kyrisael. She wasn't really there to raise me, I think. I was a quiet, lonely kid who never left our house. She was there to keep me safe, and make sure I had a friend.
Juillegar was the best friend I think I've ever had. She was a bit of an airhead, but she was patient, calm, and understanding. She didn't care that I was a reclusive rich kid.
We grew closer over the years. But... eventually something had to change. Out of nowhere when I was twenty, these horrible disgusting monsters showed up out of thin air. Even though the world I was from was powerful, we were hopelessly outmatched. They surprised us, and they converted everyone they killed into one of them.
My parents died during that, off on some trip. Juillegar, though, she didn't care. Her paycheck was gone, but she was determined to keep me safe. And somehow, she did. Weeks after my world had fallen, we'd managed to keep ourselves alive.
Then someone took notice. The human god of war. He came to my broken home, angry and tempestuous. He was late, though. He'd failed to protect his people. He found the two of us after a while, and he decided to make up for his failure. I got to become a god alongside him. If my world was gone, at least one of them would carry the torch of our culture into the future.
Juillegar wasn't included. He kicked her out. He said that non-divine beings had no place alongside the gods. She had no choice. Because of the war god, I kicked her out.
A year or so later, after I'd figured out how to use my power, I realized I'd gotten lonely. Real lonely. My only friend was gone. And I'd made the decision to get rid of her.
I was horrified. I was young. I was stupid. I... I made a copy of her. Based on my memory, I made an exact replica of her. She didn't know what'd I'd done. The copy just knew that we were friends.
We carried on with our lives like that. Even though I was a god, I still acted like a normal person. And somehow, I don't remember the circumstances exactly, she died, too. So I made another one.
She was different. I'd become a little unhinged, so I made Juillegar closer to my own tastes. She died, eventually. And so another one was made. I kept going and going. Sometimes, one of the copies would figure out what I'd done. They'd be terrified. I killed them when that happened.
They weren't the only ones I killed. I got restless. Insecure. I slaughtered people I didn't like. Enemies of humanity. They wouldn't be missed.
Millions of them. The war god took notice, and he was very, very angry. I was jeopardizing the safety of every human by almost provoking war. His solution was to make me even more insane so he would have a reason to kill me.
It worked. I ended up here with the fiftieth copy. Julie. I tried to kill her. I failed. Then he helped Julie put me down.
And Julie, well, she loved me. She still does. She brought me back, but she got rid of all the bad stuff. Now I'm... just the good side of Tallis. I'm not the whole one. But I'm...
I'm the best one. But that war god, he doesn't care. He just wants to finish the job. Of course, he won't- he's not going to do it himself. He'll wait for someone else to fucking kill me.
-It's obvious she started to ramble and go on about other completely unrelated shit-
-She's kept her composure but her eyes are a little watery-
-That's the look of "I said more than I should have but I left a lot out and wow I'm a shitbag"-
You have been here before?
-Mindy looks... really in over her head, and horrified-
-she does all she really can think of doing in this particular situation - give Tallis a big hug-
-Aaaaactually I think it makes more sense for Kioshi to be with Arty and co, so let's say he is-
...Hey.
edited 19th Jun '15 11:20:51 PM by HilarityEnsues
...Yes, as a matter of fact, I have come here several times in the past... I was wondering when next I would visit...
(Shifts his position a little, limply digging around in his shirt pocket for something.)
...Mm... Well, I guess that hel–
(SUDDENLY)
(Some kinda weird black hole shit starts up right near Theresa)
…! The hell...?!
(She's fallen asleep by the window, Luis.)
edited 19th Jun '15 11:22:42 PM by MobileLeprechaun
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Well, I'm sure it was hard news for the Captain to hear...
Kioshi...he's the dragon boy, right?
edited 19th Jun '15 11:07:52 PM by MacDuffy