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[kenosnpcs]

This is a post where you'll find a header in the comments for Aetós, Agapitos Voreen, and Florence Deshayes respectively.

As a reminder from our course correction, your OOC understanding of their places in their factions should not influence IC reactions, especially to Agapitos and Florence. Aggressive threats and demands are likely to be ignored, because this would be very out of the blue to them! ( You can be mean to Aetós, though. They're a dick, and they just won't respond. )

Timewise, Agapitos and Florence's posts are shortly after Shard-Bearers awake after the repose (roughly a day to give people a chance to get their bearings/go get a haircut/etc), and Aetós's portion is later in the month.


Please note, new tag-ins will not be responded to after April 23rd. However, tagging each other throughout this post is welcome. Threadjack to your heart's content!

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[kenosnpcs]

A misunderstanding. The Shards Yima gave you... Hm. It is not impossible that this would be the case. But it depends on the soul. I meant that if you drew the souls from the tree to Zenith's world, there would be five additional copies of you. As an example, but also theoretically.

As for your question, simple. I have had the time and the skillset needed to survive. The first generation is when I arrived. The time since is difficult to count. But over a thousand years, surely. Perhaps a few. Irrelevant, in a way.

[spellcollect]

I've lived a thousand years myself.

[ She interjects, her thoughts sliding into the space with Link and Aetos. ]

It's difficult to hold onto that.

[ She has heard he is a mage, a wizard, a torturer. So she listens and judges for herself. She wonders if he holds fond thoughts of any people in his background or if he has ground himself down to nothing in his efforts. ]

[bakedapple]

[ Whoever this is, Link doesn't recognize her. Another new arrival? ]

A thousand years...? [ It's so long, it feels hard to imagine. ]

[spellcollect]

Yes.

[ Her mind feels calm; an undisturbed pool of deep water. ]

It's been a very long time.

[kenosnpcs]

Indeed. My species was not meant to live so long, either. Adjustments had to be made. Improvements.

It's not ideal. But the work is mine to complete, so it matters little.

[spellcollect]

And your ultimate goal is pushing back this oblivion; this end.

[ She has to consider that. Besides, she's garnered that much from listening in on the other conversations. ]

Would you call what you do magic? Or something else?

[kenosnpcs]

One of them. That one is necessary. There will be no point to other goals without doing so.

But, yes. It is magic, primarily. It has always been my talent and my study.

[spellcollect]

I see. What other goals do you have? If I can ask. And what sort of magic do you utilize? I've been practitioner for a long time myself.

[bakedapple]

[ jfc i'm dumb :playdead:

The sense of alarm that had risen in Link softens, but it's still there. The thought of the new world's Zelda not really being Zelda is horrifying. He wants to see her again, to save her, but if that person isn't even really Zelda, then what's the point?

But the prospect of those other Links also being there... that doesn't bother him quite so much. In the recesses of time, thousands of years ago, one of his past selves was mentored by the previous one. Clearly, they're able to coexist. ]

I see. [ with a sense of finality. ] We have to save them, then. We can't leave the past generations behind. If I'd come during a past generation in their place, it'd be me inside the Tree.

[ He directs his attention back at Aetós, for one last time. ]

...You're a terrible person, but we need your help. I know it doesn't make any difference to you, but... if I see you again, I won't kill you. There's no point.

[kenosnpcs]

I am glad that you have come to the understanding. I am terrible. I would not deny it. But it makes me uniquely able to push forward. Progress. Kenos could not be without my works.

[ There's no particular pride in the statement. It simply Is. ]

Our goals are aligned, so it is beneficial to allow me my work.