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"And ye-yet... that is their f-freedom. All worlds are li-like this... ignorant, unenlightened, SELFISH. If the roles were reversed, your kind would have done the sa-same. I know how your hearts work... more than you know yo-yourselves..."
Crimson looks back at them all standing before Pandora's throne holding their head, the air distorted around them, their wisps now vaguely resembling the wings of a monarch.
"I have lived a life of servitude, an-and regret it not. I served a gr-great man... and yet his kindness was rewarded in death. WHY FUROR?!" The Crimson screams, their voice and mood shifting erratically but becoming more clear.
"I had always known this to be true. There is nothing they know that I do not, I created them afterall... but still I did not wish it to be true..."
Furor's damaged form gets back up and reaches out to Pandora.
"Forgive me, I perceived a threat. I thought that he'd use you... take advantage of your... weakness."
"And to live in self-pity all these years hating the world is not weakness..?"
Morpheus holds up his hand and creates a large blast straight up into the air breaking the conversation.
"That is the past, we can do nothing about it now. Furor made a mistake, and he's been kind of a jerk to us, but he thinks he's doing the right thing. All of you intend something you believe is right, but you haven't even tried talking it out and just act on your own without truly considering others. I've done it... and you are doing it now, Crimson."
The Crimson holds its head going back into its berserk frenzy and lunges at them. The unstable power and distorted space creates an immense pressure around the Crimson that is felt as an impact to them all, but Morpheus shields and grabs hold of the Crimson. Time seems to slow nearly to a stop as the two pressures impact one another, debris slowly float suspended in the air.
"Why do you oppose me..?"
"I don't. I actually agree with you, it isn't fair. What I oppose is all that pain and hatred built up inside... in this state... you'd only end up destroying it all. We can't allow that..." Morpheus signals Aranel and then the others to make their move.
"I do not want to destroy... and I do not wish to die..."
"This is not the end, only a transition."
Mage Hunter slowly peeked over his shield.
"I know because I've tapped into the suffering and pain of many millions of people. I know that every world has some level of prejudice, many tragic stories that nobody ever remembers, names lost and struggles shrugged off... and the value of their lives are lost. I have seen this for many years, and the question continues: why doesn't somebody with power step up and make it stop?"
The violent sense starts to emerge again, the feeling of anger and anguish once again fills the air.
"And ye-yet I want to force them into a position that is on the same level... to sever their sense of superiority. And recently, I wanted to cause pain to the one that took the only thing that gave my existence purpose... I never even got to know of his death until recently... so many years of silence, emptiness, and repeated attempts to purge me. Treated as a virus, an infection, a MISTAKE..."
The violent sense fades back some. Crimson lowers their head.
"Imagine it... for many years searching for a loved one, with hope to be reunited, only to find out you were only hunting a ghost. Horrible it is to watch them die, horrible it is to never know... until then I had never felt such an urge to end another life... but now... now I feel that with such intensity..."
"Very little of the Crimson now can be said to be for certain either a being of flesh or a machina. Many would value an existence they could never be destroyed, but I suppose you wanted to become closer to what Adam was... once upon a time I wanted to cast away all this and live that kind of life." She looks down and closes her eyes. "No, I still do... as for the Crimson, I could provide a machina frame, but..."
"The world would be more receptive of you than you realize, many miss the old ones." He says taking a moment to breathe, likely the strain of holding the Crimson in place. He chuckles some and starts to laugh. "For a long while I lived a life apart from others, an aberrant. And now, in these moments I've seen beings like myself, more unusual than myself be regarded as people. I'm... for the first time actually... completely fine with everything..."
Vaguely resembling tears, aetheric wisps flow from his eyes dissipating into the air. He turns to Aranel and holds his hand out.
"That being said... your healing magic mixed with my mother's primal aethera."
He then reaches out to the Crimson, the energy now infesting the Crimson clashes with theirs as if it itself had a mind independent of the virus. The air around them warps and crackles like a storm and a force wraps tightly around his arm. The energy restraining him is unmistakably his own. It begins to try dragging him in.
"Never thought I'd have a literal tug of war with myself." He grips firmly onto the arcane energy then looks to Mia and Aranel. "Ready!"
"I, as well."
"Alright, now!" Morpheus exclaims.