How do you move on? [closed/Obsession]

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How do you move on? [closed/Obsession] May 19, 2016 21:50:43 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on May 19, 2016 21:50:43 GMT -5

She had changed; in power, in thoughts, in philosophy, she had changed and become a somehow different person for it all. Sekai, someone whom he had admired and respected for the past few years, since starting on this journey…had become someone that felt altogether strange to him. It was so odd, so strange that someone that had always felt so rooted and strong and confident could shift in such a way as to feel, though more powerful, less together. In many ways he wasn’t sure of who she was, nor did he know who she thought she was. She was a… He shook his head, it didn’t matter what she had done to attain her power but she was different in a way so fundamental that he wasn’t quite certain how to define it.

But he knew what the source of this change was, and it had been what she was fighting, the thing that was both a monster and a god at the same time. But such a being hadn’t been killed…he’d been allowed a second lease on life. He didn’t know how, but he would correct it. He would find a way. He could and he would…

The hollows swarmed over the area, the many spiritualists beating them and fighting them, defeating them in whatever ways that they could, but Raph had a different idea. One that would either get him killed or lead to some kind of salvation, but as the children of this day and age tended to say… you only live once. Or at least something like that…

He found the nearest hollow and began to beat the crap out of it with his fists, only his fists, until it opened the portal, the goddamned key to the next part of his plan. As it was retreating he leapt at it, grappling the creature all the way through, and back into the world of hollows, the world of endless night. The moment that they both arrived, he ripped the hollow in half and tore off its head. It hadn’t been very strong, after all, merely a scavenger feeding off of the carnage that its bastard of a master had unleashed. Raph looked around. The castle looked like hell, destroyed by some great and mighty force…though he could more than likely guesstimate the force that had obliterated it, and knew in a heartbeat that that was his quarry.

Where was it? Where was the creature without a heart? The creature that had become a god for its own amusement? He could sense hollows by the thousands, he ripped apart a few as he walked forward, stalking the thing that had changed Sekai, the thing that had changed his friend. Just when the world was starting to make sense, you come in and rip it apart…

He could sense it up ahead, a mighty power, greater than anything he’d ever felt. Arrancars fled the place in droves and he, a human, was approaching it. Some of them look at him, wondering why he was heading there, others made like they were going to stop him, before he tossed a hollow at them. Ravenous bloodthirsty little bastards that they were, they went after each other either outright ignoring, him, it was almost poetic in a rather pathetic way.

Finally the being he was looking for came in sight. He grimaced, bile and rage building up just below the surface, but determined to keep his cool in front of this thing, despite the fact that everything it was doing was tearing apart people’s lives.

“Power…” he muttered approaching this thing. “Why is it that everyone seeks power? And why is it that once they find it they can never get enough? Maybe it’s because of you… Or rather, things like you; creatures so powerful that they don’t register on any normal scale. Tell me, do you get some sick pleasure out of causing people pain?”

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Last Edit: May 25, 2016 22:44:08 GMT -5 by Deleted

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How do you move on? [closed/Obsession] May 25, 2016 22:41:42 GMT -5

Post by Progress on May 25, 2016 22:41:42 GMT -5

Covered in gore and gristle the former King of Hueco Mundo stomped through the sands of Las Noches, the grains flowing as his feet kicked the dunes apart in a single-minded effort to reach his destination; the gates of Las Noches. The throne had been demolished as a symbol of chaos and the gates he would destroy to set the Hollow race free. Liberation in anarchy. After that it would be Seireitei's turn to share in the misfortune, though he honestly hadn't planned out how he was going to deliver it to them yet. All he knew was that beyond Seireitei was the final world to fall; the mortal world. Only there, and even then only if they were strong enough, would he permit them to kill him. There were few people he'd feel satisfied falling to, most of them no longer existing, and he hoped that he would see at least one of them in his final stand. He deserved that much, after all. A being who's entire life has been nothing but conflict and loss to die at the hands of a person of his preference. It was the least fate could afford him.

Clans of Hollow fled and Erasmus followed them, chasing them and at the same time unconcerned with them. it was simply circumstance that he was behind them and he was entertaining himself. He dispatched those too slow or too weak or too stupid to keep up with the pack, the ones that deserved the fate his blade dealt them. He'd raised his blade against one of the foolish beings charging towards him rather than away, only to find as the figure came into focus that it did not belong to the Hollow species. Curiously Erasmus found himself staring down a mortal of all things, a quincy from the feel of his reiatsu. Slowly Erasmus lowered his blade, a great slab of threatening steel, and slowed his march to a halt.

What was he to make of the little human male fighting against the raging current of frightened monsters? All he could summon was a vaguely impressed amusement.

Imperceptibly shorter than Obsession, but slimmer and less impressive, Raphael stood out too comically to be anything more than a magnet for Obsessions mockery, marching so angrily in that ridiculous blue outfit. Standing straight and tall, blade pierced into the sand and eyes afire with spite he received the Quincy amid the war and listened to the rather sudden, rather rude, rather brief speech about power and pain. As his grin grew wider and became a toothy smile Erasmus closed what little distance there was between himself and his new toy, invading the other mans personal space and pushing his face down to look the man directly in the pupil. No doubt he thought that his heroic little march through a horde of fleeing creatures would intimidate the titan, that he would be the David to this Goliath. Raph wanted to know if Erasmus derived pleasure from causing other people pain.

"Yes." Obsession hissed wickedly, relishing the cruelty in his own voice knowing that it was scaring the piss out of the man in front of him. Openly he probed the mans core using his Sight, allowing Raphael to know that there was a corrupt presence within his soul, worming it's way through his spirit and looking for weaknesses. There was no point hiding from such a little man, there was nothing he could do to stop Obsession. "Because pain is power. I'm strong because of what I've been through. Sekai, the woman you worship, is strong because of how much she's suffered. But I don't expect you to understand. You; a man too weak, too lazy, too much of a coward to do anything about his situation. Confronting me was the bravest and stupidest thing you've ever done and probably ever will do."

"What do you have to say for yourself?" Asked Obsession, close enough to Raphael now that he could lunge forward and bite out the mans jugular and a look in his eye that said he'd do it if the answer he heard wasn't satisfactory.

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How do you move on? [closed/Obsession] May 26, 2016 20:36:14 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 20:36:14 GMT -5

His adversary marched towards him tall and nigh impenetrable; a fortress, a veritable bastion of existence, a titanic entity unable for Raph to understand. Blade at his side, the titan slowed down before coming to a stop not far from Raphael. He stared down the man, something indescribable came over him. Certainly it was odd, a human approaching the thing that hollows were fleeing, but they were fleeing a demon, a monster…a god.

Obseession approached him with a malicious grin plastered all over his face, it was more than obvious that he was getting more enjoyment from this. There was no hesitation to Obsession’s next action, as he got right into Raphael’s face, demented smile pushing fear into Raphael’s mind. That was going to appear in his nightmares for a while…assuming he lived through this, of course.

In fact everything about this man inspired fear in Raphael, from the way that he rested his blade into the reishi sand, the way that he carried himself even his voice… Yes, the voice was probably the worst of it all. One simple word sent shivers down Raph’s spine, as if he had a snake moving across his body. Immediately he had goosebumps, and not a good kind. In fact, there was a second sensation as the creature in front of him began to probe Raphael, gaze piercing into the depths of his soul and mind. Raphael could do nothing but allow it, he knew of no way to stop such things, if there even was a way to.

But the mockery and following question set a fire within Raphael, and indignantly he glared at the being that was so far above him. He searched his mind for answers, though none were to be found there. Obsession drew even closer, at eye level and close enough that Raphael could feel his breath on his face.

“Pain is power?” Raph questioned the logic, and would’ve shaken his head were it not for the proximity of his head to Obsession’s. He would’ve laughed at the logic, had he the bravery, in fact he was practically halfway to dying from fear, he was terrified, completely and utterly. Were it not for the fact that had no way out, he would’ve tried to run, would’ve tried to hide would’ve tried to escape in any way that he knew how. But he couldn’t, where he was now was where he needed to be. Yet still it was building.

“What do I have to say?” He raised his head to stare the man in the eyes. “I say that you’re right about a number of things. I admit that I’m weak, I admit that I’m lazy and I even admit that I hold Fujimura-san in higher regard than I should. But I’m not a coward. Why else do you think I came here?!” Because you were too scared to confront Sekai yourself. “Why would I trust my future into the hands of hollows if I wasn’t certain of this course of action?!” But you’re not certain… “And why would I have just left my friends behind like that if I had all the answers?!” There were more ways to get answers, and you know that. What are you afraid of? Becoming a hollow? A Shinigami? Are you afraid of becoming one of the quincy and getting subsumed by their society? “Plus you’re not strong; powerful, perhaps, but not strong. Sekai Fujimura is much the same way, I fear, as is Weylin. You’re all powerful, incredibly so, but I you aren’t strong. You’re a titan and a god, but you’re not strong. I fear you’re far more powerful than I could ever possibly be, but I don’t know about strong. I appreciate what you’ve done to make Sekai powerful though.”

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How do you move on? [closed/Obsession] May 26, 2016 22:28:40 GMT -5

Post by Progress on May 26, 2016 22:28:40 GMT -5

"I'm not strong." Obsession repeated, suddenly becoming very dangerously still. An already cold gaze died, amusement choked by an evil absence in his eyes though the grin remained plastered upon his face. "I don't think that word means what you think it means, Raphael Laurent." Great emphasis was placed on the other mans name, contributing yet another piece of nasty evidence that Raph was an open book to the mad patriarch. Obsession didn't move an inch, didn't even blink as he tapped into the natural vibrations of his rather rude conversation partners body. It was as if his awareness was riding a single beat of his heart all the way up through the lungs and muscle, right into the neck. A spot at the back of Raph's throat was seized by an intangible force, manipulated by the will of Obsession it flexed and blocked Raphaels windpipe.

"I'm going to educate you, very briefly, and you are going to listen and hope that my lecture ends before your brain shuts down from lack of oxygen." The traitor King said matter of factly. "As I told Sekai, I have lived for five centuries and you haven't even lived three decades. You had a normal childhood with loving parents and a nice little school to go to where you could learn. I lived in a shack and broke my back as soon as I was old enough to hold a shovel, some weeks we had little enough food, others we would half-starve." He loosened his mental grip on Raph's throat just enough to allow the man to suck in the smallest sliver of air and then closed his pipe again. The look in his eyes had changed to that of pity, mocking sympathy for a man who, just like Sekai, had been foolish enough to think that he -with his child's scope of the world- knew what it meant to be strong.

"Your father left you, your brother, and mother to fend for yourselves. I watched men I didn't know kill my father and take my mother and sister into slavery because we couldn't pay my fathers debts. You lived to be a man, with an education, with a home of your own. I was just a child when I died. And that's just our human lives." Another carefully measured release and squeeze of Raph's air flow. Obsession had begun to circle the man now, his sword dragging a trench in the sand around the Quincy's feet and releasing a low hiss as it parted the grains. "Have you noticed the similarities in our stories? I've been through just as much as you."

"The difference is that I have experienced these things over and over and over, each time different to the last and the pain fresh and new, for five hundred years. I've lost children, lovers, friends. I've been a drunk, a thrill seeker, I've been further into the depths of human depravity than you could ever imagine. And yet I'm still here, still forging ahead, still with a purpose. You on the other hand, have a pathetic twenty five years to your name and have already given up, lost your purpose, and grown stagnant." Obsession was in front of Raph again, had stopped circling him and was once again staring directly into a pair of horrified black pupils with a gaze of threatening intensity. "Don't you dare tell me that I am not strong when you are the weakest little creature that I have ever laid eyes on."

As suddenly as he had been grabbed by the power of Obsession Raphael was released and the movements of his body became his own again.

"You are a coward. You're only here because you don't know what else to do. You think that this is something that is expected of a man with a purpose, to march toward the enemy and confront him. But like a dog chasing a car you had no idea what you'd do once you were there with the enemy right in front of you. You don't fight, you don't heal, you don't help in any way. You just watch everything from the sidelines and let stronger people like Sekai protect you, secretly wishing that you could be like them but never finding the guts to actually go out and achieve that goal. Even now you just bleat at me uselessly."

"If my son were such a pathetic waste of flesh I'd leave too."

Erasmus simply stood with a stern and rigid body like a stone gargoyle glaring down at the people below it, waiting to see what Raphael would do.

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Last Edit: May 26, 2016 22:45:22 GMT -5 by Progress

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How do you move on? [closed/Obsession] Dec 25, 2017 2:37:18 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2017 2:37:18 GMT -5

Shortly after his words, Raphael suddenly found himself unable to breathe, what little air he’d sucked in suddenly struggled for escape and release. Slowly the man told him of the similarities that the two had, the ways that they were the same, the experiences were undeniable. Though Raphael couldn’t breathe he listened intently, the man circled him, blade dragging through the ground, sand grains scraping against it.

Tears formed in his eyes as he listened intently, drinking in every word and criticism that this damn thing had to say to him. He was right, Raphael couldn’t deny it. He’d lost purpose, he’d come here without a plan, without a purpose. He just thought that this was what he was supposed to do. Though the comment about him being a waste… that stirred something in him.

Laughter came first, bitter laughter. “You say…” Raph said, coughing and getting his breath back. “That I don’t know what strength is. That I’m a coward.” He spat. “You’re right about being a coward, about wishing that I could do something for once and for wishing that that I could be like Sekai. But…” He fell to his knees while stumbling to get up. “But you’re wrong about me. Unlike you…I didn’t succumb to my darkness. God knows that I’ve…had multiple opportunities… I could’ve just laid down at any time in the past… But I’ve kept moving… Not because I have a specific purpose… But because the fact that I’m alive…is…my pur…” And he blacked out, lost consciousness.

When he next awoke? He was back in Karakura Town… Either Obsession, Erasmus…whatever he was, had taken pity on him or had discarded him, like the useless toy that he was.

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Last Edit: Jan 2, 2018 2:43:58 GMT -5 by Deleted

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How do you move on? [closed/Obsession]

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