A Lost Seed

What happened to the seed after that? It turned into a bright shining star that watched over everyone.

[heartofephinea]

[First off I have to apologize for being terrible at maintaining this blog. Thank you so much to those of you that put up with my insane slowness over here. 

That being said I think I am going to officially move Lambda onto my multi-muse as I think I’ll be able to keep up with him better that way (and not forget to check his blog for months at a time). Those that I have threads with here I would love to continue them over there if you’re ok with that!

Here is where you can find Lambda going forward. Its a side blog to my main so I should be able to better keep up with things there. Thank you all so much <3]

[heartofephinea]

[First off I have to apologize for being terrible at maintaining this blog. Thank you so much to those of you that put up with my insane slowness over here. 

That being said I think I am going to officially move Lambda onto my multi-muse as I think I’ll be able to keep up with him better that way (and not forget to check his blog for months at a time). Those that I have threads with here I would love to continue them over there if you’re ok with that!

Here is where you can find Lambda going forward. Its a side blog to my main so I should be able to better keep up with things there. Thank you all so much <3]

[aurantia-ignis]

“Under a tree where the breezes blow, There is the spot that it’s good to go With the children bronzed by the Summer sun, Bubbling with laughter and wholesome fun; And I gather them round — all the happy clan, And forget for a while I’m a grizzled old man.” ~Edgar A. Guest” Future!Sophie and Future!Lambda designs by the amazing @artyartpile. Please join us on this very small, very lonely, but very beautiful ship we call SoDa. ;w; 

[artyartpile]

Bad End

[crimsaros]

[heartofephinea]

majesia:

   “Yet you chose to have faith in them despite it. I still fail to see the reason for such faithfulness.”

There’s a twitch of his lips, a brief hitch in his thoughts as Fodra is quick to find the contradiction in his words. 

“I have never said they without fault. Humans are fickle, quick to forget their mistakes and prone to turning upon each other when it suits them. Yet I have seen that they are also capable of learning, of assisting each other when there is no personal gain to be had. Perhaps one day they will not be so fickle as they seem. If you destroy them, you will never know the answer.”

[aurantia-ignis]

Because my friend Artpharos often lamented the lack of Lambda’s skit faces. Slightly referenced from Leon and the other Graces folks. I know the perspective is off on the last one especially but I have to go back to schoolwork now so yeaahhhhhhh live with it ^^;;;

[heartofephinea]

red-head-courage:

“You speck like you aren’t human yourself sir.” 

“I am not human as you are, no.” His answer is simple, curt with a defensive light in his eyes lest the warrior before decide he would try to slay the ‘monster’ most saw him as. “Though I’ve the appearance of one now, do mistake me for one such as yourself.”

[heartofephinea]

draconianreaper:

☠ ~ “Can’t argue with you there. But that makes them more interesting actually.“

“It also makes them irritatingly difficult to predict,” Lambda lets out a heavy sigh. “They ceaselessly betray and attempt to destroy one another for foolish reasons, even those they claim as friend. All for some petty ploy at power or riches. I will never understand what they think to gain.” 

[heartofephinea]

“Humans are such fickle creatures.” 

[heartofephinea]

evasion-finalist:

“Too much like who?” you cant just drop something like that and not give further clarification. Jude took that bait so now he was most definitely curious about who this ‘him’ was. He didn’t really get compared to a lot of people and at this point in his life there was nobody really left around in his friend circle to compare him to.

“Well if the humans end up getting the wrong idea and threaten the overall survival of the world, threaten that balance between humans and spirits, I would step in.” just like Milla did when he had first met her. Though if things ever got that bad, she’d likely be by his side when that time came. “I don’t know about it being more difficult. Milla also manages the flow of mana and that hardly seems easy either.” though Jude knew where Lambda was coming from.

Of course he did… “But with what you describe? That’s just another thing that makes them human, and it is not always so negative. Those same emotions can lead them to doing something good. It’s never simple, only complicated.” but Jude really didn’t mind watching over humans. It meant he was able to spend more time in their world than the spirit one, and he could make sure that the foundation that he had left the world was used fairly. “Still, that is part of my duty. I would have it no other way.”

“That leads me to believe that even if you think that, you don’t really mind it.” he pointed out, though he left it at that before Lambda would inevitably walk out on him if he kept it up. “There are more here?” others like Lambda? At least the being didn’t mind his presence. Jude had to wonder what exactly Lambda was wanting out of those observations. Though the freedom of movement from the world guardian made the younger smile straight away.

“Even if my reasons for visiting are to speak with you?”

“My partner,” Lambda answers simply. “He thought much as you do, held onto that same ridiculous faith in humans. Was insistent no matter what he saw that they meant well, that the world one worth saving.” It was that persistence, that refusal to give in even when faced with the darkest sides of humanity that had eventually won the being over, that had rubbed off on him over the lifetime he’d spent watching him. That Lambda held to even now. 

“Is it ever something other than humans?” Lambda asks haphazardly. In his experience it was rarely anything but. His own nova beasts had been troublesome for a time, but eventually they too settled into the natural rhythm of the planet as generations wore away the hatred they’d been born out of. No number of generations seemed to cure humans of their stupidity, or their arrogance for that matter. 

But he would concede. They weren’t all hopeless. 

“My thoughts matter little, whether I like it or not, they are part of life on this planet and thus in part my responsibility. If only to be certain they don’t make a mess of things.” He would not see Ephinea share Fodra’s fate.

“There is another, a friend of mine, that does not age as humans do, though she is not the same manner of being as I.” Protos Heis remained friend to him throughout the years, loyal as she had ever been. Ironic that two beings meant to be eternal enemies now considered each other companion. 

“So long as your reasons do not negatively impact this world, they matter not to me. Though I do not understand why you bother. What do you find so interesting that it merits such a journey?.” 

[heartofephinea]

majesia:

   “…”

The woman’s gaze finally waverd at the question and he was immediately met with silence. Fodra turned from him, eyes strayed upwards far beyond the surroundings of Lhant where she knows where the land she wishes to see abloom lies and asks herself the question once more. By what means did she posses to achieve it that she has not done already? What could she do now when she had so little power to draw for herself being so far away from her home?

   “The one who promised to see that wish fulfilled and absorbed the remnants of my dying wish… “  The queen closed her eyes. It was by the will  of that girl, the child by the name of Sophie, that she still remained bounded to this world. Just as it was by her will that her wish still lived on.  In the end it drew back to that one singular point. It all went back to her, to the Child of Fodra.

Truly, that would be enough reason to sedate such interrogation.

    “I would see to it that she  and the life that Ephinea has to behold is watched over her. That is all I am able to do in one such state”

Lambda follows her gaze into the empty sky, foselos carving across a sea of blue. Though it was hidden from his eyes, he did not doubt she looked to Fodra. Lambda himself held little attachment to the place; had few good memories there even if it where he born. There was his time with Cornell, but save that he recalled only pain, sadness, anger... even fear. He wondered briefly what she saw. 

The answer was not one he expected, but then he could not truly say he knew or even fully understood Fodra. He only saw briefly in her a flicker of his old self, someone angry and hating upon those who had inflicted such pain upon them. Yet there were those who had proven him wrong, who would risk everything to remedy a mistake not their own. Truly... he would never understand humans. 

Perhaps those he cherished most of all. 

“Then we have a common goal,” Lambda answered simply. “I would watch them, see that they continue to prove there is a glimmer of hope in humanity. That they do not prove me right in the end. There is something fascinating about the manner in which they struggle and move forward.” Fascinating, and perhaps a bit inspiring; not that he was prepared to admit that. “For all that they falter and tumble, there always seems to be those prepared to pick them up, to make reparations for their mistakes, and to then overcome them.”  

[heartofephinea]

evasion-finalist:

“I’ll take that as a compliment.” as it truly was one in Jude’s eyes. That even as a spirit all this time later, he still retained his human self and it wasn’t something he ever wanted to lose. “If I no longer could think in that way? I don’t think I would be ‘me’ anymore.” it was a crucial part to his character, his personality, his memory– things he had regained and steeled so he would continue to be.

Lambda was curious about some particulars of Jude’s own duty which was understandable. Duty was important for all manner of beings like this. “Spirits are tied to the balance of my world as are humans. There are different spirits that balance different aspects, but one in particular kept their duty focused on the balance of all humans and spirits. It is a rather large undertaking so when I came into the picture, I shared in half of this duty. One to keep focus on the balance of spirits and the other to focus on the balance of humans.”

When it was put like that, it made things a bit simpler to explain. “I watch the human side, but as the duty can be managed alone or switched around. It is possible for us to take one another’s place temporarily or pass it on to someone who is also capable if we both are needed elsewhere– though the latter is quite rare.” if anything, spirits were certainly flexible, but they all had a role to play.

“You say that, but I see you smiling.” and Jude had to laugh at that just a little bit. “For someone that has lived so long? I thought you would agree that having another to share that with who also shares a similar fate could be interesting, no?” to pass the time, for amusement, companionship, whatever the reason.

Wasn’t that was friends were for?

“I imagined you would, you’re too much like him.” Memories of his partner from days long past still linger. He was not human, did not share the same time as they, yet his memories of those times did not fade. He continued to carry them, much in the way Protos Heis did as well. Their legacy... as she might call it. Fitting perhaps. 

“One must manage humans?” An almost laugh escapes with his words. “You got the more difficult task. Their ability to be irrational and forsake all manner of sense never fails to astound me. To try and keep them in balance is no small task.” One Lambda himself often needed to see to. He found that most other life on this planet content to remain within the natural law of things, with only the occasional exception. It was humans who ever thought to try and bend the world for their own gain. 

“And what is your point?” The smile is instantly replaced with a skeptic glance. Guilty as charged but Lambda was not prepared to admit it. “It is true that those who experience time as I do are rare, but I am not the only one. You’re a strange sort; I would not mind observing your actions further.” 

Solitude truly could grow dull after so long. He did not entirely mind the other’s company. 

“Come and go as you wish. I shall not oppose your presence here.” 

[heartofephinea]

majesia:

    “My desires remain unchanged. To see Fodra flourish once more.” The steady gaze remains, the inflection of her words being the only indication of the shift in her disposition. There was a certain kind of resignation that came with such a question.  In truth such a question was simply pointless to query and yet it seemed that irregardless she would need to explain herself all the same. Should he not know already, had he not put an direct stop to it?

Her stance was ever the same and she had naught else to desire for.

   “Until that promise is fulfilled I shall remain.”

He knew her goals, yes. Perhaps the question had been redundant, yet he had hoped to gleam more information from her. Lambda did not oppose such a thing, imagined that the day would yet come that the entirety of Fodra as green as the Arcadia Gardens. His concern lay elsewhere. 

“And how do you mean to achieve such a thing? I have no doubt that the others intend to keep their word, they are too foolishly earnest to do otherwise.” Not that he would ever admit he considered that among the reasons he might call them friend. “But I would know what your intentions are.” 

[heartofephinea]

majesia:

Tactic is fruitless, aborting in turn for a more favourable one.    “It would appear we stand at an impasse.” 

There was some relief for her words; he found he’d little ability to guess what the other’s intentions may be.

“So it would seem. What is it you want?” 

[heartofephinea]

majesia:

Menacing stare initiated.

Initiating countermeasure: unflinching stare.

[heartofephinea]

majesia:

Even louder squinting

Continues to stare.