#fragmenteddeity

[icanmakeyoubetter]

"...What did they do to you?" Lior's voice is brimming with shock, the deity fragment staring at what he knows, in spirit, is a human being. A child. Yet that is not what he sees physically.

((Finally throws my Mephiles at Prototype. Go my Hedgehog-but-not thing!))

For several moments, the Prototype does nothing except stare. One might think he's staring because this...creature?...is nothing like anything he's seen before—and there have been a lot of toy designs, both approved and not, go through the factory.

That is only partially correct.

The other reason he stares, is because this...individual?...seems to see right through him somehow. He is looking past the horrifying outer shell—the toy crafted from purloined parts that covered up the majority of his true form long ago—and see who he truly is:

An angry, hurt, lonely child.

He's caught off guard. He forgets to snap, or stab, or intimidate. Instead...he answers.

"They lied. They hurt. They gave us love, and then they took it away. And when I got angry, they called me a MONSTER."

[multimusewonderland]

@fragmented-deity sent: Name: Innerste... or Mephiles, I suppose Age: ...Around 200 or so years old... minimum. Do you like to cuddle?: ...Yes. Can we make-out?: If you would like. A night in or dinner out?: Night in is preferred, but if you want dinner out I am not opposed either. Whip cream or chocolate syrup?: ...chocolate syrup. Chocolates and roses?: ...I'm not sure this was meant to be an "and" question, but you would receive both. Though the roses may not be the stereotypical red roses. What makes you a good Valentine?: I am unsure how to answer this, I have never been or had a Valentine. Would you cook for me?: I would try my best to. Would you let me cook for you?: Yes. Where would you take me on a date?: I would take you to see a meteor shower. Who’s paying?: If money is necessary, me. What did you get me for Valentine’s Day?: Snapdragons (grace and strength, deviousness), Coriander (Hidden worth/merit), blue violets (Watchfulness, faithfulness, I'll always be there), and Irises (Faith, trust, wisdom, hope, valor) and dark chocolate covered coffee beans...?

Valentine Applications

"... ... ..."

With the flowers balanced in the crook of one arm and the application clutched in his free hand, Shadow stared at the latter for a long, long time, struggling to process both the words and the sender. He'd need to read it again later to decide if the date was worth it- that was not what he was thinking about.

Innerste was not only a fragment of a god, but he had Shadow's face, and he was-

he was-

Shadow's thoughts, jumbled and tangled up like the inside of a poorly wired machine, came to a sudden halt as he remembered what happened in Tears of Soleanna. If that was real for Mephi- Innerste, then...

Rigidly, he put the flowers aside - Gaia, they really were pretty - before coming back to stand in front of his mirror, trying his best to hide his turbulent emotions.

"Innerste," Shadow started, "did you kill Sonic in your world?"

The way he was staring left "I don't care if he came back to life, I need to know" implied, but still unsaid.

[fortruechaos]

@fragmented-deity said: " you can't understand . not unless you were there . "

Oh for the love of --Shadow rolls his eyes. Is this how he sounded for so long? Everyone so wrapped up in their microcosmic worlds, too infatuated with licking their own wounds to realize the world is still turning, the days are still going, the wars keep raging. It's honestly a miracle no one gave up on him. For every person Shadow meets that sounded just like he did, the more his gratitude for the ones who kept him in his life grows.

"I won't claim to understand the particulars. Just as you cannot understand the particulars of my life. But as the Ultimate Lifeform, I can tell you I probably get the picture." Arms come to fold in front of his chest. "But sure. Make that decision for me. What do I care. Tch." Mephiles has done nothing to deserve his pity, but perhaps it's his self-frustration that spurs Shadow's retort.

[reflections-of-mobius]

[ @fragmented-deity || DM'd for an Event Starter!]

He couldn't stand it. The rage burning through his every vein, the need to destroy, to take out this violence on something- anything. Shadow was trying to just breathe as he marched through the streets, rain daring to fall onto his quills- trying to wet his fur, failing to get to skin.

They'd taken EVERYTHING from him.

Red-orange hues were narrowed. He'd escaped that island-- had they really thought such a thing could contain him? They'd been sorely mistaken.

And he was going to make sure they learned their damn lesson.

A light flashed overhead- blinding him for a moment, sensing something amiss. Vehicles were pulling up- tanks and vans, each with that loathed logo on their sides. A single G, the sign of the one organization he wanted to tear apart. They'd taken what was his. Wasn't it only fair he get his pound of flesh?

"....you tell me what you did to them...or I will destroy you." His voice was quiet- shaking with rage, unable to contain the hateful wrath that burned in his chest. He needed. Needed. Vengeance. Anything--- to give that life meaning. The life he knew was snuffed- what else could that pain have been, that he'd felt before they'd disappeared from his dreams? Right before he'd woken up?

Whether an act of providence or otherwise, Shadow didn't give a single damn what had allowed him to escape such a predicament. So long as he could have his vengeance, so long as he could at least see them off. He didn't doubt these bastards hadn't bothered- what had they gone through? What had they felt in those final moments?

Whatever it was, he'd make these soldiers pay a hundredfold.

"Put your hands behind your--- head!" One of the soldiers tried to command.

[a0iakuma]

What sort of comfort was that? Was it even truly meant to be comforting? To his knowledge, the blue whelp didn't even remember him, not really. Time had ways of correcting itself so that there was a sort of reasonable patch to the events when they began over again... without completely taking away the effect of the events on the body. "...Was that meant to help me?" The deity fragment scoffed, huffing. As weak as he is, he's not about to take on the God Destroyer on his own. Especially not in this state. He'd only ever got one lucky shot, after all. And even that hadn't stuck. "I don't expect everyone to have answers." He gets... a bit snippy, the crystalline ears snapping back flat as his mouthless and nose less features do their best to attempt an irritated, angry look. "I expected there at minimum to be some form of... remnants." He muttered cryptically. But, of course, there wasn't. Mentions of his whole self were... sparse, damaged, or otherwise unrecognizable. He was lucky they existed at all. As his removal from the timeline had been after a long period of existence. And truly, at this point. That was all he wanted. To exist. continued from here / @fragmented-deity

Was that meant to help me? “ Yeah..? ” The line usually works, it works for someone like Tails! This may be more of a head-scratcher. His blue ears twitched a bit, pondering while looking at the other. Sonic had a strange sense of deja vu. Weird. Where has he seen that look? ( or lack thereof ).

Ah well, if he can't remember it then surely it's not important right? But the whole deja vu feeling may bother him for a while. Sonic stares at the other, staring at supposedly a grumpy look? Yeah, that's a grumpy look.

“ I've been around here now and again and I know the best information you can get is from the older generation. Younger people can help so much, you know? And elders probably would love to catch your ear off about something that even younger people don't know about. Just my two cents. ”

But he was sure there's answers somewhere. Yeah, nobody had all the answers. But it's not fully gone yet.

“ You just got to look deeper, or maybe the answers aren't solely in Soleanna. ”

[timeclipsed]

🕯️- @fragmented-deity (Innerste go brrr)

send me 🕯️to hear my character's inner thoughts about your character. (status — closed!)

Oh goodie, they're multiplying. Because the thing this multiverse needs most is multiple variations of Shadow per timeline. Or... I mean, is this guy even Shadow at all? What's his deal?... Whatever, they're spawning like Dollar Generals. Or that one kid who interrupted the Game Awards. And I hate that. I swear, if this guy has some stupid tragic anime backstory that I have to sit through too, I'm gonna eat my shoes.

[segagrls]

“why do you have that look on your face?” - @fragmented-deity (could be bc he looks like Shadow but is Not Shadow. For Surge!)

random dialogue prompts || ACCEPTING // @fragmented-deity

⚡"...What look on my face?" They genuinely were mostly just trying to decipher why the other looked different. But then again, there was something different about the air to the electric using tenrec. Their ear flickered slightly as they stayed where they were, arms crossed as they leaned against a nearby wall.

[multimusewonderland]

@fragmented-deity sent: 🕯️- Innerste/Mephiles in relation to Shadow (or any other Sonic muse you may have high muse motivation for!)

Inner Thoughts

"Mephiles... It's unsettling to think that the character I played as for a movie is, in some other universe, real. It's a good thing we aren't filming anymore. Unless I've just "jinxed it", and Silver's father decides he needs a sequel."

"Regardless, I'm glad that he does not act the way he did in Tears of Soleanna. Yes, even if he still steals my appearance."

"...I wonder if he would find humor in the movie version of him. Most likely not. I should at least ask him how to pronounce his name. Maybe I'll remember this time. Hah."