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Shikei did the thing
THEY SAID I SHOULDN’T DO IT.
UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM, LORD SHIKEI CAN NOT BE STOPPED!
EVERYONE—I MADE A MULTIMUSE BLOG~~~ Madoka Magica and Umineko with more fandoms to come!
http://via-infinitus.tumblr.com/
PRAISE ITS HONORABLE NAME AND FOLLOW IT~!
[Hey everyone~ I just want you all to know that I'll be a little inactive for a few more days. I'm working on something and I want everything to be <Perfect>! I'll be on sooner or later, though.]
Trip Update
[I don't think I ever came so close to hugging a Zombie. It was great.
I offered the Zombie some lotion, she denied it with a "rrarrahg".
Ooooooh! I saw a TARDIS in one of the haunted houses!
Living off takeout food for a week makes you miss a homecooked meal, you know? Ahh, but my room is currently below 50 degrees......yessss~
So far, this trip was nice. A few bumps here in there, liiiiike: me having to ride in the back as if I were Shannon/Kannon, put with all the luggage, I forgot most of my cloth, and other unimportant stuff. But oh for the love of Auau, the back seat that I'm trapped in is 4'4 while I am a 5'7 little bastard.
But oh god I am tired.]
[I messed around with Photoshop and made B.Dlanor.]
Online
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To show yourself here…..no murder has occurred, or are you partaking the role of a Witch this time? Nevertheless, I wondered when both our paths would cross again.
"Who’s to say one won’t occur in the future? After all, where ever a detective goes a crime shall follow." Erika said ominously.
"Either way, I never expected to see you again. I thought for sure you would have turned into dust after that last game." *giggle* Erika giggled taunting the other witch.
"....So did I for a brief moment. Yet one expects many things, only to be thrown a different outcome at the end of it all. Such as how many thought Great Lady Bernkastel would take out her anger on you and simply throw you back into Oblivion after the shameful loss. Yet here you stand before me, existing."
Striking a silent blow against the Witch of Truth, was she.....? No. The arrogance of the Witch who thought she could control the truth would only be matched by the Truth itself. "As curtsy, shall I offer you some tea, Lady Erika?"
"Better to be slapped with the Truth than to be kissed with a Lie? No, nothing like that. Sometimes lies are nice. They're soft pillows to lay on and rest. The Truth is unneeded in so many occasions. If it allows you to grow, then by all means, Open Pandora’s Box, and see what lies inside. Jump from the mountain and see whether you Ascend or Fall. If that Truth helps you live on, then Learn. But there is so much which is unneeded. Saying your dead family is watching you from up in Heaven is better than just saying they’re gone. In the end, the truth simply Blackens the heart. With dark intentions, it Rots the Heart. But with earnest intentions, it shields it the Heart. A Lie to protect one from being broken, a lie to turn suffering into new happiness—this is Magic.”
A Survivor of Purgatory / Closed
”Twisted torture mechanisms? Traps? Evil?" Sakana remarked, "I’d never thought I’d hear you of all beings make such a distinction."
Sakana tilted his head a little. He’d said it so matter of factly, it would have thrown anyone who wasn’t a witch off for a moment. “Good and evil are kind of moot here though, don’cha think? Kind of like saying a cat is evil for playing with a mouse before killing and eating it. Or torturing, from the mouse’s perspective. What one perceives to be ‘evil’ may not be to someone else, and in fact may be completely normal and natural to another being.”
"I lack a ‘moral compass’ you could say. I go about doing what I please, and sure I may get mad if someone messes with my friends, and I might even go so far as to take revenge upon someone who’s reeeeeaaaaaaaally ticked me off. But even those who try to take over my realm for their own benefit I wouldn’t really call ‘evil’. I don’t think I’d call anything ‘evil’ or ‘good’, really. But I know others do, and I know the connotation behind it."
"I suppose what I’m asking is, because you said there was something along the lines of ‘evil’ in the Senate, what exactly do you perceive ‘evil’ to be?"
"……Evil? No….the title ‘Evil’ is much too broad. ‘Desperate’ suits the the dangers of the Senate rather well." Suddenly an elegant bouquet of flowers, primary or not, every rose was seemingly perfect and ready to be plucked from the ground. "Before we move to that subject, let’s take a seat."
Upon reaching the hill’s top, the Witch sat with the hot set of tea on the embroidered plate. Butterfly patterns swirling against that of a King Bass. “Huoshan.” As a great writer one said ‘Light tea, for heavy thoughts’. Virgilia’s own special touch, no doubt! Settling down, she took a breath and took in the sea’s breeze. “For me to make such a distinction? Yes. But I wanted to hear your view on it. I see now that you don’t see Evil and Good as others do, not even I see it in such a way. Not even I.” Showing only a single side of the bouquet, Virgilia’s expression softened.
~Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ~
——“Tell me Sakana-kun, to you, what is magic?”
After a pause for thought, Sakana replied “Magic is lot of things. It can be a force to make anything happen, a catalyst for something even larger, a companion to love, as well as a traitor to it. It could be a story, or within one, it could be an entire world. But I suppose even this has a perspective to it, huh?”
He sipped his tea.
"Because of course, magic is metaphorical and subject to change. If magic didn’t exist as it does now, it would still exist, but only shift in meaning. What we think of as mundane may be magic to others. But I digress, that isn’t really what you asked me, huh?"
Sakana had to think a while on this one. Asking a witch what magic was to them was like asking what blood was to a human - it wasn’t something very commonly thought of, and sometimes even taken for granted.
It was important to keep in mind though. Even if a human didn’t think about it, they may have a blood clot at times. Maybe witches could have a boredom clot in a similar manner. Keheh…
"Magic is…a concept to me," Sakana finally replied, "The concept of the unknown, and the concept of infinite possibility throughout everything. Witches use it to perform things that to lesser beings seem logically impossible, but that’s the point of magic, I think. It is the direct opposition to the concept of ‘impossibility’, ‘logic’, ‘reason’, yet it coexists with them like yin and yang. It has to. One cannot be without the other. One cannot play chess without two sets of pieces."
"And…magic is fun!" he said lastly. He couldn’t help putting that last bit in, with his little signature cheeriness.
"Ohohoho~!" Returning with her own personal bit of whimsy, Virgilia struck with her signature and certainly not copyrighted laugh.
The sheer innocence of the Witch's answer made a quick beat skip in Virgilia's heart. Going through so much, hardship, trials, death even--his heart still remained full with the joy that magic could truly bring. "Such is the answer of a True Sorcerer....Fufufufu...." Placing a single hand on her lips to hide the laugh, Virgilia composed herself and continued on. "Yes. That's an excellent way to interpret it. Yet...that's simply the overlaying of it all. Some wish not to know the True Core of Magic. Such is the flaw of the world.
"As Humans, they cannot unlearn what is already known. Better off they are not knowing, and now...I believe that you might be too. So little have you dived into the depths of Magic. Magic is.....
.....A gentle Lie."
"Better to be slapped with the Truth than to be kissed with a Lie? No, nothing like that. Sometimes lies are nice. They're soft pillows to lay on and rest. The Truth is unneeded in so many occasions. If it allows you to grow, then by all means, Open Pandora's Box, and see what lies inside. Jump from the mountain and see whether you Ascend or Fall. If that Truth helps you live on, then Learn. But there is so much which is unneeded. Saying your dead family is watching you from up in Heaven is better than just saying they're gone. In the end, the truth simply Blackens the heart. With dark intentions, it Rots the Heart. But with earnest intentions, it shields it the Heart. A Lie to protect one from being broken, a lie to turn suffering into new happiness--this is Magic."
Proper Guidence / Closed
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You see it…..
Yes. Perhaps I should tell her as well. Any mother would worry! No doubt I’ll get an ear full, no doubt. And Battler-kun, if you can, tell her yourself too. Hearing it from a Lover is much better than anyone else.
"Yeah! I’ll tell her! Though she might kill me in the process ihihihi!" this really wasn’t a laughing matter, but it was best to try and make light of what hell it will be explaining this to Beato.
"Hohoho~ I thought if anyone, you could pacify that child. Simply ignore her for an hour, let her pout and pat her head for a few moments, I promise that it will pass. But do try to stop her if she summons the Twin Towers to shoot that demon full of holes....this is Sabitsuki's fight, not her's."
The rest, I leave to you.
[So, by tomorrow I'll be at Horror Nights until sunday, so replies will be dropped to nothing as I try to reply to everything.]
A rare stab of jealousy poked through Maria, at that moment; Virgilia had gotten know Beatrice when she was a child, a girl who had possibly been Maria’s age. The colorful descriptions of Beato’s desires to make people happy only intensified this feeling, although the girl was deeply proud of her mentor for her pure intentions back then.
If Maria had been Beatrice’s age at that time, could they have been friends? Partners? It would’ve been fun to learn magic with Beatrice, to escape the terrible world of humans together and just have fun…
The gentle pat on the head brought her from her wistful thoughts, and the other Witch’s question sent her down another line of consideration.
"…They would have to be someone with a good heart! I don’t want to let the blessing of magic fall into the wrong hands."
"Also, um… They don’t have to believe in magic, at first. That’s what teaching them is all about. Process, progress… I want to be able to see them grow as a person! So that if anything happens to me someday, I know that the duty of making people happy rests with someone pure and good, uu."
"Someone like Beato, with lots of determination, would also be nice. Having lukewarm feelings only sets you up for failure, and I want my apprentice to be someone I can rely on as a friend in the long run."
"So thats.......how an Apprentice Witch views apprenticeship...." It was exactly what Virgilia expected of the young Witch of Origin. A gentle, modest, yet humble answer. Virgilia's expression softened and gave a giggle to the young Witch. So much like Beato was when in her stages of a simple neophyte.
"Yes. Someone like that would fit right into your qualifications, wouldn't they? But....what about someone who doesn't believe in Magic? To show them the beauty and fun that lays in its true layers. There are many humans who deny magic, so its happiness burns when it touches them. With your heart, which has the power to sever all hatred, may weaken as time goes by, yet the power will still lay dormant inside. With this, you can teach it to anyone."
"At the moment you choose an apprentice, you will earn the title of 'Great Master'."
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My god, do you learn.
C. S. Lewis (via psych-facts)
Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.
Russian Proverb (via ewno)
[Alright! Everything is drafted. Maria-mun, Sabi-mun, and a few mooore.
"Thank you, Goddess Madoka Kaname. Now….where were we? Oh~! Yes, witches as a whole." Snapping her fingers, a small thread of hair fell from Virgilia’s silvery hair strands. The thread fell and started to distort and twist into the shape of a butterfly. Holding her hand out, Virgilia gave a small chant, and the butterfly turned into a transparent cloud.
"We are all divided, organized into ranks by power, conceptual, reality, and so on. At the bottom, there is Apprentice Witches. Youthful and filled with lights. They guide us to the new Era of Witches of both Light and Dark. The title of these witches could range so far from say…..Endless Witch to Witch of Origin.
Next we have mid-level witches, *Hohoho* One’s such as Territory Lords, unlike you, who hold an entire Universe, these beings hold small, yet large Fragments. And on top of that…..are Voyagers.”
"Endlessly swimming in the sea. Lost in the tempest of the sea’s mysteries, they revel in uncertainty and search infinitely for ways to relieve boredom. But this….this…..desperation for entertainment often warps witches. Be they young or Old. Voyager or Territory Lord. This corruption is something one might call vile, no…..a losing one one’s way. Voyagers are cast into the sea with a single wuthering buoya that will soon sink. Their goal? Find another,…..or steal another from someone else."
{ Madoka listened while she used the fork in hand to cut her own piece of cake, popping it into her mouth as she listened to the other and watched her display at least some mustering of her abilities compared to her full amount of power which the smaller could only imagine inside of her mind. With the explanation set, she swallowed when she had been chewing and she thought for a moment over everything - - voyager, endless witch, witches of origin …
{ ” Sounds set. ” She murmured to herself before she glanced up to the other and she rolled her shoulders back. ” And which spot would that lay me into? I own an entire universe though I do happen to take favorites into play, and I’m not exactly bored, but I’m not entertained either. “
"A little ahead of ourselves? Oh--!" Virgilia gave a rushed apologetic expression. Waving her hands side to side, she apologized for being so rude to an Absolute Being. "Please pardon my insolence, I was out of term. But....before we go into a topic such as yours, I feel it best to explain about the Highest rank a witch could ever hope, or in these cases curse themselves into is the rank of.....Creator.
Arguably, Creators, are somewhat comparable to God's and Goddesses. Being able to create Clusters of Fragments upon Clusters of Fragments, they are the most powerful form of Witches. Some stronger than Gods or Goddesses even, but the fine line between Creator and God is so fine, that you couldn't tell the difference quite easily! No, no you couldn't! Mighty as they are, no one would challan--*Giggle*Giggle* Well....there are some brave souls who would tread on that dangerous ground." She teased.
"Ah! That's right, you asked of your rank? In all honesty, a Goddess as majestic as yourself, exist outside of the Witch Ranks, but if I had to, I would say above Creator Level.
But even a mid-level witch can defeat a high ranking voyager....Ohohoho~"
((Ok question ))
((Virgilia, did you get my ask, or did tumblr eat it?
I’m all paranoid now since like three asks I sent to Madotsuki got eaten last night ))
[Whoops. I think tumblr had lunch :P ]
