>Previously: https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/96435805/#96447091

[Innistrad redux]

The angel is going mad. She does not realise it. It does not occur to her that butchering the humans is anything but righteous. It is obviously the only thing that can resolve the anomalies plaguing the werewolves, the towns, the moon.

The angel cannot discern her madness because it was in her design to become more powerful as the humanity of her plane veered towards calamity, and now she is the danger. So when she sees me, an outsider, it is jarring for her to process the fact that she does NOT want to kill me. “Stranger, leave immediately” she commands, gore still dripping off her spear. “This is no longer a place of honour”

“This place was never a place of honor” I tell her. “Your creator, Sorin, never intended it as such”.

The angel blinks. “…what heresy is this?”. “The kind that rewrites religions, I’m afraid” I say. In a flash of white mana I show her a vision of genesis, of the megalomaniacal carelessness this world’s planeswalkers are prone to. This shocks the angel so much that she doesn’t even notice the Eldrazi corruption being seared out of her.

“I don’t say this a lot” I ask, after five minutes of the angel crumpled in a sobbing heap, “but do you want a hug?”

“…what?”

“A hug. Do you want a hug?” I repeat, kneeling down. “You have been diligent and selfless. You deserved a better creator”

“The entire faith I preside over is a cruel joke, I was created to farm the mortals I cherish like cattle, and now something worse than any demon bears down on my blame” she says blankly. “I should not have time for a hug, but…I think so, yes”

I hug her.

I also take this opportunity to tell her I am here on this plane hunting monsters like the one about to consume it, and monsters like her maker, and that I am always looking for more help in this endeavour. And thus, the angel Avacyn finds religion.

1/5

>>96291157
The revelation of what Nasuverse humanity is capable of in OC3 (and the fact that the Moon Cancer stabbed her in the back just to persist a little longer, like that bitch move you can pull on the firekeeper just to hoard some worthless embers) broke Elodie and vindicated me to the point that we both decided her former role was a disservice to both of us. Elodie’s current role is instead trying to prove my goals can be accomplished more efficiently without, well, having to go all cosmic Chairman Yang and inflict Nijima all the time. She does what she can to force me into mercy, but no longer from a place of official sanction.

And to be honest, the tendency for every MMO/gacha setting to continuously escalate is making her goal to try to get me to chill out very hard.

>>96291347
That is indeed the sad thing. Many of my companions WERE mentally ill in a different way to me, and due to a combination of crusty gutter wisdom as well as actually seeking out enlightenment/having fiat redemption perks, I fixed them. Eventually.

The cost was THEIR influence on me making me decide to, well, get Jyggy with it.

>>96291571
There are also those companions like the Primordials and Greater Titans so alien and complacently content with our earlier interactions, that they react to my current course as basically a kind of eccentric hissy fit but are generally ambivalent or even encouraging because hey, I keep the trains running on time at home and the barbarians from the gate.

>The only entity
Again, based on how it acted against the Witness the Gardener would be even more ineffective at constraining me than Elodie, who at least has a lot of small victories and a few major ones like Princess the Hopeful under her belt.

>>96293795
Oh, I was planning to lean harder into the whole Dark Proto Arthur angle. Probably for the best it didn’t pan out seeing how Proto Arthur’s been majorly sidelined.