03 | Video | Xdere | The World and All It's Problems

[fortheworld]

[hat, hair and skirts billowing, Oriko stands, royal and resplendent, with perfect balance atop the tallest spire of Mitakihara, the recorder at the perfect angle to capture the city beneath her in all its glory, despite it presumably being in mid air (hint: magic. Or possibly one of the spheres and some duct tape BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER).

From her place at the top of the world, she preaches, master of all she surveys, seven silver spheres spinning as planets orbit the sun.]

Greetings, my kin!

I hear there are dark times afoot! Matters of machination, of death, destruction and hollow glory, but hold no fear!

I will protect you.

I will save you!

If you would follow my lead, and accept this will and wisdom, then harken to me! None shall falter under my gracious watch, and together, we shall lead into a new world! Without grief, without despair, without loss! We shall form a world so perfect none shall be sad!

What say you?

[...so yes, Oriko has snapped. Sort of.]

Comments

[fortheworld]

No, that would defy the point.

[sandinmyboots]

How? If you don't exist, you won't lose anything, you have nothing to grieve and you're too nonexistant to be sad!

[fortheworld]

The point is not to eliminate grief, the point is to save people from it. The difference is considerable.

[sandinmyboots]

And how do you propose to do that?

[fortheworld]

That would depend on a case-by-case basis. The core strategy is to resolve all underlying problems.

[sandinmyboots]

How are you going to solve every problem? That's not physically possible!

[fortheworld]

Nothing is beyond me.

[sandinmyboots]

Oh? Are you a god?

[fortheworld]

I do not need to be.

[sandinmyboots]

Then how are you going to get all that done? No mortal could do it.

[fortheworld]

I am a Puella Magi. It is sufficient.

[sandinmyboots]

Oh, you're one of those magical girls? What's that got to do with it? Even with the vast scope of powers given to you, that doesn't give you power over everything.

[fortheworld]

Power is not what matters. Only the skill to which is it applied. In any case; no darkness can hide from the light of my soul.