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antreegonist) wrote2011-08-21 06:11 pm
antreegonist) wrote2011-08-21 06:11 pm
[MEMORY # 20 (SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE)]
* "The only way to get rid of discrimination is to make everyone the same."
Won from Game 62: Doctoring for Maleficent.
This memory, as with all the endgame memories, is a canonsmush between the game (video, 0:30 - 4:30) and manga (pages 2 to 7).
[Lloyd’s group takes the teleporter to the throne room with the Great Seed. Upon arrival, Lloyd’s group approaches Yggdrasil, who is standing by the throne.]
Yggdrasil: …Home…I’m going home…
Genis: Mithos…listen to me! We don’t have to fight! Please return the Great Seed to us so that we can reunite the worlds.
Yggdrasil: …Home…I’m going home…
Lloyd: …Something’s wrong. He sounds like a puppet…
Colette: W…wha?…
[Mithos’ Cruxis Crystal escapes Colette and merges with Yggdrasil's body.]
Yggdrasil: …I need to thank you for going through all the trouble to bring me back here. I’m finally myself again.
Lloyd: …Damn! So that’s what this was all about!
Genis: Mithos…Martel is already dead…
Yggdrasil: That’s not true! Martel is alive, just as I lived on in the Cruxis Crystal.
Lloyd: That’s not living. That’s just existing as a lifeless being.
Yggdrasil: What’s wrong with that?
Lloyd: What?!
Yggdrasil: After all, in our bodies flow the blood of humans and elves—the bloods of those that despise us. We’re better off casting aside much filth and become lifeless beings.
Lloyd: That’s what you really want?
Yggdrasil: (in Mithos’s voice) Of course. Watch! When you become a lifeless being, you can even control your appearance and growth.
[Yggdrasil transforms into Mithos.]
Mithos: Everyone should become lifeless beings. I told you before. The only way to eliminate discrimination is for everyone to become the same race.
Lloyd: What you hope for is nothing but a dream, Mithos. Discrimination comes from the heart.
Genis: He’s right, Mithos. It’s the weakness of people’s hearts that causes discrimination. Looking down upon others while placing themselves too high…
Sheena: You do the same thing! You look down on humans and elves, treating them like cattle. That’s the weakness of your heart.
Regal: Even if people become lifeless beings, nothing will change. Discrimination will continue.
Mithos: …Then where should the half-elves go?
There was a brief pause.
Mithos: We aren’t accepted anywhere. We opened our hearts, but no one took us in. Where should we live?
Lloyd: You can live anywhere you like.
Mithos: …Don’t make me laugh.
Lloyd: I’m serious. Anywhere is fine. If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you should just live proudly in the open.
[A brief pause.]
Mithos: …It’s because we couldn’t do that…that I…that we wanted a place of our own!
Zelos: Uh-uh. Sorry, but don’t act like you’re the only victim here. It doesn’t even come close to justifying all the things that you’ve done.
Kratos: That is not an excuse for the things we have done. It is merely a motive, not a justification.
Presea: What you’ve done caused meaningless suffering and death to countless people. Can you feel their pain?
Raine: People can change. Even if they don’t change right away. Months, years—as time passes, change is inevitable.
Colette: Maybe not everything can be forgiven. But one can try to atone for one’s sins. Can’t you feel it in your heart? The Goddess known as conscience…
Mithos: Do you think I’m going to beg for forgiveness? Ridiculous. There is no Goddess. So I will continue to pursue my ideals. If there is no place where I can live, and if I’ve been denied my Age of Lifeless Beings, then the only thing left for me is to build a new world on Derris-Kharlan. A world just for my sister and me!
[Mithos calls out his angelic wings--before he can attack the party, this memory ends.]
+ He was trapped in the Exsphere until it could be melded with a body again.
+ He was keeping the Great Seed hostage in order to revive Martel?
+ He was indeed willing to destroy the world for his sister.
+ His idea of ending discrimination was to use Exspheres to turn everyone into equally immortal soulless creatures. . .'lifeless beings.'
+ Being a lifeless being, as he already found out from earlier memories, is awful and also requires Exsphere cultivation.
+ Heavy implications that he was responsible for the Exsphere experiments and human ranches as well here, though these are hazed over to avoid too much fterrible from a single memory.
+ The party was trying to talk him out of these last-ditch bad decision plans but he was too far into crazed despair to listen to them at this stage.
+ He was dying; he wanted to die; he more or less intended to have Lloyd's party kill him.
+ 100 dislike of the idea of higher authority of any sort--not that he was ever very sold on this.
+ 100 added cause for self-loathing and depression.
+ 10 tendency to explosive bad temper.
+ 100 reluctance to wear his exsphere outside of games or dusk/dawn patrols.
+ 100 sideeying skills he wins.
+ 100 acceptance that he will inevitably receive a memory of being killed.
Won from Game 62: Doctoring for Maleficent.
This memory, as with all the endgame memories, is a canonsmush between the game (video, 0:30 - 4:30) and manga (pages 2 to 7).
[Lloyd’s group takes the teleporter to the throne room with the Great Seed. Upon arrival, Lloyd’s group approaches Yggdrasil, who is standing by the throne.]
Yggdrasil: …Home…I’m going home…
Genis: Mithos…listen to me! We don’t have to fight! Please return the Great Seed to us so that we can reunite the worlds.
Yggdrasil: …Home…I’m going home…
Lloyd: …Something’s wrong. He sounds like a puppet…
Colette: W…wha?…
[Mithos’ Cruxis Crystal escapes Colette and merges with Yggdrasil's body.]
Yggdrasil: …I need to thank you for going through all the trouble to bring me back here. I’m finally myself again.
Lloyd: …Damn! So that’s what this was all about!
Genis: Mithos…Martel is already dead…
Yggdrasil: That’s not true! Martel is alive, just as I lived on in the Cruxis Crystal.
Lloyd: That’s not living. That’s just existing as a lifeless being.
Yggdrasil: What’s wrong with that?
Lloyd: What?!
Yggdrasil: After all, in our bodies flow the blood of humans and elves—the bloods of those that despise us. We’re better off casting aside much filth and become lifeless beings.
Lloyd: That’s what you really want?
Yggdrasil: (in Mithos’s voice) Of course. Watch! When you become a lifeless being, you can even control your appearance and growth.
[Yggdrasil transforms into Mithos.]
Mithos: Everyone should become lifeless beings. I told you before. The only way to eliminate discrimination is for everyone to become the same race.
Lloyd: What you hope for is nothing but a dream, Mithos. Discrimination comes from the heart.
Genis: He’s right, Mithos. It’s the weakness of people’s hearts that causes discrimination. Looking down upon others while placing themselves too high…
Sheena: You do the same thing! You look down on humans and elves, treating them like cattle. That’s the weakness of your heart.
Regal: Even if people become lifeless beings, nothing will change. Discrimination will continue.
Mithos: …Then where should the half-elves go?
There was a brief pause.
Mithos: We aren’t accepted anywhere. We opened our hearts, but no one took us in. Where should we live?
Lloyd: You can live anywhere you like.
Mithos: …Don’t make me laugh.
Lloyd: I’m serious. Anywhere is fine. If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you should just live proudly in the open.
[A brief pause.]
Mithos: …It’s because we couldn’t do that…that I…that we wanted a place of our own!
Zelos: Uh-uh. Sorry, but don’t act like you’re the only victim here. It doesn’t even come close to justifying all the things that you’ve done.
Kratos: That is not an excuse for the things we have done. It is merely a motive, not a justification.
Presea: What you’ve done caused meaningless suffering and death to countless people. Can you feel their pain?
Raine: People can change. Even if they don’t change right away. Months, years—as time passes, change is inevitable.
Colette: Maybe not everything can be forgiven. But one can try to atone for one’s sins. Can’t you feel it in your heart? The Goddess known as conscience…
Mithos: Do you think I’m going to beg for forgiveness? Ridiculous. There is no Goddess. So I will continue to pursue my ideals. If there is no place where I can live, and if I’ve been denied my Age of Lifeless Beings, then the only thing left for me is to build a new world on Derris-Kharlan. A world just for my sister and me!
[Mithos calls out his angelic wings--before he can attack the party, this memory ends.]
+ He was trapped in the Exsphere until it could be melded with a body again.
+ He was keeping the Great Seed hostage in order to revive Martel?
+ He was indeed willing to destroy the world for his sister.
+ His idea of ending discrimination was to use Exspheres to turn everyone into equally immortal soulless creatures. . .'lifeless beings.'
+ Being a lifeless being, as he already found out from earlier memories, is awful and also requires Exsphere cultivation.
+ Heavy implications that he was responsible for the Exsphere experiments and human ranches as well here, though these are hazed over to avoid too much fterrible from a single memory.
+ The party was trying to talk him out of these last-ditch bad decision plans but he was too far into crazed despair to listen to them at this stage.
+ He was dying; he wanted to die; he more or less intended to have Lloyd's party kill him.
+ 100 dislike of the idea of higher authority of any sort--not that he was ever very sold on this.
+ 100 added cause for self-loathing and depression.
+ 10 tendency to explosive bad temper.
+ 100 reluctance to wear his exsphere outside of games or dusk/dawn patrols.
+ 100 sideeying skills he wins.
+ 100 acceptance that he will inevitably receive a memory of being killed.