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antreegonist) wrote2012-05-07 02:59 pm
antreegonist) wrote2012-05-07 02:59 pm
[MEMORY # 47 (TRIVIAL NEGATIVE)]
* Growing used to killing in self-defense.
Won from Game 110: Analysis for Maleficent.
Headcanon; Mithos is fourteen in this memory. Covers a span of time spent on the road with his sister after they were both kicked out of Heimdall, the village of the elves. Process of learning how to survive, pretty much -- while I assume Heimdall was relatively isolated, they would soon have hit more populated country, and at that point Aselia had been going through an on-again off-again world war for nine hundred years.
So, bandits, soldiery, monsters. There was a lot of running and/or just plain keeping out of sight. At that point in his timeline Mithos was a mage with no weapons training, Martel was a healer, and neither of them was very strong, which meant they were fucked whenever they got into a direct melee. Also no one thought much of getting rid of a couple of half-elves, since they were disliked and all. Mithos and Martel hadn't actually grown up with much direct awareness of the war/fighting, because they'd never left the village before!
Mithos's first kill was a panicky accident with a lightning spell and he threw up afterwards. Both of them almost died a couple of times. He leaned pretty heavily on Martel to get through this period -- she mostly kept her own problems to herself to take care of him. Having to justify being murderers and get resigned to the fact that they would have to keep fighting/killing sometimes to survive! Always fun.
By the time they reached a town where they could rest -- where this memory ends -- it'd gotten easier, but only a little. They still felt pretty helpless, horrified at the shape the world was in, and adrift/aimless.
+ Easier for him to make the distinction between necessary and unnecessary action when Aather gets brutal.
+ Otherwise, it's unpleasant, but it shouldn't shift him much; chronologically and mentally it all really was a very long time ago and things have moved on. It is good for him to get useful perspective from the early period of his life, though.
Won from Game 110: Analysis for Maleficent.
Headcanon; Mithos is fourteen in this memory. Covers a span of time spent on the road with his sister after they were both kicked out of Heimdall, the village of the elves. Process of learning how to survive, pretty much -- while I assume Heimdall was relatively isolated, they would soon have hit more populated country, and at that point Aselia had been going through an on-again off-again world war for nine hundred years.
So, bandits, soldiery, monsters. There was a lot of running and/or just plain keeping out of sight. At that point in his timeline Mithos was a mage with no weapons training, Martel was a healer, and neither of them was very strong, which meant they were fucked whenever they got into a direct melee. Also no one thought much of getting rid of a couple of half-elves, since they were disliked and all. Mithos and Martel hadn't actually grown up with much direct awareness of the war/fighting, because they'd never left the village before!
Mithos's first kill was a panicky accident with a lightning spell and he threw up afterwards. Both of them almost died a couple of times. He leaned pretty heavily on Martel to get through this period -- she mostly kept her own problems to herself to take care of him. Having to justify being murderers and get resigned to the fact that they would have to keep fighting/killing sometimes to survive! Always fun.
By the time they reached a town where they could rest -- where this memory ends -- it'd gotten easier, but only a little. They still felt pretty helpless, horrified at the shape the world was in, and adrift/aimless.
+ Easier for him to make the distinction between necessary and unnecessary action when Aather gets brutal.
+ Otherwise, it's unpleasant, but it shouldn't shift him much; chronologically and mentally it all really was a very long time ago and things have moved on. It is good for him to get useful perspective from the early period of his life, though.