Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-08-07 04:24 pm
Entry tags:

Lucifel's Ideal World, v.2

—The world is ugly, he once declared.

Chaos is inevitable in this world. Pure good can’t be achieved, and pure evil breaks down. And these two extremes are always incompatible with each other. There is still some evil in a good world. That is how the world is, and it is what continues to create ugly things. Evil sneers at good, and good rages over evil. But, in a world where good and evil oppose each other, there is a group that is far more numerous that always appears.

That is ‘grey’. Neither good nor evil. A group that drifts through life haphazardly and merely exists. They don’t believe in goodness and are simply proud that they aren’t evil. Even though they affirm evil acts, they deny evil intentions. They happily say that ‘I am not evil, I am a good person’ and pardon all forms of cruelty.

They kill people while sneering. They kill people out of contempt. They kill people as part of a game. They use the excuse that they can’t restrain their desires—That’s how humans are. That’s how the world is.

Yes—this world is extremely ugly. Neither dyed by good nor fallen into evil. Unable to decide on a color, the wills of people continue to waver. As long as such evil intentions and such foul-smelling corpses aren’t destroyed.



The world will surely continue to rot eternally.

While wrapped within a curse-like fog in darkness frozen to its core.

He thus concluded.

Powers are off.
Corruptions are off.
Carry-on Weapons are not available.
Other carry-on items are available.
apocryfall: (nobi2jitarou 001)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ . . . ]

This is a graveyard, Hurricane-san.
crossmyheartandhope: (Just the image of our maker?)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't see any crosses or nothing.
apocryfall: (pic#13519869)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Then, do you smell the blood?

[ or feel it, perhaps—

after all, the mud is wet, and the stench of metal is strong. ]
crossmyheartandhope: (Calm)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
...s'kinda hard not to.
apocryfall: (pic#13541526)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Higanbana"—the flower of Higan, the other shore: the afterlife. These flowers represent the dead.

. . .

These are the people who died for me.

I'm. . .

[ slower, softer, ]

I'm in the process of letting them go.
crossmyheartandhope: (There's a hole in my chest)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
I mean... I'm glad you're getting to like... work through it. But you know this place ain't real, dude.

It's like... pretty and everything? And you got a bunch of nice roses now. But it kinda don't count, unless you do it in the real world.
apocryfall: (pic#13519115)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's right. But, I can't even begin to start working on this until after I've stopped the other problems, so I thought I would practice forgiving myself here. It's image training, you know?
crossmyheartandhope: (Lord we are all cinders)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
A dream's just a dream, dude.

You can practice back home, too, y'know. And you don't gotta wait on solving other stuff to do it.
apocryfall: (pic#13523472)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

It's fine if you don't understand.
crossmyheartandhope: (Just the image of our maker?)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, I'm just saying.

Forgiving yourself's great and all, but you don't gotta have missing cars and kids not playing on bikes and like eighty-seven different prereqs before you get started.
Edited 2020-08-08 07:12 (UTC)
apocryfall: (pic#13519120)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

When you die—when you finally die, not this desecration of life by the Producers—wouldn't you want your death to mean something in the end?

Wouldn't you want to . . . have accomplished something?

Impacted something?

Made a difference? Somewhere, in some way?
crossmyheartandhope: (There's a hole in my chest)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, sure. But like... I know me. I ain't good at stuff like that.

Every time I try and do something worth something, it just gets twisted around.

But little stuff - stuff you can work on with just you? That's something you can do whenever. It's like - training, you know? Someone told me that, once. And it's true. Even if you don't got all the other stuff in place - even if you keep messing everything else up - you can still change some stuff, a little at a time, about you.
Edited 2020-08-08 07:23 (UTC)
apocryfall: (nobi2jitarou 001)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
This isn't about me.






. . . If I start to let them go, with no progress made—then they will have died for nothing.

[ softly, softly ]

Thirty-seven thousand people will have died for nothing—under my banner, while believing in me, they will have perished, and I will have nothing to show for it.

Until I have attained something—something meaningful—I won't let go of a single soul.
crossmyheartandhope: (Calm)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
It's kinda about you. This is your dream, yeah?

But it ain't real. Whatever you do here, it's not gonna help you fix nothing. Even if you can't start working your way through stuff, back home - grow your white flowers, or whatever - at least there, you can start doing stuff that counts.

Maybe it ain't all at once. Maybe it ain't a city without the game tower, and happy kids, and - and card games instead of fighting. But you can do little stuff. And however little that little stuff is, it's better than even the big stuff here. Cause it's real.
apocryfall: (pic#13519120)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
Then what of those who died for me?
crossmyheartandhope: (Are we drowning?)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
What about em? They're still dead, here or in real life.

You say you're working on forgiving yourself, but if to do that you gotta have all this other stuff in place, that's just as fake as everything else here.

If you're awake, even if you ain't replanting all those red flowers right away, at least you're like... starting off down the road to doing it later. And maybe it's only a couple steps, but a couple steps are better than standing still.
apocryfall: (pic#13523472)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Well, that's fine.

I do agree with you. This world isn't real, so ultimately, there's little meaning in staying in it. I don't plan on staying here forever, either.
crossmyheartandhope: (Lord we are all cinders)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
I ain't saying you gotta walk the whole road before you turn your flowers white. Just, like... y'know. If you wanna make changes, this ain't the place to do it.

[He's quiet for a beat, and then another]

...you ready to head back home?
Edited 2020-08-08 07:52 (UTC)
apocryfall: (pic#13523608)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
Just because I'm aware this is a dream and also meaningless doesn't mean I'll leave so easily, though?
crossmyheartandhope: (Just the image of our maker?)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
How come?
apocryfall: (pic#13523609)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Because! You! Haven't!

Beaten me at a card game yet!

It's true that this world is fake, but I already knew that from the beginning! Everything came too easily to me, after all! I've been sitting here, practicing for the real world, but in the meantime, I created an entire system of cards to play with and everything, so I'm not going to leave without being defeated by a hero!

Just talking me out of the dream—where are the dramatics in that? I won't leave until I taste bitter defeat!
Edited 2020-08-08 08:04 (UTC)
crossmyheartandhope: (Just shine a light into the wreckage)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, I ain't no hero.

Besides, I'm real bad at cards.
apocryfall: (pic#13523475)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, 'hero' is a general term, here.

You don't even want to try?
crossmyheartandhope: (On the winds of discontent)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2020-08-08 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
You for real ain't gonna leave till someone beats you at cards?

What if you kick all our butts?
apocryfall: (pic#13523470)

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall 2020-08-08 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Words are beautiful, but without resolve—without action, they're simply words. If a friend tells you they'll help you, but they won't do anything to help you, would you believe them?

If everyone loses, though. . .

. . . Mmmm . . .

Then I suppose we'll simply sit here until the Producers wake us all up for the end of the game.? It is a nice dream, though—it isn't unpleasant to stay in.

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall - 2020-08-08 17:55 (UTC) - Expand

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] apocryfall - 2020-08-08 18:09 (UTC) - Expand

Re: 『Heaven's Grass』

[personal profile] unbr8kable - 2020-08-08 18:32 (UTC) - Expand