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[idolpro]

Who: Talon, and somewhere else, K
Where: The streets of Tokyo-F
When: TBD

[ Today is surely an ordinary day for you. ]

TALON START | K START

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[deut32_35]

[ looks genuinely as if the thought of something still up there tastes rotten in his mouth ]

If it's more than security protocols and something capable of awareness.

[iamverybadass]

Mm...

[ Quiet for a moment, debating with himself, and then— ] Can I ask you something?

[deut32_35]

As you'd like.

[iamverybadass]

I...understand that there was a war. And I know something of the reasons for it and clearly what the outcome of it was, but I'd like to hear some of your perspective on it.

To you, what was Heaven's greatest crime?

[deut32_35]

To pick one?

[ hmm. folds his hands and leans on them, as he contemplates ]

Abandonment.

I'm under no illusions that hell is all that great as an alternative to the nothingness that might await humanity otherwise, especially as decent chunk of hell fast-tracks your lot there anyway. But do you know why I've got so many fallen here?

I was present for the last of the negotiations. If they stayed in there, in that sealed but unfallen city, they could not help God's beloved humanity. They were given an impossible choice: to remain loyal to their beloved father, or to remain loyal to what he had said he wished to protect before he turned his back and took his hollow words with him.

It rankles, the rank hypocrisy of it. He loved his humanity so much as to toss out his brightest son over the squabble, and then left them himself when we failed to live up to his expectations. And all his angels who were left wanting to actually protect us, fat lot of good it did them. At least Hell has some honesty, Liars aside.

[iamverybadass]

[ He's quiet through the answer, occasionally humming in wordless understanding ]

That sounds like God's greatest crime more than it does Hell's, but it does answer some questions I'd had about him. Anyone who names themself a God should be regarded with suspicion.

[deut32_35]

The right attitude to take.

[iamverybadass]

Unfortunately it's not as common sense as it should be.

[deut32_35]

Unfortunately agreed.

[iamverybadass]

Fools are common in all worlds, I suppose.

[deut32_35]

[ That's enough of that. His hands settle comfortably back on the desk, as he considers Talon from across the desktop ]

Now. If you have any last questions, this is the time to ask. Otherwise, it's yours and the mission with it.

[iamverybadass]

Will you answer if I ask what you're hoping to get out of Heaven? Aside from the simple answer of "holy water".

[deut32_35]

I'd like nothing more than for heaven to be out of everyone's hands, yet here it is right within reach. The Liar Prince's reach, most particularly.

And if removing her claws requires opening up the husk of it so the Adversary has no choice but to take her grasping for it seriously, then that is what I will do.

[iamverybadass]

[ Ah. Well, there goes the calm facade, replaced now with an uncertain, dubious look ]

And what happens after she is dealt with and it's still there, pried open?

[deut32_35]

The rift should take care of itself. Conversely, if a tether is established, then we will have better access at determining what is keeping it existent to begin with. Though I suspect solving the Liar problem may solve that simultaneously.

[iamverybadass]

Do you think they're actually capable of that? Even while locked out of it?

[deut32_35]

Clarify what you mean. That it is here at all is almost certainly the Liars' fault, regardless of if they can enter it yet.

[iamverybadass]

I was asking if demons are capable of maintaining its existence, but they must be if that's your answer. I'd believed your powers were too opposed to support each other at all.

[deut32_35]

That is the common view. There's few worries about her, because her wants are ridiculous-- surely no demon prince could summon heaven, let alone transmogrify themselves into the sort of thing that belongs there or could rule it.

But recent events have proven the first part untrue. I'd like this problem solved before she disproves the second.

[iamverybadass]

Wait—she's succeeded? I thought it was all still a farce.

[deut32_35]

Heaven is here. I have an unfallen angel.

For a farce, these are extreme set dressings.

[iamverybadass]

I don't disagree. I simply hadn't realized the stakes had escalated so high already. It...clarifies things.

[deut32_35]

So you now know the state of things.

[iamverybadass]

I do. Your candidness during this conversation has been quite appreciated.

[ Finally moving to pick up the curio ]

[deut32_35]

I'll have a car sent around.

[ He sinks back against his chair, turning to that same sideways position he was in when Talon entered the office, signaling Talon's dismissed and can see himself out at his leisure ]