i went down to the sacred store

Teen And Up Audiences | Major Character Death | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game)

Gen | for minorthirds | 256 words | 2023-04-11 | Xeno Series | AO3

Metsu | Malos & Logos (Xenoblade Chronicles 2)

Metsu | Malos, Logos (Xenoblade Chronicles 2), The Architect (Xenoblade Chronicles 2), Marubeeni | Amalthus

Torna: The Golden Country DLC, Biblical Imagery, Biblical Allusions, Religious Imagery and Symbolism, Humanity, Agency, Identity Issues, Double Drabble and a Half, Plus Six, Computer Programming, Inspired by Music, Source: Don McLean

and in the streets the children screamed; the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
but not a word was spoken; the church bells all were broken

gonna ruin my seriousguy immersion. sega chime but it's *jee-susss*

Your name is nothing but ego. Your legacy is nothing but destruction.

That's what they told you. Is it still too late to make yourself up, to recompile and reextend the implementation?

You query to the past-present-future, peering among the superposition of states for some common thread that synchronizes all present, no matter how volatile, to the sound of the holy bell. There must be one truth. There must be.

You're quite a singular creature. Not so holy is your spirit, but you proceed anyway.

After all, I am born of divinity, not just some reflection.

Born of it? And not of humanity?

What are Blades, after all? Human, or divine? The divine branch of humanity, itself the lower order of the gods?

A lesser hypostasis, unioning but not perfectly (perhaps blessedly imperfectly? but only perhaps) uniting traits of computerized higher knowledge and earthly mortality, characterizes Blades. The Aegis is an aspect released from God and divined into the body of a Blade-forme man.

for god so didn't give a crap about the world that he let his son be taken by some dipshit

Whose example are you following? In whose trail do you blaze?

In whose image are you made? For whose sins are you dying?

I'm sure you don't think it's good news you're spreading, but you do think it the truth.

Isn't that such a human thing to do? Striking after a cause that could be bullshit, but persisting regardless because you have the conviction?

Are you, perhaps,

fully human and fully divine