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unspeakablyevil) wrote2017-11-01 01:17 pm
unspeakablyevil) wrote2017-11-01 01:17 pm
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【 Closed to notmymother 】
The Void of Nothingness was the last place Aku wanted to find himself. With his future erased and no other reality to return to, he was trapped here forever. But he was not alone in his prison for long. Just moments later, she appeared there with him, the very last person he wanted to see. His treacherous, traitorous daughter.
A scene of chaos erupted, because of course it would, and the void was filled with storms of fire and laser beams and swirling black shapes engaged in battle. This went on and on for what seemed like an eternity with neither side prevailing over the other.
Finally, Aku had had enough and roared into the Void — "ENOUGH!!"
As the echos of his thundering voice faded into nothingness, the former Master of Earth raised his arms and gestured angrily to their current situation.
"Look what you've done! This is all YOUR fault!" Aku crossed his arms forcefully and seethed, "I hope you are happy."
notmymother 】The Void of Nothingness was the last place Aku wanted to find himself. With his future erased and no other reality to return to, he was trapped here forever. But he was not alone in his prison for long. Just moments later, she appeared there with him, the very last person he wanted to see. His treacherous, traitorous daughter.
A scene of chaos erupted, because of course it would, and the void was filled with storms of fire and laser beams and swirling black shapes engaged in battle. This went on and on for what seemed like an eternity with neither side prevailing over the other.
Finally, Aku had had enough and roared into the Void — "ENOUGH!!"
As the echos of his thundering voice faded into nothingness, the former Master of Earth raised his arms and gestured angrily to their current situation.
"Look what you've done! This is all YOUR fault!" Aku crossed his arms forcefully and seethed, "I hope you are happy."
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Before now, he had not given Ashi much consideration. She had been another minion to him, another object to control. But now that everything was lost, he finally had time to truly contemplate what she was. And the more he did, the less he understood.
"You are a part of Aku," he said, his voice gaining volume. "You are darkness, a creature born of evil! Where did you get that righteousness?"
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The words seem to hit her again. That's what Jack had told her and now she says it again in something like wonder as it fully strikes her what those words mean. "I'm not my mother. I'm not you. And even if you are a part of me, you aren't me."
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"But... you are made of Aku. And Aku is pure evil and darkness," he said as if grappling for some logic to which he could cling. And even if by some miracle she had escaped her fate of being evil, there was still a thing called 'biology' wasn't there? How dare she break custom!
Aku seemed to double down on his side of the argument and pointed an accusatory claw at her. "By the laws of science, children are supposed to be like their parents!"
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Her expression darkened there as she looked away. Children were supposed to be like their parents? What did she know about parents? Jack's mother treated him nothing like her own mother did. She had seen parents in the towns and villages they had passed through who were like her - kind and gentle. And thought she didn't know the term or what it was exactly, there was something else to them she couldn't put a word to.
She understood one point very well though.
"My sisters and I never had parents."
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Aku was silent. There was more than one thing about this remark that struck him. The fact that she had sisters was one, yes. But the way she spoke of having no parents seemed like the missing link between how she could be made of Aku and yet be nothing like him. The demon drew back his accusing claw to stroke his beard contemplatively.
"Hmmmmm, I think I understand," he said. "It is not just about what is in your blood, it's about how you were cultivated and by whom."
Aku himself never had parents either. His existence had simply began one day in the void of space. But mortals, he knew, were different. They required 'parental guidance' and 'love' and whatnot for loyalty to develop. Perhaps that was where things had gone wrong.
"Yes, I see now. If only I had known sooner of you and your sisters' existences — that it was even possible for Aku to progenate — things would have been different."
But of how 'different' things would have been, he couldn't say. Surely, if he'd read to them his fairy tales when they were babies and made some attempt at fathering them, something would have been different. Or maybe they would have hated him and his stories just like all those other children had and things would be exactly as they are now. Regardless, Aku felt shortchanged.
"I can't say I had any insight into what the High Priestess was thinking when she drank my essence and neglected to inform me of the existence of my own progeny." Irritability dripped from his words at having been left in the dark about something that had related so closely to him. But given Ashi's unusual name, their mother seemed to have thought of them as components of some greater construct. Which led him to wonder just how many 'components' there had been.
"It is only now that I am learning you had sisters. How many of you were there in total? What became of the others?" It made no different now but he couldn't help his curiosity.
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Her expression stayed dark. It was difficult to think of her sisters and wear any other sort of expression. She had accepted their deaths as something like fate, the only choice any of them could see - even herself.
"Jack killed them. There were seven of us, including me." There's no bitterness to the words, a quiet sadness there. Her sisters and her had been one another's allies as well as competition. They had never had a close emotional relationship once they began to need to compete with one another. The first to die had been discarded as weak and thus unworthy of Aku's glory. And yet, if they could have lived, could Jack have changed their minds as well?
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"Stupid Samurai!" he finally screamed and gnashed his teeth. It was tantamount to a toddler having a tantrum but at least the worst of his outburst seemed to have passed. He was quieter now despite his contemptuous glare.
"He killed six of my seven daughters," growled the demon. "For what reason did he spare you?"
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She remembered those first hours with him in a cringing, aching sort of way.
Her voice was soft. "I didn't deserve it, whatever his reason."