public channel; day 52

[atouts]

"With the power of the Silver Mirror, the Nephalem Lilith was able to create a realm according to their desires - a realm where the Beasts could devise the Soul that would lead them, and build a perfect world. While the rest of the multiverse spiraled into Chaos, Lilith aspired towards Perfection."

[ It had taken a bit to scour the book for any other bit of information once he'd gotten it back from one of the stupidest book specters he had to misfortune of running into but now that he has, here he is, reading the first bit over the radio.

Following that, he adds, asking, ]

Has anyone else found something regarding a mirror? I believe this may be one of the miracles but confirmation would be nice to have.

[ ooc, feel free to threadjack as needed ]

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[anti_nonsense]

A book I read claimed the Mirror can "bend the light in people's hearts", purifying or corrupting their souls. And that it can reveal the measure of Light or Darkness within someone... I suppose.

[haides]

Curious. I could become like the sky.

Or the seas...

But never like the sun, surely?

[anti_nonsense]

[...?

Rita doesn't get it.]

If you're composing poetry, save it for the Curator.

[haides]

(That is fairly common with Hades.)

I speak of the other gods. If my nature were to change, I wonder what I would become.

[anti_nonsense]

Other gods...?

What, you're calling yourself a god?

[haides]

I need not call myself what I am.

[anti_nonsense]

[There's an awkward pause, as Rita really doesn't know if she should take that seriously, or what.]

...What do you mean when you say 'god'?

[hippocarnival]

So it's definitely about changing souls, huh... ['Darkness in hearts' is hella vague, so this is a little more definitive about what Yuya suspected anyway.] It can corrupt them, too?

[anti_nonsense]

Yeah. Supposedly, the races of angels and demons tried to find it, with the intention of bringing all of humankind over to their side.

[hippocarnival]

[That's definitely a bad thing with demons, but what would purifying all of humanity actually look like...? He wouldn't call the experience painless or anything--it was definitely a last resort, something most people definitely don't need.] Uh, but neither of them have it, right?

[anti_nonsense]

No... someone called Lilith got hold of it instead. They're a Nephalem, something that's probably a cross between an angel and a demon.

[hippocarnival]

And they want to use it to make a perfect world. [That's not bad, in theory. Though, Yuya feels more uncertain about just barging in and taking it. Maybe if it at least stays out of the hands of the Courts...] Do you mean their parents were an angel and a demon?

[anti_nonsense]

I think that's the case... [Her tone doesn't quite convey certainty.] I'm not sure how else to interpret "of Holy and Hellish blood."

If it is, I imagine it's a pretty rare combination. Supposedly, Nephalem are largely hated by both angels and demons, too.

[insidescoop]

Ahhh...

[Rita may potentially recall something Carly mentioned not long ago, when Foster brought up the idea of ~Sharing Information.

Maybe it was relevant to something after all.] ...I have a feeling none of us should try looking at it too close, when we get there...

e...especially not me...

[anti_nonsense]

True... we don't know exactly how it's used to change people. It's not the kind of thing I'd want to toy around with.

[Rita likes her soul just the way it is, thank you very much. But she does catch that barely-audible addition, and it makes her curious.]

What's so special about you? [The question comes out rudely, but she's asking sincerely.]

[insidescoop]

Ah...W-Well, obviously we can't see each other right...now but...

Most of me...isn't fleshy. ...It's actually light! [she notes, brightening for a fraction of a second.

She quickly crashes.]

....But I was also one of the...Harbringers for a bit...

[Very Not Light.]

[anti_nonsense]

Light...?

You mean... actual light in a solid state of some kind, like the gems?

[She'll get to the other part in a second, but Rita wants to confirm that first. There are a lot of things people can mean when they say 'light'.]

[insidescoop]

Actual fluid light~!

I could even give you a feather if you want!

....but I'm basically that with. Skin. Some feathers. ...maybe eyes..?

...when I think about it, I should probably have gotten this checked out....

[Things were Intense right after Portland. And a while after Portland.

And Forever, After Portland...]

[anti_nonsense]

Checked out? You mean that isn't normal for you?

[sunflowerfields]

The mirror can turn a good person bad, or a bad person good?

[Gosh that sure sounds familiar now doesn't it]

[anti_nonsense]

Basically... yeah. [That phrasing is a bit too simplistic for Rita's liking, but... fine.] That seems to be what it's saying.

[sunflowerfields]

[That's how you see things when you're a country bumpkin.]

That's terrible. Something like that shouldn't exist... even if it could make an evil person see the error of their ways, going the other way is too dangerous.

[anti_nonsense]

Right. Screwing with the way people think and feel, what they are... it's just as twisted as what the fae do.

Not sure I'd trust anyone trying to 'purify' people any more than someone who wants the opposite.

[sunflowerfields]

...Not even someone like that CY-Ren?

[Because that would've solved a lot of their problems.]

[anti_nonsense]

[There's an annoyed groan at that.]

Maybe if someone was on the verge of destroying the whole multiverse, yeah.

Still, CY-Ren's problem wasn't Darkness... it was the Void's hold over her. I really don't know what would've happened if her heart was turned to Light. Maybe it would've solved everything. Or maybe she would've stayed on that stupid path anyway.