( it is the natural state of existence to decay — this is the natural law of entropy. ironically, once the Fears had finally gotten their way and rushed into the physical world to claim it as their own, this is one of the first laws that they had undone. almost universally ignorant of past and future, they sought to make the present eternal. a constant, ceaseless state of terror and pain for those lives trapped in the fabric of their domains which, of course, transcribed to a constant feast of fear for the Dread Powers and those avatars that carried out their will. but even in a world as twisted as john's, there is always something which places its hand upon the scale to cause things to slowly trend towards finality. for him, it had been Terminus, the End, the Fear of inevitable, inexorable Death. those that made their way through its domains did die, permanently, freed from the wheel that all the others would be tied to.
and when one of Terminus' domains was emptied of lives? what then? well, they could not be left fallow, so they would have individuals transferred to them from the other Fears'. and one day, so far into the future it's hard to even define it, they would be entirely barren. all the lives of Earth would have finally been spent, and the Fears would be left to riot and starve in their absence, trapped for all eternity. perhaps then, the End would have its last feast, feeding from the animal horror of its siblings.
one day, even Hell would end.
one day, kenos would too. they've now seen the proof.
john laughs, though it's a wounded and broken shard of a sound. ) In all my time recording and researching the statements of those who have encountered the supernatural, I've never once been given a statement of a miracle. If there are gods and goddesses... they either don't interfere, or they can't.
( gods and goddesses walk among them here on kenos. how can link think that they might be any less powerless than they are?
john has long since stopped wasting his time thinking of such things. he had once hoped (perhaps even gone so far as to consider praying) that there were "good" entities, diametrically opposed to the Fears, which could be relied upon to combat them. there aren't. just as it is in life, it is a matter of those that feed and those that are fed upon. faith and miracles have nothing to do with it.
he doesn't intend on hurting link. later, he will regret it. but it is the shameful, foolish nature of someone in pain to lash out and try to drag others with them — for a drowning man to thrash and cling to those also fighting for their own lives so they might both sink to the depths. )
Because they're the truth.
( regardless of whether or not that's true, he speaks with ironclad conviction. )
Because I have never seen, read, or felt anything to convince me otherwise.
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and when one of Terminus' domains was emptied of lives? what then? well, they could not be left fallow, so they would have individuals transferred to them from the other Fears'. and one day, so far into the future it's hard to even define it, they would be entirely barren. all the lives of Earth would have finally been spent, and the Fears would be left to riot and starve in their absence, trapped for all eternity. perhaps then, the End would have its last feast, feeding from the animal horror of its siblings.
one day, even Hell would end.
one day, kenos would too. they've now seen the proof.
john laughs, though it's a wounded and broken shard of a sound. ) In all my time recording and researching the statements of those who have encountered the supernatural, I've never once been given a statement of a miracle. If there are gods and goddesses... they either don't interfere, or they can't.
( gods and goddesses walk among them here on kenos. how can link think that they might be any less powerless than they are?
john has long since stopped wasting his time thinking of such things. he had once hoped (perhaps even gone so far as to consider praying) that there were "good" entities, diametrically opposed to the Fears, which could be relied upon to combat them. there aren't. just as it is in life, it is a matter of those that feed and those that are fed upon. faith and miracles have nothing to do with it.
he doesn't intend on hurting link. later, he will regret it. but it is the shameful, foolish nature of someone in pain to lash out and try to drag others with them — for a drowning man to thrash and cling to those also fighting for their own lives so they might both sink to the depths. )
Because they're the truth.
( regardless of whether or not that's true, he speaks with ironclad conviction. )
Because I have never seen, read, or felt anything to convince me otherwise.