asgardeventide | 007 ♒ Video

[The video feed settles on the grey-skinned troll as he runs a hand through his violet streaked hair.]

You knoww, a lot a' you complain about fightin' in this wwar, gettin' dragged here against your fuckin' wwill. But wwhat I wwant to knoww is wwhat the fuck happens wwhen it's all ovver.

[Eridan is surprisingly somber, a hint of a frown tugging down the corners of his grey lips as he stares down the screen. His fins are slightly drooped, and he chews on his lower lip for a long moment before continuing.]

Wwhat happens to those a' us wwho don't havve a univverse to go back to? My fuckin' planets gone, and considerin' this scar around my gullet, I'm not bettin' that I get out a' encounterin' Kan's chainsaww alivve.

[He's not going to let them send him back to die, no matter how impermanent it might be in his universe.]

I'm not fuckin' goin' back. Not to Alternia. Not to that fuckin' sack-a-wwhale-entrails of a meteor.

[He had finally come to that decision this morning. He's not going back. And Gl'bgolyb help the god who tries to make him.]

So wwhat are my other options?

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According to Aradia's explanations, our existences did not merely cease with the cessation of our bodily functions, sea-dweller. You appear to persist in some fashion through dream bubbles, as do I.

Why would you crave other options in that case? One glorious confrontation leading to the potential of another in the dream realms. What more could we ask for?

... I don't wwant to be a fuckin' corpse, Equ. What's so hard to understand about that? I don't wwant to wwander from memory to memory wwhile my fuckin' body rots.

[A long sigh.]

I don't wwant to go back to our univverse at all.

...I'm stayin' here.

I would not say that what she described was exactly a corpse or merely a memory. Apparently our existence is still intact, though in some other form. From old images, I think Serkets underwent this.

...

Wait, remaining locked to this terrestrial sphere? What are you aiming at? Carving your own personal feifdom on the behalf of the empire?

I've wondered about that too! Has anyone ever asked one of the gods?

Maybe the war here'll just go on forever, and we'll die and revive and die and revive- and forget more and more about what life was like before Asgard, until existence is nothing but a stretch of gore and pain and shopping trips.

Sounds pretty great, huh?

[She didn't wanna say it but technically...]

I hate to be the one to bring it up but remember, you're sort of not really dead and acting as someone's magical game guide?

I don't know if we get to choose, but if we do I think I want to stay here too.

I am NOT goin' back, Rox. You'll just havve to find someone fuckin' else to guide you.

[He practically growls out the words.]

Sounds better than wwhat I got to go back to.

[At the end of the day, he'd rather revive.]

An' wwho fuckin' knowws. The wwar could end tomorrow.

I don't fuckin' blame you. If wwe're goin' to fight for these fucks, then wwe should get the choice to do wwhatevver wwe want wwhen wwe're done.

Yeah but it's kind of already happened, right?

Or maybe that's a different Eridan and you'll go hang out in ghost bubbles or something, since those are apparently a real thing.

Uh huh! And really, even if they grubnapped us, they still did some good things too, like giving us pretty nice hives to stay in, and giving some of us our lusii back. I have most of my friends here now, I don't want to lose everyone again.

Y-your planet's gone? [Nevy, knees tucked under her chin and arms wrapped around her legs, hovers in the air and pouts into the camera screen.]

[Eridan shrugs, the motion audibly in his voice as he attempts an answer.]

I don't fuckin' knoww, Equ. I mean, fuck, it's not like the Condesce an' Fef don't wwant me culled. ... Maybe livvin' here's a good break from all that.

I don't think you fuckin' get it, Rox. I am not goin' back there. Not to the bubbles, not to be a fuckin' guide. Not to lead the Condesce's Imperial Navvy itself.

...I'm stayin' here.

I still don't fuckin' trust'em, but it's better than wwhat's wwaitin' for us in our univverse.

It's not bad at all! But hey, a messy horrible death isn't the worst thing to return to either, right?

And sure, it could. Wouldn't be hard for the enemy to be more organized than us, nya ha!

Then can you not simply find another place to go? Why be bound to your own universe when there are many others to choose from?

Do you really wanna stay here? Maybe they can find a way to send people back and not be dead, or something.

Maybe we can figure out a way to do something about that, but I don't think the gods intend to help along.

It's not a fuckin' big deal. The entire galaxy's gone. Probably the rest a' the univverse, too. You don't see me poutin' my gills off about it.

[Nevy still looks far too much like Fef for Eridan's comfort.]

... I don't fuckin' knoww. At last here I havve people wwho don't want to see wwhat shape my guts wwould make splattered across the floor.

... Please, explain to me wwhat could be wworse than dyin' in a bloody fuckin' heap right wwhen I go back? I'm not seein' howw it could get wworse.

[He frowns, tilting his head at the screen. This person is so weird.]

They're giants. They're not any more fuckin' organized than the angels I culled for fun at home.

[Oh, it's his roommate... kind of.]

That's wwhat I'm askin'. Are the gods just goin' to send us forceably back to our owwn univverse or do wwe get a choice?

... They don't actually do fuckin' much at all, do they.

I think so too. Even if they've told me the dream bubbles aren't so bad, it's not the same as being alive.

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