18. Octavus decimus | Video

[5thchild]

[ Kaworu looks different today (and tomorrow). He is white and from his back several wings spurt out (if you look closely, they resemble a damselfly’s wings); it’s almost as if he’s surrounded by light, in a way. He is shirtless due to the wings and in the middle of his chest there is a red orb (his core). This would be called Kaworu’s angel form. Or at least, how he imagines it to be. In his hands, he is holding what it appears to be an embryo, encased in an amber-like substance - that is Adam. Kaworu received Adam some time ago, but he has kept it away for several reasons. Now that he is (temporarily) in his angel form, he couldn’t help but to reach for the embryo. ]

Angels desire to become one. It’s not love, not really. I do not love my children and siblings [ all 15 of them; yes, Kaworu has children ], just like I do not love Adam, my mother - but I still need them and wish to become one with them. It's a need humans don't understand. But becoming one isn't something only angels want. [ he smiles gently, red eyes turning to the embryo ]

Plato said that long ago, humans had two faces, two noses, two sets of ears, eyes, arms and legs. They were powerful, and the gods were threatened by them, so they decided to cut all the human beings in half. The humans were all divided in two; that’s how one became two, and it left a wound. After, the gods scattered them away, leaving them to find their missing half. That was the source of human’s desire to love each other. Love is born into every human being: it calls back the halves of their original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

And so, when a person meets the half they are missing, the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another. To come together and melt together with the one they love, so that one person will emerge from two. ‘Love’ then became the name for the pursuit of wholeness, for the desire to be complete. That's what Plato said.

But what is love, to you? What do you call love, and why do you? What makes you say “I love this person”?


[ a pause ] Shinji-kun, I can’t leave the room, Tsuki and Zadkiel want to bite my wings. [ maybe that should be your priority right now, kaworu ]

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[airborn]

Kaworu, it's so pretty. [Her eyes are fixed on his wings.]

Is it one of the curses?

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[5thchild]

Hello, Rue. [ kaworu smiles wide ] Thank you.

And I believe so, yes. I woke up like this.

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[exiling]

Kaworu - [ The name escapes her mouth like a gasp -

- though truthfully, as foreign as the form is, the image before her explains much about the boy.

The surprise begins to fade into a slight frown, this one at his questions. ]

I have never heard of angels before, nor am I familiar with the rest of your tale. To love someone is to wish to protect them. [ Different from wanting, from lust, as entwined as the two might become. ]

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[5thchild]

Hello, Khaleesi. There are several definition for what an angel; usually, it's related to religion. However, my kind has nothing to do with religion. We are considered to be "humans who cast aside human form"; angels can look whatever way they imagine themselves to be, and we have vast power and strength.

As for the tale, Plato was a philosopher that once existed on the world I came from. He was human and he focused on human nature.

[ but now, what really matters ]

Wish to protect. Like your people?

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[fishdouche]

[Eridan won't comment on the strangeness of the angel's appearance--he just assumes it's another of the gods' tricks.]

Wwe'vve talked, I think. So, you knoww lovve is... different betwween trolls an' humans. But the more I stay here, the more I see some similarities. Humans and trolls in lovve are both possessivve. Sometimes destructivvely so.

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[5thchild]

[ it is a curse. As much kaworu appreciates it, though ]

Yes, I believe it's true, from what I have seen. But why destructively?

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[thehedgehogsdilemma]

[ Shinji will be staring like someone who saw a ghost. In Shinji's case, after piloting the Evangelion like he did, however... Rather than see a ghost, he looked like he saw an angel -and he is- and he had nothing to say. Those blue eyes are wide in a mix of awe and being a slightly anxious. He glances to the side for a moment to take it in.

It's like the night Shinji took you home. Wings really suited you, Kaworu.

Good thing you are addressing him, though. He manages to snap out of it to answer and look back to the screen. Maybe not for the question, but rather... ]

I-I could get them, if you need me to, Kaworu-kun... Even Zadkiel. [ Tsuki will be easy to put away into her crate or something. She listens to her daddy, most of the time~. Zadkiel will be fun to retrieve, on the hand... Kaworu, prepare for a probably-scratched up Shinji. ]

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[5thchild]

Shinji-kun! [ SMILE ] Zadkiel is being incredibly vicious, Shinji-kun, you should be careful.

[ no. really. the cat is possessed or something, when he saw Kaworu, it's like hell broke loose ]

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[splendid_solitude]

[For all the things Kaworu had said, his wings, and even mention of the Adam himself, it was the sight of the red-orb sitting in Kaworu's chest that effected her the most. It was almost enough to make her eyes glaze over as memories of terrible things flooded her mind, invoking in her heart a feeling of rage and anger she had not felt in quite some time.

She was a fool, she thought to herself. To trust someone like him.]

Are you seriously an Angel?! Goddammit...

[Asuka took a deep breath as her face took a stern appearance, allowing time for her anger to seep through the whole of her being, and preparing herself to say something horrible.]

Give me one good reason why I shouldn't do everything in my power to kill you?

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[5thchild]

Because I will come back. [ HAVE A SMILE ASUKA. ]

I never hid that I was an angel, Asuka-san.

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[runtothesunlight]

[Well then...if Minato hadn't been curious about his new coworker before, the wings certainly sold him.]

More questions, Nagisa-san?

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[5thchild]

I'm always curious to learn more about others.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor's answer is not words but a song in his own tongue. He has not the power of Elven song here, and he would not be so rude as to use Influence, but not for nothing was he once the second greatest bard of the Eldar.

The song is joy beyond all imagining, and sorrow as deep as the sea. It is pain but also healing, it is gentle and it is wild. It is contradiction and perfection.

It is, although none here would know it, the song he wrote for the wife he will never see again ]

[5thchild]

[ kaworu listens without interrupting for a moment, eyes closed as he enjoys the sound. When Maglor is done, the smile widens ]

it's very beautiful, Maglor.

Did you write it?

[emulation]

Oh my God, what happened to you?

[WINGS. AND A RED THING. AND ANOTHER THING. ??]

[5thchild]

They call it a "curse". Though I'm very thankful for it.

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[discrepant]

[To be quite fair, the only reason Soushi was paying attention to the video before him was due to the appearance of the other individual. He knows he has spoken to him before. At the moment, he is mostly wondering if the other individual has always looked the way he did now. For someone that claims to be an angel, his appearance resemble more like a demon he would find in his world.

But for the time being, his attention will not be on the other individual's appearance instead it will be on his story.]

...the story you spoke of, is it accepted as an origin story or myth story explaining the creation of your world?

[He was mostly curious about the story than the questions. It's making him wonder far more than everything else.]

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[5thchild]

Plato's story is a myth; long ago, when he first spoke of it, perhaps they did believe it was true. But now there is proof humans were never like that.

Did you enjoy it, the story?

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[afrozendance]

[For several minutes, Ninian could only stare at the winged young man in the video. She had obviously heard about the curses, though none had hit her directly at the moment, but this particular effect is kinda disturbing to someone who was currently keeping her own identity as a half-Dragon as her secret to almost everyone here.

But again, she keeps these thoughts to herself. It's best not to think of that possibility, and focus only on the youth's words.]

Love... I like to believe it's about reaching to others, to help and protect them no matter what. To make sure they will be safe from any risks...

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[5thchild]

reaching to others? Anyone?

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[notsogrimreaper]

Kaworu-kun?

[Ryoji hasn't talked to the other boy in a while, but he never had forgotten that sense of familiarity with him, like they were similar in some way. Now that he's seeing this, it explains a lot.

He tries to push all of that to the side and focus on answering the question.]

I don't really know what to say about love. To me, I can be attracted to all sorts of people, but love comes when you have a real connection to that person. You... wouldn't be able to live without them, and they've given you everything that's important to you. They're your whole life... [Literally, for Ryoji.] ...and you want to protect them. Even if it means keeping your love a secret... Love to me is caring about someone no matter how they feel about you.

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[5thchild]

Hello, Ryoji-kun. [ Kaworu smiles wide ]

That's a very gentle definition. Do you have someone you feel like that for?

Or is it a secret? [ he did say "Even if it means keeping your love a secret" ]

[izanyagi]

The heart is strengthened through bonds. Not just through one person, but many.

[Does he need to say more?]

[5thchild]

[ there is always more to be said ]

There are positive and negative bonds, and each of them will strengthen the heart, one way or another.

Are they all "love"?

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[twoendings]

Kaworu, what makes you love? Is it attraction, or is it that you feel drawn to the other person?

[Counter question, because they have talked abut love before.]

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[5thchild]

hello, Kirigiri-san. [ it has been a while. ]

I'd say drawn. But above all, it's a desire I have towards another; the desire of wanting one to live, even if my own death will follow. The desire for happiness, finding it in another.

Loving someone is everything I do so the one I love will know they are worth, they are cared for and hopefully, it that makes them feel alive.

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[longwinded]

You like asking questions, don't you?

[He's not trying to stare or anything but, this isn't normal.] Does it not depend on how strong your bond is? I wouldn't say that I love someone. But I love my family in a different way. Jade is my sister, of course I love her. But it isn't the love I would hold for someone if I were in love with them.

If that makes sense.

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[5thchild]

Yes I do. It allows me to understand others.

What's the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone, then?

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[comeonthensexy]

[ Talking about his own relationship to love and all its messes is ... not very appealing. But there's another thing he'd gladly talk about.

Just one word. ]

Ponds.

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[5thchild]

A pond of water, you mean?