Teenagers Scare the Living Shit Out Of Me etc. etc.

[dyingtohealyou]

[Characters passing by the bulletin board may notice a new message tacked to it!]

Drinking party at the bar at 8pm. Under 21 only. Adults will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Fun and games included, party hats optional. Don’t be late!

[Sure enough, there’s a gathering of teens (and maybe some not-so-teens?) to be found in the bar! While the posting mentions this is a teen only event, adults are in fact allowed as long as they are cool. OOCLY please be aware there are going to be teens drinking alcohol and possibly smoking! Also additionally, please let the teens/players have fun; again, adults are allowed but only if they’re cool enough to play along without snitching them out!

All party game top levels are going to be made under Ahito’s account but please assume ICly that Akira instigated/explained them! Once the game toplevels are up you can also post your own toplevels to mingle freely if you like IDK IT’S A PARTY HAVE FUN]

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[fellheart]

[ perhaps, if the gods truly did wish to see humanity grow, what was left of their minds would have them cede their positions willingly ... he cannot say. he cannot speak for the gods who were gone centuries before his own wings spread to span the skies of what would later be the nation that devoted itself to his worship. all he has is his own experience and the dusty, forgotten tomes and scrolls he's studied. ]

There are some in every age. There are those who are willing to try, but their reach limited, at best.

[ but what an interesting approach these vampires took in attempting to cull the herd, even if not for the correct motives. humanity is a rotten, sickened thing. how does one rescue the healthy, salvageable fruit from the diseased tree? and even if they could, can anyone say they should be the arbiter of who should be allowed to live, if they condemn the rest to die?

no, anyone who would claim to be able to hold the title— they are the last person who would deserve or suit it. is the only thing for it then to burn the entire tree down, and let the ashes feed whatever new bloom follows? ]

So then the question becomes: how does one move the human heart? How does one reach the hearts of many, and make it last?

[ the future is built upon the past. if the past is nothing but strife, ancient animosities, long-established prejudices and grudges, and none will choose to learn from it, is it not better to wipe the slate clean and start anew? ]

[shortleash]

( Though Mika believes Yuu capable of so many great things - on this, he concedes, nothing can be done; not even by Yuu, and all his blinding, beautiful hope. They're just kids. And if Yuu can do nothing, then - no one can. (In this heliocentric way, Mika fixes Yuu at the centre of the universe.) So their world, too, would decay.

He can only wish he could rescue Yuu from it. That - Yuu had been placed here, instead of him.

(... Perhaps...?)

But on this topic, Mika seems to not need to ponder. )

... Nothing. Humans can't look beyond themselves.

( They can't see the forest for the trees. A child who sees the beauty in love and nature grows up to see a man who sees love as a tool and the natural world as fuel.

If humans could change, Yuu could do it. Yuu could not do it. So it is not possible. )

They will undo themselves, eventually, and in every universe. In mind, that came already: their greed led them past every warning sign that told them to stop - and by their own hands they brought about the world's end.

Some few humans remain. ( Hence the urgency of the vampires to preserve what they could. ) But not for very long. The apocalypse and tangible extinction of their kind has not deterred them at all; it's only hastened them, made them selfish at a quicker pace. They steal and kill - they tear each other apart - experiment, and indulge their worse desires.

If their better halves can't touch them, and self preservation can't touch them, and death can't touch them, what else is left to move them?

( Nothing. And so they return to Mika's answer. )