explosivecombat: (Yes - I remember you well)
Solf J Kimblee ([personal profile] explosivecombat) wrote 2014-02-05 06:36 pm (UTC)

That's close, I think, but it's not exactly it.

It's as I told you in the beginning - I facilitate change. It's my role in the world that I came from; I've co-existed with conflict and war all my life, and I've accepted my role as a weapon designed for the sole purpose of bringing death to whatever I touch.

Obviously, a weapon is only as good as the forces that wield it; I admit that I don't have much power of my own, nor do I have much agency. But the way I operate is such that the power I willingly give up is returned to me tenfold - I gave up some of my agency but gained the ability to destroy cities in a single strike; I gave up a few years of my life but gained the ability to affect the course of the country's future, as well as those of all the people in it; I gave up a vital part of my life and gained the ability to destroy one of the most powerful beings in the world; I gave up my life itself and gained the ability to decide the future of humanity, even after death.

I've always been hired to salvage "unwinnable" situations, but those who set me to that purpose just have a grave misunderstanding of how the world works; I'm often called inhuman or some sort of monster, but that's an underestimation of power. The human spirit is designed to be an unstable element, to exist within the rules of the world and yet bend those rules to their will. Where I'm from, the human soul is a tangible thing that can break those rules entirely - it's the only substance on the planet capable of it. Any situations that are deemed unwinnable have been evaluated by someone who doesn't know what they're doing and how to force an exchange of power to their liking.

I'm a weapon that evolves as it's used; I acquire the power I overcome. I use that power to force humanity to change - to bring conflict into the world such that they might learn from it, to show them "unwinnable" situations and force them to win or be annihilated.

It would be very easy to say that as a weapon, I have no power of my own; I won't argue that notion. Yet I decide who inherits the world.

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