anklets: (get in line and I'll grieve you)

[personal profile] anklets 2012-06-04 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[It makes her heart ache a little, thinking that she'll never be able to see those kinds of amazing things herself. Not just because her Japan had been a wasteland. Not just because she'd lived in a day and age where there was much more civilization than wilderness. Not just because this is where she's going to stay.]

It's. Hard to describe what kind of world I came from to someone who hadn't lived in it. It isn't a war that everyone knows about, like some of them are.

[She still talks about it like she continues to be involved.]

The Akuma are... human souls, bound to a metal skeleton by Dark Matter and forced to do the bidding of the man who made them, the Millenium Earl. When someone dies, tragedy follows. And the Earl follows tragedy. He'll deceive people who are in mourning, convince them that he can bring back their loved ones if they only call their name, and when they do... The souls can't disobey the Earl. They'll kill the very person who brought them back and wear their skin as a disguise. Kill other innocent people to get stronger; Level 1, Level 2, Level 3... Exorcists, people who are compatible with Innocence, are the only ones who can destroy Akuma. That's what— I was. An Exorcist.

That kind of war... most people don't even realize something's wrong until they're about to die. It's truly between the Millenium Earl and the Black Order and it's supporters. So the things you're describing to me... they sound really beautiful, you know? I travelled a lot, because I was in war for a very long time and we had to fight, but whenever someone says to me that they've been to a lot of places in their life, I feel like that's different.