INFINITE NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER!

[technusrulez]

WELL, ISN'T THIS INTERESTING! I WANTED TO TAKE OVER MY OWN WORLD, BUT THERE ARE SO MANY MORE WORLDS I CAN POTENTIALLY TAKE OVER! PERHAPS SOME THAT ARE EVEN BETTER THAN MINE! AND NO GHOST CHILDREN TO STOP ME!!!

[Technus laughs maniacally.]

THANKS, MUN, I APPRECIATE IT! WHAT AN AMAZING NEW OPPORTUNITY!

Comments

[thieram_not_chuck]

Opportunity? It doesn't sound very - nevermind!
It, sure, sounds very. Opportunistic.

[R-right! Right?]

[technusrulez]

OPPORTUNITY IS EASY TO FIND, IF YOU SEEK IT. BUT THIS IS SOMETHING NEW!

[thieram_not_chuck]

'NEW', right. Sounds... great?

[In a slightly should I worry oh oh timbre of voice, there, man]

[technusrulez]

BETTER THAN GREAT! EXCELLENT!

[thieram_not_chuck]

[Slightly wide-eyed, Thieram considers taking a step back. A - a careful retreat, not an escape, no, siree, rright??]

So, so I see. W-wonderful.

[gaeaf]

Hmph. [She fixes him a whitering look.] Must you yell your every word?

[technusrulez]

I HAVE VOLUME CONTROL ISSUES.

[gaeaf]

You announced your plans to control worlds, yet you cannot master your body.

[technusrulez]

[Very sarcastically.] WOW. YOU SEEM PLEASANT.

BUT SERIOUSLY. MY MIND AND MY BODY ARE NOT WHAT THEY USED TO BE. THAT DOES NOT MAKE ME ANY LESS CAPABLE OF RULING THE WORLD. PLENTY OF KINGS AND PRESIDENTS ARE AND WERE FAR MORE INCOMPETENT THAN ME.

[gaeaf]

[She arches an eyebrow, ignoring the commentary. She has been cordial. That is the only pleasantries she will keep.] 

If you are as good as you claim, tell me— How long have you ruled? What are your most impressive feats as a monarch?

[Wherever he hails. Surely, there must be a basis for comparison to make those brazen claims. Even if he does not rule a world, a small nation, or even an organization should be good enough.]

[technusrulez]

I AM WORKING ON IT!

[He hasn't succeeded in anything yet.]

[gaeaf]

So those were only words.

[...............]

Why do you want to rule? Do you have the slightest idea of everything that entails? Even tyrants who dominate through force and fear know how to administrate, to create laws and regulate them, supervise the army, and plan to facilitate the prosperity and stability of their kingdoms.

It is not a mere aesthetic to wear a crown.

[technusrulez]

IT SOUNDS FUN! KINGDOMS THESE DAYS ARE MOSTLY GOVERNED BY COUNCILS AND PRIME MINISTERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, ANYWAYS. THE ROYALS ARE FIGUREHEADS WHO GET TO DRESS UP FANCY AND GET A LOT OF PUBLICITY AND PRAISE. THAT IS WHAT I WANT.

[gaeaf]

Do you want to be a royal in name only? Assuming you can take over those worlds, they will resent you and find ways to dispose of you. [There are many ways to make that happen too.] To preserve your position, you will need to be active in your rule.

Why don't you seek to become a consort instead of a conquering sovereign? It would grant you the same benefits.

[technusrulez]

YOU CLEARLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND MY GENIUS, CHILD. AND I AM NOT GOING TO BE A "CONSORT." I, THE GREAT TECHNUS, DESERVE BETTER THAN BEING SOME KING'S TROPHY HUSBAND.

[gaeaf]

Child? Hmph. I am likely older than your entire family tree.

Empty words for someone who claimed that children thwarted him in the past.

[technusrulez]

NO MATTER YOUR CHRONOLOGICAL AGE, YOU ARE A CHILD TO ME. A GHOST WHO DIED YOUNG WOULD BE A CHILD TO ME, EVEN IF THEY DIED FAR EARLIER- YOU ARE MUCH THE SAME, I ASSUME.

AND THE GHOST CHILD IS A SPECIAL CASE!

[gaeaf]

Ghost? Are you labeling me as a deceased human? [Her eyes narrow. It's true that witches resemble humans the most out of the fae yet that's pushing it.] You are in the presence of Morgan, the high queen who has ruled fairies in a cursed world for two thousand years.

[She waves her hand dismissingly. Excuses.]

A single child bested you. Even the weakest among those irritating Heroic Spirits from Proper Human History can surely confront you without an issue.

[technusrulez]

IT WAS A COMPARISON. YOU ARE CLEARLY A YOUNG ADULT FOR YOUR SPECIES. AND YOU DO NOT KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE GHOST CHILD'S POWER. HE IS VERY STRONG.

[gaeaf]

I am the oldest pure fairy in my kingdom. [Those sinners' malice caught their cursed fading and to be reborn as a new generation.] Fairies do not age, specter. Most manifest onto the world with an appearance and that will be it. [Even starseeds like she is only aged to a certain chosen point.]

He is still a child. To be defeated by someone without the wisdom of age must have been humiliating.

[technusrulez]

OF COURSE IT WAS HUMILIATING! BUT I, TECHNUS, WILL NOT STOP UNTIL I REACH MY GOAL!

...STUCK IN THE PRIME OF YOUR LIFE FOREVER, HUH?

[gaeaf]

I see. Do be mindful of all the children in those worlds.

[If children exist at all. She doesn't think he has high chances. The Counter Force usually stops those attempts. That's why she has been cautiously disabling it before proceeding to her plans of expansion.]

Earth is a celestial body with the concept of terminus; 'forever' does not quite exist. With "prime," do you mean our superficial appearance by a human standard? Some fairies manifest with traits you might call "child-like" and others with facial wrinkles that you attribute to age. However, our vessels do not affect our mentality and don't reflect our maturity. They are temporal means of communication. If humanity had not been the last dominant species, we wouldn't take forms that use theirs as a loose blueprint. Assume, for example, those great creatures you called dinosaurs still walk on Earth, then our bodies would resemble them.

[technusrulez]

..........YOU BAFFLE ME.

[gaeaf]

If I do, imagine all those creatures you have no idea about that inhabitant in those worlds.

You are concerned about a mere ghost child, when other worlds may have gods that linger as the dominant species.