A bit of Valentine anxiety...

[magmaticflamberge]

Relax, Mundane... Even if I don't get to spend this Valentine's Day with any of my beloveds, I will still be fine... somehow. Granted, seeing the magic of love at work is always an unparalleled joy even when I am not directly involved... but I do wish he could be by my side on such a meaningful day. And when I say he... I suppose I really mean them. You know I could never pick a favorite. Not when I love them all so much... The one who is losing his sight to eternal darkness, the one who lost his soul, even the white-haired one I only heard about, and all the happier ones who are free from such tragedy... I love them all in equally infinite amounts, and I hope they are all doing well now that we are apart. Their absences dig bottomless voids in my heart, which I can only hope to fill by imagining that they are safe, wherever they may be... Oh, how I long to see their smiles...!

I suppose I do not need a celebration to give them a demonstration of my love. Even though it means so much to me...

At least, give my love and my regards to their respective Mundanes.

Glory to Team Magma,

- Edmond V. Flamberge

Comments

[shiyi_o]

Hello there! Your the one who knows Kari!

[magmaticflamberge]

I am! Kari and I are very good friends.

Who are you, pray?

[will_be_god]

You speak of glory, yet there is no glory in anything you speak of.

[magmaticflamberge]

You again.

You say that as if your complete disrespect for the value of life could possibly be glorified.

[will_be_god]

I value life above most things. That is why I dream of a world where it can flourish, where it can exist unhindered and unafraid.

[magmaticflamberge]

You would remove my god from existence. No greater sacrilege could ever be conceived.

[will_be_god]

There would be no need for it. I will create and shape the continents myself.

[magmaticflamberge]

If you think you possess half of Groudon's infinite wisdom, you are very mistaken.

[will_be_god]

Wisdom? It is a territorial beast.

[magmaticflamberge]

You blasphemous fool. The workings of the universe will forever be a mystery to someone like you.

[will_be_god]

I understand them far better than one who is bound to a single world. You...we all...must expand our minds. We must consider things from a universal perspective.

[magmaticflamberge]

Of what use is your supposed universal perspective, when you lose sight of all the good and beauty that can be found near you, around you?

[will_be_god]

Good is subjective. Beauty, the kind you mean, is meaningless. True beauty, the most beautiful thing...

...No, you would not understand.

[magmaticflamberge]

[He laughs.]

Please. I am nothing like that companion of yours, obsessed with that sea monster. I am nowhere as obtuse, for one.

Tell me what beauty is to you.

[will_be_god]

And yet you are, carrying on about that man. He is your most beautiful thing, and you would forsake that revered god for him.

Beauty is...potential being reached. This world is rough, but it cannot become beautiful. It cannot reach its full potential, its full power. No, we hold it back. We hold the universe back.

But you would not understand. As I said.

[magmaticflamberge]

You are mistaken. He and Groudon go hand in hand.

I agree with you that the world is not perfect, but the universe's flawless workings make it so that brave, willing, pure-hearted men can perfect it. You are obviously not one of them if you cannot see and accept as basic a truth as that.

[will_be_god]

I doubt you can name any aside from your beloved.

I work to perfect the world. The universe. It is my will, my devotion. I am as you describe and you deny that.

[shiyi_o]

You can just call me "O", for now, sir.

[magmaticflamberge]

His subordinates are very worthy people as well. As for you, you and your will are worth nothing if, again, what you lack is respect for what has preceded you.

[magmaticflamberge]

Ah, that is a short name... An original one, however!

... You are not a Pokémon, are you?

[will_be_god]

It is because I respect what has come before me. I wish to change the present by altering the path the world took. And I will do so by recreating it all anew.

Had I no respect for my predecesors, I would be unable to research as I do. I would have no hope, besides. But I do, because I know this world can be made beautiful again.