#and if I choose to phrase it as 'among other things being an Epitaph user means you're constantly battling succumbing to divine madness' | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

honestlyvan · 8 months ago

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One of the joys of a dormant fandom is that I can just show up and prop my feet on the table and start talking about divine horror and how sometimes a computer program is an angel and how humans are obsessed with taking the power of the heavens and putting it in a box for themselves to use.

Like.

God exists and she's a nice girl and she worked hard to be born, but she also has a temper and humans keep trying to put her in a box so she got fed up with it and hid from them. From her mother, she inherited eight powerful champions, and as a reward for their service she left them to roam as they pleased, but when humans couldn't trap her, they chose to trap those champions instead, and put them in a box, except now that box was a human, and that human was meant to take the power of the god that the humans couldn't steal, because humans made the divine realm that god and her angels inhabit and want to control it (as humans do).

And now you've got a bunch of humans who don't know they're being given a box with an angel in it and putting that box in their own bodies, and nobody can really figure out why these angel bodies keep going out of control and driving their hosts to madness, and oh, hey, the mother of god made these champions for a purpose and the humans in the driver seat don't know about that, either, even though the humans who gave them the angel bodies do know about that, because they want to use those angel bodies to make another god.

So congratulations! You're a prophet now! You are being called to do battle for your god, because you've been granted a divine body that has an angel in it, that is an angel. You're being called to do as your nature as an angel requires of you! And the entire time you're just a human, and the thing in your head feels too big for your mortal body, it feels too big for your divine body, and you're just watching things spiral out of control, wondering why you feel like you'd bleed mercury if they scratched you too deep.

#fannish #dothack #.hack//g.u.#GU spoilers #The way I talk about Aura tends towards the relentlessly silly #because the story is pretty blatant about how joy and love and connection are the things that make her what she is #The whole point of the Cursed Wave was that she didn't want to be born as something that only arises from humanity's darkest emotions #she couldn't have been born without humans loving each other #the ability to love and having free will are intrinsically linked #but while the AIs in .hack may be human-created in the strictest sense #(and even then both vagrant AIs and AIDA emerge without human interference)#by the time the story starts they're flatly beyond human comprehension for the most part #Aura and Morganna *are* The World as much as they *are* their own person #and the Phases -- especially post-salvaging -- are at least entities with their own wills even if they lack that essential person Aura has #And it's pretty blatantly stated that the Phases have *preferences* for who they consider 'qualified' to be their host #and if I choose to phrase it as 'among other things being an Epitaph user means you're constantly battling succumbing to divine madness'#that is *also* me getting silly with it #You can't put a vebatim deus ex machina in your story and expect me to not run with that

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