animus_network | Fourth Candelabram

[Lucifer has found that he's begun to use the network almost solely when he's angry. Truth be told it's one of the few times it has any real appeal to him, at least in regard to using it as his own platform to speak. And after the embarrassment and insult leveled at him by the Tower this last month, he's quite fed up. He needs something to take his mind off of things.

Which brings him to what he has to say.]

I quite enjoy competition. I believe myself a competitive man. But I felt there was something lacking in the competition the tower gave us. I found it a bit impersonal. Part of competition is getting to know the people you're competing against. That's not particularly possible when so many of them have had their identities crush and assumed by something else, now is it?

I'd go so far as to say it wasn't sporting.

I wasn't very satisfied by this last competition. If anything, it served to simply arouse my thirst instead of quench it. And so I would like to propose a more personal competition. A bit of a way for me to get to know some of you better. To even find a few more who are like-minded, you could say.

I therefore propose a duel, or set of duels, to take place one week from today. I will take on any and all challengers who answer my challenge whether they come at me one at a time or in groups or all at once. The challenged may even choose where the battle takes place and, if they wish, any restrictions they wish to impose.

It's been quite a long time since I've taken some exercise. And certainly there must be some others who would be interested in a friendly bit of competition.

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I define my own perfection, and none in the world have ever attained it.

You're remarkably cryptic. Who exactly is it I'm speaking to?

I've always found it quite rude that others feel the need to ask my name without introducing themselves first.

Louis. Louis Cypher. And who am I speaking with?

[...What.]

That's a rather ominous name.

Liquid Snake.

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[Lucifer's found that one of the best ways to hide among people is to just hide in plain sight.]

And yours is rather unconventional.

I must assume you had quite an interesting upbringing.

[It was a little tricky for an atheist to accept any such things as God or Lucifer existed, never mind that he was talking to one. For now he accepted it as an ominous name and decided to deal with the implications later.]

That's certainly no inaccurate assumption. Of what significance is it to you?

None I suppose.

I just enjoy knowing who I'm talking to.

I would think my name to be enough.

For some it is.

But a name in the end isn't an indication of a person at all.

That one is; where I come from it's indicative of a soldier. The codename of 'Snake' has only ever been granted to the three most dangerous individuals to stand upon a battlefield.

To measure yourself only on that name.

That's quite a folly, even if the others who bear it should have strength.

Was the name given to you, or did you take it for your own?

It was given to me, and in the time that followed I earned the right to use it.

A name that is given is worth nothing. Only a name that is made has any.

There is pride to be had in earning what is yours. So perhaps it may have been made by yourself instead of given, or I could see it as such.

But does it not bother you that they gave you a title, defined so much of who you are? That two words define who you are, and you are tied to the history of those words? That words might overshadow your actions, overshadow you?

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