1st Candelabram - Voice

[firstofthefallen]

For first impressions to a place I have seen far worse although that has not been common.

[It's hard to imagine that a voice so young could possess such a dull indignation while speaking. For someone who has been tested on mercilessly for a month and altered both physically and mentally during that time he sounds far more annoyed and tested than truly angry.]

To build a prison one doesn't require just physical walls, but mental ones as well. A prisoner only learns to see a prison as a cage and not just a building only after that prisoner has been broken, like how a caged bird doesn't know how to truly use their wings because they've been clipped. But the difference is that the prisoner must clip his own wings. You can be held down but your ability to fly cannot be stripped unless you surrender it.

You are not prisoners until you allow yourself to believe you are.

Although something interesting did come out of "test" we endured. Many of us seem to be from different worlds. Some don't even seem to be human. I come from a world were there are many creatures as well. I have quite a curiosity in the worlds everyone else comes from, and the creatures that live there.

Ah. It's also come to my attention that there are many people here from my world. If they would be so kind, I would like to speak with them.

[Hey, other supernatural entities and demons from the SMT/Persona-verse. That means you as far as Lucifer is concerned.]

[OOC: I still need to put up a permissions post proper for him, but one small thing about Lucifer. He does have a supernatural sense that allows him to tell what others are if they're some form of supernatural/powerful entity. For beings not from his canon (at the very least) this is regulated to only getting a basic idea of what they are (god/demon/grim reaper/ect.) and not anything about WHO they are beyond that. If this is okay with you/too invasive and you play one of those characters please tell me in the header of your comment.]

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[Video] - feel free to sense JENOVA/SOLDIER mutations

[atouchofstrife]

..We're prisoners because we want to be? [ Just sort of snorts. ] Aren't you a voice of reason.

[Voice]

[firstofthefallen]

A victim is only a victim because they see themselves as one.

They decide to focus on being weak, rather than learning and growing.

[Voice]

[atouchofstrife]

[ Oh ouch there. Cloud clenches a fist at that. ] There is nothing to learn from suffering until you are broken. There is no way to grow strong when all options are gone. The only thing that will happen is self-destruction.

[Voice]

[firstofthefallen]

The options disappear only because you allow them to. Options may be taken from you, but you can always find others.

You self-destruct because you are too great a fool, or a coward, to notice the other options in front of you.

[Voice]

[atouchofstrife]

Or you can be too over-confident in your strength that you forget that just because someone is weaker then you doesn't mean that they cannot defeat you. Everyone's got a weakness, and everyone's got a strength, and no one can stand alone.

[Voice]

[firstofthefallen]

I have never forgotten that. There are varying degrees of strength and weakness, and that someone who might be viewed as weaker can overcome the stronger is always a possibility.

And yet many seem to ignore this possibility, whether it's a possibility that benefits them or not.

...No. One can stand alone, just not all the time.

[Voice]

[atouchofstrife]

You're wrong there. You're never alone. Everyone you've been with, from family to friends to enemies leaves their marks on you. To be completely alone means that you've never even begun to live.

[Voice]

[firstofthefallen]

That's mere sentimentality, and has nothing to do with the actual concept of standing on your own. Of course your interactions with others shape you. That does not mean people are with you.