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lucathiaTitle: Those Left Behind: God Lives Underwater
Day/Theme: Aug 25 God lives underwater
Series: Bokurano
Character/Pairing: It
Rating: PG
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31_days. Manga canon. A somewhat more experimental piece. Way too many pronouns...
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"We were really just kids, protected by our parents and protected by society. There was no true sadness, true joy, true anger in our everyday lives. This we learned when the fifteen of us came together, yes, when we encountered IT."
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It rose out of the depths of the sea, as if the sea were merely a shallow pool of water. They could only stare with dropped jaws and disbelieving eyes at what towered in front of them, at what would completely change their lives.
"It's got to be 500 meters tall..." breathed one of the children, yet they would be the ones to control it.
That was their first encounter with IT.
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They started underwater, unseen but soon to make a debut that would never be forgotten. It was like a slumbering god, waiting and bidding its time in the darkness of the sea at night with only the eerie lights on its face illuminating the way.
They gave it a name.
"Zearth, takeoff!!"
With a tremendous splash large enough to drown villages, it surfaced from the sea under one boy's command.
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"You want to see the toy?"
Under the sunlight, it sat motionless in the deep blue water, an empty shell without a pilot. They surrounded it with their ships and their helicopters. They took photos. They prodded and tested and examined. Its armor was invincible. Its weaponry was beyond imagination.
But without the children, it was merely a toy. The children were the life force of this power hungry organism. The children were the reason it could even move. In exchange for one moment of playing god, they must give their life.
Since she was going to die anyway, why couldn't she destroy those she wanted dead?
With one swift motion, she used it to blast through an entire row of buildings, exterminating the men that had wronged her, killing them as easily as if they were insects.
The others cringed and shouted at her to stop while one boy realized he was foolish for entertaining thoughts of using it to eliminate his sick friend.
It wasn't meant to be used like this.
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They understood little about it, but they learned with each battle. It was adaptable. If needed, they could detach an arm or a leg. They could even remove plates of its armor or shoot the cockpit out. Giving their life force gave them complete control over it in that short period of time.
As the pilot of it, she could see every soul on the planet. Piloting was a little like playing god with all the lives she held in her hand, but only three were important to her, and for them, she could eradicate the rest.
As the pilot of it, he could see every soul on the planet, but he didn't know any of those billions of souls out there. It had to be someone he knew. He had been granted unfathomable power, but in the end, this was all he could do.
It, after all, was only as strong as the pilot.
It was like a cruel god that gave them the power to fight but didn't shield them from the harshness of murder. He could only stare as he killed and killed and killed. The lasers extended out of its body like silk webs, but unlike the sticky webs of a spider, its lasers were sharp and deadly. He saw entire cities full of souls vanish in front of his eyes as he pierced them with its lasers.
He vomited, but it continued to do as he commanded even as he felt his own soul dying.
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After all the lights on its face had dimmed, it stood motionless in the water, a hunk of metal without fuel to burn. However, it was an unforgiving entity that would continue on even after it consumed all those that had borrowed its power.
He placed his hand on the metal in front of him. He would be the last pilot of this damn toy that had been theirs for this turbulent year.
With that, it vanished from the sea so that the cycle could continue once again.
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the end
Day/Theme: Aug 25 God lives underwater
Series: Bokurano
Character/Pairing: It
Rating: PG
Notes: for
31_days. Manga canon. A somewhat more experimental piece. Way too many pronouns...Archive: LJ | ffnet
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"We were really just kids, protected by our parents and protected by society. There was no true sadness, true joy, true anger in our everyday lives. This we learned when the fifteen of us came together, yes, when we encountered IT."
-----
It rose out of the depths of the sea, as if the sea were merely a shallow pool of water. They could only stare with dropped jaws and disbelieving eyes at what towered in front of them, at what would completely change their lives.
"It's got to be 500 meters tall..." breathed one of the children, yet they would be the ones to control it.
That was their first encounter with IT.
-----
They started underwater, unseen but soon to make a debut that would never be forgotten. It was like a slumbering god, waiting and bidding its time in the darkness of the sea at night with only the eerie lights on its face illuminating the way.
They gave it a name.
"Zearth, takeoff!!"
With a tremendous splash large enough to drown villages, it surfaced from the sea under one boy's command.
-----
"You want to see the toy?"
Under the sunlight, it sat motionless in the deep blue water, an empty shell without a pilot. They surrounded it with their ships and their helicopters. They took photos. They prodded and tested and examined. Its armor was invincible. Its weaponry was beyond imagination.
But without the children, it was merely a toy. The children were the life force of this power hungry organism. The children were the reason it could even move. In exchange for one moment of playing god, they must give their life.
Since she was going to die anyway, why couldn't she destroy those she wanted dead?
With one swift motion, she used it to blast through an entire row of buildings, exterminating the men that had wronged her, killing them as easily as if they were insects.
The others cringed and shouted at her to stop while one boy realized he was foolish for entertaining thoughts of using it to eliminate his sick friend.
It wasn't meant to be used like this.
-----
They understood little about it, but they learned with each battle. It was adaptable. If needed, they could detach an arm or a leg. They could even remove plates of its armor or shoot the cockpit out. Giving their life force gave them complete control over it in that short period of time.
As the pilot of it, she could see every soul on the planet. Piloting was a little like playing god with all the lives she held in her hand, but only three were important to her, and for them, she could eradicate the rest.
As the pilot of it, he could see every soul on the planet, but he didn't know any of those billions of souls out there. It had to be someone he knew. He had been granted unfathomable power, but in the end, this was all he could do.
It, after all, was only as strong as the pilot.
It was like a cruel god that gave them the power to fight but didn't shield them from the harshness of murder. He could only stare as he killed and killed and killed. The lasers extended out of its body like silk webs, but unlike the sticky webs of a spider, its lasers were sharp and deadly. He saw entire cities full of souls vanish in front of his eyes as he pierced them with its lasers.
He vomited, but it continued to do as he commanded even as he felt his own soul dying.
-----
After all the lights on its face had dimmed, it stood motionless in the water, a hunk of metal without fuel to burn. However, it was an unforgiving entity that would continue on even after it consumed all those that had borrowed its power.
He placed his hand on the metal in front of him. He would be the last pilot of this damn toy that had been theirs for this turbulent year.
With that, it vanished from the sea so that the cycle could continue once again.
-----
the end
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Date: 2010-08-27 06:08 am (UTC)It fitted the prompt, like, exactly. I was wondering what you'd do when I saw it.
I'd never properly thought about it/Zearth being like a toy, and yeah. DD: It's batteries...
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Date: 2010-08-27 06:22 am (UTC)This piece was supposed to be about how Zearth keeps on existing even after everyone's gone, but...it didn't come out that way. >__> The transitions in this piece are pretty horrible! I'll have to give this one a bit more editing later~
Zearth is the deadliest toy ever. D: And it didn't even come charged! I hope toy models of Zearth don't actually move or require batteries. ^^
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Date: 2010-08-27 06:56 am (UTC)^ ^ I thought the transitions were okay? A little bit jumpy, but they made sense and were linear. And the last sentence said that it/Zearth would keep going after everything, so that's fine. :3
D: It totally is. But it has all these accessories! I think Maki's dad's model moved? She was able to figure out that it didn't have to necessarily be humanoid-shaped all the time from looking at it.
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Date: 2010-08-27 08:20 am (UTC)Huh, well, it was an expensive model. I guess it would make sense if it could at least be posed differently.
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Date: 2010-08-27 10:48 am (UTC)I'm rambling. But this is great. I must go read your other one now, because Machi (all kinds of Machi >>) is my favorite.
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Date: 2010-08-28 06:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-28 07:02 am (UTC)watch me tag back too fastThere's no such thing as too many pronouns! ...Not, that's a lie, but I loved it. There's a lot of contemporary fiction nowadays that does a pronoun overload, and especially with Zearth it's like...it doesn't see the names of the children, just the children. It was almost detached but intimate? I'm not making any sense. I admit, I'm going on a pronoun kick with my writing lately, so that may be why it appealed to me so much, but it just worked.
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Date: 2010-08-28 07:17 am (UTC)This piece was interesting to write with all the pronouns. I usually use a lot of pronouns...but never this many. Usually all the "he's" or "she's" when I write about more than one character of the same gender get confusing, but here it's just it and they with a smattering of he's and she's. Detachment is a good way to describe it! Kind of like a...us against it thing.
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Date: 2010-08-28 07:26 am (UTC)It was definitely the intermix of he's, she's, they and it. I like that way of describing it, an "us against them" mentality. Personifying Zearth is something friends and I only do when we're joking around, but a serious look at it as it is almost a character on its own is a very fascinating portrayal.
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Date: 2010-08-28 07:38 am (UTC)All this talk of Zearth as a character makes me think of mecha from other series that actually have their own conscious (like in Eureka seveN). I would be wary of Zearth if it could think. :'D
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Date: 2010-08-28 07:53 am (UTC)I need to watch more mecha conscious series... Though yes, I would too. I do not want Zearth to think for itself. XD