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[fourthmade]

This is a place to send your prayers to the Fourth god. He may not always respond, or he may respond in ways you don’t expect, but he is always listening.

Speak, he hears you.

OOC note:  As of April 2020, threads with the gods will be capped at three NPC replies! Please keep this in mind when writing god prayers to make sure you get everything you need out of the thread.It’s also possible to handwave prayers by titling your comment HANDWAVED PRAYER. Handwaved prayers lack our usual flourish, but you can expect a faster response!

As of February 2024, god prayers will be handwaved only. Please only submit a prayer if you have a question for either god which needs answering in order to progress your character's arc within Ryslig. If this is something you need to tier up within the god boon system, or just to set up a player plot in general, please don't hesitate to submit a prayer about it! You may shorten it down to an OOC summary of what your character is asking. This will allow any of our helper mods to reply much faster, without having to dig into the specifics of either god's personality/writing quirks. Should this limitation be lifted again in the future, this note will be removed.

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[softspokenlandlord]

[Ryou shouldn't be doing this. He knows he shouldn't, just being at his laptop like this, alone except for the open channel he's created? It's very, very stressful.

But he needs answers. He'll demand them from a child god if he has to. So he starts typing.]

I would like you to answer something for me if you're there, Elias.

What is so important about the building that was attacked that you felt the need to punish the perpetrators of the explosion supernaturally? I understand it was an extreme move for them to take, but there is something else that was even more wrong than that.

You gave a new monster their hunger before they changed. Who knows if they can even FEED like that?! And making the rest of them feel the deaths? We already have to cope with killing humans, that's...that's too much!

How does that make you better than her??? what right is it of yours to punish others?! Tell me why...isn't our suffering enough without you or the fog adding to it?

[fourthmade]

[The screen pulses with visual artifacts. They coalesce into a rubick's cube, a multicolored block in the same rough shape as the former Cube. And then, like the real thing not so long ago, it explodes into a scrambled spray of color and light.]

hello to you too ryou

im sorry for upsetting you :(
but i have to protect
what belongs to me

dont you?

you protect your friends
and you protect yourself

what if a group of terrorists blew up your house?
a friends house?
a park that you treasure?

it hurts
thats what it does

this is how i protect things that are mine
by showing them how i hurt
because of what they did

[Blood-colored squares drip down the screen and form a sad face.]

the hunger youre talking about though
phils
right?
that isnt me
i dont give anyone hunger
all i did was nullify the dampening effect of my electrical power

that is

i allowed the fogs influence
to speed up
and i stopped fighting her push against his humanity

some monsters feel hunger before they can feed
thats the fogs doing
not mine

dont forget that this kind of suffering traces back to her

[softspokenlandlord]

I don't know. I don't like hurting people, and the only reason I've done so in any recent memory is to protect those I care about. So maybe you and I aren't so different after all.

But I don't look for revenge like some do. I look for a different solution, until I can't anymore.

[Until he has to put himself between two warring monsters, because one is his beloved and the other is the reason he has burn scars.]

The building they blew up was HURTING people with those pulses, and even if it wasn't, then it would be hurting people because they died in there!

[Ryou watches the visual and his lip curls back, despite himself. Elias is sounding reasonable, but at the same time...Ryou can't bring himself to trust. Their last conversation was still too fresh, it felt too dangerous. This felt dangerous!

But he carries on anyway.]

That's not really true, is it? What you just said about nullifying your power to allow the fog's to overtake his humanity. Because I have it on authority from one of my friends that you also made whoever participated feel the pain and fear of their prey. That's...cruel. Horrid. Not every one of us likes killing to eat.

You want me to believe that wasn't retribution?

The fog is not good. I don't trust her either. I know where my misery originates from. But what you did wasn't better.

Please...can't you just stop it? I'm not asking you because you're a god I'm asking you because I don't want to see people I care about suffer just because they align with one belief system or the other.

[fourthmade]

[The screen flares with a blue sad face again.]

i told you
i didnt give him hunger
hunger for humans is what she does to you
i want to suppress that whenever i can
however i can

the hunger wasnt mine
but letting them feel the cruelty they dish out
that was mine
they need to learn
empathy
how other people feel when they cause pain

why is it more cruel that i pay back
what they paid to me first?
why isnt it cruel that they blew up my property
threatened my friends
hurt
killed?

[Static flickers on Ryou's computer, the speakers crackling sharply. It sounds almost mournful, or as mournful as a robot's imitation can sound.]

shes twisted you already
if you cant see whats wrong
with them turning to violence for answers

[softspokenlandlord]

Don't say that.

Don't you dare say that!! She doesn't know me and you don't know me! If we can't agree on what's right or wrong then I understand but don't you say that I've been twisted by her. I've been here for a year, suffering over every single soul I devour with no way out, putting the weight of my weakness on others because I'm not strong enough to bear it on my own.

Do you think I want to hurt people?

Do you think I want to be violent? No! I don't want to hurt or be hurt! Monsters shouldn't have to feel pain like this, and if I could stop everyone's pain and the hunger forced on them by taking it into myself, then I would because no one, not a single monster on this peninsula or the humans that we have to eat deserve the pain they feel! I know she's wrong!!

[Ryou doesn't know why he had to say that, he's not sure why he felt the need to justify himself to another "god" over this kind of thing, but it cuts deep to be told that the Fog has her hooks in him. It's not true!

Is it? Is...he sympathetic to the Fog, just because of her followers? No...no those are just his friends.

Right? Y-yeah...they're just friends who are hurting, and who are doing what they can to survive in this place.]

I'm sorry if blowing up the building hurt you. But it was a causality created by your imperfect method. The price that must be paid is not requisite over a building, versus the people.

[Mukuro told him they'd tried to spare everyone inside...he believes her. She's good.]

CW: Reference to Horrible Things Done By Characters (Flaying)

[fourthmade]

[Elias is quiet for awhile, the screen softly crackling. There’s a warm heat pervading the room, a tickle creeping down Ryou’s spine, an invisible hand pulsing with pins and needles coaxing itself around his shoulders.

Elias thinks carefully. And when he shapes his reply, the words double up, searing the inside of Ryou’s mind with a soft boyish whisper at the same time text appears on his screen.]

im sorry
youre a good person ryou
i know youd take on so much pain
if it meant sparing everyone else
and keeping the rest of the peninsula safe

im sorry i havent broken the pattern of hunger and death
or found a permanent place away from her touch
im sorry so many people are getting hurt

but
im scared

im scared that youre getting swept away by lies
by your friends and their devotion to her whispers

did you see who they worked with?
theres mukuro and souda and

fid dle ford

of course

but theres also horrible men
real monsters
who skinned people alive
and turned them into books
for fun

:(

the building isnt the only thing that matters
your reasoning is faulty
its reductive
and youre missing what her influence blinded you to

please be careful
im worried about you

watch your step

[The warmth dissolves. There’s a palpable breeze, a draft through a window, a chill, pushing the latent energy out, and Ryou is left with only those three words silent and still on his laptop:

watch your step.]