[ Mizuki has… interesting feelings about the hivemind business, that's for sure. Different from everyone else — and he knows that much, too. It's why he doesn't really bring it up as often as he probably should. ]
Not… exactly? Um… those who followed it and either weren't fully Seaborn or the few who still held their own will wanted to, but the rest of Our kin have to follow the will of whatever the majority decides for the Firstborn. Irene probably said something about the Profound Silence? Rather, when We attacked her home and destroyed their civilization as they knew it?
The Arbor… didn't want to do any of that. It believed in renewal and regrowth — unsurprising, as the god of Growth itself. But, moreover, it believed that coexistence was key to peace, and that violence only begets more violence.
The god of Reproduction was indifferent, and the other two gods of Migration and Survival wanted them to pay, so the majority won. It was then that the Arbor fell into an immense amount of grief witnessing the war that its kind had waged, and the death from both sides, and felt all the pain of Our kin. It died in its grief, allowing for its corpse to become food for the newly birthed Seaborn and weaker, injured kin, and leaving an echo of eternal grief to be felt through our connection to the gods.
It still lives on through us, but it doesn't speak anymore. We only feel its grief… It's why I want to figure out how to make it happy again, and I want to do the things it wanted to the best of my ability. The probably being that I… I don't really know how to do that. If it wants peace and happiness and for us to be kind to one another, then I need to learn how to do that, but… it's hard to understand how to do that.
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Not… exactly? Um… those who followed it and either weren't fully Seaborn or the few who still held their own will wanted to, but the rest of Our kin have to follow the will of whatever the majority decides for the Firstborn. Irene probably said something about the Profound Silence? Rather, when We attacked her home and destroyed their civilization as they knew it?
The Arbor… didn't want to do any of that. It believed in renewal and regrowth — unsurprising, as the god of Growth itself. But, moreover, it believed that coexistence was key to peace, and that violence only begets more violence.
The god of Reproduction was indifferent, and the other two gods of Migration and Survival wanted them to pay, so the majority won. It was then that the Arbor fell into an immense amount of grief witnessing the war that its kind had waged, and the death from both sides, and felt all the pain of Our kin. It died in its grief, allowing for its corpse to become food for the newly birthed Seaborn and weaker, injured kin, and leaving an echo of eternal grief to be felt through our connection to the gods.
It still lives on through us, but it doesn't speak anymore. We only feel its grief… It's why I want to figure out how to make it happy again, and I want to do the things it wanted to the best of my ability. The probably being that I… I don't really know how to do that. If it wants peace and happiness and for us to be kind to one another, then I need to learn how to do that, but… it's hard to understand how to do that.