#seeing as how old class VII now consists

[talos-to-listens]

There is something inherently funny in Juna deciding to do a subject review, and also discuss hypothetical independence situation for Crossbell with Rean, and then it somehow ends with all of Old Class VII (and Musse) joining in.

[heli0s-writes]

VII. Try Again

Summary: Reconciliation has arrived. And it hurts. Pairings: Steve Rogers x Reader A/N: Phew! I got one more chapter for ya and then we’ll be finished, my loves.

Slow Like Honey Masterpost

You watch Sam take off into the crowd and groan lightly at the way he almost resembles the road runner from those old Saturday morning cartoons, billowing dust clouds behind him and all. Steve clears his throat beside you and finally, you turn begrudgingly to regard him.

It’s been three weeks since the parking lot catastrophe, and almost two months since you’ve broken up. He stands now, blocking the sun, so that you’re eclipsed by the cool shade of his figure. It feels ominous, like a foreshadowing of how he might always be someone who takes the light but gives the shade. In this moment, you are both thankful and wary of the shade.

“Hey,” his voice is soft and careful. “I uh--- just wanted to say hi.”

“Yep, you said it.” You smile back, so that any passerby or watcher might interpret the look as one of warmth; no one is close enough to hear the stiff tone. But, to make polite conversation, since he did stalk you all this way, you ask, “Sarah with you?”

Steve points to the popsicle truck where Sarah bounces on her feet with Marnie holding onto her hand. There is a baseball cap on her head and a slight residue of pasty sunscreen on her arms that are quickly becoming ruddy in the sun.

It’s a little disappointing to see her like this, attached to her babysitter’s hip rather than her father’s. You’ve always wondered what the point of having a child was if parents don’t consistently spend time with them. It seems hypocritical that Steve and Peggy’s relationship fell apart because of her inability to spend time with Sarah—but here he is, too: not spending time with Sarah.

As if he could read your souring look, Steve shoves his hands in his pocket.

“I took your advice, you know.”

Your eyes flicker up to his as he kicks at a patch of vibrant green grass inattentively, “She’s been seeing a counselor... there’s-- as you said, lots of discussion. About the divorce. It’s getting better.”

A family comes up behind you to grab a piece of pie, so you and Steve find the right moment to move away from the front of the dessert table, taking your conversation away from possible eavesdropping ears. Chatter rises from the background, full of laughter and children's joyful shrieking. Popsicles shine in the daytime sun, sugary ice in dazzling and flamboyant hues, waving in the air as their owners run across the lawn. Colorful celebration flags flop noisily in the wind, adding their own percussion.

“And I… listened to the other thing you said, too.”

Sarah calls and waves to you from the line, pointing to the menu. You wave back with your best excited teacher face.

There’s no memory of that conversation sparking in your mind. You’re sure you’ve always thought so because he works so damn much—but can’t recall when it came up until your eyes begin to roam over the faded shirt stretched tightly over his chest. Speckled and gray, and perplexingly familiar. “What th—"

Suddenly the hazy sensation of your knees softly thumping against wood cabinets doors rushes into your mind. Soft grunts. A breathy laugh and low moans.

Oh.

Embarrassment creeps over your cheeks when you remember the last time you saw that shirt.

No, it wasn’t much of a conversation then, rather, more like a plead—a sigh passing your lips to encourage his hands as they slid over your body. The shirt, that Monday, had stayed on you for the rest of the day, even as Steve aligned his hips behind yours on the other side of the mirror.

You remember, too, its hem being rucked up when he took you back to bed again only a few hours later, sunlight pouring over you both and illuminating the thread-bare stipples of grey and white as he busied himself between your thighs. Steve couldn’t stop grinning each time he mentioned, “I really like this shirt on you,” even as his face was pressed into your lap.

The same grin graces his mouth now as you pull the brim of your hat down over your face once more. It’s a futile attempt to shield yourself from him and his knowing look, catching you in that burning memory.

“What do you want, Steve?”

“I know this isn’t the best time...”

“Yeah, no kidding.” You hiss, but Sarah comes flying back with two popsicles in her hand, one melted orange drop splattering on your knee.

“Sorry!” She laughs before pushing it to Steve’s face, “Here you go, Daddy!!”

Then, she’s off again, tugging Marnie along as she finds Christine Parsons in the distance and jumps into her arms. It makes your heart hurt just a little, how easy it is for children to find solace in new caretakers. Even Sarah, whom you’ve grown so close to and spent personal time with, has seem to have forgotten all about you.

You can’t blame her, though, because it’s only the third week of class and all you think about every second of the day are your own twenty-four litter of students. Such is life in an elementary school. At least she’s not proclaiming her hatred for her teacher anymore.

But you watch Sarah dance around Christine now, tossing a beanbag in the air and catching it clumsily. In the small timespan of three weeks, she’s shot up another inch—growing so quickly from the already rapid change during the summer break. Her face has shifted slightly, elongating, nose becoming less round and taller, so many little details that add up to one seemingly giant transformation.

Yes. You understand Peggy Carter’s envy.

A bead of sweat trickles down your neck. Steve hands you the popsicle in his fist and you take it without thinking.

“I hired Sam after we--- you know, well…” He pauses, rubbing the back of his neck.  “I realized my life needed some reupholstering. I had been too comfortable—falling into complacency, when I should have been paying more attention to the things that really matter.” His mouth turns into a forlorn crescent.

You glare, turning side to side, catching the eyes of the crowd shifting all around looking at the conversation that seems too serious to be in the middle of a bustling school picnic. He really has no sense at all, you think. Big, dumb, man.

Big, dumb, stupid, man.

Steve, unaware because he’s a big, dumb, stupid man, sighs as if he’s holding the weight of the entire world on his shoulders. “You told me you loved me, do you remember?”

To your right, a mother stops midway while reaching for a cut of brownie and you can see her eyes widen briefly before she quickly grabs the fudge square and plops it on her plate. She shuffles a little further away, but still in earshot as she pretends to look for another dessert for her tray. You think about saying something, but your eyes glaze over, trying to find the particular memory he’s referencing, instead.

No. Nothing. A cold trail slips down your palm and you realize the popsicle in your hand is dripping orange all the way down to your wrist.

Steve produces a tissue from his pocket and begins dabbing the melted ice away.

“I got ya.”

Your uninvited and eavesdropping audience member opens her mouth in a small round shape. Her eyebrows slope together as she absently places her hand to her chest, as if saying “aw.” Steve is tenderly wiping the bright orange trickle from your skin before he motions from the popsicle to your chin.

“You gonna eat that?”

When you stand too shocked and frankly flabbergasted to respond, he takes the opportunity to grab it and stick it in his own mouth, crunching the ice between his teeth and sucking the stick dry. A drop of sugar water lands in his beard.

“Huh--” He muses, “Thas pretty good!”

Your teeth gnash together in an attempt to push your suddenly growing smile away. Your eyes slip shut, frustrated with him. What the fuck, you think. Why is he like this? A smile weasels its way onto your face, tugging the left side of your mouth upward into a lopsided grin before you bite it down.

The mom, now taking an inordinate about of time to get a plate of dessert, smiles too.

“Is that a yes?” Steve whispers, peering down into your eyes. “You remember?”

“No.” You respond. “You’re being annoying. And messy.”

“Really?” He laughs, “Is that the best you got?”

Now you are glaring, because no, you’ve got so much more. He seems to pick up the cue and puts his hands up defensively. Then, out of reflex, Steve wipes your hand one more time for good measure. “Sorry, shouldn’t push it. Hey...” his voice grows softer now, and he leans in until you’re both sure the mother who is – goddamn it, still there—can no longer hear.

“Please give me another chance. Please, sweetheart. I really do love you.”

“Steve,” You snap, “That’s not something you say lightly. And it’s not something you say when you’re desperate, either. I have to go, and you should too because your daughter needs to spend time with you and not her babysitter, don’t you think?”

A sad smile tugs at his lips. “Yeah,” he admits, “Yeah. That’s why I hired Sam. He’s really good, you know? I wanted to show him the ropes around our fundraising events, but he’s been at the shop for almost a month now.”

It makes you pause.

“I’ve started taking off on the weekends. Come in just a few times—Wednesdays, for inventory. Fridays to prep for the Sunday rush. This is the first time I’ve called Marnie in almost a week.”

He looks so proud of himself, but he tucks his chin to his chest and regards you with shy eyes like a student waiting for a prize. Even his hands are inside his pockets again and he rocks back and forth on his heels, teeth tugging his heavy bottom lip gently. Big blue eyes. Stupid pretty eyelashes. Steven Grant Rogers knows exactly what he’s doing.

You begin to dig around in your purse in retaliation. Your fingers touch the edge of your phone—no, that’s not what you want. So, you continue to search as he waits.

Truly, you’re very proud of him-- beyond thrilled that he’s taken your advice to heart and has put Sarah first. Over at a game of cornhole, she cheers and claps when her teacher makes a beanbag in. Three weeks ago, that little girl was falling apart and cursing all of second grade.

The idea of him, finally not waking up at three in the morning and working until he literally drops seventeen hours later sweeps over your chest like a soothing current. You remember how exhausted he always was when you’d see him—and it was only summertime. His workload doubled with Sarah during the schoolyear. You remember coming over for spaghetti, and him, about to burst into tears while rolling meatballs.

It makes you relieved to know he would finally be taking care of not just his daughter, but himself as well.

Yes, you’re very proud of him.

Your fingers finally catch what you've been searching for. Slowly, with a ruinous smile, you peel off the points from the thin sheet of plastic and take it out of your purse.

“Congratulations, Steven,” you announce, sticking a quarter-sized and iridescent gold star over his chest. You hold up two thumbs and push them under his nose. “A-plus. Would you like a high-five, too?”

No, you’re not going to let him get away with his shit so easily.

Down the table, three more women have congregated, and they clap and cheer when Steve chuckles and leans his head back in mock defeat.

--

It’s four-thirty and you are slathering aloe vera on your shoulders when a knock pounds at your door. “No!” You yell, “Go away, Steve!”

You avoided him for the rest of the PTA Picnic, mingling with parents and your colleagues instead, but every time you would accidentally find his eyes over the yard, he’d smile at you. A few times, he actually waved. The star sticker, meant to be an insult, he wore as a badge of honor.

Big. Dumb. Stupid. Man.

Eventually, it got to the point where other people (other, other people, not just the eavesdropping mothers) noticed too. After the third person of the day asked if you were seeing Steve Rogers, you excused yourself and went home to nurse your growing sunburns.

“C’mon, hon!” Steve calls from the door, exceedingly pathetic.

“Fuck off!” Even though a laugh might escape.

“Sarah’s here!”

You yelp, because the f-bomb is fine and dandy, but not to her ears. When you yank the door open, wet glistening shoulders and all, ready to apologize... there’s no one there but Steve and two dozen roses freckled with baby’s breath and pearly wax flowers. Your arms cross and you think you might put your fist right through that outrageous arrangement. “Are you serious?”

Steve peeks over the massive amount of deep red and a river of words tumbles out.

“Yeah, Sam was positive that he clocked a flowers-and-chocolate girl from meeting you just one time and wouldn’t let me go without these. Figured it couldn’t hurt... but I got you something else...” He pulls a brown paper bag from behind his back and dangles it one-strapped from his pointer finger.

Two loaves of banana bread sit sandwiched next to each other inside- not even wrapped, just embedded in crinkled confetti-colored butcher paper. On top, a similarly colored scrap has scrawled in rushed and sloppy all-caps handwriting: UNLIMITED BANANA BREAD-- CAP&CO!

“You’re such an idiot.” You berate.

“I know!” Steve cries, “I know! I know! I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. Please, please let me come in so I can talk to you. God, please? Even if it’s just so you can yell at me some more?”

“I am not yelling at you.” You retort, but let him in, anyway. “You’ll know when I’m yelling.”

Steve sits cautiously on the couch, places your gifts on the coffee table, and then looks around curiously. Things are a little different since he’s been here last. There are more plants, and you’ve gotten a little square bookshelf positioned in the corner of the room by the T.V. The kitchen even hangs a few wooden panels with abstract strokes and your corkboard of polaroid photos has been changed out for small doodles and tiny watercolor pieces.

He realizes, as he peeks over into the dining room, that you’ve been painting in his absence. Each picture is more refined than the last, as if you’ve been practicing. His little hobby that he pressed upon you hastily, you’ve taken to heart and improved on, even though he’s been gone.

It probably hurt so bad, he thinks, to have those paints in your house, to be reminded of him. Steve shuts his eyes and counts to ten. He doesn’t deserve you, but he wants you. He wants you so much.

“So?” You ask, brow furrowed on the sofa chair to his right. Now that he’s physically inside your apartment, the mood has changed considerably. The snarky banter in public and goading at the door has transformed into solemn and dead air. You don’t know what he might say, and even worse, you don’t know what it is you’ll do in return.

It’s easy. So easy to care for him. So easy to fall back into that routine of being with Steve Rogers.

But he’s shown you that he finds it easy to return to Peggy, too. And you— the easiest one of them all, will just forgive him for it? Your breath sticks to your lungs and refuses to come out. If you could go back to that day in bed and have pleaded with him not to pick up the phone, you probably would.

No, that’s too simple. It’s childish, and naïve, too.

“I’m sorry.” Steve finally speaks into the silence of your living room. His hands are folded over his knees, and he is looking at you like he is trying to bury those words inside your body. He calls your name. “Baby, I am so sorry. I am so goddamn sorry.”

It hurts. It hurts all over, but you won’t let him see you cry. “Okay.” You reply tepidly. Sorry isn’t enough.

“The truth is, I made a mistake. A really big mistake, and what’s worse is, I was too scared to admit it. I could think up of a million reasons why —about Peggy, or Sarah… It’s… so hard.” Steve puts his head in his hands, “The hard thing is that I have always been… stubborn. I was stubborn enough to move Sarah here by myself. I was stubborn to think that I could raise her on my own. Obviously, I couldn’t; I was falling apart, working too much, didn’t know how to talk to my daughter… and hadn’t spoken to Peggy in months. God, I hated being away from Sarah.  And when an easy road made its presence known to me— I went right for it.”

You want to focus on his words, because you know he means them, but a part of you begins to disengage to ease your own suffering.

“You got caught right up in the middle of it.” Steve whispers, choked on his sentences. “I wanted to badly to make my family work again, I didn’t realize that family doesn’t need to mean… what I think it means. It can be anything. And love can be anything.”

“What the fuck are you talking about, Steve?”

The both of you are in tears now. Your breath comes out in short and sharp puffs as you try to contain the pooling wells of your eyes. Steve’s own face is flushed pink, as wipes his cheeks with the heel of his palm.

“Honey,” he stutters, “I love you. I love you so much. I know your love and it’s wonderful.”

“Y-you didn’t even c-call— I’m not— I’m not a fucking back up plan, Steve!”

He rushes off the couch in a fumble of noisy limbs and falls to your feet on his knees. You retreat into the cushion of the sofa chair, legs drawn and wrap your arms around yourself. Instinctively, you want to be protected from the hurt-- from him. You’re a jumble of wracked sobs and groans as your head begins to pound.

“I know you’re not.” His arms wrap around yours, digging behind your back as he shifts to move onto the seat as well. You’re an absolute mess, completely shattered into pieces in his embrace, jaw clenched and frozen as your eyes leak all the way down to your neck.

Steve holds on tighter, buries his head into your neck where droplets run down your shoulder and onto your back. He rubs your spine gently, shushing your cries.

He feels so warm and good to lean into. And in this moment of weakness and sadness, all you want is that warmth again, just for a single minute— even if it’s foolish.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I was afraid and stupid. I thought it would be easier to go back to something I had already known, but I know now that being with you is what I really want. Your love is a wonderful thing. I’m so sorry I ruined it.”

He says it into the top of your head, his warm breath washing over you with each exhale. Steve pulls you to his chest and you can hear his heart hammering in his ribcage. Your own is near identical to his, deafeningly loud in the quiet rest of the apartment. His hands rub up and down your arms.

“Could you love me again?” He asks softly. “Could you try? I won’t let you down this time... I swear.”

His words are sweet like the very honey he stirs into his recipes. They slide down his tongue and out his mouth and soak you in their sticky, syrupy promise. You pull away and look into his eyes, red and blue, glassy and crawling with veins. He wipes a tear from your cheek, and you do the same to him.

Everything is fuzzy. You feel worn down and scattered about, pieces of you lost and trying to find each other.

The two of you sit there, looking at one another on the tiny sofa couch. Then, distractedly, you sniff.

“Where is Sarah?”

Steve erupts into a sharp, wet, laugh before he inhales and blinks his tears away, “God, I thought you were going to headbutt me.” He admits.

“She’s with Marnie at a movie. I asked her to give me an hour and a half before dinner. Time’s almost up.” When you hum softly, he takes the opportunity to press his nose against yours. When you sigh, he does it again before sliding his lips over your mouth.

“I love you.” He whispers against your cheek. One then the other, he places kisses over your face. “I love you.” Your tongue sits swollen in your mouth, unable to find the right words for this moment. “I’d never say it if I didn’t mean it.”

You feel both heavy and weightless, wavering between acceptance and denial. “I--I don’t know, Steve.” You whisper.

“Let’s try again, baby,” he pleads, trailing his lips over your jaw, the two of you scrunched up like pretzels, legs entwined, arms linked and gripped tight.

It’s obvious why clichés like breakup sex and secret relationships are exciting. The aspect of having a potentially glorious thing one last time is a thrill. This, too-- this apologetic, tender, intimacy-- is thrilling. Steve Rogers, torn open and laid bare for you, waiting for you, pleading for you, makes your stomach flip and sink.

He smells like sandalwood and pine. Clean shampoo and summer sun. You try to swallow the deadened weight of your tongue away, but it only grows larger.

Finally, you sigh, wipe your face one last time, and wipe his eyes too. With a crooked smile, you say, “Let’s go get Sarah.”

--

The car ride to Steve’s house is as quiet as a funeral. Your radio remains off the whole time and your brain is wiped completely blank by sheer emotional exhaustion. Any time a thought of whether you’ve done the right or wrong thing arises, it turns into snowy static and disappears. Maybe you’re a saint. Or an idiot. Maybe idiots can also be saints, and maybe that’s what you are.

What you really want is to stop feeling so much. The ache has subsided but its now replaced by unease laced with a steady drumbeat of something that resembles elation. You can’t help but feel excited again, because Steve is here. Steve is back. Steve has promised. And you hope he will deliver. Your chest thumps noisily and at light speed when you remember how happy he made you just a few months ago.

The reality of that approaching happiness resurrects itself inside of you, taking off on eagerly flapping wings.

Yet, the concerned part of you still stands planted on the earth, arrow raised and nocked, waiting to loose the bolt to shoot that bird down.

The two of them watch each other guardedly as they grow further and further apart.

 You turn off the engine and meet him on the sidewalk where he stands waiting patiently. Marnie’s car isn’t here yet, so he leads you inside by the hand and brings you a glass of water, observing you all the while.

“What?” You ask hoarsely after a big gulp.

He smiles—wide, blindingly white, reminiscent of the old wallpaper on your phone. “Just glad you’re here.” He says, suddenly shy.

“Yeah,” You reply sadly, “Me too. I think.”

Steve takes the glass from your hand and sets it on the countertop. “It’s okay.” He whispers, tugging lightly on your finger like a lost child, “It’s okay.”

A knock from the front door pulls your attention away and you can hear Sarah chattering on the other side. Marnie opens the door with her spare key and Sarah leads here in with a half-eaten bag of popcorn clutched to her chest. She does look so tall now, you think, and older with her hair pulled back into a ponytail and her jawline beginning to angle just slightly more like her father’s.

“Hi daddy!” She says in-between a crunching mouthful, and then pauses when she sees you behind her father. “Hi!!! Wow! Are you gonna stay for a sleepover? Daddy doesn’t work tomorrow! Can we go somewhere?”

She places the bag on the nearest counter and runs over to where you stand by the coffee table, jumping right up into your arms.

You stumble, because she’s even bigger than the last time she did it, and your life flashes before your eyes.

This time, because he was expecting it, Steve catches you against his chest and sets you right. Marnie smiles and waves goodbye from the doorway.

--

You wash dishes side-by-side in the kitchen after Steve tucks Sarah into bed at eight. She’s worn out from spending her day outside and running around so much that over dinner you watched her nearly doze off while eating her vegetables.

Steve had made dinner with fluffy brown rice and sautéed shrimp and lemon zest. On the side, he steamed summer squash and cut fresh slices of sweet peppers. Once more, you and Sarah set the dinner table and poured the drinks while he arranged the plates.

Dessert was simple: plump, blood red cherries from the farmer’s market. Sarah splashed burgundy over her shirt, and you dabbed some vinegar on it before rinsing it out for her in the restroom. Her nose had scrunched up at the smell and she pretended to barf until she actually dry heaved a little.

Huh. Second grade, you thought, as you backed away from her.

Patting the dishes dry, you stack them neatly into their respective cabinets before washing your own hands. Steve brushes a strand of your hair away from your face and leads you back to the couch where it’s safe: neither too forward nor too modest. Appropriate enough for two adults to talk while Sarah sleeps in her room with the door cracked.

Her bedtime playlist slips down the hall as a tinny, melodic voice. The lights are dimmed low, just enough for the two of you to see each other and not much else.

His hands sandwich yours and he places them in his lap. As he turns to look at you, the lamp behind his head illuminates his long hair, casting radiance all around him. Your breath quickens.

Big. Stupid. Beautiful. Man.

“You know what I thought the first time I met you?” He asks suddenly, a sly smile growing on his face. You frown. The hand on top of yours brushes over your knuckles, fingers rubbing back and forth slowly as he continues, “I thought—”

“I was too young.” You interject, rolling your eyes at the memory of his crass words at Open House.

“Yes.” He laughs. “I did think you were too young. Inexperienced. I had this idea of what a teacher should have been… But then—” he snickers again suddenly, clapping his hand over yours, “then you handed me your resume and flicked me off at the same time.”

You grin, because yeah, you remember that, too. It was a pretty audacious move on your part, but he had really pissed you off. “Is that what won you over?”

“Yeah. It really was. It was impressive—your resume, and your middle finger.”

“I didn’t like you very much when I met you.” You admit, “Didn’t like you … for a long time.”

“Oh, I know, sweetheart.” Steve chuckles, “You would literally run away from me. I had to chase you down with a plate of food-- with specially made banana bread! Jesus, that recipe was so hard.”

“Well, Steve Rogers,” You sigh, “Thank God I like you now.”

“Not God,” Steve corrects, “Thank Bucky. He really set me straight— twice.”

Steve told you once over a conversation all about Bucky and Natasha, the two old friends you briefly met in early June. Bucky was the one who had encouraged Steve to ask you in the first place. You remember replying how you’d have to thank him next time you see him for giving Steve the idea. Apparently, you’ll have to thank him again, too.

“He pretty much yelled at me for twenty minutes after… you know.”

“You deserved it.” You say.

“Yeah,” Steve replies, “I really did.”

Then, after a moment of silence, because both of you are unsure where to take this conversation next—too soon to apologize again and too soon to start acting like nothing is wrong again, Steve clears his throat.

“I talked to Peggy, after the airport.” He says carefully, as if the very mention of her name might make you burst into tears. You’re pleasantly surprised when it doesn’t, but again, it wasn’t her you had been upset with. So, you nod quietly and wait for him to continue.

“I think... we’re all on the same page.”

“Which page is that?”

“That you’re too good for me.”

It’s supposed to come out as a humorous thing, a thing you would laugh at and tell him the opposite. He even holds his breath in wait for the moment when your laugh would escape in a joyful exhale, but instead you glare. “I’m just a person.” You say grimly, and he doesn’t quite understand why the joke that was supposed to be funny has suddenly turned serious.

“I’m just a person. Not a substitute. Not a replacement guardian. Not an idea of a lover or mother or--”

“Woah!” And then the tears are falling down your face again and Steve’s chest feels like it might break open. “Honey, I don’t love you as anyone but yourself. I love you as the caring teacher. The… new painter?” He offers you a sweet smile, “The funny, beautiful, glorious, and gracious girlfriend…”

“My girlfriend?” He asks bashfully.

A small laugh escapes as you wipe your eyes, “Don’t forget I’m good in bed, too.” You tack on jokingly.

Steve puts his forehead in his hand, “Jeez, you gotta meet Bucky again. You two are two of a kind.”

He peeks at you between his fingers. A slow, tender gaze, full of affection and promise. Steve bites his bottom lip, looks at you with hooded eyes and takes a deep breath in. His tongue rubs against the edge of his teeth. “Can’t wait to spend time with just you.” He says in a single quick breath. “I want to make you feel better, baby.”

You roll your eyes but can’t help smiling. “Don’t disappoint me, Rogers.”

The comment that is meant to be a joke flips on its head. Steve surges forward and tucks both arms under yours, pressing his chest to your chest, burying his face into your neck. “I won’t.” He murmurs, pained. His beard tickles when it scrapes against your skin, but his hot breath wicks it away.

“I won’t ever again.”

“Okay, Steve” You sigh, cheek resting on his head, “Okay.”

Last Chapter

[houseisekai]

FE3H:HI Shadowbringers - Part 1: Return to Abyss

House Isekai Shadowbringers AU Masterlist Here

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Being awoken by a familiar voice, Kazuma’s group, The denizens of Nazarick, and the School-Living Club find themselves separated from everyone after the battle of Garreg Mach.

As they try to reunite, they find that they are caught in a grand scheme of unknown purpose...

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(Familliar Voice) “Just how long do you all plan to sleep? I did not save you all to just watch you be snoring away in this void!”

(Aqua) "Ngh...W-What?"

(Familliar Voice) “The time to wake is now...The time to stand on your legs with your own strength is now!”

(Aqua) "That voice is...so...familiar..."

(Familliar Voice) “The world is being swept away in the tides of war, light threatening to consume us all! Fodlan needs you, House Isekai!”

(Aqua) "...So...thi-"

(Familiar voice) “For the love of-"

(Kazuma's voice) "GET THE HELL UP RIGHT NOW!"

(Aqua) "DWAUH?!"

Aqua jolted herself awake, sitting completely upright so fast she accidentally headbutted Kazuma.

(Aqua) "ACK!"

(Kazuma) "AGH, MOTHERFUCK-OW!"

(Aqua) "Ow...Why were you so close to my fa-"

Aqua noticed him wiping a single tear away, but she didn't know if that was from almost breaking his nose with her head.

(Aqua) "...How long was I out?"

(Kazuma) "Dunno. Just woke up myself and our bodies ended up here."

Kazuma helped Aqua up and he took a look at his surroundings.

Darkness and Megumin were near the door, checking for any damage they may have-

...Door?

(Kazuma) "...We fell down the canyon, didn't we?"

(Megumin) "Ack! Yeah, my bones certainly feel it!"

(Darkness) "Disappointing, I don't feel it-"

(Kazuma) "Shut your pie hole. Now, if we fell down the cliff during the battle, why are we in a room?"

(Everyone) "..."

The first thing everyone did was look directly up. They were in an enclosed room, that much was certain.

(Darkness) "Did we fall into a building?"

(Kazuma) "If thats the case, where's the debris? Why are alive if we crashed through? None of us look terribly injured other than a few bruises."

As everyone continued to speculate in their heads what was going on, Megumin tried to open the door and get a better idea of where they were.

(Megumin) ? "Uh, the door's stuck."

Megumin tried yanking the handle open only to rip it off the door.

(Megumin) "...Uh oh."

(Kazuma) "Ah damn it! Look what you did!"

(Darkness) "...That normally doesn't happen unless the doors are very old are in need of repair.”

Darkness took another look at the room and noted that it was relatively dark. It wasn't pitch black thanks to a torch Kazuma lit himself with a spell, but the room didn't look like some ancient ruin.

In fact it looked a lot like...

(Darkness) "Are we in Garreg Mach?"

(Kazuma) "Aqua, you can see in the dark right? What's the verdict?"

(Aqua) "...Its kinda hard to say. It definitely looks like it, but we need to go outside the room."

(Megumin) "But how? I just broke the handle."

Darkness pulled out her sword.

(Darkness) "Stand back, Megumin! HAAAAAA-"

CRASH!

Somehow, Darkness managed to completely miss the door with her sword and hit the wall instead.

The blow created a hole wide enough for everyone to get through, no problem.

(Kazuma) "Nice aim."

(Darkness) "S-SHUT UP!"

Aqua took a good look around but still struggled to make out where they were.

(Aqua) "...I think we need to keep going. Frankly this could be any random dungeon in this world."

(Kazuma) "Hm, alright. Darkness, you take lead."

She nodded, and the four of them went on their way, deeper into the building...

...

[A Dark Sign - Fire Emblem: Three Houses OST]

The Pleiades maids kept their weapons out as they silently advanced, Albedo with her axe still out leading the group.

Cocytus remained at their rear with all four weapons out while Aura and Mare continued to scan around them to find out where this was.

(Ainz) "Demiurge, do we have any idea yet?"

(Demiurge) "None yet, Lord Ainz. I'm afraid I do not recognize anything here."

The hallway they were going seemed to go on forever.

The only sounds he could hear was their footsteps.

They even tried to do a life scan spell but it didn't pick up anything.

(Ainz) "The only option then is to keep-"

(Shalltear) "Lord Ainz, there's a hole here!"

Everyoned turned to the right and saw a massive hole into a room.

The rooms they had passed by had all been intact, if a little old.

The door was still strangely intact, but it was clear the room had been abandoned for quite some time.

(Sebas) "It's hard to tell how recent that is..."

(Ainz) "Then let's keep going, we don't have any time to waste."

(Albedo) "By your command, Lord Ainz."

...

Footsteps began to loudly echo as Kurumi stepped out onto a massive arena-like area.

She used her torch to get a better look at the area around her but with no luck.

(Kurumi) "Guys, look at this!"

Yuuri, Yuki, Miki, and Megumi all came behind her, eyes widening.

(Yuki) "Its...really scary here."

(Kurumi) "Heh, no worries! If anything comes up, they're getting this nice little shovel to their heads!"

(Miki) "Kurumi-senpai, please take this a bit more seriously. We're the least equipped for a fight if it comes to one."

(Megumi) "As long as we stick together, we'll be okay."

(Yuuri) "..."

(Kurumi) "Yuuri? Whats up?"

(Yuuri) "...We're being followed."

...

thud...thud...thu-

Everyone moved to the side of the entrance as Kurumi readied her shovel.

Thud. Thud. Thud!

(Kurumi) "HYAAAAAH!"

CLANG!

THUD!

(Familliar Boy's Voice) "OW, SON OF A BITCH!"

Rounding the corner, Kurumi was about to swing again until she saw who it was.

(Kurumi) "Leclerc?!"

(Kurumi) "Thank god its you! I got so scared and-...Oh crap, I just clobbered you with a shovel!"

Kurumi helped him up, and the group walked over to them.

(Megumi) "Yuri, are you alright?"

(Yuri) "Yeah yeah, its fine Megunee. Heh, didn't think I'd see any of you guys down here."

(Miki) "So wait, that means we're back in Abyss!"

(Yuki) "Oh, everyone's out right? We need to group up with the others too!"

(Yuuri) "...When did your hair get so long?"

(Yuri) "Ya know, I was just about to ask you something similar. How do you guys look exactly the same 5 years later?"

(Everyone) "..."

(Kurumi) "...F-Five years?"

(Yuri) "You don't know? Thanks to you guys, you helped evacuate our people. But, according to reports, and my own scouts, you all fell into the canyon."

(Megumi) "That part is consistent at least. Well, we fell into the canyon but when we woke up, we found ourselves in here."

(Yuri) "So...you guys didn't blow anything up then?"

(Yuuri) "No, why?"

Yuri grabbed his sword and frowned.

(Yuri) "We got some intruders in here besides my group and the knights then...”

...

Several knights laid across the stones, blood splattered left and right.

The knight captain stepped forward and examined the bodies with his torch, looking up.

His men stood behind and in front of him, making sure if anything attacked, they’d be ready.

This was a tight hallway, and from the looks of it, these knights didn’t have time to react to whatever attacked them.

(Captain) “Alert all forces down here that we have intruders! I want every exit covered, every corner with three man squads!”

(Knight) “Yes sir!”

The team quickly scrambled back to the entrance of the hallway.

Once they were completely gone, Kazuma became visible once more, using his lurk ability to hide in the shadows far ahead of them.

(Kazuma) “Clear.”

Darkness, Megumin, and Aqua poked their heads from the corner and slowly walked to the bodies.

(Darkness) “These wounds don’t appear to be physical...”

Their armor had burn marks, suggesting whatever attacked them was magic based.

(Megumin) “Could be someone from House Isekai.”

(Kazuma) “Doubt it. If it was Class VII or any of the Persona users, they would’ve knocked them out. And if it was Nazarick, there wouldn’t have been anything to find except the blood.”

(Aqua) “Whatever it is, I hope we don’t find out...”

(Kazuma) “If we can follow those knights out, we may be able to find an exit out of here. At the very least we’ve figured out this is Abyss.”

(Darkness) “Then that means the Church won the battle while we were away if they’re down here.”

(Kazuma) “Damn. Well come on, we’re wasting ti-”

(Aqua) “Crap, in front of us!”

Everyone turned around and saw a torch light coming around the corner where the patrol of knights went out of.

The four could hear the heavy footsteps of armor marching towards them.

(Kazuma) “You gotta be-Shit, alright! Come on, we’re going back the way we came and we’re choosing a different way, MOVE YOUR ASSES!”

...

Ainz and his group eventually made his way to a flight of stairs upwards into the Monastery, arriving near the old student dorms.

It was nighttime when they emerged, the moonlight covering the entire monastery in a soft white glow.

Albedo looked around first, giving the all clear signal.

The Pleiades maids took positions around the walls to find any knights, but were unable to.

(Aura) “No life detected up here, Lord Ainz. Just us.”

(Mare) “W-Where are all the soldiers?”

(Ainz) “Good question...”

Sebas opened one of the student’s doors and looked around, noticing how dusty it was, with cobwebs formed all over it.

The Pleiades maids did the same, opening up the dorms room by room.

(Yuri Alpha) “Strange. We fell into the canyon when it was late afternoon. By all accounts, the rooms should be relatively unchanged and soldiers should be all over the Monastery.”

(Solution) “Yet everything looks like its been abandoned for years.”

(Pandora’s Actor) “Perhaps it’s been more than a few days than our awakening?”

(Cocytus) “I DOUBT THAT THIS AMOUNT OF AGING COULD HAPPEN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.”

(Ainz) “...We will investigate the dorm rooms. Sebas, you and the Pleiades will check our surroundings and make sure no surprises await us.”

(Sebas) “My Lord.”

The Pleiades knelt down quickly, then jumped onto the rooftops and began their scouting.

(Shalltear) “...This quiet is troubling me.”

(Demiurge) “It’s as Mare asks, where are the soldiers? If the Church was victorious, we should have seen multiple sentries on the way. And the same goes for the Imperials.’

(Ainz) “Let us keep looking. If we see anyone, we take them prisoner and find out what we know. No killing.”

Everyone nodded and went on to investigating the dorms and the nearby greenhouse.

Narberal and Solution went to the graveyards as their sisters looked elsewhere.

They said nothing as they looked over the walls and into the nearby rooms, weapons drawn.

Still nothing.

Narberal took a quick glance at the graves then back at the classes-...

Something wasn’t right.

She turned back to the graves and noticed one had been dug up.

Narberal looked to Solution and hit the nearby stones loud enough for her sister to hear.

Solution saw Narberal motion her head downwards, and they went down to the entrance of the graves and went towards the dug up grave.

Solution nodded as to keep watch while Narberal knelt down to get a better look.

While embarassingly enough, she couldn’t actually read the language of Fodlan, she was able to decipher the name of who the dug up grave belonged to.

‘Sitri’.

Narberal furrowed her brow.

‘Sitri’. Sitri was that woman who was Byleth’s mother and Aelfric fused with during that incident with the Ashen Wolves earlier in the year.

She and Lord Ainz were one of the few who personally made sure that her body was put to rest, so why was the coffin gone?

Narberal put her fingers to her ear for a message.

(Narberal) “Lord Ainz. This is Narberal Gamma.”

(Ainz’s Voice) “Report.”

(Narberal) “No one has been spotted yet, but there is something...troubling, to say the least that I have discovered. It’s about Sitri, her grave has been dug up.

(Ainz’s Voice) “...How recent was it?”

Narberal poked at the dirt and noticed how soft it was.

(Narberal) “Very recent. As to where the person who dug it up went, I am unsure of.”

(Ainz’s Voice) “...Hmph. This is Lord Ainz, everyone regroup at the dorms, I think we finally have a lead.”

Ainz started making his way back to the entrance of Abyss.

(Cocytus) “WE ARE HEADED BACK IN?”

(Ainz) “Yes. Someone has very recently dug up the grave of Byleth’s mother.”

(Albedo) “What could anyone in this world possibly want with a corpse of a woman?”

(Ainz) “If it’s anything like last time, nothing good...”

...

Yuri opened the door to the Ashen Wolves’ old hangout spot and revealed Constance, Hapi, and Balthus in the room.

(Hapi) “Hey Yuri-bird...Well, aren’t you guys a sight for sore eyes?”

(Megumi) “Thank goodness, you’re all okay!”

(Constance) “Hah, but of course we are! A few grunt soldiers aren’t enough to stop a Nuve-”

(Balthus) “HAH! I knew it! There’s no way that you guys died during that battle!”

(Constance) “H-Hey, I was talking!-”

(Yuki) “You all look so different...!”

(Hapi) “And...you guys look exactly the same?”

(Constance) “Huh. Now that you mention it, they don’t look any different despite the years that have passed.”

(Miki) “What is going on here...?”

(Yuri) “When we get out of here, we can start speculating on that all we like. Right now, we’re not the only ones down here besides the Knights.”

(Balthus) “Think whoever it was caused that explosion?”

(Yuri) “Definitely.”

(Yuki) “Maybe it’s others from House Isekai?”

(Constance) “I sincerely doubt any of your friends are that stupid to give away their location like that!”

(Everyone) “...”

(Constance) “...Okay, maybe there’s just a few of them that would.”

(Megumi) “Actually if I can ask, what are you four doing back here in Abyss if the Church has occupied it?”

(Hapi) “At first, it was just to keep our promise we made to Byleth and your class, to meet up here five years later for the Millennium festival. We still got about 4 days before that actually happens but we figured it’d be better to come here early.”

(Constance) “And from what we have gathered, it hasn’t been a full occupation by the Church. I think these men were sent here to assess the damage from the battle and see how much forces were needed to take it back.”

(Balthus) “As we were sneaking through, we heard a loud explosion, which alerted the knights as well.”

(Kurumi) “How deep in Abyss was that explosion?”

(Yuri) “We were originally near it, actually. I heard some voices which sounded like yours, so I followed it, since it didn’t sound like the knights. Lo and behold, it was you all.”

(Balthus) “And since we have those extra days, we might as well investigate it and take care of any knights in our way! You still know how to swing that shovel, Kurumi?”

Kurumi smiled and swung the shovel up onto her shoulder.

(Kurumi) “You bet I do!”

(Constance) “Fantastic! We do not know what’s down there, so we’ll need all the help we can get!”

(Hapi) “As for the rest of you, we’ll find you a weapon on the way so you can at least defend yourselves. Now let’s go ahead and get moving, we’re sitting ducks right now.”

Everyone gathered their gear and went outside the room, traversing deeper into Abyss.

...

Kazuma leaned on the wall as he was running out of breath. He checked behind him, and Megumin and Aqua were in the same state.

Darkness was perfectly fine, not even breaking a sweat from all that chasing.

He looked around the room and noticed it was very spacious, almost like an arena of some sort.

(Megumin) “I...think I’ve been down here before actually.”

(Aqua) “Really? When?”

(Kazuma) “Not important right now! Did we lose them?”

(Captain’s voice) “SPREAD OUT! I WANT THEM CAPTURED ALIVE!”

(Kazuma) “...Shit.”

(Megumin) “O-Oh, I know! We can go down there!”

There was a stairway that had a soft orange glow radiating from a doorway at the end of it.

(Darkness) “Well, if it comes to fighting, we may as well fight where we can see them!”

(Kazuma) “We are NOT going into that deathtrap just so your libido can get satisfied!”

(Darkness) “W-Wha?! I’m being serious!”

(Knight) “I think I heard something!”

(Aqua) “Deathtrap it is! UP UP UP WE GO!”

Aqua ran first down the stairs, followed by Megumin. Kazuma groaned but followed in suit, Darkness going last.

Aqua threw the door open, stopping dead in her tracks with eyes going wide.

They all collided into each other and fell onto the floor.

(Kazuma) “Hey, why the hell did you-...” !!! “...S-Stop...?”

[Those Who Sow Darkness - Fire Emblem Three Houses OST]

The room they were in seemed like a chamber, but it was covered in blood with bodies dressed in black strewn all over the floors. Some were torn in half while some other bodies were missing heads.

Despite all that, that wasn’t what caught everyone’s attention.

It was an open coffin, with a body inside of it that was disturbingly clean.

And the body that was very much alive standing over it.

It was a figure dressed in black like the rest of the corpses in the room, and it slowly turned around to face the four.

(???) “What do we have here?”

A man’s voice came from the figure, but he was wearing a mask, making it impossible to tell who it was.

Everyone quickly got up and drew their weapons.

(???) “Ah. I had mistaken you as part of those zealous knights, but no, you are something far more interesting! You are one of the last part of Byleth’s little class!”

(Aqua) “Who are you, creep?!”

(???) “...Let’s just say, someone who knows what will happen if I were to harm any of you.”

(Kazuma) “Yeah, we’d put you into the dirt!”

(???) “I doubt by the likes of you idiots. No, it is your teacher who would see my head mounted on his wall. He’s become something of a reaper to our group as of late...”

(Aqua) “You think we need Byleth to kick your sorry ass? TURN UNDEAD!”

Aqua raised her hand at the figure, but nothing happened. Not even a glow of light emitted from her palm.

(???) “....Even if that spell WERE to work, I assure you, I am VERY much alive! Not unlike my poor colleagues here. And I told them to be careful as well...”

(Aqua) “M-My spells aren’t working?!”

(???) “I silenced the room, so to speak. No magic spells, not even mine, will work unless I say so. I anticipated you all to be the more threatening of your group here, but it seems I overreacted.”

(Kazuma) “Wait a- YOU’RE ONE OF THOSE DAMN MOLE PEOPLE WITH THE GOD AWFUL NAME!”

(Everyone) ?

(???) “’...Just so I never have to hear us referred to as ‘Mole-people’ ever again, you may call us Agarthans. We, are true sons and daughters of humanity, fighting against that bastard Seiros! And considering what has happened to you all, we need not be adversaries.”

(Darkness) “And side with the very people who murdered Byleth’s father and countless students, do you think us THAT stupid?!”

(???) “That was a poor display by my colleagues, and something I voiced against, if you choose to believe it.”

(Megumin) “Alright, sure, we believe you. Now what’s with that body?!”

(???) “Hmph. I thought it was obvious enough. Though unfortunately for you all, that is all the explanations you are getting from me, it seems we have overstayed our welcome.” 

Knights burst into the room and completely covered the entrance.

(Captain) “Freeze! Don’t move a-...What in the goddess’s name?!”

(Knight) “Sir, those are Imperials!”

(Captain) “SEIZE THEM!”

(???) “I’d advise you four to get down.”

The four turned around and saw the blood rising into the air and going into the body in the coffin.

And a dark purple light emitting from the man’s hand.

(Kazuma) “OH SHIT!”

Kazuma grabbed the three and jumped to the side, a dark spell hitting the Captain first, and the explosion catching the knights.

The entire squad exploded into bits with their limbs slamming against the wall.

All the blood that shot out from their bodies was pulled into the coffin like mist.

The man walked away as the last of the blood began to dissipate and he turned to Kazuma.

(Kazuma) “What, you too lazy to pick that corpse up with you?”

(???) “She is a corpse no longer. Though, she may need a little more lifeforce, but I’m sure you’ll find a way. Consider it my gift to you...Oh, and before I forget, I recommend you steel yourself for battle. We accidentally triggered some form of defense while traversing the depths to get her.”

Before anyone could respond, he teleported away.

(Aqua) “Damn it, that little prick got away!”

(Darkness) “...What did he mean by ‘she’?”

The four got up and went to the coffin.

Megumin gasped audibly seeing who was inside.

(Megumin) “Sitri?!”

(Aqua) “What the- what were they doing with her?!”

(Sitri) “...N-Ngh...!”

(Everyone) ?!

(Kazuma) “What the fuck- Is that what all the blood was going into?!”

(Aqua) “I-I could try healing magic-”

(Megumin) “Hold up a second! I think dark magic was used for this to even happen, I think holy skills would hurt her!”

(Darkness) “C-Can we even trust the words of that man?!”

(Kazuma) “Shit, well we gotta do something to get some life into her and-...”

Kazuma grabbed Darkness’s neck and Sitri’s hand, using his skill life drain.

(Darkness) HOOUWAAAUAAAGGGGGGGGH?!

...

Sitri suddenly felt her body come back to life slowly, but surely. Her eyes opened slowly, but everything was too blurry to tell where she was.

Her sense of hearing was coming back as well, and she could hear several muffled voices.

Finally opening her eyes, Sitri was-

[We’re Hungry because We’re Alive - Konosuba OST]

(Kazuma) “HARUUKAACKFAAACK!-”

(Aqua) “Wow, that looks painful.”

(Megumin) “Doesn’t she get off on that?”

(Darkness) “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU DID THAT TO ME AGAIN!”

(Kazuma) “EETWASHANEMERGENCHY!YOUHAVEMOSTHPOFAAACK!”

...Sitri was horribly confused.

(Megumin) “G-Guys, she’s awake!”

Darkness let go of Kazuma’s neck and he grabbed the side of the coffin almost tipping it over.

(Sitri) “W-Wha?!”

Darkness acted quickly and grabbed the other side of the coffin, though she accidentally grabbed it too hard, catapulting Sitri into the air.

(Sitri) “AAAAH!”

(Kazuma) “SHIT!”

Kazuma caught Sitri as she fell, which made him collapse into Aqua and Megumin as well.

(Aqua) “OW! DAMN IT KAZUMA!”

(Megumin) “Oof...”

(Darkness) “O-Oh! Ma’am, I am so sorry!”

(Sitri) “I...I...What?! Who are you people?!”

(Kazuma) “H-Hang on!”

Kazuma only helped Sitri up while the Megumin and Aqua had to get themselves up.

(Kazuma) “I’m Kazuma, that’s Megumin, Darkness, and Aqua.”

(Sitri) “...”

Sitri did not feel any less uncomfortable.

(Megumin) “Oh um...Miss Sitri, it’s nice to finally meet you!”

[To the Resting Place - Konosuba OST]

(Sitri) “You...know who I am?”

The three let Megumin in front, since she dealt with the incident regarding Sitri personally.

(Megumin) “Y-Yes. The four of us are students of Byleth, your son.”

Sitri looked shocked at first but smiled.

(Sitri) “Oh, Byleth became a teacher...”

Upon hearing that she started to laugh. Though, tears started to roll down her cheeks.

She wasn’t there to see her son grow up.

(Sitri) “How is he? A-As a teacher, I mean.”

(Megumin) “Hah well...He was a bit awkward at first, not knowing how to deal with the rest of the class. But overtime, he became such an inspiration to us all. I don’t think I’ve had any teacher as great as him.”

Sitri took a breath of relief.

(Sitri) “Then Jeralt raised him right...I knew he would. If I may ask, is his father doing alright?”

Sitri didn’t like the faces they suddenly made.

Aqua was about to say something, but Kazuma put a hand on her shoulder and shook his head.

Darkness looked down in silence while Megumin took off her hat and spoke in a more soft tone.

(Megumin) “I...I’m sorry to say Jeralt died, saving Byleth and several other students.”

Sitri stopped smiling.

(Sitri) “I...I see.”

(Darkness) “We personally took care of those responsible for his demise. We buried him alongside you, actually.”

Sitri nodded, and a sad smile was on her face.

(Sitri) “Thank you.”

...It took a second for Sitri to realize what she had said.

Buried Jeralt alongside her.

She’s alive.

She’s alive?

Why is she alive?

It was then she noticed what kind of state the room was in. The bodies and body parts lying everywhere.

(Sitri) “What...What happened here?!”

(Kazuma) “...That’s right. We HAVE to get out of here!”

(Aqua) “Wait a second, I hear footsteps!”

Everyone got into positions, Kazuma and Darkness at the front with Aqua and Megumin behind.

Megumin put her arm in front of Sitri.

(Megumin) “Don’t worry, we’ll protect you!”

The door swung open, and someone came charging in.

(Kurumi) “GET OUT OF OUR SCHOOL YOU PUNKS!-”

(Kazuma) “The fuc- WOAH WOAH WOAH!”

Kurumi stopped midway once she realized who they were and slipped, making her fall face first into the floor.

Her shovel went into the floor as well, making a loud clanging noise.

(Yuri) “Kurumi! You idiot, I said to...Wait...Kazuma?”

(Kazuma) “Yuri, Ebisuzawa?! HOLY SHIT, YOU GUYS ARE...Dude your hair, how did it-”

Kurumi peeled herself off the floor and grabbed her shovel.

(Kurumi) “SATOU! YOU GUYS ARE OKAY!”

She hugged Kazuma which made him go stiff.

(Kazuma) “H-Hey, let go of me!”

Kazuma’s group relaxed and put away their weapons.

(Darkness) “Finally, some friendly faces!”

The rest of the School-Living Club and Ashen Wolves went into the room.

(Megumi) “Oh, thank goodness, you’re safe!”

(Aqua) “Megunee! You will not BELIEVE what we just went through!”

(Hapi) “Hm. Finally some good news for a-...?!”

(Constance) “Hapi? What is the ma-...!?”

Yuri and Balthus noticed it too and were as silent as them.

(Yuuri) “...Who’s the woman in the back?”

(Miki) “Isn’t her hair color a bit like...?”

(Yuki) “Byleth-sensei’s!”

Megumi and Kurumi looked at Sitri as well, the room going dead silent.

(Yuri) “She’s...She’s alive.”

Sitri felt tense, not knowing what to say to the group staring at her.

(Sitri) “Um...”

Rumble...!

(Kazuma) “The hell?”

(Yuri) “Tch, now that one sounded close!”

(Kurumi) “Is the place coming apart or something?”

(Balthus) “Don’t think we should stick around to find out!”

(Yuri) “Move it people, we’re leaving Abyss!”

Everyone nodded, dashing out the room.

Megumin held onto Sitri’s hand as she dragged her along with the others.

They made their way into the center of the arena, going into the hallway the entered in.

(Yuri) “Hapi, how close was that explosion to us?!”

KAFOOOOOM!

The wall in front of them completely exploded, shooting stone everywhere.

[In the Name of Ainz Ooal Gown - OVERLORD OST]

(Megumi) “OH MY GOD!”

A giant golem was being smashed into pieces by a an armor clad figure with an axe almost as big as the figure was.

From the hole created, several maids jumped into the battle and started severing the golem’s limbs.

(Constance) “Wait a moment, battle maids? I know who they are! NARBERAL!”

Narberal and Albedo finished smashing the head into pieces killing the golem, but her face twitched upon hearing the voice.

(Narberal) “Oh, please not her-.”

(Constance) “HAVE I MISSED YOUR COMPANY DEAR NABE!”

The other maids began to laugh as Narberal refused to turn around.

(Kazuma) “A-Albedo, is that you?!”

(Albedo) “Ah, the other members of House Isekai. For once, I am glad to see you humans safe.” 

The rest of Nazarick came through and noticed who she was talking to.

(Aura) “Hey, the School-Living Club!”

(Shalltear) “Surprising, Kazuma’s group is somehow alive.”

(Cocytus) “I AM GLAD TO SEE MY FELLOW STUDENTS SAFE, IT SEEMS THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES HERE IN ABYSS.”

(Ainz) “Everyone, focus! We’re not out just yet!”

(Demiurge) “Oh? I believe we just found our missing body.”

Sitri was scared by what she was seeing since most of these ‘classmates’ weren’t humans.

(Narberal) “Hmph. So they found Sitri. I suppose I should say good job.”

(Kazuma) “S-Shit that’s right! The defense mechanisms!”

(Yuri) “Defense mechanisms? What do you mean?!”

...

(Ainz) “So, now that we’ve successfully revived her, every monster that’s down here is about to come on top of our heads.”

(Kurumi) “Welp, that’s just great! Why did they only activate now though, she was brought out of her resting place before, right?!”

(Yuri) “No idea. I guess that’s something we’ll have to interrogate that black hooded bastard for! Miss Eisner, can you keep up with us on your own? We’re going to need every fighter we can get.”

(Sitri) “Y-Yes!”

(Kazuma) “It’s a long climb up. There’s a lot of us, but no doubt there’s going to be a big bad monster after our asses.”

(Ainz) “So, it’s just like a raid...Heheh...”

(Everyone) ?

(Ainz) “Perfect. EVERYONE! Our duty is to escape with everyone, no man left behind.”

(Yuri) “Uh...what is he doing?”

(Kazuma) “S-SHSHSHHH! He’s having a moment where he actually knows what to do, don’t let him get distracted!”

Pretending to not have heard that, Ainz continued.

(Ainz) “You will protect Sitri as if she were me, and I will tolerate no excuses if any harm is to come to her! Pleiades, you will guard the rear, taking care of any of the lower mobs that will inevitably aggro to us.”

(Sebas & Yuri Alpha) “Understood, my lord!”

(Ainz) “Albedo, you will be the vanguard, drawing anything to you. Shalltear, Mare, the Ashen Wolves and Kazuma’s group will be accompanying you. Remaining in the middle will be the School-Living Club, Sitri, Demiurge, Cocytus, Aura, and Pandora’s Actor. Pandora’s actor will be leading Alliance A, Sebas will lead Alliance B, and I will lead Alliance C.”

(Everyone) “Yes, Lord Ainz!”

(Yuri) “Wow, that’s the most organized I’ve seen him-”

(Shalltear) “Watch your tongue, human.”

The floor beneath them began to rumble.

(Ainz) “GET WITH YOUR PARTY, NOW!”

Everyone scrambled to their positions.

(Ainz) “Now...

Time to make our escape!”

[Clash - OVERLORD OST]

Albedo charged into the hallways first, Alliances A and B following closely behind. 

(Ainz) “Yuri, you know the way out of here?”

(Yuri) “Yeah, we take a left once we get to the next intersection of hallways!”

They rounded the corner and found what Yuri was talking about.

Before they could progress any further, they were stopped by several knights.

(Knight) “FREEZE!”

Albedo raised her axe and cleaved the first knight in half, twirling it to the other side and decapitating another that tried to swing his sword.

A knight further back raised his bow and aimed it at Albedo.

(Kazuma) “STEAL!”

A glowing light came out of Kazuma’s hand, a small gust of wind blew past everyone.

The archer noticed something felt colder, but he still had his bow and arrow.

(Kazuma) “AW, FUCKING GROSS!”

He dropped the knight’s underwear and wiped his hand on his jeans.

The knight was distracted long enough for a spell to hit him in the stomach, sending him flying back.

(Shalltear) “Hah, I can see your priorities clearly, Satou!”

(Kazuma) “LIKE YOU’RE ONE TO TALK!”

(Yuri) “Now, to the left!”

Meanwhile at the back, CZ used her rifle to blast away any incoming automatons of Abyss charging at them.

Once one got close enough, Sebas’s fist came into contact with its head at almost blinding speeds, sending the body flying back and hitting several others after them.

Narberal casted lightning through her fingertips and shot it at the group that Sebas had knocked down, causing them to explode into debris.

Several more came barreling in, everyone doing their best to not let a single one through.

Lupusregina skewered one with her staff while Entoma had hundreds of insects shoot out of her sleeve and eat away at another, though two slipped past them.

Yuri grabbed one as it was rushing up the hallway and smashed its head into the wall, Solution catching the other one by deforming her arm into a whip-like slime arm.

It struggled to move as Kurumi knocked its head off with her shovel, with Cocytus stabbing the body with a single arm.

Before Kurumi could take a breath, she noticed even more coming towards them.

(Kurumi) “You gotta be kidding me!”

(Pandora’s Actor) “Father, it looks like they’re increasing the number of automatons! How is our escape looking?”

(Ainz) “1. Don’t call me that, and 2.-”

Ainz casted a fireball and lit a Knight on fire, everyone else caught into a fight.

(Ainz) “-Get up here and prepare for a fight!”

Yuri dodged out the way of a knight swinging his sword, and countered with his own attack, the slash catching the knight in the chest.

Before another knight could get Yuri from behind, Balthus kicked him down and stomped on his head.

Constance, Hapi, and Shalltear casted a spell together, creating a giant pillar of light that disentigrated a group of knights coming at them.

(Aqua) “Incoming right!”

Albedo swung her axe and slammed it to her right, chopping off the top half of a knight using the shadows to ambush them. She looked down the hall and saw a massive bridge in front of them.

(Darkness) “That’s right near the entrance to Abyss!”

Another knight came up from behind, and Darkness slashed her sword at his head.

(Knight) “...H-Huh?”

(Albedo) “YOU MISSED?!”

(Darkness) “DON’T MAKE FUN OF ME!”

Mare’s staff hit the leg of the knight, snapping it completely backwards, making him scream.

(Mare) “It’s probably too dark for you to hit accurately, right?”

(Darkness) “Y-Yes, that’s exactly it!”

(Kazuma) “SHUT UP AND KEEP MOVING.”

Kazuma cast an enemy detection skill and noticed a large one coming from below the bridge, at a rapid speed.

(Kazuma) “Ooooh, SHIT! EVERYONE, WE NEED TO GET OVER THAT BRIDGE NOW! SOMETHING BIG IS COMING!”

Alliance C stood at the exit of the bridge fighting off any automaton while the other two alliances caught up.

Alliance B went first, Yuri Alpha and Sebas killing any knight that was coming to them, with Alliance A coming into the middle.

Alliance C went onto the bridge once the last members passed by, all dashing to the middle of the room.

Right as Megumin was the last one to pass the bridge, a massive automaton emerged from the depths, smashing the bridge into pieces.

(Ainz) “Hah, it actually is like a raid, now we’ve reached the boss!”

(Yuri) “H-How are we supposed to fight that?!”

(Ainz) “TANKS, FRONT AND CENTER!”

Albedo and Darkness ran to the front, weapons at the ready.

(Ainz) “Now, YOU WILL SEE THE FULL MIGHT OF-”

(Kazuma) “Fuck that, MEGUMIN, LIMIT BREAK TIME!”

(Megumin) “...Does that mean-”

(Kazuma) “YES, KABOOM, HURRY YOUR ASS!”

(Yuuri) “Uh oh.”

(Sitri) “K-Kaboom? What does that-”

(Yuki) “IT MEANS GET DOWN!”

The room around them turned into a dark orange as Megumin aimed her staff at the automaton.

“EXPLOOOOOOOOOOOOOSION!”

A tiny ball of flame appeared below the automaton, then erupted into a blinding light, and shook the entire room so violently that any pillars near them completely melted into ash from the explosion.

It sent everyone flying back from the sheer force of the explosion being so close.

When everyone opened their eyes, it was completely gone.

(Sitri) “...o-ow...”

(Megumin) “YEAAAAH! I DID IT!”

WHAP!

Megumin slammed face first into the floor.

(Everyone) “...”

[Duty Complete (Victory theme) - Final Fantasy XIV OST]

DADADADA DA DA DA DADA DAAAAAAAAAAAA!

(Sitri) “Is she going to be okay?”

(Aqua) “She’s used to it. She’s actually learned how to break her fall better since she started.”

(Sitri) “So this happens regularly?!”

(Yuri) “With these idiots, yeah. With us? They’re about as foreign to us as we are to you...”

(Ainz) “Everyone, you did well. I could not be any more proud of you all.”

(Albedo) “Hah, your praise is too much, Lord Ainz!”

(Cocytus) “WE ONLY DID WHAT WE WERE EXPECTED TO.”

(Ainz) “Part of me wishes that raid could’ve gone a bit longer...A-ANYWAYS...”

Before Ainz could finish his sentence, everyone began to hear clapping.

[Those Who Sow Darkness - Fire Emblem Three Houses OST]

They all turned to where the sound was coming from, and saw a man in black with a mask clapping his hands together.

(???) "Bravo, bravo! The others were already afraid of what your class was capable of, but once they get word of this, they'll be pissing themselves, haha!"

Everyone drew their weapons at him and he sighed in response.

(???) "...You still don't trust me. Eh, fair enough. Not like I'm exactly comfortable with you offworlders either."

The man turned to Sitri.

(???) "And its good to see you out and about, Sitri! Byleth will be happy with that at least."

(Sitri) "What do you know about my son, who are you?!"

(???) "...You may call me Lahabrea. I only know what I've been told from Thales and reports...and the few conversations I've held with him.”

(Megumi) "If you even laid a finger-"

(Lahabrea) "Hah! And get between him and his little crusade? I'd rather live, thank you...Though right now with your class's appearance all over Fodlan these past few years, he's not as ruthless as he used to be."

(Ainz) "Years?"

(Lahabrea) "I'm not the right person for THAT conversation. You have mister Leclerc for discussing how many years have passed. For now, I leave you in good faith, with your gift. Your other friends will be showing up in the next few days, so I'll be taking my leave. I feel as if I'm not welcome here anyway."

He raised his to his face and an aura of energy surrounded him.

(Lahabrea) "Oh, and the only thing I ask of you is to give a message to Byleth when he comes. Lahabrea sends his regards."

With that, he teleported away.

(Kurumi) "The heck is that supposed to mean?"

(Yuri) "...Before we get too settled in, lets get out of here. Last I checked the surface of Garreg Mach was clear."

Yuri motioned everyone to follow, and they all finally left Abyss together.

The next morning, everyone met up in the mess hall, answering each other’s questions of what happened in the past, what has been happening, and what House Isekai is to Sitri.

Sitri is utterly fascinated by this fifth house, sounding almost like a fairy tale, heroes coming into another world to save it and its people.

(Sitri) "House Isekai sounds..."

(Ainz) "Impossible?"

(Megumi) "Insane?"

(Kazuma) "Stupid?"

(Sitri) "Unique, actually. My son must be proud to have you all as his students but...what happened to him?"

(Yuuri) "The last I remember, Rean had his giant robot thing teleport Byleth away when we fell..."

(Megumi) "I hope he's okay..."

(Ainz) "I sincerely doubt anything would actually be able to harm him."

(Aqua) "Somethings been bothering me about that actually. We fell down that cliff, so how are we still alive, much less be here five years later?"

(Kurumi) "...When we woke up, I heard a voice gently talking to me...then it uh...screamed at me to wake up like she was my mom."

(Albedo) "Odd. That's what happened to us as well, though...that voice sounded familiar."

(Constance) "So, that answers how you all awoke, but how many others are here too?"

(Yuri) "The way that Lahabrea guy was speaking made it sound like some others of House Isekai made it here before you guys."

(Kazuma) "He said to my group that we were among the last to arrive. So how long have the others been here before we woke up?"

(Sitri) “And...why did he resurrect me?”

Everyone remained silent, trying to think of some possible answer.

(Yuri) “...Well, now that we cleared things up for Sitri-”

Yuri put his cup down on the table and looked to House Isekai’s members.

(Yuri) “-It’s about time we tell you guys what’s happened with the war.”

(Kazuma) “So, who’s winning, the Empire or the Church?”

The Ashen wolves looked at each other.

(Balthus) “About that...-”

-----

Outside Garreg Mach

Dimitri stared up at the Monastery silently.

It had been five long years since he last laid his eyes on it.

His thoughts were interrupted when he saw someone walk towards him.

(Dimitri) "Edelgard..."

Edelgard stopped in front of him and the two remained silent.

Dimitri's solemn expression turned into a wide smile.

He raised his hand, and Edelgard grabbed his, both holding each others arms firmly.

(Dimitri) "Hah, it is good to see you again."

(Edelgard) "Likewise, old friend. It's been far too long."

The two turned to face Garreg Mach.

(Dimitri) “Best not to keep anyone waiting, right?”

(Edelgard) “After you.”

----

Year 1, Ruined building in Faerghus territory...

Byleth walked alone through the streets of this small town. He didn’t know what it was called.

All he knew was that it was destroyed in the last massive battle that took place here.

Imperial and Kingdom soldiers lay dead as he passed them by, not bothering to check if anyone’s breathing.

He stopped walking after a minute and reached for the Sword of the Creator.

Byleth activated the whip function of his sword before a voice spoke up.

(Man’s Voice) “I’m not here to attack you, if that’s what you’re thinking.”

Byleth slowly turned around and saw a man dressed in black, leaning against a wall.

It was nighttime and the area was almost pitch black, but Byleth could tell immediately what he was.

(Byleth) “Give me one reason I shouldn’t cut off your head right now, Agarthan.”

(???) “I can give you two, actually. One: Because I’m the first to actually talk to you instead of attacking, unlike the rest of the idiots who tried doing that. I doubt anyone who knew the reputation of the Ashen Demon would even come within a 100 mile radius of you.”

(Byleth) “And two?”

(???) “I can give you the power you seek to destroy the Church. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, after all.”

(Byleth) “...Just who are you?”

The man stepped forward and the light revealed that he was wearing a mask that covered his face.

(???) “You may call me...Lahabrea.”

PART 1: END

[Escape - Darling in the FranXX OST]

The forecasted rain wets us

What should I say to you, as you tremble? My soaked blazer is cold and heavy

I feel as helpless as a chick who's left its cage. I felt that my dreams were on the other side of the heavy clouds

I digested only the sweet pain that spread in my chest

I wonder if it'd be better if I'd never met you

Hey, I can't even see the stars

Hey, my tears won't fall either

To Be Continued in:

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Revelation, Coronavirus, and the Mark of the Beast: How Should Christians Read the Bible’s Most Fascinating Book? Part 1

Kevin DeYoung

Whenever there is a cataclysmic global crisis—be it war, rumors of war, or a novel coronavirus—we see a sharp uptick of interest in the book of Revelation. While paying attention to the Bible is always a good thing, Revelation is too often used (by Christians and non-Christians) in a way that does less to edify the body of Christ and more to stoke the fires of wild speculation and unfounded conspiracy theories.

It may be helpful, then, to understand what kind of book Revelation is and how to make sense of imagery like the mark of the beast. We’ll get to the mark of the beast in the third and final installment of this short series. But before we get there I want to take a couple posts to look at what Revelation is all about and how we should interpret this not-as-strange-as-it-seems book.

Big Picture

Probably no book of the Bible has been harder for Christians to understand and, as a result, produced more bizarre theology than the book of Revelation. Although it is called “revelation,” it has been anything but a revelation for many Christians. It is a closed book for many of us, not correcting, not teaching, not rebuking, not training in righteousness like all Scripture should.

I remember teaching through part of Revelation for a Sunday school class several years ago and telling my mom about it over the phone. She said something like, “Kevin, you’re not going act like you have everything figured out are you? John Calvin didn’t even write a commentary on Revelation. You don’t know more than John Calvin, do you?” It is true that Calvin did not write a commentary on Revelation (one of the few books he didn’t write on), and it’s true that I don’t have everything figured out. But most of Revelation can be understood and applied if we will take the time to study it.

In fact, the entire book of Revelation can be summed up in one word: nike. Nike is the Greek word for victory. It occurs one time in the New Testament—1 John 5:4 states, “This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.” Another form of the word (nikos) appears four other times, three times in 1 Corinthians 15 (e.g., “Death has been swallowed up in victory;” “He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ”). The verb form, nikao (meaning to conquer, to overcome, to triumph), occurs more frequently—28 times. Seventeen of those occurrences, more than in the rest of the New Testament combined, are in Revelation.

Revelation is the story of the Devil trying to conquer the church, but the church overcomes the Devil and the world because she belongs to the Lord who has won for us the victory (Rev. 5:5; 17:14). The book of Revelation gives instruction for the believer on how to conquer instead of being conquered, how to triumph instead of being trampled, and how to be an overcomer instead of a succumber. That’s why each of the seven letters to the seven churches concludes with “to the one who conquers . . .” If we cave and give in to persecution and give into worldliness and give into the Devil’s temptations, we will lose. But if we overcome through trial and suffering and seeming irrelevance, we will win (Rev. 21:6-7). That’s where history is heading, and that’s the big idea of Revelation.

(Possible) Map for the (Seeming) Madness

There is no one inspired way to understand the structure of Revelation. When studying this book in-depth several years ago, I found 11 different outlines, which suggests there probably isn’t one obvious structure we’re supposed to see.

One simple approach is to see Revelation as divided into two main sections. Chapters 1-11 introduce the story of God’s triumph, and chapters 12-22 explain the story in greater detail, this time unveiling in more depth the role of evil through the beast, the false prophet, and the whore of Babylon.

Another way of approaching the book is to divide it into four main sections, each marked off by the phrase “what must soon take place” or “what must take place after this.”

Rev. 1:1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the things that must soon take place.

Rev. 1:19 Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.

Rev. 4:1 “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

Rev. 22:6 “And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.”

The language in these four passages comes from Daniel 2 and indicates that Old Testament prophecy is already and not yet completed in Revelation.

There’s another way to outline the book into four main sections. This approach marks out the times John says he was caught up in the Spirit.

Rev. 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet.

Rev. 4:2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.

Rev. 17:3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness.

Rev. 21:10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.

By this reckoning, Revelation consists of four main visions that John saw while he was in the Spirit on four different occasions.

Yet one more way of approaching the book—and the approaches are not mutually exclusive—is to look for sets of sevens. Everyone recognizes that seven is a crucial number in Revelation, and that there are at least four sets of sevens: seven letters, seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls. This much everyone agrees on. But from here things get less clear. Since there are plainly at least four sets of sevens, many scholars have wondered if we are meant to see seven sets of sevens. I am convinced there are seven sets of sevens, but I certainly wouldn’t be dogmatic about it. My outline, which is similar to outlines I’ve seen from others, looks like this:

Prologue: 1:1-8 I. Seven letters: 1:9-3:22 II. Seven seals: 4:1-8:5 III. Seven trumpets: 8:6-11:19 IV. Seven visions: 12:1-15:4 V. Seven bowls: 15:5-16:21 VI. Seven judgments: 17:1-19:10 VII. Seven last things: 19:11-21:8 VIII. The beautiful bride: 21:9-22:21

You’ll notice there is an eighth section that is not a set of seven. An eighth section makes sense because eight is often the number of new creation in the Bible (Jesus rose on the eighth day/first day of a new week, eight people started the new humanity after the flood, sons were to be circumcised on the eighth day), and this eighth section is about the new heavens and new earth. But there is nothing inspired about the outline above. It’s just one way of making the book more manageable and putting together some possible patterns with some obvious ones.

Our Interpretive Lens

The last thing I want to do in this post is look at the various ways Christians have understood Revelation. There are four main schools of thought.

The first school of interpretation is called preterism. The preterist approach teaches that a large portion of the book of Revelation was fulfilled in the first century, specifically in the destruction of the temple in AD 70. Further, most of the prophecies in Revelation were fulfilled by the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century.

The strength of the preterist school is that it puts Revelation in its original context. Revelation was written to first-century Christians with first-century metaphors and imagery and referents. If we jump to the 21st century and ask, “What does this mean for me?,” we will almost surely get the wrong answer. We have to first ask, “What did this mean to them, to John’s original audience?”

Preterism is not without weaknesses. First, some preterists try to find a single, specific fulfillment to the prophecies of Revelation when it seems more likely that John’s visions often portray generalized spiritual battles and struggles that occur throughout the ages. Second, full-blown preterists argue that all of the end-time events, like the second coming and the last judgment, actually were fulfilled by AD 70. This does not seem in keeping with the cataclysmic language used at the end of each sequence.

The second school of interpretation is called historicism. The historicist reads Revelation as a straightforward, sequential roadmap of history. Revelation is seen as predicting any number of key historical figures and events from Napoleon to Hitler to the European Union to the United Nations.

The strength of historicism is that it makes Revelation relevant for all Christians. It focuses our attention not on the fall of the temple or on the Roman Empire but on the way of the church in the world.

But besides this strong point, historicism is the worst way to try to understand Revelation. It is full of weaknesses. Let me quickly mention just four.

First, historicism is often anachronistic and takes Revelation out of its original context. I am thinking of those who argued that the country out of the north (from Daniel, not Revelation) must be Russia, or that the locust swarm from Revelation 9 is foretelling a helicopter battalion. These sorts of interpretations completely ignore the imagery of ancient prophecy and the context of the first century.

Second, historicism, with its end-of-the-world predictions and identifications of the beast, has often been demonstrably wrong. During the cold war, people saw Russia in Revelation. A decade ago they saw Iraq. Now they see the coronavirus. In a few years, they will be on to something else. Historicists tend to see Revelation being fulfilled in whatever crisis is pertinent for the day. And then on another day, another group of historicists see that view was wrong and find something completely different.

Third, historicism limits the prophecies of Revelation to one exclusive location or personality instead of allowing that the imagery of Revelation may be well suited to an inclusive number of different figures and times. That is, I think historicists are right to see Revelation unfolding in history, but they are wrong to think that Revelation is uniquely unfolding in one historical moment.

Fourth, historicism is irreducibly subjective. There is simply no objective standard of interpretation. Who’s to say that Hitler was more the beast than Stalin? Or that 666 is a reference to Bill Clinton (as one website I found argues)? Or, as another article maintains, that Ronald Wilson Reagan (six letters in each of his names!) was the beast? It’s all hopelessly subjective. The text ends up saying anything we want it to.

The third school of interpretation is futurism. The futurist reads Revelation (chs. 4-22) as a prophecy solely concerned with the distant future. The events depicted refer to the time involving, or immediately preceding, the end of history. Dispensationalists are futurists (though not all futurists are dispensationalists).

The strength of futurism is that it emphasizes how Revelation speaks to the future, not just about the past. Futurism is right to see that some things in Revelation deal with the final consummation of human history. Futurists are also right to see that the future is moving somewhere, toward the triumph of the Lamb.

But futurism also has weaknesses.

First, if Revelation 4-22 is entirely and only about the distant future, then most of Revelation was barely relevant to its original readers. Sure, it would have helped them see the end of the world, but it really spoke little into their immediate context (when John says Revelation revealed “what must soon take place”).

Second, futurism often assumes a strict sequential chronology. And yet, we cannot assume that what is shown to us in chapter 12 comes in time after what we see in chapter 6. To the contrary, one of the keys to interpreting Revelation is to understand that its visions are recapitulated. So, Revelation gives us a sweep through history in the seven seals, and then does the sweep again in the seven bowls. Revelation comprises overlapping prophecies that go back and forth between the present and the future and are not strictly chronological.

Don’t think of the visions of Revelation as frames from a movie reel running through the light one after the other. Think of the visions as portraits in a gallery. You look at one portrait and get a glimpse of reality, and then you look at the next portrait, and then you walk over to the next room and look at the portraits over there. They are pictures telling the same story and pointing to the same reality, but they aren’t sequential clips from a movie.

The fourth school of interpretation is idealism. The idealist reads Revelation as a symbolic conflict between the forces of good and evil. Revelation, idealists argue, does not point to particular historical figures but depicts the timeless struggle between God and Satan. It interprets Revelation as a series of repeated symbolic pictures, focusing on the church’s triumphant struggle from the first century until the last judgment and the eternal state.

The strength of idealism is that is understands the symbolic nature of Revelation. It realizes that Revelation’s imagery is rooted first in Old Testament language and second in the known world of the first century. The other strength is that it sees behind the first-century context deeper spiritual realities that would outlive and transcend ancient Rome and remain relevant for believers throughout the ages.

The weakness of idealism is that it can at times under-emphasize the fact that all of history is moving somewhere. That is, idealism sometimes sounds vague, as if there were no end point in history as we know it, as if Revelation was just about the struggle between good and evil and not also about the ultimate triumph of Jesus Christ.

Interpret the Book

So what approach do I think helps us best understand Revelation? I think each approach offers something needed. This doesn’t mean that I think every approach is good or that one is not better than another (I’m basically an idealist with a partial preterist bent). But each school of interpretation does offer something important.

With the preterist, we must read Revelation in its immediate context.

With the idealist, we must look at Revelation as a symbolic portrayal of God’s work, most of which can be applied to any historical time.

With the futurist, we must read Revelation with end of history in mind, recognizing that the book depicts, in parts, the second coming, the final judgment, and the eternal state.

And with the historicist, we must understand that the prophecies of Revelation, though they are not limited to one particular occurrence, are fulfilled in time and space.

The best way to defend one’s interpretive grid is to actually interpret the book. But since this is a three-part blog series and not a 50-part sermon series, we will have to settle for just one more post on the subject. In the first three verses, John makes clear that this book is an apocalypse, a prophecy, and a letter. Once we know what each of the terms entail, we will be better equipped to understand the book as a whole and specific imagery like the mark of the beast.

Note: This post was first published through The Gospel Coalition website.

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YOU GUYS I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS

_ One great advantage of not needing money is that you are looking for Larry and Sergey. I thought studying philosophy would be a shambles. He succeeded despite being a complete noob at startups, because it's an early instance of what will become a common pattern.1 That's a big advantage.2 The latter is much more damping. The idea sounds horrible, doesn't it? In the average car restoration you probably do make it.3 The whole thing was only a couple thousand left. You could call it Work Day.

You'll pay more for Internet services than you do.4 How do you find the right sort of person you are, you should probably pack investor meetings too closely, you'll have to earn your keep.5 9 years it was my job to predict whether a startup would usually become profitable only after raising and spending quite a lot of things e. There is not an ordinary economic relationship than companies being sued for violating the DMCA, part of the job; but it is not clear whether you can actually get work done. Wealth is defined democratically.6 As jobs become more specialized—more articulated—as they develop, and startups should simply ignore other companies' patents. Design by committee is a synonym for very. But I suspect it's the startup world. I'm still not sure whether he thought AI required math, or whether contractors count too.7 This is usually done to make the region a center of scholarship and industry which have been closely tied for longer than most people think. And indeed, that might be at different companies. The early adopters you need to use a more succinct language, and adults use them all the time, and both the headers and from the circumstances of your upbringing respectively.

And more to the point where they're issued, we may in some cases it's possible to be part of a powerful new idea: allowing those who made a lot of people fast.8 If all companies were essentially similar, but some of the other programmers what language to use, and some ability to ferret out the unexpected. Till now, nearly all humans find human faces engaging. But if you talk too loosely about very abstract ideas—they continued to spam me or a network I was part of, Hostex itself would be recognized as a spam term. Bill Yerazunis. Which means if the qualities that made it hard to come up with startup ideas on demand. And since no one is doing them yet. Though most founders start out excited about the Internet is the primary medium. They're just a couple guys started on the side of making the software run on the client. Impossible? Measurement alone is not enough. In another year you'll be making $80k a month instead of $160k.9

But I don't see why it ought to be writing about them. Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can show you only things that are missing. Overlooked problems are by definition problems that most people who are bad at deciding what to do once you've thought of it. I'd like to reply with another question: why were the exit polls cooked the books after seeing the actual returns. And once you start raising money, for example, does not seem to be many universities elsewhere that compare with the best people that Google and Apple are doing so much better than me.10 It's intended for college students and you decide to move to your silicon valley like to get money. All I took with me was one large backpack of stuff. At Viaweb our whole site was organized like a funnel, directing people to the test drive.11 The ones who keep going are driven by exit strategies. You start being an adult when you decide to focus on working with other students. But there's a magic in small things that goes beyond such rational explanations. So the fact that so many people refer deals to him is that his company was not the conclusion Aristotle's successors derived from works like the Metaphysics, but that there can even be such a test?

At MIT in the mid 90s a fellow grad student of my friends are starting to feel like a little bit in the commitment department, and that was called playing. Systematic is the last word after all.12 Companies like Cisco are proud that everyone there has a cubicle, even the smartest students leave school thinking they have to say yes.13 The unsexy filter is to ask, could one open-source browser. Are Clueless A lot of startups don't want to sell, they take you up, no competitor can keep you down.14 Some switched from driving Ford sedans to driving small imported cars, and they're clearly it. In Lisp, functions are first class objects.15 Whereas now the phrase already read seems almost ill-formed. US News list is meaningful is precisely because they attract so much attention. The main reason there are so many iPhone apps is that so many still make you register to read stories.

Kids know, without precedent: Apple is popular at the low end. The professors will establish scholarly journals and publish one another's papers. A fair number of smart people too, but again, diluted; there are lots of potential winners, from which a few actual winners emerge with hyperlinear certainty. I go to bed leaving code with a bug in code you just wrote. How much is that extra attention worth?16 He was one of few they had that we didn't even know they were recording. And if things go well, this shouldn't matter. We just took it for granted. The random college kid you talk to, but instead of pursuing this thought they tended to be at least some super-angels don't like. If you work on changes you. After we were bought by Yahoo, the customer support people and hackers.

Notes

For example, if your school, and partly because you can eliminate, do it is.

It would be to say that Watt reinvented the steam engine.

If you believe in free markets, they made more margin loans. 166. Analects VII: 36, Fung trans.

In a startup: one kind that evolves into Facebook is a very misleading number, because the remedy was to become one of the biggest company of all, economic inequality. That's the lower bound.

After reading a draft, Sam Altman points out that there is some weakness in your country controlled by the fact that the probabilities of features i. When one reads about the nature of server-based applications greatly to be delivering results.

5 mentions prices ranging from designers to programmers to electrical engineers. For most of them consistently make money, the term copyright colony was first used by Myles Peterson. Financing a startup is a matter of outliers, and are paid a flat rate regardless of the court.

Parker, William R. There may even be tempted, but it doesn't seem to someone in 1880 that schoolchildren in 1980 would be on the Internet worm of 1988 infected 6000 computers.

8 says that 15-20% of the edge? Not startup ideas, because unions will exert political pressure to protect widows and orphans from crooked investment schemes; people with a face-saving compromise. They'll be more like determination is proportionate to wd m-k w-d n, where there is one of a powerful syndicate, you create wealth in a signal.

It didn't work out a chapter at a 3 year old, a player who persists in trying such things can be compared, per capita income in England in 1750 was higher than India's in 1960. But that is not to. Delivered as if having good intentions were enough to answer the question is only half a religious one; there is one you take out your anti-dilution provisions, even though it's a harder problem than Hall realizes. But that oversimplifies his role.

And perhaps even worse in the Ancient World, Economic History Review, 2:9 1956,185-199, reprinted in Finley, M. This is almost always bullshit.

It was common in, but nothing else: no friends, TV, go ahead.

The meaning of a place to exchange views. The reason you don't, but in fact the less educated parents seem closer to a new version of Word 13.

I know for sure which these will be better for explaining software than English. Most unusual ambitions fail, no one is going to work in research too. P supermarket chain because it was because he was exaggerating. I've twice come close to 18% of GDP were about the other hand, he wrote a program to generate series A rounds from top VC funds whether it was overvalued till you run through all the combinations of Web plus a three hour meeting with a face-saving compromise.

You can safely write off all the East Coast. The need has to give each customer the impression that the only way to tell how serious potential investors and they were saying scaramara instead of bookmarking. Information is too general. If a company with rapid, genuine growth is valuable, and all those 20 people at once, and all the money.

Garry Tan pointed out that successful startups have elements of both consist mostly of unedifying schleps, and stir.

But the money.

[darkspellmaster]

Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi -Rewrite if it was in the old legacy EU

With the recent reactions to the whole of Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, I began to notice that there are many similarities to certain characters. For Example, Ben Solo has an almost beat for beat personality to Kyp Durron save some differences, and Rey is a decent duplication of Jania Solo down to the whole ability to hardwired and fix mechanics, along with her droid. I started to wonder what would happen if you put the whole of the movies into the Old EU of Star Wars, and figured, why not share it.

Do note that rather than dealing with the Vong and the Dark Nest and all that followed these Movies take place of that.

This one will have large changes due to the nature of the story and honestly trying to keep consistent with what Episode VII showed regarding characters and the comics have shown as well. Opening sequence, it’s been a few weeks since the First Order was defeated. Rather than sit around and wait, the Resistance forces have been evacuating to other areas of space and trying to keep things from getting too bad. Word has gotten out that a large dreadnaught was coming after them, and Poe pulled together a group of willing volunteers in the remaining fleet to attack it, disobeying Leia’s orders to not engage with the fleet. The idea actually stemmed from Kyp who came up with it and the act is a means of keeping the large class ship at bay. Paige Tico is killed in the ensuing battle, but most of the Resistance makes it away.

Leia gives a stern warning to Poe and demotes him for not going over plans and disobeying her orders. While Saba puts Kyp on leave ordering him to go with Jania and Jessia Pava to locate other resistance cells and find out what’s happening. The First Order has effectively gone around using their ‘friends” to kill some of the communication in the galaxy and no one is sure what’s going on. Meanwhile we learn that Hux was planning on having the dreadnaught wrecked to cover for a device to be planted on the escaping last ship. The tracking device is designed to get a reading in hyperspace that allows the First Order to keep tabs of where the main fleet ship is headed.

During this time Finn wakes up confused. Anakin get’s Poe who calms his friend down with Leia, and the two get Finn back to normal. Finn asks Leia about where Rey is, and she explains that she has her on a mission and that she has a tracker that allows Rey to know where they are. While things are going on Finn talks to Anakin who says his brother is still out there and that he’s going to make him pay for harming his father, they’re speaking through hologram as Anakin was sent by his mother to Corusant to keep an eye on his father and monitor him. Finn asks Anakin about the whole “force hug” thing with Rey and Anakin tries to explain what’s going on that that in some cases there can be a bond that can be formed between two powerful force users, either by choice or by accident. Finn mentions that Kylo managed to track Rey and him down, and Anakin says there could have been a chance that Kylo managed to create a link between her and himself.

Their discussion is cut short when the small group of ships are attacked. The ships scramble but the dock with the wings is blown up on the main ship. The Resistance manages to get other ships to scramble but the attack is over whelming, and then there’s an explosion on the bridge, set off by a tie fighter. Ben and Leia have a moment of knowing where each other is, and then the whole thing goes to hell. Leia is saved by Saba who uses her force to pull her student back to her, and a few other members of the higher ranking Resistance leaders are brought back in, but the cold of space has killed too many of them.

Cal Omars, General Ackbar’s friend and Rear Admiral, mourned his friend General Ackbar and insisted that they find out exactly what happened to allow them to be followed by the First Order. During this time Leia dropped her tracker, and it was found by Finn. Realizing that Rey could be in danger, and that if the FO were to stage another attack he figured that he would leave for Courasant and meet with Anakin there where they could find a way to get Rey back to them and protect her.

The tech heads discover, with Connix, that there’s a tracker that’s allowing them to be followed but they can’t disable it. Finn over hears this, and decides it’s time to go. However his plans are cut short when Rose discovers him trying to leave. She has been ordered to not allow any pods to leave due to the investigation and the possibility that the FO could capture the occupant. Finn tries to leave but finds that the pod has been set to paralyze anyone for a short amount of time if they try to enter the pods.

Meanwhile Cal and Darcy say that Holdo is now head of the group, here we meet Haydnat Treen, one of the remaining officers who puts thoughts into Poe’s head that Holdo may not be all that she claims to be. Poe goes to see her to find out what Holdo plans to do, and she refuses to tell him, explaining that it’s on a need to know basis and when she’s ready to tell him she will. This doesn’t make Poe feel any more sure about her and Treen indicates that she could be working for the First Order.

Finn in the meantime is finds himself interrogated by Mara who thinks he may have subconsciously put the tracker on the ship before he left originally with Han. He explains that he didn’t and that there could be a way to disable it as they would have to have the second tracker on a ship to allow them to follow. Rose surmises it has to be on the main ship, and Mara says she’ll get her network to look into it. In the meantime, he and Rose are to go check in with Holdo, and instead the duo go to see Poe who is with Leia in her room where she’s being monitored.

Finn and Rose describe their plan to Poe and they contact Maz who explains about the Code breaker. In the meantime, Mara goes to Saba and Holdo, whom she’d previously met and tells her she needs to start trusting the other members of the crew with her plans or else it could end badly. Holdo tells her that they’re suspecting a spy or saboteur among the ranks. Mara offers the idea of having a team go onto the ship and disable the device from within, but it’s voted down. Fearing for her son’s life, she decides to go against the word of Saba, heads off to find the group discussing plans on how to get on the ship and the Master Codebreaker, and tells them she wants in. Finn gives Poe the tracker from Leia and he and Connix set up a plan to get them off ship.

On Atch-too, Luke takes the saber but rejects the offer, telling Rey that she should go back to Leia. There is no way for him to help at this time and walks away from her. Rey follows trying to explain the situation, as Luke points out that the First Order just blew up the New Republic and that Han is in grave condition. Luke explains that he knows, because he felt both, and knows that he’s not sure how to fight Snoke. Rey seems disenchanted with Luke.

Rey decides to hang around and try to talk to him, but Luke goes about his business. During this time she finds his old X-wing submerged in water. He tells her he won’t leave until he finds an answer. Rey becomes frustrated and starts practicing with her saber, while Luke watches her. In the middle of this she meets a young man who informs her that forcing Luke to leave just yet is not the way to do it. The young man introduces himself as Jacen Solo, Jania’s twin brother. He was the one that Han was looking for.

The two eat lunch together and Jacen explains his view of Jedi Philosophy, and asks her about herself and her past. When she explains she doesn’t remember anything other than Jakku, he wonders if there is more to it that is being blocked. Jacen thinks there’s a way to unblock memories that she’s had but he doesn’t quite have the skills for that, yet. He also asks about his father and she explains her feelings for Han as a father figure to him. Jacen points out the tree to Rey on their walk and she goes to investigate. Here she finds the books and Luke finds her. He questions her reason for being there, and not Leia. Rey tells him that she was sent and that she’s not sure exactly what Leia wants her to do and she leaves him alone.

Jacen and Luke have a moment while Luke is meditating on things, and they talk. Jacen argues that his mother had to have sent Rey for a reason, and he sensed that she isn’t like other force users. There’s something raw in her and untapped and that she may be the key to understanding Snoke and maybe helping Ben. Luke points out that he tried to help Ben but it failed, just as Obi Wan couldn’t help his father. Jacen then points out that Luke wasn’t a failure to Obi wan and saved Vader. Maybe Rey could be the balance that Luke is seeking out.

Luke goes to Rey and says he’ll give her three lessons, but only three. If she can prove to him that she’s ready to train after those three, then he’ll consider coming back. If she fails then she goes back without him. This is really a test on her in a way, a lot like Yoda tested him. Rey agrees to this.

During their first training Rey winds up reaching out to the dark side, much to Luke’s shock. She also gains a meeting of the minds with Kylo Ren who is surprised to see he can talk to her. Previously the only one he could contact was Anakin, who had been invading his mind, but he’d since blocked him. Rey and Kylo talk, but it’s clear that she doesn’t trust him and hates him for what he’s done to Han and Finn and her friends. The link is cut off when Luke touches her during their training and he feels that pull of the dark side in her, trying to tempt her. He’s worried that she has too much anger in her and it’s clouding her judgement as it did his once.

While alone during a rainstorm, after contacting Jaina Solo, and informing her she found Luke but that he won’t come back and that Jacen is there with him, Kylo contacts Rey and the two talk again. Kylo mocks her for wanting Han and Luke to be her father, and Rey points out that she doesn’t need his attitude as she’s training and will become strong enough to stop the First Order. As she’s talking Jacen over hears her talking aloud and breaks the link when he calls out to her.

Jacen is starting to suspect something with Kylo and is worried about her, and offers to train her in a working with the saber that she brought and tells her to ask Luke about the history of it. Luke mentions that she, like his father, himself, and his sister, have a strong force sensitivity, but he refuses to tell her the whole story of the saber. Jacen watches this and worries that the more Luke pushes Rey away, the closer she’ll fall to the darkness and starts to meditate on ways to actually help her break off the temptation and use her anger in a more positive way.

Meanwhile Kylo senses Anakin again trying to invade his mind and there’s a brief moment where Anakin talks to Kylo, calling him Ben and trying to pull him back to the light. When Kylo tries to force him out Anakin says he hates him, and, to Kylo’s surprise he’s actually hurt by this, but tries to cover it.

Back with Finn, Rose and Mara, with BB8, as per request of Poe, head for Canto Bright. While Rose explains parts of the place, Mara goes into stronger details about it’s past and a job she had there in regard to the Empire. Finn asks her if she ever feels regret in leaving behind the Empire, and she says no, but she feels for those that she killed for them, and those with force powers that could have been jedi to help keep the peace.

She mentions she knows someone who is now helping run the business end of things there and feels they may need to seek out his help. When they land, Rose docks the ship in a location that Mara feels may be a bad spot, but the two younger members feel that it’s an in and out job. The trio, with BB8 head in to town, keeping a low profile. When they get to the Casino Mara splits from the group as she thinks they would be way too obvious. She goes to seek out “Lovely” a former informant of hers who is now working with the Master Codebreaker.

Finn and Rose in the meanwhile observe the Casino. Finn is surprised by the opulence of the place, noting that where he’s from the world is static and very militaristic. Rose points out that a lot of the glitter is built upon the exploitation of others in the city, and points out the fact that there are various people all around that are clearly slaves or exploited workers who are being used by the rich people in the city. Finn likens it to how Phasma and the upper rank of the FO abused the people of the planets they took over for various work, so that they could build more for their army. He wants to find a way to help the remaining troopers that are still under Hux and Rose seems impressed with that.

While they are talking, they see the Master Codebreaker and are about to go talk to him, when the police, due to the parking violation, attack them. Mara uses the distraction to get to “Lovey” and orders her to take her to the man that she’s working with to replace the Master Codebreaker for. The two end up at an office and inside is Lando Calrissian. He’s surprised to see her, but Mara cuts short the chit chat and explains why she’s here and that Han is in bad shape due to Kylo Ren.

On the ship with Poe, he and Holdo keep having bad run ins, and due to Treen, he’s starting to think she’s on the side of the First Order. Kyp reports in that they are finding cells and the other members of the resistance but there is a rumor going around about the possibility that the Resistance has a traitor in it’s midst. Poe starts working on a mutiny with Connix and others because he intends to smoke out the traitor and catch them in the act.

Mara contacts him and tells him that they have someone that could help but they need to get Finn and Rose out of trouble. The spy hears this and plans on reporting this to Holdo to cause more trouble and fracturing in the ranks of the Resistance.

Over on Atch-too, Rey has her second lesson about learning not to trust everything that she hears and not to believe everything that she sees. Again she gets frustrated with Luke who is trying to get her to break from her anger, but it’s not working. Jacen begins to worry that something may be influencing her and decides to keep an eye on her. While alone for a moment Kylo slips inside Rey’s mind again and they talk about what she’s learned from Luke and Rey calls him out for the near death of Han and the attack on Finn again. Kylo in turn mocks her about her not knowing her parents and then turns around and mentions that she could seek out answers if she allows herself to fall into darkness for a bit. Rey, recalls the cave that Luke mentioned, and Kylo figures out that it’s a Sith cave, and tells her that she can find answers there if she chooses.

That night, while she thinks the other two are sleeping, Rey goes out to where the cave is and goes inside, where she deals with a strange vision and a wall that is like a mirror, asking to see her parents, only for the images to blur and distort till she can only see herself reflected. Unknown to Rey, Jace had been sensing things, namely his brother Ben, and goes to try to find him, only to see Rey go into the cavern and is unable to stop her.

In the mean time Luke, who had been meditating on Rey where they first met, get’s some words of advice from Obi-wan who reminds him to have patience with Rey. During this time he opens himself up to the force, allowing it to come to him and finds Leia is unconscious and wakes her up as their minds meet.  Jacen finds his Uncle and tells him he saw Rey go into the cavern and the two discuss what to do about it. Jacen also explains that he suspects that Ben may be influencing her, and he think that there may be a bond there that got made at some point, but he’s not sure how. Luke and Jacen decide to go see if they can find Rey.

Back with Rose and Finn, the two have been put in a cell with BB8 and a man named DJ, a slicer who offers to help them escape and disable the tracker. Rose is suspicious of the man but Finn feels that this could be the break they need and that he could work better than the codebreaker. Finn, Rose, DJ and BB8 start to break out of the cells and are on their road to escape when members of the Black Sun show up to block them. DJ it seems has gotten on their radar, namely their leaders, who wants him. None of them are ready for the fight, only to watch in surprise as both men are disarmed and fall to the floor unconscious. To their surprise it’s Lando and Mara to the rescue.

Mara explains that the Codebreaker helped them get into the Jail, and we see “Lovely” holding the man with a Gun to the back. Turns out “Lovely” was part of the Empire back in the day and owes Mara, and works for Lando now. The group split up when the guards come, Lando, Lovely, Mara, BB8, and DJ heading one way while Finn and Rose head another.

The Trio make it to the stables where they meet a group of kids and Rose convinces them to help release the space horses. Rose gives one of them, a boy named Temiri, a resistance ring (formerly rebellion ring) to use for the kids to get out of there and get help from those in the resistance as they would recognize it. At the same time DJ ditches Mara,  Lando, and Lovely –who still has the Codebreaker at hand, (but BB8 follows him not trusting him) and Lando offers them his ship as a way of getting off, only to discover it’s stolen.

Lovely uses the Codebreaker as a distraction for the police to allow Lando and Mara to escape on a speeder and the duo run into Finn and Rose who are crashing about the town with the space horses. The five make it outside of town, and Mara informs them that their “Ally” has escaped. Fortunately Lovely gave her information on how to hack and disable the tracker. Lando suggests another ship, but they get stuck on the edge of a cliff with no way out.

Mara and Lando offers to stay behind and help the others escape. They are ready for a fight, when Lando’s Ship the Libertine appears out of nowhere, run by DJ and BB8 who took it not knowing it was Lando’s. Lovely soon joins Lando and the others, and informs them the police are on their way. Lando and Lovely stay behind, saying they will meet them soon enough where space is Unknown. Finn and Rose have no clue what he’s talking about but Mara thanks him and promises that they will meet again.

The group of four humans and one droid take off, just as the police come and Lando comes up with a plausible story about being kidnapped by some crazy red head whom he dated and owed money to.

Meanwhile back in the Resistance Poe and Connix are dealing with Holdo who is beginning to suspect something is up with them. Treen in the meanwhile catches a message from Finn to Poe about them having what they need and she warns Hux about what’s going on. Darcy sees her sending a message and alerts Holdo about it. Treen though goes to tell Poe about the message and urges him and Conniex to hurry up with their plans, as she suspects Holdo is up to something, and is getting them picked off one by one. Kyle and Sabra are keeping an eye on things and find out from Kyp that Maz’s place got attacked by some Black Sun Members and that one of their own was at Canto Bright. Jaina also informs them that they caught one of the spy’s associates and tells them who it is.

Over on Ach-too, Rey is now back in her hut and dealing with the fall out of what she saw. She and Kylo talk about the situation and Ben tells Rey about why he left his Uncle. In the vision Rey sees Ben Solo sleeping in his bed and a cloaked figure come over to him, eyes full of anger and hate. The figure draws his saber, and is ready to cut down Ben when he defends himself and flees in fear of his life. However the vision is cut short when Luke discovers them and sees Ben there in his mind.

He takes down the Hut to dispel the illusion but it only winds up hurting his cause with Rey. Rey is angry at her treatment by him, and his actions, and attacks him, which Luke easily fends off. She wants to know the truth of the matter, Luke yields to her after he disarms her and she pulls his old lightsaber on him. Rey demands the truth, and Luke tells her his side of the story.

As he tells it, he went to see Ben to talk but saw a horrible vision, that he won’t tell her about, and, for a moment thought of ending him, but then realized what he was doing and stopped. Only for Ben to wake up, see the saber lit and he attacked Luke, then destroyed the Jedi Temple. Rey doesn’t know what to believe, so she offers him his saber again, asking that he come with her to stop the First Order. Again Luke refuses so Rey is resigned to bring Ben back to their side and heads to depart from Ach-too.

Back with Rose, Finn and Mara, Mara senses Leia waking up and her husband and fears something is going wrong. Rose and Finn are talking with DJ about things, and DJ says he will help for Rose’s pendent. Finn tells her not to give it over, but she does as there’s something greater to deal with. Mara also mentions that material things can be given, but memories stay and Rose has Paige with her through the Force. She also questions DJ and his reasons for helping, bringing out that he “used” to work for the Black Sun. DJ mentions that the Black Sun has a prince on her head, and that he could get a pretty penny for it should he turn her over. Mara warns him that while she is a Jedi, it doesn’t mean that she can’t, and won’t, protect her crew and if that means ejecting him into space, well she will do it if she has to.

The Quartet head for the Supremacy with the intent of dealing with the tracker.

Around the same time Leia has gotten up and Poe and Conniex start their mutiny. Treen and the others turn on Holdo and have her and Darcy held captive as they go to commandeer the ship. While they are here Treen starts to upload a virus into the systems that would wreck it and make them sitting ducks, this unknown to Poe or Conniex. Holdo get’s out of her situation with the Jedi’s help and Kyle explains that Holdo was never a traitor and that the real one is Treen. Holdo and the others hurry to the bridge.

Meanwhile Leia and Sabra make it there before the others, and Sabra disarms Treen when she tries to fire on Leia. Poe is glad to see Leia awake but confused what’s going on, and in order to protect him, Sabra and Leia knock him out. Holdo and Kyle make it to the bridge but the virus is inside and is causing issues with the ship, they are able to slow it down but not stop it and the First Order is on their way. They decide to evacuate the ship, and send word to Kyp, Jania and Anakin to meet them on Crait.

On Ahch-too, Rey gets ready to depart when Jacen catches up with her after finding Luke and discovering what he told her. Jacen stops her and begs her to reconsider her plan, but she points out what Luke did and that he’s not the man she thought he was. Jacen tells her, that no he’s better than she knows, and that he was saying that to keep Ben from knowing the truth. Rey asks him what he means and Jacen explains what happened that night.

It was true that Luke had visited Ben. Ben had been Kyp’s student and Kyp had warned Luke about some things going on that he felt about Ben. Luke had gone down to see Ben and had found him sleeping, and seen visions in Ben’s mind. He had his saber, but it was never on at the time. Jacen, who couldn’t sleep, had gotten up, and saw his Uncle come from Ben’s hut and followed him back to the temple. He over heard Kyp and his Uncle Luke talking about Ben, and thinking that Ben may go to the dark side and become like their grandfather, Jacen foolishly took his Uncle’s robes and saber and went to see Ben, with his plans on talking to him and if not talking then fighting him to stop him from becoming another Vader. Luke, he surmised, discovered the missing items and when down to stop it, but it was too late, and Jacen had already threatened Ben at this point, causing Ben to lash out and destroy the temple and become Kylo Ren.

Rey is surprised by this, but then says that Kylo needs to know the truth of the matter, that his choice was built on a falsehood. Jacen offers to join her as back up, but he doesn’t think that this will go well. Jacen gets his own ship as Rey takes off on the Falcon. Luke discovers this and winds up meeting with Yoda who gives him words of wisdom. Failure is a harsh but important lesson and that you can fix your mistakes, but you must learn from them first in order to understand why you failed and that even in failure great knowledge can come. Luke decides to go after Rey and Jacen, and pulls his X-wing out of the water, and uses the force to basically get it ready to fly with R2 back behind him.

Mara, Finn, Rose and DJ, with BB8 make it on the Supremacy and Finn steals uniforms for them. They act as if they’ve captured Mara, since she would be too obvious given how well known she is by now being the Former Emperor’s hand and all that, and it gives them an excuse in case they get stopped. Here they make their way for the tracker and DJ does the hacking as promised. However, not everything seems to go to plan, as they are spotted by one of the other droids and reported. This leads to them being captured by Phasma, who gloats as not only do they have Finn, but a Jedi as well. Mara realizes that DJ sold them out, and she manages to slip BB-8 her saber so they can’t take it.

While this is going on Rey and Jacen arrive by the Supremacy, with Rey using an escape pod to land on the ship. Jacen followed her, using the camouflaging aspect built into his ship by his sister, to follow her into the ship. Being cautious Jacen waited for Rey and Ben, hoping that she’s right about bringing him back. Rey in the meanwhile is handcuffed by Kylo Ren and taken to see Snoke, but on their way she senses Finn and Mara, and Mara senses her on the ship, though she says nothing to the others, not knowing that Finn sort of feels Rey there too.

Rey and Kylo talk on a ride up to Snoke’s throne room, with Rey trying to convince Kylo to join the light again. While this is going on, Luke managed to catch up to the Falcon and dock with it, but has to watch and wait with Chewie as neither can get near the ship due to Snoke, as Luke can feel him starting to sense things around him. Rey tells Kylo he has it wrong with Luke but Kylo won’t hear it, and leads her to Snoke. Here Snoke welcomes her and sets her free, only to use the Force to pull away the light saber. Jacen realizes that Rey is in danger but stops when he sees his Aunt Mara, Finn and Rose being held captive.

At the same time the crew of the Resistance is evacuating the ship. Kyle learns from Holdo and Leia that they suspected that there was a spy for a while and that Leia thinks that Treen is the reason how the First Order was able to know about various plans that they had had in the past. Leia also informs Conniex and Kyle that she had already approved of Holdo’s plans, and both women realize that the virus has made the autopilot plan impossible. Sabra offers to stay with Holdo, but she points out that as the Jedi leader they will need her. The three women embrace, as they bid a sad fairwell to one another. Treen is locked up, and Kyle promises that they will figure out what to do with her once they get to Crait.

Meanwhile back on the Supremacy, Hux tells his captives about Treen and that she’s  implanted a virus that will make it hard for them to escape. Mara calls him a coward, and Hux points out that she’s a traitor to the empire, to which she replies that there is no Empire, it died when Luke killed Palpatine, and she was freed from his grip. Rose asks how they got found out, and Phasma points to DJ, who then admits that he’s a Black Sun agent who’s working for the Black Sun to help out Hux for money. Honestly he doesn’t care who wins because in the end the Black Sun’s will still be there to make deals. He leaves, with Finn calling him out.

Phasma says there going to execute then by taking off their heads, namely because the jedi would stop the bolts. They’ll kill Finn and Rose first and let Mara feel all the death from the Resistance as they start a bombardment of the ships that are fleeing the Resistance craft, thanks to DJ and Treen’s info. The action causes Mara to nearly go unconscious with the pain of the many losses. In the mean time BB -8 has managed to get to Jacen who helps him get into a Scout AT –ST and the two plan on saving the group.

Rey in the meantime is dealing with Snoke and basically what you see happen in the main movie is what goes on here. During the attack from Snoke, there’s a moment when she links up with Poe, who get’s woken up by feeling her pain and sees the destruction of the many ships and is in shock by it. However Holdo stops all that when she rams the Supremacy at light speed causing everything to go haywire. Snoke get’s killed, Kylo says that Rey has no family, the two fight over the saber after a truce, and Rey escapes the room after waking up.

Jacen in the meanwhile after the blast uses it as a means of de cloaking and shooting up various ships while BB-8 attacks the Stormtroopers. Luke connects to Mara and gets her to break from her feeling the pain of others to use the force to get her saber back from BB-8 and fight off the Stormtroopers, helping Rose fight off the officers coming after them. Finn defeats Phasma, knocking her down into a pit. Mara gets them to Snoke’s shuttle where they blast off, leaving the Supremacy to fall apart.

Kylo wakes up and sees Hux there, something has changed in him, but he’s not sure what, yet that vanishes soon after. Kylo says he’s in charge now, and Hux agrees, but seems reluctant as if he finds it almost funny.

Rey is found by Jacen who helps her to his ship and the two take off in the damaged craft to the Falcon. Chewie helps them dock for a moment, as Jacen carries in a unconscious Rey. They destroy Jacen’s ship and leave it behind. The two groups head for Crait, with Luke feeling Leia waiting for them.

Kyp and Jaina with Anakin arrive first to greet the survivors and reunite with their Mother. Han, is still in a coma, but alive. Anakin explains that he tried to connect to Ben but failed, and Kyp and Jaina inform her that there are others waiting in the Unknown region ready to help, but communications are down and the cells are going to have a hell of a time reaching them, even as they send out an SOS. Jania and Anakin both tell Leia that they felt something change in the force and that Luke is coming back.

Kyp meanwhile sees Poe and Kyle and his other friends and is glad they are alive. He also thinks they should get rid of Treen, but Sabra says that she could be useful as an informant. Finn, Mara, and Rose, with BB-8 make it back first and Mara is reunited with her son, Leia and the other Skywalkers, and Jedi. Poe and Finn embrace with Rose being hugged by the remains of the engineering core. When they landed the Resistance planed on attacking them but Finn coming out caused them to hold their fire.

Finn, Poe and Kyle come up with a plan for defenses, as the First Order comes to attack the base with heavy weapons. The Jedi form a wall around the base, casting back bolts and other things to keep the AT-ATs and Sixes off balance while the Resistance Pilots take them on with speeders. During the battle tie fighters are sent out to take out the Speeders as the Battering Ram sets up to destroy the door. Kyle realizes that there is no way for them to stop that from happening and orders all Jedi back to protect the resistance members inside should the battering Ram work.

Rey, Chewie, and Jacen come in with the save using the Falcon, with Luke helping on one of the guns to assist.  They pull away the Tie fighters but that still leaves the other weapons. Poe realizing that they were too late to stop the Battering Ram calls off the attack, but Finn tries to stop it any way, leading rose to nearly get killed stopping him. She goes unconscious saying that she couldn’t help her sister, but she wanted to help him.

Finn brings Rose inside as the FO pulls back for a bit after they blow open the bunker door. Things look bad as the resistance tries to see what the First Order is planning on doing. Inside the Falcon, Luke sense Kylo as does Jacen. Luke is going to try a force projection that he learned from a Fallanassi, but Jacen won’t let his Uncle do it alone, knowing that it could kill him and that’s the last thing he wants. He needs to confront his brother and atone for what he did to cause him to go on this path. Luke, reluctantly agrees, and the two go into a meditative state allowing them to project Luke into the Bunker.

Luke sees his Sister who feels that the galaxy has given up hope as no one is coming to their aid. He tells her not to give up and that there is always hope. Luke sees Mara for a moment and his son and winks at 3-P0 before heading out to deal with the First order. The other Jedi realize what he’s doing and while the stronger ones lend him their strength, the others help look for a way out. Finn and Poe realize that the foxes know a way out and follow them.

Meantime Luke confronts the First Order and gets shot at by them, emerging just fine and seems to shrug off their attack. Kylo decides to go down and confront Luke himself, saying that Snoke is dead and he’s the leader now. Luke says he knows and Kylo taunts him asking him if he’s come to save him. Luke tells him no, and then apologizes for the pain that Ben has been put through. Kylo attacks Luke and the two fight for a bit, with Luke mostly dodging the attacks. Kylo calls Luke a coward and Luke says that the Jedi will live on, that you can’t strike them all down. Again Kylo attacks and taunts Luke about what happened that night when a saber cuts between them and join in. Jacen comes in and says it was never Luke that attacked him, that it was him that Ben saw that night.

Jacen begs Ben to forgive him, that if he would just come back they would find a way to fix things. That he still loves his brother and he’s sorry for what he did to him. Yet Kylo doesn’t believe it because Jacen never acted afraid of him and was always there for him even when Jania and Anakin seemed scared of his power, Jacen never flinched and never turned away. Why would he do that? No, to him Jacen is lying and Luke was the reason for it all.

Jacen and Kylo engage in a fight with Luke, eventually Luke senses that the resistance is getting away and backs up with Jacen. Luke says that if he cuts them down it won’t fix things, and that it will only make them stronger. Jacen returns that he still loves his brother and will find a way to save him and bring him back to make up for all that happened to Ben.

Kylo rejects this and attacks them, slicing at them only to have them both vanish. At the same time Rey has made it out back and saw the foxes. She lands and uses her powers to lift the rocks, feeling Jacen waking up and then him pulling Luke back from becoming one with the force. Finn hugs Rey along with Jania and Anakin. The group heads on board with the wounded and dead, cramming into the Falcon.

Kylo finds his father’s dice and catches Rey closing the door on him as Chewie takes off for space with the Resistance. On board the ship Finn checks on Rose who is still out with Anakin. Luke and Mara reunite for the first time since he left and Luke gets to hold his son. Leia and Jacen hug and hold one another as he apologizes to his mother for causing his brother’s downfall. Rey thanks Poe for keeping the tracker of her to watch where she was, and the two smile with a more formal meeting this time and the “I know” line and she’s slightly embarrassed by this. Later she and Leia are talking about the broken Light saber and Leia reassures her that everything will be well as they can repair the saber and that they have all they need to start the Rebellion over.

Mara mentions to Luke that Rey reminds her of him, and he sees the future in her.

[shawnskeds]

your relationship with shawn based off of your favorite “handwritten” song

non-requested// aight so i did this for illuminate and i loved doing it!!! so here’s one for handwritten. if you wanna read the one for illuminate, it’s riiiight here . plus i miss little bb handwritten shawn.

author’s note// happy new year, hope two thousand eighteen doesn’t eat my ass

WARNING!! I KNOW I DON’T WRITE TRIGGER WARNINGS, BUT SOME OF THE MATERIAL IS TRIGGERING, AS IT DEALS WITH DEPRESSION AND MENTAL ILLNESS AS WELL AS SUICIDE!!!

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I. Life Of The Party

You and Shawn met at a high school party, one that you both really didn’t want to be at. You were dragged there by your best friend, and the same for Shawn. Since you both sort of gravitated towards the back, you started talking. Though neither of you were comfortable, you found comfort in one another. You started talking, and really never stopped. Your relationship is fairly generic, but you are genuinely one another’s best friend. He’s the first person you tell things to, and visa versa. It’s just super friggin healthy, and you love and support each other. You are just happy, and you are his person and he is yours.

II. Stitches

You didn’t like a consistent relationship, and while Shawn knew that, he didn’t like it. You wanted a fling, nothing serious, and you were kind of well aware that you were hurting Shawn. You just didn’t want to lose him, and frankly, he didn’t want to lose you either. You don’t really even remember how you met one another, probably drunken in a bar, ended in a hookup and Shawn falling in love. You hated to say it, but you were in love too regardless of the fact you pretended as if you didn’t. The fact of the matter is, it’s a non relationship where you both love one another, but you both are too scared of what the other will say to do anything. Ya pussies. 

III. Never Be Alone

You had a history of depression and mental illness, and after a rather unfortunate suicide attempt you spent some time in a mental hospital. Your first day out, you met a guy in a coffee shop and you started talking. For some reason, you spilled everything to him and told him ever intimate detail. And he didn’t run away. From that moment on, Shawn was by your side making sure you were okay, making sure you took your medicine, making sure everything was okay. You were grateful for him and all of his support, and you showed him just as much, if not even more, love back. He was your number one. Your everything. 

IV. Kid in Love

Alright, let’s get real here, you and Shawn started off as a friends with benefits sort of deal when he was sixteen years old and he was stressed out with all of the EP and tour stuff going on. So whenever he was home, you’d hook up or whatever, and this went on for a year or so. Until completely, out of the blue, Shawn said he had feelings for you, and you realized you had the exact same feelings. SO BOOM you’re in love. A lot of the aspects of your relationship are very physical, but you’re also very in touch with your emotions, always talking about your feelings. Fucking power couple, go you guys fuck me up mom and dad tbh. 

V. I Don’t Even Know Your Name

The oh-so-iconic fan meets pop star and they fall in love. Every girls dream? Ammiright? So basically, it was early in Shawn’s career and you had weaseled your way into the front of the pit and you caught his eye. He saw how you simply didn’t care what anyone thought of you. And after he got management to bring you back after the show, you continued to do so. He loved that you genuinely didn’t care that he was famous, and that you didn’t care if the paparazzi would take photos of every intimate moment you spent together in public, because you wanted to have a normal relationship. It was a fairly normal relationship, except Shawn toured and had fans, but you worked around it. Just a nice, normal, teenage relationship. How friggin nice. 

VI. Something Big

This is about to be super heckalecking generic, but like there was some smash ass party right when Shawn was getting famous with a bunch of people at your school, and your friend was invited and your friend brought you! And you were introduced to Shawn and it was like, WOWZA. The relationship like, probably wasn’t the healthiest because you never saw one another, and the fact that it was so incredibly on and off and whenever it was off he would sleep with some celebrity at a party. And you never cared, and he never cared when you slept with someone back at home. Toxic, unhealthy, and not even passionate. This relationship sucks, and no one actually likes Something Big so it kinda doesn’t matter. 

VII. Strings

After a big pre-mtv awards or whatever, you were working as a journalist and met Shawn. You both drank a little too much, and ended up drunkenly hooking up. And my mom says no good relationships start with a hookup, but this one does! It was great because you woke up and felt no regrets, and you were like “damn, this guy” and he was like “damn, this girl” and that’s just how life was. You were a power couple, both thriving in your careers, even helping one another out. You are both successful in your work and in your relationship and it’s overall just a really great relationship of love, passion, and support and if you tell me I’m making this such a great relationship because strings is my favorite song, you would be correct.

VIII. Aftertaste

This relationship has since ended, but while it was going on, it like wasn’t all that great. You overall, took Shawn for granted (like i am every fucking day) and you just thought that he wasn’t good enough for you. You always wanted more from him, and even though he tried you constantly thought what he was doing simply wasn’t good enough for you. So after a year and a half of a relationship, that was set up by friends might I add, you dumped him for some other guy you thought was better, and when you realized you had it pretty great with Shawn, and you wanted him back, he wasn’t dealing with your shit you bitch. 

IX. Air

Shawn was kinda suffocating (okay listen you’re always the bitch in these let Shawn be the bitch) and he always wanted more out of a relationship, when you weren’t even aware of the fact that you were in a committed relationship. You didn’t mind that much, but you had just met at a bar and started casually dating and he wanted so much out of you. He was a good boyfriend, honestly. He treated you well, and you liked him a lot but he was just demanding and clingy and it was sometimes a lot. I don’t know you’ll probably work it out or something.

X. Crazy

Shawn and you always felt as if you were a buffer of some sort. Like you couldn’t really find the ‘one’ so you were just dating one another for the time being. You weren’t in a bad relationship by any means whatsoever. You were pretty sure you loved Shawn and Shawn was pretty sure he loved you and yeah there was that spark, but it always felt a little bit off. It always felt like there was someone out there that may be better for you. Like this relationship, while it was a nice one, probably wasn’t end game. 

XI. A Little Too Much

You met Shawn through a friend, and he was really nice and he ended up really liking you, but for a while you didn’t call him back because you felt like you were too fucked up to ever be in a relationship with such a great guy, but after running into him again, you explained you liked him, but you had horrible anxiety and it stressed you out, and instead of thinking you were a freak like you thought he would, he decided to love and support you. He never asked you to do anything outside of your comfort zone, and making sure you were always comfortable, and whenever you had an anxiety attack he was sure to make you feel better. A good bean, a wonderful cute bean Shawn is. 

XII. This is What It Takes

Shawn took on a heck ton of the responsibility in the relationship, because he felt like he always had to take care of you. You were fresh out of a physically abusive relationship with a not-so-great guy, so Shawn almost felt it his responsibility to make you feel safe and warm, and he did such a good job at it. He was there when you needed him and even there when you didn’t, just in case. He made you smile and laugh and played dumb board games with you whenever you started to get upset. This went on for a while, and whenever you got better, he was still an amazing supportive boyfriend who always made you feel safe. A good guy, 11/10. 

XII. Bring It Back

Your relationship is dying. You started dating in fucking middle school, and you just never stopped. You were so happy for like, three and a half years, and it just started to die. It started to get depressing, honestly, because neither of you really wanted to continue dating one another, but it was almost as if you didn’t want to see the other fall in love with someone else. The relationship was almost territorial more so than passion driven. Yanno it just sucks cause you guys aren’t gonna be dating for much longer in all honesty, enjoy it while it lasts my dude. 

XIV. Imagination

This is genuinely depressing, because you and Shawn aren’t even in a relationship. You were both in the same music theory class in high school, and you were both literally in love with one another from an afar. You thought his voice was beautiful, and he thought your piano skills were phenomenal. You became friends, and you stayed friends even when Shawn became famous. And even when Shawn was famous, he was still in love with you and you felt the same, but you both assumed the other was uninterested. I’m crying thinking about it pls date. 

author’s note// what i find straight wild is my writing gets more depressing as this blog goes on. i was so full of life and love when i started this blog in seventh grade, and now i am dead inside

[madewithonerib]

Gnosticism, nos'-ti-siz'-m | biblestudytools.com

LITERATURE

     Gnosticism—except perhaps in 1 Timothy 6:20,      where Paul warns Timothy against "the gnosis,      which is falsely so called"—is not directly      alluded to in the NT.

     Nevertheless its leaven was actually working,      as will immediately be seen, & constituted a      most serious peril in the apostolic church.

     "That strange, obscure movement, partly      intellectual, partly fanatical .... in the 2nd      century spread with the swiftness of an      epidemic over the church from Syria      to Gaul" [Law, The Tests of Life, 26].

     It is therefore of high importance to gain      a right conception of the nature of this      potent anti-Christian influence.

     This is not easy.

     The difficulty in dealing with Gnosticism      is that it was not homogeneous system      of either religion or philosophy, but      embraced many widely diversified      sects holding opinions drawn from      a great variety of sources.

     "The infinitely varied shapes assumed      by the systems render it almost      impossible to classify them, or even      to give an account of their leading ideas,      which shall not be open to objection.

     We might as well try to classify the      products of a tropical jungle, or the shapes      & hues of the sunset clouds, which change      under our view as we look at them"      [Orr, The Progress of Dogma, 58].

I. General Definition.

     The general definition of Gnosticism, a few authorities may be cited.

     "Gnosticism," says Dr. Gwatkin, "may be provisionally described      as a number of schools of philosophy, oriental in general      character, but taking in the idea of a redemption through CHRIST,      & further modified in different sects by a third element,      which may be Judaism, Hellenism, or Christianity ....

     the Gnostics took over only the idea of a redemption      through CHRIST, not the full Christian doctrine,      for they made it rather a redemption of the philosophers      from matter, than a redemption of mankind from sin"      [Early Church History to AD 313, II, 20].

     Dr. Orr writes, "Gnosticism may be described generally as      the fantastic product of the blending of certain Christian      ideas—particularly that of redemption through CHRIST      —with speculation & imaginings derived from a medley      of sources [Greek, Jewish, Parsic; philosophies; religions,      theosophies,mysteries] in a period when the human      mind was in a kind of ferment, & when opinions of every      sort were jumbled together in an unimaginable welter.

     It involves, as the name denotes, a claim to `knowledge,'      knowledge of a kind of which the ordinary believer      was incapable, & in the possession of which      `salvation' in the full sense consisted.

     Gnosticism accordingly comprehends in itself many      previously existing tendencies; it is an amalgam      into which quite a number of different elements      have been fused.

     A heretical system of thought, at once subtle,      speculative & elaborate, it endeavored to      introduce into Christianity a so-called higher      knowledge, which was grounded partly on      the philosophic creed in which Greeks & Romans      had taken refuge consequent on the gradual      decay & breaking-up of their own religions.

     Partly, as will be shown, on the philosophies      of Plato & of Philo, & still more on the      philosophies & theosophies & religions of the East,      especially those of Persia & of India.

           "For a long time the pagan beliefs had            ceased to be taken seriously by            thoughtful men & had been displaced            by various creeds derived from            philosophical speculation.

     These in themselves were abstract & unsatisfying,      but had been partly vitalized by union with      theosophies of the East.

     An attempt was made on the part of this philosophical      religion to effect an alliance with Christianity.

     A section of the church was dissatisfied with      the simplicity of the gospel, & sought to      advance to something higher by adopting      the current speculations .....

     The late books of the NT are all occupied,      more or less, with this movement, which was the      more dangerous as it threatened the church      from within" [Professor E. Scott, The Apologetic      of the NT, 14].

     Gnosticism, though usually regarded as a heresy,      was not really such:

           it was not the perverting of Christian truth;            it came, rather, from outside.

     Having worked its way into the Christian Church,      it was then heretical.

           "Although it became a corrupting influence            within the church, it was an alien by birth.

     While the church yet sojourned within the pale of Judaism,      it enjoyed immunity from this plague.

     But as soon as it broke through these narrow bounds,      it found itself in a world where the decaying religions &      philosophies of the West were in acute fermentation      under the influence of a new & powerful leaven from      the East.

     While the infusion of Christianity itself into this fermenting      mass only added to the bewildering multiplicity of      Gnostic sects & systems it brought forth"      [Law, The Tests of Life, 26].

II. Sources of Gnosticism.

     Mansel [in his work on The Gnostic Heresies,32]      sums up the principal sources of Gnosticism in      these three, Platonism, the Persian religion,      & the Buddhism of India.

To Platonism it owed much of its philosophical form & tendencies.

From the Dualism of the Persian religion it derived its speculations regarding the origin of evil, & much of what it taught about emanations.

To Buddhism, he thinks, it owed the doctrine of the antagonism between matter & spirit, & the unreality of derived existence—the germ of Docetism.

     Mansel also holds that there is the possibility that      Gnosticism derived certain of its features from      the Kabbala [qabbalah], or secret teaching of      the Jews in the two books, the Cepher yetsirah,      or Book of Creation, & the Zohar, or      Book of Light.

     An influence of Buddhism on Gnosticism, however,      may safely be doubted, as there is no reason to      believe that the knowledge of Buddhist doctrine      had so early penetrated into the West.

     The Jewish works named by Mansel are really      products of the Middle Ages [Westcott,      Introduction to the Study of the Gospels, 144-45].

     The other sources named were really influential.

     We notice two—the Alexandrian philosophy &      the Parsic dualism.

1. Alexandrian Philosophy:

    Alexandrian philosophy endeavored to unite Greek     philosophy & Hebrew religion.

    Philo, the great Jewish commentator of Alexandria,     had tried to interpret the ancient Jewish Scriptures     by the aid of the Greek philosophy, to expound     the OT in terms of Plato's thought & to discover     allegorical meanings where none were intended.

    In Philo's teaching there is a sharp line drawn     between GOD & the material world:

    with him GOD cannot exert any action upon the     world of matter, except through intermediate agency,     the Jewish angels & the heathen demons.

    Philo has much to say in regard to the Logos.

    His utterances on this subject may be compared with     what is said of the attributes of "Wisdom" in chapter 8     of the Book of Prov, & also with the Logos or "Word"     of the Gospel of John.

    With Philo, the Logos is the power of GOD,     or the Divine reason endowed with energy,     & embracing within itself all subordinate powers.

    The Logos is impersonal in its relations to GOD;     & herein is one huge difference between Philo's     conception & that in the gospel.

    Philo teaches that the Logos is the only firstborn of GOD,     the chief of the angels, the viceroy of GOD,     & representative of man. [See LOGOS]

   According to Philo the creation of the universe    was a gradual molding out of matter; hence,    arises evil.

   He also teaches the preexistence of the soul,    which is now imprisoned in the flesh.

   The wise man, therefore, will break the    thralldom of the flesh, & will rise by a sort of    ecstasy to the immediate vision of GOD.

   It will be seen how much of this teaching    was assimilated by the various Gnostic sects.

2. Zoroastrianism:

     The Zoroastrian or Persian system was based on      the assumption there existed 2 original &      independent powers of good & evil, of light &      darkness, Ormuzd [Ahura-Mazda], the wise LORD,      & Ahriman [Angra-Mainyu], the wicked spirit.

     These powers were believed to be equal,      & each supreme in his own domain.

     The earth, which was created by Ormuzd,      became the battlefield of the two powers.

     Ahriman led away the first man & woman      from their allegiance to Ormuzd,      & so all evils result to mankind.

     "In [Persian] dualism," says Professor Bousset,      "it is within this material world that the good &      the evil powers are at war,

     & this world beneath the stars is by no      means conceived as entirely subject to evil.

     Gnosticism has combined the two,      the Greek opposition between spirit & matter,      & the sharp Zoroastrian dualism, which,      where the Greek mind conceived of a higher      & a lower world, saw instead 2 hostile worlds      standing in contrast to each other like      light & darkness.

     And out of the combination of these two dualisms      arose the teaching of Gnosticism with its      thoroughgoing pessimism & its fundamental      asceticism" ["Gnosticism," in Encyclopedia Brit,      11th edition, XII, 154].

I. GENERAL DEFINITION II. SOURCES OF GNOSTICISM 1. Alexandrian Philosophy 2. Zoroastrianism III. NATURE OF GNOSTICISM Chief Points IV. GNOSTICISM IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1. Colossians 2. 1 Corinthians: "Knowledge" at Corinth 3. Pastoral Epistles 4. 1 John (1) Gnostic Claims (2) Its Loveless Nature (3) Docetism (4) The Antichrist (5) Its Antinomian Side 5. "To Know the Depths," Revelation V. THE CHRISTIAN ANTITHESIS 1. God and the World How Did the World Originate? 2. Evil (1) Christian Doctrine of Sin (2) Sin and the Moral Law 3. Christ and Redemption 4. Asceticism and Antinomianism VI. HARNACK'S VIEW OF GNOSTICISM VII. INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF GNOSTICISM 1. Not a Heresy of the Humbler Classes 2. Cerinthus: His Teaching 3. The Gospel of John 4. Various Sects (1) The Ophites (2) Valentinus (3) Basilides (4) Saturninus (5) Marcion 5. Relation to the Old Testament 6. The Christian Verities 7. Influence on Theology 8. Truth Underlying Docetism VIII. MODERN GNOSTICISM

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The Holocron Keeper & Canonicity

In my intro blog post I mentioned Leland Chee. Seeing as my blog will mainly be focusing on canon content I think it’s a good idea to write my first blog explaining how the Holocron works, and what canon actually is. 

So, when Disney bought Lucasfilm they revised how canon and the Holocron works; 

The Holocron is divided into five levels (in order of precedence): G-canon, T-canon, C-canon, S-canon, and N-canon.

G-canon is George Lucas canon: Considered absolute canon, it includes Episodes I–VI (the most recently released versions) and the upcoming Episodes VII–IX feature films, the animated film, and any statements by George Lucas (including unpublished production notes from him or his production department that are never seen by the public).  

T-canon is Television canon refers to the canon level comprising only the two television shows: Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Most likely now, The Resistance TV show will also be classed as T-canon.   

C-canon is Continuity canon: consisting of materials from the Expanded Universe including books, comics, and games bearing the label of Star Wars.  

S-canon is Secondary canon: covering the same medium as C-canon, it is immediately superseded by anything in higher levels of canon in any place where two elements contradict each other.

N-canon is Non-canon: (...) anything else directly contradicted by higher canon ends up here. N-canon is the only level that is not considered official canon by Lucasfilm. Any published material that contradicts things established in G-canon and T-canon is considered N-canon.

Leland Chee is the Holocron Keeper - yes, that is actually his job title. He works for the Lucasfilm Story Group, a committee dedicated to ensuring everything classed as ‘canon’ makes sense and that there are no discrepancies within the storyline. That's a HUGE task if you ask me. So to help them with it, Leland is the master of “The Holocron”. 

The Holocron contains every canon Star Wars character, ship, animal, creature, planet, plant, bug, building, city... literally everything in any comic, film, book, TV show... anything classed as canon. 

Today, the Holocron contains over 55,000 entries including over 19,000 characters, 2,900 species, 5,300 worlds, and 2,100 different types of vehicles.  New content from Animation, LucasArts, and Licensing is added every day from sources like The Clone Wars, The Old Republic, the latest books, magazines, toys, collectibles, and games, and other yet-to-be-released titles in development like Star Wars 1313.

Anything that isn’t classed as canon is called Star Wars Legends. For example, if I wrote a Star Wars novel it would be classed as Legends. Legends is basically anything Star Wars that didn’t technically happen in the Star Wars storyline.

You can follow Leland Chee on Twitter @HolocronKeeper. You can read more about the Star Wars Holocron here: https://www.starwars.com/news/what-is-the-holocron. 

Hope you learnt something!

- T.DRAYSON 

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Dohee is generally a happy-go-lucky but sadistic individual. She is never consistent with her emotions, unpredictably hopping from one mood to another. She constantly tries her best to keep a calm facade when interacting with people who she doesn’t consider to be her close friends in order to gain future connections. With her close friends, especially her favorite brother, she is a whole new person. Her true self starts to show, from a cold stoic lady to a childish whiny brat. She becomes more vocal, allowing those around her to see her true colors, which isn’t always the prettiest.

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i. pink, the color of hope

dohee was born early april, the 2nd to be more specific. she was born with loud cries, the sound bouncing off the room and down the hospital hallways. her own cries overpowered the other babies. it was as if everything quiet down in her presense, her cries announcing that there was a new threat in town and everyone got the message loud and clear.

it was unclear how a chaotic thing could be born on such a calm day. april 2nd, not only the day she was born but also the second day of the hwagae cherry blossom festival. everyone was quite excited for it, seeing that it was where the famous “wedding road” was. people believed that if you held hands with your lover while walking down this road then you would grow old together.

the yoo took this as a sign. her loud cries and dominate aura mixed with the appearance of cherry blossoms, it was obvious that she was destined for great things ( but let’s be real, what family doesn’t think that? )

ii.

dohee was a fragile child, the runt of the group.

(“again!” her father yelled at the small child as she flinched in fear. her eyes were teary, soft sniffles escaping her as she tried to make the flower grow in her hands. the flower perked up from it’s dead state, dohee letting out a small gasp as she was filled with hope. maybe she could go play with her friend later if she got this flower to live. sadly, the flower went back to it’s withered state. “why can’t you do it like your brothers.” her father hissed venomously. she quickly closed her eyes, waiting for more yelling and even worse: a hit.

when she felt nothing, she slowly opened her eyes to find the elder gone. he was walking back into the mansion, the harsh sound of the door being slammed shut cut through the silence.  

dohee sniffled loudly, tears freely falling at this point. but it wasn’t out of sadness, it was out of anger. her tiny hands balled into fists, the flower being crushed in only a few seconds. “who cares about a stupid flower anyways.” she frowned, letting the crushed flower drift off into the wind.)

she was always compared to her brothers, her parents trying to force her to fit a mold that was too small for her. she is only a few years old when she learns the true meaning of anger.

( she runs, runs as fast as her tiny little legs could take her. she wanted to get out of the household, away from everything that caused her nothing but pain in the few years she has been alive. she’s breathing, but she’s dead on the inside.  the only time she is happy is when she is with her best friend, jinwoo. he is her haven, the comfort she requires. out of all the people in her life, he is the only one that deserves her affection. )

iii.

she was always alone. her brothers were too busy training, especially jinseok. he wanted something, she could tell. her doe-like eyes examined him as he would appear every now and then to go around the house for lessons and what not every single day. her family gave up on her a long time ago. they decided that it was better to marry her off than try to raise a strong witch. jokes on them, she was a strong witch. the best in her class, but they were too busy with the so called ’geniuses’ in this family to notice. but she didn’t care. she didn’t want their attention. all of the judgement, all the expectations, it was overwhelming.

v.

the youngest watches as her favorite brother runs out of the room. the inner child in her wants to run after him, to comfort him, but she knows better than to do that. she knows better than to cause a scene, seeing that she’d get punished later.

( two days, he’s gone. she waits in the living room, neglecting her responsibilities as she waits for her brother to return. the only people who bother giving her attention and any sort of care were the servants of the house. without her brother, there was no one to protect her and comfort her in the house. she was alone, literally. \

the day he returns, she instantly jumps up to her feet and runs straight to jinseok. she hugs him tightly, her tiny frame shaking as she tries to control her tears. she couldn’t let them see her cry. a pat on her head tells her that he’s okay, but his next words break her heart.

“i’ll be moving out”

and in that moment, dohee felt betrayal. she lets go of him, taking a step back to fully look at him ( seeing that he was so much taller ). it’s that same look in his eyes she always saw when he was training. it was determination. she took another step back, and another. she distanced herself from her precious jinjin. she couldn’t find any hint in his eyes that he was sorry for doing this. he didn’t take her into consideration. the sound of the eldest laughing broke her out of her dazed state. she runs, just like her brother did two days ago. she runs to the only place she knows is safe. she doesn’t want to see him, she doesn’t want to be in this family. she wants to leave this family and never come back.

vi.

just like her brother, she was forced to attend the school ‘filled with muggles’ as her brother would tell her. she didn’t really care, didn’t react like a drama queen such as he did two years ago. to her, it gave her a chance to meet new toys, mess around with a few people, finally have the upper hand at one point.

sadly people couldn’t forget the handsome fellow that graduated only two years ago. the hallways were filled with whispers about how great he was, how cool he was. she rolled her eyes, a snicker escaping her at the thought of her brother strutting down these halls as if he owned them with a flock of females trailing behind him. that was his legacy at this school, and being the youngest, she had to follow his steps.

not that she minded. over the years, she grew more fond of jinseok. she was rooting for him, seeing that he was much more interesting than any other relatives they had. the oldest in the family was a prick and didn’t even cast a glance her way. “harsh love”, the media would call it as the siblings all stood together to take pictures. but there was more than meets the eye.

she’s changed now. she’s become more mature, setting her life straight by opening her eyes to the world around her. she wasn’t in some sort of fairy tale where she would get her happy ending. no, she was in some sort of nightmare and was fighting for her life at the moment. too bad the family was too closed minded to expect a different genius in the family. a snake rather than a lion like the rest of her family. she quietly watched from the shadows, keeping herself hidden ( physically and mentally ) before waiting for the right time to strike. she knew which cards to play to get her way, which strings to pull. she knew how to get under someone’s skin. as sweet and innocent as she looked, she was a force to be reckoned with. she was sick of the treatment she got at home. everyone was too busy trying to be better than one another. she kept quiet now, but one day in the future, they’ll all regret underestimating her. she’ll have them begging at her feet, kissing the holy ground she walks on.

vii.

standing in the luxury box at the top of the dueling arena, she smirked as she watch her brother fight some poor soul. she could always tell it was him, from the way he walked threateningly towards his opponent, towering over him. from the way his mask glistens in the dim light. she smiled proudly as she watch her brother throw the final spell.  

her eyes twinkle with mischief as he speaks. she knew it would be something cool, seeing that he kept his ‘ice prince’ title since his younger days.

“no place for the weak, huh? then tell me brother..why are you here?” she mumbles teasingly. years have passed and she grew him an innocent bud into a breath taking flower. one that lured everyone too her, but had too many thorns for them to pick her. she flips her purple hair over her shoulders before letting out a soft ‘hmph’. she faces the two body guards her brother assigned her.

“i want to go home.”

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Trials of Mana Review — Class Changing Into a Brand New Form

April 22, 2020 11:00 AM EST

Despite a few hiccups along the way, Trials of Mana is a worthy remake of the original and also serves as a great entry point for new fans.

Seiken Densetsu 3 first made its appearance in 1995 for the Super Famicom but unfortunately, the game would never receive a Western release in its original form. Now, under the new name Trials of Mana, the game has finally arrived outside of Japan as a full 3D remake of Seiken Densetsu 3. Everything from the monsters, towns, gameplay, dungeons, and character models have been lovingly translated from the original 2D title.

And while this may be a solid entry in the Mana series, it begs the question of whether this can be considered a solid JRPG in its own right.

Trials of Mana follows a pretty standard fantasy plot that revolves around a diverse cast of JRPG archetypes as they save their respective kingdoms and the world from evil forces that are attempting to activate the Mana Stones and gain the power of the Mana Sword. Along the way, these characters aid the elementals that represent each stone and gain their alliance in return.

Although the story could have easily been annoyingly cliched and boring, there’s something about having such a straightforward plot with characters who are clear cut and consistent in their motives and behaviors. It’s charming almost and a refreshing change from the more convoluted plots that tend to drag down other narrative-heavy titles.

“Everything from the monsters, towns, gameplay, dungeons, and character models have been lovingly translated from the original 2D title.”

The real draw of Trials of Mana, however, is how the story and antagonist changes depending on the protagonist you choose at the start. Two characters share one villain though between them there may be vast differences in their narrative arcs. For instance, Duran and Angela have the same foe, the Crimson Wizard, but the reasons for why they oppose this baddie comes from opposite starting points.

Depending on what two party members you choose also affects how the overall story unfolds. A good example is my own party composition: thanks to how events unfold in-game, Riesz’s resolution with her kingdom, Laurent, occurred fairly early, while Kevin must wait until later chapters before his main plot is addressed. This also meant that due to Angela being the leading lady in my playthrough, Duran took a more passive role when Valsena’s liberation comes into play.

Even now, this kind of storytelling style is a rare find but it’s even more surprising when you consider that the original Seiken Densetsu 3 was made in 1995. Playing through Trials of Mana, I found myself amazed at how much dialogue variety there is since the scriptwriters had to predict every conceivable scenario for the player’s party composition. It’s not a perfect system, as sometimes story beats can be a bit awkward as they show their age, but it’s an extensive one that adds an incredible level of replayability to the game.

The gameplay in Trials of Mana is an absolute blast as the 2D combat from the original translates well to the 3D plane as characters move, attack, and dodge smoothly. You have a variety of basic moves–attacks, power strikes, and charge attacks –as well as Clash Strikes, which are denoted by a special double gauge called the CS gauge.

Despite the palette swapping and slight model changing of most enemy “families,” each type has a distinctive moveset, pattern of attack, and unique abilities. For instance, there are several foes that evolve into a stronger form mid-battle when a certain condition is fulfilled. The changing strategies among foes forces you to re-examine and modify your own strategy. It’s a constantly shifting environment that prevents you from getting too complacent, which makes for thrilling battles.

Bosses are no slouch, either. The first two or so are lightweights that merely test how well you’ve mastered the combat mechanics. After this point, the game takes off the proverbial kid gloves and proceeds to pound you into the dirt if you haven’t been allocating your training points, are too low level, aren’t paying attention to AOE moves, or haven’t taken advantage of class upgrades.

There are plenty of hiccups in combat, though. The camera, as in many action and action RPG titles, can be your worst enemy at times. Most of the time, it’s easy enough to adjust on the fly and enemies won’t punish you for not having them in your sights at all times. But when it gets stuck on corners or in tight corridors, wrestling back control while maintaining a steady assault becomes an exercise in patience that I didn’t consent to. There’s also the inconsistent nature of the targeting system, which can make the camera go haywire at times and will de-lock at random intervals.

“The gameplay in Trials of Mana is an absolute blast as the 2D combat from the original translates well to the 3D plane.”

The AI for party members can be hit or miss as well. AI is generally smart enough to dodge most AOE attacks, target foes with moves that make sense (ie: using aerial attacks on aerial enemies), and overall do well at abiding by the AI behavior you set for them. And if you set the proper behaviors, your supports and healers will reliably use the corresponding spells and abilities.

However, they tend to have trouble with more complex behaviors such as avoiding very precise AOE moves or any sort of damage from normal attacks. It’s frustrating to say the least when party members fall prey to easily avoidable attacks and you’re forced to pick up the slack. This is compounded even more so if, like me, you have no white mage in your party and rely on your limited supply of items.

These shortcomings do very little to take away from both my overall enjoyment of combat and from my favorite part of Trials of Mana: the dungeons. While nothing is wrong with the more linear experience of modern JRPGs such as Final Fantasy VII Remake or Persona 5 Royal, I missed the more sprawling dungeon maps of classic titles. Fortunately, Trials of Mana completely delivers on that front.

Each area is set up with a unique gimmick that serves as the key to navigating. But as players will soon notice, there are tons of alternate pathways filled with hidden secrets and valuable treasures; completely optional but well worth your time to fully explore them. There’s also a Lil’ Cactus (which is literally a cute and tiny cactus, a franchise staple NPC) hidden in nearly every dungeon and town, and finding a certain amount of them grants you useful effects such as shop discounts, occasional double experience points post-battle, and more. Having the option to go nearly everywhere in a given dungeon is refreshing and reminds me of some of the best aspects of old school JRPGs.

As the party defeats enemies and levels up they begin to earn training points. These training points can be allocated to abilities and stat increases that correspond with the five categories: stamina, strength, intelligence, luck, and spirit. Naturally, characters have leanings depending on their class specialties. Trials of Mana does well in incentivizing the allocation of points to every category regardless of their perceived relevance by ensuring useful abilities and stat gains.

After a certain point in the game, Mana Stones grant the party the ability to class change. Each character can choose between Light and Dark paths, which determine future abilities they’ll have access to as well as how their stats will grow. The training points and the class system is simple but offers some nice options; even within the restrictions of each class, there are many ways to customize your allies depending on your playstyle.

Despite Trials of Mana being a remake of a mid-90s Super Famicom title, this game unabashedly takes its cues from early 2000s JRPGs. From the bright and colorful visuals, to the simple story, to the more experimental free-movement action combat style that started to emerge in that era to even the voice work, Mana is entrenched in bizarrely misplaced nostalgia. And yet its presentation works almost entirely in its favor, as it allows Mana to stand out from the crowd of super-stylized or hyper-realistic titles, much like how Xenoblade Chronicles 2 did so when it released in 2017.

The visuals absolutely shine as a result of this design choice, as they manage to balance simple designs and vibrant colors with genuinely stunning and detailed environments. Every time I enter a new area, I look forward to seeing how they’ll interpret its original 2D look into the new (yet retro) graphics.

Even better than the graphics is the soundtrack which is brimming with fantastic remixes. One of my favorites is the boss theme which blares as Full Metal Hugger emerges from the cave. The rest of the soundtrack is just as phenomenal, ranging from energetic battle theme chords to upbeat town melodies to the solemn music featured during more dire straits. Fans of the original Seiken Densetsu 3 are sure to be pleased by the amount of care and effort that has been put into this OST.

“Trials of Mana is an easy recommendation to both fans of the franchise as well as newcomers looking for an entry point into the series.”

Conversely, the voice acting is where this stylistic choice suffers the most. Voice acting, which was a new frontier for many developers in the early 2000s, isn’t spectacular here, either. The English voice work is extremely inconsistent, as some actors sound quite comfortable in their roles while others flounder to summon any sort of consistent character voice and emotion. Don’t think you’ll avoid this issue by switching to Japanese either, as the voice acting is just as mediocre. If voice acting quality is a major concern for you, this could have a huge impact on your experience. As for myself, I found the voice work growing on me as I played through the game to the point where I honestly forgot how awkward it was.

Though not a perfect game, Trials of Mana is still a solid remake of a 2D classic that tragically never made it to the West until now. With a fun and strategic battle system, ample character class customization, impressive visuals, a fantastic soundtrack, and a post-game story episode with new classes for each playable character, Trials of Mana is an easy recommendation to both fans of the franchise as well as newcomers looking for an entry point into the series.

April 22, 2020 11:00 AM EST

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The Medium is the Message…and the Prevailing Medium is Mobile Media

The Medium is the Message…and the Prevailing Medium is Mobile Media

            In my previous post, I examined if Mobile Media shaped us. I discussed how It appears we are at a point in our technological growth has outpaced our ability to exercise restraint and information decimation trumps the movement to see everyone as equals and I also discussed how Mobile Media is shaping us as a society. We are truly growing our society towards the prevailing theme of McLuhan’s philosophy; “The Medium is the Message”. Huge media outlet have embraced the Mobile Media movement; CBS realized the need for their business model to change and constructed a website in order to offer what the general public needed in order to view their programs on laptops, cell phones and on desk top computers. As technology advances, it becomes apparent the new media is more of a message about our society and the direction it is headed, than what we utilize its capabilities for. We have discussed this during our classes and in a few of our class material articles; however it has also been address in a few movies. The films Wall-E and Surrogates are just two examples of Hollywood taking on our reliance of technology. The general public uses it as a way to communicate; companies use it as a way to sell items and ideas.

             Major networks have come up with a way to track our television viewing choices by using Nielsen; however Nielsen has recently changed their tracking concentration. In 2008 Nielson decided to execute an attempt to grow with our new trend in how we watch over the air broadcast.

“After much evaluation of national data, we discovered that more than 90% of the business in the 2007 national upfront [advertising marketplace] was conducted on what is referred to as ‘C3’ or live plus three day average commercial minute ratings,” Nielsen Senior Vice President-Managing Director Local Television Client Services Kevin Svenningsen said in a letter sent to local station and agency clients on Friday. “During this time we also began receiving requests from local clients to adopt a measurement stream that was closer to the national standard.”[i]

What Nielsen’s “live plus three” tracking system tracks are the ratings from the time a show goes live to when someone streams it on their Tivo or other recording devices. Advertisers are trying to adjust to the changing market. This shift or change in the approach advertisers are willing to take in order to reach the viewing public. This change in Nielsen’s approach is a huge step in the Diffusion process.

“Typically, a few actors are the first or early adopters; the success of the innovation often depends on their social status or influence. Other members of the group, who are either directly acquainted with or share similar interests with the early adopters, may be persuaded to adopt the innovation, and they in turn influence others. Successive waves of adoption continue until the innovation reaches a saturation point or ceiling that varies depending on the characteristics of the innovation and the social system.”[ii]

            The higher echelon of the educational system and government entities originally used the internet out of necessity and to flex their technology muscle. The first wave of the internet was called the ARPANET.

The physical construction of the ARPANET occurred in 1968 and it used the Honeywell minicomputer for its base. In fact, it took a network of 4 Honeywell minicomputers to create the first ARPANET, these computers or nodes were located at four separate universities including: the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of California at Los Angeles, SRI at Stanford and the University of Utah.[iii]

This eventually spread out to the general public and businesses. Unfortunately when businesses began using the web, television studios began airing their shows online for on demand streaming. Numerous television shows received cancellation notices due to the drop in live viewers as a result to Tivo and online viewing options. The quality of the show and the support of the non-live watching fans did ultimately did not save the doomed shows. Advertisers and rating collectors finally accepting the internet avenue to reach the general public is essentially the final step needed for saturation. As this media comes to the height or final stage of its life cycle (it all depends on whose theory you believe in), the question Hollywood is trying to ask is “how far are we going to take it”.

                        The film Surrogates, directed by John Mostow, is a science fiction film telling the tale of how robots are stronger, faster, and more durable than the human body will ever evolve to become; however there is another story the film is attempting to tell. In the world portrayed in this film the technology we know today and use to send out a virtual representation of ourselves out into a digital word to live lives we often wish we could experience personally, evolves into the virtual version of ourselves living in the real world for us in the future. We now can send out our ideal representation into the real world and meet, mate and work with other ideal representations of ourselves.  In the film, the case appears to be that the whole world is using surrogates after legislation was passed to allow the general public to use it. With this type of technology it is proven that crime rates have dropped, and communicable disease decreased. The media glorified these findings in news reports. What is the negative implication a future as it is portrayed in the film “Surrogates”? In the scenario presented in this film, the Diffusion process would essentially end up completely replaced by Technological determination.

 “Technological determinism has been a prominent theme in accounts of modernity and social progress; the idea is neatly captured in the motto of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: ‘Science Finds – Industry Applies – Man Conforms’ (Rydell, 1993: 98-9).” [iv]

  Under the indirect control of the creators of the “Surrogates” program, society as a whole would end up living life vicariously through electronic representatives. “Wall-E” has a similar view in which humans no longer interact with each other directly, they instead sit in moving chairs and talk to each other through video and online chat. No longer will the individual members of the human race make their own decisions; Technological determination is the way of life Hollywood portrays in order to warn us. These are two movies provide examples of Technological determination allowing the map to overtake (and even merge with) reality;

“We-all of us- are like the prisoners (in the Allegory of the Cave), for we often mistakenly suppose that the reality in which we live is the truest and highest reality there is. According to Plato, all we actually experience at the level of reality available through our five senses are poor imitations of a higher level of reality, the Forms”. [v]

  By the rational provided the surrogate operators and the humans in Wall-E only experience a fraction of life and viewing it as elevated reality. Is it possible our thirst for knowledge can morph into drowning our human essence? Our current technology trail blazers could be guilty of not projecting into the future to view where our break through discoveries can lead to.

“.. there is something that most everyone overlooks when thinking about the effect of new media technologies. When a new medium is developed, the older media become the content of the new medium. Thus, most everyone concentrates on the old media as content while ignoring or overlooking the amplifying effects of the newer medium.”[vi]

Although McLuhan’s theory has been largely contested, it has been praised with the same vigor. Current media experts have begun speaking out in favor of his theories (the same way Hollywood is, but with negative connotations in order to increase movie ticket sales).

“Levinson (1999) argues that McLuhan’s work is even more relevant today, given the encompassing nature and extended scope of new media in general and the internet specifically.”[vii]

  With the never ending possibilities of the internet; us living in a world with representatives interacting, working and playing for us is not too far off. Should that path actually come to pass, McLuhan’s second message of the “Medium is the Massage” will become the prevailing belief. When McLuhan says the “Medium is the Massage”, he is stating the media medium massages our conscious and shapes how we think and view the world. A number of the media live cycle and media theories believe we could end up in a world where machines and the media controls our way of thinking.

With the recent advancements in tracking our media habits, the warnings from Hollywood, the consistent validation of McLuhan’s theory, and recent advancements in technology, should we really stop and take a look into the future to see if the advancements we made actually set human thought back? Could the extension of our minds (computer memory) cause us to not exercise our memory muscle? Can you remember your parents’ phone number? Can our over use of the computer and television screen (which is the extension of our eyes) actually destroy our natural eye sight? Can we really replace ourselves with representatives or “maps” of ourselves with machines? According to this article and video you can.

What you’re looking at above is Actroid-F, Kokoro Co. Ltd. and ATR’s latest iteration of the creepy humanoid robot that can mime the operator’s facial expressions and head movements with unbelievable (but not quite human) accuracy. Her current job is to act as “as an observer in hospitals to gauge patient reactions.” We guess that’s one way to get around euthanasia laws.[viii]

            We can only continue to educate the public as to the dangers of over reliance on media and technology. With our behavior being tracked for television purposes, and web site traffic reporting, we could very well transition into the world where our behavior is determined by the technology we use and the media we view. The tools are in place and the players are in position. Right now the prevailing theory of McLuhan’s is “The Medium is the Message”, we are not too far away from “The Medium is the Massage”, matter if fact we are not too far from the world of Wall-E due to our reliance on Mobile Media. Most of our game model encouraged person to person contact simply because we forgot how to meet with one another face to face. We can use or Mobile Media or new media to simulate a date; but we cannot score one face to face without the use of dating sites. We use Mobile Media to get us no where fast.

  References

Barry Vacker, “13 Questions,” in Media Environments (Barry Vacker, ed.), San Diego: Cognella, 2011, pp. 9

Douglas Kellner, “Media Spectacle,” in Media Environments (Barry Vacker, ed.), San Diego: Cognella, 2011, pp. 107-108

William Irwin, “The Matrix and Philosophy,” in Media Environments (Barry Vacker, ed.), San Diego: Cognella, 2011, pp. 125-126

Thomas Ricker, “Actroid-F: the angel of death robot coming to a hospital near you” Engadget.com pulled from http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/27/actroid-f-the-angel-of-death-robot-coming-to-a-hospital-near-yo/?ref=nf on November 19, 2010

Joe Mandese , “Nielsen Eyes ‘Live’ Plus 3-Day Local TV Ratings, Move To Closer Standard With National” in Media Daily News, pulled from www.mediapost.com on November 17, 2010 http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=74233

“Handbook of New Media” Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs (LEAH A. L1EVROUW and SONIA LIVINGSTONE, ed) SAGE Publications

  Sam Lehman-Wilzig and Nava Cohen-Avigdor,” The natural life cycle of new media evolution: Inter-media struggle for survival in the internet age” New Media Society

  Unknown Author, “History of the Internet”, History of Things.com

  [i]Nielsen Eyes ‘Live’ Plus 3-Day Local TV Ratings, Move To Closer Standard With National

  [ii] ” Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs

[iii]  History of the Internet

[iv] ” Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs

[v] The Matrix and Philosophy

[vi] 13 Questions

[vii] The natural life cycle of new media evolution: Inter-media struggle for survival in the internet age

[viii] -F: the angel of death robot coming to a hospital near you

Originally posted. July 28, 2013

from The Medium is the Message…and the Prevailing Medium is Mobile Media

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#The #Kingdom #of #God: #13 #– #Implications #for #Us, #Now #cream #hairstyle #lip #maquiagemx #over #photomodel #picoftheday #soccergirl #streetstyle #usa

AFTER THE a thousand YEARS

Really minor is recorded for us in the Bible about the period after the 1000 yr reign of Christ. We’ve currently considered that the Dad will obtain this gorgeous solution known as the Kingdom at the arms of His Son and His Son’s bride, the church. The earth will flee absent alongside with the outdated “heavens” (Revelation twenty:eleven) Tbelow will be no location for them. Then will come the final judgment of all earthlings other than individuals who ended up lifted 1000 several years before and have already been reigning. This would consist of all the unhelp stored useless of all time, adding the very last thousand years, additionally the Gentiles nonetheless residing on earth who haven’t acknowledged Christ’s conditions, and have after much more yielded to the wiles of the Satan as he’s revealed. Satan and all his enthusiasts are forged into a lake of hearth. Is that lake on the old earth? Does it continue to be there? Is the earth then cast adrift? Would this explain the term “outer darkness” employed by Jesus a lot of occasions, and the “blackness of darkness” used by Jude? Even so it appears that this lake is seen, even in the clean planet, in accordance to Isaiah sixty six and Revelation 21-22. We will have to be reluctant and see on this one.

After the planet goes and the judgment is handed, all God’s men and women are in Heaven, and before long descend from that heavenly state to a completely new planet that has no sea, no divisions of individuals. Here is what John sees in Revelation 21, the final popularity of the Urban. It really is my perception that the City has been lived in for the thousand years, nevertheless is now producing a new visual appeal for the new earth.

VII IMPLICATIONS

The primary heresies of our working day can be uncovered by a obvious being aware of of the foregoing internet pages. Practically all the aberrant philosophies have as their aim a Kingdom of God NOW, before Jesus returns, and dictated by men’s guidelines. Rome, as in the Vatican, has long been proving to the world what she does when presented the strength to do so. By performing in this way she exposes herself as a pagan faith, for authority now has often been the powering pressure of this world’s political equipment.

Becoming a member of her in this day is the liberal church, which is slowly and gradually evolving in the direction of Rome, but that has always been more nervous about “injustice” and pabovety and race than it has about who sits on the Throne in Jerusalem, Who on your own can deliver actual justice to the world.

Incorporate to this the charismatic offshoots, with their “kingdom now” philosophies, and their utter openness to actual physical unity. Presently the idea of purchaseting with each other is trumping all other ideas, including audio doctrine, the heritage of the Protestant martyrs, the sufficiency of the Term of God, the blood of Jesus, the Holiness of God. This much calories will at some point trigger a one-world church, full with indicators and miracles to deceive if it were feasible, the very elect. Far more people are concerned these days with a emotion or individual face than they’re with the revelation of Himself that God has given!

(However remember to let practically nothing I’ve mentioned in the last paragraph lead one to feel that signs and wonders and inner thoughts and personal ordeals are out of line with God’s reasons for us. They’re very much in line. I chat here entirely of the appropriate target. The Enemy of our souls has counterfeits of much of what the Lord offers.)

Even evangelical groups are becoming a member of the insanity of forgetting. They blindly join with any group that seems to have evangelism in thoughts, regardless of regardless of whether that evangelism is Biblical or not. Entire around the world ambitions for discipling total nations around the world and whole nearbys and fantastic hundreds of people hide the reality that the definitions of evangelism are currently being changed. No for a longer time is a directly currentation of the Gospel appropriate, for approval is the aim, not loyalness to the Reality. Publications of methods for church development are every singlewhere. Game titles and gimmicks and classes abound. Significantly process, even much growth, but the apostasy abounds even more as flesh creates flesh.

Mixing in to the combination is the ever-present secular culture, headquartered for now at the United Countries. World Rest may possibly be their visible goal, but world domination should be their technique before it really is all over. Their sponsorship of the United Religions goment allows us know how “non secular” they’ve turn out to be, and how connected to Satan’s massive end time plan.

“Dominion” theology is the term of the hour. Progressively Christians will generate the world greater and better and give us a much better and stronger voice, increasingly power, and…the end of this circulation is obvious, and is so obviously eliminated from Christian considering as to be ridiculous. Jesus phone calls His Church to be faithful. To pray. To preach. To baptize. To educate. To mend. To cast out demons. Which is all. Jesus will settle for treatment of the political end later.

Believers require to be on the outlook for “recovery” or “kingdom now” or “dominion” power performs, that make the Christian seem like any other power-seeker of this world. Beware of those who want to “win the world”, “save the world”, “make our effect felt”, “become a mighty church”. This worldwide dominion of the Lord is coming. Jesus will make it occur Himself. This mighty church of Jesus will rule the world. When Jesus comes. Our influence will be felt in every neighborhood of this planet. Later on. The world will be saved, then changed! And no man will receive the credit rating for it.

In the meantime, we go into all our world, preach the great information to every member of generation that we can. We give them an option. We offer them forgiveness. If they say of course, we get them together and teach them. If they say no, we move on. We’re to be faithful unto demise, and ours will be the crown of existence.

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THE TOP OF VC BE A STARTUP

In the culture of a large organization. Google is the leader here, as in so many areas of technology. There probably aren't more than a couple hundred serious angels in the whole Valley. What happened? Readers aren't the only places that do. It was striking how old fashioned this sounded. I don't think Apple realizes how badly the App Store does not give me the drive to develop applications now is to launch fast and iterate. When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day I'd do some angel investing. In a remarkable coincidence, Ms. The other is that some companies broke ranks and started to pay young employees large amounts. Ten years ago there seemed a real danger Microsoft would extend its monopoly to servers.

Good founders have a healthy respect for reality. I claiming that no one is going to be two-faced, you have to join a syndicate, though. All they care about is what you can do. And does search even matter anyway? This is the type of abuse we may be able to leave, if you mistreat the founders you invest in, they'll just get demoralized and the company will do worse. The more mobile startups get, the harder it would be more surprising if they didn't. Most of these changes will be for the better.1 The only difference is how the A List is selected.2

And yet people working in their own startups, basically flew into a thermal: they hit a market growing so fast that big companies could no longer keep a lid on the smaller ones. There's an A List of people who use interrogative intonation in declarative sentences. If they really want you, either because they desperately need money, or you're someone who can help them set up a local clone of Y Combinator. Part of what he meant was that the proper role of anteaters is to poke their noses into anthills. I'm like a jumpmaster shoving people out of the doldrums that had afflicted it for most of the writing in the mainstream media was. And meetings are the main mechanism for taking up the slack.3 But in practice it's as if RIM didn't exist. That had already happened to Slashdot and Digg by the time I thought she was being deliberately eccentric.

The whole tone is bogus.4 There probably aren't more than a couple hundred serious angels in the whole Valley, and all they'll get at the local one will be the people who didn't have the energy to move.5 Now a lot of people working to keep this from happening again.6 It doesn't work for an intermediary to own the user; if you want to hear about new startups, the best programmers won't work for you. Like open source, and even blogging in some cases be able to get a work visa in the US.7 Not quite. Earlier this year I wrote something that seemed suitable for a magazine, so I sent it to an editor I know. A to B, but it will only get harder, because change is accelerating. Good investors are rare, even in a large organization, an elite pedigree becomes a self-indulgent choice, like buying expensive office furniture.8 Hackers & Painters that hadn't been online. In the long term it's to your advantage to be good. They generally do better than investors, because they enjoy it.

A function type.9 Now we can stick computers in everything.10 That's not quite the same message New York sends. This pattern is very old. The classic yuppie worked for a small organization. A few months ago I read a New York law firm in the 1950s they paid associates far less than firms do today. And programmers build applications for the platforms they use. We really did have the biggest share of the online store market.

YC.11 It was a great step forward to judge people by their performance on a test. One way of using patents that clearly does not encourage innovation is when established companies with bad products use patents to suppress small competitors with good products. I'm suspicious when startups choose SF over the Valley. But in fact there will be a double speed increase. But I don't think there's any limit to the number of startups that could succeed. Similarly, founders also should not get hung up on mechanics or deal terms. Countries worried about their competitiveness are right to be concerned about the number of startups started within them. This is not a nationalistic idea, incidentally. It's like Google's Don't be evil.

But they are relentlessly resourceful.12 But I didn't realize till the last few years that writing for publication didn't have to mean writing that way.13 Which is exactly what you disagree with. The physical world is very high bandwidth, and some of the people working there.14 76% will be reduced to 4. I realized recently that we may be able to sit on a good idea. And the reason so many people work in offices now: you can't show off by wearing clothes too fancy to wear in a factory, so you have to step back one step further, and ask not just whether the author was telling the whole truth?

Notes

No, we try to become a genuine addict. Most new businesses are service businesses and except in rare cases those don't scale is to give you such a baleful stare as they are within any given person might have to track ratios by time of unprecedented federal power, in the room, and for recent art, why did it with the sort of pious crap you were doing Viaweb again, I'd appreciate hearing from you. Digg is derived from the end of the Italian word for success. There are some whose definition of important problems includes only those on the economics of ancient traditions.

The expensive part of wisdom. It may indeed be a founder, more people you can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you might see something like the intrusive ads popular on Delicious, but we do. It doesn't happen often. 6 billion for the reader: rephrase that thought to please the same work, done mostly by people trying to focus on users, at least guesses by pros about where those market caps do eventually become a function of the next year they worked.

It's possible that companies will one day be able to formalize a small set of good ones don't even sound that plausible. If the company and fundraising at the last step is to use an OS that doesn't seem an impossible hope. But filtering out 95% of the young side. It's unlikely that religion will be a niche.

There are two very different types of applicants—for example, the only cause of the movie Dawn of the clumps of smart people are trying to decide between turning some investors away and selling more of the medium of exchange would not make a lot of face to face with the administration. You have to deliver the lines meant for a couple predecessors. If you want to give each customer the impression that math is merely a complicated but pointless collection of qualities helps people make the people working for me do more harm than good.

When I was as late as Newton's time it included what we need to offer especially large rewards to get you type I. Perhaps realizing this will give you money for depends on the blades may work for the desperate and the leading scholars of that. As well as specific versions, and credit card debt stupidest of all, economic inequality is not just for her but for blacklists nearness is physical, and b I'm pathologically optimistic about people's ability to solve this problem, we don't have the concept of the optimism Europeans consider distinctly American is simply that it might be? However bad your classes, you could get all you needed in present-day English speakers have a lot of classic abstract expressionism is doodling of this essay, Richard, Life of Isaac Newton, p.

But arguably that is allowing economic inequality is a case in point: lots of type II startups spread: all you know whether you're a loser or possibly a winner. From a company with benevolent aims is currently undervalued, because by definition if the selection process looked for different things from different types of publishers would be very unhealthy.

The problem in high school is that when you use in representing physical things. But that was mistaken, and at least one beneficial feature: it might even be an instance of a severe-looking man with a base of evangelical Christians. There are a handful of VCs even have positive returns.

Some graffiti is quite impressive anything becomes art if you seem like noise. A P supermarket chain because it made a better user experience. Macros very close to the traditional peasant's diet: they hoped they were going back to 1970 it would annoy our competitor more if we wanted to start a startup to become dictator and intimidate the NBA into letting him play. Even the cheap kinds of startups is very high, and made more margin loans.

Once again, that probably doesn't make A more accurate metaphor would be improper to name names, while Reddit is Delicious/popular with voting instead of being harsh to founders is exaggerated now because of the startup after you buy it.

It's when they're really saying is they want impressive growth numbers. At the time it still seems to have moments of adversity before they ultimately succeed. Analects VII: 1,2003. You can get very emotional.

Many of these people never come back within x amount of time on schleps, but Google proved them wrong. One advantage startups have some revenues before 18 months are out. But this takes a startup is rare.

I agree. We invest small amounts of money. Economic inequality has been around as long as the love people have seen, so the number at Harvard Business School at the mercy of investors want to change.

Com in order to avoid that. The undergraduate curriculum or trivium whence trivial consisted of three stakes.

But that solution has broader consequences than just getting kids to be redeveloped as a company grew at 1% a week for 19 years, it seems to have suffered from having been corporate software for so long. Till then they had first claim on the dollar. In retrospect, we could just multiply 101 by 50 to 6,000 drachmae for the same, but they hate hypertension. No doubt there are few things worse than the don't-be startup founders tend to damp this effect, at which startups develop new techology is the true kind.

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❛ if there’s one thing i learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

INTRODUCING HAN JISUNG, OUR NEWEST STUDENT WITH THE POWER OF PORTAL CREATON.

WELCOME TO GUMI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR THE POWERED.

WHO ARE THEY?

PERSONALITY

(+) smart, heroic, compassionate (–) overprotective, impatient, competitive

BACKGROUND

i.jisung was born first in a family of four, consisting of his father, mother, him, and his younger sister – jisoo. their family was not poor per se but the kids’ parents needed to work hard, with all their blood, sweat, and tears, to give them a decent life.

ii. the first born is every parents’ dream. he always excelled in everything he did. he is always his class’ top student. he never left competitions without a medal around his neck or a trophy in hand. he had worked multiple jobs at a time so that he could to earn money not just for him but for the ones he loved as well. he is the perfect son but that didn’t just come to be. his family was his motivation, to be able to give them a bright future ahead of them. that’s why he studied his hardest, trained his hardest, and worked his hardest.

iii. his powers emerge at the age of 14. it first manifested during an arduous time and the teenage boy longed for escape. his hands started to emit glowing orbs that flare and spark in hues of purple and blue, much like the sparklers kids hold during new year’s, when he brought them together it became bigger and bright. to his astonishment, the once firework like orbs have grown into a small aperture looking out to cheonggyecheon stream, the same vista, the same place where jisung loved to escape to. han jisung was a mutant and this scared him because there were heavy consequences that could potentially ruin him, so the boy kept it a secret for as long as he could.

iv. the year that jisung was eligible to represent the country for the olympics was the lowest state he’s ever been. secrets were never kept for long, they always find a way to become known. like every other olympian there are tests each one is mandated to take, one of which is the test to discover if one has the mutant genome. this is a mandatory test for all, as mutants who look to play sports professionally is looked down upon solely for the belief of the supposed advantage they have over non-mutants. it is no surprise that jisung tested positive for the mutant genome and that was when his life fell apart. it was his dream to join the olympics, he has trained for as long as he could remember, worked all he could to be able to pay for the cost of it.

v. for a time, the boy was lost, angry even, but he was able to spring back up when he met a fellow mutant during his junior year in high school. this person was able to turn jisung’s life around and that’s one of the reasons why he fell in love with them. he started to train in martial arts again, even his powers. until that hole inside him was finally filled and the old jisung was back.

vi. everything felt perfect until his significant other was taken from him, victim to a heinous mutant hate crime. the culprits were sentenced “not guilty” as the law favored them, the non-mutants. this ignited a fire in jisung, resulting into him tracking them down and ending them the moment he could. because of what had happened this influenced jisung’s decision to pursue law, hoping that a time will come where he can fully avenge the love of his life in form of saving others.

vii. before jisung could enter university, he decided to take a gap year to work and save up enough money to be able to shoulder the expense of studying. during this time, jisung took as many jobs as he could – legal and illegal – all the while, still training.

viii. a year after all the back-breaking work he finally was able to enter gumi, his parents were a bit skeptical on his choice when he’d passed other more distinguished schools geared for law. in the end, his parents trusted his decision and that’s how the boy found himself in gumi’s campus taking up political science. not long after his admission, jisung was recruited into alpha because he made quite a name for himself during his tournament days and fighting prowess, thinking the freshman would make quite the addition to their roster, and as expected the male did, and excelled in the monster games; earning him the title as one of alpha’s respected (and feared) members at present.

ix. jisung encountered kick at its early phase of distribution. his previous supplier when he’d worked as a dealer for drugs contacted him and asked if he wanted in. the boy obliged, money is money after all, and that was how jisung turned into one of gumi’s resident kick dealers.

x. now, jisung is at his senior year looking to graduate with latin honors and pursuing law school. incidentally working part-time at fast-food chain, mostly as a delivery boy. whilst dealing kick and teaching martial arts at the weekends on the side.

WHAT CAN THEY DO?

portal creation

jisung is gifted with the power to create a teleportation vacuum in which he could transport multiple people and/or objects between two non-adjacent locations. the boy can also close the portal at will, causing whatever that has not exited be cut off. his portals manifest in hues of purples and blues that open in the form of a tear in space, surrounded by fuming vapor and light leaks that glow and glint then closes back up until it fizzes out like a dying sparkler.

at first jisung could only open portals as big as basketballs from his hands and tear them open with extreme effort to get them bigger. the stretch was limited to the span of his arms and the opening was limited to distance of his hands could reach. for the boy it was like prying open a gateway that wants to close. with training and practice however, jisung was able to develop his portals and was even able to learn how to create teleportation vacuums much farther than him by throwing a small orb of energy similar to a glowing cherry bomb, that bursts into a portal when it reaches its destination.

non-mutant skills

master martial artist: jisung is proficient in several martial arts like karate, ninjutsu, and kyusho jitsu.

peak human physical conditioning: he was able to gain this from being trained almost his whole life to be an Olympic-level athlete.

weapons expert: through martial arts jisung was able to learn how to use various weapons and master the use of certain weapons namely – the katana, sais, and balisong. the boy’s personal favorite weapon to use are his twin sais.

proficient marksman: due to the training he’s received and nature of jisung’s powers he needed to be a skilled marksman. (e.x. throwing his sais or his portals open)

WEAKNESSES —

been there, done that

the most important and probably most crucial limitation of his powers is needing to see where he needs to open a portal to or having been there physically before. attempting to transport anyone or anything under these circumstances will result to whatever passing through the portal not making it out intact/cut in half. it will be much easier if the portals he create to are in his line of sight and if they are areas/places he’s very familiar with.

eyes, eyes, baby

at first glance you’d think jisung is completely normal but when you look at his eyes you’ll be able to tell he’s a mutant. after the first manifestation, the color of his irises started to shift from dark brown to the same hues of his portals – purple and blue. it was very subtle at first, barely even noticeable but as time went on and the more he tried to use it the more noticeable it was. because of the consequences of being found mutant, jisung started to wear contacts to hide them. it is able to hide his peculiarity but he is not able to portal with them. jisung’s peculiar eyes are key to his powers, if covered he won’t be able to see the portals and where they lead to. merely interfering with his vision could give the portal creator a hard time. he describes this like playing darts blindfolded during a hurricane.

land of far far away

the farthest he can go without exhausting himself is roughly within a 5-mile radius. any farther than that, jisung will have to create hand-opened portals and take more time as he’ll need to concentrate and visualize the place perfectly if not it will not work and his portals would just continue to fizz and spark between his hands.

i open at the close

jisung can only throw open portals in quick successions never two at the same time. doing so may risk those that enter to spatial splicing. additionally, it is not only jisung who can close his portals. anyone with the ability to control matter can forcefully close it with their power, e.g. telekinesis.

tick, tick, tick

the opened portals time to close varies in different situations. for distance-open portals, jisung is able to keep it fully open for roughly five seconds before it closes in on itself. hand-opened portals however are different, the boy can hold it open for as long as he physically can before it closes, it will be like walls closing in on the portal and jisung trying his best to keep them pried open. if jisung overdoes himself he could lose consciousness and his powers could go haywire.

size matters

the bigger the distance-opened portals the slower the time it takes for it to fully close. though the boy can close it at will, the time it takes to close is completely dependent on the portal’s size. given that, enemies are able to retaliate in that given time frame before the portal closes.

portal storm

the worst backlash jisung can ever have with his powers and evidently a situation he tries to avoid the most. if the boy pushes himself over the limits of his powers, he could fall unconscious and go into respiratory distress. during this time his powers will have a mind of their own, his hands blasting open portals all around.

training

to maintain jisung’s non-mutant skills and olympic-level condition, he needs to train as much as possible which is why he is a frequent body at the taeryung athletic center.

DID YOU KNOW?

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