Cecil Harvey (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
paladinlost) wrote2016-02-05 11:26 pm
paladinlost) wrote2016-02-05 11:26 pm
106th moon [audio]
To be in accordance with this world's natural laws, a whole half of my heredity should have been removed from my body. The half I inherited from my Lunarian father, to be exact. As there are only two half-Lunarians in the world, I cannot know exactly how it sets me apart from pure humans, but there is no doubt that there must have been something for this land to take away from me.
[Cecil doesn't know why he feels the need to talk about this now. His words come hesitantly, like he doesn't quite know if he wants to keep going.]
...Yet I feel no different, barring the usual loss of magic that even full humans go through. I look the same. I act the same. My skin still does not tan, no matter how much time I spend on the beach. The manner in which I age remains constant even after five years spent in this world. It's as if the absence — or presence, for that matter — of my Lunarian blood is completely meaningless, as far as my life is concerned.
[He stops for a moment, and then here it comes. The true, uncertain confession.]
I... don't know what to think of that. At all.
[Cecil doesn't know why he feels the need to talk about this now. His words come hesitantly, like he doesn't quite know if he wants to keep going.]
...Yet I feel no different, barring the usual loss of magic that even full humans go through. I look the same. I act the same. My skin still does not tan, no matter how much time I spend on the beach. The manner in which I age remains constant even after five years spent in this world. It's as if the absence — or presence, for that matter — of my Lunarian blood is completely meaningless, as far as my life is concerned.
[He stops for a moment, and then here it comes. The true, uncertain confession.]
I... don't know what to think of that. At all.
[video]
Makes you start wondering what you ever really were in the first place, doesn't it?
[video]
I am myself, and most of the time that's good enough. ...But every other Lunarian has left the planet, and my relatives only return in cases of great danger to the world. It's not as if I have many opportunities to ask for details, to compare myself with others.
[video]
[And maybe the day's getting to him too, because after a second he adds:]
I was the first one of my whole species, nobody even knew what I was. And then I was the only one here for years.
[The urge to talk lets up for the moment, and he mutters a curse under his breath before shrugging.]
Not quite the same as your situation, but...
[He sort of gets it.]
[video]
Waiting for others to understand the details of your existence, for more of your species to exist... It must have been terribly lonely. I was lucky; at least learning of my heritage came with a brother and an uncle, even if they soon left.
[video]
[Well that came out sounding bitter. He continues before he can stop himself, this is something he's got strong feelings about.]
What did they go and do that for?
[video]
[He sounds completely certain of his decision, more certain than he's sounded this whole day.]
They left to find a new home for the Lunarians. One that would be free of sentient species, to avoid a repeat of Zemus' actions. As it turns out, most of them did not agree with his planned genocide of humans.