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]
[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.