[meme] Welcome to the Underworld

[lordofthedead]

Welcome to the Underworld

Congratulations! You're (probably) dead! Whether or not it's canon for your string to have been cut or... you ran into some... unforeseen circumstances... You're in the Underworld. But your very generous host has offered you a second chance for life. He'll restore you to your world, all nice and proper, if you do a little something for him.

"See, I'm trying to take over the cosmos. I know, I know, it's so cliche, but that's the scheme of things. I need a little bit of help. I'm not just looking at my corner of the cosmos, I want it all. The other side of the grass, the multi-verse, call it what you want. And if you do a good job I'll also leave your little sunspot of a home untouched. Good, right? You get to live again, and you won't have to deal with me! Unless you want me to take your world... but that's a whole other story... While you work for me, you'll even get sort of a... temporary version of your body. I gotta work to put your complete package back together, but that'll keep you moving while you keep busy."

Of course, if you're really good at your job, he might just... keep you around a bit longer. He'll find a reason ;)

Or maybe you actually, willingly, decided to stick around. Sure, the Underworld's drafty, but it could be better than going home, eh?

Come on, your host isn't that bad of a guy.

I don't know, Hades woke up while I was working. Make a contract with Hades, already have one established; be new or end up stuck there for awhile because your "soul isn't ready yet." He'd ask for things like kill 100+ people or poison a city or burn down an ecosystem or get a lot of really powerful relics for him... pretty much either something awful or gaining powerful shit for him.

It's also completely possible that:

1) Your "unforeseen circumstance" was getting killed by another character that was conscripted by Hades

2) You're not dead, but Hades possesses your soul courtesy of a different deal (similar to Megara, basically)

3) You're a damn goody-two-shoes who's too stubborn to actually work for him :| Ugh what a waste of space!

4) You asked Hades to give you some special power of sorts (whatev you want) to help you achieve your task. He'll grant you that! You'll just have to do an extra task in return :|



Have fun?! \o_O/ Mingle with other conscripts, work with folks to do Awful Things(TM), and I'll try and tag around with Hades (or Pain and Panic lol). As a note for just myself: I'll match style if folk are biased to action posts or whatev. Also for my chars (Hades included) I can use RP-canon, just ask!

killing people is great, it gets him more souls and potentially more willing pawns bahahaha \o/

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[withmyownwill]

"River? .....I..... I see." There's a measure of confusion in his voice, and a bit of subdued alarm; Hizashi doesn't so much as twitch to look where Hades is pointing. There had been a river out there? He'd heard screaming, of course, the wails of the damned lamenting their fate, but otherwise..... No, he'd thought they were being tortured, not that they were drowning for all eternity, or being boiled alive (boiled dead? Boiled undead?), or devoured by fish of some sort, or..... whatever was causing them so much anguish, out there in the water.

So..... this is his fate, is it? To serve another master, or to suffer for all eternity..... Death really hadn't been freedom at all. Just one more kind of cage for the soul, freed of its earthly shell. This is his punishment, for trying to defy destiny..... He feels vaguely sick at the thought. But at least..... At least he has a choice in this matter, even if it's a terrible one, even if it's hardly better than no choice at all. At last it's something, maybe even something better than what he'd had in life..... At least he might be able to get something out of it, some sort of compensation. He's being offered payment of a sort for his services, more like a mission than his role as a Branch Family member of the clan.....

Freedom for his world, his country, his village, his family. His home, the people that he cared about most, would be safe. They could enjoy some measure of freedom and peace, even if the rest of the world--of the multiverse?--does not, as long as this god keeps his word. (And what if he doesn't? Does it really matter? What could he possibly do against a god?) Isn't that what he'd sacrificed his life for to begin with? What other choice does he have? If it means his brother and his son will be safe.....

The thought is..... revolting, to be perfectly honest. Genocide against another world's population, poisoning a world's environment, obliterating its soul..... He's dimly grateful that souls can't be physically ill, because he can already feel his heart sinking at the prospect? But what other choice does he have? What else can he possibly do if he wants to see those he loves safe? (The Branch Family is a tool and a weapon. They are there to serve and protect. Like the leaves of a great and mighty tree, they are indispensable as a whole force, yet utterly expendable and interchangeable as individuals.) He has to do this. For the sake of their happiness, he has to destroy that of others. Isn't that the way of a ninja's life? To do the mission you're given, no matter what your personal sentiments, no matter what the cost?

You do as you're told, obey orders, fulfill objectives. You're paid to act, not to feel. No deed is too dirty for a true shinobi. The Will of Fire demands that you do what you must, sacrifice anything and everything for the sake of your own shogi King--and while Hades isn't his King, he knows very well who is, what matters most to him.

It's not his place to judge his assignment, or Hades' excitement over it. So Hizashi just nods, willing himself to smile, to accept the truth of his new existence. Above all else, from now on, it seems he'll be an instrument of murder and destruction. If he can distance himself enough, in a certain way, it even is..... interesting, he supposes. He's never even heard of anything like this. "I hadn't realized worlds had souls, or that they could be killed."