soulping ([personal profile] soulping) wrote2014-12-30 11:15 am

Alectryon

The room you're brought to is... Actually lit! One of the sides of the room is covered with a rather elaborate workbench, while once can find a table set into a corner of the room with a bowl and a leafy, unidentifiable plant on it. There are also precisely enough chairs for everyone, even when people join halfway through. For some reason there's always exactly enough chairs for everyone.
gateofbabbylon: (maybe you've just lost your meaning)

Re: Discussion

[personal profile] gateofbabbylon 2014-12-30 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[looking around and seeing that his other teammates still aren't around]

So I guess it's just my problems then. How can I have problems if I don't even know who I am?

[laughs bitterly] I guess that's a problem.
gateofbabbylon: (a path of what)

Re: Turn-In

[personal profile] gateofbabbylon 2014-12-30 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Rather than thread it out by myself I'll just explain his process here:

So he eats a couple of the leaves to learn the needed crafts, then uses ambrosia coins as needed to generate cloth and stuffing and needles and thread to sew a doll/dummy of himself. He summons the materials needed to dye it pitch black and the materials to dress it in the Alectryon uniform but doesn't end up doing either. Eventually he summons a rough straw wig for it so it resembles him more. The doll's face is blank. He doesn't bother to prop it up, just lay it on the ground.

It represents his anger and uncertainty in not knowing who he is (being blank) or what he was before (almost dying it black) and his anger at what his only memory so far has shown him (again, dying it black to represent his dark side he saw in his starter memory). Basically it's his anger at being tabula rasa without any say in it and his anger at himself for not being able to somehow overcome it anyways. The uniform materials were for accuracy of the dummy, but he realized in the process that he doesn't blame his team for his part in this new world he's dragged into so the clothes might say the wrong thing.
gateofbabbylon: (let's it lead your way)

Re: Turn-In

[personal profile] gateofbabbylon 2014-12-30 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
He uses the coins to produce large chunks and pieces of glass resembling oversized memory shards, which he proceeds to start stabbing and tearing the ever loving shit out of his doppelgänger. Eventually it is an unrecognizable pile of scraps and his hands are cut up from using the weapons he did.

It represents his anger towards the system he's been pushed into and the notion that he can make himself "whole" piece by piece. It also represents his dissatisfaction with his current, flawed existence/self.

((ooc: Gilgamesh would be ICly ambivalent about it being shown so I'm giving an OOC yes at the game runner's discretion))