ubermensching: (Angelicus)
Wilhelm ([personal profile] ubermensching) wrote2010-08-02 01:51 pm

Drei - Fatum and Geschichte (Action)

[He was slightly amused to find that a profession had been arbitrarily granted to him. Even more amusing was the fact that he had been made a librarian. He supposed that handling books and physical manifestations of knowledge wouldn't be very different from the other means he usually had of handling such.

Still, it was an odd feeling, listening to people ask him for specific titles and having to find them. He was much more used to being able to call up any knowledge he needed at the moment that it took a bit of getting used to even for him. Yet there was something thrilling about being forced into relying on the limitations of a human body. And even if much of the job seem repetitious, it was at least a learning experience for him in the boundaries that actually seemed to provide hindrances to mortal men in simple tasks.

Though even now, he couldn't understand how it was so hard to put things in perfect alphabetical order.]


[OOC: So Wilhelm will be working at the library for the rest of the day. Feel free to come bug the hell out of him at work.]

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
And unfortunate that they never realize that that which they've labeled greed has been responsible for their survival.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Greed is the very basis for human development, no? Without such as motivation, mankind wouldn't have been able to reach beyond the confines of their land of birth until the fear of a dying planet forced them to do so. That is, assuming the species survived that long.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
I have always wondered if man was not inherently self-destructive, with how greatly it loathes that which retains its survival.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
*He throws his head back and laughs, uncaring of the drones he startles out of their reading.* And yet, the mere mention of death's approach sends them clinging to whatever they believe able to preserve their fleeting existence. Ironic, really, that mortals wish for the very curse I spent the latter half of my physical existence seeking to rid myself of. But perhaps not a curse if shared with those dearest to us...

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
It is truly rare to find a being who has no need for social interaction. It would make you wonder if such an existence would be one to be admired or pitied.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Such a being isn't even fit to be called human. Even a tool of war such as myself desires certain companionship.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Better to be selective then to wish to have any company at all, i should think.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Such standards are necessary in a world so filled with those unable to project their own will onto the world.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
It would be better, then, to lead those who can to project their wills.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunate that humans with such force of will and the required intelligence to make use of it are so uncommon.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
And so many of those who are lack either the desire to do so, or knowledge they can.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
As well as the ability to comprehend one with motivations beyond their experience.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Comprehension has always been the last tool most look to.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-04 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps were it not, your interference wouldn't be required. Men are such foolish creatures.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-05 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
And yet they can learn.

Our own home plane has not become an example of that.