I may have asked this in a past life/long long time ago. Or perhaps someone else already has. But, lets do a little bit of a dive into cyguy space man. He's standing at the peak, everything in his life has lead to this moment, he's harnessed the power of the gods themselves and supposedly reformed the world to his will and desires. But his new world is anything like he imagined. It turns out exactly. the. same. Everything he sees is the same. Nothing has actually changed. How does he react.
â-In the beginning, the new god created the heavens and the Earth. The Earth was formless, empty. Dark. With a keen eye, he murmured four words, set to begin the construction of a new, perfect place.
And so the Sun shone down and separated night from day, and Cyrus called it GOOD.Â
The waters were separated from the heavens. The land bore her fruit. The sky was painted in stars. The fowl and fish were given life. The beasts of the Earth thrived. Cyrus saw it all, molded it from his fingertips, and called it GOOD.
Man, man was given form, in the image of one without spirit. But when life was gifted unto him, his eyes were dulled and his hands were slow. His heart beat for no purpose, and his soul knew no rest, for it knew not weariness. When Cyrus taught him peace, he knew pain, and without his makerâs permission, the man felt spirit once more. Cyrus saw, and he found he could not call it good.
âA glitch.â Cyrus decided. âThe first is always the worst, Adam made his own mistakes. The next will be perfect, as I am.â
Another created, but Cain repeats the mistakes of his father. The generations were unable to shake it, and man was always imbued with the spirit that the god had tried so hard to destroy, tainting his Eden with a sin unpardonable. Man laughed. Man cried. Man felt, and man made his own choices. Spirit is not matter to be destroyed, it is built into the genetic code. But Cyrus is a man of denial, a man of delusion, and his own disappointment is proof enough that something is terribly wrong. The power he draws from is not his own, and he knows it. It is a power from a tainted being, so nothing of it can be clean.
Cyrus saw, and it was an abomination unto him. The words that spoke the world into existence destroyed it, and once again, he built his perfect universe.
But once again, Man felt. Man cried. Man laughed. And it was an abomination unto their god.
Time is his. Space is his. To ask his reaction to failure isnât fair, as Cyrus no longer lives in a realm where he must worry about growing old or dying. So what does he do? How does he respond? Every reshaping leads to the same outcome, but that outcome ensures one thing: the human spirit. And though so much bad comes with it, it too possesses one thing⌠HOPE.
For an eternity, Cyrus destroys and reshapes a world he will never possess. Destined to make it right, regardless of impossibility.Â
Hoping that next time, itâll work.