#alefkin

it's kind of frustrating that i got "removed" from the game. i'm technically still in it. there's references to me scattered everywhere: the murals, the gates you walk through in forest, who lamed shows you at the end of vault's cutscene... and most obviously, the storm is my doing. the light you walk towards throughout the game, that's me calling out to you from deep within eden. the symbol even bears my face.

but i'm not there when you pass the point of no return. you can struggle all the way to the end of storm lock, but you won't find me. you can restore light to all of the statues in eden if you damn wanted, but you can't restore light to me. you even pass by my castle in orbit, now changed in a recent update to mirror my emblem, but i'm not there either - if i was, i'd have brought the storm with me.

it's a sad thing.

-- the prince, alef (sky cotl) 💠

for the record, i slept in it up at the very top like a little cat. palace staff were encouraged to thoroughly check the pillows up at the top before deeming me to be missing and raising alarms.

-- the prince, alef (sky cotl) #💠

i forgot people interpret me that way, but i'm not a theatrical campy villain. you won't see me do a musical number about how much i loved knowingly destroying the ecosystem - even i can say that's kind of, you know, awful. i viewed it as a means to an end, and it's not okay that i did but that's how it was.

...it's a collab and i'm not sure how it'll fit into anything, let alone my canon. should i just ignore it like how everyone ignores the secret areas? puzzling indeed...

tearful light miner,

i know it must mean nothing from me of all people, but i'm genuinely sorry. you and your friends wouldn't have been in that situation in the first place if it weren't for me. the ends did not justify the means. nothing could've justified what i had indirectly done to you four.

-- the prince, alef (sky cotl) #💠

this does remind me: the prophecy guide is quite funny. they were a weird cross between your average jock and a hardcore spiritualist. a bit stoic too, but still effective. what i needed though, was a therapist. to the prophecy guide: if i shook you a little, would a college diploma and license to practice fall out? pretty please? i'll pay for it with my artificial diamond moneeeey...

oh, the candles in the trial meditation rooms also smelled quite nice. i think it was frankincense.

-- the prince, alef (sky cotl) #💠

but i digress. what concerns me is that people are so willing to divide me in two because they don't like my actions, whether that's good things i did or the bad things i did, despite heavy evidence showing that "resh" and "alef" are two different stages of the same morally dubious person's life. it's frustrating.

i still prefer to be called "the prince", though. i detest what i did as "the king" and would like to imagine never having been coronated at all. i'd feel a little conceited calling myself a king.

-- the prince, alef (sky cotl) #💠