#lyctor

My friend absolutely loves this joke and wanted to use this slogan for con badges. I already had the font and added a cute little skull for good measure!

I think the Resurrection is a lie.

I think John fancied himself a god, and realized he could use his powers to exert his ultimate will - killing everyone. Which he did, snap, bang, all dead.

What he wasn’t expecting was the absolute terror of being alone after his snap decision to kill everyone. So he tried to bring them back.

But he can’t.

He can’t reconnect a soul to a body. So he took all the bodies and their pieces and made new ones. He knew how much of a drain on his focus and power it was to pilot around the Dead President, and he didn’t want to do that for thousands, millions, billions of people.

So he gave them free will.

And he’s hated them for exercising that free will ever since.

And I keep wondering: what would Mercy and Augustine be feeling now if they had survived? What would Cytherea be feeling? How would they interact with her? They hated her so much, we know at least that Mercy and Augustine were the two who pushed hardest for her entombment, but 10,000 years have passed, and as hard as they all try to pretend that radical emotion renewal begins at the point of soul absorption, they have changed. Cytherea seemed to imply that she was planning to wake Alecto using Gideon. Sure, it seems that was about using her rather than becoming her friend.

But just how much can someone use Alecto before coming to the inevitable conclusion that her rage is justified? That she isn't a monster, or that her monstrosity doesn't make her lesser than humans? I feel like this is what soul permeability, as described in "The Unwanted Guest," was about. You can't choose to be unaffected by someone. To a very real extent, you can't choose how they affect you.