"Ha! Be pretty lousy design if everyone was a blade-- then we'd all be dormant!" Malos laughs.
Realizes Lloyd doesn't get the joke.
Elaborates.
"No, look, there's humans on this world too-- your mom's one of 'em!-- and the difference is. Hm," He pauses. He's never had to explain it before? "Well, biologically, humans run on blood, blades run on ether. Humans can't really manipulate ether, either. ...Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself."
What's the most basic shit about blades that Lloyd needs to know? Oh, duh.
"Look... blades are..." He tries to pick the words, and it's weird, because he's so used to everyone just Knowing this shit. "When we die, we don't die, die. We return to our core crystal until someone comes around to wake us up again-- but, we do lose our memories when we return to our core crystals, so it's kind of like dying, I guess."
That got kind of grim. Uh. Anyway.
"When someone wakes us up, this thing calls resonance happens, tying us to our driver. Blades help their drivers with all sorts of things-- mostly we're good for fighting, but..." He smiles, fond. "I mean, I raised your mother, since she resonated with me when she was young and... Well, she didn't have anyone else."
His expression gets a little distant, fists clenching for a moment. The fact Anna had to watch her grandmother, her only living family, die? Makes his gut churn. (And is definitely part of why the idea Lloyd had to watch his mother die makes him feel so sick.)
"Anyway." He snaps himself out of it. "That's the basics, I think. Lemme know if you've got questions."
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Date: 2019-03-15 03:20 am (UTC)Realizes Lloyd doesn't get the joke.
Elaborates.
"No, look, there's humans on this world too-- your mom's one of 'em!-- and the difference is. Hm," He pauses. He's never had to explain it before? "Well, biologically, humans run on blood, blades run on ether. Humans can't really manipulate ether, either. ...Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself."
What's the most basic shit about blades that Lloyd needs to know? Oh, duh.
"Look... blades are..." He tries to pick the words, and it's weird, because he's so used to everyone just Knowing this shit. "When we die, we don't die, die. We return to our core crystal until someone comes around to wake us up again-- but, we do lose our memories when we return to our core crystals, so it's kind of like dying, I guess."
That got kind of grim. Uh. Anyway.
"When someone wakes us up, this thing calls resonance happens, tying us to our driver. Blades help their drivers with all sorts of things-- mostly we're good for fighting, but..." He smiles, fond. "I mean, I raised your mother, since she resonated with me when she was young and... Well, she didn't have anyone else."
His expression gets a little distant, fists clenching for a moment. The fact Anna had to watch her grandmother, her only living family, die? Makes his gut churn. (And is definitely part of why the idea Lloyd had to watch his mother die makes him feel so sick.)
"Anyway." He snaps himself out of it. "That's the basics, I think. Lemme know if you've got questions."