flyawaythief:

“Oh, I would mourn you, I would!” he exclaimed. “Maybe even try to bring you back to life. Or your body at least. That way there wouldn’t be any pesky conscience to get in the way. … Actually, that’s a thought! I hope you don’t get cremated or anything if you DO bite it!”

How nice. Knowing that your body might be used for horrible things after you’re dead. What a reassuring feeling.

“I want… this to last as… I want…” A twitch. “How about we speak about this in a more direct fashion?” A feminine voice working through Pandora Kid’s throat. “I take it you’ve been trying to address me this whole time? Arch Pandara, the spokesmonster at your service.”

He/she/it/they bowed deeply with highly fluid movements, rather smooth for a human actually.

“Chaos, of course, is the name of the game. The legend of Pandora’s box. Every sin in this world is a sin of mine and I aim to do no good to mortals. They’re only useful to me as a means to gather myself, but oh, my boys, who have found my pieces… I treasure them as well. They’ve transcended their mortal shells. Now if they could BEHAVE-!”

…Yeeaaah, not liking the idea of his body being played with either. Very nice to know that’d be all that matters. Jeez…

The thief blinked and tilted his head at the sudden change, though he soon smiled politely at the other and took a small bow himself. Act of a gentleman at it’s finest, since he wanted nothing more than to make the other leave his other self… But nothing hurts from being courteous first.

“As a matter of fact, yes, I suppose it is you I’ve been trying to get through to. Thank you for taking the time to make this more direct.”

That out of the way, Kid righted himself and wagged a finger.

“If you’ll permit my saying so, you seem to be failing to understand something. Chaos is one thing, but which task gets higher priority? Causing that, or collecting yourself? You can’t do one without causing detriment to the other.

The more chaos you cause by influencing my other selves – and as you might be aiming to do, me – the harder it is and more resistance comes up to try and find any other pieces. Such as others like myself seeing what the stones cause and more actively wanting to harm them. Even if you say they’ll fall to the influence, it’d be rather difficult to account for every precaution that might be taken to try and be rid of them.

On the other hand, the more useful way of collecting would require cooperation. You do have more than one ‘child’, and may gain more, but again, that process will be slower than the alternative. Still have them work together, but with more people to gain help from. But chaos and destruction kills opportunities in that.

I should think getting all pieces safely and swiftly would be the preferred, though your methods speak otherwise. Even the ones under your control aren’t cooperative, if I take it you wanting them to ‘behave’ is not have them fight and scream under your gem’s power. Well, of course when you force them to do what they don’t want, they’ll protest. Everyone does.”

His eyes narrowed slightly, though the same smile never budged.

“So, if you just want them to do as told all the time, and go against themselves to prove that you control them, then no, you don’t treasure them at all. Even if chaos driven, they’ll break. You only care about their bodies, not their minds. They can’t behave if they keep them, you’re a rather poor liar if they don’t. Because if they don’t, they’re just complete puppets. Dolls in your box? Guess that can be treasured as well, though…”

His head tilted the other way, before he clapped his hands together lightly, as though he just remembered something.

“But you don’t care about the ones who actually found the pieces, do you? Or perhaps just some gratitude, if anything. Or maybe you do and that’s why you keep any part of their minds to begin with… But really all you care about is the jewel pieces’ influence on them. You could care less if we get crushed, your ‘boys’ are the gems, really. …But that makes no real sense either. Then you’d have no ‘boys’ if you became whole again…” Smile.

“Do you like chaos so much that you’ll let it affect you as well, to have so much that makes absolutely no sense? Or have I missed something? Really, I’m perfectly willing to listen, so long as you don’t try to do anything to me right now.”