Halloween [Digital Devil Saga, Roland/Gale, G]

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

Title: Halloween
Artist: dogmatix_san
Rating: G
Warnings: none, worksafe.
Summary: Roland introduces Gale to Halloween
A/N: Arg, again not smutty, darn it. Although now with bonus drabble. XD;
Prompt: Feb 19 - Digital Devil Saga, Gale/Roland: roleplay - Gale just doesn't get it

Halloween

"So, then it is a weapon, like a firearm?"

"Uhh, no," Roland floundered. "It doesn't itself contain the energy. The energy comes from the person."

Gale's expression had been set to 'I do not comprehend' for the past five minutes, and it didn't look like it would be changing anytime soon. "Then what is its purpose?"

"It. Well it's-" Roland tried again to put what he could remember of the fantasy logic of a children's story into terms that a guerilla warrior AI could understand. "It's like a conduit, for the energy to flow through. Sort of."

Gale pondered this bit of information. "Then, would it not be more efficient to make it from metal? Wood is not an optimum conductor."

Roland tugged on his red and yellow scarf. Trust Gale to have no trouble with the concept of magic, but to need its use explained in logical scientific terms. No wonder they'd stuck him in Ravenclaw "It's not that kind of energy," he tried.

Gale still looked highly dubious, but was fortunately distracted as Cielo flew past them laughing delightedly, bee-striped scarf trailing in his wake. "Gale, Rolan', come on, we're gonna miss de candy!"





..and yes, now I want to do another drabble where Harry was messing around with a high-level spell he shouldn't have been to get a certain someone back from beyond the Veil and he gets several highly annoyed teenaged cannibalistic AI guerilla warriors instead XD (and, and Serph would be in Slytherin and all the others would be in various other houses and they'd still follow Serph instantly and without question which would completely floor all the students. And Cielo would be in Hufflepuff because above all he's about loyalty. And, yeah. XD;;; )

Comments

[nyxmidnight]

Oh Gale. Stop it. You'll hurt your brains XD

Hmm... as you're speccing about houses:

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

Heat's a Hufflepuff. You'd think he was Griffindor but all of his actions stem from loyalty to others, not personal desire for glory/to save the day/to make a mark. It's for Sera, for Serph...

Real!Heat: Ravenclaw. He's the one there with interest in pure knowledge as opposed to just application, and while he's willing to let Sera suffer for this somewhat, provided it's her decision and it's minimal, additional suffering to make it more effective is objected to more out of principle than personal loyalty to a little kid.

Real!Serph's a Slytherin. Knowledge, yes, but it's power he's after through and through, and more for power itself than what it does.

As for Serph himself, while he is a leader instead of a follower and not particularity interested in knowledge except for what it means to his people, the difference between Slytherin and Gryffindor is that Slytherins manipulate while Gryffindors do. Slytherins are lords with minions, Gryffindors are leaders in the old sense, as in the person who charges out ahead and some people decide to follow the path they blaze.

Serph just decides thing, and people accept his decisions because they think they're good ones. He's not a control freak: he's quite often willing to let Gale, Argilla, and the others do their jobs and exert large amounts of control over 'his' tribe. The only time we see him overriding someone else as opposed to being called on for the final verdict is during the scene where Roland gives the Junkyard backstory and Gale is about to reject his offer of alliance. He gets Gale's attention with a touch and gives him a look: Gale accepts his decision because he trusts Serph's judgment and gets his reasoning without Serph needing to convince, much less manipulate. He doesn't force them to listen to them or convince them, they do because he's a good leader. He's mute. He'd suck at manipulating people/convincing them. That's what Gale's for.

Argilla... she's trying to understand in the junkyard, but that comes down to why do we have to hurt... she's the one who doesn't want to betray Jinana, eat and hurt others... Hufflepuff.

Sera... no real personal desire to put herself forward and make a mark, nor desire to lead/guide others: she's also a follower. Her knowledge of God comes from empathy, not actual study. Hufflepuff.

Jenna's a researcher, but for purposes of application not knowledge, so no Ravenclaw. While her motivation comes from David that seemed to be her only instance of loyalty, even though she was loyal enough to kill and die over it. Fundamentally a leader, but willing to act as a fake follower. Her in-game actions are Slytherin to the core, but given the flashback sequences and the ending it comes out that it's all for David, in his name and memory. Remind her of David and her ice queen snake front shatters to peices. That's insane loyalty and devotion. Hufflepuff. True, Slytherins claim loyalty to the Dark Lord, but it's more to what his leadership means to them/society: what they get out of it, mostly. The fourth book one... his fanatic devotion was genuine, but born out of his own needs/interests.

Adil's certainly got great personal courage, and he's loyal to Roland but less to Roland himself than to the cause. He's not a fake subordinate, but he's not a natural subordinate. Gryffindor. He's 'following' Roland because he's a good strategist and the titular commander. Adil leads Lokapala troops in the field: there on the front lines by inclination and Gryffindor. Hesitant to deal with anything Dark, even.

Fred: Gryffindor. We first encounter him as leader of an incredibly dangerous search for another Lokapala kid.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

asdfashfka YOU ARE MADE OF WIN AND AWESOME!

*never saw this coming*

*curls up and dies giggling*

:D :D :D

[belladonna12.livejournal.com]

Lol, love it! I actually started a similar fic to that idea, only with key Harry Potter members as reincarnated Embryons... And yes, Serph's reincarnation is in Slytherin, since Serph even when he's being a good boy is manipulative and sneaky, not at all a Gryffindor.