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

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

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

...actually, I think I'm going to have to do some more thinking about Roland.

You can make arguments for all four houses for him, but he house there's a large counterargument for is Hufflepuff: it's hard to see a Hufflepuff abandoning Greg.

So, if I'm going for opposite of Hufflepuff, that would be Slytherin. We all know Roland's more rationally than emotionally driven even despite the fact that he has huge freaking issues. He doesn't let his death wish overwhelm him until he knows rationally it's the correct decision to make.

Roland... expresses himself as Greg's follower to a large degree, but that might just be paying homage to his memory/Roland thinking of himself as a sucky leader for failing Greg and guilt tripping. If he were the type to get sucked into a Gryffindor's orbit, he'd be taking orders from Adil, not the other way around.

At that point, the Greg - Roland Lokapala becomes a clear two-man leadership, the two covering both strategic and tactical aspects between them. It's interesting that Roland's replacemtent for Greg, Adil, is a Gryffindor: the hands-on approach is what the Greg-less Lokapala needs.

His attempt to gain control over the Embryon isn't by just handing them information Ravenclawish or talking about ideals Gryffindorishly. He's using a combo of moral suasion, information, and the fact he holds Cielo hostage to get these people under control.

When he joins the party, it's very much under his own terms. He doesn't ask permission: he just shows up in their colors. That is one hell of an audacious act in the type of setup the Junkyard had, I bet he knew that. He's saying that he has the authority to make himself an Embryon, which is saying that he's Serph's equal.

While he feels that he failed as a leader and thus his issues make him want to be a follower, his base personality is fighting that tooth and nail.

I think the difficulty with him is the same as with Jenna: the issues are distorting the reading.

Roland's a Slytherin who wishes he was a Hufflepuff, because maybe if he had been stupid and impulsive enough to stay... they both would have died, but, he would have made the effort and he wouldn't be stuck in this hellish world trying to hold it together as it falls apart around him.

So, at that point the odd thing would be that the 'natural leader' Gryffindor with Hufflepuff and a Ravenclaw followers would be putting up with a Slytherin trying to steal his authority. They wouldn't be wondering about Serph, they'd be wondering why Serph's letting Roland lure his minions to the dark side with evil tricks like taking Cielo hostage and giving him Stockholm Syndrome. I mean, good lord. Imagine how easy it would be for a writer, who's essentially trained in spinning lies, to convince Cielo he's the greatest thing since Serph except for being unfortunatly Gale-like?