[The Batter was not obliged to offer answers. He could walk away, right now and be done with it.
But he remembers a girl's attempts to get him to feel something, a man's quest of 'revenge' in the strangest manner possible. Of a woman who, long ago did not run from a monster but rather embrace him and the death that soon followed.
The worst news of Zacharie's life. Well, he wasn't wrong.
He did not honor memories in the way that a normal human does. It helps that he wasn't one to begin with. So he sits down beside Ren and begins to fill the silence with words. And if his appearance changes at any point...the Batter wouldn't be surprised.]
Her name was Vader Eloha. She and I were created at the same time.
[Created probably brings to mind a lot of things, puts into context why the Batter doesn't think like a normal human does. He was created for one purpose and one purpose only. The kill switch, the final solution when the world reached the pinnacle of corruption. The executioner at the end of the world.
The King of the Rot. The Batter.]
And we...were meant to be.
[Being created at the same time was not a guarantee that they would love each other. Their creator was a flawed one in the sense that there were some things he did not understand. So it was a split, 50/50. The Batter and the Queen would love each other or they would not.
They did and they continued together. For a long, long time.]
My world is composed of four Zones and the Room where myself and the Queen lived with our creator. I do not have many memories of life back then. They are eroding, even now.
[Ren can probably remember that from the memory she saw. Of someone dearly loved but less then half-remembered. Something that was slipping through the Batter's fingers at a rapid pace that he could not control. There was very little the Batter actually controlled.
And over and over again. Go back home, she had said. But the Batter had gone back home, to the cradle of his Father. And then...]
The world...its center is our creator. And he soon became very ill. The Zones started to become corrupt. And so I dug into the world and was given my purpose.
[Through the dirt, blood, organs and bones of the world. He found the answer within the whispers of the Nothingness and rose back up as himself.]
The Queen and I did not...we could not come to an agreement, so I left. I left so I could come back home. I went through all the Zones and purified them. I defeated the corrupt Guardians and purified the lands. I killed them all.
[A baseball bat that was not dented from playing games and a uniform that was not covered in dirt from sliding into each bases, but from breaking things and the blood from the corpses that piled up behind the Batter as he continued along with the Puppeteer.]
What you saw was what happened when I went back home. She...wished to defend our creator. Perhaps it was the right thing to do, to let things continue regardless of the outcome but I would not allow that to happen. I wished for a world that was pure once again.
[This is the longest the Batter has ever spoken and it's starting to show as he slows down. But he has to keep going. She needs to know.]
I won. And then I destroyed my creator. And...then I was judged, found guilty and won that as well. And...
["Remember, dear Batter. Escape is impossible."]
And I destroyed myself and the world. That is what I did. That, is who the Batter is.
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But he remembers a girl's attempts to get him to feel something, a man's quest of 'revenge' in the strangest manner possible. Of a woman who, long ago did not run from a monster but rather embrace him and the death that soon followed.
The worst news of Zacharie's life. Well, he wasn't wrong.
He did not honor memories in the way that a normal human does. It helps that he wasn't one to begin with. So he sits down beside Ren and begins to fill the silence with words. And if his appearance changes at any point...the Batter wouldn't be surprised.]
Her name was Vader Eloha. She and I were created at the same time.
[Created probably brings to mind a lot of things, puts into context why the Batter doesn't think like a normal human does. He was created for one purpose and one purpose only. The kill switch, the final solution when the world reached the pinnacle of corruption. The executioner at the end of the world.
The King of the Rot. The Batter.]
And we...were meant to be.
[Being created at the same time was not a guarantee that they would love each other. Their creator was a flawed one in the sense that there were some things he did not understand. So it was a split, 50/50. The Batter and the Queen would love each other or they would not.
They did and they continued together. For a long, long time.]
My world is composed of four Zones and the Room where myself and the Queen lived with our creator. I do not have many memories of life back then. They are eroding, even now.
[Ren can probably remember that from the memory she saw. Of someone dearly loved but less then half-remembered. Something that was slipping through the Batter's fingers at a rapid pace that he could not control. There was very little the Batter actually controlled.
And over and over again. Go back home, she had said. But the Batter had gone back home, to the cradle of his Father. And then...]
The world...its center is our creator. And he soon became very ill. The Zones started to become corrupt. And so I dug into the world and was given my purpose.
[Through the dirt, blood, organs and bones of the world. He found the answer within the whispers of the Nothingness and rose back up as himself.]
The Queen and I did not...we could not come to an agreement, so I left. I left so I could come back home. I went through all the Zones and purified them. I defeated the corrupt Guardians and purified the lands. I killed them all.
[A baseball bat that was not dented from playing games and a uniform that was not covered in dirt from sliding into each bases, but from breaking things and the blood from the corpses that piled up behind the Batter as he continued along with the Puppeteer.]
What you saw was what happened when I went back home. She...wished to defend our creator. Perhaps it was the right thing to do, to let things continue regardless of the outcome but I would not allow that to happen. I wished for a world that was pure once again.
[This is the longest the Batter has ever spoken and it's starting to show as he slows down. But he has to keep going. She needs to know.]
I won. And then I destroyed my creator. And...then I was judged, found guilty and won that as well. And...
["Remember, dear Batter. Escape is impossible."]
And I destroyed myself and the world. That is what I did. That, is who the Batter is.
[That is who I am.]