In Which the Overlord Dislikes What He Sees [Open]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

In roaming the ship, out of an increased sense of irritation and impatience, Zetta had discovered someplace new to him.

Most of the murals and paintings and sculptures in the place, disturbing though they might be to a mortal mind, gave the Overlord no pause whatsoever. In his thousands of years, he had seen the death of worlds, the descent into madness of some truly great minds, the greatest depravities of the Netherworlds, and Mickey in a feather boa. These 'alarming' sculptures couldn't dare disturb the mental integrity of the Overlord! Hyaaa ha ha ha ha!

...What DID shock him, though, was the statues beneath a giant head-sculpture thing. Two of them, in fact: the first an obstinate Overlord, arms crossed and looking stubborn, his back to the second; the second a woman walking away, stoic despite tears.

"What the... What the HELL is THIS crap?!" Zetta demanded of the room in general and the cosmos at large.

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[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You're sure you're not just seeing what you want to see?" Zetta asked.

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

She smiled at him, "Could be, but I don't think so. It's alright if you don't want to talk about it. You can always call on me if you need to talk or for anything really."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I still don't get what you're ON about, how the hell could I talk about it?" Ronnae was lucky; Zetta was grumbling so furiously he'd totally missed the opportunity to leer at her and make a bad crack about what 'anything' entailed.

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Good thing too! "Sheesh Zetta, I don't get it. It's like one moment you sound like you're getting it, then the next you get frustrated and say you don't. Regardless, I'm glad I got to see this and know a bit more about you, no matter how stubborn you're being." She sighed, but laughed a bit.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"All I GET is that you want me to be some lovey-dovey stars-in-my-eyes hearts-in-my-hair family man or something! And demons don't DO that!" Never mind the statue damn it!

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

She frowned a bit, "No, I would never want anyone to be something they're not. What I wanted was to know more about what was being displayed on the statues, and wonder why you never gave it a chance with the girl, that's all. I also wish you'd stop promoting yourself as the poster boy for the most cliche'd stereotypes about demons. I know you're better than that, you've shown it to me."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"...I'm the badass freaking Overlord!" Zetta said in something like shock. "I'm the freaking embodiment of those cliched stereotypes! To be anything less would be an insult to the title of Overlord and the demon race!"

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

"Because you're THE badass freaking Overlord it the main reason why you should be making fads or stereotypes, and not following them. I mean really, who respects someone who falls into the usual cliches?" She teased Zetta with a quirked brow.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Because I'm the paragon of them!" Zetta countered. "I'm at the top of the game! That means I DEFINE the damn cliches, I don't 'fall into' them! I am what I am because of who I am and who I am becomes what it is!"

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

She sighed. "This is going nowhere... fine, I submit. You win as usual." She threw her hands up in frustration and sat down to look at the different statues. Her attention always came back to Zetta's however, wondering why in his world everything was so black and white and yet.... He didn't seem like that... So why be so adamant about claiming to be.... She didn't understand...

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hyaaa ha ha ha ha! I always win! That's why I'm the most badass freaking Overlord in the cosmos!"

Zetta had, of course, completely missed the point of her surrender.

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

"Yeah... woo." She didn't understand him at times. One moment he'd be understanding and easy to get along with and talk to... Then at others he'd retreat into this non-budging shell of 'I'm the overlord and I won't budge. Anything you say comes in one ear and leaves through the other.'

She wondered if that was ingrained into him by his parents or if it was just a self-defense thing.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Whatever the reason, the book smugly celebrated victory, having once again written off the statue now that it wasn't showing anything revealing or insightful and --

Oh hey, speak of, the statue just shifted to show him clonking a cocky-looking guy over the head with the flat of the sword. Zetta snickered. "Now I like this statue a little more. Take THAT, Alex!"

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Ronnae quirked a brow and looked at the new scene curiously. "Alex? Family or?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Alexander, God of Destruction. Also known as Alex, Alejandro, or Asshat," Zetta said as if by rote. "He's an Overlord who thinks he's my rival, but even after 20,846 assassins and 6,413 meaningless wars, he still hasn't taken me down."

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

"Oh? Sounds like a stubborn failure. Tho, gotta admire his persistence." She wasn't as interested it seemed. She already knew Zetta, at full power, was beyond anything she could have ever dreamed off. So him triumphing over another Overlord was expected. At least to her.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Exactly!" Zetta said, laughing in pleasure at how quickly Ronnae had picked up on that. "But I almost miss him just to break the monotony. Being top dog on the ship is kind of boring with no one anywhere near able to challenge me."

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

She raised an eyebrow curiously, "Even while stuck in a book you're that powerful? Well I knew you were incredible, but I thought your powers were greatly limited in that state, or I'd figured you'd destroyed the Ohm by now."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Zetta gave Ronnae an indescribable look.

"Of course I'm still that powerful. My mana power is every bit as strong as it was when I had my body! I'm just lacking certain important things at the moment!"

Like.. arms.

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

"So kind of like to be able to cast spells?" She raised a brow.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"SPELLS?!" Zetta bellowed. "How about hitting something with a sword, Ronnae?!"

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

"Hm? Sorry never pegged you for the melee type. So you were a sword fighter?" She asked curiously.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"...what the hell did you think I was? I mean I'm right there in the statue clonking Alex," he said in disbelief. "Leave magic and technology to people who can't beat the crap out of things themselves!"

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

"I... sorry. I suppose you're right. I bet you were an amazing swordsman." She was still a bit put out considering he wanted to keep expressing that he had no heart and cared not for feelings, but she knew better, at least she hoped the feelings he had been showing weren't fake...

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Of course I was!" Zetta growled, though at this point he was being loud and growly just for the sake of it. Really, if she asked him about those feelings he'd been showing.. he'd just be confused. He hadn't been showing anything!