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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[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"I'm up for it," Hit Girl said. "I mean, even if we were to restore our worlds or whatever, its not like I have a whole lot waiting for me back there except for a boring ass life. Yeah, let's do that."

This idea ought to break a couple brains on the mod team.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"First things first, though. We gotta have a serious Overlord lesson," he said, looking at both of them seriously. "It's not just about being the strongest. Sure, you get the position by being that way, but once you get it there's a lot more to it than that.

"And, Ruffnut, you, uh, might want to talk to your tribe about that," Zetta grumbled reluctantly. "Aside from the fact that if you reincarnate as a demon you'll watch 'em grow old and die before you look more than a couple days older, they might have some arguments for staying human. Not that I care what they think!" he snapped. "But, you might."

...no one call him on that one, it was thoughtful and kinda selfless and he'll really have to struggle to justify that if he's pushed.

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut raised an eyebrow suspiciously "Yeah alright...but it's not like we're gonna die tomorrow right?" She'd pretty much reached her quta on uncomfortable conversations for the year.

But the way Zetta was talking it sounded like this path was for people with nothing to lose.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Either way, its still food for thought, right?" Ht Girl piped up. "And it'll concern you and your guys, Ruffnut. Heck, it might even be something you'll want to prepare them for, eventually. Give them time to get used to the idea."

Hit Girl, of course, hardly had much to lose.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You guys have enough mana to wish to reincarnate any time you want," Zetta said matter-of-factly. "It's not expensive. Hell, spend enough mana and you'll even get a boost out of it. Uh... actually, if you DID die, since the Netherworlds of your universes are probably toast along with them, I'm not sure what would happen to you, so let's try and avoid that route."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut sighed and risked another glance at the Statue, she was sleeping under a tree and drooling. Typical.

"Hard to imagine Asgard being just...gone." Though not as hard as it was to imagine Birk and the Hairy Hooligans being gone.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl snickered a little at the latest statue of Ruffnut. "You drool wehn you sleep huh? Good to know. If we ever have to bunk together if we're camping or something, I'll be sure to put a towel over your face."

..."And what's Asgard?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You know that's just tempting the thing to show something embarrassing of you," Zetta said. "If you have a teddy bear I'm gonna laugh my binding loose."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut ignored the jokes about her drooling, "Asgard is like...the home for the gods. But if the Ohm can eat up universes or whatever where would that leave Odin and his?" She asked a question far too deep for her to ponder on her own.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"What the hell would I do with a teddy bear?" Hit girl said, wrinkling her nose. "I have to shoot at people who have guns and weapons. Having a security blanket after that would be kind of retarded."

Hit girl turned her attention to Ruffnut. "Well, they eat up universes, but that doesn't include plaaces you go after you die, right? It's not like you can just up and go to Asgard whenever you feel like it. So I figure places where gods live have to be offlimits to the Ohm."

She at least hoped that would Ruffnut's mind at ease.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"What, are you kidding?" Zetta said, unhelpfully. "Most gods are like shoeshine boys with me around, and Ohm managed to take out my Netherworld. They're either dead or in the pods, same as everyone else."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruff looked baffled, "I dunno about the gods where you come from, but Odin is nobodies boy." She protested feeling a little anxious as if he would strike them down just for insinuating it.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

If she could have, Hit Girl would have elbowed Overlord Zetta for saying that. She was TRYING to give Ruffnut some hope that Asgard was OK, and hey, who knew if the Ohm could eat that far anyway? That actually was something that was up in the air.

"We'll just have to see," Hit girl said, and the statue morphed again, to one of her and her dad eating ice cream, laughing. Her mouth thinned a little, them she turned to Overlord Zetta.

"Dad sorta WAS my security blanket," she said, daring him to crack a joke. "So I'm good."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Sometimes Zetta despaired of ever getting them to comprehend on a gut level exactly what he meant by "most badass freaking Overlord" or "strongest in the cosmos". Somehow the literality of that statement never seemed to quite translate.

"Hey, you're laughing over something that isn't ultraviolent," Zetta said with a (hypocritical) grin. "Who knew?"

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut tilted her head taking in the statue. "You look like him...without your mask and wig." And then she pointed, "What's that stuff you're eating?"

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit girl blinked, then recovered. She could wonder about this crap later. "I guess I do, a little. He says I took after mom though. And that's ice cream, of course."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Human things. Human concerns. Never mind that Zetta was overtly his parents' kid, this stuff clearly didn't affect him, right?

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"Not like all of you but um...the way he stands and sits and that smile." Ruffnut was pointing between the statues and Mindy, though the statue had already shifted again.

You could almost see her thought process though adding a picture of ice to a barrel of cream and producing...some kind of soup.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl looked thoughtful a moment and then, without thinking much about it, gave Ruffnut's hand a squeeze, and a meaningful look passed between the young girl and the viking.

"Thank you."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Zetta blinked. What had he just missed?

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

The hell if Ruffnut knew. She just blinked slowly, "Uh...yeah sure?" She thought it was something obvious that everyone would say about Mindy and her father but if it made her friend happy, sure why not?

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Of course they wouldn't get why it meant so much to her, but that was Ok too. She was the only one needed to know.

"So what do you say we move from the freaky statue hmm?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Every time we say that, it changes to something worth seeing again," Zetta said. Expectantly, he eyed the statue -- but it remained unchanged for the moment. It seemed to be done revealing Zetta's SECRET BACKSTORY for now.

"Hmm. Guess we're done here?"

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"I've been done." Ruff turned on her heel fast enough to miss the statue showing her and her brother arguing over the dinner table. It could have been any given night.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

She nodded and turned with Ruffnut, very thoroughly happy to leave the jerk ass statue of failure and past memories and stuff.

Without thinking about it, she playfully whapped Ruffnut on the side of the head, just to make sure her helmet rung a bit.