War has...Changed, since the young handsome angel last experienced it. It's strange, for it was always about nations or ethnicity, for fighting for what you wanted and what you believed in back then. But now It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries like Magnus and Dark Lord-Uh, he meant Ghoul, yeah.
Pit has never been a stranger to the concept of war, he was there when Medusa had slain all the other angels in Skyworld, and he was trapped in the Underworld for who knows how long...It just seems like a fuzzy memory at this point. Information control. Emotion control. Battlefield control. Everything is monitored by the gods now, more than it has ever been.
It's sad, humans have always been caught in the crossfire for whenever the gods got into each other's businesses. Treated like cannon fodder, no real purpose, just fumbling around trying to look for meaning while you have gods like Viridi calling them a mistake and trying to exterminate them using Reset Bombs. Then you have Hades, who gives them false hope of the wish seed, only for him to send Underworld troops to collect their souls so that he could become more and more powerful.
War, something that, when it happened, was always a big deal, it constantly changed things, it changed people, it changed the world.
Now? War... has become a routine. And...It scares him, and Pit doesn't usually admit it if he's scared. He always tries to keep an brave face when encountering something dangerous, he tries coming up with cool lines in front of bosses. Only to have someone make a deadpan comment about it a few seconds later, the person probably being Lady Palutena.
If there's anyone taking this even worse then the guardian angel, then it's the Goddess of Light herself.
She was probably the only who tried to understand the humans, whereas the other gods only looked at them face-value. But not her, not Lady Palutena, they were like children to her, and to see them fighting just for the sake of... fighting is just painful.
Fighting was the only thing, the only thing Pit was good for. But at least when he fought, it was for something, it was for her. Pit, he doesn't know what to do, he doesn't know how he should feel. A part of him can't accept this bizarre reality we live in, in that war...
Is used to create peace and order.
What's worse was that it was the humans who proposed this system to the gods, I remember hearing about it from Lady Palutena...Not me, it was Pit.
Ahem.
Anyway, the humans were the ones who purposed this new..."system?" The details are a bit confusing to understand. Basically the system is used to create a solution solve a bunch of ongoing problems like the economy, how the Underworld needs souls to survive, Viridi's wrath, the overgrowing population, etc.
...
Now, the message that Pit was given to by his clone becomes all the more clear to him as he's...
Pit's room has suddenly become silent, as the boy stopped using the typewriter for a while. He glanced at a photo of him and his friends after the fall of Hades, celebrating their victory and saving all of humanity.
'Things used to be so simple back then, save Palutena and defeat Medusa. Defeat X and do Y, now there's no villain TO fight. Hades and Medusa are gone for good, Pyrrhon's out in space and come to think of it, he never sent me the link to Divinipedia!"
"War...Really has changed? Hasn't it?"