Revelations:
Mirror Mask
December 25th - Ragnarök
The thunder echoed - a great gong against the bowl of black that was sky above them. It was the end of times. It was awash in the crashing sea, the swirling sky, the driving darkness. It was cold, forsaken, forgotten.
This is how the world ended: not in fire and blood, no. In thunder and death. Would they both wash away into nothing?
She stood in the rain with her hands out to the sides.
"I'm unarmed. Look at me. I'm unarmed. I'm not a threat."
She was shaking. Her breath eased in and out of her lungs in a puff and burst of white. Her voice carried, filling the air with the desperation that lay between them now like blood from an open wound.
"….please. Please. Put it down. You can still put it down. I know you can. I know it. You're still you. I'm still me. I'm me. It's me…look at me. See me. I'm still me."
She was soaked in blood, listing badly to one side. She was bruised and broken and dying. She'd crawled away – from the only man she'd ever really let close enough to hurt her.
They'd battled. They'd bled. They'd broken and burst like werewolves from the flesh of their own determination. They'd nearly died.
They were the only two left standing.
They stood now facing each other in the pouring rain. The rain slid down the prominent blade of his nose and dripped free. The hair in his eyes hid the color but it couldn't hide the emptiness.
Hollow. He was hollow.
She didn't know how they'd gotten here. She could see, if she closed her eyes, the struggle of it, the loss, the pain…that had taken a hero and left him ruined.
But she didn't know how they'd gotten to this moment – where there was nothing left of him at all.
She tried again, voice breaking on it, "I love you. You know that? I love you. Don't let him win…he can't…if you're still you. Are you? Are you still…you?"
He wasn't.
He was hollow.
"Are you even you anymore?"
The echo of the gun was her only answer.
Post Note:
I started this story on the premise of something else. But it got lost there under what I really wanted to write. This is it. I don't know where it ends. But I know it's what my brain wants. The Mistress Muse is heavily credited here. She has these deep ideas of what lurks beneath us all. She also leans heavily into the darker side of things to draw her inspiration. So, although the writing is mine, the story is ours.
*1 -In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events, including a great battle, foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the Gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors. Ragnarök is an important event in Norse mythology and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory throughout the history of Germanic studies.
In a way, what Wesker attempts in Resident Evil 5 is a cleansing, using Uroboros (which also has ties to Norse Mythology and likely respresents The Midgard Serpent - or the serpent who encircles the world). To be reborn, the world must die first. Capcom draws a lot of their monsters and their ideas from mythology. Uroborus (or Ouroboros) is itself, in ancient Egyptian iconography, the image of a snake eating its own tail - which is also the image of the Midgard Serpent. In Gnosticism, a serpent biting its tail symbolized eternity and the soul of the world. So it makes sense that such a thing would herald the end of times and the birth of a "new world". But we won't find Wesker here. This isn't his world. Not yet.
I want to see what happens when the world dies. So I'm going to do what I do here, and make my own path through Revelations toward the end of the world. Obviously this falls under AU since it parts from the path of the game after the ship, but let's see what happens when the world falls apart. What happens, essentially, if the heroes fail and the virus gets loose?
What's the world look like lost in the Abyss? (T-Abyss clearly. XD)