Llama Day 20- Video

[acapriciousthing]

For those of you who were busy during Della's get to know you session, I'm Death. Not a god thereof, just... Death.

Apparently it's not always common but life also falls under my domain. And Entrapta tells me there are a surprising number of people with soul location issues.

I might be able to help, if you're willing to talk to me about it. I'll be in the rock garden if you want to talk about it.

[Feel free to action on over to the gardens to discuss the matter in a less public venue]

Comments

[worthallthis]

[Soldat nods soberly.]

I can't help but think about it. The place I was before, it was kinda like being on a mission all the time. Had to be careful. We all had lanterns, though, and so we kind of. Protected each other's.

[They start slowly closing the lantern's shutters again, blocking out the light.]

So you've seen World War Two?

[acapriciousthing]

Do you have friends here that know you need that?

[It can't be something that's always easy to reveal. But friends are good for that.

She nods at his question.]

It happened in my universe too. And, well...

[Why she's seen it is obvious enough.]

[worthallthis]

[They nod a few times.]

Most of my friends know that my lantern is what keeps me alive. I did kind of die on my second mission, so. It's been made pretty obvious.

[They settle back a little.]

I fought in that war. I remember some of it. Did your world have HYDRA?

One brief dive into the DC wiki later...

[acapriciousthing]

So they can help you just like the friends in the last place did.

[And they don't even have their own to worry about at the same time]

Nothing called HYDRA. There were a lot of forces at play in that war though.

[worthallthis]

Probably for the best. If there was no HYDRA then there was no me.

[And probably no Captain America, either. They think that's probably all for the best. If there were a Steve Rogers and a Bucky Barnes in Death's world, then they probably lived and died in Brooklyn. Or possibly on the front, in the end, but definitely not on an operating table or falling from anything high up.]

[acapriciousthing]

I'm not sure why there being no you would be a good thing.

[She likes him, what can she say?]

But I've noticed it seems like only major political figures seem to get duplicated between Earths. The rest of the population seems to vary more.

[worthallthis]

[Soldat shakes their head a little.]

HYDRA was the Nazi science division in my world. With no HYDRA. There would be no Winter Soldier. Near-immortal assassin supporting the cause of security over freedom, serving HYDRA for seventy years.

[They tap the metal arm lightly.]

Only near-immortal, though. Finally got free. By dying.

[acapriciousthing]

That sounds like you think it would be better without what those people did to you.

[Subtle distinction. But so important to an invidual's value.]

It's not the best way out... but it's a way out.

[worthallthis]

[Well, maybe. But there are a lot of things that they think would be better, for the world and themselves, if they'd never gotten off that medical table back in the war. Soldat has no real desire to die, again, now that history has already happened, but... the desire for none of it to have happened is kinda there.]

No, not the best way. But still denies HYDRA my skillset, and I'll take that. Turned out weirdly okay, for dying. Most people probably don't get to do this dead-but-not thing.