06-19-2025, 04:50 PM
/grimly pins Death & Rebirth for later
Something I ran across in a video/video reaction from somebody who was comparing the trailer voice lines in the various languages, is that in english it's called a 'bond' but in the others it's called a 'contract'. which are technically equivalent to each other but the implications are very different. a bond is often an emotional thing, although it can be used as contract in a literal sense, whereas contract is very much a statement of business with no emotional overlays to it at all.
so if your average Lemurian can form a contract with a human, what does the Lemurian get out of it? If all Lemurians are capable of and assumed to be interested in forming these contracts, what is the advantage to doing so? The human gets control of the Lemurian, in that they can command that Lemurian to do anything, up to killing themselves, so there has to be a reason to do it anyways. And this question is about the 'average' Joe Fish Lemurian, not the Sea God.
and please correct me if I'm wrong because I am patently not great at extracting out specific details on the fly - the Sea God requires a Follower who will become their Sacrifice. they forge the contract which enhances the Sea God's power (some mystic way). If the Sea God can have the Follower fall in love with them, it empowers the bond the more deeply the human loves them, to the point of soul deep devotion which would be the pinnacle of success and the strongest possible source of energy and a blazing well of power.
yet the contract is the point of weakness because 1) the Sea God should have no fetters on his limits and as the Follower/Bride can command him in all regards, the (instincts of?) the Deep Sea cannot abide it, and 2) the Bride herself can be used as a bargaining chip by others as she is vulnerable, being of humanity and not lemurian origin. so its in the Sea God's best interest to get his Follower to devote herself, carve out of heart at the height of its love for him and then keep it forever, guarded and cherished and loving him until the end of the world, where she can command nothing because she has no voice and no form.
until, i guess, she reincarnates again and it all starts over once more.
Something I ran across in a video/video reaction from somebody who was comparing the trailer voice lines in the various languages, is that in english it's called a 'bond' but in the others it's called a 'contract'. which are technically equivalent to each other but the implications are very different. a bond is often an emotional thing, although it can be used as contract in a literal sense, whereas contract is very much a statement of business with no emotional overlays to it at all.
so if your average Lemurian can form a contract with a human, what does the Lemurian get out of it? If all Lemurians are capable of and assumed to be interested in forming these contracts, what is the advantage to doing so? The human gets control of the Lemurian, in that they can command that Lemurian to do anything, up to killing themselves, so there has to be a reason to do it anyways. And this question is about the 'average' Joe Fish Lemurian, not the Sea God.
and please correct me if I'm wrong because I am patently not great at extracting out specific details on the fly - the Sea God requires a Follower who will become their Sacrifice. they forge the contract which enhances the Sea God's power (some mystic way). If the Sea God can have the Follower fall in love with them, it empowers the bond the more deeply the human loves them, to the point of soul deep devotion which would be the pinnacle of success and the strongest possible source of energy and a blazing well of power.
yet the contract is the point of weakness because 1) the Sea God should have no fetters on his limits and as the Follower/Bride can command him in all regards, the (instincts of?) the Deep Sea cannot abide it, and 2) the Bride herself can be used as a bargaining chip by others as she is vulnerable, being of humanity and not lemurian origin. so its in the Sea God's best interest to get his Follower to devote herself, carve out of heart at the height of its love for him and then keep it forever, guarded and cherished and loving him until the end of the world, where she can command nothing because she has no voice and no form.
until, i guess, she reincarnates again and it all starts over once more.
