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DOOMED BY BIRTH
2024-12-26 09:31:37
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[Vulpin Adventure OST - Sea Cave]

Grain had been refusing to be calm for the past two days. He cried endlessly, as if he had something stolen from him. His owner could do nothing to stop the crying, and with each tear they felt a powerful need to......hug him. Hug him until he stopped crying.

One way or the other.

One day the door was left open, and baby Grain, in his grief galloped out and away.

2024-12-26 09:32:34
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The duo followed Grain outside and through the rains. At one point he perched on the edge of the citadel platform, and saw the horrors brought on by the never-ending storm. If he was brave enough, he would have opened his wings and flew off, but Grain was a cowardly unicorn.

Though it had been 30 years since he was adopted, he had not grown up a single bit. He whined and begged like a child, and his caretakers.....

Loved him...yes....ever so much loved....crying....begging......loud and messy.....baby Grain....

He turned to run away from the sights of the flood, but instead ran into the legs of a much larger unicorn. It snorts in annoyance at the smaller unicorn.
"Grain? Grain!" The tailed had found the baby among the trash and took up caring for it but now was trailing after in the nasty weather. Once he was spotted ahead the tailed ran up.
Lucky Dream
2024-12-26 09:34:12
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"Grain! You can't run out in this weather. It's too dangerous and now you bothered this unicorn. Come here, it's okay buddy."
Trailing behind them, she was relieved they'd finally found him. Although Grain was a little brat, Solar was always here to help their sibling.
King snorts in anger. A voice erupts from the sea around them. "More tailed kits! Just my luck! And you two are dabbling in this? This is not a pet! This is not a plaything!"
"This thing you're calling Grain is a mythical being of the Radical. I remember this 'Grain.' I've seen it when I was a child."
Abyss Horse
2024-12-27 10:16:24
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"Protector of children. Effigies to 'Grain' would be placed wherever Radical kits, or the children of Radical tailed would be gathered. Anomalous mechanisms would be set, so that if any child cried, 'Grain' would cry louder."
"This is the closest thing you could get to owning a god. Why do you have it?"
Her ears flickered to the information they were receiving.
"We found the pitiful thing amongst rubble..."
Lucky Dream
2024-12-27 10:17:24
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"We kinda just found him. We didn't know he was part of the Radical. I've been trying to care for him and keep him calm."
"It hasn't been working well."
"You know why you likely found him in rubble? It's because sweet baby 'Grain' here likely cried and cried until the world around him collapsed!"
"How could an entity of protection be a danger you ask? Well the voice of those effigies didn't just summon a caretaker. If the caretaker wasn't twisted already, they'd be twisted soon!"
"Turned into new, terrible forms that would protect the children. Losing themselves to become nothing but guard dogs. Is that what you want to become?"
"A guard dog for baby Grain?"
Lucky Dream
2024-12-27 10:18:44
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"No, I still want to be Lucky."
"Then cast baby Grain into the ocean."
"That is what I told them!"
Baby Grain runs to Lucky, tears in its eyes.
Lucky Dream
2024-12-27 12:40:32
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"Is there any other way..? I don't want to kill him, really!"

Baby Grain sniffles into Lucky's cloak, before looking back at Abyss Horse with such hate. Lucky wanted to protect Grain from this awful unicorn....

Lucky Dream rolls a 10 sided die. A 7 is rolled.

But Lucky holds it together....for now.

"Let them keep their anomaly if they wish."
"If it destroys them, what does it matter? They are tailed. They are "supposed to be destroyed" and "awful beings" aren't they?"
Solar put a hand on Lucky's shoulder, sneering at the roximur.
"Perhaps Grain belongs in the ocean, sibling."
Lucky Dream
2024-12-27 12:42:20
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"Aw, I don't think we're that awful. Minus finding out we had a creature that was a part of god. I just want time to think about it."
"Being killed by their own anomalies is the only thing tailed seem to be good at."
"One day, you might find yourself awoken as a unicorn yourself."
"As so many others who praised Grain have awoken as."
"Then maybe you'll curse yourself for not casting that beast into the waters."
Lucky Dream
2024-12-27 12:43:18
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"You both seem to know a lot about tailed. Would it really be best to ..?" They make a motion with their hands.
She knows she and her siblings have no place in this universe but still she stated.
"What right have they to criticize... not even tailed themselves!"
Grain cries even louder. How could Lucky, lovely Lucky ever consider throwing him, his lovely baby boy, into the ocean!
Grain rolls a 5 sided die. A 1 is rolled.

Lucky's mind is changed by Grain.
Lucky Dream MUST do one of these actions.
1. Attack Abyss horse
2. Kill Grain
3. Throw away Grain


Lucky Dream
2024-12-27 12:45:22
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It would be against their wishes but Lucky wanted to be Lucky. Nobody else. They look past the sad eyes and kill Grain.

Lucky loved baby Grain with all of his heart, but the crying was too much for him. It echoed in his very soul. He just.....wanted the crying to stop. Without thinking, he pushed baby Grain into the sea.

Lucky couldn't tell if baby Grain looked back at him with hate or sadness in his crying eyes.
"We better run before its cries attract something worse." King starts a trot away.
[Undertale OST - But nobody came.]
Grain cries and cries but.....something strange happens. No one came to help it.
Even Abyss Horse realized quickly that something was wrong. He and the others stood at the edge of the citadel, watching Grain cry. "Something is very wrong."
"What are you talking about?"
"This, 'Grain' is a high deity of the Radical! One of her highest!"
"Why is she not answering his pleads?"
"Like you said, the gods are evil! They HAVE no love for their followers. That's why the tailed ended up the way they did."
"No this is much different. She might not care much for even her highest priest, but she SHOULD care about one of her most powerful creations."
"That thing is just going to drown and she doesn't care...........something terrible has happened within the holy gods."
"Is there anything that can be done? He just died for nothing.."
Lucky Dream
2024-12-27 12:49:07
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"Well besides me being a mindless guard dog but..." They wave their hand.
She just rested her hand on Lucky's shoulder, unsure of how to support.
"I will consider that a blessing enough."

There's splashing in the waters as a galehaut investigates the commotion.


Abyss Horse
2024-12-27 12:49:49
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Abyss Horse looks to the sky. "Nothing? Truly? You will do nothing?" But the gods did nothing as the galehaut, a common animal killed one of the Radical's highest officers.
"Why do you care if Grain dies?"
"It's not that I care, it's that the idea of the gods being silent is worrisome."
Abyss Horse trots at the edge, waiting for something to happen, but it never does.
"If the gods are silent, that's a good thing!"
"And if a tailed is harmed, isn't that supposed to be good as well?"
Lucky Dream
2024-12-27 12:51:23
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"Not all of us are that bad, I don't think. I mostly just spend my time in the trash not bothering anyone else."
"Though I don't think the gods being silent is good either. It's a little scary."
"All tailed should die."
"You. And me should be in those waters. Tailed are unforgivable."
"The only ones of us who should live are the tecats, but anyone who sees themself as a tailed should be dead."
"Maybe as a species, but not as individuals...I once again bring up if you even have a say to such, why do you speak of yourself included?"
"Simple. I may have been born a tecat, but in my search for my culture I have become a tailed, and the tailed should not be forgiven for what they have done."
"Their existence affects even a great part of the universe now. Do you know the tailed walk among us all. Ruining this universe?"
"We do not ask for forgiveness."
"If we are so horrible, how can we?"
"Let me tell you a story that I was taught."
"A story I skipped."
"One about how the tailed affect this universe, even to this day."
LONG AGO...
[OMORI OST - 168/169 OMORI + ALTER]

The child tailed had yelled about this thing called a "notail" outside the city. They were not speaking about their forgotten brethren, the tailed with no tails that were often casted away, but in the mind of child, that's all it could describe the creatures as.

???
2024-12-27 12:58:13
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The leader of the city, took the lead to comfort these creatures, and they looked just like the child described.

They stood on two legs, had no tail, and were completely furless. Disgustingly as soon as they spotted the tailed, one of them flashed their teeth. Aggression. Hostility. It even had the gall to open its mouth. Its loud piercing sound a terror upon the sensitive ears of the tailed onlookers.
"What are you beings? Are you sent by god?" The tailed did not think these were holy, but wished to give them a chance despite their hostile movements.
???
2024-12-27 12:59:18
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The first voice booms again. The tailed forced to pin their ears back. An animal making this much noise would be begging to be hunted down. A second creature finally speaks in some sense of words. It hisses a "shuuuuuush." Though the meaning of this broken language was not understood by the tailed.
The first one covers its face, and its teeth. Finally showing some ounce of respect.
NYX
2024-12-27 12:59:47
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There's a bit of silent pointing, before all the creatures move back to allow another beast to take the lead. This one was made of metal and was able to hum just like any other tailed.
NYX
2024-12-27 13:00:04
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"Greetings! I am NYX. Me and my friends here are currently escaping our planet due to EXTREMELY bad events! We used some rather experimental means to get to this planet! I believe you would call them holy! =)*

*This is an expression of calmness. The mouth is closed! =)"
"What gods do you fall under?"
"Don't know! All I know is we did some pretty special things to be able to talk to you right now! We love you! =)"
"So, please let us stay. We won't be a bother. =)"
"What makes you believe that we'll let a bunch of loud animals stay here?"
"................................."
"Kindness? =)"
"How sweet."
"But tailed are the only species allowed the glory of the gods!"
"Even our far away allies are frauds! These animal's association with god is a joke!"
"Oh.....=
)"
"But we brought you gifts! See! =)" Symbols appear on the screen of the NYX.
The creatures gather a few objects. A canine, a yellow fruit, but the worst one of them all, was an insect.
"Hi! You people are amazing! =)"
The tailed backs away in disgust.
"We learned a song, just for you! Want to hear it? =)"
"H...holy insects? W-What sort of GOD CREATED HOLY INSECTS?"
"We're going to take that as a yes! Yay! Alright, a one, a two, a one, two, three, four!"
"Kill them!"
But the other tailed do not move. "How could....such a godless being sing such a holy tune?"
The aliens seem pleased by the reaction. Though each one looks to the other in hopes of confirmation that this is the right reaction.
"Then I'll do it myself! If the gods disagree they will strike me down!" The tailed launches itself at the aliens. Fangs and claws held out. One is brought down, neck ripped open.
The others back away, one of them gets on their knees and prays.
"They're unarmed! =)"
"What are you trying to do, summon some sort of unholy insect deity? I won't let you bring that sort of monster here!" The next one to be stricken down was the one who prayed. The pose of submission resembling the one the tailed often took themselves.
When all of the aliens were dead, it was only the small ones left.

"You're awful! =)"
"I hope your day isn't as good as most days! =)"
"Begone, unholy animal!" The tailed went to crush the insect-
But something terrible burst from the body of the aliens. A large disgusting insect that flung away the tailed. Allowing the smaller ones to escape.
"Will you fight now?! I told you it was some unholy trap!" The other tailed realizing the horrible beasts that now charged forward, finally took up arms. Something felt wrong about what they were doing. But there was no turning back.
"I thought the notails were this creature known as the humans. But that wasn't true at all."
"The tailed killed all the humans that had landed on our planet."
"The humans were just....trying to escape whatever made them into those disgusting monsters in suits. Using CRUEL godly knowledge they gained. They should have never made the jump. They should have never escaped to the tailed world."
"But what else could they do? It was trust the safety of people or die.....but those people. Us? Tailed? We're just murderers! And even after all of that. We sprayed our planets with "holy pesticide" to get rid of a couple of bugs! But you know what it did? It made them worse. It made them LARGER."
"Instead of dealing with insects the size of our hands we were dealing with pests twice our own size. We couldn't even escape in kindness. No. We had to steal a deathtrap of a dome and kill those who built it."
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2024-12-27 13:10:29
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"And, in a final act of revenge, the tailless ones, the notails, tortured those inside for their genocide! I have been seeking my dead culture all this time and it turns out that the tailed are STILL ALIVE!"
Nameless
2024-12-27 13:11:13
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"The pesticide may have made their fur and faces fall off, but those notails are the same thrown out by their own kin. The ones who became pets for insects that inhabit their minds......

.....I wish I was never taken out of that dome. I wish I never learned the truth. I see now how the god of knowledge kills. There are some facts out there in the universe that is worse than living in a lie."
She turns to face the rampaging waters. "I was going to join this game and get granted a wish. I was going to wish for the tailed to be back, and for everything to be fixed. But what's the point? They never left, and to be honest, these are the better tailed. I can't imagine a universe where those other tailed never died. The notails are horrifing, but did you hear what they said about....those poor aliens? That they're animals. Those other tailed don't see any other living being as anything other than an ANIMAL. If they saw me, even as I talk, they would eat me like cattle!"
"Do you know how long a tecat lives? 20 years. I spent 5 of those in a dome, and about 20 looking for someone to connect to."
"I'm on borrowed time. I'm lucky to have made it this far."
"If you do what I'm thinking, I won't stop you."
"You were told multiple times to not go down this path. To seek out connections with others. To not seek history that wanted to DIE."
"If I die, it is not my fault."
"I am politely asking the gods, to offer their assistance to a tailed. A follower of their beliefs." She takes out a knife and cuts her tail off. The most powerful offering a tailed could give to their god.
"If I die, the gods are my murderers. They will have ignored one of their children again, just like they've done a million times before." She throws her tail to the sea, and soon jumps after it.
Nameless rolls a 5 sided die. A 1 is rolled.
But there is no god that comes for her. Only the unholy galehaut who grabs her before she even hits the water. As if the gods were awaiting her offering.
"Idiot." Abyss Horse turns around, head lowered as he trots.
"Another one killed by a history of horrors."
END OF EXPO
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