NiER Automata - Golden Dawn
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picture_prompt_funTitle: Golden Dawn
2B looked up at the golden rays of dawn flooding through the canopy of trees, bathing the entire unspoilt woodland in vibrant emerald, and ponders once more how they should not have ever come here.
This place had never been for them. It hadn't been a real threat. This 'Forest King' - dead now on the blade of a rebel who had appeared out of nowhere - had been just a child, used as a ritual object of hollow worship.
Before the Fall, she mused, this would have been the sort of place that a real human would consider to be special, worth getting sentimental about and protecting for its own sake. They destroyed a lot of nature in a struggle to keep their large population alive, so anything they could preserve, they held onto fiercely. Some of them even found places like this more important than their own survival, wished for their extinction so that the whole world could revert to this.
They'd gotten their wish, she supposed - nothing was stopping nature reclaiming it all. Nothing, except one side or the other escalating this new war.
She had a new mission, though - to track down the rogue agent - and 9S would probably reprimand her for stalling and for questioning her orders. There was a time when she'd been the practical one while 9S repeatedly compromised them with sentimentality.
"Let's just get out of here and not come back," she sighed. On this, at least, 9S agreed.
Fandom: NiER Automata
Author: tehexile
tehexileRating: PG-13/Gen
Characters: 9S, 2B
Words: 250
Tags: mention of infanticide
Summary: 2B wonders if they should even have come to the forest.
Picture: 149
2B looked up at the golden rays of dawn flooding through the canopy of trees, bathing the entire unspoilt woodland in vibrant emerald, and ponders once more how they should not have ever come here.
This place had never been for them. It hadn't been a real threat. This 'Forest King' - dead now on the blade of a rebel who had appeared out of nowhere - had been just a child, used as a ritual object of hollow worship.
Before the Fall, she mused, this would have been the sort of place that a real human would consider to be special, worth getting sentimental about and protecting for its own sake. They destroyed a lot of nature in a struggle to keep their large population alive, so anything they could preserve, they held onto fiercely. Some of them even found places like this more important than their own survival, wished for their extinction so that the whole world could revert to this.
They'd gotten their wish, she supposed - nothing was stopping nature reclaiming it all. Nothing, except one side or the other escalating this new war.
She had a new mission, though - to track down the rogue agent - and 9S would probably reprimand her for stalling and for questioning her orders. There was a time when she'd been the practical one while 9S repeatedly compromised them with sentimentality.
"Let's just get out of here and not come back," she sighed. On this, at least, 9S agreed.
