Animus
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 |  Subject: How much silver?  Tue Sep 29, 2020 5:08 pm | |
|  ️With the quickness, the blood moonlight shines down on Animus, seated in a chair with his arms folded and his feet kicked back.️
My parents taught me the value of silver, they were nickel and dime pinchers. My mother loved running her hands through pockets, you see. My father spent mornings getting dressed cursing all over the house, just for change. I never spoke a word, I knew he was the reason there was never going to have change in our household. He was the head, and we were the tail, in a home where everyone was obsessed with retaining their keep.
I imagine some houses are run differently, but I still don’t get where everyone gets off looking down on silver. Every child is raised knowing tales of friendship, the comradery, the loyalty, and what values take utmost importance when people are together! My favourite story was told to me on many starts of a week, early in the morning with kids and their parents assembled like a cult waiting for this rich sermon. The story had a dozen men who had quite the bond, they were such kind souls that they would help out a father and his child. They valued worship and all the good things people tell kids to value, but it always amazed and angered me what value caused tragedy amongst those fellows of such pure ilk.
Thirty pieces of silver, they said that’s what it took for one man to turn on the son, the father, and all eleven men!
Growing up how I did, I’d always think I’d seen betrayals done for less. It was highway robbery, from another pious man pretending his services cost more than they were worth! Quite the fleecer thought I, of the man they call Judas.
Still, if thirty pieces of silver were enough to turn on the lord, how could anyone criticize me for turning on Mr Gold if it has now given me a championship title opportunity in the By The Sword main event and fame worth untold riches? How much are those thirty pieces worth after all these centuries of inflation? I’d say I got away with quite the steal doing what I did for such a reward! Besides, I’d have turned on him for free, for nothing! It was fun. It was personal. It was the finest silver, not the kind that makes you rich in the typical sense, but the kind that can match up with the silvery thread of any legend of treachery spun in history!
As for the match on this next chapter? Who knows. It all depends on how the scales are tipped, where my partners, my opponents, and even the disgusting onlookers of Wrestleworld all have a part in deciding on what I decide to do. Betraying the Lizard and The Man of Ghosts has it’s advantages, I could get a leg up on a few souls that seem not to get that I demand the lion’s share of Mr Gold’s skinned dragon scales. Yet, while a bit boring and typical, working with them to win this match is the simplest way to line my pockets with a winner’s bonus, and that plain silver is still silver! Even more so, it does not escape me that many fans expect my team to be the one to combust under our traitorous natures and egos. They rely on our downfall to prop up their wretched American Dream Fulfiller to stand victorious and give them their feel-good story at the end of the night! Can I truly allow that to happen? Or should I betray the expectations of the Wrestleworld audience and dash their hopes in seeing their beloved champion stand victorious? Choices! Choices! Choices! I can’t decide just yet! Nor is it my nature to, not before I see what the damn insects around me do to gain my ire. I am a spider, after all, it is only natural that I take into account the chance of their being foolish ones that would unwittingly fling themselves upon my web! I must allow them to make their mistakes, so feasting upon them will be all the sweeter while I feel a personal connection to the way I will stack my silver coins earned from the ending of this match.
Yes, I gift you all the opportunity to speak before your fates are decided, simply so you can stoke my hatred.
I am Animus, after all, and I did not take that name by accident, nor do I take it lightly. Animosity is a big part of how I like to make a living.
Now Silver Starlet, that is a woman filled with animus. In fact, she’s nearly a perfect symbol of it! Imbued with critical thinking, assertiveness, and a thirst for silver in the way of seeking accomplishment and money, for that she is beautiful. Like me, she’s patient and loves to observe her prey before she strikes! Yet still, her being another one of these school girls trained by Carlos Rosso is a sign his list of students is infected with the same stench of wretched anima that has taken this generation of the J-Dynasty! I can’t stand anima, it all started with Pendragon pushing ideals of commitment, loyalty, and compassion in his backwards bushido nonsense, then our ranks began to be filled with women! And no, it doesn’t matter if one of those women had signs of animus, not when she stayed loyal to a dollhouse of vain blondes, it only proved it’s hard to trust a woman to truly master animus. It is better for a man to be amongst women to accomplish the job. Silver Starlet, you have the opportunity to prove me wrong and gain my favour, but if I catch a glimpse of you being authentically friendly with those partners of yours, especially the American Dream Fulfiller, I will cast you aside as a failure to both animus and silver.
As for the other two, neither they nor I have a large chance to cross palm with silver when we stand across the ring from each other. One is unpolished. The other is America’s finest. Both represent people’s dreams, their wicked and wild imaginations. One is the viewer’s choice most improved, the one they dream will be a great figure in this business, love him or hate him, someday they say. The other fulfills their American dream for the future, all those soft hearts who love the idea of an exotic woman being given a chance to represent America as a champion and philanthropist making foster homes for children who have nowhere else to go, a sweet fantasy come to life for those on the “right side” of history. I wouldn’t be Animus, if I were not skeptical and resentful about all these silly hopes being placed on the shoulders of two of my enemies. THE GREATEST HATRED COMES FROM THOSE WHO FIGHT TO MAKE SURE THE PAST REMAINS IN THE PRESENT! I deny their hype. I wouldn’t be worth my mint if I didn’t have at least a small desire to make sure the expectations for them both are betrayed, someone must show those too easily caught up in the dreams of the future that nothing has changed! Neither in Wrestleworld, neither in America. The first is still the same man that debuted losing in a match against two people all of Wrestleworld has forgotten and the later is a woman who should have stayed where she came from on that military base in Japan!
Still, there are so many backs, but so little time. I’d love to say I plan on nibbling on every single person in this match that isn’t myself, but to know silver is to know your limitations. When you pinch your coins, you know that after picking what you want the most some other goods are off the table and you’ll just have to settle with one day getting your hands on them through a different sale. Now I’m old school, if I hadn’t made that quite obvious yet. So I still believe in bartering, hell even bargaining, that’s why I give the rest of you the floor to make your cases. Convince me why you shouldn’t be my next victim. And for my partners, they best show me what’s in it for me when it comes to cooperating for them, because we all know what companionship means to me. Now before any of you say no deal, try to lowball me, or even act like you haven’t heard what I said, remember that this is not a one on one transaction, it’s more like an auction, except it’s whoever puts in the least to please me that gets the prize. Think of it like a mystery box that you don’t want to find out the contents of, let someone else deal with what I have to offer poor souls that find themselves on the wrong end of the deal with a devil. Choose your words wisely and watch your step when you approach me, forking over all the silver that you can acquire to beat out the others is all in the presentation.
The spider is watching.️The blood moonlight goes out, but Animus words of watching echo into darkness and end.️
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