“I'm a people person.”
Hannibal Lecter* #quote
CJ and I discussed the video game I'm working on(though it seems that
he has become involved in the project, even creating art for it, so I
suppose it's going to be our game now, so now we're in a spectacular
adventure together!) and now I'm going to do another set of big
coding in the upcoming days. Hoping to have a good camera system set
up and jumping within a few days along with solid collision. Wish me
luck on not building a broken monstrosity! Anyway onto the flash
fiction!
Immortality
The beings that think of themselves as gods know they're immortal
but also didn't create the universe. So if they are gods they know
that someone must be higher on the totem pole than them. They wander
space doing what they please, often being much more benign than evil
since evil got boring many eons ago.
They don't remember exactly when they invented the spaceship but it
allowed them to visit whatever planets they pleased. Along with their
immortality whatever God or gods that existed above them on the
hierarchy gave them the ability to shape shift. Planets with life are
often the funnest for them and they enjoyed Earth greatly. They
changed their shape while life evolved(any terrible fate they
experienced and they merely rematerialized where they pleased).
During the modern era they took on the shape of humans, and human
names. One that enjoyed theater, and later movies chose the name
Alex(Alexander in earlier years and it changed over time to fit
wherever it fit.) Experiences for the gods didn't quite work like
they did for humans. They'd visited planets with entire civilizations
before. Time blurred for them and like how time begins to fly when
you age memories started to be compressed and sorted based on
emotional influence. A single play to Alex could take up as much
memory as a thousand, if not a million years. His first viewing of
Romeo and Juliet occupied the space in his head where he once
remembered the time span of the rise and fall of an empire on another
planet they visited. The immortals possessed much more space in their
brains than humans, but not infinite.
One night, after watching some movies, Alex met a girl named Gina
after giving her complex directions outside the theater. (Most people
wouldn't bother but Alex had all the time in the world). Alex fell in
love. He shape shifted to match her aging until she died. This
happened many times. The gods romanced many creatures from many
worlds. With immortality love becomes just another thing to
experience again and again in different forms. A bit more interactive
and emotional than movies though, they always consider the real thing
better. He faked an accident like the gods do to disappear and
reappear somewhere else. When they can't forge an identity they
merely replace someone who just died. They've grown up from children
many times.
This girl though, was very different. After she passed she tore at
Alex's mind. He lived another life, and had an opportunity to date
again, but he couldn't bring himself to it. This baffled the other
gods. How could anyone do that? Was he not confident? They suggested
he take a different form, maybe he'd feel up to it then.
But no, Alex couldn't do it. Gina, a simple mortal, took up many of
memories. He'd seen so much, eons categorized and abbreviated into
his mind. But the moments with her took priority. The detailed
memories of a romantic dinner with her made him forget the snippets
of the Industrial Revolution he stored away. Eventually though, he
realized he preferred that way, and knew that some things you're
blessed to find in several million years.
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