Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5824038-20150415205542/@comment-25038310-20151014194047

"I'm fine with that." Sander replied, tightly gripping his Cleaver as he took a few steps further.

"Lafayette." Aggie said, sighing - as if she slightly regretted facing the vampire. She slowly turned around as she leaned on her cane - her lips forming into a small smirk. "Remember our first meeting? You promised not to kill me if I aided you."

"Yes. And not so long ago you forced me to break our contract." Sander replied, not in the mood for reminiscing about the past.

"And you had to kill one person, and then you could have made me an allie. All these monstrosities.. playthings and experiments of Axel - all under our control. You had one person to kill, and that proved too much." Annie continued, slowly taking a few steps forward. "A former target, nonetheless. I thought you wanted a second chance to kill her."

"Former target." Sander remarked. "You would just expand on your own agenda, Aggie. Why continue spitting out your lies up until now?"

Aggie grinned, stopping in her tracks at the edge of the roof. "You could have anticipated it."

"I did. I just didn't think now. With all this. You dissapeared for a while and now you're back, jumping on the first oppurtunity of anarchy in this city. Why? What does it do for you?" Sander asked.

Aggie remained silent for a moment. The tension in the air was almost audible as screeches of monsters continued ravaging the districts of the city, slowly spreading out. "The oppurtunity existed. I just.. could."

Sander grumbled, not at the least surprised of the obscure reply. "You're insane."

"I admired Axel's experiments... No, Jean François' experiments as a whole. You know what your disease does, Lafayette. It made you nearly immortal. You are extremely valuable for medicinal science. If scholars could study you.. they could create such a potent medicine that could regenerate whole limbs - forge and create a completely new empire - a stronger one.. a more complete one. But for the disease to work, there always have to be multiple subjects contaminated with the vampirism."

"That doesn't explain slaughtering the city."

"That was my doing. I'll explain Axel's first." Aggie interrupted. "He claimed he created these monstrosities for a better society, didn't he? No. He just buried the true truth under a lie - wanted to convince himself that it wasn't for nothing.."

"Toying with human lives and twisting them into those things? And he didn't have a reason?"

"Medical science and magic conducted on humanoid experiments have helped entire nations and people. He didn't have a reason to create these monstrosities, other than that the possibility to do so was there."

Sander glared at her. "What are you saying?"

"Although he knew it was taboo - that he wasn't able to actually create a better society than Guetierre planned for us, he buried the truth and wanted to find a clear, valid reason for what he was doing and what ideology he was going to throw away. Supress it. But it drove him mad.

He wanted to lie to himself - make him believe that he could reject human nature and to make the things he was going to do right. Give it all a reason for doing.

He experimented with all these subjects because he couldn't stop himself from doing so. Because the possibility existed.

Jean.. Axel.. me. No, humans. All the same. Humans have a limitless desire to use their knowledge in real life. A sick desire to see what you are able to accomplish - no matter how twisted, with what power is given to you. The desire to understand all the secrets in the world. And to experiment with them.

That. That is the true nature of knowledge, Lafayette.."