To All Heroes

[theendiswherewestartfrom]

To Everybody:

Whether we've met or not, I'd appreciate a reply from as many people as are willing, especially if you didn't just come from a version of Earth.

So, let's talk holidays. Christmas, I was willing to let pass as a coincidence. Any civilized planet out there with a winter season ends up with some version of a winter solstice. It doesn't matter the time or the planet or the alien race, they've got some kind of tradition that we would recognize. Celebration for being 'almost out of the dark,' as a friend of mine would put it.

But Valentine's Day? Definitely a product of Earth, of a specific time period of Earth, to be sure. At least, in my experience. And that's where you guys come in. Anybody else, not from Earth, have a custom or a legend like this? Something specifically surrounding a holiday, something that's celebrated. Also, is anybody else reading up on Aqures Ixen legends enough to know if we're going all going to be dealing with rabbits and eggs in two months? If so, I'm calling shenanigans now.

-Captain Jack Harkness

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[theendiswherewestartfrom]

Oh. So Genesis had been working to stop it all. Maybe that's what Jack was looking for, because a tiny smile appears when he realizes that. Using the training and the power that he'd been given to make things right? Jack can greatly respect that sentiment.

"So, she does have a soul?" He speaks up, tone full of wonder, at that last part. "Or, it does? Enough of one to make a decision like that? It feels, it grows, it is alive, by anybody's definition of the word? That's-" he shakes his head a little, smile growing, "amazing. Truly amazing. By theory, every planet should maybe be like that, but," he waves a hand at Genesis, "you know. You've felt it. That would be something to see."

"And you're doing the right thing, working to fix it all?"

It does bring up a thought, though. "But, hang on. Your- connection, the abilities granted to you by the mako, they're gone here, aren't they? Just like- a few other people. They lost what they could do from their home worlds, replaced by the Job abilities here?" Jack had lost his own connection to the Time Vortex (if that's really what was powering his immortality, the Doc was never 100% clear on that, but it's Jack's own best guess at this point, thanks for that, Doc.)

ack lost the tag!

[nodreamsorhonor]

"She has a soul, a force or a presence. I'm not sure what exactly to call it, though I always feel the Goddess and the Planet are nearly the same. The Cetra use to speak directly with her and her with them, but when the Cetra died out, humans were all that was left. Some say that is why no one knew much about the Lifestream until it was rediscovered by ShinRa."

Rediscovered and abused. Of course there had been legends, about the power of the Planet and everyone knew that though bodies did happen when someone died, the energy of them dying could be seen as a mist of lights before it faded into the ether. It was easy to assume that the Lifestream was nothing more than energy and not actual souls.

"If the Lifestream dies, then the Planet dies. This is something we have seen, especially around Midgar where the largest mako plants are. Nothing grows there, and only kind of creatures one sees are deformed monsters. But the plants are gone and life was starting to return, though not fast. It will take a long time before it does.

"Yes, my abilities are gone, save for what I am re-teaching myself. It is a pity, though I am glad as well. Mako infusion can be a shortcut to a greatness one may not deserve after all."