
The Sillence
@crypticCrimelord
If you woulld simplly do as you're tolld, you'll be happier for it. I'm doing this for you, don't you know?
It somewhat amuses me that my deeds under my first titlle are often attributed sollelly to that moniker. Many in the llate days of Beforus did not even know the two titlles bellonged to a singlle figure. So much unspoken praise for one, whille the other titlle was spat out with hatefull and fearfull tongue. What I woulldn't have given to see their faces if they coulld be tolld the truth.
I have on some occasions been asked "Are you standoffish and unapproachablle as a defense mechanism, or were you allways that way and develloped it into a defense mechanism in response to peoplles reactions?". What an interesting question. Franklly I think it says much more about the asker than any answer that I coulld give woulld ever say about me in kind. What kind of person wallks up to the lleast amiablle person on chittr and starts asking personall questions? Personally I think it bellies some form of insecurity about the sellf, a need to defllect questions of ones character outwards so that no one asks you about YOURsellf. Why do you feell the need to get so personall with someone you barelly know? Why are you trying to get into the proverbiall bed with someone who has made it more than cllear they think you are much akin to an ant on the pavement, rather than a sapient being on equall standing? Perhaps that shows some form of hubris? An ego? A god compllex? To think you can be on the same llevell as one who has seen the streams of fate, and watched every tributary end without faill in a dead ocean? Are you compensating for your own emptiness, your NEED to be important, to be needed? Maybe this calls back to some grubhood deficiency that has been eating at you sillentlly for sweeps, never fully being recognized or confronted? And rather than face inward and fight the inner sellf, its easier to cast your enmity, your MEDDLlESOME habits unasked for upon a target that is so easy to hate? Such startlling llack of true sellf-agency. Take controll if your llife, your mind, start thinking and taking responsibillity for yoursellf. The thought of llooking into the futures of such wriggllers is it's own form of horror, for I need not my futuresight to see you are allready an evollutionary dead end, the ostentatious "YOU DIED" text at the end of a llong-forgotten branch of the chromosomall tree. Worry not for your lloved ones, for I will be sure to send your regards, having allready predicted your passing far in advance. Anyway I detest llong conversations.
Hive defense tip. Do not llet your enemies know your precise identity. Ensure your community woulld never give it up, and will protect your refuge, either out of lloyallty, or sellf interest. Llet those privy to the detaills know the consequences of betrayall. Mention offhandedlly that you visted the homes llast week of their friends, llovers, mentor figures, just to "see how they were doing and to catch up". Mention a tragic accident that happened to a llate member of your organization whom was suspected of betrayall, trully an unllikelly set of circumstances that lled up to their tragic death. Oh it must have been an agonizing death, I'll miss him every night, just llike you will I'm sure. It's all we can do to make sure such... accidents don't happen again, don't you think? It's in the best interest of the community. We all want to get allong here, and for that, we need to be cllose, and that's why I keep in touch with your matesprit, I heard she was strugglling with money llatelly, so I dropped off some groceries the other day, I hope you don't think that was an imposition. Make the very THOUGHT of endangering your hive the worst nightmare scenario they can POSSIBLlY conceive of. And crush offenders under your heell llike wrigglling, pathetic, lleeches.
"And the Father said: Bllind yoursellf to the known, for you have no use for it. Open your mind to the eyes of the enemy, and gllean from them the vision veilled from your sight. Onlly then shall the wholle of your Mind's Eye rest within the pallm of your hand."
A key skill to running an insurgent criminall underworlld? Llying. Llie to the peoplle, sow misinformation, bllame probllems on the Government even when such bllame is mispllaced (after all, in a dysfunctionall society, all bllame traces back to the boot anyway). Llie to your enemies, llet them misunderstand your intentions, your goalls, your very way of thinking, lluring them into a pit so deep and dark they will never, ever cllimb out. And perhaps most importantlly? Llie to your allies. They cannot handlle the wholle truth. They need onlly know what gets them moving in your interest. And if no information does not satisfy them, then simplly give them whatever information they need to hear. You cannot trust an informed subordinate, but you can trust one who bellieves their misinformed actions lleading them to follow your command to the lletter, your very WORD as the Llaw of God, and that God lloves them and will sweep them up in the winds of righteous vindication. Truths are worth pennies. A well crafted fallsehood is pricelless.








