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theatrical_muse Empire Wrecking
May. 23rd, 2007 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theothermuses"What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one… There's good money in empire building. But, there's more in empire wrecking."
Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell).
[locked from all who don't know Bilis' nature.]
"From out of the darkness, he is come!"
It may be fictional. A quote from a novel, but Rhett Butler certainly makes a very good point. Not that money is a driving motive of mine. No, my cause is so much greater than mere cash, but people, whether fictional or real, have such limited imaginations.
To destroy an empire and bring it to its knees is glorious. The chaos and confusion it causes is like a fine wine. The pleas from those left helpless, wishing for a return to glory music to my ears. They have all suffered it.
Egypt
Alexander
Rome
The Ottomans
Britain
Soviet Union
Who will be next?
"Son of the great beast. Cast out before time, chained to rock, and imprisoned beneath the Rift."
But…to bring down His creation and bring Armageddon upon mankind at a moment that is not His choosing. I can dream of nothing more satisfying.
"All hail Abaddon, the Great Devourer! Come to feast on life. The whole world shall die beneath his shadow."
They ran screaming from my demon. I could hear them until their screams fell silent as his shadow cast over them. I could taste the fear, and then nothing. And I regret only one thing that he did not have long enough before Harkness interfered. Cardiff is only the beginning.
After that, everything changes.
(OOC: Quotes are from Torchwood Episode 1x13)
Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell).
[locked from all who don't know Bilis' nature.]
It may be fictional. A quote from a novel, but Rhett Butler certainly makes a very good point. Not that money is a driving motive of mine. No, my cause is so much greater than mere cash, but people, whether fictional or real, have such limited imaginations.
To destroy an empire and bring it to its knees is glorious. The chaos and confusion it causes is like a fine wine. The pleas from those left helpless, wishing for a return to glory music to my ears. They have all suffered it.
Egypt
Alexander
Rome
The Ottomans
Britain
Soviet Union
Who will be next?
But…to bring down His creation and bring Armageddon upon mankind at a moment that is not His choosing. I can dream of nothing more satisfying.
They ran screaming from my demon. I could hear them until their screams fell silent as his shadow cast over them. I could taste the fear, and then nothing. And I regret only one thing that he did not have long enough before Harkness interfered. Cardiff is only the beginning.
After that, everything changes.
(OOC: Quotes are from Torchwood Episode 1x13)
