What Is Your Purpose?

[Telos]

The camera opens in a dark, and seemingly empty room. The soft glow of a television screen casts a faint light. In front of it, a large silhouette. From the TV, an unknown male voice fills the air.

 

TV: “Ladies, Gentlemen.. Pathetic Weaklings, I know that for so long you've suffered great pain….”

 

The silhouette shifts. In a low growling voice, it speaks.

 

Silhouette: “Suffering….What a sardonic choice of wording.”

 

The camera cuts to the television, showing an interview of OCW rookie Sammy Johnston.

 

Silhouette: “Your ideas are admirable, Mr. Johnston. But I ask, what is your purpose? What is the goal you seek?”

 

Another interview appears on the screen. Rookie Benjamin Moore walks out of the locker room, ready to introduce himself.

 

Moore: "Yeah, OCW should be honored to have me here, and so should you."

 

Silhouette: “Honored? A rookie already deserving of honor, is paradoxical at best. It may be glory that you seek, Mr. Moore, but what is your purpose?”

 

As the camera pulls back, The Silhouette continues speaking, to no one in particular. There is a palpable tension in his stance, though he hasn’t moved in minutes.

 

Silhouette: “A wise man once said, ‘The arrogance of success is to believe that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow’.”

 

“The rookies of OCW seem to have two things in common: a sense of superiority, built on the foundation of arrogance,”

 

The camera lifts and pans to reveal the silhouette as OCW neophyte Telos, staring intensely at the screen…

 

Telos: “And an absence of purpose, built on the foundation of apathy.”

 

Telos: “I would not claim to be the savior that these men believe they are, for that is neither my desire, nor my terminus. I am no liberator, I am no protector, and OCW will not receive an ounce of benevolence from me. I am sent to absolve the apathetic and the arrogant, assure that they reach their zenith…….. And ultimately, act as the harbinger of their END.”

 

Camera cuts to black.

[Benji Moore]

*Sighs*

 

I see I gotta clap back...