Destiny - TRANSFORM(BLADE)

Preface: In Destiny 2's Season of the Splicer, the Corrupted Labyrinth Expunge mission included a creepy bit of fourth-wall-breaking. The Expunge missions had previously displayed some "computer system response" strings beneath the radar map in the top-left corner, nothing too special. But with the Corrupted Labyrinth mission, those strings were replaced with messages from Quria, the Taken Vex Mind that's at the center of the seasonal story. My brain decided to do something with that. In the piece below, the bold-faced text are those messages, with the rest being observations and other "thoughts" that might be going through Quria's mind.

I see you.

start.define(you) = dead, risen, PAWN

case at(City):

add.define(you) = light, beacon, TOWER

case end(CROTA):

add.define(you) = delver, bane, SWORD

case delete(skolas):

add.define(you) = scourge, regicide, KNIGHT

case end(ORYX):

add.define(you) = dauntless, ascendant, KING

case delete(aksis):

add.define(you) = relic, iron, WOLF

case return(light):

add.define(you) = spark, hero, CHOSEN

case delete(mind(∞)):

add.define(you) = balefire, eyeblight, NEXUS

case meet(Я):

add.define(you) = carrhae, wormkill, KNIFE

case remove(cayde.v6):

add.define(you) = justice, vengeance, FURY

case arrive(dream) AND meet(ada.v1) AND keep(lore)

add.define(you) = blacksmith, chronicler, WAYFARER

case arrive(realm(IX)):

add.define(you) = flowing|focusing|annihilating, RECKONER

case delete(mind(αγιασμένος)) AND amuse(calus) AND arrive(▲)

add.define(you) = enlightened, shadow, HARBINGER

case delete(mind(αθάνατος) AND delete(mind(αθeon):

add.define(you) = undying, fatebreaker, FORERUNNER

case meet(▲) AND use(stasis):

add.define(you) = splintered, darkened, SALVATION

[I can see why you intrigue IT, lightbearer.]

Crawling around my domain like insects.

return(define(domain)):

// network, immaterial, DREAM

// radiolaria, material, REALITY

return(define(insects)):

// bugs, worms, FILTH

// crawling, inferior, LESSER

This realm answers to only one master.

return(define(master)):

// archentrope, queen of all encrypts, black needle, SCHEMER 

// deceitful sister, emancipator of worms, deepest in high coven, insidious, WITCH

// the missing piece of all puzzles, whisper queen, sister of shapes, DECEIVER

// subjugant to none, sword-breaker, taken queen, krill hag, QUEEN

// SATHONA, LIAR, SAVATHÛN

[I cannot be defined. Not even by you, my precious dreamer.]

You are nothing.

remove.define(you) = %ALL

set.define(you) = { }

You know nothing of power.

 return(define(power)):

// imposition of will on reality, that which bestows the right to exist, LOGIC

// must be taken, cannot be given without bestowing weakness, MAJESTIC

Thrashing around like a wounded animal.

observe(you) = // a thing long dead, still moving, against all LOGIC

// playing with paracausality without knowledge of consequence

// an idiot with godlike power at their fingertips

Unaware you are already dead.

observe(fate) = // there is no escaping what comes for us all

return(define(END)):

// outside context event, apocalypse, COLLAPSE

// scouring tempest, black gale, WHIRLWIND

// that which comes for us all, what lies beyond the veil, ▲

// majestic, MAJESTIC

observe(fate) = // there is an ending for you.

Your failure is written in time.

observe(fate) = // you stepped into our corridors

// you wandered the maze, following a thread left behind

// you never asked where the thread came from

// when you look upon your future, you prune away your options

// in searching for power and weapons to hoard

// you have made your own fate and sealed it

I have seen your grave.

observe(fate) = // you have seen your own grave

// you scryed through time, never asking whose lens you looked through

// you can try to remake your fate, but remember this

// one often meets their destiny on the road they take to avoid it

I see you. Rent asunder. Broken.

observe(you) = // all the power you imagine you have is not enough

// all the allies you gather to your side are not enough

// your city ringed in spears is surrounded by SWORDS

// sharp enough to cut through everything

Taken.

offer(you) = power(knife)

define(knife(you)) = SALVATION

observe(knife) = // Take up the knife. Cut away the threads of destiny. Take a new fate.