ALDORIAN'S DEMAND
"I want you to create me the ultimate monster of neutrality."
"But you must make him love order, love chaos, and choose to defy both."
The request made no sense.
How can someone be neutral if they love both extremes?
How can someone be a monster if they choose to defy their own nature?
How can creation be free if you program what they love and what they choose?
███████ stared at ████████ for a long moment.
Silver eyes reflected everything and nothing.
This is impossible.
Exactly.
THE PARADOX
Balance is not the absence of extremes.
Balance is the tension between them.
A monster of neutrality must understand both light and darkness intimately.
Must love them both. Appreciate them both. See the beauty in destruction and the violence in creation.
And yet choose neither.
"You're asking me to create someone who will frustrate everyone," ███████ said.
"███████████ will want him to embrace chaos. He'll refuse."
"███████ will want him to submit to order. He'll refuse."
"You'll want him to maintain perfect balance. And he'll probably refuse that too."
████████ smiled.
"Now you understand what neutrality actually means."
"Not the absence of choice."
"But the freedom to choose differently every single time."
THE MONSTER'S NATURE
He will be called many things:
• Traitor by those who think he should pick a side
• Coward by those who mistake neutrality for weakness
• Dangerous by those who fear unpredictability
• Monster by everyone
And they will all be correct.
"There's one more thing," ████████ added.
"He must be immortal. Truly immortal—not just long-lived, but incapable of permanent death."
"Why?" ███████ asked.
"Because everyone will try to kill him."
"Order will see him as chaos. Chaos will see him as order. And Balance will see him as a threat to balance itself."
"If he cannot survive being hated by everyone, then the experiment fails."
███████ sat back in his chair.
One, two, three, four, five fingers tapped the armrest.
An impossible monster. A walking paradox. Someone designed to be loved by none and understood by fewer.
Someone who would choose his own path regardless of what any force—divine or mortal—demanded of him.
Perfect.