It's really a combination of things, I suppose. I could highlight the thousand or so years during which he stalked me across the globe, trying to kill me, but even that comes back to all the times he beat me into submission as a child.
I'm particularly good at surviving. In fact I've killed him twice, now. My enemies are in the habit of not surviving, even when they imagine they've won.
[ Arrogant, maybe, but true enough. ]
The truth is, if you asked most people from my world, they'd say the worst monster they'd encountered was me.
Well. [ Klaus shrugs, and smiles. ] In all fairness, you don't know me very well.
As for my father, you'd be surprised how resilient the members of my family are. Resurrections are strangely common. Granted, they're not the only people I know who've escaped death, but it is something of a pattern.
It's not the method I would have chosen, either, but to each his own.
[And honestly? Even disregarding the details, it spoke of how terribly Mo Xuanyu had suffered, that he'd go through such extreme measures to put an end to that suffering. Ending one's life was not so hard. In a twisted way, Wuxian could respect that Xuanyu hadn't wanted to let his tormentors live on after him.]
Nothing as subtle as that. But if you care to believe the stories, I'm single-handedly responsible for hundreds upon thousands of death, in addition to being a terrible person steeped in dark magic.
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Not the nicest of men, as it turned out.
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But you lived.
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[ Arrogant, maybe, but true enough. ]
The truth is, if you asked most people from my world, they'd say the worst monster they'd encountered was me.
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[Wuxian can't really complain, having died once himself, but, you know. Some people might say Klaus did a poor job at killing his dear papa, there.]
You? You're full of yourself [kettle, meet pot] but that's not a crime, let alone a monstrous one.
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As for my father, you'd be surprised how resilient the members of my family are. Resurrections are strangely common. Granted, they're not the only people I know who've escaped death, but it is something of a pattern.
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Resurrections sure are common. At home, I'm sure I was the only one, but among Otherworlders, such magic seems a dime a dozen.
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[ He narrows his eyes. Your turn, buddy. ]
When did it happen to you?
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Though technically it was a body sacrifice, rather than a resurrection.
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His choice! Not mine.
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It was 16 years after I'd died, but somehow I still had quite a reputation.
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But his general foolishness aside: you're an assassin?
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[And honestly? Even disregarding the details, it spoke of how terribly Mo Xuanyu had suffered, that he'd go through such extreme measures to put an end to that suffering. Ending one's life was not so hard. In a twisted way, Wuxian could respect that Xuanyu hadn't wanted to let his tormentors live on after him.]
Nothing as subtle as that. But if you care to believe the stories, I'm single-handedly responsible for hundreds upon thousands of death, in addition to being a terrible person steeped in dark magic.