Though it was only a question, Aku reacted as if he’d been attacked and mortally wounded by the gravest of insults. Furious, he snarled incomprehensibly before spitting out an answer as if his tongue was laced with bitter poison.
“I do not! I detest that human and I will not tolerate the mere existence of such an absurd notion!”
Every villain friend of hers needs to gang up on Gaster and kick him to the curb but I think Azura needs to die in the process bc he’d be PISSED and pop that soul like a balloon fjkskfjf
Nope. No popping. No popping allowed. Better to de-goop the soul and spray PAM on it so that the goop can’t stick again.
I feel like this song fits Aku so well (not PPG Aku, Samurai Jack Aku I mean)
In the dark of the night I was tossing and turning And the nightmare I had was as bad as can be It scared me out of my wits! My kingdom falling to bits! Then I opened my eyes and the nightmare was me!
I was once the most magnificent wizard of all When the Emperor betrayed me he made a mistake My curse made each of them pay But one little boy got away Little Samurai, beware, Aku is awake!
In the dark of the night, evil will find him In the dark of the night, just before dawn Revenge will be sweet When the curse is complete In the dark of the night, he’ll be DEAD!
“But what if I asked you and you still refused to answer?”
“I will answer!” Aku shouted with conviction.
How bad could this question possibly be?
“… Hm. I feel I already know the answer to this, but alright…”
“You and Azura are in a relationship, aren’t you?”
“… Romantic?”
That was not the question Aku was expecting to receive. He stared at his other self for a long moment, blinking a few times, before he answered.
“Wait. So that’s what you wanted to ask me?” Really? Well, that was easy! “The relationship between Azura and myself is purely platonic. She is a friend whom I can trust not to betray me.”
There was a sound of pitter patter and Alysa comes rushing in “Ayyy! I’m here! How’s my favorite shape shifter doing?”, she asked with a bright smile. She was super happy and excited to see Aku again.
Ah, his doting worshiper was here! Aku didn’t know what the rush was about but he hoped it meant she had something important to deliver.
“Love…?” she repeated slowly. The word was familiar – she was positive her mother had used it before. Something about ‘loving their Lord Father.’ But Ashi wasn’t quite sure what the word meant. Was it like worship or adoration?
“Um…what does it mean? To love?”
This gave Aku pause. He’d always thought that humans had some kind of innate understanding of what ‘love’ was that didn’t need explaining. Aku was just beginning to understand the concept himself for the first time in 400 years of sentience. He never dreamed he’d be in a position to define it.
How does a great being of darkness and destruction describe such a concept? Aku’s gaze wandered as he thought, settling on a window across the room. There he seemed to draw inspiration from a yellow moon hanging like a lantern in the night sky.
“It is when something you care about brings you great joy,” he said at last, “and you want to keep it with you always.”
When Gaster saw the result of his attack, a large, broken hole in the palm of Aku’s hand, he laughed. It wasn’t a low, dark chuckle, but an actual laugh that crackled with a terrible static energy. Perhaps he found it funny because, before the darkness filled into Aku’s palm, sealing the hole, Aku’s hand had looked like Gaster’s own hands. Or perhaps he was laughing at the fact he’d done some damage against this otherworldly demon. It might not have been much damage, but it was something, at least.
His laugh was cut off, however, when the ground lurched beneath him and split apart. The lights in his eyesockets flickered as they followed the rise of the dark tendrils, taller than any building he’d ever been in, stretched towards the sky. Though the monster was no longer laughing, his grin never wavered. This was more like it- this is the sort of thing he expected to see from a self-proclaimed demon.
Much like the last time Aku had tried to ensnare the scientist, Gaster vanished into a pocket of the void before any of the spiked tendrils could latch onto him. Unlike last time, however, there was no dark laughter to signal the monster’s presence. It was almost as if he’d truly vanished this time.
Once again, the Doctor pulled the vanishing act and disappeared at the last second. Aku’s tentacles smashed into the earth where Gaster once stood, sending up a cloud of dust and debris. The demon lord seethed and growled in utter vexation at how easily Gaster kept slipping out of his grasp. It was then Aku decided he would have to switch tactics.
Though the air seemed empty around him aside from the settling particles, Aku still spoke his thoughts aloud as he often did whether or not anyone was present to hear them.
“You may have alluded me this time, Doctor, but I will have my revenge. You will be found and you will know pain as you have never dreamed it.”
The Shogun of Sorrow 