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Nemesis and Hurricane's Ideal World: Session 2

[The sky above is a deep, unnatural crimson, filled with roiling clouds and creatures that are a sickly oil-slick black. They writhe and wriggle like something out of a Lovecraftian nightmare; they have entirely too many eyes, and entirely too many wings, and when they open their mouths, they have entirely too many teeth]

[Below them, the city of Tokyo is half-shattered; above the rooftops, mechanized suits the size of people hover in the air, darting in out of the chaos, laser blasts and explosions and wickedly sharp blades fighting tirelessly against the endless onslaught]

[Until finally, the last creature falls]

[All at once, civilians flood the streets of the city; the lights come on in all the buildings, which somehow have become whole again, safe and unharmed. A cheer goes up from the crowd. Overhead, a stunning fireworks display paints the night with light and color]

[And they all lived happily ever after]

[The end]

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[ sets his draw down and nudges it under a table as QUIETLY as he can. he doesn't need someone he doesn't know assuming he stole something he absolutely stole... and that thing is KNIVES. ]

Hey! [ throws her a wave. ]

[The woman looks up from her work]

Good afternoon.

[ sliiiides on over in an attempt to peer down at the robotic arm. he's been in labs before. dottore's lab is the worst lab on the planet, so this... isn't so bad and doesn't bother him too much. ] Is that Nemesis' or Hurricane's arm you're working on?

Neither. It's a new prototype I've been developing.

Would you like to see?

Sure! Give me a demonstration.

Of course.

[She puts the gadget on, like a gauntlet - lifts her arm and shoots a laser that comes with a close-range shockwave]

It still needs adjustments, but it's coming along nicely.

[ oho. ] If you're interested in getting some information from field combat, maybe I can convince you to let me help... though it looked like the big bad threat might have been conquered. Do you think that'll last? It... never really does stick, those... happily ever afters~

Of course it will last. The ones who took the harbingers down made sure of that.

They're very br -

[Her voice sticks. Fuzzes a little, around the edges, as though beset with static]

[ harbingers, huh,
now that strikes a chord and childe's lip curls into a malicious smile. ]

Who are the Harbingers,
and how can you be. so. sure.

Nothing ever ends. You can't kill them all.

[ sets a hand on her desk and leans in impossibly closer, getting right up in her space. ] Very what, brave?

They're dead and gone.

And yes, my son is very br -

[Another hitch, as though a badly spliced-together tape. The words dissolve under a burst of white noise]

Is something the matter..? [ leans closer, setting a hand on the gauntlet she had been working on... doesn't matter if it's still on or if she's returned it to the table, because he's going to yoink it - strength 20. ] You having trouble calling him brave? It's not that hard or, hm~ perhaps, it is because you. don't. believe it. I bet he'd be over the moon if his mother would think of him as a hero... but you don't, not even in his perfect little world.

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[With a 20 str, he yanks the gauntlet right off her arm]

[You get a force blaster, +2 to damage rolls]

You're wrong.

It isn't like that. After all, I lo -

[The static is longer, this time. Her voice fades out to something gutteral and strange, glitching around the edges. The outline of her glitches, too, juddery shapes stark against the clean white lines of the lab]

Edited 2021-12-29 02:15 (UTC)

Liar.
You don't love him.
You don't think him brave.

You're just a miserable woman looking to harp on a kid that just wants to do his fucken best.

[ EQUIPPING HIS TOY. ] I feel sorry for you... [ and he's just going to turn to leave, and also take his drawer with him. HMPH. ]

[ back to the kitchen since zhongli never followed him. ]

…

[She doesn't seem to have a reply to that]

[Perhaps she doesn't know what to say. Or perhaps someone else, asleep somewhere else, cannot possibly imagine what she would say]

[When he gets back to the kitchen again, it looks a little different]

[Zhongli is nowhere to be seen]

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