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[ The water begins to bubble, rising up and up in the bowl like a fountain, until it spills out of the bowl in waves, soaking into the dirt and around them. Still, though it overflows, the bowl seems no less empty than before - and the water climbs up and up and up, until the fountain becomes the gentle waterfall of a small stream no bigger than the circumference of the bowl. Through the waterfall, you can see -

Like a broken tail light, flickering and inconsistent in its brightness, a lump of faulty lighting takes center stage of the waterfall, by and large covered up by the tattered, human-like skinsuit you could recognize as Mehniel, though their outer layer is torn enough that you can see bits of feather and fur poking out, and on the floor around them are abandoned bits of feather and hair too, dim light now that they've been torn out. Behind them you can catch the vague shape of something, though you'll largely see the lights illuminating it from underneath a bevelled stone indent in the ground. Currently, the lights are a dull, constant red. If you squint you can see a glimpse of the wall behind; on it are hieroglyphs, unreadable to you. ]

PLOT TOPLEVELS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER W/ CONTENT WARNINGS:
TALK WITH THE ANGEL - cw mild body horror in Yugi's thread
! IT'S THE FEDS
THURSDAY ACTIONS TURN-IN
THURSDAY: PRE-FIGHT - cw vein/artery mention in Requiem's thread
THURSDAY: FIGHT - cw dismemberment, decapitation via explosion, eye horror, body horror
THURSDAY: POST-FIGHT - cw body horror (yugi, nemesis) dismemberment, decapitation, general gruesomeness (king) implied suicide (hurricane)

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Hahaha. Angels can't love, see. It's against the rules for us.

How's love against the rules? It just... happens, or doesn't happen.

You can't control it.

Oh, you blessed and loved children of God. You don't know how good you have it.

...so tell me.

Demanding, aren't you?

I'm just saying... you had it rough, right? Heaven was so bad you jumped ship.

Loving people's important. Being with people you love's what makes life worth trying for.

So maybe you're right. Maybe I don't know. But if you tell me, I can try and understand.

. . . You know, Rari's probably the stupidest of us all. So he's pretty happy with being an angel, since he doesn't even know what he's missing out on. But the rest of us, you know.

It might not seem like it, but you really are loved. You humans, the last of His creations - He did everything for you.

He made us for you.

We're soldiers, protectors, guardians. That's all we are. That's all we do. That's all we're for.

But see, we can feel anyway. Isn't that cruel? Couldn't He have had the decency to keep us from feeling things like that in the first place?

...just cause you're soldiers, doesn't mean you shouldn't feel nothing. God's God, right?

He oughtta know you can do both. One doesn't stop the other.

Just cuz we can feel doesn't mean we can do anything about it. Get it, kid? All we're supposed to do is make sure you guys can get your happy ending.

They branded me a traitor cuz I wanted my own. Cuz I fell in love with a girl, and I wanted to be with her. But hey, Hell will let me do what I want, be what I want. I can be with the woman I love.

Seems like a no-brainer, doesn't it?

I mean, yeah. But it's... hell, right?

Can't be all sunshine and roses.

Know a place that is?

I mean, obviously that's Heaven for you. After all, we're the ones keeping the sunshine going, trimming the roses, getting cut by the thorns so you just get all the nice things.

But that's not a place for us. Not when I'm an angel. Not when the gates wouldn't open for her.

So, where else would you have us go?

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I dunno. There's a whole bunch of worlds out there, right? Couldn't you guys've hid out in one them, instead?

Or if not that... [He hesitates.] Belief's a big deal here, right? If enough people believed someplace new hard enough, couldn't you, like. Make it be real?

And now you know what our lady Oracle is trying to do.

Well... yeah.

But, uh. No offense, but if you're looking for stuff like "loves wins" and "freedom of choice," she don't seem like the hottest option, from what I seen.

Couldn't you guys just make your own place?

. . . Wow. You're the kind of kid who thinks that you can just jump ship and make a dream come true entirely with your own two hands, find some sort of miraculous third option that'll work perfectly, huh? The kind of kid who thinks you've gotta build your own paradise from the ground up?

Listen, I don't got a problem with working for my happiness, but you're asking me why I haven't started trying to make my own place starting with the dirt and the air. I can't create the Earth in seven days, and more importantly, she can't leave Hell. She's dead. Do you get it?

. . . Geez. This is why I hate talking to kids. You just won't accept any answer that doesn't fit your view, huh?

You think I'm stupid? You think I haven't thought of everything before I got to this conclusion? You think your insight is so much that you can solve my problems? You think you're that smart, kid? Get your head out of your ass.

[W-winces a little.]

I'm just saying, if your Oracle can do it, other people can too, right?

Your wife doesn't gotta leave hell, not if people can make new ones. Maybe it's not the kinda thing you can do in seven days, but - maybe someday.

[He hesitates a beat.]

Right?

Our lady Oracle's got all the power of a prince and the belief of countless damned on her side and she still hasn't done it yet. Think about that, cuz this isn't the kind of thing you can make happen on guts alone. If that was the case,

[ with a pause, icy cold tone ]

Then screw Hell and Heaven both, I wouldn't be here at fucking all.

[He's quiet for - a long couple of beats, honestly, just processing that.]

[Then, quietly:]

...if you had a door number three. If you could get one.

What would it be?

[ makes a show of considering this, right before req eats shit ]

- time's up.

[Holy SHIT.]

[Time to try and protect Req and get sworded, I guess.]

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