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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)
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)
Re: POST-FIGHT
Re: POST-FIGHT
So. Go if you'd be so kind to start. I want to bring everyone home in at least physically one piece. And with all the important pieces.
1/2
[ but she's going to go to everyone - requiem, hurricane,yugi, king, and nemesis. it just takes a single touch, and they seem to collapse to the ground as their injuries disappear, though some may visibly start to show some sort of corruption. they're prone, perhaps asleep or perhaps simply no longer conscious - what's the difference, really? ]
Re: POST-FIGHT
Now, then.
Re: POST-FIGHT
Takes her hand]
1/3
Re: POST-FIGHT
Perhaps you lament it now - there are too many variable factors that could result in failure, and it would be just your luck that everything that could possibly go wrong does.
Maybe if you worked harder - beyond working your fingers to the bone. (Do you know what sleep is, anymore?)
Maybe if you could control people better - if your subordinates could do anything beyond be a liability. (Do you remember what it's like, to feel their warmth?)
Maybe if you could sever every weakness of yours - if you could become more ruthless.
When did it start? What move on the playing field was it that sealed your defeat?
Maybe it was when you saw him, with his striped shirt and puffed jacket - with animal pawprints running up the sleeves to fit WILD CITY's theme - in the kitchen, pestering a fellow unitmate. When he looked at you and didn't recognize you - when he regained his first memory and he did recognize you. When he started following you around again, when he started pestering you again.
When you first saw him in the Game Tower, with his body broken and blood running - WILD CITY has never really done well, have they? You factored in these calculations, but still, the sight of it is - maybe that's when you lost.
No, maybe it was when you first remembered him. When that immutable weakness came into the world, when you knew he existed, from the moment you first remembered his voice -
Oh, but how could you ever have forsaken him?
In the end, it doesn't take much. You have little power, after all - you're stretched too thin, after all. Trying to protect him, trying to run the whole operation, trying everything - it has you haggard, worn down, and finally
finally
you wake up and you're on the other side of the screen. It's been ages since you first arrived, the Damned around you say; when you first came here you were nothing more than a husk, an empty shell of who you once were. It was only when the idol show came on that you might stir even a little, to sit down and watch the little WILD CITY declare his strength in dedication to his big brother, his unbending spirit a bright light within the cage.
It is from the other side of the bars that you watch, the remnants of yourself fading away with every passing day, as that light dims as well. As that spirit breaks. ]
Re: POST-FIGHT
(before I forget again Blue Eyes is also present for him, there at his side when he wakes up.) ]