[ The room is BRIGHT YELLOW, as all the rooms you will enter are. Black tiles make up the floor, changing to your unit's color when pressure is placed on them. There is a button in the very center of the room standing on a podium; it's slightly smaller than palm-sized.]
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Angel vs Tatsuya
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Tatsuya glances around the room for a moment before he spots-- ]
Angel-san.
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Did you want to challenge too?
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[ His voice is quiet but steady. ]
I'll fight you for that if I have to.
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[Waves a finger around.]
But I do not want you to be upset and no one should have to assuage their guilt. Is it better if I gave up or is it better if we challenged each other fairly?
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[ Tatsuya places a hand on his chest. ]
We've never been close, but we've both been here since the start. I've seen what a kind person you are and I appreciate that about you. Fight me fairly-- if we both do our best, there can be no regrets that way.
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[And then almost as if something is controlling her, she sprints.]
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--If he can hit her, because his first swing is where he thought she'd be but he misses entirely and slams against the wall. Depending on the strength of the wall, it may even crack a little from the force of it. ]
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But she keeps on running towards the button, huff huff, and tries to make it.]
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Tatsuya whirls around and he's going to run towards her-- the sword is still in hand but he's not trying to use it this time, instead going for a body tackle if he can just-- if he can just make it before she presses the button-- ]
Hallucinations - Tatsuya, cw mirrors, do we cw for mirrors? cw mirrors
Your footfalls echo behind you as they fall, one after an endless another. Ahead of you and behind you lie the same things, but your aching legs continue to carry your aching body, down the mirrored hall in endless uneven staccato.
There is nowhere else to look but at the mirrors around you. This is the least you can do. This is the only thing you can do. So you see in each one, the bodies of your friends in the reflections. Slamming your hands against them hasn't done any good, but you owed it to them to try and reach them, even if it's too late. Even if it's useless. Even if nothing will change. You can move forward, it's all you can do. Even if you no longer have it in you to run.
(You tried. You were so desperate, your lungs burning, as you ran ahead to see if there was a way in, a way out, a way to change anything—)
You walk.
Blood leaks from the torn flesh of your hand, brutalized from how you slammed them into the mirrors during your desperate attempts at smashing them. Before you learned better, first you broke the skin over your knuckles, battering them in what you were dumb enough to think would be an endless assault. You'd never give up on them, even if your bones broke, your fingers splintered, and your hands were left in ruins.
As it turns out, you did give up.
You don't have it in you to hope anymore that you'll get in. If you slam yourself against the mirrored walls any more than this, you won't be able to even walk forward.
So, you walk.
You hope, eventually, there will be an end. You were selfish enough to give up on them, but too selfish to give up on this one hope— that at least you won't have to face this and see them anymore.
Re: Hallucinations - Tatsuya, cw mirrors, do we cw for mirrors? cw mirrors
Physical:
> Broken/damaged knuckles/hands
> Aching legs/body
> Extreme tiredness/lack of energy
Non-Physical:
> Fear of your own reflection/face
> Increased fear of losing your friends
> The endless sound of footsteps in your ears