Heart Game: Duality - Round 1

[idolpro]

Your sleep is restless, and it's hard to settle as your eyelids refusing to stop twitching, and you can feel an itch at the back of your mind, flashes of uncomfortable thoughts dipping in and out of your dreams, constantly interrupting your tries to relax. ... Are you even asleep?



...



Apparently you were, because you wake up with a start, cheek pressed uncomfortably to steel flooring and flickering lights overhead. Unfortunately, you don't feel very rested at all.

Comments

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

By what proof?

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

I'm not the forgive and forget type. If you'd wronged me, I wouldn't be here right now.

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

Look at me!

[As he raises his voice, something flashes and a shard of black ice erupts from the ground between them.]

Everyone gets hurt because of me, because of this place. Because I'm useless! Nothing I've done can be forgiven.

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

You're not useless.

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

I couldn't even save...

[a helpless gesture to the cat which in all honesty is just another part of his emotions, really. shards of ice are spiking out of his hand, slowly growing over his skin]

...I cannot do what you did. I'm weak.

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

You're not weak, you're human. We all need help sometimes.

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

I'm supposed to be a hero. But if I can't even save my friends if they're in danger, if I... if I'm the reason they're hurt... how can I call myself a hero? I'll never be good enough.

[He curls his arm closer to himself, curling in on himself as he speaks, trying to stop more ice shards erupting around him, on him.]

Leave! You'll get hurt, I don't... I can't...!

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

Because even heroes need a hero sometimes.

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

[...]

Why did you save it? It's not even real.

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

Because it's a part of you.

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

[He stares at him, swallowing down whatever he was going to say next. The spikes aren't ceasing, though, still erupting around them, still growing out of his skin.

You might want to step out of the way of a few lest you want to get hurt.]

But... why?

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

Because I care about you. You're important to me.

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

That's... I shouldn't be important to anyone.

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

I'm not a hero. I can help even less people than you can. Does that mean I shouldn't be important either?

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

No...! That's...

[he visibly deflates, staggering a little under the weight of the crystals]

I didn't mean it like that.

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

So why would it be different for you?

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

[dropping to his knees, shards shooting up dangerously near his face but it's as if he doesn't even notice them]

Because I... I failed people.

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

[Kneeling too, reaching out to carefully frame his face]

You haven't failed anyone. You just put impossible standards on yourself. Not a single one of us feels like you failed us though. You help just by being our friend.

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

[one side of his face is icy, the other is burning up. it's a little painful to touch him]

I...

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

[Brushes his thumbs over his cheeks]

Having you as a friend is a huge help. I mean it.

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

[he grits his teeth a little, trying to reign in the crystal eruptions so they won't harm Silver.

Silver is still getting burn wounds on his hands if he keeps them on Duality's face long enough, though]

Silver...

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

More than anything, we all just want you to be happy. You don't have to protect us because we're all going to protect each other. It's not all on you. We'll still care about you even if you can't do it all alone, got it?

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

[it takes a long while before he barely nods, breath coming out icy enough to be felt in the air]

Your hands...

Re: VOID

[shutthefoxup]

Worth it.

Re: VOID

[asonoficeandfire]

[but now you're actually hurt because of him :( the shards recedes enough that they're only protruding from Duality's skin at this point, though they stop there]

I can't heal it.