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Heart Game: Duality - Round 2

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.

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[ Eclipse is learning that cold is bad and ice is bad this is why winter is bad. He squeezes his eyes shut in pain and he bites his lower lip (and also regrets it), but he doesn't let go. In fact, he's taking this chance to use his empathy quirk. ]

Edited 2020-02-20 01:15 (UTC)

[He's slammed by intense feelings of uselessness, along with a disarray of flashes of this, and this hallucination, the things Absinthe told him in the House after Intensity off-handedly telling him he didn't need to come along, it wasn't necessary for him to help...

Mori rejecting him is in there too, but it's less obvious and more as a small sliver on top of the mountain.]

[ > Eclipse has more regrets. Who the hell knew empathy power worked this well?

At this point Eclipse is holding onto Duality more because if he let go he's going to fall, after being overwhelmed by all those feelings. He was right; be in this stupid place long enough you get baggage, whether you like it or not. ]

...Duality, you...

[Let's just say he's good at keeping up facades on the outside. His voice is quiet when he speaks again.]

You should turn back...

Duality, the person I love the most once held a knife at my throat and told me she could just stab me and I'd die instantly. I still love her. This is child's play.

...I already said I'm a stubborn asshole.

You barely know me...

As I've been finding out, yes. Gonna have to fix that.

[ He still hasn't let go of Duality's arm. ]

...I know you say you don't want to hurt your friends, but I can't stand seeing a friend like this either.

But you're getting burned—

I know that -- [ And he can probably say his hands are going to be at the very least a mess after this. ] -- but I'm not letting go until you leave this wretched place with us!

[He shakes his head, expression caught in frustration and fear as he struggles to contain the spikes and the icy temperature of his skin.]

I don't want to hurt anyone—

[The next seems more directed at himself than Eclipse as he watches the burns form, because this is not okay and he has to stop it.]

Stop. .........Stop—!

[It stops. Abruptly. And he drops to his knees.]

[ Once Duality falls, Eclipse tries to pull him back up.

The problem is he's like 5'3" and is fairly noodly, so it doesn't really do as much as he would like, on top of his hands hurting like hell. ]

-- You stopped it.

[He is tall and full of heavy ice crystals, he's probably staying down for the moment.

His face falls at seeing the wounds on Eclipse's hands, though.]

I...

Hey, it's not your fault. I knew what I was getting into.

[ At least in so far that he knew he was going to get hurt, he's (re)learning what burns feel like. ]

I can't— I don't know how to...

[He's frozen, staring a little at Eclipse's hands, and then up at him.]

Well, I do.

[ Secretly he's thanking that he does have some medical training -- maybe this will help assuage Duality's worry. He looks down at his hands, finally letting go. ]

...Can't use iced water, though. [ Or he'd be dipping his hands into the lake right now. ]

[Ice water and ice burns don't go too well together. Duality knows this first hand when his mother tried to heal his scalding wound by putting ice on it, effectively making it worse and creating his scar.]

... don't. It'll... it'll scar.

[It's as if all the air has left him, and he's just an awkward kind of spiky looking person.]

Edited 2020-02-23 15:26 (UTC)

Mm, I know. You have any warm water around?

[ Said like...yeah, he's just talking to an awkward kind of spiky looking person, no big deal. ]

[THIS IS AN ICE CAVE. He just opens and closes his mouth, a little dumbfounded.]

No...

[He could probably heat it up with his own quirk but hey, no one said a spiky boy is smart right now.]

[ LOOK, IT COULDN'T HURT TO ASK, ]

...Silence told me you had a 'fire side'?

[He instantly recoils visibly, looking to the side.]

That's—I... I swore to never use it.

[He's hesitating]

Hm? Why?

... because it's my father's.

[He's slowly getting to his feet, though, taking a few steps down to the lake.]

[ Eclipse doesn't have to be a genius to tell there aren't good feelings there. He follows after Duality. ]

...Even though it's yours, too?

...

[He kneels down in front of the line of water, and reaches out with the hand covered in spikes to the sheet of ice. His voice has grown as cold as the air around them.]

...I know it's mine. But I spent almost ten years denying him the satisfaction of me playing into his hands.

Edited 2020-02-23 18:34 (UTC)

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