Heart Game: Duality - Round 3

[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.

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Re: coming back 60 years later with starbucks

[asonoficeandfire]

[They aren't clawing that much, just curling up to Hardcore for warmth.

Duality turns to look at him, face a little unreadable.]

You're... you shouldn't be here. It's dangerous. Go back.

[kingofexplodokills]

Like hell I am! Do I look like some fucking shitty princess or something, hah? What are you doing here and what's wrong with this stupid weather? It's fucking cold.

[asonoficeandfire]

[He glances down at the cats.]

Did you save them...?

[kingofexplodokills]

[ immediately moving a hand to the cats' head so he can just. pet them ]

... Only one of them, Emperor Death was just roaming around.

[asonoficeandfire]

[He's about to say something, but pauses at the name. He sounds confused, a little taken back.]

"Emperor Death"...?

[kingofexplodokills]

It's short for Emperor Gruesome Death the Bloody, fifth. Who are you?

[asonoficeandfire]

. . .


. . .

[what]

Duality.

[kingofexplodokills]

And what about the guy with the cat ears and tail? That's Duality too. So? Which one are you?

[asonoficeandfire]

... this is my soul. All of it is me.

[kingofexplodokills]

And I'm guessing every fucking room is a different aspect of it.

[asonoficeandfire]

...if you want to call it that. Why are you here?

[kingofexplodokills]

I don't fucking know. I was at a labyrinth and then I ended up here.

[asonoficeandfire]

[He looks down at the cats again.]

Why did you save it?

[kingofexplodokills]

Cuz it was gonna die if I hadn't, what kinda shitty question is that?

[asonoficeandfire]

It's part of me. It's not actually real...

[Or well, as real as someone's mind can be, at the very lest.]

[kingofexplodokills]

If it's part of you then it's real, dumbass. And if it dies, what happens then?

[asonoficeandfire]

I don't... know.

[kingofexplodokills]

Then don't just dismiss it, dumbass. I'm not allowing any part of you to die if I got a say in it.

[asonoficeandfire]

You... what? But why? You don't even like me.

[kingofexplodokills]

I don't want to see you die. That's it. I don't need to like you for that.

[asonoficeandfire]

Oh...

[He deflates a bit. You still rescued cats, though.]

I see.

[kingofexplodokills]

Like you wouldn't have saved them. Give me a fucking break.

[asonoficeandfire]

[He looks away.]

...I can't. None of what I do would have helped. All I do is harm what's important to me.

[kingofexplodokills]

So what?! If you do shit all it doesn't make it better, the cat would have still fucking died!

And you still haven't told me why it's this fucking cold here!

[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!