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theairlock2017-06-03 11:15 pm
airlockedmods) wrote in theairlock2017-06-03 11:15 pm
week 4
[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.
There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]
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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]
There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]
[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]
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[Junpei closes his eyes, trying to recall Ardyn's exact words.]
"It's something which can't be properly removed or erased." Even with all the powers he normally has. But he looked... he looked like, somehow, he thought that was his fault or something. But he also said someone had to be the one to deal with it, and he'd rather it be him than anyone else.
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[That there is a thinky face.]
Does he have--he was, like, a healer. Does he have actual healing powers, did he say? Like, I don't know, self-healing, or some healing magic type thing?
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[There hasn't been any reason to.]
Why do you ask?
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...He doesn't like it when I describe his look as, uh, demonic.
Did he...maybe get it himself? And he can't heal it from himself?
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['Starscourge is highly contagious, Junpei. Daemons are not even remotely edible.']
He told me about that. That--that's mainly what he fights, the daemons, that's his job. They come out at night and--
[Oh. Oh no.]
Church. Church, ever since Tuesday morning, I've been... I've been sensitive to light.
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What the fuck.
A daemon plague and he's got it. Maybe something about that...means he can't heal people of it anymore? Which would be crushing to someone whose whole schtick is chosen to specifically do that thing.
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['Only the chosen king can fully banish the darkness. And until I can fully harness the power of the Crystal granted to the Lucis Caelum line by the gods, all I can do is hold the plague at bay where I am able to.'
Junpei shoves his seat back and starts to pace, fists clenching at his sides.]
If he can't do it... I think his world's fucked.
['I am the only one who can truly channel the Crystal's power.'
'I accept and welcome my role, and there is nothing I would not do to save every afflicted person I should be capable of reaching.'
Stopping, Junpei pushes his hair back from his eyes.]
Shit... Shit, Church, I can't give this back to him!
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And it's just going to spread until everyone's got it and they're as fucked as he is.
[Although now Junpei is alarming him. [softly] don't]
You can't just keep it, either!
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I--sure I can. If PAL doesn't take it back, then...
[He swallows and faces Church again.]
My earth's headed for apocalypse, anyway. And... and. And I don't have anything... depending on me. Like you guys do.
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You can't just--wait, the fuck do you mean yours is going apocalyptic?!
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[young man!]Jesus, though, no wonder he feels like shit about the things he's done. It wasn't even really him, just...this thing in him.
But say...say we make it out of this alive and intact. And go home. Just not having it anymore doesn't change the things he's done. Whatever he's been doing for two thousand years. And if he really did cold blood murder some super important figure in his world? Do you know what he'll put himself through? You can't just...
[He hates saying it. Because Ardyn deserves...to stop feeling this and start feeling again. This is something that's going to hurt him either way, and what the fuck is he, the King's fucking Shield, supposed to do about it?]
You can't be him. You can't be like him. You can't just decide you're shouldering all that now.
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[From the mutinous set of his mouth, Junpei's obviously considering a dramatic watch me + flounce combination. But Church is right. Junpei knows he's right. Shouldering other people's burdens--he knows what that would do to him, what it's done to him in the past, and that's not even factoring in the literal demonic fury running through his veins right now. The veins that should be Ardyn's.]
Then what do we do? We can't... he's been shouldering this. For centuries. I don't care if he accepts it, it's--it's not right, some gods choosing that for him.
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[His fists clench, because this is a no good very bad week for everyone, and he's been trying so damn hard not to lose his shit. So hard. Just to keep everyone afloat, like Ardyn would want him to. To slap bandaids and quick fixes on everyone and everything, to dump water leaking into the bottom of this sinking ship overboard with a rusty pail. He has to do it. He knows he has to, at the core of everything, for reasons even he can't articulate or reach. If he can't protect them, what good is he?
Which is the same thing Ardyn thinks every time someone tells him to chill out, and it's a bullshit perspective.]
There might not be a way for him to cure it, but maybe in the years he stopped looking for one. The cure for his insomnia, the lack of eating, the muted feelings, there has to be something. I don't know that we can find it here, but if there's information on our worlds stored away somewhere PAL can access, it might be a start.
We should talk to him. While he's...y'know. While he feels. I think he'll be upset but he'll be less likely to smooth everything over with stupid lies. If we put our heads together like a team, maybe we can find something to at least tide him over. If and when it goes back to him.
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Okay. Yeah. Of the three of us, he's the one most likely to have the clues to a solution. So we've got to talk to him.
[Junpei rubs at his left wrist.]
...It wouldn't... be right to leave him out of it, anyway. Okay. You're right, Church. Maybe tomorrow morning, so we've got the whole day to work things out? [Wan not-smile.] Since you two need your sleep eventually.