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airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-06-25 10:59 am
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week 7

[For the first time in several weeks there is no new memorial in the garden. No new body in the morgue, no bloody mess for the roombas to clean. Choromatsu is still in need of time to heal and constant vigilance but he's alive. They're all alive for once on a Sunday and, even with the terrible realizations their returning memories may bring, there's a sense of hope for the first time in a long time.

There is no new floor this week.


Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday




[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 6, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]
scourgingstars: (and i can't help myself)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-06-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
So now it's for my benefit, was it? I'm so flattered I almost forgot you briefly taunted me with being human those few days.

[TOO BAD TOO ANGRY TO THINK ABOUT IT]

If there's anything left of that person, then it's been crushed beneath whatever this little game of yours turned me back into. You think it's better for your purposes that I should be incapable of existing as a human in any way? What happens once all my memories return, exactly--am I still to be cursed to 'think their emotional weight is lost' and exist with only the barest remnants of anything but hatred?

...[He took a slow breath, the black corruption vanishing from his face.]

I'm wasting my time. You couldn't understand human emotion to begin with, could you?
scourgingstars: (give me dignity)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-06-27 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
...

At what price? I'm a politician, I hope you don't think me careless enough not to consider terms first.
scourgingstars: (i must have it painted black)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-06-27 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
...And that's all. No one else afflicted like Junpei was, not even the corpses in that cheerful little morgue of yours?

Answer carefully, because you need to realize that if you go back on your word, no threat of death or lack of Armiger will stop me from finding your mainframe and tearing you out of it.
scourgingstars: (when your whole world is black)

cw: suicidal ideation again

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-06-27 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
...

[There was still the possibility that PAL was lying. But if whatever he was really could be transferred and moved around, then...if that happened, they'd find a way to move it again. He'd made a deal with the devil before, no doubt--that was how he even got this title.]

[Second problem: there remained the very real possibility that he'd be crushed under the weight of countless lives lost. Kingdoms destroyed, a planet ravaged, innocents all having suffered and died solely because of Ardyn Izunia. Would any human be able to live with that? Knowing what he'd done, knowing that he was capable of that?]

[...Was it worse than living in a personal hell he'd been forced into by the Astrals? He'd never been given a choice--save the world, fail, become the Accursed, die so the world could live. Even his vengeance had all just been another part of the prophecy, bringing the night which Noctis ascended to banish.]

[Neither option was a good one. And this was, Ardyn was sure, his only chance to pick one or the other.]

['Swear to me that you'll remember I was once this Ardyn before you now. That I wanted the best for every last one of you, and would sooner die than see a single one of you hurt.']

[...Was it worth it? Would he even live long enough to walk out of this room before guilt alone drove him to something terrible?]

[If both options ended in an end at his own hand, then--]


Deal.
scourgingstars: (i'll make you a believer)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-06-27 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
...What, such an ominous line and no charming little bottle of Starscourge? I'm disappointed.
scourgingstars: (wanna see it painted painted black)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-06-27 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Fair enough. And I'll get back to you on that whole 'crushing guilt' thing I'm expecting.
scourgingstars: (you won't get it back)

cw: suicidal implication

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-06-27 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I can make no promises on that front.

Luckily, I do have an excellent Kingsglaive looking after me. You'll have to take it up with them, it's their job to make sure I stay alive.