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theairlock2017-06-25 10:59 am
airlockedmods) wrote in theairlock2017-06-25 10:59 am
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!]
There is no new floor this week.
[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!]
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Was it not an easier state to handle your memories in? Thinking that their emotional weight was lost on you, able to analyze them critically as they came.
Challenger, and Ghost, and Bystander have all told you that they believe that Ardyn Lucis Caelum still lives. Do you believe them now?
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[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?
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You haven't yet given me a straight answer. Do you want me to return you to the state that you were in that week?
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At what price? I'm a politician, I hope you don't think me careless enough not to consider terms first.
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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.
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cw: suicidal ideation again
[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.
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It doesn't take effect immediately, doesn't hit him like a freight train like it did the first time, but the weight is still there, still present as if the PIP is effusing him with light.]
It would be rude of me to hit you all at once. You'll start to taste, and feel hunger, and thirst. And then you should feel tired.
And when you wake...
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I'll swirl it into a paperweight for you. Much more firmly contained.
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cw: suicidal implication
cw: suicidal implication
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.
cw: suicidal implication
Lest they panic at the sight of you sleeping without aid of a motive or sabotage.