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theairlock2017-07-01 11:46 pm
airlockedmods) wrote in theairlock2017-07-01 11:46 pm
the final week
[Eight weeks. Eight weeks of friendship and love, death and loss, hope and despair all muddled together in a cocktail that's too sweet on the tongue and leaves an acid-y pit in the stomach. With nine of them left (ten counting their dear but lone surviving host), things look darker than ever. Come Sunday morning the last of the Champions missing memories will be returned to them while they sleep. For some of them this will reveal answers, for others it might just be a fate worse than death. They could even be death.
But how does the song go? "It's always darkest before the dawn"?
There are no announcements from PAL this week. Not even morning and evening announcements.
Sunday Monday Tuesday
[ooc: Welcome to endgame, everyone! We're all very proud of you for making it all the way to the end. As you can see this is going to be a short IC week but we promise things will not be going down until this weekend (7/7-7/9). On Tuesday we'll be unveiling the OOC post for what to expect during the final investigation. There is no official AC this week, just a check-in and as mentioned above characters will be at their true canon points on Sunday morning.
Buckle up, kids, the ride's not over yet.]
But how does the song go? "It's always darkest before the dawn"?
There are no announcements from PAL this week. Not even morning and evening announcements.
[ooc: Welcome to endgame, everyone! We're all very proud of you for making it all the way to the end. As you can see this is going to be a short IC week but we promise things will not be going down until this weekend (7/7-7/9). On Tuesday we'll be unveiling the OOC post for what to expect during the final investigation. There is no official AC this week, just a check-in and as mentioned above characters will be at their true canon points on Sunday morning.
Buckle up, kids, the ride's not over yet.]
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It's okay y'know? To drift back sometimes. It happens to people that've experienced bad things all the time. You've got more of that than most so I don'...
Is that what you want? Someone to drag you back all the time? If you need a few minutes to come to terms with something there's no reason the conversation can't just... continue when you're back?
[It's what she was trying to do earlier.]
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...Getting too lost in my memories isn't exactly safe. So I'd rather someone try to pull me out of it when I can't quite remember where or when I am at the moment.
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Definitely shouldn't let you be alone... in case you lose yourself for a little bit and I dunno... fall into the pool or something.
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Which...is actually quite a startling change, now that I stop to consider it. But it's one I'm grateful for.
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An you got Leonard fer that.
[She pauses, bites her lip... In some ways she wants to keep the thought to herself, in others she knows she has to make the offer.]
You know... Clarith offered. You could... [The smile is fragile and a little forced but not insincere.] I stood aside for Angel and for Cece... it's not the same but I'd do it for you too. I will, if you want me to.
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[He laughed, rolling his eyes in exasperation that wasn't even remotely serious.]
Besides...we're both very fractured people just trying to stop each other from falling apart. Worrying what to do about this relationship or even what to call it is a distant second priority after keeping ourselves reasonably sane. Maybe when a human life stops seeming like the amount of time it takes for me to cross this room, then we can determine something.
[Ardyn paused, trying to come up with the words for what he knew he'd need to say next.]
...My resentment is saved for far greater things than you, and jealousy is a waste of my time. I'm his friend, not his keeper--you two can do what you will.
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[She has to think about the last bit though, chewing her lip, trying to decide how much to voice.]
I'm... glad he has you. I think, maybe, I lean on him too much y'know? I know he's hurtin right now and I don't know how to help that. There's so much about his life before here that I just don't understand. He's from a place that all this [A vague gesture towards the camera in the corner with her arm bearing the PIP] is pretty normal and I-
I can hardly wrap my head around that, never mind the rest. We can play around, be silly sometimes but-
You can do so much more than that for him.
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What I can't do is always be capable of helping him alone. You're good at that, and better than I am with tricky things like people and emotions.
I'm glad you're there for him. For all of us--it means more than you know.
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I'm... glad to be here too. I didn't really expect- I mean... I know Leonard isn't happy with me but I thought... everyone would be, should be mad at me.
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But that doesn't mean- [The words came out haltingly, like a concept he was only now just starting to fully comprehend.] -...that doesn't mean I hate either of you. Family should be able to argue and bicker and come to disagreements without turning into...spite and blood feuds. Without despising each other.
[Few people understood the alternative better than 'Ardyn Izunia', after all.]
If we're upset, it's...because we care about you.
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[There's so much to apologize for. She bites her lip, staring down into her lap but... she knows he's right, even if she doesn't quite feel it just yet.]
What on earth are ya upset at Clarith for? Family bickering is... kinda the norm, ain' it? Gosh me and Tina can't go a single day without something making one of us upset.
Hot dogs eugh
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She's a misguided child who thought trying to redeem a possible lost cause was more important than staying at the side of the people that have watched over and cared about her for all this time. And I'm angry because I don't know if she truly understands that.
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I never wanted to hurt all of you. But when there's that many lives on the line how could I possibly just... walk away from that? You have every right to be mad at me, to hate me even, but don't blame her when she saved you all.
[Which is not the point and somewhere she knows that. But in the face of everything she's done and how horrible she feels about it casting one vote that had been the reason the rest of them had lived? It seemed such a small thing to be angry about.]
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[Ardyn sighed, trying to figure out how to articulate why this bothered him so damn much.]
...We'll work through it, whatever the issue. I told you that I wasn't going to betray you--that counts for everyone here. I won't turn my back on anyone.
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[She leans back into him, squeezes him slightly.]
Mmm I... whatever else the others think, however worried I am by what they're going to think now that the shock's worn off I-
[And this time she doesn't snuggle into his chest but brushes a light kiss at the corner of his mouth.]
I know you're here with us... with me.
Thank you.
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[Whatever he was going to say was cut off entirely by that, Ardyn faltering out of surprise at the gesture.]
Y-you don't...have to thank me for anything.
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And you're looking after my cap'n.
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[A shaky sigh.]
I made this decision all on my own. Tani sure didn' help, encouraging me an all. But... I did it and I gotta face that. Deal with... with him not bein here. [It's the first time she's let herself really acknowledge that and she might just end up clinging to Ardyn a little.]
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