the final week

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[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.]

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

Listen. Junpei. I don't know how we're gonna pull it off, but we need to get Ardyn his magic back. [He leans in on the table because this is important.] Because then we can just let him shove everything in the fucking mansion in his fucking magical armory hammerspace and then we'll sell everything worthwhile off and be rich and drunk forever. Think of how much more we'll get selling off an actual diamond ring.

[He's being a smirky bastard but also:] Y'know, if it doesn't mean that much to you... [callout culture did not die by 2552 apparently]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Wait, if we can sell the whole mansion you don't need my ring, asshole.

...

...

Unless space scotch is that expensive. In which case, sorry, Akane, but a guy has needs.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You're the one talking about your life savings, man. Maybe you want that back.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Only if we all end up coming back to my earth and I have to deal with my student loans and water bills again.

...Which you're all welcome to do, by the way. I promise you don't have to help me fight genocidal cultist maniacs all the time.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Man, I don't know, that just doesn't seem like a good deal to me.

So what are you gonna do with it? Keepsake? Reminder?

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He dips his head to the side, fiddles with the ring some more as he thinks about it.]

Something like that, yeah. That's what it was for a year, a reminder of what I was struggling so hard for. But now it's more... like a note to myself. 'None of it was meaningless.'

[motherfucking_ghost]

...I like that idea. As a concept. That everything that's happened...meant something. Even if we don't know what.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He smiles, then elbows Church in the arm.]

You really don't want to come to Earth with me, if we can? It'll be an English-speaking country, I promise. I'll show you Akira.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Depends on a lot of things, I guess. Wherever the fuck we go, I just...kinda wanna us all go together, you know? Big fucked up family.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Fuck, yeah, obviously. If I can't bring all of you, I'm not going. Crash Keys managed without me once, it's fine.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Thank god, cuz I would totally fight you about it. Like I would fist fight you about it.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oh yeah? You say that like you're so sure you'd win.

[Junpei, no. Junpei, stop.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Well one of us is military and has been making a point to work out every morning. [Or damn near every morning, for a couple weeks, only because he wanted to make sure he could take on Ardyn if it was necessary, annnnd now it's no longer necessary but at least it's a healthy habit???]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah, but I have a cool robot arm and no sense of self-preservation.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You're suggesting I do have a sense of self-preservation?

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Mm, no, you fucked Dad, so I guess not. I am suggesting you don't have a robot arm.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Wow, don't kinkshame me for sleeping with my own boyfriend. You're the one with the daddy complex here.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I do not! Stop making it weird!

[motherfucking_ghost]

If you ever decide to call me dad, listen, I know there are a lot of stories out there where people like to think Tony Stark adopts Peter Parker with Steve Rogers or whatever, but this is not that story.