week 2

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Week 2

[It's been about a week since the Champions woke up in their new consumerist hellscape of a temporary home and, despite a few odd goings on and the bomb incident with Church and Nari, things haven't been as bad as they could be. No one is even dead yet! But let's see how long that lasts.

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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[desperateprayer]

[ Clarith is silent for awhile. She's holding herself and rocking there, just quiet. But then... Then she speaks.

Might as well paint that target on her back and get it over with so the insults and hatred can start. ]

Clarith is harboring and protecting the Daughter of Evil, Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche, who is responsible for the suffering of the Lucifenian people and the attempted genocide of Elphe women across Elphegort.

[ She sas it with guarded resignation, like she expects the insults or worse to come at any moment. She's used to it. They'll hate her and that will be that. Everything will be as it should be, ultimately.

Clarith will always be relatively isolated. ]

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika gives a small gasp and shakes her head.]

It must be a complicated story, Clarith-san.

[desperateprayer]

...She was born a twin... And because of a certain other country's queen... She was targeted by assassins her entire childhood. Then, when she was still twelve, her mother died. Her father was already long dead. So at the age of thirteen... She ascended the throne with no real idea how the world really worked or how anything outside of her palace was affected. ...Her betrothal to someone she loved was canceled. And in retaliation, she ordered the extermination of Elphe women until the one he had fallen for was found. This was... This was Mikaela. My dear, dear Mikaela.

[ She sounds... Distant. Tired. ]

...A revolution sparked in the wake of that war. Even though Mikaela was dead and the Lucifenian troops withdrew, it was too much. She had done too many horrible things. And so... They stormed the palace. But instead of finding her, they found her twin brother. She had thought him dead. ...But he wasn't. And he... He traded clothes with her. And sent her out a secret door. ...He was beheaded at the guillotine in her place. And she ended up in a little port town with a monastery. She didn't know how to live. I found her, collapsed and starving. I didn't know who "Rin" was at the time, but... She didn't know how to do anything. It took time for her to do even the most basic of chores.

[ ...She remembers it well. How she had to be taught. She couldn't even cook simple things. Or use a broom. Or anything else. ]

...I... I overheard her tearful confession one night. It was an accident. I realized who she was and what she'd done. That she'd robbed of of Mikaela. That she'd caused so much suffering. ...So I retrieved a knife from my room. I found her on the beach, in tears, tossing a message in a bottle. And I... I almost...

[ ...She doesn't say it. ]

...She caught me. And she begged for me to do it. Because she deserved it as penance for her sins. She was quiet and accepting of death. But I... I couldn't. I couldn't look at her there, like that, so miserable from the weight of her own sins and regret, and just take her life.

[ ...Suddenly a lot of Clarith probably makes sense to a lot of people. ]

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika almost starts to cry right there. She wrings her hands and nods slowly.]

And that's why they gave you that title.

[desperateprayer]

...I assume so. Her sins... Aren't only mine to forgive, though. But... I don't think most people will see the girl who was isolated and put on a pedestal and given power when she was much too young.

[ratherdoweddings]

People will do terrible things, but there's always a reason. That's what you're saying?

[daughterofthemark]

[...Arianna smiles.]

The Champion of Forgiveness.

[tokencanadian]

...Clarith.

[Pyrrha looks... tired. Extremely so as the story reaches its end. It sounds so wrong to see her looking this sad, but the pieces are slowly clicking together.]

...You were exceptionally brave, doing a thing like that, for someone like that. [It's all she can think to say on the matter. it takes serious guts to forgive someone like that.]

[desperateprayer]

...I won't blame anyone for hating me or thinking I'm naive. But she's... She's a girl who feels guilty for being alive every day. She has nightmares so often of what she's done. I can't... I can't bring myself to hate someone who is paying for her actions every day of her life, every moment of her life. She's... Never going to stop regretting that. And if that makes me "evil" and worthy of hatred, then... Then so be it!

[tokencanadian]

...Well, I can see it now.

[She smiles softly.]

I can guess why you're the Champion of Forgiveness then. I don't think you're evil for it, Clarith. [She shakes her head.] If anyone thinks so, then they're deeply mistaken.

[desperateprayer]

...Thank you. Not many... Would be willing to see the person behind what happened as anything other than a monster.

[ She was fourteen. Fourteen. IT still makes her stomach turn that someone so young was expected to do so much. ]

[cyan_maid]

[O...kay?

How does Jane react to this, this is a lot to uh. This is kind of a fucking lot.]

[desperateprayer]

...If it makes you more comfortable, Miss Jane, I'll find somewhere else to sleep.

[ She doesn't blame anyone for wanting nothing to do with her ]

[cyan_maid]

N-No, that's...it's your kiosk too. I'm not about to kick someone out of a bed.

[?????????????????????????]

JANE IS SUCH A GOOD CRIES

[desperateprayer]

...

[ Clarith is actually legit shocked????? ]

...Thank you, Jane. I... I truly mean that.

[ Jane is such a good. ]

[induality]

[Guess who's not leaving your side today? Fukawa doesn't know what she can do, if anything, but-- she wants to be there to support her at least. She doesn't want her to suffer alone.

Because none of it is changing her mind. So... as long as Clarith lets her, she'll hold her hand and be there for her.]

[desperateprayer]

[ Thanks, Fukawa. Thanks to you she feels okay. Or at least calm and numb.

If it's only one person... If she's not alone... ]

[motherfucking_ghost]

I mean...I'm gonna just take a wild stab and guess that people back home wouldn't like hearing that? Which sucks.

[context: he sure don't have any]

I CAN HTML I'm so sorry

[desperateprayer]

[ WELL HE SURE AS FUCK HAS IT NOW. ]

...They'd kill her. And no one would be able to protect her anymore.

[ She'll have failed someone else. ]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Then someone will just move her, right? It's a monastery, you guys protect people, kinda sorta, right? Sounds like she's not a stranger to people trying to kill her her whole life anyway.

[desperateprayer]

...The only people who know are me, a girl in her fourteenth year... And the revolutionary leader who has no reason to defend her. Even then, the monastery is itself in Lucifenia. They... They would have suffered, too. And the orphans we care for are-- They're a result of her regime.

[ ...Basically not many people would want to protect her. Haha. Ha.

This is fine. ]

Even her own soldiers abandoned her, Mister Church. The only reason she escaped that palace was her brother. And he's gone.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Disguises. [he's helping!!!]

[desperateprayer]

[ For what it's worth, she does appreciate you're trying to reassure her. ]

...Thank you.

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna walks over to her. It seems especially wrong to let Clarith suffer like this. Because she's a nun and a good person who's been kind to everyone, of course.]

Sister Clarith...

[desperateprayer]

[ She appreciates it. That she's not alone. She can... Handle anything so long as she's not alone. ]