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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Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Yes?

[burninglight]

Why? I'll admit that I've told more than my share of lies these past days alone, but what has it resulted in? Each and every one's fallen apart almost immediately, whether through my own faltering or Noctis contradicting me.

How would lying to you benefit me?

[motherfucking_ghost]

I just meant I thought you'd be too scared to actually go through with it, cuz emotions freak you out.

[burninglight]

I'm not afraid of anything.

[With how flatly he said that, it came across as something Ardyn actually believed rather than some arrogant declaration.

All I am doing is...trying to follow this compulsion to see where it might lead.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I guess I'm just glad to know she's got people to hold her back. Too.

And I guess you don't really have secrets, huh?

[burninglight]

I think at this point all of you know more about me than most ever have, and I have long since outlived anyone that would care for whatever secrets may remain.

[Correct, in other words.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

And you literally ended a world? Like. Legitly? Despite Noctis and everything?

[burninglight]

...Yes, I did.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Like everyone is dead and you supervillain killed them.

And you don't have like space travel and colony worlds or anything.

[burninglight]

Truthfully, I don't know. Noctis' friends lived, so I imagine there are yet some survivors out there. Now that the dawn's presumably broken, perhaps there might yet be life on the planet somewhere.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Oh.

So you...ended...some of the planet?

[burninglight]

...If you wish to know, you need only ask outright rather than pry the circumstances from me one by one.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I'm just trying to figure out if my instincts were right and I actually should be pretty terrified of you or if I was right that you just need to learn how to person again.

[burninglight]

...Let me explain and then you can decide for yourself.

Noctis' secret alluded to an 'endless night', I presume you noticed. That is and ever was going to be the result of the Starscourge; more than mere disease, it was a sentient plague foretold to someday block out the sun and plunge the world into perpetual night until such time that the Chosen King could banish it.

I, as the scourge's vessel and avatar, was the one to orchestrate things such that the plague would be left to run largely unchecked. I allowed Niflheim's army to weaponize the plague, killed the only other person with the power to heal those it infected, and waited for Noctis to return for ten years of night.

With the Starscourge so prolific, I've no way of knowing how many people succumbed to it or the dangers of the night it brought. I know Niflheim's capital city fell entirely, and I expect the rest of the world did not fare much better.

[motherfucking_ghost]

So it was the scourge-plague...thing. The thing you got in you when you were being a doctor and made you an immortal crazy person.

[burninglight]

Healer. And effectively, yes.

[motherfucking_ghost]

That's what a doctor is. That's literally the same thing.

[burninglight]

Oh, I'm sorry, do you know many doctors that use magic?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Well I don't know that you use magic to do your healing! I don't know what's magic in your cow-less world! Apparently only the royal people have magic, so you gotta have actual doctors, too!

[burninglight]

Of course we have doctors, you godsdamned idiot, but doctors don't just absorb Starscourge like some kind of magnet for concentrated evil!

[there's a DIFFERENCE]

[motherfucking_ghost]

WELL HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO JUST MAGICALLY UNDERSTAND YOUR STUPID FUCKED UP WORLD!

[burninglight]

STOP YELLING AT THE WALKING APOCALYPSE WHAT IN IFRIT'S NAME IS WRONG WITH YOU?!

[motherfucking_ghost]

YOU'RE NOT THE APOCALYPSE, YOU DIDN'T EVEN KILL EVERYONE, YOUR MAGIC IS STUPID!

[burninglight]

YOU'RE STUPID, NOW SHUT UP AND HATE ME LIKE A SANE HUMAN BEING!

[motherfucking_ghost]

WELL I WAS GONNA UNTIL I REALIZED YOU'RE NOT THE GUY THAT FUCKING DECIMATED THE WORLD! YOU'RE NOT THE SUPERVILLAIN, THE PLAGUE IS!