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]

...Wow. What a dick. He could've at least used his own na--how did nobody know he wasn't you?

[p r i o r i t i e s]

[burninglight]

...

[Ardyn didn't answer at first, starting to turn pale. His voice faltered, and when a reply came it was unusually quiet.]

We were twins.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh.

[He doesn't argue--doesn't become enraged because a sibling doesn't turn on their brother like that. Doesn't suggest that twins should be even closer. It sucks to turn on family. But it's not unheard of.

Agent South Dakota and her brother North were merely another kind of experiment.

Family didn't mean much in the face of war. In the face of annihilation. In the face of...petty stupid experiments. With Ardyn a monster unfit to rule, why not let the brother take over and bask in the glory?]

He didn't...have to take your name.

[burninglight]

...I suppose he must have been jealous. But in the end, it...it doesn't matter. He's been dead for two millennia now.

[motherfucking_ghost]

It's gotta matter to you.

Evil you tried to kill a world because of him.

[burninglight]

...

I think that...it hurts, being thrown aside so carelessly by gods and mortals alike. It hurt and I had no capacity to do anything but hurt everyone in return.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You didn't have a choice, did you? Like, you were trying to help people, how were you supposed to know you'd get infected? And once you were, what then? You've already got it, so unless someone else has the skills to heal you up... And then once it's got hold of you? All you felt was hate and anger, and it lashed out. It took your own pain and used it.

[burninglight]

I should have listened when Gilgamesh told me to stop. I...I should have done anything other than keep going just to save a world of selfish humans.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Did you think they were selfish and unworthy at the time?

[burninglight]

...no. But what does that matter? All that means is that I was stupid and gullible enough to think better of them.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Okay. Okay. Here's the thing. You were a monster by then? Like, I've got that right, right?

So...they were supposed to, what, give you a big hug while you reinfect them and kill them?

[burninglight]

I think there’s sure to be some acceptable middle ground between that and ‘throw aside our savior like trash while calling for blood’.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I guess it's possible to live with an incarnation of maniacal evil...Doc did it for a while, even though it was like an annoying split personality. And they did make a bunch of evil robot clones. But they all sucked...

[burninglight]

I suspect we're deviating somewhat from the point, Church.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You've never met Omega and face the possibility of him taking over your ex-girlfriend to enslave and alien race and then conquer the known universe.

[burninglight]

And you've never seen the true incarnation of the Starscourge. Call it even.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...What was the point, again, that we were deviating from?

[burninglight]

The point was something to the tune of 'I made my choices and turned myself into a monster for people that didn't care', I think.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Riiiight, right, and my point was that it doesn't sound like you actually got much choice.

[burninglight]

Of course I did. I could have...just stopped for my own sake.

[motherfucking_ghost]

And what kinda king would you have been?

[burninglight]

...

[Ardyn didn't answer, knowing full well that was exactly the problem. The savior of the people could never put his life before anyone else's, or he would have been no more than a coward.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

So yeah. Maybe you could've stopped, if you really made yourself. But it doesn't sound like you were that kinda person.

[burninglight]

...I wasn't.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You chose not to make that choice. And then you had all choice taken from you at all.