Week 4

[airlockedmods]

[After everything that this case was, you probably don't want to deal with anything else. But you wake up on Sunday, just like before, with some new memories, and some new stores to check out.

Let's see what this week brings.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( Don't forget to check in, and check your memory regains! You can also stop by the gacha machine and Xander's office hours. ))

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

They can turn a whole planet to glass.

[burninglight]

That's...a new one.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Like, they literally bombard everything until it's superheated and melted and basically turns into a fucked up kind of glass that isn't technically glass but...yeah. It's not pretty.

[burninglight]

Yes, I gathered the effect even if we lacked anything on nearly that level. Where we're from, the only things capable of ending the world outright are the Astrals or the Starscourge.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I can't see you ending the world. But we've probably had a couple conversations like that before.

[burninglight]

Probably. And I've probably told you outright that I did.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Well, you don't have mind control hate plague in you now, so I guess we're all safe from you killing us all, huh.

[burninglight]

...yes. I've no reason or plans to kill anyone but Xander.

[motherfucking_ghost]

At least until there's a motive that moves you. It could happen.

[burninglight]

There's nothing they could promise me.

...That's not some blind optimism, to be sure. There's nothing in any world I desire anymore.

[motherfucking_ghost]

That can't be true. Maybe you just don't know it yet until they hit on the right one.

cw: suicidal ideation again

[burninglight]

What could they possibly offer me? My revenge is done and over with, I've no use for anything material, and I'm no longer driven by the manifestation of malice and hate. The only thing I could want is the one thing I can do myself.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I'm telling you, man, there has to be something they could offer up. They're smarter than this. They wouldn't put someone in here that they literally couldn't push to murder. That's...fucking rigged.

[burninglight]

Maybe there is. But I can't claim to know what it could be, and I think I've grown tired of murdering innocents.

cw: suicidal ideation even more whoops

[motherfucking_ghost]

Well. Okay then. [He sharpens faster.]

...Okay but what's the point? If you don't wanna be here, then just go. We've got a million ways to die here, pick your poison if that's what you want.

cw: even more suicidal ideation

[burninglight]

...I was planning to, when that monster was trying to come after us. I couldn't kill it on my own, not as I am now. The best I could hope for was to buy the rest of you time and injure it badly enough so that you could regroup and finish it off.

But then you and Touko and Varric-...wouldn't leave. I must have been lectured five times over how reckless that was, and I don't...understand why any of you care. Especially Noctis, who has more reason than any to despise me.

So I want...to live a little longer. Enough to see the end of this, and to make everyone responsible pay for what's happened. I want to understand what kind of person all of you thought worth standing with.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...You're a dumb fuck, anyone ever tell you that? I've probably told you that.

[burninglight]

Presumably. Is it now your turn to lecture me?

[motherfucking_ghost]

I guess not. Apparently I already lectured you about friendship.

[burninglight]

...it would seem so, yes.

[motherfucking_ghost]

So I dunno why you think you don't have an answer to your confounding mystery of why anyone gives a fuck.

[burninglight]

Because I don't remember, Church, I-...

Maybe you're right and I already have the answer. If I die without realizing it again, what's the point of all of this?

[motherfucking_ghost]

It's not about remembering, why isn't right now enough for you?

[burninglight]

...

[Ardyn opened his mouth to answer...and upon realizing he didn't have one, he simply closed it and looked to the floor.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

It's not about being a king or a prince or a bumblefuck monster demon thing, this is you, right now, just as a guy who's trying to understand shit with the rest of us, and maybe some of us aren't keen on seeing you dead anytime soon.

And you must think I'm genuinely stupid.