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

[burninglight]

[Ardyn didn't have an answer for that, looking like Church had just said something that refused to compute properly in his head. He reached up to his scarf idly, brushing a hand against the pendant hidden beneath it.]

I-I....you don't really believe that.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Of course I do. You make some stupid-ass decisions sometimes, but that's human. Why wouldn't you have been a good king?

[burninglight]

Why would I have been?

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

All I did was...make mistakes.

[motherfucking_ghost]

What are you talking about?

[burninglight]

I would have been a terrible king. If I was worth following, I'd not have been cast out in the first place. I'm not Noctis, I've no ability to be someone others would truly wish to answer to.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You were helping people and then got the hate plague for doing it. That's why you got all stabbed and betrayed. I don't understand what you're saying.

[burninglight]

I don't understand what you're saying!

[?????]

I-...they couldn't have thought me even worth helping if they would all sooner have cast me out when I began to deteriorate. What kind of king isn't worth his subjects' sympathy?

[motherfucking_ghost]

You were literally a hate plague monster who got taken over by the sentient hate plague. What did you want them to do? Heal you? Oh wait.

[burninglight]

I-...I don't know.

You really think that I...

[motherfucking_ghost]

I literally haven't seen a single reason why anyone should think otherwise, man.

[burninglight]

[...Ardyn laughed shakily, dropping to sit next to Church with his head in his hands.]

[Give him a second.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[...Okay, well, that's. Concerning. He's just gonna...scoot a little away. For safety. Ardyn's safety! Obviously. Not anyone else's safety from people who might have just snapped.]

[burninglight]

No one's ever-...

[focus, ardyn]

...No one's ever said that to me.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You've been a hateplague most of your life. Yeah, I should think nobody's ever said it.

[burninglight]

No, I mean....even when I was human. I can't remember anyone saying anything like that. I've never even been called 'Your Majesty' before.

[motherfucking_ghost]

But like, Your Highness, right? Cuz you were a prince?

[burninglight]

Yes, but...barely. I wasn't born into royalty, I was meant to be the first. I just never got that far.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You were just magically ordained to be royalty. Right.

[burninglight]

...more or less, that was the idea.

[motherfucking_ghost]

That's bullshit and no way to start a government.

Anyway. You can ask anyone here. And they'll say the same thing.

[burninglight]

...I'm not good enough. Noctis is a better leader than ever I was, I can't even manage one simple meeting without shouting at you.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Man, shut the hell up, he didn't even get to be king, either. And you shout at me cuz I shout at you cuz I shout. That's, like, one of the things I am best at.

[burninglight]

...I suppose friendships have been maintained on worse things than a mutual inability to express one's own anger in ways other than 'loudly'.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[This seems like an EXCELLENT time to start super heavily sharpening that sword again!!!]

Yeah, well. I guess that's what most of my friendships back home are based on. If you think we're friends.

[burninglight]

...


I think that I'd like to be.