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.]

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(( 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]

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.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Despite everything about me?

[burninglight]

I could ask you the same. I'm an inhuman ageless monster that doesn't yet remember how to be human past a constant pressing compulsion to help people get the hell out of here alive.

If something like that is worth coexisting with, I think you to be easy to deal with in comparison.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You're dumb and you're wrong, but okay. I'll take that over you being mad. Like, yelling mad. [DANCING mad]

[burninglight]

[ayyyyyyyy]

I'll take you spouting some unheard-of assessment over us shouting at each other, as well.

[motherfucking_ghost]

This isn't because of before, right? This is...you wanting to be friends for right now, right?

[burninglight]

I won't lie and say these memories aren't some contributing factor. But it is not for the reason you might think.

I'd like to get to know you as we are now, if we can. Not as a person who thought he was a healer and not as whatever kind of different person you might have been without your memories of home. Just...ourselves, for whatever that might mean at the moment. Does that make any sense?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yes. Yes please. I know it...it's hard not to be influenced by what we remember. With my...issues of...my amnesic shit, with that shit, I should be happy to remember anything, and I get it, it influences, and maybe it should, cuz obviously we all felt certain ways about each other. Like I get along with Junpei cuz we were bros and shit. And I guess we get along cuz we were roomies and I was your Shield.

But...like, it freaks me out. I don't know those people I remember, and we didn't even remember our histories. I threw myself, reluctantly I might add, at a suicidal mission after I learned my life was a lie. I gotta be a different person for that now than...the doofus I was before.

[burninglight]

There's no way of knowing what else we might remember from here, yet I've no doubt it will influence us one way or another whether we like it or not. But I don't know that Ardyn any more than I know this one. Now that I know the last thing I did at home was spend eternity in solitude and madness to bring ten years of darkness on the world, I can't just...pretend to be that savior who never would have.

...I want to learn who I am now, not who I was in the mansion. And if those memories should influence us to get along, then I want to expand upon that and see if we might still be capable of friendship as whatever we are.

That's...alright, with you?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah.

Yeah, it is.

...I've been a real asshole to you.