mind_blown | THE LOST DAYS... Round 1.

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THE LOST DAYS... Round 1.

It's all darkness.

The feeling of nothingness, of being nothing. Of not existing. You have no thoughts, you will never have any thoughts again. While that fact is not comforting, because you cannot be comforted anymore, it is true.

There's a certain rest to being... nothing. And to both knowing and not knowing, that your time is done.

So it's all the more unfortunate when you feel, because you shouldn't feel. And the feeling is burning in your lungs, which you shouldn't have. Because you are- or were- nothing.

And then, you inhale a desperate gasp of air and open your eyes...

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[he barks a laugh, and if she's not careful, that wave of despair is gonna hit her again.]

I'm not just a death wish, you know.

And besides. I can't die. You kill me and boom. [his hands spread out.] The whole thing comes crashing down. 50-50 on if it takes you with it, but you'll just come back right.

So you're the one that responds to problems by trying to burn everything down and ruin things. Whatever. I don't want to kill you, anyway.

Both of us are going to be stuck with some shadow like you who'll always be there waiting for an opportunity forever, probably. But you've got enough people willing to sit on you when you try.

So learn to take a fucking rest.

Yeah. I'm that piece of shit.

And the inmates are running the asylum right now.

[he then rolls back to stand up neatly, out of range of headbutting.]

[ well, she already disarmed him— ]

Cypress is right, you know. You're insufferable when you're like this.

...is this a last-ditch effort because the flowers are going away?

Nah. I thought it'd be good to get you guys out while Red Hood took care of the others.

He wasn't very useful this time.

...so that means the others did all right, then.

Something like that.

[he steps back, sighing in frustration.]

Just one of those days.

Could burn down the game tower instead.

Could do that.

Maybe I'll try in real life. I could probably sweet talk Hood into allowing that one.

I'd help with that one.

Give in to your destructive impulses.

Oh, I'm being corrupted. Aren't you stealing ZRAEL's image, now?

Edited 2021-01-25 04:05 (UTC)

Well, I am a corrupting influence. That's what I do, encourage people to act their worst.

Somehow I'm not expecting you to be able to sell me on "kill everyone in the whole world" so you've got a high bar to jump.

[ funny jokes. ]

Unfortunately, I'm still limited by a moral code.

Which is a shame. But not "kill everyone in the whole world," like you said.

[he raises an eyebrow]

And are you trying to relate to me?

Oh, no, you're so unknowable and mysterious and we have nothing in common at all, so surely that's out of the question.

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[he laughs]

Oh, this is that ongoing drama.

If I had my way, I would've ended the whole thing. My hands of it and moved on.

None of us are comfortable with it, just one of us's got enough attachment. And he gets veto power.

I'm not a fan of the new regime over it. And I'm not the only one.

[ rollinggggggg her eyes ]

I meant that we're both sad and questionably alive and prone to doing deeply stupid things out of self-loathing, but sure.

[he's dumb when it comes to personal feelings, but he shrugs.]

That's the thing.

I'm trying to tell you to not do the 'I relate to you' bit. I don't care.

You won. I don't particularly like you, and this is gonna be another disappointment like all the other ones I'm slowly, painfully remembering.

[ probably has leaned against a wall by now, just listening to them.

but. ]

Please shut up.

[ nods. ]

Hm.

Nah.

Sides, traipse around a bit more. I'm sure you'll both feel better, won't you? Maybe get a few more scratches and extricate yourselves from somewhere you don't belong.

[ shoots at him again.

(like, intentionally missing, and also a rifle is hard to aim one-handed anyway and she's injured, but.) ]

[well, it's not like he dodged, so of course,]

So... what, exactly, was the point of that?

She's right that you're insufferable.

So catharsis, probably.

Edited 2021-01-25 05:03 (UTC)

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