thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

Heart Game (Continued)

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[Oh yeah, that's a lot of sympathy.]

[It's not about morbidity, it's about remembering. Honoring them. Because they existed and that existence deserved to be acknowledged.]

[Be it a cat, or a person, they deserve it.]

[Cat is in a coffin and the pain is...eased somewhat.]

[Nope]

TG: but of course not
TG: i dun kiss n tell ;3

RH: The whole heart is about balance
RH: I figured that one out pretty quickly
RH: But some areas aren't about change
RH: They're about existing. Understanding. Accepting and learning how to move on
RH: If you try to change something in that room, you won't get far
RH: And doom is about boundaries and barriers
RH: She'll shut you down if you do something she doesn't like

...So, if Breath let me use wind-y stuff, I'm guessing Light lets me use light-y stuff?

[Amen, sister. Especially when you're one of the only ones (if not THE only one) left to remember them.

Goodnight, sweet nameless cat.

Can he see out any of the room's windows? Non-voidy-weird windows, anyway.]

[...Well I promised not to blow it up...]

[WWMKD??]

[...]

[i guess let's spit, turn it into a lockpick, and get to work.]

DW: Good to know it's a constant.

TG: thats cuz rage isnt just anger
TG: doom is the facts of bad shit
TG: rage is the part that reacts to the bad shit
TG: in basic terms
TG: negative feels
TG: we got anger
TG: but anger is far from our strongest neg feeling
TG: for rage
TG: its like
TG: chance i guess
TG: u kno how u can go thru bad shit but its not always on ur mind?
TG: but then a thing triggers it and BOOM
TG: oh havin the war flashbacks
TG: like when u jumped me that 1 game
TG: war flashback
TG: rage does that
TG: u gotta get out of the war flashback to get to the main part of the room 4 the lab

Can you? If you want to! Do you know a lot of songs?

RH: Got it
RH: That all makes sense
RH: Got any suggestions on how to escape the flashbacks, or am I alone in figuring that one out?

[It's full of clothes.]

[Children's clothes, old and worn out. Some are falling apart, others are torn up or have blood on them. Some of the cleaner sets look like they've been cut with scissors.]

TG: hey some things gotta be

[...whose MK....magic kid?]

[Why yes, that is a thing you can do! C-can you actually pick a lock...?]

[. . .]

[reaches for one of the bloodstained outfits]

That's right! Pretty directly too, since knights are exploiters.

DW: Maybe.
DW: I guess I'll check the situation and see what needs to happen from there.

ardentMachinist [AM] began pestering tipsyGnostlagic [TG]

AM: Hey.
AM: Something happened on the way to the lab.
AM: In a house now. Your house, I guess?
AM: Anyway. I can't sense the lab anymore.
AM: Suggestions?

[B-basically...]

[You see a tree.]

[You are...honestly not sure why you have a window connected to a tree. You haven't remembered that yet, but it makes you hopeful. So there are SOME plants on the planet. And somewhere there is a tree that you found. You wonder how far you had to swim for it, but still.]

[It's life. It's life on a dead world and maybe that MEANS something, you want it to mean something so badly.]

[It is being shown through a voidy window, because there's no trees in her Neighborhood.]

[You have saved a Carapacian and didn't get crushed!]

[It is flailing in your arms.]

[Yep.]

[And nope!]

[But hey if I play around long enough I may get lucky.]

RH: Good luck
RH: Be careful
RH: Don't get yourself killed
RH: . . . heroically, I guess, since I'm pretty sure it's impossible to get past doom without dying at least once

[You're in jail. With some dog girl in a Space outfit.]

[Have a chat about how you can fuck the laws of physics.]

[But you don't say anything about that burning bitterness in your soul. As it because obvious what you CAN do, the moral question is still in your head. The threat of repeated death is unpleasant, but you can ignore that, push it away, and instead be concerned with the moral question.]

[Do you save the race to have them be enslaved? Or do you let a race die?]

[And you try, try so hard to ignore the feeling eating at you.]

[Suddenly, you are Kaito again, and you are in the cell.]

[And there is Roxy, pacing, glaring at the folder occasionally, sometimes making a green cube, and throwing it away, and she's growling and angry.]

That fucking BITCH! She killed my race and she's trying to guilt me into savin' HERS!

[no how dare you why do I have to do it myself

Spins on her heel and marches right back over to that throne because she is not embarrassed, this is not embarrassing or uncomfortable at all, nope. She does appreciate the fact that Roxy is still sitting, however, because it makes it much easier for Fade to cup her chin and tilt it up, leaning down and pressing her mouth against those blue lips. It's chaste and awkward and not romantic at all, because this isn't even remotely about romance, but she puts feeling into the action anyway; whatever emotion she can dredge from Heart to make the ritual mean something more than an arbitrary mechanic.]

[Hello, tree.

It's a small, delicate flicker of hope, one that he doesn't want to mess with. So he'll leave the window be and finally exit the room, walking to the other side of the hall.

Two doors here, right?]

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