Heart Game (Continued)

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[There's nothing]

[Nothing]

[Nothingnothingnothingnothingnothing]

[Isn't that wonderful though?]

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Original Heart Post

ENTER | CHUMROLL CONTINUED | BEDROOM | BREATH | TIME | SPACE | LIFE 1 LIFE 2 | BLOOD 1 BLOOD 2 | MIND | DOOM 1 DOOM 2 | RAGE 1 RAGE 2 | HOPE

Comments

Re: LIFE

[forthemackerel]

Do you have some control here?

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[She frowns a bit, looking him over. She's...trying to keep up, but his voice is different. She's not used to it.]

[What's strange is Kaito might get that, from how she's twitching, moving her head. That whole Carapacian translate thing.]

Re: tipsyGnostalgic

[fuhrinkaed]

DW: Way back when I just got here, people told me that I didn't have any right to talk about dying because I didn't know how it felt.
DW: And honestly, until this game, I'd never died inside one.
DW: I want to help you, and I want to know what I'm talking about.
DW: The interests coincide.

Re: LIFE

[forthemackerel]

[From here]

It doesn't matter who figures it out, as long as she can be fixed.

[ but he'll be trying his hardest ]

Re: LIFE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[He is certainly getting rid of more glass! More is stabilizing.]

I'd like that.

Re: RAGE

[bloodbiter]

...As I said, I don't understand it to the same extent. I killed her. But I want you to know that I can at least sympathize with what you are going through.

Re: RAGE

[carptricks]

[. . . aaaah yes. verbal communication has got to be difficult for someone not used to it]

[he crouches down on her level, hold a hand out slowly, snaps his fingers and tugs a yellow rose out of thin air for her. he tilts it towards her, smile warm and reassuring]

[it's okay. I'm a friend. I just want to help]

1/2

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[She closes her eyes, relaxes more, the tension melting away. It's soothing, hearing the sound. Like the recordings from her mother.]

[The house feels warmer, less empty than it was before.]

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[And suddenly you're back in the Neighborhood with all the fire, on the street now.]

[There's a building collapsing near you, and an injured Carapacian is trying to get out of the way of it.]

[Just running and diving may not be quick enough to save it unscathed.]

Re: RAGE

[showyouthesight]

How many times have you tried?

victoriousShark

[showyouthesight]

[ Online ]

Re: LIFE

[forthemackerel]

[ yes, good. he will keep pouring into that feeling. wanting it to spread further through this room, even if it's bit by bit ]

I know Rook wanted a group of us to swim together. Maybe you could also come to that.

[ granted, it'd be a sausage gayfest with Rook, Castling, Gull, Sakura and him. but hey, you'd get some intense ship feels ]

Re: DOOM

[dirtydoll]

You already said it. It's 'doom'. It's...an ill fortune. Death.

[Pauses.]

...no, not death. Not really. Death is simple. Death is easy. It's...more. Everything you can't escape. Everything you couldn't avoid. Everything that happened to you, everything that held you, as long as you could remember.

Because you were always alone, weren't you? It's all you ever knew. Even when you had your friends, they weren't really there. No one ever was. No one ever saw you. Every time you were hurt, no one saw. Every time you were sad or scared or lost, no one saw. No one could. Like you didn't even exist.

But...you did exist. You were always there. Whether anyone wanted to see or not.

[She looks around the room again, at each of the objects in turn.]

These things...these memories. You wanted someone to see them, didn't you? You wanted someone to feel what you felt. To understand. That's...what I wanted, too. I didn't want to tell anyone...I don't even want to think about that other life. Because I thought no one could ever, ever understand. But...I still...wanted someone to notice. I know it can't be helped. I know it can't be changed. I just wanted...someone to...acknowledge it. To acknowledge me.

Because I existed. Because I was there.

[She trails off, staring down at her feet, unable to look at Roxy. Because she wonders if she's not just seeing what she wants to see, and making this about herself when it's really not. But she can't not look at her, not right now. "Give 'em a reason to stick."]

...I don't know. I still don't know what I'm supposed to change in here. I still don't know how to do it. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I can't understand either.

But...I see you, Roxy.

Re: RAGE

[menially]

[...Mood whiplash like whoa but NO TIME JUST GOTTA REACT

At least said whiplash means he has an EXTENSIVE pool of emotional high from ten seconds ago to throw forward a shield over the lizard....insect....thing. GO GO GADGET MAGIC FEELINGS DEFENSE.]

Re: victoriousShark

[forthemackerel]

CW: getting somewhere?
CW: what do you mean

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Olive. You're with someone, closer than closer, and you really like this girl you're supposed to help. It's better than being just dead, you suppose, but then something happens, and you're ripped away from the other as you EXPLODE.]

[There's this troll. You don't know where she came from, and you don't care, because she's got the ring you need to SAVE YOUR FRIEND, and she's calling her irrelevant, and she's talking about how she's gonna be the big hero, and she's so smug and you hate her, hate her so much, but that would be fine except.]

[Except she put you to sleep.]

[She took you down.]

[And when you woke up, EVERYONE YOU LOVED was dead or dying and you hate it hate hate hate hate hate hate hate]

[AND SHE'S TO BLAME AND YOU HOPE THE CONDESCE MAKES HER SUFFER BECAUSE YOU WOULD HAVE.]

[So you see this motherfucker. And you hate him, hate him, and hate him, and he TOOK YOUR MOTHER FROM YOU, and all you see is red as you try and BEAT HIS FACE IN, or shoot him, or anything because HIS SMUG ASSHOLE CLOWN FACE NEEDS TO STOP EXISTING!!!!]

[But then he does and you're cute in half by some unknown party.]

[Tick tock, you're fine again!]

[Do you continue to red?]

[But tick tock, back to normal.]

Re: victoriousShark

[showyouthesight]

VS: Things keep changing
VS: Like I keep ending up in different places
VS: I'm pretty sure I'm still in Rage
VS: But I've gone from a lab to a city on fire to a jail cell
VS: Think I've found the real Rage though
VS: I hope not expected to calm her down
VS: She has right to be furious

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[SORRY BRO.]

[Exoskeleton alien dude.]

[YOU HAVE MADE A FEELINGS SHIELD> You can get the Carapacian to safety!]

Re: victoriousShark

[forthemackerel]

CW: then what are you supposed to do

Re: tipsyGnostalgic

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

TG: dunno if i approve
TG: or annoyed
TG: ...
TG: annroved

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

....

[She stares at Lace for a long time.] I see.

[And then suddenly, YOU ARE BACK IN THE FIRE FIGHT. Though you seem to be hunkered down in a new building, but there are still three robots after you.]

Re: RAGE

[menially]

[Rolling forward and snatching the little guy with one arm and the shield with the other, holding it as firmly as he can above them in case there's any additional rubble.

And he... knows talking won't change anything with these guys, from what Roxy's told him, so.

OFF WE GO, ALIEN DUDE.]

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Yes. She's not used to need to instantly respond from shows, and her mothers tapes are, well, exposure there. It's a learning process.]

[She jumps and...stares at the flower.]

[Is...is that a real flower?]

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

See her powers in action. And personally, I'm not interested in provoking organ loss when I know what I'm dealing with.

Re: RAGE

[bloodbiter]

[sudden setting changes putting her in middle of a fight are getting old!! she fumbles with the gun for a moment before taking aim and firing at a robot]