thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

Heart Game (Continued)

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[Nothing happens.]

Throne doesn't have anythin'.

Find the common factor, logic boy. Why it's important.

DW: I'm trying.

F....

Friends....

[What is this magical word you just said.]

Yes. You have many of them in the time I'm from.

[You're outside and you’re amongst fire and structurally unsound buildings. There are also corpses of the black and white Carapacians, blood red as humans, and all very dead. You can see the red stringy mass in the sky, and in the distance you can hear rockets.]

UU: i do know a thing or two aboUt the red miles.
UU: it is the qUeen's favoUred attack. very long distance and omnidirectional.
UU: bUt once Upon a time, her weapon was stolen by a UsUrper. jacked, yoU coUld say, right off her ring finger. and then given a considerable boost in power.
UU: that gave the miles enoUgh of a kick to rip a Universe to shreds.
UU: and they have been doing so to yoUrs and its many instances for eons.
UU: only now have they caUght Up to yoUr instance. it is qUite fortUnate it has taken so long, really.
UU: some instances are tUcked deeper in the speaker's mighty blow sack, and will hold oUt for mUch longer, on a vast cosmic scale of coUrse.
TG: wait
TG: i dont
TG: what? instances
TG: blowb sack
TG: righ now i can hardly walk w/o steppin on my moms scarf ok
TG: so theyre destorying the universe is that the bootom line
UU: yes.
UU: try to think of it like this.
UU: imagine that the Universe is contained inside a very large creatUre.
UU: say, a great big frog.
TG: frog
TG: why a frog thats so silly
UU: it's jUst a frog! that is the way it is, jUst try to imagine it.
TG: k
TG: picturin
TG: big ol space frog
TG: all ribbiting loud an being huge
TG: hehehe
UU: now imagine that not only does the Universe exist inside it, depending on the creatUre's health and well being to sUrvive...
UU: bUt every potential instance of that Universe exists inside as well.
UU: those that are doomed and those with promise.
UU: even those that were reset from scratch, with slightly different starting conditions.
UU: all of those interrelated Universes mingling together inside yoUr frog, inextricable from its physiology.
UU: if the frog dies, they all go with it. eventUally.
TG: then you are saying some rude a-hole is killin our frog
UU: sadly, yes.
TG: wow
TG: that is
TG: just....
TG: the WORST

[You know the way to the lab, though it's some distance away.]

[Roll a 12 sider.]

[assuming she's finishing that statement with "kill people," so he chimes in pretty quickly]

You didn't kill anyone.

[firm.]

I was there, Roxy. My team died, too. And for a little while, I was pretty mad about it. Who wouldn't be?

But I never blamed you. And you don't have to blame yourself when no one else who was there does.

[You're gonna just sylladex something on accident one day boy and then where will you be.]

Maybe. [Shrugs.] They differ.

[JESUS CHRIST?!!?!?!?

11]

[He rubs his temples.]

Well... those remind me of the games here. And that last one... Haunt's game. So the others were the ones from before then.

Deaths that you can take on to save other people and teams..?

[Suddenly you're getting a Lighty Ping.]

[Do you want to deal with extra BS or fast travel?]

I ran off. Needed space to think. As nice as the team is, I get the looks, the questions. Got tired of it. So I ran, and didn't tell anyone where I went.

It felt like it was better that way, anyway, you know? I could calm down, no one had to look at me like some broken doll on a shelf in need of pity. Then I could come back and refocus on what was more important. I could be useful, like I should be. Not some sob story. Seemed like the best thing to do.

...

Hydra found out. Yelled at me. Broke my arm.

I... wouldn't be surprised if she cried that whole day.

[A wistful chuckle as he releases her hand, dropping his own into his lap.]

It's... hard to see how we're dismissing the people we love until it's too late. We're telling them we can't trust them. It's one thing to do that to strangers, sure. But...

If we can tell someone "I love you", but can't tell them "I'm afraid", then maybe we have our priorities backwards.

[oh a ping those are worth paying attention to

nnnnnn gonna fast travel, on the idea that maybe she'll get to the root of the problem that way]

Don't you get it?!

I grew UP with Games like these. I should have seen what would happen. It was literally the sort of thing I TRAINED FOR.

And I knew what I was doing when I confessed, I KNEW two teams were gonna die, I knew how high chances were Epona was gonna confess, and I did it anyway!

[Her eyes widen.]

[She can't find the words, but there's obvious disbelief, but WANTING to believe.]

TG: just try to not overthink it
TG: sometimes we got simple desires

[pushing a bit further with her powers]

Would you like me to tell you about some of them?

DW: Roxy.
DW: After all this time.
DW: And all this stuff that I've seen from you.
DW: And knowing you as long as I have.
DW: Do you really, honestly expect me to believe that any part of you is not some kind of Gordian knot of complexity?

[She cries, and cries for...a good long while, but eventually her hands loosen.]

....go on.

Just...

Just go.

Give Hope a reason. [Her voice cracks.] Please.

Gettin' too specific, and too altruistic.

What about you? Will you be all right?

[Buildings just fly fast as you fly/run forward towards the lab.]

[And suddenly, you see it.]

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

[It seems unlikely you'll be able to save them unscathed simply grabbing and running/flying.]

[Nods her head slowly.]

TG: but wasnt the knot solved with a simple solution

Epona chose to confess on their own! Their choices are not your fault. You can't shoulder the burden of other people's decisions, Roxy. That's just. . .

[h-hffff]

That's too heavy of a burden for anyone to carry on their own.

. . . and as for the rest, you were only trying to limit the damage that would be done. You can't. . . shoulder the burden of Yaksinis's choice to kill everyone, either.

You have to forgive yourself. How can you keep fighting if you don't allow yourself to move on from past mistakes?

...You want to die?

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