thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

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From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

It's not my job to explain.

From:

fuhrinkaed

Nah, I suppose it's not.

[Okay then. Let's touch the purple scarf.]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[You feel it in your chest. The middle prong of the trident buried near your lungs and heart. Enough to have done fatal damage, but not enough damage to make the death quick.]

[You're slow to bleed out, but you do.]

[Tick.]

[Heroic]

[Tock.]

[Just]

[BONG]

[You feel your body break down again, as it did for godtier, pulling, pulling everything back, until you snap back, whole, in the air. Completely fine.]

From:

fuhrinkaed

[...]

[...man this whole room is death and other people's death and pain and other people's pain and the occasional wish of pain on others for other people's pain.]

[yep. seems pretty solidly the opposite of light.]

[I just had the best idea. Let's touch Roxy.]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[You touch Roxy.]

[Nothing happens. She is, however, cold as death.]

Since you've decided to chat with her, you might as well ask how corpses are treated back home.

From:

fuhrinkaed

[Staring at phone.]

[Shrug.]

Well... Can't say I expected that.

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

The Game is a morbid fuck.

From:

fuhrinkaed

Ehh. Far be it from me to judge.

[I guess we will do the chaste smooch thing.]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[You kiss her, and her lips are cold, almost burning.]

[You're afraid to die. You don't actually want to die, and there's that niggling thought of what if you DON'T come back, but it keeps happening.]

[You feel a piece of glass pierce through your heart. The vines twisting, twining around you, tearing your flesh and bleeding you dry.]

[If you live, someone else will have to die. Like every other time you were spared, every other time you lived, it's because someone else died in your place.]

[Something unknown running you through along with a sword from someone who is supposed to be your ally.]

[It's easy to take everything wrong with your head and use it. It's so ridiculously simple the first time self sacrifice is an option. You've had worse. You've died before. You destroy those fears and doubts, bury them deep in the void that is your soul until you no longer feel them anymore. You probably couldn't now if you tried.]

[You feel the burn of poison in your veins, the heat of total soul deconstruction.]

[But you'll be damned if you let someone die just so you could live ever again.]

[Finally ending with the burn of total incineration.]

[And a feeling, a desire.]

[Please, please just let it all end. Let nothingness take me.]

[But the clock goes, and you come back, because there is no heroic or just. You're completely fine.]

From:

fuhrinkaed

[He stands up, rubbing his mouth with a hand.]

[Let's see what changes we have wrought, then.]

Edited Date: 2015-01-26 05:56 am (UTC)

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[There are]

[No changes.]

[Just Doom Roxy, waiting.]

Have you figured it out yet?

From:

fuhrinkaed

Maybe.

[Let me do the THINKY THING.]

[AND THINK WITH FULL POWERS.]

[Roxy is a person who keeps dying and coming back. So she doesn't have a problem dying... but she's tired of continuing to come back. But that would imply she's fighting it... which isn't doom. But since it's Roxy it can't be that simple... She's accepting both that she's going to die and that her deaths aren't going to be existent... but that doesn't mean she doesn't want to die??]

[god it is hard to figure this out when it doesn't actually bother you all that much.]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[Oh honey.]

You may want to try a new angle.

[Heading over to the throne.]

From:

fuhrinkaed

...I've already figured out the key is accepting something that seems unpleasant. I just need to figure out which thing to see how hard it'll be.

[But. Well. I guess we can try touching the throne.]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[Nothing happens.]

Throne doesn't have anythin'.

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

From:

fuhrinkaed

[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..?

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

Gettin' too specific, and too altruistic.

From:

fuhrinkaed

...You want to die?

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

Part of me does, but that's the Rage bit trying to infect Hope mostly.

From:

fuhrinkaed

...Hm.

You die. And everyone around you dies. And it all breaks down and there's not really anything you can do about it a lot of the time?

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

That's correct.

From:

fuhrinkaed

...Is that seriously all I have to accept?

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

Why do you think it's important to accept?

From:

fuhrinkaed

...life fears death. But I think that death gives life meaning.

If everyone was immortal, no one would be in any rush to do anything. It's because we're finite that we work so hard towards a goal, a lot of the time.