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[ Angel Devil. ]
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[ if you're visiting the rose barn,
look for the door with the creepy bat-and-angel-wing sigil on it. Knock first! Or get zapped. ]

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From:

finalbows

Are those ears just decorations? You heard what I said.

From:

failsaver

They're --

From:

failsaver

Hey, hey, I know that tactic! You're dodging the point!!

From:

finalbows

Which some success, if I say so myself. You've hardly gotten anywhere in your misguided attempt at convincing me of your point, whatever it's meant to be. You shan't drive a divider between myself and my flock, either-- they remain, firmly, within the iron claws of my grip. You can't save them from me like that.

From:

failsaver

Y-you're doing it again! Painting yourself as the bad guy when nobody asked you to! Someone that truly had no remorse wouldn't act so despondent about it. A real bad guy would never have given a Weed like me the time of day when I upset your friend like that -- even by accident!

I brought him a hat. That's why I was looking for you.

From:

finalbows

Your qualifications for a bad guy are broken. Remorse doesn't cleanse one of sin. It encrusts them to it. ...Do you want to die here, Weed? I AM rusty. I need the practice at killing. If you'd rather not, then run along and find yourself a different rose.

From:

failsaver

Haha, just listen to yourself. "I'm rusty." "I need the practice at killing." If you enjoy the suffering of others so much, then why haven't you shed more blood since you got here?

And don't give me that crap about lying in wait for the right moment. If you were really waiting to see the looks on people's faces when they realized they'd been betrayed, you'd be a lot happier right now!

But you're not. You're not happy at all. You're just throwing empty words at me like a spark of light pretending to be an empty shell. You want to be the scapegoat because you think you're nothing more. You're the one driving a divider between yourself and your flock, not me.

From:

finalbows

_{[ angel devil's big fluffy red tail is... angrily swishing. ]}

Your voice gives me a headache.

_{[ he casts Silence on him. ]}

From:

failsaver

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failsaver

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failsaver

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failsaver

From:

failsaver

[ mouths "I'm sorry, sir" ]

From:

failsaver

[ AIMS A SLAP AT HIS CHEEK.

he's not using Augmentation so he's at regular human strength. ]

From:

finalbows

_{[ angie is, again, minimizing magic use, so he uses his actual genome hands to try and grab Splash's before he can hit him. his eyes look livid, no matter how the little dispute shakes out. ]}

Keep your DIRTY PAWS off me!

From:

failsaver

[ sits on his lap ]

From:

finalbows

_{[ takes the goddamn silence spell off as he shoves him away again ]}

I. Mean. It!

_{[ crackles with electricity, because mere lightshows are very low MP. ]}

Edited Date: 2023-09-10 09:13 am (UTC)

From:

failsaver

[ dusts himself off ]

See? Bullshit. You're not as heartless as you think you are.

From:

finalbows

_{[ angie's voice has been falling flatter and flatter through this conversation.]} You are falling for an illusion of what you find familiar, you wraith. A routine, practiced until it sits by rote. I have no heart. I am merely adapt at facsimile.

Allow me to give a hands-on example.

_{[ do you still feel afraid, splash?

you feel more. you feel more and more and more afraid. ]}

From:

failsaver

[ he's terrified. he's so terrified that he wants to freeze and scream and run away, all at the same time.

but that's the secret. he's been terrified all along. he's been terrified ever since he woke up three years ago.

he starts laughing. ]

Hahahahaha. Wow! If this was a bet, I'd be losing horrendously right now! Luckily Miss Azdaja's not here. I gotta apologize to her later for doubting her...

From:

finalbows

She often is. She possesses very coherent and clear reasoning, particularly in the subject of risk assessment.

_{[ the fear... ebs.. when its clear he's wasting energy not getting anywhere. ]}

From:

failsaver

...

When you imagine bad things happening to them, it's like having part of you torn away, isn't it? You want to protect them so much that it hurts. You'd rather claw away your own skin than have them die on your watch.

That's why you did it. Shepherd.

From:

finalbows

_{[ yes. maybe. no. they never had the chance to find out what would have happened, even. he just went mad chewing at the bit that it COULD. ]}

I did it for my own vanity. I couldn't stand the idea of being forced to watch outside my own body as the game's coming punishments buffeted it.

From:

failsaver

Both can be true!

I would have done it too. Pond Fiend did do it too. I heard. People talk.

Are you going to conveniently tell me it was the mind control now? That your feelings aren't real because of Blossom?!

From:

finalbows

Whether my memory is altered or not, I'm the same damn monster underneath, after all! I nearly murdered all of you before any of us had a chance to ever meet! I--