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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

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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--

From:

finalbows

who told you about the alterations on my mind.

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Blossom didn't MAKE them.

From:

failsaver

What? Didn't she summon you and mind control you into staying with your flock?

From:

finalbows

You're listening too much to Your Name talking.

From:

failsaver

Your Name didn't tell me that! It was --

[ pales suddenly ]

From:

finalbows

It doesn't matter to me who. It's hogwash anyway.

From:

failsaver

[ sorry Miss Azdaja ]

What if it was someone from your own flock?

From:

finalbows

...

_{[ he's eyeing Splash. Listening. ]}

From:

failsaver

[ squeezes his eyes shut and squirms. opens them, looking directly at Angel Devil. ]

Miss Azdaja told me.

From:

finalbows

...that I had a spell upon me? Im startled she learned. But I could see her theorizing Blossom as a source, I suppose...

Edited Date: 2023-09-10 10:38 pm (UTC)

From:

failsaver

[ shakes head ]

She didn't say it was Blossom. She just said --

[ in perfect recitation and a startlingly accurate Azdaja impression, body language and all ]

"Everyone here got sorted into different groups upon arrival, each with a designated color. Those of us with bells on our collars are mind controlled into wanting to stay with our "flocks". A black collar means you're not beholden to that, so you're more free than we are in that regard. Congrats."

Blossom admitted to being the summoner, so it's obviously her doing!

From:

finalbows

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From:

finalbows

_{[ ohhhh, shit. he's a remorseless killer that spent a month mooning after an emotionally distant murderous housecat he'd just met, and have been carefully mentally avoiding touching the shape of in his mind. he's deferred constantly to a chipper meat-head just because she used to have the big jingle stick and was nice about it. He let these hyucks read a PLAY that he WROTE and fussed endlessly for their WELLBEINGS.

He just broke the last mind-alteration, but Charon's damn spell didn't TOUCH this shit. ]}

Edited Date: 2023-09-10 10:49 pm (UTC)

From:

finalbows

_{[ he

grits his teeth. ]}

I see. That. I did not know about.

From:

failsaver

[ wait what ]

But you're the shepherd.

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