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[finalbows]

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[ Angel Devil. ]
[  chatcube, or action. ]
[ 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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[failsaver]

To disrupt the harmony of the pasture. That's what I was told. No instructions, no guidance. Just that.

[ blinks as the staff flies back and hits Angie in the face. ]

Ah.

[finalbows]

_{[ no reflexive response. no sound. no outward sign of pain. it hits him, and he just seizes his hands upon it in an iron grip. ]}

[failsaver]

Haha, that's a relief. I intended to keep it safe, but like I said -- my accuracy sucks here! If you'd startled me at any point, I could have split that thing in two.

How long have you wanted someone else to be shepherd?

[finalbows]

_{[ tail swish. he bows his head forward, furrows his brow. why is he still doing this? to whose benefit is the show of feelings on this canvas? he's tired. ]}

...Since I got the staff. I knew... it would go terribly.

_{[ Every scrap of power he's had, he misused. ]}

[failsaver]

Wow. A whole month?

[finalbows]

...

Since two days ago.
That's when our real--
Our second shepherd suddenly fell into a unwaking sleep.

1/2

[failsaver]

Wait, you mean...

[failsaver]

You were totally posturing when we first met! If it was two days ago, hadn't you just become shepherd?!

[finalbows]

Yes.

[failsaver]

...

Tell me about the Rose you know. Not the one everyone thinks you guys are after the game.

[finalbows]

...

Unpredictable. Passionate. Full of fire, even if it's banked low into coals. It would be fun. Just talking, with everyone's distinct voices, knowing no one's going to seriously try and destroy each other afterwards. Usually, Shadow Fiend would offer some clear reasoning that I could understand to do things another way, when I'd say something cruel. I could just say whatever cruel things ran most easily through my mind, because I knew we were cloistered to ourselves, and...

...
And that there would be a firm, dissenting voice.

_{[ there'd been one, though. Azdaja. Again and again. But Azdaja couldn't press things to suit her will the way a shepherd could. ]}

[failsaver]

[ Edgelord impression ]

"Shadow Fiend's real practical... she's missin' some of 'er emotions, apparently. Blood Fiend's been through a worse ringer than this place, and will do whatever's gotta be done. Pond Fiend's doin' some brewin' for me, he'll do stuff when there's somethin' in it for him. Makin'-Faces Guy might actually be the most bloodthirsty of the rest of 'em, but he justifies it as bein' thirsty for justice."

[ Your Name impression ]

"Rose is the craziest team there is! Even Azdaja is dangerous!! Watch out for the one with cat ears."

That's what I heard so far. But I don't believe everything I'm told anymore.

You're the one I'm most inclined to believe. Because you care.

[finalbows]

...
Any other member of Rose could be just someone, on another flock. People are just people. You put them in a different context, they change. That's what's miraculous about them.

[failsaver]

You're doing the thing where you reject the idea of being a person yourself hoping someone will convince you otherwise! I've heard that one before too.

[finalbows]

No, I'm not. I don't want convincing. I-- _{[ need this. or I can't do what needs to be done. it's always the same story. ]}

I just know myself. True colors out.

[failsaver]

Are you a literal bomb with an artificial heart?

[finalbows]

I have no biological relatives and can cause towering conflagrations on demand. My genetic sequence was put together in a laboratory to fit a calculated design. Yes, I'm a bomb with an artificial heart.

[failsaver]

Perfect.

[finalbows]

_{[ splash has recieved: rude gesture left to the viewer's imagination ]}

[failsaver]

Not to call you unoriginal. You're plenty original, Sir Angel Named Devil.

[finalbows]

...

What do you want a bomb for.

[failsaver]

To blow up the Rose pasture, of course!

[finalbows]

I
Am NOT doing that.

[failsaver]

Because it's inconvenient to you, a fake person that can't bring themselves to care?

[finalbows]

It would be about as stupid as throwing the soul summoners under the bus, when the only souls I can touch anymore are the dead too rotted to ever live again.

_{[ haha ♡ oh wait ♡ ]}