[ he pauses in his unraveling to laugh, clutching the bundle with clawed fingers. ]
Hahah..! Ahh... Love? Who loved me, when I came to this place? To people here, I was a stranger, and to the place I'd left behind -- a nobody valet, turned infamous backstabber.
[ that description.. doesn't match Vivi's experiences at all. Nobody's going around calling Lord King anyone's valet. the familiar, twisted smile and barking false cheer he'd assumed starts to drain back into the storyteller voice. ]
...I had my plan, in mind, and I kept working toward it, letting it simmer-- tested at what the people here could do, what in this world could be the proper kind of threat-- really, I got so lucky when I had the chance to lure you all into fighting me! I couldn't have provoked Garland into a fight like that.
[ ...there's only a few layers left. he gets back to unwrapping. ]
But I'd-- before just the other day... I'd even decided... I wanted to stay here. [ it was all much sappier than that. he liked the people here. ] But something happened. ...I... shall admit I panicked.
[ ...
the wrapping's all off.
It's Kuja's gem.
It looks a little bit look a blooming flower, from how deep the cracks in it have pierced to, pieces slowly pulling apart from one another. The red core looks like a stain, spilled into the heart of the blue-- there's a ribbon of clear quartz blossoming through part of it, and little curls of black eating at the tips of each chunk.
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Date: 2023-03-20 03:03 am (UTC)Hahah..! Ahh... Love? Who loved me, when I came to this place? To people here, I was a stranger, and to the place I'd left behind -- a nobody valet, turned infamous backstabber.
[ that description.. doesn't match Vivi's experiences at all. Nobody's going around calling Lord King anyone's valet. the familiar, twisted smile and barking false cheer he'd assumed starts to drain back into the storyteller voice. ]
...I had my plan, in mind, and I kept working toward it, letting it simmer-- tested at what the people here could do, what in this world could be the proper kind of threat-- really, I got so lucky when I had the chance to lure you all into fighting me! I couldn't have provoked Garland into a fight like that.
[ ...there's only a few layers left. he gets back to unwrapping. ]
But I'd-- before just the other day... I'd even decided... I wanted to stay here. [ it was all much sappier than that. he liked the people here. ] But something happened. ...I... shall admit I panicked.
[ ...
the wrapping's all off.
It's Kuja's gem.
It looks a little bit look a blooming flower, from how deep the cracks in it have pierced to, pieces slowly pulling apart from one another. The red core looks like a stain, spilled into the heart of the blue-- there's a ribbon of clear quartz blossoming through part of it, and little curls of black eating at the tips of each chunk.
.. It's... bad, in short. ]