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[personal profile] ktiseos 2022-06-16 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[the ache in that distance-- it's not familiar, but someday, it will be. he knows what's to come, knows the weight he is to bear, and seeing it reflected in the man in front of him...

he should do the same as the other two, whether he knows they are or not. destroy the future ere it comes to pass, try to prevent that self from ever existing at all. the events that create the emet-selch of the future are too devastating for anyone to bear and come out the same.

he should. but-

-it's a little strange, but you know what? I can see all the good parts of him in you.

he never wanted to consider this man a part of him.

I just wanted you to know that you don't grow up to be completely irredeemable, Emet-Selch.

he's silent, motionless, for several moments, before he walks up to the edge of the hole.]


Fine. Are we going, or not? Do something decent with yourself.

[she insists that he can, that he has.]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-06-16 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ You've made your decisions, and suddenly, you see things with clarity.

The figure sighs, tiredly, even rolls his eyes in a familiar way as Emet-Selch voices his impatience. He makes a motion as if to say 'right this way, then --' but in that moment, Joonghyuk and Dimitri leap forward to stab this thing that represents everything they don't want to face, head and appearance shifting between the pristine white-coated Joonghyuk, the beastly monster that represents hidden violence. And of course, the previously headless boy, some teenager who looks stunned, but grits his teeth, bitter as his body falls backwards into the whirlpool.

There is silence, and then the ground below begins to rumble as the body disappears. The final sacrifice has been made, and something begins crawling out of the hole.
]