evocationary: [ ᴄʀʏsᴛᴀʟ + ᴅɴᴛ ] (92)

[personal profile] evocationary 2022-07-20 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh yeah no she doesn't even hesitate this binch does drugs get us to the last event

i hope she gets poisoned]
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[personal profile] wisterin 2022-07-20 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ let's goooo

To the last game ]
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[personal profile] malewife 2022-07-20 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ??????? LUP'S COCAINE???

To the game!!
]
evocationary: [ ɴɪᴄᴋʟᴇᴇʀɪᴇ ] (49)

cw: suicide attempt

[personal profile] evocationary 2022-07-20 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[well lup doesn't have time to unpack all that last round so that's great.

she doesn't want this gun, she doesn't - want this, she tries to struggle out of the chair, but there's no escape from it. and then she sees into the incinerator, and she gasps:]
-- Harrow!

[harrow - harrow in the incinerator, and her brother in front of her, and an impossible choice. she drags in a breath, looking at taako. at her heart, her soul. the person she couldn't kill for, let alone try to kill at all. the guilt feels heavy, and she can't breathe. it's overwhelming, and she has to close her eyes, briefly. when she opens them, she looks at her brother. does he recognize her?

... and then she looks down at the gun. if a trigger isn't pulled, the hostage will die. but the the sound of the revolver will open the door. is there a third option here? shinobu and joonghyuk can likely see the cogs turning in her brain as she works through it, and then --

without any warning, she brings the gun up to her own head and tries to pull the trigger.]
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[personal profile] wisterin 2022-07-20 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ wow, it really is a good thing they have no time to unpack that last round. Her family and friends dying to poison is especially terrible.

She watches as lup despairs, and her heart sinks. It is a terrible choice, and her eyes widen in alarm as lup brings the gun up to her head. ]


Lup, no! They would want you to live! Think about them!

[ she struggles against the invisible binds.

A small terrible part of her thinks, you did not send one of my most important people to die only to choose death yourself. ]
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[personal profile] malewife 2022-07-20 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Joonghyuk instantly starts to struggle, ignoring the fact he can see Mikazuki and Hua Cheng ahead, then the game of chance nearby. He doesn't even pay the incinerator mind despite knowing who's in there. It's a game... This is a trip. He can only trust that Shinobu and Lup are alive, that they are real.

But to see that Lup would choose death kicks of a storm.
]

You fool.

[ Unfortunately, Joonghyuk feels strongly on trampling over these precious memories to get Lup this far, only for her to choose death? It stings. He understands, deeply, but it still stings. It's already too late to advise or order. She has pulled the trigger, tried to, at least.

What is the result?
]
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[personal profile] evocationary 2022-07-20 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ahhh. figures it wouldn't work.

she curses, viciously, wanting to throw the gun across the room. no, no, no. it's not about choosing death, it's about choosing other people. she has such a strange relationship with it, with dying over and over and over again, with never being truly dead. this would've been nothing, to throw her life away, because it's never meant anything in the first place. she jokes about it often. i'm invincible, you can't kill me in a way that matters, i will always come back - she's a lich. she's in between life and death every day of her life, but. she can't take the blow for him. not this time.

you've been given a responsibility. she drags in a breath, hands shaking.

none of this is real, she tells herself. taako isn't here, he's not part of this stupid game, he's somewhere else, he's being held somewhere else. i won't let you die, she told a weeping harrow, stroking through her hair gently. that is real. she promised. the two people against the wall, shinobu and joonghyuk - they're real. and she can't let them take the consequences if she loses this game, she can't be responsible for that many people's deaths. what they've done to get here can't be wasted.

but more than anything - she can't let taako be the one left behind.]


I love you. [she says, desperately, to taako, voice breaking.] I'm so sorry, Taako - I'm sorry I couldn't - I can't kill someone for you, not like this. I wasn't - I'm sorry.

[he never will be left behind, she thinks. he will always die first.

taako's fingers twitch, and she can't look at him, she - can't, but she does, because if she has to do this, she has to give him that. she has to look at him when she points the gun against his heart and pulls the trigger.]
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[personal profile] wisterin 2022-07-20 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there is an ache that resonates, but shinobu doesn't know why. This is something she doesn't think she should be allowed to witness, but there is nothing for her to do but watch, bound to the wall as she is.

It is heartbreaking, the choices they are forced to make. Heartrending, to hear the pain in lup's voice.

There are scars that can never fully go away. How much will they have to harm themselves in ways that can't be seen? ]
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[personal profile] malewife 2022-07-20 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The only thing they can do is really watch from this wall they're tightly strapped to. He witnesses the scene, blood going cold unlike before where it boiled while his anger festered. Why do these murder games force them to suffer in front of an audience...? Can't they have the peace of solitude, where they can nurse their own wounds before they are ready to reach out to others?

Is this interesting to whoever's watching?

Closing his eyes, he takes in a deep breath. They have to stay strong and move forward.
]
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[personal profile] evocationary 2022-07-20 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[we're out here like (hei voice) 2 potato

lup staggers onto the stage, and then sees the crowd, and then staggers off the stage to go throw up in the bushes. gross! sorry.

and then she just sits at the edge of the stage and bleeds, staring at the ground. i am sorry it's her turn to be useless this round. just throw her into the portal if you need to, do whatever, steal her coins. she did cocaine for that, can you believe it.]
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[personal profile] wisterin 2022-07-21 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ lessons learned today: (don't) do drugs and drop out of school

shinobu rubs the grooves where she was bound, and her anger builds and builds the longer they are on the stage. how abominable they are to put them in the spotlight like this after what lup had to go through. how dare they consider this entertainment.

it makes her seethe.

she throws her shield at the spotlight, wherever it is if she can see it. they need to move on, but lup can have some time. she doesn't think it's right to make lup move so soon. she doesn't have any words to say because there are no right ones to say, especially since she doesn't remember the shared trauma. ]
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[personal profile] malewife 2022-07-21 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shinobu's slow descent to becoming Sasuke. Joonghyuk can't say much either, considering what they saw there is nothing to say. Nothing can heal a wound like that except time and acceptance. Even then, it will haunt the person to their grave.

First, he cuts down the Congratulations banner. Second, he's going to see if he can... Ugh. He wanted to have Lup drink some of the healing potion, but she now is vomit-y. The banner will be used to wipe her a bit before forcing her to sip.
]

We can have another break. Outside.

[ Because maybe lingering on the graduation stage will further deteriorate Lup's sanity. He can corral them through the swirling portal, then they can rest before heading to the last ring. ]
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[personal profile] evocationary 2022-07-21 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
[she doesn't argue being fussed at, and now she's just like, kind of oily i guess. she holds onto her bigger staff, and glances between the two of them. her gaze is a little flat, but she's... functioning. somehow.]

Lead the way. [she says to joonghyuk. whenever he's ready she'll follow.]
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[personal profile] wisterin 2022-07-21 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ this isn't sasuke. shinobu has always been this angry. her anger has run deep for years.

the spotlight shattering didn't give her as much satisfaction as she'd like, but it'll do. she holds onto whatever she can as she goes through the portal. she adjusts her grip on the newer shield and looks to joonghyuk. ]


... It's your turn.

[ time to see if he'll manage to come out of this without being a potato. ]
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[personal profile] malewife 2022-07-21 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Lup is oiled up… He looks at both of them, assessing their state, and wondering what will happen to him at the end of the last ring. Shinobu seems… Fine, but strange. Lup is just going through it.

The voice speaks into their head and he can only frown, eyebrows furrowing more intensely. All of this is hateful.

He sighs before scribbling something on the greeting cards (“Team Fan Favorite’s Happy Ending”), then pocketing it.

Into the ring…?
]
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[personal profile] evocationary 2022-07-21 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[shinobu like i'm not like sasuke while he was being emo i studied the blade

god she's so tired that this third dive is almost too much. she watches the city rise up on them, staring out at the stars, the lights.

and when the lightning bolts start coming, instead of trying to fight them, she's going to try and shield her and her companions the best she can with a bubble-shield spell, allowing for the others to slash and fight at the bolts. i also want her to get hit by a fluorescent sign while she's trying to go for a ring to go through (if there are those) because i think it's funny.]
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[personal profile] wisterin 2022-07-21 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ i hate that you are correct about that

into the portal they go. the amount of stars there are isn't lost on shinobu, and she is more angry now than anything else, so it is easier for her to try to dodge now than when entering lup's rings. she throws her shield like a boomerang to try and deflect what lightning bolts she can.

she dives for the fastest and smoothest trajectory she can. ]
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[personal profile] malewife 2022-07-21 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ The small solace in this murder hotel is that he doesn't need to see the sky full of twinkling stars, each one looking down upon them... Laughing at their suffering like they're toys. It's back, but he focuses on diving. With Lup's bubble-shield, he slashes through the billboards and lights, but there's only so many he can cover. The path he's cutting isn't wide enough for all three, but it's still more than nothing. Stray broken glass break apart and hot wires ascend, wooden and metal pieces, too.

What are they even supposed to do about lightning bolts?? He can only avoid them, the hands he will stab them and hope that the feel of a very sharp toothpick has them recoil so they can keep descending.
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