[IC] Myriad Reality

[Etcetera]

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Because you’ve had too much for too long. If I went and asked you when it all first started, I would bet the numbness hadn’t set in yet. None of that went away. You just got used to it, and you never deserved to have to.

@Stratocracy

*Scoffs*
Sure I did. That's the whole point.

[Stratocracy]

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*Scoffs*
Sure I did. That's the whole point.

@Etcetera

And what did you ever get a chance to do to remedy it? The wounds it caused, were left opened. Never dressed. Allowed to fester.

[Etcetera]

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And what did you ever get a chance to do to remedy it? The wounds it caused, were left opened. Never dressed. Allowed to fester.

@Stratocracy

I want to earn each bit of it. Kill all good in me. Make it who I am, in and out.

[Valiance]

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You clearly feel guilty about it!
*Flies at you with a speed that doesn't match my proportions*
But not about Ringo!

@Artifact

*Grabs you out of the air and hurls you around into the direction you were flying with added momentum*
We can discuss it later.
*Widens my stance and reaches my hands forward, grabbing at the air*

[Artifact]

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*Grabs you out of the air and hurls you around into the direction you were flying with added momentum*
We can discuss it later.
*Widens my stance and reaches my hands forward, grabbing at the air*

@Valiance

*Recognizes the move and flies after you like before, but the metal of a golden blade materializes in the air, the flat of which pushes against your hand, whereas my own position freezes*

[Stratocracy]

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I want to earn each bit of it. Kill all good in me. Make it who I am, in and out.

@Etcetera

Once again, you fail to agree with yourself. So I know it’s the mask talking to me.
*Takes another sip*
But I don’t expect you to open up so easily. Not after you’ve waited this long. But what I will say is, when have you gotten a chance to truly talk about it? All the ways you were wronged? You never really got a chance to let the weight off your shoulders before, have you?

[Etcetera]

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Once again, you fail to agree with yourself. So I know it’s the mask talking to me.
*Takes another sip*
But I don’t expect you to open up so easily. Not after you’ve waited this long. But what I will say is, when have you gotten a chance to truly talk about it? All the ways you were wronged? You never really got a chance to let the weight off your shoulders before, have you?

@Stratocracy

*Rolls my eyes*
You all know. My best days had weight on me. Once the last bit of good dies, that pain will be all that's left. I hope so.

[Stratocracy]

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*Rolls my eyes*
You all know. My best days had weight on me. Maybe once the last bit of good dies, that pain will be all that's left. I hope so.

@Etcetera

It's one thing for us to know. It's another for you to get to let it out.

[Etcetera]

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It's one thing for us to know. It's another for you to get to let it out.

@Stratocracy

*Leans back and puts my hands behind my head*
No, won't help. Not like you think. I've just felt one thing for a long time.

[Valiance]

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*Recognizes the move and flies after you like before, but the metal of a golden blade materializes in the air, the flat of which pushes against your hand, whereas my own position freezes*

@Artifact

*Raises an eyebrow at the odd result of the attack*

[Stratocracy]

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*Leans back and puts my hands behind my head*
No, won't help. Not like you think. I've just felt one thing for a long time.

@Etcetera

One thing is a whole lot more than nothing.

[Artifact]

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*Raises an eyebrow at the odd result of the attack*

@Valiance

*The blade rattles, pushing back hard against something*
Come on...

[Etcetera]

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One thing is a whole lot more than nothing.

@Stratocracy

Spite bores me. But it's all I have.

[Stratocracy]

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Spite bores me. But it's all I have.

@Etcetera

Spite isn't an emotion borne in a vacuum, you know.

[Valiance]

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*The blade rattles, pushing back hard against something*
Come on...

@Artifact

*Holds my current position while watching, but doesn't increase the intensity with which I am bracing my own attack*

[Etcetera]

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Spite isn't an emotion borne in a vacuum, you know.

@Stratocracy

Once I can make him hate me, then I can die in peace. That's all I want.

[Stratocracy]

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Once I can make him hate me, then I can die in peace. That's all I want.

@Etcetera

And being with Prism is a means to that end, then? Fueled by spite?

[Artifact]

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*Holds my current position while watching, but doesn't increase the intensity with which I am bracing my own attack*

@Valiance

You're a liar and a coward!
*At the words, the manifestation of the gold partially dissolves*

[Etcetera]

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And being with Prism is a means to that end, then? Fueled by spite?

@Stratocracy

*Shakes my head with incredulity*
No, he's... bleh. Not who I want to spite.

[Stratocracy]

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*Shakes my head with incredulity*
No, he's... bleh. Not who I want to spite.

@Etcetera

That's not the sort of relationship someone pursues in absence of everything else.