Heroic

Myriad Reality

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You think that a simple sorry makes all of this goes away? Brings back all the people you've killed?

@Artifact

Despite the fact that I did nothing… I regret everything. If I were as strong mentally then, as I am now, I could have contained him. But I was a naive, stupid, inexperienced kid.

Myriad Reality

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If you're telling the truth, then what do you expect from either of us?

@Artifact

To not hate me, at least any more than I hate myself. On the hopeful side, to give Ridge a chance, like others have.

Myriad Reality

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Prove it. Somehow or another.

@Artifact

*Frowns*
Not even showing him to you is sufficient enough to be proof. And I don’t want to give him even an inch. He very easily will try to take a mile.

Myriad Reality

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That's your excuse? It sounds to me like you haven't kept up and want an easy out.

@Artifact

I don’t want to fight. And I don’t want to hurt Roland. But circumstances make it hard to believe, I know. The number of people who ever have, I can count on two hands.

Myriad Reality

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What, the name of your curse? What do you suggest?

@Artifact

I hate to even call it an alter ego… But that’s the best thing to call it to make you understand. Maelstrom lives in my head, as an inseparable entity.

Myriad Reality

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*Grits my teeth*
Curse or not. Who's responsible for this, then?

@Artifact

Maelstrom. That’s what I’ve been trying to say. To both of you.
*Winces, as though in pain*

Myriad Reality

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*Flashes my gaze to the side, memories clouding my thoughts*
You're... not... you're not a victim! You did all this—
*Waves my hand across the misty storm*
And you think you can just get away from it?

@Artifact

You have to understand… Please understand. Maelstrom is not me. It’s a curse. A curse that’s made everything worse for as long as I’ve had memories.

Myriad Reality

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You wiped out your home, and then replaced it with a flawless copy.
*Fire burns in my expression*
We are not the same.

@Artifact

I watched helplessly as my own hands were used to take everything away!
*My watery eyes turn to tears*
Revellyn died, the last day Maelstrom got away… And I miss him, too.

Myriad Reality

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Well—
*Cranes my neck to look behind me without turning my body away from the original*
Well obviously I would! Who wouldn't want a life without regrets?

@Artifact

That’s what this is- what this was, to me.

Myriad Reality

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You're telling me you just happened to build something you knew would attract your enemy and didn't intend to leverage it? What fools do you take us for?

@Artifact

It attracted him for the same reason I even made it to begin with!
*Sighs, and another me speaks up from behind you*
If you had the ability, for even just a small part of yourself to live as though it had never lost anything, or anyone… Would you take that opportunity?