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⁽ᴾʰᵃʳᵃᵒʰ⁾ ▽☥ℰℳ ([personal profile] puzzlingly) wrote in [community profile] hadriel2017-12-07 10:23 am

duel 4. ( video ) If my armor breaks I'll fuse it back together

Atem comes up on the screen, looking more than exhausted, with big bags under his usually fiery eye(s), the Millennium Eye in his left socket, however, keeping its cold, golden appearance, imperturbable as ever. He does not look at the screen then he starts speaking, his normal eye, empty, as he looks at something else. A someone, in fact, but he will not show Kain's body on the feed, however, it would be terribly disrespectful.

My friends, my comrades, hear me out–! 「He starts, his voice nearly broken, but starts taking strength after a few words.」 Most of you don't know me, but I already think of you as my friends, as my family! We all are, in the end, in this together! Together, until the very end, until we are victorious.

He finally looks at the screen, a little fire showing in his eyes at last, his words firmer, passionate as he goes on.

And I assure you, we will be, because I believe in every one of you!

I know it hurts, I know it's hard, that this is not your fight, but they've made it so! You will rest your tired bones and your tired souls when they are all gone. We will mourn those who haven't been returned to us when the time comes. Because–they will be back.

You have fought for yourselves, for those you love, for a future that has yet to come, for Hope and the hope in your heart.

And that's why I come to you today, to plead you to give me your hope, your rage and your sadness, the love for those you're fighting for — give me everything you've got and let us give one last stand! Only one more, I promise you — send the Null this message, let them know that we are not going down! Not today, not ever! Because we are in this together!

Just a little more, my friends... It will be over, soon.

That's it, that is all he says, one last look at Kain's body before him and he brings the feed to an end.


( private: Law )

... Tell me you're still alive...

Unlike his previous message to the whole Network in which he seemed to gather strength as he went on, he looks absolutely crushed.

Why Law, though? Why not Delmar, why not Lup or even Bakura, why not the rest of his friends? Because Atem has witnessed two of the strongest men he's ever known, die right in front of him...
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[personal profile] imhisaunt 2017-12-07 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a high cost to keeping one's heart open. To keeping oneself gentle and loving despite everything. Every loss hits you with its full horrific force and you start to feel like you'll never know how to breathe again without crying, without your throat closing in an angry, burning rejection of the very air trying to reach your lungs.

Where he sits, red face buried behind his hands, Delmar has no words of his own. Only voices at the back of his mind. Michael's and Harlan's. Words of friendship. Reassurance.

A single hand reaches out to weakly clutch the foot of the bear Harlan had given him.

Today Delmar just wants to curl into a ball and live within his memories of his friends.]
hot_mes: (haki ping)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-07 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[if he's over-long in responding it's because he was asleep - for once]

Of course I am.

[it seems like only audio at first, but that's because he's got his hand over the phone. It peels away to show that he's in his apartment - at least, that sure is his flag still on the wall, even if there's a hole next to it.]
hot_mes: (unimpressed)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[keep it together, pharaoh]

Nice speech. Guess you really are a king.
hot_mes: (cool smile)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Would I lie to you?

[well. maybe]
hot_mes: (talking)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[oh well yeah there's that, too]

What, like I'm going to say no, I'd rather die? [snort] I'll be fine. Now the Fear has cut off their reinforcements, exterminating the rest will be easy.

[always pragmatic, this one]
hot_mes: (omg wat)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
...what happened?

[all he knows of Kain is treating him once, but the guy did seem like someone good to have at your back]
hot_mes: (what he said)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
That's not what I meant.

[details, man! so he doesn't make a matching mistake]
so_dark_a_road: (a vision of war)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2017-12-08 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ Quietly. ] We are in this together, as you say. And we will either win it or all die together.

[ Seeing the Eye. ] What the hell is that thing doing in your head?
Edited 2017-12-08 04:36 (UTC)
hot_mes: (fml)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[welp not laying down anymore...]

What the...? No. One of those devices. Dammit, they're still using those...
hot_mes: (talking)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah see that's exactly what he's thinking, cursing himself for taking a nap and cursing everyone who's told him to get some rest for the last two weeks. Points to eyes points to your ass]

Pull yourself together. Or does that speech not apply to you as well?

[already grabbing Kikoku and heading out the door, thanks]
hot_mes: (grrrrface)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Fine, then consider it advice from your doctor. Not that you'll ignore a doctor's advice when it suits you anyway, most people do, but I'm just saying it so it's been said. [jiggly video as he rushes down the steps] Death is nothing beautiful, I understand that.

[he doesn't have any soft words of sympathy, only determination right now. The time for head-pats comes later]
so_dark_a_road: (we alone shall be)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2017-12-08 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
All you can do is your best. Who died? [ Because Atem's cry from the heart doesn't sound general, but personal. ]

[ Nope! Not since the Dreamwalker episode. But in the dream, Atem didn't have the Eye, the old priest did. It gifted its wearer with the alarming power of summoning a person's ka to emerge. ]

An old thing, right. [ A snicker that is reminiscent of the bandit Curufn in the dream. ] Now what would you want with that ancient relic, Atem? Will it give you the power to embarrass a Null by showing it its own soul?
Edited 2017-12-08 05:04 (UTC)
hot_mes: (determination)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[sorry Atem, he forgets that sometimes. You're just so lively and all...

The wince is less for the volume and more because he realizes this.
]

Out. Obviously the stragglers that got transported with us are still functional enough to be killing people. I'll take them all out.
hot_mes: (what he said)

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[personal profile] hot_mes 2017-12-08 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[he's not! This isn't the kind of fight where he's okay not leaving alive. That was then, this is now.]

You want me to stay in my apartment and let more people fall?

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