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【Rey】 ([personal profile] circumitus) wrote in [community profile] hadriel2018-04-06 04:23 pm

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"Um. Hey."

[Judging right away from the tone and lack of Russian inflection this time, the one known as Safronov has checked out, and Rey is Rey again.]

"So it looks like at some point when being... unwell, the upper floor at the Speakeasy lost its Casino manager, Firo. He helped to organize the whole thing with me when Delight's bar went out of commission, so... Would rather not have to keep handling the place solo. If anyone would like to help there in any way, it'd be appreciated."

[She'll leave the convenient signup at the Speakeasy/Casino available for those who wish to help.]

"And, um. Sorry for those who had to deal with one of my... other selves." [Yeah, she remembers. Some of it, anyway. She has complicated feelings towards Safronov.]
puzzlingly: (♚ 198.)

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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-12 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, surely that would complicate things. But people don't exactly need to know all of this, do they? Atem often doesn't like using the private channel, but, this is not about him (when has it?).

How many?
puzzlingly: (♚ 135.)

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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-12 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
The one in the picture?

It is not exactly a question, probably more than gauging the reaction to it. He never meant to know this much about Rey without her knowing, but then again, when she did what she did to herself and brought Safronov back, surely she knew what she was getting into.
puzzlingly: (♚ 24.)

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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-13 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Wait... wait! That name... The way it sounds.

Freyja...

He has to repeat it, feel it rolling off his tongue. Freyja... Freyja... Rey?

Oh, is that it? Or is he hearing too much into it?


Wouldn't you count her?
puzzlingly: (♚ 198.)

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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-13 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
There is that name again, but now he knows what it means. Fortunately, just knowing who she is, is enough for Atem, he will not bother her about it, it would be just stirring sentiments that surely had been kept in check for a while now.

Do you remember them all? Your... other selves' lives?
puzzlingly: (♚ 100.)

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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-13 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Not remembering your own name... Atem swallows at the thought, for a long time he was fine like that, not knowing about himself, not knowing his own name, but now that he had it all again (almost all), thinking back, it truly had been terrifying. He had become something absolutely unrecognisable for a while. If it hadn't been because of Yugi and his friends... How is that he keeps making things about him? It was very hard not to relate to what she says anyway.

I'm sorry that you had to experience that.

That's pretty much what he will say about it.
puzzlingly: (♚ 135.)

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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-13 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
If only she knew... If they both knew.

Maybe so... 「And then, he adds.」 Rey, I didn't mean to bring any of this up. I'm sorry.

But he did, didn't he? You never know what you'll find when you don't know what you're looking for, he should know better.
puzzlingly: (♚ 21.)

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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-15 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
So rude, Rey... Enough to make the kid smirk a little.

That sounds like something certain someone he knows would say, about the future. But the thought gets lost at the following, that sounds like an invitation of some kind.


I did. 「He sighs, silently. She shared, maybe he should too.」 It wasn't exactly what you went through but... I know how it is to be in someone else's mind, to be there, but not quite.
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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-15 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
It's better this way. Nothing is really forcing it, it doesn't mean it's easy to talk about it.

I told you before, I died long time ago, but, for a time, I shared a body with someone else. I would sometimes take over, be... alive, for a few. I didn't do it all the time, so I was never quite there.
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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-15 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I guess you could call it that... 「It sounds bad, doesn't it? He doesn't want to get too technical, so, it works.

Yeah, but don't worry, it's not his either. When the time to get separated from him came, I was given this body so a ceremonial duel could take place. If I was defeated, I would move on to the afterlife, and I didn't, I would remain as a spirit among the living.

He makes a little pause, remembering mostly.

I lost, and then I got there.

His luck.
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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-15 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
What a loaded question.

No... that's not how it works. I gave my all. I had to, if I didn't the duel wouldn't have hold any meaning. It was not a half-hearted ordeal.
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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-15 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
There is a bit of silence from his part, a pause as he thinks about it, not that he really has to, it's all he can think about on some days.

It would have been unfair for my partner if I had remained where I didn't belong anymore.

But that doesn't say if it would've been what he really wanted.
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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-15 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course it would have been, what kind of life would Yugi have had if he was there within his heart and taking over every time, not allowing him to grow.

The person he was possessing...? it definitely doesn't sound good. It's better than explaining it all, right? The last thing he'd want is Rey's pity. She has her own stuff going anyway.


Yes. He was 「is?」 my best friend, my... 「soulmate, if he got mushy, vessel, if he got technical; he lets the word die out. It might not be hard to hear the struggle in his voice.

His name is Yugi.
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[personal profile] puzzlingly 2018-04-15 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Safronov had made that distinction clear, but he hadn't thought of it the way she says it, she's right, it is a great way to look at it as opposed to the lonely one he assumed.

But that... That's one of the sweetest and yet saddest things anyone has told him, maybe just because of the fact that he doesn't talk about. But she leaves him speechless for a moment. They had told him, hadn't he? That they would never be apart, that they would always be friends even if thousand years went by.

It's a beautiful feeling, one he wants to believe in.


Thank you, Rey...

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