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Locked Rooms ([personal profile] guillotineroom) wrote2023-03-12 12:01 pm
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[PHOENIX]

[when you open your eyes, you find yourself in a pleasant greenhouse. the sweet scent of flowers surrounds you, and the sun shining through the glass ceiling invigorates you from within. there are stone benches on which you can sit, and if you're hungry, there's a garden table with some refreshing tea and scones available to you]

[the voice– the good voice– echoes in your head again]

YOUR DESIRES. . . CREATED THIS REALM. IT IS YOURS. . . IT IS NOT TYPHON'S! I CAN USE THOSE DESIRES TO GIVE YOU A SAFE PLACE. . . FROM WHICH TO FIGHT.

BUT I CANNOT DEFEAT HIM. . . ONLY YOU CAN. ONLY YOU– WITH YOUR OWN DESIRES!! YOU CAN. . . RESHAPE THIS WORLD. . . HOWEVER YOU'D LIKE!
gunmettle: (• 095)

[personal profile] gunmettle 2023-03-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. With some mercenary bits sprinkled in here and there.
pyrighteous: (King_27s_Tide__282193_29)

[personal profile] pyrighteous 2023-03-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds really fun, actually.
gunmettle: (• 118)

[personal profile] gunmettle 2023-03-12 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't exactly put a lotta money in my pocket, but the work itself is all the reward I could ask for.
pyrighteous: (glimmer of hope)

[personal profile] pyrighteous 2023-03-12 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Y. Yeah. I'd kinda like to do something like that too, maybe.
gunmettle: (• 207)

[personal profile] gunmettle 2023-03-13 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? I think you'd be good at it.
pyrighteous: (King_27s_Tide__28151_29)

[personal profile] pyrighteous 2023-03-13 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
You really think so?
gunmettle: (• 163)

[personal profile] gunmettle 2023-03-13 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Of course I do. You got the heart for it.
pyrighteous: (scarred (s3))

[personal profile] pyrighteous 2023-03-13 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
...

After - after all this is done, I - I'm not going home. I can't.
gunmettle: (• 014)

[personal profile] gunmettle 2023-03-13 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
... Did something happen? I thought you had friends back there.
pyrighteous: (possession: drowned)

[personal profile] pyrighteous 2023-03-13 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
I do.

... But the last thing I remember is dying.
gunmettle: (• 227)

[personal profile] gunmettle 2023-03-13 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Oh Hunter. Juzo goes still for a moment, then just gathers Hunter close again. ]

You got a place with me. You always will.
pyrighteous: (hunter_148)

[personal profile] pyrighteous 2023-03-13 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ He just clings real hard again. ]

I - I'm glad. I'm really glad for that.
gunmettle: (• 023)

[personal profile] gunmettle 2023-03-13 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Nobody's gonna get left behind. Not if I can help it.

[ He pulls away a bit to look Hunter over. ]

There's another girl here named Rebecca. We don't come from the same place, but she's got cybernetics kinda like mine. She doesn't have anywhere to go either, so I offered her a place with me, too. The more the merrier.
pyrighteous: (glimmer of hope)

[personal profile] pyrighteous 2023-03-13 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Those sure are some new scars. Kid had a bad fight even besides the dying. ]

Yeah? I - I don't think I met her.
gunmettle: (• 062)

[personal profile] gunmettle 2023-03-13 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
She's... well, she's kind of a lot. She's real loud and brash and has a bad habit of shoutin' people's personal business across crowded rooms.

But she's a good kid. Deserves way better than the hand that she was dealt.

[ You know, like Hunter does. ]
pyrighteous: (thoughtful revelations)

[personal profile] pyrighteous 2023-03-13 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. So - a little bit like me then.