got ahold of a copy, first replay since forever -- muse is so very new

[akzeriuth]

Ugh! Are you kidding me?!

Do you have any idea how hard it was to find Master Van? With the miasma and Jade talking to me like I'm useless and nobody telling me anything?

And then you just kidnap me?!


... [ Hmph. Arms crossing. SO VERY HUFFY. ] Go to hell. I don't want to talk to you.

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[akzeriuth]

If you think I'm so obnoxious, leave me the hell alone! You didn't have to talk to me, y'know.

[ ........ ]

Wait.

Two of them? What about the other one?

And why's 'akzeriuth' so bad, anyway?

[bloodyashes]

The last one had grown up enough to stop acting his age.

[And winning for comments that will confuse the hell out of Luke...]

It's because you're going to destroy the town. [An annoyed hmph.] Inevitably going to destroy it, since you won't remember this conversation whenever you get back.

[akzeriuth]

Destroy it?

No way! I'm going to save it. Me and Master Van--that's why he brought me all the way through that stupid Pass. It's because I'm the only one who can do it.

As soon as this stupid mun'll just go to hell and put me back!

[bloodyashes]

And he shall be as a weapon of Kimlasca, and destroy himself and the city.

Van lies. He manipulated me and he manipulated you, but you'll be damned if you'll listen to a word of it, yes, I know.

[He sounds very tired of the whole thing.]

That's why it's inevitable.

[akzeriuth]

--as a weapon of Kimlasca--...? [ It's not really a question. He's just trying to wrap his head around what this means. Around which side's actually lying. Instead of just, y'know, saying the other side's lying or something. ]

Why would he lie to me?

[ But there's that note of worry in his tone. He doesn't believe it, of course not, but some part of him's still a little unnerved about the whole thing. ]

And what the hell am I supposed to do about it?

[bloodyashes]

To ensure you fulfill your role as my replacement in the Score.

[There, he said it. The freak-out is going to happen any moment, he's sure.]

If you remember this when you get back, don't enter the mines. Van can't use hyperresonance to destroy the Sephiroth if neither of us is there.

[akzeriuth]

What?

Your-...

[ That hit him hard enough that he's almost genuinely confused for a second before he remembers he's supposed to hate Asch's guts. ]

Your replacement!? Why would I want to replace you?

[bloodyashes]

You didn't want me replaced. Van did.

[It's a typically stupid reaction, but not the worst one. At least he's getting Luke to think, a little.]

Use what's in your skull - someone else with your face, a fomicry machine in the place where you were "found" after your kidnapping... Didn't Van even admit to you that he was the one responsible?

[akzeriuth]

Shut up, just- shut up! [ His hands are lifting to his skull now. You're blowing his mind giving him a headache, without even talking into his head this time. ]

also I'm sorry, the first Jade, the Ion, and the Susanne are my fault

[bloodyashes]

Denying the truth doesn't change it.

[Given that it's Asch, he sounds remarkably patient.]

don't be sorry, i'm thrilled.

[akzeriuth]

Yeah? Well neither does accepting it, does it? You said I won't even remember!

[bloodyashes]

Well, if you're going to insist on being in denial, I can't exactly stop you.

[But he can totally think you're stupid.]

[akzeriuth]

[ Sigh..... ]

[bloodyashes]

[Folded arms. Stares at.]

You can have answers or the comfort of ignorance.

idk how old he is for sure so pretend the numbers check out okay? okay

[akzeriuth]

You think it's comforting? I can't remember the first fifteen years of my life! I'm so sick of not knowing anything!

wow shit I neveer replied to this HERP also it's ten years but w/e we can work w/ it

[bloodyashes]

[Agitated sigh.]

Because it wasn't your life. It was mine. You were born in Choral Castle, sometime late in the summer of ND 2011.

[Bomb dropped, prepare the fire shelter.]

Ignorance is the kind of comfort you don't notice until it'ss gone, like not being cold or always getting enough to eat. Except, unlike those, you can't change things to go back to not knowing.