FINALLY got around to canon-updating this one and HOLY SHIT...

[bloodiedchain]

... hmph. So those're the kind of memories that I lost, huh...?

... Oz, you idiot...

[ She pauses quietly, muttering... something under her breath. ]

Tch. So this is what you wanted, Jack? Well, screw you...! This isn't over--

... WHY AM I STILL HERE, MUN. Are you gonna stop me from finding my back to Oz now, too--!?

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[psychopath]

Of course it isn't over, my dear. It never will be unless I free the world.

ohshi-- excuse my rustiness o yandere one

[bloodiedchain]

And you plan to hurt Oz and my sister to that end--?! Not if I can help it...

[ A pause. ]

... mun, what the hell are you looking at me like that for?! Your cluelessness is even worse than Oz's, I swear...

LOVE ME

[psychopath]

I killed my best friend with my own two hands, what makes you think I care for anyone else? Foolish girl.

NOPE.JPG

[bloodiedchain]

Foolish? No more so than one who can't come to terms with the past...

KILLS EVERYONE X-(

[psychopath]

So you're all right with your mother dying, then?

[yep he just went there.]

... WELP SCREW YOU YOU'RE NOT TALKING TO SIS AGAIN *suicides and does crazy shit*

[bloodiedchain]

OF COURSE I'M NOT. I wish I knew her better, but I'm not the one throwing a tantrum and destroying everything just because she's dead.

[ BITCH. ]

[clockworksmile]

Alice... Don't be angry about it. Don't be sad, either. I didn't mean for any of this to happen, you know?

[Because honestly, it's nothing to be sad about -- what he is, who he is, it was all destined to end up like this. He was just a tool for Jack to use, a toy, literally and metaphorically; and, there is no turning back the clock. It hurts to smile, but he smiles anyway, smiling is (pathetically) all he knows how to do well.]

You'll always be important to me. Some of my most precious memories are with you, so, you don't need to make that kind of face about it.

[bloodiedchain]

I will make whatever hell kind of face I want, Oz!

[ Defiant as always. Even if he was just a toy, he was still hers. Neither time nor distance... nor the Abyss would change that. And it hurt her, too, because why couldn't Oz see that he wasn't just some tool...? Not to her, even if the world crumbled all around them...

Which was hurtling towards a very painful reality in their canon at this point. ]

I only just now remembered everything... like hell if I'm going to lose you again--!

[clockworksmile]

[It hurts all too much to see her like this. Vulnerable. In pain. But he keeps on smiling, nothing belongs to him and there's nothing he can hold onto.

He has neither friend nor family to truly call his own. He is a creature of destruction and causes nothing but discord. He couldn't stop Jack. He couldn't save anyone.]

I remembered too, Alice. My feelings from back then, my past, what I really am -- but I was always just here on borrowed time. Don't worry, I think that... I think that we'll see each other again.



[Maybe just not how he wants. He has to accept that. He isn't human at all.]

[bloodiedchain]

Then stop talking like you're going to cease existing or something, you idiot.

[ Alice pulls herself together long enough to deliver a swift kick in the face to Oz. STOP IT YOU MORON ]

Do you really think that moping like this is gonna help at all?! You really think I like seeing you like this?!

[psychopath]

[yes good STAY MINE]

[clockworksmile]

[He doesn't say anything at first. What can he say? Every muscle in the body that isn't his is stiff and he feels so very tired -- too tired to move. Then he looks up slowly at Jack.]



[He opens his mouth but no words come for several long moments. He's so pathetic he can't even fight back now?]

Jack...

Even if I can understand your feelings and I saw your memories... Do you really think this is what Lacie would have wanted?

[psychopath]

[jack dips his head down and tips oz's chin up. poor little chain, so unloved and full of sin and ah, perhaps, the only one who's stayed with jack this entire time.]

Does it matter? [he smiles.] We're both tired, we both have nothing. Why the compassion for a world that isn't yours?

[clockworksmile]

[His eyes are nearly blank, almost like he isn't there, almost like he's somewhere else. But a small spark behind them makes him ask questions.]



Because... you loved her, Jack, I learned that you don't destroy things for the sake of someone you love. Her memories were so gentle, she was really kind and it made me feel warm.

This world isn't anyone's, is it? No one owns it. Even if I'm not from it, I still love this place and I don't it to disappear.