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Junpei Yoshino, 19

"If there was a button that killed everyone I hated, I probably wouldn't press it ... but if there was a button that killed everyone who hated me, I'd press it without hesitation."

 

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[princess_of_ida]

[Press 1 for Doubt.]

The entire point of the caves is to do stupid shit to retrieve a heart. I'm insisting that all the stupid comes with me. None left for you.

[moondregs]

I know this sounds weird coming from me, but I’m hoping you find it.

[princess_of_ida]

You're impassioned but you're not dumb. We need to find it. We will find it.

[moondregs]

I get more anxious the longer sensei is made to stay at the castle. It’s like there’s a wheel of luck and eventually it’s going to land on a bad outcome the more times it has to be spun.

[princess_of_ida]

You're not wrong. So don't do anything stupid. I won't be there to keep that wheel spinning while underground trying not to go insane again.

[moondregs]

Are you implying I’ve done something ‘stupid’ in the past?

[princess_of_ida]

I want you to think long and hard about that question and reconsider asking me that question.

[moondregs]

Aside from implying the Duchess was faking the poisoning publicly.

[princess_of_ida]

Okay, sure, we'll go with that.

[moondregs]

I’m one of the most stable people here! What else could you possibly be talking about?

[princess_of_ida]

Stability and stupidity are not mutually exclusive. But fine, let me rephrase things: be safe.

[moondregs]

I’ll be fine.

You too.

[princess_of_ida]

I won't be fine, but I'll return. Then we'll get some vodka and you can tell me everything I missed while I was gone.

[moondregs]

Okay.

Voice

[princess_of_ida]

Can I have your skeleton?

[moondregs]

What.

[princess_of_ida]

If the Duchess never recovers enough to perform Resurrection again and you die. Can I have your skeleton?

[moondregs]

Why?

[princess_of_ida]

So you can join Yorik and Viola and I'll get to have you forever. Naturally sourced skeletons are very hard to come by here.

[moondregs]

You can’t have my skeleton to be your free labor forever, no.

[princess_of_ida]

But it's such a waste to not repurpose the dead, and I don't want you to be gone. Would you rather become a bone ward?

[moondregs]

[ In that weird Ianthe way the sentiment is a little touching, but … ]

What is a bone ward?

[princess_of_ida]

Protective ward made by weaving thanergetic theorems into bone. Bone stores thanergy much, much longer than flesh. So a bone ward lasts a very long time.

A full skeleton makes for a lit of wards, but eventually it'd be gone. Are you sure I can't keep you around? Maybe I could make you into a revenant.

No... no... that'd be a torturous existence. Your soul should get to go beyond the River.

[moondregs]

I’m not dying anytime soon and nobody is decorating with or putting my skeleton to work! Seriously, Ianthe, you’re giving me the creeps! What brought this up?

cw: psychosis

[princess_of_ida]

I don't want you to die. I want to keep you! [Like her own purse dog.]

It's just... the Void is everywhere. I never know when I turn down a bend in the caves if it'll be glowing or pitch black. I hear her down there in the darkness, calling for me to come to her. I know she's not there but she is and I want her. I miss her. It took her from me. I won't let it take you. I'm going to keep you.