[superhell pcs] mephisto

[voidshift]

Comments

[teufelshund]

Thankfully. How rude was that, cursing me twice in one week!? I didn't even get to enjoy that sweet gaming cabin we were in!

[voidshift]

I'd say I wonder if they thought cursing you would undo the existing one, but you were already fine...

[teufelshund]

I really doubt the intention was that altruistic.

[voidshift]

Probably not. There's no way the first one was, either.

[he's tucking something metallic into the closet for a second as he finishes changing, then pulls thancred's stolen coat back on. he is still Cold.]

[teufelshund]

[ well that was vague and ominous???? tries to peek in there? ]

Definitely not.

[voidshift]

Relieved you don't feel it on a normal basis?

[it's a fencing sword, it's nothing dangerous.]

[teufelshund]

[ can't wait to find that pierced through someone's heart this weekend ]

Absolutely.

[voidshift]

...figured as much.

[he sounds faintly amused. also it looks flimsy enough not to be able to do that it's fine. putting it back in the coat.]

[teufelshund]

Yes, well.

Back to you, now?

[voidshift]

[ughhhhh.]

Well. Earlier I thought my parents had sold me to a boy band, if that's any indication of how things went.

[teufelshund]

Does your world even have boy bands?

[ lmao. ]

Going by how you were acting before, I'm not sure if that was supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing.

[voidshift]

We have bands, but not like... that.

[ughhh again. he settles down onto his bunk.]

I'm not sure either, honestly. After that it was working for Kuranosuke at some kind of fashion magazine, he was threatening to fire me if I wasn't dating someone within a week.

[teufelshund]

Ooh, juicy.

[voidshift]

Ridiculous is the word I'd use.

[teufelshund]

Well, that too, but at least it's the interesting kind of ridiculous!

[voidshift]

...better than the first part, I suppose.

[teufelshund]

Yeah, you didn't seem terribly traumatized by this one, at least not by the end.

[voidshift]

...mm. All of that came at the beginning. Memory was being toyed with the entire time, but in the beginning I thought I was still here. Just-- things were different, that I didn't know were different until later. I thought that Date and Lin died last week.

[teufelshund]

What, like one of them killed the other?

[voidshift]

No. Date died, and we never found who killed him-- but Lin was executed for trying to kill Tuuri.

[teufelshund]

Huh. Interesting.

How real did it feel?

[voidshift]

...very. I was convinced it was.

[teufelshund]

Hm...

It's unlikely, but I suppose it's not entirely impossible that that part of it was real. Alternate timelines where murders might have played out differently.

...The fact that the rest of it was so ridiculous takes some credence away from that idea, though.

[voidshift]

...I hope not. Parts of it were-- wrong.

[a slight shake of his head.]

The murders were being caused by possession, in that one. Ghosts.

[teufelshund]

Was that happening in "hell" too, or somewhere else?