[superhell pcs] mephisto

[voidshift]

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[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?

[voidshift]

In "hell". I think- that was why Lin tried to kill her.

[teufelshund]

What do you mean?

[voidshift]

It's still a little-

[he shakes his head, like he's trying to clear it.]

I think we had to kill him because he was possessed. We found Bucky with someone D.va knew, they'd gotten to him too-- Bucky tried to shoot him. She wouldn't let him. I think she was real.

[teufelshund]

Hm.

I still wonder about how Blue Hawaiian ended up on that other one with you. Who really has control over any of what happens here.

[voidshift]

Last I asked, he had no idea either. Sounds like those two had it out with their boss over the situation.

So, at the least-- not them. Don't think they'd put themselves through it just to dodge suspicion.

[teufelshund]

So I heard.

Have you spoken to Satan yourself?

[ truly taking everything in him not to keep putting audible airquotes around the name. ]

[voidshift]

Haven't bothered, honestly. I'm guessing you have? Or did you just hear from Date?

[teufelshund]

I did this week, finally, though not about that.

Didn't really get off on the right foot. The part where he left me on read at the end was the closest he ever seemed to the Satan I know.

[voidshift]

You? Getting off on the wrong foot with someone? I wouldn't have guessed.

[he has to.]

What did you say before he stopped answering?