May 29, 2017 22:16:10 GMT -5
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May 28, 2017 23:56:07 GMT -5
Post by kingrex on May 28, 2017 23:56:07 GMT -5
 [attr="class","scare"].... [attr="class","scare1"] [attr="class","scare2"] [attr="class","scare3"] [attr="class","scarewords"]As the sun long dipped away and brought on the night, the festival was winding down from it's busy day of mass grieving and celebration. Such an odd mix, but death was never a straight forward concept...Everyone found resolve in a different form. Rex had sat himself on one of the many bridges that outlined the man made stream that swept around the tower and into a neighboring river.
In it's slowly moving water there was a long trail of paper lamps that were set ablaze and left to drift through the current. It was some kind of ritual that was suppose to guide the deceased to a much better place. But for the soldier it was just one more chance to sulk and brood over the pathetic and senseless loss of life just days prior.
A cigarette was clenched between the commando's teeth as he gritted at unwanted thoughts, moving to pinch at the wrapped stick of digital tobacco and give it another long drag, breathing out a heavy cloud of white. Narrowed sky blues idly fixed on the lanterns below as they passed under the bridge. Would anyone really make it out of this....alive?
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May 29, 2017 11:54:04 GMT -5
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May 29, 2017 11:53:33 GMT -5
Post by akeno on May 29, 2017 11:53:33 GMT -5
"Heya, shooter!" Skipping down the path at a reckless speed, The Cannibal swept past the commando. She swiftly vaulted the side of the bridge to take a seat on it's railing, swinging her bare feet in the open air. "I like all these lights around here. This is my first time in this place!" She expressed excitedly. Disregarding sanity, at least she was optimistic.
"There's food and lights and people! Oh, it's great!" She clapped her hands, eyes flickering around their setting in awe. "I think... It reminds me of home, maybe." Her pleasant tone drifted into one more dreary. Akeno's general careless smirk faded into an expression of blankness, trying to remember what life was like before the game.
Whether they got out alive or not, people would definitely be scarred. And Akeno may be one of the worst cases of that. Having been completely stable, pushed to the brink of her mental capacity by her voracious tendencies. It was an uncontrollable outcome. The Cannibal furrowed her brow to ponder a little harder. Her mind fought back, as it usually did, rejecting such deep thoughts in exchange for a meaningless growl of her stomach.
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May 29, 2017 15:04:17 GMT -5
Post by kingrex on May 29, 2017 15:04:17 GMT -5
[attr="class","scare"]EAT SHIT AND DIE! [attr="class","scare1"] [attr="class","scare2"] [attr="class","scare3"] [attr="class","scarewords"]Rex let a lazy gaze slither towards Akeno when she was done taking her dramatic seat next to him on the railing. It was a miracle he hadn't already ripped her ass for coming in like that, maybe he'd already gotten use to her bubbling impossibly annoying personality? Probably not, it was more so because he just didn't have the energy to fight her off right now...
“...First time? You never been to an amusement park or some shit before?” Rex chimed back in a low tone, inspecting the woman with his sharp gaze before it slowly carried back towards the floating lanterns, he'd take a long drag of his smoke and hear what else she had to say.
“...I wonder how gramps is doing...” Carlo muttered under a sigh before turning again part of his gaze on Akeno, “Maybe? You act like you don't have anything waiting for you outside....Did you forget? Are you...seriously crazy? This isn't just a front?” He asked with a hesitant laugh, as if he was trying to brush off the possible reality.
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May 29, 2017 15:29:59 GMT -5
Post by akeno on May 29, 2017 15:29:59 GMT -5
"I don't remember!" She chimed in jubilant ignorance. "I think that I once thought lots about my life before, but..." She shrugged, her gaze shifting down and following the river along it's path. "I dunno. Not much time for thinking. I think, and I get hungry. I get hungry, I look for food. I eat, I think, and I'm hungry all over again." Even formulating sentences was difficult.
"I forget. I remember I was in a cave once. Maybe in the game, maybe not. Oh, and I remember a big, wonderful city!" She leaned back, smiling at the sky, imagining it all. With her hands reached towards the stars, she let her mind wander the blurry, faint images that were once memories. "A place with people EVERYWHERE! Shops and houses! Buildings to the sky and back!" She pointed her a finger up, turning back to look at the commando, wearing an ecstatic visage. But it did not last.
"But why was I there? And who was I, I wonder?" She turned her gaze back to the river, with a sigh. "Maybe I had a mother and a father. I think I remember a sister, maybe. Or we might've just been good friends. I remember looking at her, but not her face." With shoulders low, she remained momentarily, before raising a hand to the back of her neck. "Oh well!" She spoke as she often did, with a cheery tone, yet this one had something different. A spice of doubt. Her lips twitched up, uncertain of purpose, to her face.
"Oh!" Her stomach gurgled loud, and just like that, she was pulled from her woebegone state. The Cannibal responded quickly, reaching up to pull a bag of what seemed to be popcorn. Setting it on her lap, she ate quietly, turning her gaze towards the lanterns. Perhaps, once upon a time, when she was someone else, they meant something to her. And maybe she would never be able to become that person again.
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May 29, 2017 19:06:55 GMT -5
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May 29, 2017 17:37:52 GMT -5
Post by kingrex on May 29, 2017 17:37:52 GMT -5
[attr="class","scare"]...... [attr="class","scare1"] [attr="class","scare2"] [attr="class","scare3"] [attr="class","scarewords"]Akeno was such a fucking bag of crazy, seriously. As realistic as this game could be sometimes, she was the only case he'd really seen so far where her own class was working against her, and he didn't entirely buy it. He thought whatever madness she'd found was probably brewing before she ever got here, just lurking somewhere in the back of her head until someone pulled the trigger on it.
“Yeah..that's a fucking city...There's a lot of those out there.” Rex rolled his eyes briefly with a sigh of air, moving to take another drag on his smoke as he inhaled. Hearing her ramble on about lost memories and what not was enough to give Carlo a stomach ache, why couldn't he just have some fucking peace for one day?
Just one fucking day....
“Oh well? Are you fucking kidding me?” He snapped back, giving her a dumb founded expression, “It doesn't bother you a bit to think you might have a fucking sister out there crying her eyes out while you dick off and eat popcorn? Don't you have any motivation to get the fuck out of here?” Carlo scolded.
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May 29, 2017 18:24:37 GMT -5
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May 29, 2017 18:24:10 GMT -5
Post by akeno on May 29, 2017 18:24:10 GMT -5
"Shhh, shhh, calm down, pal. You talk so sharpish." The Cannibal turned back to the commando, giving a hopeless shrug. "The world is still spinning out there, without you or me or anyone else in this game." She shoved some popcorn into her mouth. "Maybe if I was like you or armor guy or wolf girl, I could do somethin' big. You work together and talk smart."
"Every time I try to think smart, I get hungry." With a lazy twirl, she swung her legs up, falling backwards off the rail, and landing with her feet on the bridge. "What 'cha want me to do, gun guy? Take my knife and cut the sky open so we can all crawl on outta here?"
"I got a face of a girl in my head, don't mean she's my sister. Who knows, maybe she's a celebrity." She lazily swung her arms around, prancing in a slow circle, in a debauched balletic style. "Maybe I just saw her on TV one day and thought she was kinda cute."
"Imagine you had to forget everything in the world, all you've ever done or knew, but kept three little pictures. Do you think you could connect the dots?" Akeno turned, pointing a finger at the commando, an inquisitive gaze pointed his way. "Seems a little pointless to me." She chimed at the end, chuckling to herself, and smirking at the commando.
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May 29, 2017 18:59:59 GMT -5
Post by kingrex on May 29, 2017 18:59:59 GMT -5
 [attr="class","scare"]I'm Listening... [attr="class","scare1"] [attr="class","scare2"] [attr="class","scare3"] [attr="class","scarewords"]It was almost like you could hear an audible snapping sound when Akeno finally crossed the line with Rex. She probably couldn't of picked a worse day than to get under this brooding and sour soldier's skin. His sharp teeth clenched tightly together and he'd move to stand before swatting at her food, attempting to knock it away.
“Stop acting like everything is alright, you fucking bitch!” He roared in real anger, glaring, “...You know how many fucking people were just murdered by that dumb ass dragon? Real people..with real fucking families, dead! Over a god damn game!” He took a breath then, loosening his aggressive stance some...though he looked like he was more than ready to kill her given he got the chance.
“...I fucking hope there ain't nobody waiting out there for you, because you're already dead.” The kind of coldness in his voice then was far to sincere, “...Fuck off Akeno, I'm not in the mood for it tonight.” It was a very real warning...and threat for that matter. And with that the Commando turned himself away from the woman with one last glare and leaned on the wooden railing of the bridge, tossing away his smoke into the water beneath them.
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May 29, 2017 19:23:54 GMT -5
Post by akeno on May 29, 2017 19:23:54 GMT -5
Akeno raised her eyebrows in mockery, smiling at him in disbelief. She approached him and gave him an aggressive shove. She hadn't drawn her weapon, and she was not preparing for a full on fight, she just wanted to make her point clear when she began to speak.
"Wa, wa, wa, I'm a big baby." She canted her head from side to side, modifying her voice to make fun of him. "You yell a lot. At me, at everyone, but mostly at me. And you're mean." She let lose another hard shove, hoping to push him back again. It seemed she was genuinely angry at his point. "Talking about how fucked up I am, how I'm crazy and all this, look at you. When we met, you would've just shot me in the face." She pointed a finger at herself, "You woulda killed me. For what, huh? I tossed a little rock at your poor little head? Oh, but that big dragon killing everyone, evil shit, huh?"
"Hypocrite! Are you that intolerant?!" She growled, her fingers flexing in vexation. "Any little thing pisses you off and you go stomping your feet, trying to show you're better or stronger or cooler than everyone!" Suddenly, she'd turn her head down in contempt. "Hush!" She twisted her hips to kick her left foot hard into the side of the bridge, part of the wood moaning against her strike. Her foot, shaking as pain ran through it, set back on the bridge slowly, only the ball of her foot touching. Lefty was silenced in her mind.
"Be a big boy, okay?" She clenched her fists, and it seemed, regardless of how broken she already was, she'd reached some sort of limit. "You're not nice. I stay with you and the others because I'm nice. Because I care. But you, you're not nice." She turned her head away towards the side of the bridge, her body still facing him in an aggressive stance. "I don't know family. Don't know friends. But when I die in here, cause I'm gonna die! I'm gonna be smiling!!" She spoke though clenched teeth, bringing a thumb up to jab her own chest. Face twitching, tears ran down her cheeks. "I'm not gonna be broken like you."
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May 29, 2017 19:42:46 GMT -5
Post by kingrex on May 29, 2017 19:42:46 GMT -5
[attr="class","scare"]I'm Listening... [attr="class","scare1"] [attr="class","scare2"] [attr="class","scare3"] [attr="class","scarewords"]Seriously was Akeno just asking for some kind of death wish? She was a level behind him, not as well equipped, and probably lacked the kind of disciplined killing skills that Rex carried. One bad move and he end her, and she even mocked that fact! Trying to twist his stern and straight forward nature against him.
He wasn't going to have any of that shit, man. She could of just walked off, you know? Just let him chill the fuck out and detox from having so much shit happen in such a short amount of time, but she kept on biting, like always. So he'd shove back on the second push, shoving her away and turning to face her again with a muzzle of jagged teeth growling in anger.
“...You're a fucking wild animal, that's why! Don't even try to act like you give a shit about -anything- besides yourself!” He roared back, fists clenched in rage and chin held high in stubborn pride, “You know how many fucking times, me and Ray nearly got killed over your stupid shit?! How many fucking times have you just jumped in without thinking! You're not even a teammate half the time, you're just a fucking liability!”
He only stopped to take a long breath, shouting over her, if he had to, “Crazy or not, you're a selfish bitch who's blaming others and disrespecting the fact there's people dying all around you, trying to get out of this shit hole while you're making the best of it!” And then for the big finish, he'd take a step forward to put his face a little closer, “I'd rather die broken, than a fucking lie like you!” He made sure that hurt.
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May 29, 2017 19:55:42 GMT -5
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Post by akeno on May 29, 2017 19:55:42 GMT -5
"I'm so bad? Kill me."
Still crying, she didn't look him in the face. She kept her head set, pointed to the side, her face staring out at the water. She grit her teeth as she pushed her injured foot into a normal standing position. It seemed her body was shaking. A subtle rumble across her form.
"You are not nice." She shook her head. "I am not selfish. You are not nice." She repeated. The velvety burgundy danced over her, her health draining. It reached down to her wrists and ankles, her fists clenching and toes pressing into the bridge beneath. A low growl began, getting exponentially louder in her throat. And just as it seemed it was getting to a climax, the red faded, and the growl stopped.
"I help. I looked out," She spoke between angry sobs. "For people. I get hurt." She coughed, eyes struggling to stay open as tears bubbled out of them, still not facing him. Her throat felt gagged. She felt choked. "It's not my fault I'm stupid. I can't control it." She whimpered, the fingers of her left hand digging hard into her side, possibly bruising herself. "I try. I'm nice." She turned her head back to him, her face twitching in emotional agony. "I am not having fun."
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May 29, 2017 20:48:33 GMT -5
Post by kingrex on May 29, 2017 20:48:33 GMT -5
[attr="class","scare"]I'm Listening... [attr="class","scare1"] [attr="class","scare2"] [attr="class","scare3"] [attr="class","scarewords"]He honestly considered it. Killing Akeno probably wouldn't bring heart ache to anyone at this point, but there was that rare off chance she had a worrying mother or father waiting for her outside the game. However if they knew they were about to get this monster in the place of their child, they might agree with Rex's logic of just putting her out of her fucking misery.
With a wave of his hand he'd brought up his game menus, dancing through them until he got to the Guild screen, after a few pokes of his fingers at the displays he'd bring up an option to Kick Akeno from the guild, resting on the YES or NO, selection for a moment. She'd be able to see it herself.
“...I'm done with this. Seriously.” He muttered lowly, sounding rather defeated. But he hesitated, glancing through the menus to the woman as she cried. There was honestly far and few things that were worse than watching a girl shed tears, and even Rex started to feel a little...Bad. Was this -all-just a front?
Was she hiding behind everything because she was secretly scared out of her fucking mind? Maybe that had been what snapped her in the first place, the simple reality of this shit hole they'd been locked in. With a deep breath he shut his eyes for a second, and remained still before lazily closing his menus and taking a few steps forward.
His teeth were clenched together in an awkward frown, eyes keeping to one side, “...Look, Akeno. I'm sorry, alright? I just...I lost a couple of friends out there, yeah? You can understand that, can't you?” He muttered lowly, moving a hand to his chest and patting it briefly, “It hurts...I barely knew them, but they trusted me...and they're gone.” He admitted, turning to give her a mournful expression.
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May 29, 2017 21:22:51 GMT -5
Post by akeno on May 29, 2017 21:22:51 GMT -5
"I'm sorry that that happened to you." She nodded, lips pursed in an attempt to reduce how pathetic she probably looked. "I understand, it is hard. But..."
"Everyone hurts." Akeno grumbled, reaching up her hands to wipe her eyes, though they remained damp. Moving up from her eyes, her fingers reached to fix her ruffled bangs. "Getting angry and yelling at people is only going make more hurting." She silently brought her arms forward, wrapping them up and around her head, before crouching down.
"I'm sorry I shouted." The Cannibal pet her left foot, pain still radiating from where she struck it. "I know, you were just trying to cheer me up." Her face was still tense with discomfort, but a weak, breathy laugh came from her. "Doesn't mean I like you, dumbass." She gave lefty a playful slap.
Crawling over to the edge of the bridge, this time she sat on it's floor, rather than it's railing, as she dangled her feet between the wooden beams. Arms dangling through the barrier as well, she let the breeze sweeping soothe her, cooling her temporarily heated temper. "Sorry I shouted at you too." She turned to look up at the commando, before turning back towards the river.
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May 29, 2017 22:15:42 GMT -5
Post by kingrex on May 29, 2017 22:15:42 GMT -5
[attr="class","scare"]I'm Listening... [attr="class","scare1"] [attr="class","scare2"] [attr="class","scare3"] [attr="class","scarewords"]As crazy as Akeno was, her preschool lesson in yelling and hurting was entirely correct. Rex sighed again, shifting his eyes elsewhere into the distance off the side of the bridge. He knew that, but yelling about it still felt great when there was no other option to vent your rage. Maybe there was just a shred of humanity left in the girl...somewhere.
But then came the insanity rearing it's ugly head again, and left the Commando frowning in distaste as she talked to her hands and feet. With a sigh he'd reserve any more hateful comments and merely move to put a hand on the girl's head and gently stroke her hair, “It's alright...Just..get some rest when you can. We'll need it.” And with that he'd drag his touch from the woman and head off of the bridge.
He was mentally exhausted, far to many highs and lows in one day to even possibly process correctly. All he wanted now was a couple of stiff drinks and a couch he could crash on for the night...
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