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Dante (unfortunately) ([personal profile] foreverphantom) wrote2023-09-17 04:30 pm
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on my way

[ he should maybe like. question why. but it's danny so whatever, he will wander toward tiger dorm! i guess i can also mention that to add to full stupidity as he's approaching danny can. probably see there's a trail of black dahlia flowers blooming after each step that he is blatantly ignoring.

where are you, daniel. ]
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[ again, he kind of hates this weird office dorm thing. he's only been here once (to see tiger, weirdly) and he's still not entirely impressed by it but he does follow. the flowers also follow. so i guess the dorm can deal with those. ]

Sure? [ like obviously he is going to follow and there's a brief ...? thought bubble for a moment as they traverse through the common parts of the dorm and head up to danny's room. he's trying to decide if he should be worried or if this is a normal thing and has settled on the fence of "curious." ] ...is everything okay?
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[ you know what.

he should be more perturbed about this but for some reason he's stopping in the doorway and just...calmly observing this. cataloguing all of the wreckage, the state of the cards, everything. maybe it's because he's still half-asleep from a lack of actual rest, or maybe it's because he's thinking a few things that his thought bubbles thankfully don't betray. but he's letting his gaze drift over all of the damage thoughtfully before he does take care to shut the door. nimona won't be here, likely, but he doesn't know about tiger or anyone else who might wander through.

again. probably should be a little worried about the state of affairs, but nico's usually on the line of flirting with danger and blatantly ignoring it, so it's fine. he is at least using his judgment not to sit directly under any of the knives in the ceiling in case they come tumbling down, kicking a few things out of the way to settle on the ground and face him. ]


I see we've been practicing the art of being ominous. [ a dry joke. ] Guess I understand why you guys were building the treehouse now.
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[ ...hm.

well. hm. this is...

...god. he takes a few moments to think about this, sort of staring at him blankly. he doesn't speak, and his expression doesn't give away much but there's a stray bubble of i think i knew before you said it.

he waves it away, and he stays silent again for a while longer.

I don’t care about this getting solved or someone being punished or heroes and villains.
I didn't care about figuring it out. Don't beat yourself up.
Stay focused and stay safe. Be kind.


it doesn't feel very praiseworthy
it was either cooperate, or die


"For Reigen's sake... It's probably too much to hope it was some kind of freak accident, huh."

"It might've been. There's only a few answers that make the most sense, and...the thing is...when you know how to really use your powers, you know how much effort to apply when you want to. So. Now it's about figuring it out and going from there."


...the writing was on the walls, really. and eventually he sort of comes back from where he disassociated and looks at him again. ]


...why. [ there's a lot more he could say, but he wants to hear the explanation. ]
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[ what else would he ask, danny? also, this answer does not seem to make him any happier, but his anger's...not quite landing on danny himself. not yet, at least. the lack of impulse control is really at war in his brain but he's doing his best to be calm about this. ]

By who...? Did you get the same note Ace got? [ a pause. ] Please tell me the truth.

[ not that he thinks danny would automatically lie to him, but he's not interested in half-truths or anything less than the full story right now. ]
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No, not that note. Ace got a separate one that if he didn't kill someone his world and all of the worlds of his teammates would be destroyed. That's why he had to follow through with it.

[ and now he's just...kind of concerned about this. for a multitude of reasons. he continues to stare at him though. ]

Can I ask why you can't say? [ are you in some kind of trouble...? ]
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...it's not. [ particularly convincing, but...he just ponders on this for a moment as he seems to be entering his mind palace of bullshit.

"If there are those with a special role to play beyond what we see, then I would recommend that you don't seek them out. I know you may want to help them, but we have learned the hard way that there may be a very good reason things are kept secret. This isn't confirmation that such things exist, dear."

and it's been obvious there are other people playing roles in this stupid game, and he has suspicions he won't act on. so hearing this now...wow this sucks! ]


But I'll believe you for now if you can try to answer some other questions. [ ... ] Were you told to kill someone in general? Or was it Reigen specifically? What would have happened if you didn't?
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[ ...he's busy drawing his knees up to his chest, ignoring the way more dahlias blossom under the soles of his feet when he moves. he's propping his chin on his knees, still staring at danny and working through the static in his thoughts as he tries to sort everything out. ]

Given the way we've all been coerced into certain things so far, I am more inclined to believe that's also true. As I'm sure you know, Reigen was responsible for what happened with Yae Miko. Despite the fact it was a kill done out of self-defense. She went after him first. And then Adlet killed Whisper, and that still wasn't enough. I can only assume that perhaps someone asked you to remove him specifically because of those factors. [ this is a wrong assumption, but he doesn't have much to work off of. ] I can't think of any other reason otherwise why him and not someone else. Especially since Snake had just lost a team member the week before, unless it was simply because whoever it was knew how badly it'd impact people.

Strangely enough, doing it made you drop in ranking. [ his fingers pick at a hole in his jeans as he thinks on that last part though. ] ...do you still think that way? That it's a habit you miss.
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Considering this whole time we've been turned against each other, yeah. That would make sense. [ frustrating all over again. he thinks the ranking thing is bullshit, and he thinks the excuse is also not great. it's visible now, the irritation in his features and the way he's really struggling to process what he's supposed to be saying, especially when danny admits that he had outright missed killing people.

how he'd jumped at the chance to kill reigen, and... you took away two of the people i needed the most.

his gaze finally drops to look elsewhere because he doesn't want to actually make himself readable right now. ]


Congratulations on learning how guilt works, Danny. [ ... ] So...what then. It felt good in the moment until we got to the trial? Or was it sometime after that? [ "what changed?" ]
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...1000%. [ they had suspected that maybe reigen activated his power for his murderer, but hearing that really did happen kind of makes it harder. like being suckerpunched all over again. and he's trying really, really hard to see this from danny's perspective because he knows this is extremely fucked up.

but he keeps looping back to how he still went through with it, and then still sussed out ace, and still made people vote for ace. ace killed sigrun, yeah, but he had a note coercing him to do so. then again...danny was told to, but he still...and it...

...gods. ]


...by then it was too late. He was already gone, and then we had to go through with Saturday. [ there's a pause...and there's then kind of a bitter, awkward laugh. ] You really sat there and let me put his heart back together knowing what happened. And you really let me thank you for not being responsible. I'm...[ stopstopstop is the immediate bubble he brushes away as he rolls his eyes up to the ceiling to refocus. ] I'm trying to decide what I want to say to you right now.

[ because in the end he can see both halves of this. that's the problem. ]
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[ okay well. his gaze immediately snaps back down and straight at danny, suddenly affronted with that thought. hold on. he will go back to literally everything else in a hot second because: ]

I'm sorry, did you bring me here because you thought I would stab you? [ he vaguely wonders actually if it was more so danny could stab him if things got ugly, but he's still giving him the benefit of the doubt, for some reason. (he knows the exact reason, he's just not going to think too much about it.) ]
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[ ...there's a tired, worn-down sigh with that. ]

Maybe I should for you being so stupid. [ annoyed. ] I'm...stabbing you isn't going to fix anything. It's not going to change that this happened, and it's not going to change that you took them away. [ easy to say now, considering he was hellbent on stabbing kogi yesterday for lillium but that is neither here or there. ]

I need you to explain to me what exactly happened. You...literally removed his heart and broke it to pieces. Actually, maybe the exact details don't matter so much since it already happened. It's the aftermath I'm trying to understand. And why you didn't tell us sooner. [ there's a pause though, and he loops back for a second. ] ...this is why you ran away from me Friday, isn't it?
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[ he hears all of that...and for the moment, his only response is burying his face in his knees.

maybe that was his own stupid fault for putting so much trust in someone, really, and that's sort of what he's thinking. that if he hadn't bothered trusting danny and hadn't bothered befriending him and hadn't bothered thinking he could be a changed person maybe it wouldn't be fucking him up so much.

he's trying to consider if it's better or worse to have trusted him in the first place. he's busy thinking this over, wondering if there were any signs...well. he did run into danny beating up a bunch of shit at tarkea. and he saw danny's memories. but at the same time there were other instances that didn't quite add up to what's going on. in a sense, he does feel like this is his fault for not pushing things a little further, for not questioning harder, for just believing that maybe he was wrong about this. it hadn't felt fair to accuse danny at the time when there wasn't complete, solid proof. it would've been like accusing nimona yesterday because of pink fur and an animal bite and knowing her history.

history doesn't always mean a person can't change. it's something he's felt very strong about for both nimona and danny, and maybe a little himself. he knows danny is right, that it's entirely possible someone would've gone after him for killing reigen. he can't entirely blame him for wanting to exist. for wanting to cling to the little bit he'd built for himself.

he can blame him for going about this stupidly, but that's his own private thought. he thinks about the conversation he could see with ace and danny, thinks about nimona telling him ace told her to avoid the treehouse, thinks about the horoscopes all over again and just--

--eventually there's another shuddery little sigh as he carefully speaks. ]


...tell me something. Were you just putting on an act for us then all those weeks where we were trying to be friends? Was that all just faking it, hoping it'd stick while knowing you would've jumped at any opportunity to hurt somebody else? [ a pause. ] Did you ever actually believe any of what I'd said to you, or were you blowing me off the whole time knowing it wouldn't stick?

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