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[shinebrighter]

001; birth.

[Everyone's screen should show two memories. One is stifling, in a dark, dark place, with murals of terrible creatures on the wall. There's a girl which is not a girl; both full of life and shadowed by death, both young and vigorous and old and so, so tired. And there's the warrior himself, coming from, being formed by the light itself; possessing the body of a man; yet only seconds old - baptized with conflict - and silently looking away.]

012; death.

[The transmission isn't finished. It shows what happened before the Warrior found himself in Terminal Tokyo - taking on an army of crystalline attackers, not giving an inch. He's burned, frozen, sliced, clubbed and pierced, but he will not- shall not - ever give. A woman at the back of him silently watches, until she acts.

As she vanishes, the Warrior appears to drop dead and vanish himself, awakening amidst bodies and bodies of fallen - which raise; and are consumed by fire. Those which remember Lightning from her time in Terminal Tokyo are more than welcome to spot her; and Squall, if watching, will most likely see his own body there.]

Comments

[changelingdude]

Wow...dude uh...

I don't like this glitch.

Me neither.

[shinebrighter]

[Nor he. He's merely standing there, despondent. It's only when Beastboy talks he realizes both memories were on display. The only one of which he could recall, to this moment, being dying with Cosmos. The dragon made of fire, the girl...

...They were gone. But now they're back.]

I-

Hey, who was that girl!? Was that... what kind of person can be light anyway?! You had to have come from somewhere, right? That was just some kinda teleporty... shiny... thing?

[He looks away, visibly disturbed.]

What about that girl? You never mentioned her before!

...

[changelingdude]

Easy dude, easy! Let the big guy be. If he wants to keep it to himself that's his business ya know.

Partners need to respect each others space even if the glitch doesn't want to.

When he's ready, if he's ready he can tell us about it.

[shinebrighter]

But... but knowing all this will help him!

[The warrior finally lifts his head, and takes the terminal, a little roughly, from Lufein's hands.]

Hey, take it easy!

...The woman. In white.
She called me something, but I cannot hear it. It is a sound, like scraping. Did you hear what she said?

[changelingdude]

Sorry dude, it was all kinda...loud.

I don't think we can rewind it either...

[shinebrighter]

[His voice seems somewhat saddened.]
...That is unfortunate.

If you do not mind-

[Yeah, he'd like alonetime.]

[changelingdude]

Nah it's ok dude, you go ahead.

But if you need to talk or something...you know who to call.

[Video]

[innermonologues]

So this... is what you were describing? The game and everything...

[Video]

[shinebrighter]

I am sorry that you had to see it. It was not my intention. But that... among the bodies, that was you. Yet you are not truly dead.

[There's a pause. He's not even going to go into the girl, of course not. That's personal, and precious but...]

I had not recalled the purification until now. That process and the dragon made of fire is rebirth.

[Video]

[innermonologues]

It's fine. It's nice for my head to finally understand what you meant.