battling: ([C] Good Boys Deserve Presents)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-20 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Jumpin' to conclusions... we're runnin' outta time, but if we ain't gettin' to the right answer we need to take it one bit at a time.

[Stop fucking with them. I'd make the better villain.]
darksubverted: (Riku (120))

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-21 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Stop. Don't-- [He starts to say "say," but Bradley isn't really speaking.] Stop thinking that.

It's better if it's us, not any of you.
battling: ([C] Good Boys Deserve Presents)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-21 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[I'm a bandit. It's just true.]

Why's it better if it's you?
darksubverted: (Riku (153))

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-22 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[No.]

Because--because. There are only four of us, but there's more of you. Because... it's better to save all of you than only four of us. If it comes down to it.
battling: ([G] Concern 7)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-22 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Soft. I don't-]

There's no reason to make everyone a villain. No plural here.
darksubverted: (Riku (109))

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-22 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Then just one of us then. If it comes to that. I'm not letting any of you just decide to let this place turn you into its plaything.
battling: ([G] Annoyed 4)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-22 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
You have people to get back to, Riku. Don't you fuckin' dare throw yerself into the villain.
darksubverted: (Riku (107))

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-22 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I've already done it before--twice. I embraced the darkness, and... I became the villain. If I have to do it one more time to help my friends... so be it.

I'll do what it takes. I'll... get back to them. You guys will be able to figure it out. My heart... it knows where it belongs. I'll get back to them.
battling: ([G] Frown 1)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-22 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't mean you should keep doing it.

[He reaches out and squeezes his shoulder.]

No matter what I say... yer stubborn, ain't ya?
darksubverted: (Riku (136))

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-22 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not like I'm trying on purpose.

[The shoulder sort of slumps slightly under the hand.]

It's better this way... It's better if you all have the choice to stop it together.
battling: (Kinda messed up)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-22 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
If you say "I'll become the villain" that sounds like it's on purpose.

Besides, if we're talkin' about experience I've got 500 years of it. Not to mention our adventure yesterday.
darksubverted: (Screenshot_16)

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-22 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Stop, don't call him out.]

That doesn't matter, and it won't convince me. Just because you're more experienced doesn't mean it's better that way.
battling: ([C] Good Boys Deserve Presents)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-22 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It ain't good your way either.

[ What did I do to run into so many stubborn bastards? ]
darksubverted: (pic#15017698)

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-22 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
No, but it's better than the other way.

[He continues to be painfully stubborn.]
battling: ([G] Annoyed 2)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-22 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
There are so many people who care about ya. Here and back home.

They wanna see you as a villain? Course they don't.
darksubverted: (Screenshot_19)

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-22 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that... you think that isn't true for you, too? For everyone here? Bradley, everyone has people here and back home who don't want that.

We have to... take the lesser of who dark paths here.
battling: ([G] Annoyed 1)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-22 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's just a still shot of prison with the moon looming above. A mana stone in the very back of a cave. -don't-]

It's lesser if its you?
darksubverted: (pic#14989751)

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-22 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[The blip startles him. HELLO?]

Yeah... [...] What was that? The... [He's not sure how to even explain that glimpse.]
battling: ([C] Thanks for the Bread)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-22 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Which part?

[ He doesn't know what Riku's picking up on. ]
darksubverted: (Riku (127))

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-23 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
A... prison...? A stone. The moon...

[He hates this week, for the record.]
battling: ([G] Frown 1)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-23 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Great Calamity can fuck off.]

I've been in prison for the last century. Still got 'round a millennia to serve.

Wizards... when we die our bodies become mana stones. My comrade died in that cave because of the Great Calamity. [I was late... Sorry, Gorman.]
darksubverted: (Screenshot_7)

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-23 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Great Calamity sounds like such a Final Fantasy thing, and so automatically, he doesn't like it.]

Like... what happened to you? They... [Well, nevermind about that. Their dorm trauma.] A millennia is a long time.
battling: ([G] Smile 10)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-23 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Riku is right. The moon is awful.]

... Yeah. What happened to my body after the trial.

[A small shrug of his shoulders.]

Wizards live a long time. Managed to bargain it down with the grandpas.

[At some point it was even longer than that.]
darksubverted: (pic#15017698)

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-23 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[DON'T JUST SHRUG.]

That's... still a long time, Bradley!
battling: ([G] Concern 7)

[personal profile] battling 2021-07-23 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
I was a bandit for 500 years, Riku. Humans want to see a "bad wizard" get locked up.

[Fucked up Figaro didn't end up in jail.]

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