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[menphina]

Emmy!! Emmy, it's an emergency!!

I need your help!

I'm drawing blanks!

[ He should be used to her making something sound completely not like what it should be at this point. ]

[emet_sulk]

[ Big, fat sigh. ]

What are you panicking over now?

[menphina]

It's for Felih's Starlight party!
We'd decided we'd do a theme that represented the Adventurer's Guilds back home
With a Starlight touch for the Cafè's Starlight and Heavensturn events!
(Thank you for making sure everything came in on time by the way (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵) )

[ Except she'd had an oversight... ]

We had an idea to make ornaments
Things that would represent cute things from our world!
You know. Chocobo, Moogles, Sabotenders, Aethernets... little dioramas of the city states, that sort of thing.
But I don't have any designs for ornaments for you!
I'm not leaving you out of this so help me out here!
It just won't be a surprise for you anymore... I'm such a numpty! ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡
Our tree has to have everything!

Christmas Day 2019

[girlofsteele]

[he'll find a box left at his door. the wrapping paper is covered with Santas and Christmas Trees. inside, he'll find a red velvet jacket with a card reading:

Have a Happy Holidays!

All the best,

Ana]

post-mirror event

[omnicrafter]

Hades, please meet me in the common area of the apartment building.

We need to have words.

[emet_sulk]

Words, hero? How ominous. May I remind you that I am still recuperating?

[omnicrafter]

I figured. That's why I'm not asking you to go far.

Please. Lest I hunt you down myself.

un: thearchivist; text (post-event)

[compellingstatement]

[It seems like a good idea to get out ahead of things to protect Jophrey now that things aren't going mad.]

I was reading through that conversation you had with the younger version of me.
Very clever.
Almost as clever as what came to me while I was reading.
I Know what deal you made with the Creator.
I've informed the people from your world accordingly.
I expected they'd be interested.

[Jon's not a great liar, but a lie wrapped up in the truth is easier? Maybe.]

voice

[emet_sulk]

[ He'd been wondering who had managed to get the information out to them all. Now he knows. Now he knows and there aren't enough words to describe the sheer fury he feels at that secret being exposed so soon.

Instead of text, Jon gets a voice call in response. Because written word is utterly inadequate for conveying exactly what he thinks about his interference. ]

How dare you.

[ The static shoots right up in places, almost as though spoken beyond the usual mortal voice range, and there's a slight reverberation as well. But the words are still clear. ]

perma text

[compellingstatement]

[That is about the response he expected. The Archivist sticks to text to be contrary.]

How dare you.
You have no right to control the fate of those people if we manage to find a way out.

text | un:Jophrey

[gutteringlight]

Someone had to tell them where to look, you know.

voice...???

[emet_sulk]

[ Rather than respond by conventional means, Jophrey hears his voice directly in his head. ]

Yes, evidently. It seems I must devise some immutable commands for you, my dear hero.

"voice"

[gutteringlight]

[ A gasp and a flash of skin-crawling pain as thoughts that are not his force their way into his head. The reply is through gritted teeth, shot through with resignation. ]

So be it. Don't waste your anger on someone who merely did a favor for a friend.

Voice | after the big messaging

[crystaltower]

Have you the time or inclination, there is something I would discuss with you.

voice

[emet_sulk]

[ Time he has plenty of. Inclination, not so much.

His voice is terse. ]

Out with it. What accusations would you level against me?

Re: voice

[crystaltower]

Do I truly need to give voice to thoughts you must surely already know without hearing them? I would rather spare us both.

I had, in truth, wished to ask your opinion on a matter that has been bothering me since my arrival. Assuming, of course, that you are willing to give it.

( text | un: m.blackwood )

[buffeted]

The flowers are lovely, thank you. If the dinner invitation was in earnest instead of a way to upset and anger my boyfriend, I'd also consider it, as you're an interesting man. As it is, I'm sure you aren't surprised that I'm going to turn it down for now.

[emet_sulk]

Well, that is a shame. I won't deny that I extended the invitation knowing it would offend him, but what makes you think it wasn't also in earnest?

[buffeted]

Because I'm a lot of things, but I'm not stupid, and you're an ancient immortal god-like being with more interesting things to do.

Letter from Felih, found on his bed after untempering (March 14 onwards)

[emet_sulk]

Hades,

By the time you read this, regardless of the outcome, you will no doubt be furious with me. I will likely be gone, at your behest.

I hate to hurt you. If I knew another way, I would do it. But I cannot simply stand by and see someone I love so dearly continue to be puppeted about by another primal. I want you- and all people- to be truly free. To have their motives, dreams, goals untainted by primal influence, to rid the world of primal beings that seek only to take and take and take from us.

I hate to see suffering, my darling. Zodiark, Hydaelyn, all of it aside- Calamities cause suffering. Can you understand, why I rail against them so? Why I wish so dearly for another way? There must be better ways, other ways, for the worlds to go on. Another way to kindly rejoin things, if they must truly go back to the way things once were.

But I doubt you wish to hear my motivations and excuses. I'm so sorry, Hades. I know I've betrayed your trust, but I knew you would stop me if you'd known.

I want to work with you. To build a new future. A better future. To work together, to find another way, because there must be. There must. I only prayed and hoped that if this works, this untempering- that mayhap you'd be more open to the idea. That you could find a new happiness and hope in freedom. In all the endless possibilities laid out before us- before you. You, who have boundless potential and knowledge and experience, you, who had the mind sharp and skilled to become Architect.

Hate me, reject me, scorn and shun me- do whatever you wish. I will deserve it. But please, please know this: all that we shared, all that I felt- it was not a lie. Not a ruse, not a trap or trick leading up to this day, though I admit I took advantage of it for the day itself. It was real, and genuine, and my feelings will continue to burn for you even into the future. Waking up beside you brought me joy, sharing these little days in this strange world was a kind of quiet peace I never thought I'd have the chance to experience. Learning from you filled me with endless excitement and curiosity, a gift I could never repay you enough for.

Please know that I love you, and it is real.

I pray you can forgive me.

Felih

[ There is a crossed out line something along the lines of, "If you would accept a shard, I would be yours." ]

[omnicrafter]

Hey. Will you talk to Dr. Hannibal for a bit? Suffice it to say you really need it.

And if you ignore me I'm going to hunt you down. -`д´-

[emet_sulk]

[ Ugh. ]

Why? I'm in no need of a physician, particularly not of the mind.

Truth meme overflow

[emet_sulk]

< Ana Steele >

[emet_sulk]

[ Continued from here. ]

I could make it rain forty days and forty nights but 'twould do irreparable damage to the climate. I am shocked any god would interfere with the natural weather systems in such a way.

Regardless, my point stands: if I am no god yet can work these selfsame miracles then I doubt yours were.

< Diva >

[emet_sulk]

[ continued from here ]

Not something you have earnt the right to know.

[ Compelled to tell the truth doesn't mean compelled to obey after all. ]