Audience - Yves

[holyspirits]

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[configurer]

Oh, you can fuss. I've done too much to get him back to let anyone change my mind, even when he's exhausting.

[noirges]

[ smiles ]

I wouldn't want to change your mind about love... I'd just want you to get all the love you deserve, too.

I'm happy for you both.

[configurer]

[ well. grabs his hand if they ever stopped holding hands ]

I want that for you too, you know.

[noirges]

[ they probably didn't but he just squeezes back anyway ]

Ahaha... It'd be nice. I'm still just looking for someone to love me.

[configurer]

You'll find them. There's a lot about you to love.

[ dana my MEMORY ]

[noirges]

[ youR MEMORY the mirrors shift

You're so kind that it's scary... ]

[configurer]

[ well she watches all of this with concern and some kind of resignation because it's very yves of him, but. also. ]

Yves. I don't care how sad and in love a guy is. If he's stabbing someone over it, you don't offer to help him get back with the woman who said no.

[ yeah yeah circumstances or whatever NO THIS IS HOW ABUSIVE MARRIAGES START YVES ]

[noirges]

[ help!! yves looks a little sheepish at the suggestion,, ]

I do think that her being a Reliver changed things since they were really in love before... but I understand.

[configurer]

It changed things for her because of the Reliver stuff, so it was sudden, but that's still no reason to stab you. Or anyone.

[ just don't stab people! wow! ]

[noirges]

That's true. I do hope that he learned his lesson. I draw the line at violence...

[ LIKE

CLEARLY BARELY BECAUSE HE'S NOT UPSET ABOUT IT ]

[configurer]

Draw it harder. [ raises her free hand to smush yves' cheek ] Be a little mad when people stab you for no reason.

[ this isn't said in a You Freak way this is said in a pouty way ]

[noirges]

[ oh smushed ]

He had a reason, though....

Sometimes you do unreasonable things for love.

[configurer]

There's unreasonable things you can justify and some you can't, Yves! Like stabbing someone unrelated!

[noirges]

... you and Hugo and Adolphe would've really gotten along...

[ he's getting flashbacks ]

[configurer]

Majority rules says we're right, then. [ tch!!!! ]

[noirges]

[ smiles faintly ]

You probably are... I just don't know if I know how to change anymore though.

Sorry. I must make a lot of work for everyone who frets after me.

[configurer]

I don't want you to change. I just want you to care more about what happens to yourself.

[ no that's changing. ]

[noirges]

I do! I do...

[ . . . and he just laughs a little bit ]

I think... I got worse at it over time, but seeing things like this... do remind me of when I drew my line a bit better.

[configurer]

... Maybe these mirrors do help with self-reflection...

[noirges]

[ he looks back at them and smiles faintly ]

... it's enough to make me think of when things were simpler, at least.

[configurer]

[ ... ]

Simpler?

[noirges]

[ he looks over the view of the church again. adolphe. ceres. all the members of the corps who checked on yves in their friendly if distant way. even the guy who stabbed him.

and yves points at hugo ]

He's the only one still alive.

Everyone else died over the past four years.

[configurer]

[


oh. squeezes his hand ]

... I'm sorry. [ she knows what it's like to look at old stuff and be like And Everyone In That Picture Is Dead, but: ] All of them?

[ that is a lot of people. ]

[noirges]

[ it is a lot of people. yves just looks at them all... and nods ]

Yeah. In my timeline...

[ the mirror shards show scien, and yves points at him ]

I couldn't save him. I couldn't get through to him.... so he ended up sacrificing the island for his goals and at least half the population died before I stopped him.

And then... he died and I died.

[ all of them but hugo. ]

[configurer]

Isn't that... Scien?

[ she says that so >:/ because LUCAS HAS BIASED HER AGAINST HIM ALREADY HELP MEEEE THIS IS JUST CONFIRMING HER HATE ]

He killed all of them? And you? What the hell for?!