batterypack: (With every bubble)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-09 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ why are the awakenings in this game so good...

anyway. there's a lot! there's a lot to unpack here, and zuriel kind of remembers this ritual that eupha mentioned before, how it was something she'd prepared her whole life for knowing the possibility.

and it's heartbreaking to hear her beg not to lose her purpose. it's... hard, she thinks, to know how your life is supposed to go only to have something change its course entirely. but at the same time...

"if i cannot save them in death, then i swear i'll protect them with my life."

noble through and through. and the lance isn't exactly unfamiliar either. ]


... even if it isn't the purpose you thought it would be. Do you feel as though you've been able to fulfill it? [ "how are you feeling being a protector when your whole life was steered elsewhere." ]
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-09 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I... It is hard to say. I was able to save my island from the human that menaced it, putting an end to the disasters that plagued us.

But... there was another great threat beyond the sea, and... I was quite unprepared.
batterypack: (I'd do it all again)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-09 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A bigger threat behind the first? Or something completely unrelated that you only found out when you were preparing to leave?
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-10 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Different, I suppose. This one is a person, a man I met shortly after making landfall.
batterypack: (I know exactly why I walk)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-10 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
What is he like? [ she assumes terrible. ]
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-10 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
In a word, cruel. He told me that, had I not cooperated with his people, he would have burned my village to the ground. He said it with not a shade of guilt.

He intends to become king.
batterypack: (And she hid under beds)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-10 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Charming. [ what a dick, actually. ] ... are all of you planning to stop him then?

[ there were multiple people in that memory, so. ]
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-10 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

We made an attempt on his life the next day.

[ eupha: you want to murder him??
eupha, after talking to the guy for 30 seconds: i'll kill him myself ]


... But it was unsuccessful.
batterypack: (And the nights they last forever)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-10 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ she can guess the rest, and she frowns to that. ]

When you get back. You'll be able to try again?
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-10 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
That is my hope.
batterypack: (Oh! Oh no! Oh no...oh no...oh)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-10 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
You'll be able to go back to a time that will give you enough of a buffer from your original death. Knowing how he fights, you'll have the advantage.
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-10 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ a nod... ]

I won't hesitate, next time. And Basilio and Fidelio warned me of what is to come... Perhaps I could prevent further tragedy.

Although... would I be returning to meet a different set of brothers than the ones I know here?

[ are they on different timelines??? ]
batterypack: (It has no appeal)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-10 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ yeah, about that. ]

I've been wondering about that, too. I know you guys aren't the only ones from different timelines. [ she's never asked, actually, so: ] How big are the differences between what you remember and what they remember?
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-10 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe that it is all the same, up until the point of my death. While I remember suffering defeat at the hands of that man, the brothers told me that they saw us slay him, seemingly.

Fidelio then met his end the next day, and Basilio some weeks later. Their memories seem to be in alignment.
batterypack: (And the nights they last forever)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-10 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Then... I wonder if there is a way to converge the two timelines if the break is during that encounter. You wouldn't remember anything after that because you died, and they would continue. But if we sent you back before your death maybe they would combine on their own.
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-11 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think so?

... If I survive, then I would continue to the day that Fidelio would have perished. If he then survives...

I fear it would be Basilio whose experiences would not be reconciled with ours.
batterypack: (TV taught me how to feel)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-11 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Because certain things only happened for him because Fidelio died, right? He told me the same. But there has to be a way to converge all of the timelines into one path where you all live, especially if you're all here. God should find a way.
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-11 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a nod. a brother dying kinda changes the trajectory of your life. ]

Then I shall pray that it will be so.
batterypack: (I'd do it all again)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-12 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure the three of us will put in a good word, too. I don't know Fidelio very well, but Basilio's been nothing but kind to us.
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[personal profile] trifocal 2025-03-12 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Fidelio is very kind, too. He simply doesn't express it as readily as his brother does.
batterypack: (She hid around corners)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-12 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
I got the impression. Sometimes I worry about Basilio wearing his heart on his sleeve, but I suppose that's why he has Fidelio looking after him. Just like he has both you and Basilio to rely on. That sort of thing is more important than anything right now.