regression | KENOS ✦ COMMUNION

I do not know how much focus the citizens will receive from the military. An opportunity to steal is still opportunity.

You guys are talking about us, too.

[ why are they both so smelly. ]

[they really are

also the idea of hsy just ditching to steal from npcs in the middle of a dramatic rescue is destroying me]

Of course. You're really surrounded by weirdos, you know? Like that wizard Howl guy who can turn into a bird monster? Or the Misa girl who can petrify people with her eyes? Or that Silky [SILCO?] ajusshi who makes weird drugs?

I could have said you were just as weird as them, but I didn't. You should thank me.

[This is probably the first time Sooyoung has exhibited a Positive Emotion, and it's just trolling adjacent]

[ it's going to happen because joonghyuk would probably do the same thing except maybe they would have given it to him cause he's a Kenoma Aion. ]

The trade is that I didn't mention you, either.

[they just give it to him because he's a kenoma aion and he has sexy eyebrows]

Yo should! You should totally lie. Tell them my name's Matilda and that I can't do shit.

[CACKLING -- wait,]

Wait, don't. They'll get pissy when they find out you lied.

[ you wrote these eyebrows into existence ]

I wouldn't make it so obvious that I lied. Withholding information is just as effective, anyway.

Matila is also a horrible cover-up name.

[THEY WERE ALREADY THERE]

It's inspired? Apparently that Kaeya guy introduced himself as Sebastian. That's a way worse name!

Who is "Kaeya."

[ THE KENOMA DIDN'T REALLY INTRODUCE THEMSELVES EXCEPT FOR NEWBIES AND CIEL-EMET. ]

[this is killing me it's the same for pleroma]

Um. He's got an eyepatch. He's a knight and has ice powers?

[she tries to communion an image, but she saw ryu's for like .5 seconds and the result is this]

I haven't seen him yet.

[ THIS NETWORK BULLSHIT SUCKS ]

Edited (oops) 2022-08-11 23:20 (UTC)

Are you all just talking in your minds...

[the pleroma are doing that too]

Is it too much of a hassle to meet in person or something?

[the orvs are doing it too]

I am unsure what is the process is here, but it is only through this communication channel for now.

Plans and assignments will come later as well.

Must be nice to have plans.

[damb, what's that like. there's another surge of irritation, she's tired and she doesn't know what she's gonna do besides go to achamoth and pick up yjh somehow (heh)]

Tell me if they involve blowing up the city or something. That way I can leave before then.

I don't know what the plans are.

[ SO LIKE. HE THINKS IT'S JUST THE SAME AS NOT HAVING THEM AT ALL. ]

If it comes to that, I'll tell you when you're here.

[that makes her feel better.... before remembering that the pleroma still don't have plans, also thanks yjh]

Tell me before!! Before I get there!!

You would leave me behind.

So?! You'd get out before I would anyway!!!

[he's right tho]

We wouldn't be able to meet if you decide to not come at all. You don't have a map, either.

[ STUPID... There's some more silence. This has been a good break from their depression, but now he has to ask her. The Pleroma offer her nothing but resistance, right? ]

Why are you there with the Pleroma? If they are stalling the inevitable to prevent more worlds from ending, why does that matter?

We could gain power to restore ours. We can rewrite it all and take out the Regent if we need to.

[ He knows that they both would let thousands of worlds end if it means theirs survive. ]

There's nothing left to protect if you stay with them.

[It was nice while it lasted -- a semblance of normalcy that Sooyoung's tried to hold onto since climbing out of her chrysalis, naked and alone. She doesn't fault Yoo Joonghyuk for returning to reality. Isn't this what they've always done? Examined the hard truths and decided how they'd move on from here?]

Sure, but do you really trust what the Regent says? We've heard the same lines from the Dokkaebi King and the Constellations before. This guy could turn out just like them, a liar.

[hsy should know, she's an expert at crafting the best kind of lies,]

It's not like I like the Pleroma, but I don't know if I can buy what the Regent is selling. I'm surprised you're even considering it.

[should she be? if what he said is true about dokja, his soul, and the universe that constantly screws them in the end.... then it'd make sense. to want to abandon it, and form a new one.]

You and I have relied on Constellations whether we favored them or not.

[ Regression, a stigma given to him by his sponsor, got him this far. He knows Sooyoung didn't choose the Abyssal Black Flame Dragon because she liked the constellation. It's because he was strong. He would give her power. How much different is it not to use someone stronger than you until you've become strong enough to kill them yourself?

It isn't different. ]

If they're lying, then we end up with nothing. If they're not lying and we oppose them, we also end up with nothing. What matters is that we bring our world back. The Regent is either a tool or an obstacle.

There is no tool found in Pleroma.

[Damn.

She hates how much sense he's making. He's really not a protagonist for nothing, all of his speeches -- the lines he's said at the right times. She thinks of a clock tower shining in the light, Yoo Joonghyuk on his third jog.

""If you get a chance to run again, do you believe you can see it better the next time?"

Isn't this the same thing? Isn't this Yoo Joonghyuk telling her that they should run it again? It's a different track, but the principle... The end result should be the same.]

We know how the Constellations work, but we know nothing about this guy. Trusting them or using them -- I need to know something first to do either! It has to be more than just a reward or a promise!

[Her voice is adamant, but there's a sense of growing disquiet on her end.

The principle is the same. The end result would be too... But... Is this really how Yoo Joonghyuk would say it?]

Maybe no one else has found one yet, but I can. [if there is one] I need time.

We are strong enough.

[ Despite how they don't have their powers in full... Despite how they're in a new world, not knowing a damn thing, Jooonghyuk says that with confidence. His faith in his companions is brighter than any star in this universe's sky.

They'll overcome whatever this is, using the Regent if they have to. They will persevere as long as there's hope and, for now, Joonghyuk sees it in Kenoma even if it means he has to play the pawn. He doesn't care if it furthers the Regent's goals.

What matters is that it furthers his own. ]

If you find anything, tell me. [ Maybe this is consideration to look at what they can do, but also... ] If I lose my mind, bring me back.

[She feels a spark of envy at that -- at Yoo Joonghyuk's relentless confidence, and she's one mental breath away from being contrary just because of it, to point out all the ways she feels weak here, how trading her sponsor for constellation status has given her nothing and also she can't even make as many Avatars --

but then Yoo Joonghyuk finishes what he says, and it shuts her up immediately. Bewilderment, confusion -- and this is so embarrassing but it's like that a deer in headlights moment except the deer is also a small pomeranian who's used to being tsun.]

Idiot. Like I'm gonna let you be weirder than you already are.

That goes without saying, stupid.

[the way she's embarrassed and has to call yjh two names i can't]

[ He only follows Kenoma with some reluctance because he knows Sooyoung is here, but there's comfort to know that if he slips she would be there to help him... Regressing for the 1,865th time, against Dokja's wishes, did show him one good thing. It was another reminder of the round that's so special to him, the round where he stayed human to the end of the scenarios.

It reminded him again he wasn't alone.

And here, too, in Horos he isn't alone. Can't believe they're having a nice thread until he goes ballistic that Dokja is here and Sooyoung chose not to tell him. ]

... I want a world without Constellations. The system could stay with some changes to it. Biyoo, as the Dokkaebi King, can handle it. The Industrial Complex can also stay.

[ He's just describing what they had, really. What he will create when he has the power. ]

We need a bigger kitchen and game room... A vanity where we can put the kids' awards and diplomas. We will have everyone this time. Whole and complete.

Nothing will hurt us.

[hei: yjh is just thoughtsplaining
me: IT'S STILL CUTE?

Sooyoung paralyzed by half-"release me from this mortal coil yoo joonghyuk is really out here being like this i can't stand it here" and half-"that sounds pretty good actually damn i can't stand it here".

...It does sound nice though. And for a moment, Sooyoung ignores what might lead to all of that, the pain they might have to go through yet again, the decisions she'll hate to make...

She listens, and thinks to herself.

Which unfortunately gets transmitted anyway because they're communioning,]

...I don't mind what it's like, as long as I can write there.

Stop reading my thoughts.

[ They weren't for you, b-baka! Joonghyuk grumbles some, but knows it is a dream they all share. He just never vocalized it before, even if it was the vision he had when he saw them all grouped together, marching to the final scenario.

It's funny he tells her to stop when he's also eavesdropping on her thoughts. ]

... Your novel. [ ... ] Every piece of him will be able to read it.

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i can't believe this

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