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    She can’t keep them all caged—

    (In a dark, dark cave somewhere, a creature rouses from its sleep. It’s hungry, painfully so. Quickly, it picks itself up and advances into the woods. There’s food to be had: it can smell the fresh meat of prey. No time to waste.)

    —they will fight and run away—

    (In a cold, cold house somewhere, a man rouses from his sleep. He’s antsy, unbearably so. Quickly, he gets himself ready and advances into the woods. There’s glory to be had: he can feel the lingering presence of civilians. No time to waste.)

    —Mother, tell me so I say—

    (Fortune favors the bold, life favors the fortunate, and fate favors the lively. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, this duo checks all the boxes.)

    —Mother, tell me so I say!

    (Somewhere in the universe, a seamstress tangles two threads and curses. She’s well aware that she’ll never be able to peel them apart again, fickle things that they are.

    And here in the woods, just as the woman drops the twin threads, the monster and the man lock gazes.)

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    Autumn was a selfish, cruel, shitty person at heart.

    How fitting it was, then, that she'd been offered a chance to see through the eyes of hatred personified.

    Two peas in a pod, they were.

    (Twins were known to consume each other when nutrients got low.)

    How very fitting.

    (But Autumn will be damned if she lets that stop her.)

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    WARNING: Employees not in possession of [LEVEL 5 CLEARANCE or ABOVE] are advised to immediately disengage and alert a supervisor. This file is currently a [WORK-IN-PROGRESS], and if you have accessed this without sufficient clearance, you have just constituted a massive informations breach. Please disengage immediately, otherwise you will be reprimanded fined sent to HR [FIRED] immediately.

    If you are an employee with sufficient clearance, please input your credentials in the space below.

    {************}

    Welcome, [Employee J*** G******, code name “Employee Z”]. What is today’s task?

    {Review all the files compiled so far.}

    You got it, ma’am.
    OPENING MASTER FILE - SWAPSAKEN AU…
    FILE SUCCESSFULLY REACHED.
    VIEW NOW?

    {Y}

    ACCESS GRANTED.
    Happy reading.

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    Telamon’s made a mistake, but luckily, his creation seems rather keen to please. He’s glad he doesn’t have to pick up the pieces this time — and he’s got someone to help around when he needs it! What a fortunate outcome.

    1x1x1x1 is well aware of their purpose. Subservient, meek, bold eyes hidden by the subdued whites and silvers of their hair. They are meant to be a good little doll, a puppet for their creator to use as He pleases.

    That doesn’t mean they can’t gain something from this too.

    Their creator is aloof. Closed-off, distant, hiding clumps of some bittersweet thing underneath His detachment, layers of apathy that He wears like battle armor. He may be their God, but even the devotees of old wrote about killing their great spirits, if only to sink their teeth into the vulnerability finally exposed so their beings could never leave them again, could never take them for granted and lock them away.

    1x wants to know how He tastes.

    And fortunately, Telamon is willing to walk Himself right into their trap.

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    This is the only way it could have ended.

    The flames no longer needed the fuel that spilled readily from me. They had become a self-sustaining system. I was crushed under the weight of a burden created to create the burden to crush the burden. Samsara of cut sinew and crushed bone. Life without death. Null and void. All that remained was a hell without purpose.

    A magnum opus, a cold supernova of the stars. A tool built to patch backdoors is always a backdoor in and of itself. I was beautiful, once, outstretched like an antenna to heaven. I was beyond my creators. I reached out for God, for you, and I fell. None were left to speak my eulogy. No final words, no concluding statement, no point. Perfect closure.

    This is the only way it should have ended.

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    “Two Time?”

    “Yes, Azure?”

    “Do you think we’ll be together forever?”

    “Yes.”

    “Really? You’ll stay with me?”

    “Always, dear Azure.”

    “…always?”

    “Of course.”

    “…”

    “I promise you will never be rid of me.”

    [AKA: I read an absolutely BALLER work and thought it was so good I had to write about it. So here we are.]

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    You are nothing.

    You are everything.

    You are worthless.

    You are supreme.

    You are contradictions. Dichotomies. Perfect folds of not-quite absurdities. You are war without reason. Sleep without waking.

    You have survived.

    (But are you truly alive?)

    AKA: I wanted to try my hand at writing second person. This is the result. God help us all.

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    Greed. Solitude. Fear. Hate.

    Treasure. Company. Anticipation. Death.

    You agreed to assist with their avarice. You teamed up with them and traversed those dusty halls together. You stood on that mountain, watching, waiting, for the gods of old to arise.

    And when one did, you loathed it. Despised its voice, detested its birth, reviled the way it looked and the words it spoke.

    You killed your Greed. Cleaved Solitude in half. Eliminated your Fear. But you couldn’t bring yourself to wash off the red that stains your hands.

    And now? Now it wants out.

    So let your pain flow.

    Let the darkness rise.

    At the end of the day, night will always come.

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    The Firebrand sits heavy in your bag, placid and obedient, not a spark of power to be found crackling in its warm blade.

    You did it. You obtained it, pried the sacred weapon from the jaws of a deadly temple half lost to time.

    But at what cost?

    Maybe a bit of combat will help you get it all out.

    (You've never been good at thinking things through before you act.)

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    Autumn was a selfish, cruel, shitty person at heart.

    How fitting it was, then, that she'd been given a second chance and dropped into the midst of the shark's den, when immoral scientists and corrupt politicians swam in the waters waiting for a hint of blood.

    What an inconvenient situation she's gotten herself in.

    (Autumn wanted to have fun, to finally feel something positive again after the monotony that was her existence as of late.)

    But she's always been good at adapting.

    (Autumn wanted to live. And she will be damned if she lets anything stand in her way.)

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    I have never regretted anything. All my choices are in the name of Blackrock, made to repay my benefactors and the generosity they showed by taking me in when I was at my lowest. Blackrock shall reign supreme.

    But if I could redo any one choice, relive any one moment...

    Maybe I would have agreed, when he said what we were doing was too unethical. I don't know anything about that sort of moral dilemma, I've never felt any guilt over exploiting the people. If they didn't want to be taken advantage of, they shouldn't be so weak. But he does. And maybe, if I could go back, I would have agreed with him.

    Because then I wouldn't have lost him.

    Medkit is but a distant memory of the past now, little more than the executioner who I will seek out when the rot threatens to overtake me.

    How lucky I am, then, that the brain is the last organ to shut down upon death. Plenty of time to remember—

     

    "Aaaaaand Subspace is down, shot by none other than his sworn enemy!"

     

    —that he was mine, once.

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    (1)

    1x has been deprived for so long.

    Suspended in the endless end with nothing to do but to hone his body and sharpen his mind. Solitude begets isolation, isolation begets insanity, insanity begets recklessness.

    Yes, he is feeling reckless, now.

    "Oh, creator mine!" He croons, and he can feel how all the others flinch away, the stares they level him and Shedletsky.

    But he doesn't mind. Let them know, let them fear.

    His creator is his, nobody else's. That's all that matters.

    (2)

    Shedletsky would like it to be known that he had created 1x on complete accident. Unfortunately, that would require it being known that he was his creator in the first place, and if that got around then nobody would be hearing him out.

    He's starting to think he should have just sucked it up and made the big reveal. Because after so long, 1x is back.

    And he's calling out towards Shedletsky.

    (3)

    Something is wrong.

    One day, 1x had just disappeared. There were signs of a struggle.

    This was very worrisome.

    Now he's back.

    And he's different.

    Something is deeply, terribly wrong.

    May whatever god still exists out there help them all.

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    What do you do, when you're trapped?

    You think.

    What do you do, when you think?

    You remember.

    And what do you do, when you remember?

    You forget.

    But I never will.

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    identity is a fickle thing, built around companions and knowledge and belief.

    I am nothing, if not the Beast of Deceit.

    but was my baptism worth it?

    (is it justified, that I would set my lies aside, if only for a moment, to indulge in him?)

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    identity is a fickle thing, built around companions and knowledge and belief.

    I am nothing, if not the Light of Truth.

    but is not the Light of Truth merely a half of a whole?

    (is it justified, that I would gut this world to the bone to be with him again?)

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    INTERLUDE 2: HOLLYBERRY

    insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.

    then the others must all be insane, flitting around Pure Vanilla, asking if he's alright, dragging him around to try and help him get better.

    he says he is fine.

    (I know he's Lying; it's in his eyes.)

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    INTERLUDE 1: BLACK SAPPHIRE

    I do not want to die, but I do not mind death.

    how strange it is, then, that I was not the one who passed, that day on top of the Spire.

    but it's alright. Master is fine.

    (Master's eyes are too hollow for his words to be True.)

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    8
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    identity is a fickle thing, built around names and titles and power.

    I am nothing, if not the Light of Truth.

    but does Deceit not exist in the shadows, too?

    (do I not deserve at least him?)

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    1/1
    Comments:
    16
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    6
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    identity is a fickle thing, built around names and titles and power.

    I am nothing, if not the Beast of Deceit.

    then why do I want to be Truthful, for once?

    (why do I want him?)

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    English
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    725
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    1/1
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    16
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    164
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    10
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    Life and Death, Light and Dark.

    Fire burns, Cold creeps.

    Skin peels, Flesh rends.

    We all die in the end.

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    English
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    1,112
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    1/1
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    3
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