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Enter, MEMORY.
FLOWER KNIGHT: Oh. It's you again.
MEMORY: It sure is! [Said with all the time in the world] I thought you were hiding.
FLOWER KNIGHT: [As if recoiling from a hit] I don't hide. It's not hiding. You know we don't know that word.
MEMORY: Are you suuure? It seems a lotttt like hiding, FLOWER KNIGHT. [Lean forward, get too close] Encasing yourself away like you're some type of butterfly when you are, however much you'd wanna deny it or cherry-pick - a person.
[Wrap your arms around her shoulders]
FLOWER KNIGHT: ...It isn't. I don't hide. And you know we aren't a people. We're different.
MEMORY: Mhmmm. We are?
FLOWER KNIGHT: We aren't a people. We know this because the people, well, they don't... want us.
MEMORY: Is that true, though?
FLOWER KNIGHT: Of course it is. Everyone we love, we hurt. Everyone we reach for, we hurt. Everyone we need, we hurt.
FLOWER KNIGHT: Everyone who tried to love us ends up burying that love.
FLOWER KNIGHT: We're the problem, aren't we?
MEMORY: Well, we always have been. Don't tell me you're the one forgetting now!
FLOWER KNIGHT: I couldn't even if I wanted to. I couldn't even if I tried to. And I hate that. I hate that more than anything.
MEMORY: Do you hate that you can't forget or do you hate that you want to forget?
MEMORY: Mapicc won't forget. He never does.
FLOWER KNIGHT: He hates me.
FLOWER KNIGHT: And it's my fault, for not telling him, but I thought-!
MEMORY: You thought he'd see why. Of course you did. He's your other half, shouldn't he understand? Shouldn't he get it?
FLOWER KNIGHT: But he doesn't. I hate that. I really did think..
MEMORY: And now he's replacing you.
MEMORY: You!
FLOWER KNIGHT: ...I deserve to be replaced.
MEMORY: [Said with endless exasperation] Void, you're painfully devoted...
FLOWER KNIGHT: He's my other half.
MEMORY: But are you his?
FLOWER KNIGHT: What am I without him? Of course I am.
MEMORY: As you are currently... I just don't know! So in denial, so worn down, so very repressed... You're desperately trying to please him, but you don't realize his wants are very simple at the end of the day.
MEMORY: He wants a you that won't leave. And you can never promise that, can you?
FLOWER KNIGHT: ...It's not that simple.
MEMORY: But it is! You know it is, too.
[She looks away; is it shame?]
FLOWER KNIGHT: ...But it's not. I can't just hurt everyone again for him-
MEMORY: Why not? He's your other half.
FLOWER KNIGHT: Don't use that against me.
MEMORY: You said it, not me.
FLOWER KNIGHT: It's not like that...
MEMORY: Then what, huh?
FLOWER KNIGHT: I...
FLOWER KNIGHT: It's just not fair. I don't know. I- I do everything for everyone, I've given up all I can-
MEMORY: Are your morals really more important than him?
FLOWER KNIGHT: Mapicc is everything. To me.
[Recoil like maybe that's too much, what's wrong with you, FLOWER KNIGHT?]
MEMORY: You should just give in, FLOWER KNIGHT!
MEMORY: It would be much easier on Mapicc. On us, better yet, if you care more about that than you do for him.
FLOWER KNIGHT: ...It's stupid. And dumb. If I did that.
[But aren't we?]
[Aren't we so stupid and dumb and everything they're all whispering about us?]
[Don't look too long into the mirror.]
FLOWER KNIGHT: [Are you on the verge of tears? You're the most pathetic of us all.] It's so, so stupid..
FLOWER KNIGHT: It's all pointless. It's all so, so pointless, I don't get it- I don't get it, I don't understand, and I hate that- nobody gets it, nobody's-
MEMORY: ...
FLOWER KNIGHT: [And your voice breaks just like that- what's wrong with you?] I didn't want him anyways. I didn't want any of it anyways. There's no point.
[Just who do you think you're fooling, FLOWER KNIGHT? Audience, don't look away, it's just getting good!]
FLOWER KNIGHT: I'm so, so, so...
MEMORY: ...
FLOWER KNIGHT: I just don't get it.
MEMORY: ...
[She raises her head like it is something to do with utmost effort. Meet your gaze in the mirror.]
FLOWER KNIGHT: What's wrong with you?
FLOWER KNIGHT: God, everything is, huh.
FLOWER KNIGHT: I hurt everyone and I just keep hurting them because I just- I don't change, do I? I get worse and worse and worse and better and worse, and worse, and worse.
[He is shaking like everything crashes down eventually, because it does, you know it does. Don't be a fool.]
FLOWER KNIGHT: I thought of all people, he wouldn't leave me.
[Don't fall down now, get off your knees. Meet your own eyes, that mesmerizing green of vines around your throat.]
[And around your heart.]
FLOWER KNIGHT: I thought he'd get it, because he's the only one who does-
FLOWER KNIGHT: He wasn't even proud of me for the Flame kill, fuck, what am I doing-
[That mesmerizing green.]
[That toxic green color.]
[FLOWER KNIGHT, get off your knees. Nobody to worship, he doesn't want your prayers.]
[FLOWER KNIGHT, there is nothing left for you to squeeze the life out of other than-]