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melodiesoflife2016-11-24 09:08 pm
jadethenecromancer) wrote in melodiesoflife2016-11-24 09:08 pm
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Accepting the truth is a difficult thing to do
Who: Jade Curtiss and any CR who wants to help
What: Facing Jade's Shadow
When: Backdated to November 18
Where: The lab
Warnings: Blood, mentions of murder and unethical experiments
Jade handed his crystal to Rosepuff and stood back, bracing himself. He had an idea of what to expect -- and yet he wasn't quite sure where it would all go. Crystallis had made him face himself multiple times now. He was well aware of his faults. If there was still something he was repressing... It couldn't be pretty.
It didn't matter. Trying to prepare any more would just be delaying what had to be done.
"I'm ready. Let's get this over with."
"B-but..." Rosepuff was fluttering nervously. "You shouldn't do this alone, kupo! Why didn't you ask your friends to be here, kupo?"
"I'd rather not make them sit through this. Besides..." Jade paused, looking over his shoulder at the door to the room. "Knowing them, they've probably followed me and will burst in here any second now anyway."
The prospect of any of them seeing the worst of him wasn't an appealing one and so he'd tried to be discreet, but shaking off people who wanted to help him never seemed to work. For whatever reason, he seemed to attract the stubborn ones.
Rosepuff was still reluctant, but relented under Jade's pointed look and gingerly raised his crystal in her paws. This was it, then. Time to see what he still had to hide, even from himself. He waited, while a shape began to take form before him.
The Shadow was completely identical to him... almost. The hair was shorter, barely reaching the shoulders. And the uniform under the lab coat, though clearly that of the Malkuth army, was for someone lower ranking than a Colonel. But the most distracting part was the blood -- soaking the coat, dripping from the hands, even spattered on one side of the face.
Purple eyes stared back at him from behind the glasses.
"That's it?" Jade murmured. Even though he'd expected something like this, he couldn't help but feel revulsion at the sight of his double. No, not just a double. The self from the lowest point of his life. Other than the eyes, this was almost exactly how he'd been back then. "I didn't think it would be this... predictable."
This couldn't be all there was to it, could it?
What: Facing Jade's Shadow
When: Backdated to November 18
Where: The lab
Warnings: Blood, mentions of murder and unethical experiments
Jade handed his crystal to Rosepuff and stood back, bracing himself. He had an idea of what to expect -- and yet he wasn't quite sure where it would all go. Crystallis had made him face himself multiple times now. He was well aware of his faults. If there was still something he was repressing... It couldn't be pretty.
It didn't matter. Trying to prepare any more would just be delaying what had to be done.
"I'm ready. Let's get this over with."
"B-but..." Rosepuff was fluttering nervously. "You shouldn't do this alone, kupo! Why didn't you ask your friends to be here, kupo?"
"I'd rather not make them sit through this. Besides..." Jade paused, looking over his shoulder at the door to the room. "Knowing them, they've probably followed me and will burst in here any second now anyway."
The prospect of any of them seeing the worst of him wasn't an appealing one and so he'd tried to be discreet, but shaking off people who wanted to help him never seemed to work. For whatever reason, he seemed to attract the stubborn ones.
Rosepuff was still reluctant, but relented under Jade's pointed look and gingerly raised his crystal in her paws. This was it, then. Time to see what he still had to hide, even from himself. He waited, while a shape began to take form before him.
The Shadow was completely identical to him... almost. The hair was shorter, barely reaching the shoulders. And the uniform under the lab coat, though clearly that of the Malkuth army, was for someone lower ranking than a Colonel. But the most distracting part was the blood -- soaking the coat, dripping from the hands, even spattered on one side of the face.
Purple eyes stared back at him from behind the glasses.
"That's it?" Jade murmured. Even though he'd expected something like this, he couldn't help but feel revulsion at the sight of his double. No, not just a double. The self from the lowest point of his life. Other than the eyes, this was almost exactly how he'd been back then. "I didn't think it would be this... predictable."
This couldn't be all there was to it, could it?
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She continued forward, reaching for Anise's shoulder in an attempt to quietly usher the both of them to safey on the sidelines. If this thing kept trying to attack his friends, Jade would have far more difficulty accepting the Calamity Self as another part of him.
Glancing back, she wondered. Was it his guilt that Jade repressed? Or was it the fact that he didn't harbor any guilt which secretly bothered him? She released a quiet sigh. If it was the latter, she'd speak to him about the matter after this was over. For now, she felt it best not to interrupt...not unless she had to intervene out of sheer necessity.
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Once she was safely with Rukia, Albel's gaze slid between Jade and his Shadow self. "Did it just insinuate... that you tried to create people?"
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A stance she maintained even after Anise was safely with Rukia. The anger from the Shadow put the tension in the room that much closer to snapping, and she wanted to be ready.
Still, she had a question for her friend. "Why, Jade? Why were you trying to bring back the dead?" she asked, confused.