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[veepofchess]

[When the camera starts you just see a flailing arm and hear a few highly undignified high-pitched squeaks. Then an upright torso topped with shaggy hair scrabbling at his face. When the focus corrects on the camera, you can see him pulling a handful of slugs off of his face, as well as some lettuce leaves.

But then he seems to be having a different trouble. He curls forward in pain, and then stiffens again, reaching a hand around to his back. With how he's not masking the pain, he's not aware that he's being recorded at all.

Slowly, he moves his legs out from under the blankets, not really caring at all about the fate of the critters that had been on his face. When he finally grabbed the PDA and saw it'd been recording, the pain is covered by anger.] Suzaku. I need you. [And off.]

((Jade put some slugs on Lulu's face as thanks for him being such a stellar person. And he also just got canon updated to right when he got shanked by Suzaku. So. Pain much?

The muse might be a bit selective in who he replies to. So if you don't get a response, don't take it personally!))

Comments

[veepofchess]

Quite a bit. At the moment I'm glad to no longer be the one that has no idea what the others are talking about. It was a difference of several months.

[fracturedsoul]

Well, welcome back.

[veepofchess]

Thank you, I suppose. [He shifts a bit and he can't keep that pain off of his face.] I think I was returned here with a few new battle scars.

[fracturedsoul]

Scars? [ He steps in to get a closer look. ] You mean it wasn't just your memory being updated, your body was actually physically altered?

[veepofchess]

[There's nothing really to see, outside of his clothes anyway.] I'm not sure if it's actual pain, or just the memory of it taking hold after I woke up.

[fracturedsoul]

One way to find out. [ And he's going over to take hold of Lelouch's shirt and pull it up. From the way he was wincing on the video, it looks to have been centered on his torso.

If it's actual pain he's feeling, there should be bruises or something. ]

[veepofchess]

Get your hands-- Augh! [That hurts. He curls over and there's matching angry red scars on either side of him, as though he got run through.]

[fracturedsoul]

Jesus.

[ He eyes both Lelouch's front and back with a raised eyebrow. ]

On a scale of one to ten on the redundancy meter, I'm guessing it'd rate an "airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow" to ask whether or not that was there before.

[veepofchess]

Of course not, you idiot! How do you think someone could have survived a wound that made these kinds of marks? [And he's pulling his shirt back down.]

[fracturedsoul]

Are you saying you're dead now? [ He steps back. ]

[veepofchess]

I've died twice on this island already. And that's presuming I didn't get killed on the battlefield after I fell asleep.

[There's no real point in it being a secret. And Dirk's not really a chatterbox, despite how much he talks.] But yes. Back home, I'm dead. I suppose there's no point in keeping it a secret.

[fracturedsoul]

Shit sucks.

[ Dirk's just racking up the acquaintances who can't go home. He really has to do something for these people. ]

[veepofchess]

I would disagree. There is no other result I would have preferred. There was no place for me in the world anymore. There's no need for a demon like myself in a peaceful world.

[fracturedsoul]

[ His eyebrows shoot up. ]

You planned it.

[veepofchess]

Every stroke. Down to my own assassination.

[fracturedsoul]

Congratulations on your success.

[veepofchess]

[That pulls a dry smirk out of him. Even though he's seeing Nunnally's crying face in his memories.] I've discussed the nature of my world with you before. I assure you, it's entirely different now.

[fracturedsoul]

[ If only one person's death were sufficient to fix the problems in Dirk's world. ]

But you're sure your new pets didn't have anything to do with it.

[veepofchess]

Extremely so. There were no slugs at all near me. This was done while I was sleeping. [Thanks for the reminder. He's scowling.]

[fracturedsoul]

Wonder who was responsible. Do you have any enemies here?

[veepofchess]

More now than before. But none that would do something so ridiculous. I think I know who's responsible. I'll address it appropriately.

[fracturedsoul]

Okay. Just don't fine them, all right? Getting pretty tired of this proxy punishment bullshit.

[veepofchess]

No, I'm not considering that. It doesn't adequately address the issue, either.

[fracturedsoul]

Good. [ Now why can't the staff have half the common sense the good lord gave Dirk and Lelouch? ]

Gotta get going. English fucked off to Coma Wonderland too yesterday, so I better check in on him.