[OIC] AND THEN THIS HAPPENED.
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PICKING UP OFF DIS THREAD: Lark and Arthas have a meaningful conversation.))
LARK SAID:
There's not a lot of Ebon Blade who even forgive themselves. It's not a real big virtue when you've decided that the Light's had done with you and nothing in life matters anymore and Death is your only mistress and-- [flaps hands to emphasize the silliness of this]
I can't speak for what the Blade would do if you came to them shorn of all your glory and were just Arthas. But I can say I'd be the first one to stand up and point out it's pretty fucking poor form to turn a blind eye to what all of us did, claiming it wasn't our choice, and then hold you accountable for everything Ner'zhul and that sword made you do. There's just as many of us who were terrible fucking people under the Scourge because we wanted to be and repented of it.
[sort-of "looks" down, ears drooping] And, uh. I think enough of us got shuffled through the Culling at Stratholme by now, thanks to the bronzes, that they'd know you weren't exactly in there for shits and giggles. Don't know that I'd've made a decision that would have saved anyone alive. Uther didn't.
AND THEN ARTHAS SAID:
Then why should I be expected to?!
[Pure whiny child there. He's going to wallow in this as long as he wants, fuckers.]
I'm going to be honest; if I were Varian, I'd have the lot of you executed. I have no idea why the Alliance re-accepted you. We shouldn't be forgiven. If we are, there's no such thing as justice. I spent my entire life seeing to it that the world was rid of monsters. I'm not going to stop now.
- the Bronzes did what now...?
AND THEN LARK REPLIED:
[exasperated:] Because they're a bunch of fucking idiots for doing it? [Come on, Arthas. You're not a fucking idiot, are you? :c] We did what we did and survived it. I won't say we're the lucky ones, but it's past now. Maybe you're right and somebody should have gotten rid of us when we put down our swords and turned ourselves over to the Horde and the Alliance for judgment, but let's face it: The people we killed are still dead. Putting us in the ground for the last time to make the living feel better about that won't bring them back, and it means we won't be there when the next fuck-ugly son of a bitch crawls out from under his Lightforsaken rock to threaten Azeroth again.
I might be blind and half-rotted and stupid but I can still hold my axe and stand between the people who matter and the things that want to kill them deader than me. If you want to hunt monsters there's plenty of them still out there that haven't pledged themselves to killing the bigger monsters than they are.
[...demure cough] Uh. Thought you might've heard about that. Infinites went and fucked with your timeline or something so they started sending people back to make sure you actually did Stratholme right. Didn't get killed halfway through or anything.
lastvoyagesspam because lol OC taking up valuable memespace.PICKING UP OFF DIS THREAD: Lark and Arthas have a meaningful conversation.))
LARK SAID:
There's not a lot of Ebon Blade who even forgive themselves. It's not a real big virtue when you've decided that the Light's had done with you and nothing in life matters anymore and Death is your only mistress and-- [flaps hands to emphasize the silliness of this]
I can't speak for what the Blade would do if you came to them shorn of all your glory and were just Arthas. But I can say I'd be the first one to stand up and point out it's pretty fucking poor form to turn a blind eye to what all of us did, claiming it wasn't our choice, and then hold you accountable for everything Ner'zhul and that sword made you do. There's just as many of us who were terrible fucking people under the Scourge because we wanted to be and repented of it.
[sort-of "looks" down, ears drooping] And, uh. I think enough of us got shuffled through the Culling at Stratholme by now, thanks to the bronzes, that they'd know you weren't exactly in there for shits and giggles. Don't know that I'd've made a decision that would have saved anyone alive. Uther didn't.
AND THEN ARTHAS SAID:
Then why should I be expected to?!
[Pure whiny child there. He's going to wallow in this as long as he wants, fuckers.]
I'm going to be honest; if I were Varian, I'd have the lot of you executed. I have no idea why the Alliance re-accepted you. We shouldn't be forgiven. If we are, there's no such thing as justice. I spent my entire life seeing to it that the world was rid of monsters. I'm not going to stop now.
- the Bronzes did what now...?
AND THEN LARK REPLIED:
[exasperated:] Because they're a bunch of fucking idiots for doing it? [Come on, Arthas. You're not a fucking idiot, are you? :c] We did what we did and survived it. I won't say we're the lucky ones, but it's past now. Maybe you're right and somebody should have gotten rid of us when we put down our swords and turned ourselves over to the Horde and the Alliance for judgment, but let's face it: The people we killed are still dead. Putting us in the ground for the last time to make the living feel better about that won't bring them back, and it means we won't be there when the next fuck-ugly son of a bitch crawls out from under his Lightforsaken rock to threaten Azeroth again.
I might be blind and half-rotted and stupid but I can still hold my axe and stand between the people who matter and the things that want to kill them deader than me. If you want to hunt monsters there's plenty of them still out there that haven't pledged themselves to killing the bigger monsters than they are.
[...demure cough] Uh. Thought you might've heard about that. Infinites went and fucked with your timeline or something so they started sending people back to make sure you actually did Stratholme right. Didn't get killed halfway through or anything.
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Date: 2011-09-04 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-04 05:10 am (UTC)Like hell it's fine. You've fucking given up and there's not anyone around who cares enough to go after you and fix that and I can't do it because you won't let me and anyway I'd probably just die trying.
[Completely on a different wavelength, Arthas.]
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Date: 2011-09-04 05:19 am (UTC)[Deep breaths, calm down, push the urge to snap his neck down right now.]
I haven't killed - I've only killed one person since I got... since Frostmourne was destroyed.
[He's reminding himself.]
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Date: 2011-09-04 05:25 am (UTC)Know you aren't. Should've know better; if it were me when I was that bad I'd've killed me right off.
Not what I'm worried about.
[Face clean he tucks his chin in, like he's "looking" down at the blindfold.]
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Date: 2011-09-04 05:34 am (UTC)[This is not complimentary.]
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Date: 2011-09-04 05:45 am (UTC)No, thanks. I lost them through honest stupidity, not sucking up to some kal'dorei.
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Date: 2011-09-04 05:49 am (UTC)Incidentally, do you know who finally killed the bastard? Frostmourne felt him go out, but I was. [In a comaaa] Not able to investigate.
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Date: 2011-09-04 06:53 am (UTC)[Another sniff and his ears droop, his tone going flat.]
Suppose you'll want to know what happened to the prince next.
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Date: 2011-09-04 04:55 pm (UTC)I've heard the news.
[Kil'jaeden.
This probably means, of course, that Arthas cared at least enough to pay attention to what people were saying about Kael'thas' death, but not Illidan's.
Or perhaps simply that when Illidan died, no one bothered talking about it.]
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Date: 2011-09-04 08:03 pm (UTC)...sniff.]
Good. Easier that way.
[He tucks the blindfold away in a pocket.]
Still sorry I can't be more help.
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Date: 2011-09-04 08:37 pm (UTC)You shouldn't be. I dug my own grave. Yours, too.
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Date: 2011-09-04 08:56 pm (UTC)No. [He laughs, unhappily.] I did that. The fuckers on the council in Quel'thalas helped. And Mother. You don't get to take that from them.
[He turns his head toward Arthas.] So what if I shouldn't? I am. The living like to talk about the world being cheaper for losing one of them; it's just the same for us.
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Date: 2011-09-04 09:01 pm (UTC)That's just the problem. If you ask virtually anyone who the world would be better without, the answer would be me.
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Date: 2011-09-04 09:33 pm (UTC)[Then he drops his hand, turning his head away.] If you hadn't been born, maybe, yeah. But that egg's already broken and they don't know what would have happened if you hadn't been the one to take the Scourge. ["So fuck them," is implied.]
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Date: 2011-09-05 01:16 am (UTC)[He bristles.]
But you can't just say that someone would have ended up as his pet so it doesn't matter what I did then. "They all would have died anyway" - bullshit.
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Date: 2011-09-05 07:10 am (UTC)You kept Fordring around, too, instead of crushing him. That wasn't Frostmourne, that was you. [He tilts his head toward Arthas.]
Think about it. You made your killers. You knew what you were. Renault was already a fucking backstabbing monster born. You never were.
Think he would have sabotaged himself as the Lich King?
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Date: 2011-09-05 07:53 am (UTC)[Then as Lark keeps talking it escalates into a roar. There's a layer underneath that shouldn't be there, that sounds like thunder.]
Everything was me! I killed my father, I spoke through Frostmourne. I AM the Lich King!
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Date: 2011-09-05 08:17 am (UTC)You. Were a paladin first. We were all something else. First.
You were remade. Something remembered enough to fight; not everyone can say that.
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Date: 2011-09-05 08:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-05 08:30 pm (UTC)Yeah? So'm I. Dead doesn't mean shit with the Scourge.
You're, [oh Light Lark be man enough not to stutter] still him.
I don't always give people nicknames. But when I do, they're stilted.
Date: 2011-09-06 12:31 am (UTC)Stay derpy, my friend.
Date: 2011-09-06 07:09 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-07 01:27 am (UTC)[He seems oddly calm, like he's won this argument, and off the Lich Kingy buzz.]
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