[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: 2011-09-07 01:27 am (UTC)[He seems oddly calm, like he's won this argument, and off the Lich Kingy buzz.]
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Date: 2011-09-07 02:41 am (UTC)...Yeah. I have. We have. You were us. You think you're so fucking special after you remade us all in your image?
[He jerks his head up, teeth snapping together.]
Try again.
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Date: 2011-09-07 04:46 am (UTC)[He almost just said "a part of the Lich King" fffuu]
What the hell's your point?
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Date: 2011-09-07 08:50 am (UTC)How many times have you gone home to have them spit on you and call you a traitor and a killer and a monster? How many friends and lovers have you had look at you and walk away in disgust because the fucking flesh is rotting off your bones? How many times have you done as good or better than any of them and that's not enough, that's never fucking enough because they all remember what you were and won't ever stop blaming you for that? And you remember it too, because you can't sleep, and you don't breathe, and you don't even have a fucking pulse in your chest, and the first thing you think of when you're surrounded by the living is that you've got to kill them and eat them and rip their souls out because that's what makes it stop hurting.
[He's shaking with fury now but doesn't make the mistake of going after Arthas again.] And even the ones that pretend to be your friends, they just think of you as an interesting experiment, like some kind of stupid pet to be tolerated and kept around and pled for if you get out of line. "Oh, he doesn't know any better, poor thing, his brain's too decomposed." They sit there and take every single fucking thing they have about being living for granted and expect you to smile and nod and take the condescension to your face and never breathe a word of what you really think, and you do it because you know what you are and what they'll say if they think you've turned on them.
And when they leave you there's fuck-all you can do because they're the only ones you had, and it's your fault that they left you to the ones who spit on you and know you for the monster you really are.
[Another snap of teeth.] Have you been through that yet? Or are you just stuck on your little boat with people who wouldn't know what a runeblade was if you shoved Frostmourne down their throats?
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Date: 2011-09-07 09:10 am (UTC)Go home, Plagueheart.
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Date: 2011-09-07 09:17 am (UTC)That's the whole problem.
You're imagining it all. You're stuck in your head thinking about this shit and not actually living most of it except whatever fucked-up bizarro merry-go-round the boat has you on.
[SORRY ARTHAS NO ONE ESCAPES LARK THAT EASILY.]
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Date: 2011-09-07 09:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-07 08:51 pm (UTC)There's no getting it out of his system.]
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Date: 2011-09-08 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-08 05:55 am (UTC)Never.
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Date: 2011-09-08 06:06 am (UTC)[Sarcasm? Sincere? It's really hard to tell.]
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Date: 2011-09-08 06:29 am (UTC)As it is he just stands there "looking" in Arthas' direction with a dumb drop-jawed look on his face, then starts to laugh. It gets back enough he has to sit down before he falls over from mirth.
brb roflmao]
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:54 pm (UTC)