when you put it like that he immediately pops the top and takes another HUGE swig even if it's gross. he will not be defeated by any monster! even...m*nster. this is nightmarish but he's going to chug this drink
also pokes my fingers together i want to flavor blast you with a memory but i want to ask nicely first if its ok ]
[ i want to establish that he finished the m*nster and missed the first five minutes of his own memory like an idiot. but now, holding the can and staring into the space where the memory ends, he - laughs, a little, wiping his mouth. ]
...Certainly harder than this... [ energy drink. this is a joke. ] I knew it would be difficult, but... I didn't know just how until it started.
[ also yeah sometimes your canon has sephiroth also but instead of being like thats a cool guy, he's a hero.... you're so obsessed with him that you're in love with him and have been for like over ten years bc you have awful taste ]
... He... we beat him. But he rallied, because of the priestess with him, and he pulled me across a barrier he'd created and away from everyone else, and then...
[ a long, long pause. ]
... Sir Sazantos choked the Sacred Flame out of me - he stole it. And that's the last thing that I remember.
[ surprise!!! :D sometimes octopath sephiroth steals your fire three seconds before you came here
he dips his head in acknowledgement, because - yeah. yeah, that's exactly it. ]
... I never thought it would end that way. Of all the things that we went through, it felt - [ cheap. it made every struggle feel so futile. sazantos' cold laughter when he mocked him for it had rung through his ears as he was falling. ]
Though... [ after a moment, he reaches to his side, and pulls out his sword, unsheathing it. in the bright, flourescent light, rondo turns the handle of the sword so that they can see that it seems to reflect different colors. blue, then pinkish. my trans rights sword ]
I think that he put it into his sword. The pink... The Accursed Flame is often in shades of blacks and pink - so I imagine that it contains his Accursed Flame, and my Sacred one. Which means that I may have... I may have stolen it back. And his, too.
[ pesti joining rondo in the weenie hut jr.... respect ]
... I don't know. [ lmao, ] I... think so? Maybe a scholar would be able to do it, or... the Pontiff... maybe... but I have no idea how he put it in, let alone how to take it out...
But... though I may not have my Flame with me, I know that at least the fight must have been easier with Sir Sazantos if he didn't have his, either.
[ HELP I FORGOT THEY HAD HIS SWORD he will take it back. ]
Mm... I guess... technically, it is mine, now. It's... a holy relic of the Church, but it is the weapon of the Flameguard. Mr. Kanda told me I need to accept it as my own, and... I'm trying to.
[ but its. hard. considering. look at the backstory. ]
... you'll just have to forge a new path with it. But no one expects it to happen overnight, Rondo. There will always be a dark spot linked to it.
But you can turn it into something good. There was once a time where he wanted to help others, and with this sword you can carry out his original will.
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when you put it like that he immediately pops the top and takes another HUGE swig even if it's gross. he will not be defeated by any monster! even...m*nster. this is nightmarish but he's going to chug this drink
also pokes my fingers together i want to flavor blast you with a memory but i want to ask nicely first if its ok ]
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anyway speaking of trials of bravery... ]
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well, they had gotten a little into the former flameguard, and rondo had did his best before not to speak too badly of him, and now it's just. ah.
pestilence lets a moment of quiet pass before speaking. ]
What a hard trial.
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...Certainly harder than this... [ energy drink. this is a joke. ] I knew it would be difficult, but... I didn't know just how until it started.
[ also yeah sometimes your canon has sephiroth also but instead of being like thats a cool guy, he's a hero.... you're so obsessed with him that you're in love with him and have been for like over ten years bc you have awful taste ]
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How recent has all of this been...?
[ an attempt to ask just how fresh the wound is. ]
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god. he reaches up for a moment and sets his hand on his chest. it still feels so cold. ]
... The trial was barely a few weeks ago before I arrived here. [ so. very recent. ] I have only been the Flameguard for a very short amount of time.
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The mission you're on with those others, are you still in the middle of it, too?
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... The last thing I remember was fighting against Sir Sazantos, before I made it here.
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... did you reach the end of that fight?
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... He... we beat him. But he rallied, because of the priestess with him, and he pulled me across a barrier he'd created and away from everyone else, and then...
[ a long, long pause. ]
... Sir Sazantos choked the Sacred Flame out of me - he stole it. And that's the last thing that I remember.
[ :ronyay: ]
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... sorry. I'm really sorry. That must have felt... losing a piece of yourself to someone you cared for.
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he dips his head in acknowledgement, because - yeah. yeah, that's exactly it. ]
... I never thought it would end that way. Of all the things that we went through, it felt - [ cheap. it made every struggle feel so futile. sazantos' cold laughter when he mocked him for it had rung through his ears as he was falling. ]
Though... [ after a moment, he reaches to his side, and pulls out his sword, unsheathing it. in the bright, flourescent light, rondo turns the handle of the sword so that they can see that it seems to reflect different colors. blue, then pinkish. my trans rights sword ]
I think that he put it into his sword. The pink... The Accursed Flame is often in shades of blacks and pink - so I imagine that it contains his Accursed Flame, and my Sacred one. Which means that I may have... I may have stolen it back. And his, too.
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Do you know what you'll do with that? Can you take yours out later?
[ and then. what to do with the other one? ]
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... I don't know. [ lmao, ] I... think so? Maybe a scholar would be able to do it, or... the Pontiff... maybe... but I have no idea how he put it in, let alone how to take it out...
But... though I may not have my Flame with me, I know that at least the fight must have been easier with Sir Sazantos if he didn't have his, either.
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... yeah. [ ... ] I really thought that was your sword this whole time. But, I suppose it still is, since something that belongs to you is part of it.
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Mm... I guess... technically, it is mine, now. It's... a holy relic of the Church, but it is the weapon of the Flameguard. Mr. Kanda told me I need to accept it as my own, and... I'm trying to.
[ but its. hard. considering. look at the backstory. ]
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But you can turn it into something good. There was once a time where he wanted to help others, and with this sword you can carry out his original will.