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Who: Dani, OPEN
What: Remembering a sad relationship.
When: June 21st, mid-afternoon
Where: Poyi Mountains, near the top.
Dani had been climbing since the early morning, carrying Plotmon X for any of the points she couldn't climb herself. After explaining to Plotmon X this was her own little tradition, the Digimon stopped complaining about hiking and climbing versus walking. Since then, Dani mostly went into her own thoughts.
Her relationship with Vlad wasn't an easy one to describe. He was using her as a tool when he first created her. He had nearly killed her. She suspected more than once, but she couldn't quite remember any other encounters with him after she first left him until after she went to Econtra. And there was too much of what she remembered in Econtra to make her think it was only that time. She didn't try to remember too much harder of that time, as she was pretty sure those were memories spent for her own life.
Econtra. Econtra made it more complicated. There was a Vlad who apologized to her. He said he didn't know her, but apologized because he knew his alternate did something. She never knew what to make of that. After all, it was Vlad. And even if he did seem kinder, it could have been a trick. A trick just like before. A trick that even the other Vlad attempted until threats were made for him to leave her alone. That one was sent home. The other remained though, occasionally trying to make peace with her and Danny, but gave them space.
And then...he died. During an Entropi attack. The attack where the scars on her leg was from when she had been hit by a weird electric bolt. She was too used to them to bother hiding it and the hike was easier than shorts. too bad it was a reminder she didn't think would come up until halfway through the hike. She remembered that burning pain in her leg. A pain she told the others meant nothing as long as she kept flying. It was a lie. It hurt. It hurt a lot, but she was one of the few people who could move around the compound relatively unharmed. She had to make sure people were safe and she did her job.
She had found his body afterwards. Her reaction had been...surprising. She always thought she hated Vlad. She always thought that she'd be perfectly fine if he went away forever, but when she saw his body. All she could do was cry. She had been able to stop by the time they were to be sent to the new compound, but after that, when she thought about him, it had hurt.
"Damn idiot," Dani muttered, punching a tree they passed by hard enough to make a good dent in the bark.
"Mistress?" Plotmon X squeaked worrieldy.
"It's nothing," Dani said as she continued her walk. Another Vlad never came to the compound, but she was find with that. And when she went back home for those years, she never did see him. Oh, she saw him on the news, but she had been too far to do anything before it was too late. Luckily, his plan failed, and Danny came up with a new plan to help save the world. Which of course she went to go help with. Vlad had basically been banished from the Earth after that, no one willing to trust him again. So he was marooned as a ghost and no one really knew where he was.
The war. That horrible, horrible war that took so many. Danny, Maddie, Valerie, Jazz, Elliot. All of the people who she was personally close to, lost throughout the years. Then Dan came. Dan, an evil future version of Danny. One who had tried to kill his own family to assure his existence, come to help because Clockwork was HIS to defeat and because he wasn't gonna let Pariah have the world he conquered. Help was good, Dani knew. And he was pretty honest about why. The only two who were wary was Jazz and Tucker because they KNEW him.
No, the one he brought freaked out everyone more. Vlad. After years of not seeing him, she saw her creator, looking broken and weak. If not for the determination in his eyes when he said he'd not forgive the one who took Maddie and Danny away forever, she wouldn't have believed he was capable of anything. Nor would she have trusted him.
It had been her decision to let him stay. After all, she was the one wronged the most by him and everyone knew it. She had let him stay, because they needed help. He did prove very useful.
Dani walked out onto a ridge. Snow was just starting to form a bit higher up. "Here," she said, walking to the edge, sitting down on the little cliff.
"...are we just going to sit here?" Plotmon asked.
"For the moment," Dani said, leaning back on her hands. It had been the final confrontation, she decided, with the Ghost King. Not long after she lost Elliot. She had been planning to go alone, but he saw her. Instead of ratting her out...he came with her. She didn't argue and let him and together, they managed to get into the Ghost King's throne room undetected. Only to face Nocturne, the Fright Knight, and the Ghost King all at once. Vlad had managed to destroyed Nocturne completely after Dani seemingly knocked out the Fright Knight, but had been too fatally wounded in the process. He had collapsed moments after Nocturne.
"Had to go and apologize, the jerk. He couldn't let me just cling to my anger," Dani muttered. She'd gone to his side, hoping that maybe it looked worse than it was. That wasn't the case. He was going to die and they both knew it. And he had apologized to her. He said he knew how greatly he wronged her and even said it was a relief she didn't end up like him in loneliness! That she hadn't been driven into sadness like he had.
And then he died.
Of course that led her wailing for a good four minutes at the Ghost King, all her rage and anger and sadness just pouring into her and into the Ghostly Wail before she finally had no energy to spend. Then she was stabbed by the still moving Fright Knight and then went to Econtra and had to deal with the Soul Shredder's damn affect effects of constant nightmares.
She never had the chance...to really think about him. "You jerk, you idiot, you sad...pathetic man," Dani muttered, moving a hand up from the ground, wiping away tears. "Damn you, Vlad. Apologized and die on me. Twice, in fact! You....damn fruit loop."
Plotmon X watched her tamer, unsure what to do. It was something that her tamer was truly guarded about and she didn't know if she was allowed to say anything of comfort to her.
What: Remembering a sad relationship.
When: June 21st, mid-afternoon
Where: Poyi Mountains, near the top.
Dani had been climbing since the early morning, carrying Plotmon X for any of the points she couldn't climb herself. After explaining to Plotmon X this was her own little tradition, the Digimon stopped complaining about hiking and climbing versus walking. Since then, Dani mostly went into her own thoughts.
Her relationship with Vlad wasn't an easy one to describe. He was using her as a tool when he first created her. He had nearly killed her. She suspected more than once, but she couldn't quite remember any other encounters with him after she first left him until after she went to Econtra. And there was too much of what she remembered in Econtra to make her think it was only that time. She didn't try to remember too much harder of that time, as she was pretty sure those were memories spent for her own life.
Econtra. Econtra made it more complicated. There was a Vlad who apologized to her. He said he didn't know her, but apologized because he knew his alternate did something. She never knew what to make of that. After all, it was Vlad. And even if he did seem kinder, it could have been a trick. A trick just like before. A trick that even the other Vlad attempted until threats were made for him to leave her alone. That one was sent home. The other remained though, occasionally trying to make peace with her and Danny, but gave them space.
And then...he died. During an Entropi attack. The attack where the scars on her leg was from when she had been hit by a weird electric bolt. She was too used to them to bother hiding it and the hike was easier than shorts. too bad it was a reminder she didn't think would come up until halfway through the hike. She remembered that burning pain in her leg. A pain she told the others meant nothing as long as she kept flying. It was a lie. It hurt. It hurt a lot, but she was one of the few people who could move around the compound relatively unharmed. She had to make sure people were safe and she did her job.
She had found his body afterwards. Her reaction had been...surprising. She always thought she hated Vlad. She always thought that she'd be perfectly fine if he went away forever, but when she saw his body. All she could do was cry. She had been able to stop by the time they were to be sent to the new compound, but after that, when she thought about him, it had hurt.
"Damn idiot," Dani muttered, punching a tree they passed by hard enough to make a good dent in the bark.
"Mistress?" Plotmon X squeaked worrieldy.
"It's nothing," Dani said as she continued her walk. Another Vlad never came to the compound, but she was find with that. And when she went back home for those years, she never did see him. Oh, she saw him on the news, but she had been too far to do anything before it was too late. Luckily, his plan failed, and Danny came up with a new plan to help save the world. Which of course she went to go help with. Vlad had basically been banished from the Earth after that, no one willing to trust him again. So he was marooned as a ghost and no one really knew where he was.
The war. That horrible, horrible war that took so many. Danny, Maddie, Valerie, Jazz, Elliot. All of the people who she was personally close to, lost throughout the years. Then Dan came. Dan, an evil future version of Danny. One who had tried to kill his own family to assure his existence, come to help because Clockwork was HIS to defeat and because he wasn't gonna let Pariah have the world he conquered. Help was good, Dani knew. And he was pretty honest about why. The only two who were wary was Jazz and Tucker because they KNEW him.
No, the one he brought freaked out everyone more. Vlad. After years of not seeing him, she saw her creator, looking broken and weak. If not for the determination in his eyes when he said he'd not forgive the one who took Maddie and Danny away forever, she wouldn't have believed he was capable of anything. Nor would she have trusted him.
It had been her decision to let him stay. After all, she was the one wronged the most by him and everyone knew it. She had let him stay, because they needed help. He did prove very useful.
Dani walked out onto a ridge. Snow was just starting to form a bit higher up. "Here," she said, walking to the edge, sitting down on the little cliff.
"...are we just going to sit here?" Plotmon asked.
"For the moment," Dani said, leaning back on her hands. It had been the final confrontation, she decided, with the Ghost King. Not long after she lost Elliot. She had been planning to go alone, but he saw her. Instead of ratting her out...he came with her. She didn't argue and let him and together, they managed to get into the Ghost King's throne room undetected. Only to face Nocturne, the Fright Knight, and the Ghost King all at once. Vlad had managed to destroyed Nocturne completely after Dani seemingly knocked out the Fright Knight, but had been too fatally wounded in the process. He had collapsed moments after Nocturne.
"Had to go and apologize, the jerk. He couldn't let me just cling to my anger," Dani muttered. She'd gone to his side, hoping that maybe it looked worse than it was. That wasn't the case. He was going to die and they both knew it. And he had apologized to her. He said he knew how greatly he wronged her and even said it was a relief she didn't end up like him in loneliness! That she hadn't been driven into sadness like he had.
And then he died.
Of course that led her wailing for a good four minutes at the Ghost King, all her rage and anger and sadness just pouring into her and into the Ghostly Wail before she finally had no energy to spend. Then she was stabbed by the still moving Fright Knight and then went to Econtra and had to deal with the Soul Shredder's damn affect effects of constant nightmares.
She never had the chance...to really think about him. "You jerk, you idiot, you sad...pathetic man," Dani muttered, moving a hand up from the ground, wiping away tears. "Damn you, Vlad. Apologized and die on me. Twice, in fact! You....damn fruit loop."
Plotmon X watched her tamer, unsure what to do. It was something that her tamer was truly guarded about and she didn't know if she was allowed to say anything of comfort to her.