experiment 14 || video
[there's nothing but darkness.
and then some short laughter, and the sound of a breath. the voice that speaks is decidedly female, but it's still as cruel and deadpan as Stein would be otherwise.]I've always wondered what it would feel like to be a witch ( Read more... )
and then some short laughter, and the sound of a breath. the voice that speaks is decidedly female, but it's still as cruel and deadpan as Stein would be otherwise.]I've always wondered what it would feel like to be a witch ( Read more... )
An eyeful of crazed gold eyes. Delightful.]
Everyone else betrayed me. They hurt me and wouldn't even say sorry and would rather be with all the monsters in the city than me and I'd protect them, so they're horrible things that need to be wiped away.
You won't betray me, will you, Stein? You won't be one of the horrible things. You'll stay with me. Right? Right?
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I'm here, I'm here.
[a quiet little giggle.]
Sounds like we've got a problem, hmm~? Maybe we should make sure they never leave again.
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But he's not. And it's Stein- Stein with a different voice, Stein with a higher tone, but Stein, Stein, Stein. Lea pulls away from the screen, body relaxing from the tenseness it had before.]
I'm gonna kill them. I gave 'em my heart, y'know? But they wouldn't give me theirs, so I'm gonna take them. Snip snip snip, tear tear tear-
[Despite the fact that his knuckles are almost in a constant state of bleeding thanks to his new nervous tick, Lea mimes scissors with one hand.]
And then they'll be mine and I'll keep them forever.
So. Um. I'm coming home now.
[And Axel tried so hard to put him under house arrest, too. The SFC gets a nice screen full of palm, and then Lea is on the move.]
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[she'll just be ...sitting here and giggling to herself until you arrive, dearest Kishin Lea.]
You could keep them forever. Souls never expire, you know. They're always softly glowing, and they have all that personality, all those drives and thoughts and wants and needs wrapped up inside.
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[That's right. He can see souls now. He can see aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall of them, glowing and glittering and twisting and pretty, so pretty. What would Isa's soul look like? Demyx? Would Demyx's be corrupted like Axel's?
Then he should save it. Take it for his own and swallow it and he could take it, couldn't he?]
See, see, you're so smart, Stein, we should.
[There is scratching coming outside the house. All over the walls. Scritchscritch. Scritch. Bloody fingernails on stone and coral and stitches-
One of the windows is unlocked. Clinging to the walls, Lea slips inside. He has no problem with the darkness now, the lack of lights, and just scuttles rapidly towards Stein's soul. Fingers brush and tug and curl around her legs. Lea's words are breathed out, satisfied and poisonous and, in some twisted way, quite happy.]
Sssssstein. We're staying together. Forever. We'll show everyone.
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[glowing green eyes and flashing white teeth in the darkness, before she looks down curiously, blinking at Lea. she hadn't really seen him yet. something in her tells her to be scared, but she can't. she simply can't. she can be only delighted, only wildly excited at the prospect of who she is, who she can be.
twisted little existence, this.
she holds out her clawed hands, inviting Lea to perhaps come up here instead of just clinging to her legs.]
You're going to have to let me move.
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[If she's even capable of it right now, any of Stein's usual attempts to read Lea's soul for hints to his feelings might not work as well as usual. His normally warm, energetic, caring soul has been completely corrupted thanks to this curse. Red and black are scattered through it like white noise on a radio, and then there are the eyes... Right at the forefront.
It's all a chaotic, constantly changing mess.
But after a few moments, Lea finally obeys, eager to keep the 'only' person who he can trust and never let anyone else ever have her. His fingers go between the spaces of Steins' own neatly, and then he's wobbling up onto his feet, a puppet with strings that don't quite work. His jaw is constantly twitching, shuddering between a manic grin and a panicked frown.]
What are we gonna do? Huh? Who goes first, who goes first?
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[half-lidded green eyes look over Lea, almost amused, and she cocks her head, flexing her claws for a moment.]
Who do you want to go first~?
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It hurts, it hurts being rejected right in the middle of things, you know? It hurts, and I don't like hurting. So, I want them to hurt too.
Isa. Demyx. They hurt me, so we can go after them first, right?
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I don't see why not.
Do you want to do them together~? Or do we each get our own soul to keep?
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[A sharp jerk of limbs, fire flaring- and then it dims right back down, and Lea is once again clinging.]
But we can get your own ones to play with, okay? Yours to keep. But they're mine, always mine. Do you want someone? We can get everyone if you wanted them!
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I have one in mind.
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Who? Who, whoo, whoooooooooo.
[He giggles in delight.]
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[she leans down, her lips just a hint away from Lea's ear; her grip on his hands tightens slightly, and she giggles.]
Come on, then. Let's go have some fun.
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Yeah! Yeah, we'll go and we'll pick 'em off, law of nature and stuff, right? Let's go~.
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Exactly.
[leaning back, she smiles even wider, her face almost looking strained at the effort, and sways back and forth.]
Come on, come on. Let's dance.
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