[ 013 - Thoughtstream ] (Broadcast Mind)

[velvet_zealot]

[ There is no video. There is no voice. There is just the presense of thought. Continuous, seemingly endless, and it completely inundates you...overtakes you, an explosion of doubt and guilt, loneliness and confusion all combined into one. ]

Slithering, sliitheering, sliiitheeering, across your skin one hundred black legs, in sin, inside. Or

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[girl_unlocking]

You're not nothing.

[ Video ]

[velvet_zealot]

[ Oh, Dawn. He's unhinged. Be careful. ]

[ Not that the gun in his hand isn't enough of a warning for her...the barrel aimed directly at the Forge. ]

What would you know.

[ Voice ]

[girl_unlocking]

[The sight of the gun causes her to start, especially now that she's up-close-and-familiar with the damage they do. What they leave behind. Which might just be what pushes her to speak. That what if behind the thoughts that hover there, new memories.

What if someone had talked to Warren? Before he---

(it wouldn't have mattered)

---before everything collapsed upon itself, because wasn't that what this is, a collapsing? This feeling? This crushing (disappointment?) thing.

Maybe. Maybe not.]

More than people think I do.

[But not enough to stay silent. Mostly because she does not remember any of the previous horror.]

[ Video ]

[velvet_zealot]

Nothing that matters, though...hm?

[ A beat. His gun shifts to the side, away from the camera...his leather gloves creaking as they fidget, flex at the trigger, and then relax again. ]

You have no idea where Mother is...and neither do I.

I'm...a failure to Her.

[ A bad son. ]

[fingersloophole]

She's not your mother, you know.

Not that I know exactly what you are. Except that she's not capable of being a mother.

[velvet_zealot]

Don't speak of Mother that way.

[ Bad son or not, she is still his Mother! He refuses to believe anything else. ]

[fingersloophole]

But mothers shouldn't be disappointed in their children for something beyond their control.

[velvet_zealot]

[ Why do so many keep saying that to him? Why! It isn't true. He failed Her, and She has every right to be disappointed in him. ]

...I was separated from Mother, and when I was given a chance to be reunited?

[ He messed everything up. ]

[ Zack killed him. ]

[ And then Mother was gone, what little of Her he'd had, and he was left with nothing. ]

I have...continuously let Her down. Time and time again. It is not Her fault that I am not a good son.

[Video]

[sugaryoptimist]

Erm...that doesn't sound good.

[Video]

[velvet_zealot]

Who...are you?

[Video]

[sugaryoptimist]

I'm Vanille.

[Video]

[velvet_zealot]

[ He stares and says nothing, looking expectant. ]