02 ♘ [ Video ] The lower I get the higher I'll climb

[whitenighting]

[ First, before he even touches what's going in other posts, he makes his own. And the feed will click on to a young man who looks a lot like the  other gentleman with white hair and a scar on the left side of his face, though this one is paler. Silver-eyed.

Pissed off and wearing his uniform jacket again because right now that much is so very

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[reticents]

[Kanda makes no attempts to find a response to the first half of the post. he’ll pick and choose what he wants to disregard, thank you. the rest of it has little to do with him, they’re things he’s already aware of. it’s not that bad. it’s okay. you just keep telling yourself that, Allen Walker.

maybe it’ll actually come true.

..to be honest, he has little to say about what’s filtered to the Exorcists (plus Link) as well. he doesn’t want to take responsibility for. watching over Allen. that’s just stupid, regardless of how legitimate of a concern it is.

besides. Kanda had little intention of. obeying. the General’s orders. protect? as if he’d protect the Fourteenth. and he won’t be ‘protecting’ Allen, either. the brat can take care of himself.

the other one, however.]

..I was under the impression that we were being ordered to protect him. Not you.

[surely you know who Kanda means by that. but really, he’d be less pissed about needing to watch Allen.]

[voice; same filter]

[whitenighting]

[ Thank you, he will keep telling himself that until it's true. ]

I was under the opposite.

He isn't 'Allen Walker'.

I can't say I know how to deal with him, but I don't know about protection, either.

[voice; same filter]

[reticents]

[better hope that it is. as small a chance as it is..]

That'd only apply if General Cross had known there were somehow two of you. Perhaps he did, perhaps he didn't.

..Che. He's not getting my protection. [far from it.]

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[whitenighting]

I have no idea what he knows. [ Look, honesty. ]

Good.

[ Pause. ] Kanda.

... Don't kill him, either.

[voice | same filter]

[looseleafbook]

I believe you, Allen. If you need a hand, ask. I'll be there.

[He has questions but he's determined not to let Allen hear them in his tone. In due time he'll ask them, not when everything is fresh in the open.]

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[whitenighting]

Ah...

[ That's more helpful than you might know, Lavi. ]

Mm. Thank you.

[voice | same filter]

[looseleafbook]

We'll figure out why he has his own version of your body, he didn't seem to believe me when I said you were still here.

[voice | same filter]

[whitenighting]

I saw. [ Uncomfortable. ] I didn't think-

[ So uncomfortable. ] It shouldn't be the future if I'm still here.

[ Please to god, he has to hold onto that. ]

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[whitenighting]

'Wasn't I just'-?

[ Echoing for a moment, blinking, then he just sort of angrily switches to private. ]

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[whitenighting]

Wasn't I just what? You didn't honestly think that was...

... You didn't think that was me, did you?!

Stop giving orders about me when I haven't even done anything!

[ That surprisingly sounded like a tch for a moment. A guilty little unhappy one; of course people thought that was him. He knows that. Lower in tone then, more curt, when he continues. Damnit, Cross, he still needs to find you and explain things as much as he kind of hates it.  ] That other person isn't me. Check our ID numbers.

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[hawkeyed_crow]

[ He had really hoped this day wouldn't come. Until he saw those two previous messages, and then there was this... Marvelous. But it's possibly a good thing that they've had several honest conversations, or else right now he'd be more frantic. Angry. Well, he was angry yes, but not as frustrated as he might have been.

"It's not that bad." ] How about you let others decide how bad it is, Walker.

[ Because he doesn't know. You're still you, yes, but what about...him. Who looks like you. This was like...that time. Which he can no longer even clearly remember but it makes him all the more tense when he thinks about it. He lets out a sigh. ] What are you thinking of doing then, if you're not following what the General says.

I'm already keeping two eyes on you. How much more can I actually watch a person? [ God, does he really have to deal with this, here. ]

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[whitenighting]

[ A little snappish. ] How about I try not to scare people unnecessarily.

[ But he backs off a second later, sounding a little guilty. ] You watch me. I'll watch him. I don't know...

[ A pause, then. He is still so very unsure on this. And so very shaken to his core but trying to push it down. ] I don't know what to do yet. I need to find out if he's dangerous.

[ Take his sword perhaps to the other... him. And try to cut the Noah from him. As much as he wouldn't think about it with other Noah unless forced, the idea of the Fourteenth in a body that's his is nauseating.

But he won't deny he's curious, too. ]

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[hawkeyed_crow]

[ Tersely. ] You don't think there are people already paranoid that you supposedly could act so different?

...

He's a Noah. Are you going to listen to his reasons first? What if he is trying to sway things his way?

[ Less interaction, the better. If he starts thinking that the Fourteenth was in Allen's body...he's going to have more than a little trouble distancing himself. ]

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[whitenighting]

Must you remind me? [ But everything is hollow after that. Link, these people don't even know him and already... ]

I'm going to listen to him first. Everyone deserves that much.

Just being a Noah is no reason to condemn him.

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[14thapostle]

( . . . . . . . ?! )

[14thapostle]

( how the. . .?! allen was still running around? )

[14thapostle]

( that shouldn't be possible. he had consumed him, had he not? he was gone.

at the very least, he could no longer feel him within this body. )

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[14thapostle]

( he would put an end to this. he scowls down towards the forge, his voice clipped. )

I would not lower myself by claiming to be you, Allen.