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[antiakuma]

[The feed clicks on as the PDA apparently topples over onto the floor, displaying low angled shot of a room lit from rather tacky purple-glass light hanging from the ceiling that coats the the area in an odd, sickly pinkest hue

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[chaotic_daemon]

Asked for what? [ Vincent's getting tired of being kept in the dark; people all around him were acting strangely. Is he going to do that same? Vincent didn't even know his name. Why was he even bothering to answer? ]

...

[ He glances away. ]

VIDEO || Shadow

[antiakuma]

[He seems to jump a little, his head turning toward the voice coming from the PDA without withdrawing from the hood. Apparently he didn't know the feed was on. He bites his lower lip, seeming nervous to reply at first then he lowers his head slightly.]

This body. The responsibilities that come with it. The ways it makes people act toward me. [A half-beat of a pause and then he shakes his head and adds--] Lots of things.

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[chaotic_daemon]

You are...weary of people depending on you? [ He asks cautiously ]

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[antiakuma]

[He shakes his head.] No, not exactly. I just know the reasons why they do. It's not that they need me, it's that they need what I have.

[bakingbasil]

That organization is bound to get a bad reputation, at this point.

[antiakuma]

[Turning his cloaked head toward the PDA, shrinking back into the coat in a little more before speaking.]

"That Organization"? You mean... The Order?

[bakingbasil]

Rather.

Causes a lot of strife, does it?

Oops, forgot to mention SHADOW and whatnot, but... Yeah, goes without saying? XD

[antiakuma]

Yes. But they are taking a stance in a time of war, and it is war that causes strife--I want to believe it's simply a knock-on effect of that. [He goes quiet to flurry the cards between both hands then, the left staying rather withdrawn and intentionally away from gaze.] But I don't know that I can.

[video]

[silverspooning]

[This series of posts were starting to worry him.... First, Yuu. Now Allen. Yuu might be alright but Allen... he... If he took it a step further, Jump might lose another hero. Play it safe, Gintoki. You know something strange is up.]

Never asked for what, Allen? Being the trump card?

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[antiakuma]

[At least for the moment Allen's Shadow is not being anywhere near as hysterically angry as Kanda's was but Gintoki is right on the mark that something isn't right. Or at least, something that is always not right is now right on the surface.

He pauses in his toying with the cards, not even glancing over to the PDA this time when he hears a voice coming from it immediately.]

No, I didn't. But I'm not "the trump card" either, not by a long shot. If anything I'm their wild card, I just happen have enough use to them to remain, that's all.

[Video]

[silverspooning]

[Tch! What the crap are with these guys suddenly bringing out these emotastic side of theirs. OIIIII--!! ARE YOU GUYS FOLLOWING AFTER SASUKE!?! YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT DIDN'T END WELL, ALLEN! YOU'RE A LOT BETTER THAN THAT... was what Gintoki tried to say as he twisted his mouth in disapproval of this whole emotardery. GREAT. JUST GREAT!]

By them you mean the order right? You think that you're all just cards being dealt? Shuffled and disposed once you're all worn from the game?

You think this is A GAME, Allen?

[Video]

[antiakuma]

No, I don't! That's the point!

[He's looking over toward Gintoki's voice now, one eye--his right--visible under the hood and he looks angry.]

It's not a game, people's lives aren't games. But there isn't a choice in all this and people are people. [And a cynical kind of smile touches his lips.] You said you know all about what goes on in our world, didn't you? That you can watch what is going on in ours lives? So you know what has happened, don't you? You know what classes someone as an suitable material for the position of an Exorcist?

Tell me.

[Video] (Assuming this is later on, after log that hasn't yet happened)

[kandescence]

[Unimpressed Kanda is unimpressed. He's seen a few shadows, talked to a few shadows, dealt with a few shadows. He's had enough of shadows to last him the next several decades.]

Tch.

For fuck's sake, Moyashi.

[Video] || [SHADOW] || Exactly that! :D

[antiakuma]

[Allen's Shadow knows that voice and he knows it pretty well. So well that his shoulders twitch and he freezes in place. His head slowly turns toward the PDA, the right one visible and flickering a golden stare upon Kanda on the communicator before he scoffs and looks away.]

Hn. What do you want?

[Video]

[kandescence]

[He huffs a bit, but he does answer.]

Mostly for you to fix whatever the hell is wrong with you so that we don't all have to watch this crap.

[Video]

[antiakuma]

[He gives a short, cynical snort and slumps back further into the chair, bringing both hands up to rifle-shuffle the cards.]

What do you care? Turn off the PDA if it bothers you so much. I didn't ask for your commentary.

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[thewarisover]

[A small grimace. He KNOWS this isn't Allen... at least, not what the actual Allen wants to show everyone else.]

But you're in it, whatever it is, and from your reaction, I can see that there's no other way to go but up.

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[antiakuma]

Forward, sir. Not up. There are differences.

[Video]

[thewarisover]

That's a matter of perspective.

[Video]

[antiakuma]

It's a matter of will, sir. I move forward, not up. To go up is to climb, to struggle against gravity. I walk forward, different energy is needed.