The Truth/No More Heroes

[aesopunbroken]

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1)[POST MISSION][Mad was near catatonic when she was brought back to the Chalice. Whatever wounds she had were relatively minor - the fact that she managed to get away from

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[subject_0057]

That's a very sad thing to hear... Being someone else would mean that a lot of people never got to meet you... that's a lot of people who would never had had a chance to smile for you.

[Allelujah settles down next to her, back against the wall, in a position similar to hers. He doesn't even seem to acknowledge that the gun is there as he smiles gently down at her.]

I take it it's been a rough day?

[noliesnohero]

[She looks up to give Allelujah a scathing glare.]

Rough... doesn't even fucking begin to describe it... now if you excuse me.. I've got a trip to hell I need to fucking get to.

[subject_0057]

Why the hurry? Hell's a one way trip... hardly worth rushing into, especially when you're so young.

[and yet he makes no move to stop her. Looking at him, the two might just be having a normal conversation.]

Everybody has their bad days. Hell, everybody has bad weeks, months... even years, sometimes. But that's no reason to schedule a date with Death, you know. Once you've taken that path, there's no chance for things to get better, you know. So why give up any chance at happiness for a guarantee of suffering?

[noliesnohero]

Because my entire life has been suffering... every happy moment was just one big fat lie... I believed in heroes... justice... happy endings... that someone always saved the day...

[Mad actually lowers the gun and slumps against a wall, looking at the gun's shine...]

No one saved me.... I can't even try to save myself...

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[sunshine_maiden]

Like hell I'm going to let you end it here.

[There's a gesture and a few key components of the gun - trigger, hammer, and the barrel for good measure - are all blocked with small shields.]

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[sunshine_maiden]

[She takes a position some distance away, clearly unarmed and making no hostile movements.]

Tell me what happened. I want to help you, I swear on my life, but I don't know what's going on. ['And even if I do, I want to hear it from you.']

[noliesnohero]

[Only to have Mad struggle to try repeatedly pull the trigger. Nope. Nothing. She can't even An Hero properly. She really IS a failure.]

FUCKING- DESU!!!

[Theres a gun chucked your way with all of Mad's muscle behind it Sora.]

YOU ALL WANT ME TO DIE! SO WHY CAN'T YOU FUCKING LET ME DO IT ON MY OWN FUCKING TERMS!? WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?!

WHAT?! YOU WANT TO LIE TO ME SOME MORE!? WANT TO TELL ME YOU'RE MY FRIEND AND THAT I CAN BELIEVE IN SOMEONE OR SOMETHING BEFORE THEY GO AWAY TOO!?

[sunshine_maiden]

[She'll just take it, moving her head ever so slightly, so the shot that would have hit the bridge of her nose and possibly her eyes is instead a serious impact to the left side of her face. She can't suppress a yelp and a hand going to the forming bruise.]

Dammit, I want to help you! I don't care if you don't believe me, I don't care right now that you hurt Hana, I just can't let things go! I'm sure I'm part of this problem somehow, and I'm going to fix it if it kills me!

[With anger on her face, she reaches into her pocket and pulls out her Soul Perfume, chucking it down the hall in the opposite direction.] What if I'm not a Desu? Does something change? Is my life worth something then? Or am I still some heartless girl that wants you dead for some reason I haven't figured out yet?

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[gamenojikan]

[Yui shows up after a while from behind mad, with no prior warning. Her pupils are in the shape of lotus flowers, and she's got her VFX Modulator on her arm. She pushes a button, and her eyes return to normal.]

...Honestly, I go to all this trouble to try to talk to you, and you're just going to kill yourself.

[noliesnohero]

Like you'd really care... no one else really does...

[Mad's giving you a tired look Yui... her finger twitched away from the trigger.]

Go away.... please... you probably don't need blood on you.

[gamenojikan]

Mmm.

I thought about it, and I'm ready to tell you the truth. I think...right now, you may be the only person prepared to hear it.

So I'd like it if you handed me the gun.

[noliesnohero]

The....Truth?

[Mad...actually looked surprised at that... and a little confused. She handed the gun without a word though - looking listless.]

What truth?

1 - Because I figure they should talk at prompt 1 before I actually go for prompt 2

[can_not_fly]

[And of course, the second he hears Mad has returned in such a state Pit runs to find her fast enough to make air currents. A doctor that tries to intercept him, telling him she should be left alone for a bit, is quite literally picked up and shoved inside a room so he shuts the hell up. He slides to an aghast halt when he sees what's left of poor Maria, and runs again up to Madeleine, looking horribly concerned]

Mad! Mad, what happened?!

[noliesnohero]

... .. I found out the truth... it hurt...

[Understatement of the year. Mad looks like she died inside. Completely and utterly. It was like... looking at a healthy looking corpse here.]

[can_not_fly]

[Pit looks genuinely distressed here. Mad looks... terrible. And he doesn't know why. He sits next to her, worried]

Truth? What truth?

[noliesnohero]

I'm a lie. Madeleine isn't even the my real name.... my father isn't even my father! He was just the man who took me off the streets to con people with... and Maria.. I put so much goddamned hope and love and fucking FAITH into her and now she's just so much goddamn junk! And that's not even the worst part!

[She lets out a bitter and crazed laugh.]

My real family tried to murder me! Himura... my eldest sister...

[she said their ties like it was poison of the worst sort.]

She was the one who started all that hero bullshit I got taken in by! And you know what she did? She murdered people! She crushed them, tore them apart- fucking MAGICKED THEM TO BITS WITH HER FUCKING ROBOT!

[That cold agony was biting into her again, she clutches herself.]

I was three... maybe four when it happened... there was so much blood...

She promised that she'd always take care of me.... I guess now I know what she really meant.

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[zetahatsudo]

[Kamille honestly didn't know why she was approaching her. He couldn't make any claims that he knew the girl well, outside of one conversation with her, but in that one conversation, he found a kindred spirit trying to find their way like he had, like he still was. It would have been wrong to not even make an effort at a deeper connection.]

[Looking at her now, he's reminded deeply of how badly off he had been, and if this was what he might have turned out like if he just kept spiraling downwards into that deathtrap of despair.]

... [But what could be said? "Your mobile suit protected you?" "You look like hell?" No, that tripe wasn't going to work. He knew this too well... What he didn't know was what would work in this scenario.] I'm sorry. I wish I was out there to help you. I was afraid of what would happen to me, but you were hurt worse in that battle than I could ever have been. Please forgive me for this weakness.

[noliesnohero]

Bullshit.... you're just like everyone else.... lying to me... lying to themselves just to feel better about themselves.

[Mad was just opening and closing her hand... trying to tighten it into a fist... before relaxing it.. back and forth.]

Everyone on this ship is better than me... at something... everything...I don't fucking know...

[zetahatsudo]

[Lying to her? Really?] That goes without saying. Fate's ten and she's able to out pace my Zeta Gundam easily. There's always someone better, just a fact of life

[noliesnohero]

Feeling.... better about myself...?

[She felt something drum in her ears. Her heartbeat.]

FEELING BETTER ABOUT MYSELF?!?!?!

[Oh that might have not been the best set of words to use there.]

YOU ACTUALLY THINK I WANT TO FEEL LIKE THIS?! YOU THINK I'M HAPPY ABOUT HAVING MY ENTIRE LIFE TURN OUT TO BE ONE HUGE FUCKING LIE ONE AFTER ANOTHER?!

Even if it was just fucking that, I could've went on! But NO! You want to learn what ELSE I figured out?! HEROES ARE A FUCKING LIE!!! THE BIGGEST ONE THERE IS!

[She grabs Kamille by the collar, those eyes were looking rather wild there.]

Justice? Honor? FAITH?! PROTECTING PEOPLE?! SAVING THEM?!?!?!

I SPENT MY ENTIRE LIFE CHASING A FAIRY TALE THAT NEVER COULD COME TRUE!