13TH ♫ | do or die, you'll never make me

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A POST-MURDERGAME CELEBRATORY CALL ME OUT POST

Honoka Kousaka | Love Live!: School Idol Project recolle cosmographia	Dia Kurosawa | Love Live! Sunshine!! ryslig
Yoshiko Tsushima | Love Live! Sunshine!	Maki Nishikino | Love Live!: School Idol Project
Rin | Shelter	Yuuri Wakasa | School-Live! theairlock
Karin Miyoshi | Yuki Yuna is a Hero	Miku Hatsune | Vocaloid (World is Mine)
μ | The Caligula Effect	Alalia Ridgely | Intone (Original)
Hazel Summerhelm | Intone (Original)	Caelina Gwynlaw | Intone (Original)

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[gyldenkjempe]

[Synneve had begun to remember many things over the weeks, including her abilities. What she should be able to do. When the limiters on the PIPs were temporary lowered as a motive it was almost too good to be true. To start with she had let herself revert to a more golem-like form in one of the bathrooms. When that had worked...

Well. The people of Cennost looked up to her to cleanse and keep things in order. Wasn't that what she should do in the mansion as well? She had reverted her body to her normal human looking self when she exited that bathroom. She would wait.

One night, Caelina will find herself alone in their now shared bedroom. In the halls of the mansion if she would look for Synneve there would be a clearly strange figure. A tall figure, clearly over six feet, clad in what seemed to be shining gold armor. The face plate of the figure might be familiar as...well, a cast of Synneve's own face but that can't be right. The figure is much taller than Synneve.

Approach?]

[voicebreaking]

[ Caelina doesn't trust this sort of quiet. And she certainly doesn't trust solitude in a place like this. When she wakes alone she thinks that Synneve must have gotten restless and decided to pace the station. It's dangerous to be out alone at night and so when she heads out it's with the intention of keeping her company. Keeping her safe.

She sucks in a hard breath when she turns a corner and claps eyes on the... thing in the shining armor. Muttering a curse under her breath in Adryaen, she fumbles under her cloak so she can draw her knife. ]

Speak! Name yourself, stranger.

[gyldenkjempe]

Stranger?

[The creature's voice is sure familiar as she turns around. There's more unsettling details as she does so. There seems to be light emitting from the joints of the armor and even faintly from behind the face plate. It appears that the shine of the armor isn't just from light hitting it.

She shakes her head as she gives a small, amused laugh.]

It's me, Synneve. This is what a golem is, Caelina.

[voicebreaking]

... Synneve?

[ She repeats the name suspiciously like she's not entirely sure she buys what she's being told. What she's seeing.

But that face... and that voice...

Caelina takes a cautious step forward but doesn't lower her knife. ]

How... how in Siosas' name are you...?

[gyldenkjempe]

The motive. It allowed me to revert to my natural state.

[She doesn't sound at all threatened even with the knife.]

I could use my human body but this...this feels more natural to me now. Didn't I say that being around the rivers of creation can give great boons?

[The corruption.]

[voicebreaking]

[ She sucks in a short breath and her hand tightens on the knife hilt. ]

... what...

What did it do to you, Synneve?

[gyldenkjempe]

It gave me the power of a god. It gave all six of us great strength--those five traitors just didn't know how to use it right.

[She couldn't help the bitterness in her words. She had nothing but respect for her companions, once. A week ago she had even showed sorrow over what she had down to them. That had ended just Sunday.]

[voicebreaking]

[ ... This is all wrong. That disdainful voice, those bitter words. This isn't the Synneve she knew. Not the woman who had been heartbroken over the very idea that she had been forced to bring harm to one of them.

Something is strange here. ]

Is that what you believe yourself to be, then? A god?

[gyldenkjempe]

[They all had turned against her. Called her a petty tyrant, blinded by their own greed. Synneve's voice softens, just a little.]

No. I have the strength of one and Cennost may believe that I am but I'm no god.

[Then she adds,] You're thinking I'm corrupted, aren't you? I can see it in your eyes. [There's that bitterness again.]

[voicebreaking]

... I don't know what I think.

[ It's not a lie, exactly. But it's clear that whatever she is thinking is danger, caution. She's not putting that knife away for one. ]

But that isn't what's important. What are you doing out here at so late an hour?

[gyldenkjempe]

That is something you know the answer to.

[Her voice, for a minute, sounds just like the Synneve she once knew. Quiet. Thoughtful with a hint of sadness.]

I will save the two of us, Caelina. Go to bed.

[voicebreaking]

I will go nowhere, Synneve.

[ She hisses it and her eyes narrow to dangerous slits. ]

What exactly do you plan to do like this?

[gyldenkjempe]

I'm going to get us out. There will be a trial tomorrow and you will go to bed right this moment.

[She hisses right back. Go to bed, bae.]

[voicebreaking]

And what do you intend to do if I refuse?

[ "MAKE ME" ]

[gyldenkjempe]

I will knock you out until the trial is over.

[voicebreaking]

[ Caelina doesn't smile so much as she skins her lips back from her teeth, baring them like an animal about to snap. ]

Are you forgetting that the instant you put a hand to anyone in here that you have made yourself my enemy? You are not an exception to that, nor is anyone else in this mansion.

If you wish to do harm to anyone here then you will have to kill me first.

[gyldenkjempe]

[The laugh behind that golden mask is hollow, empty. Those words sounded oh so familiar.]

Those are the words of a traitor. I suggest you do not walk down that road willingly.

[voicebreaking]

I am no traitor. I would think that you, of all people, would know a traitor when she hears one.

[ For the first time, Caelina's hard expression softens into something a little more unsure, wavering and a little afraid.

"What of me, Caelina? It may be selfish of me to say so but if you're in pain I want you by my side."

"... I... do not think it selfish. In fact... it makes me very happy to hear you say that." ]

... Synneve. Please. I don't... more than anyone here, I...

[ "From the very start, you have been nothing but good and kind to me." ]

The last thing I want is to bring harm to you or to see you in pain. But if you intent to harm anymore here then I cannot stand back and allow it to happen.

Please. I will only ask once more. Whatever foolishness you have planned, I... please. Let's go back to our room. Together.

[gyldenkjempe]

My five dearest friends betrayed me one by one. They turned their backs to me and turned their minds against me. There has been nothing but betrayal in this mansion as well.

[Her voice sounds... less sure now. More like the Synneve Caelina knows. All five of her companions were dear to her. Aurelia, Mira, Cedomir, and the twins were her once trusted friends. They had saved the world together and had watched it changed over the centuries.

Caelina... Caelina she hadn't known half as long but she had opened up her heart to Synneve. She couldn't just forget that.]

I cannot. I must do something.

[voicebreaking]

But why must you do this? The people here -- they cannot have wronged you in such a way that you truly believe they deserve to die. Yes, they have made mistakes. We have all dirtied our hands here to ensure our survival. But I refuse to believe that means they are beyond saving.

[ Her voice is pleading, almost desperate and she reaches a hand out beseechingly for Synneve to take. Please. Please don't do this to her. ]

Would it not be better for us to find our way to the one who put us in this damned placed to begin with? If-- if we were to escape with the others and bring this to a just end. Would that not be a better path to walk?

[gyldenkjempe]

If I could get out then I can make sure this never happened. A few lives now would create an infinitely better future.

[She's...trying. She really is. Synneve stops and then pounds her gauntlet on her chest. There's a hollow echo.]

We're the same. Fate has cursed us both beyond recognition. Why shouldn't we stand tall and meet it?

[voicebreaking]

[ It would be easier if Synneve sounded more like a monster, if it seemed like she couldn't be reasoned with. But she sounds so reasonable and so much like the women Caelina has come to care for that it hurts. ]

That is what I intend to do! I will do it by surviving this hell and bringing justice to the one who cast us down here in the first place. I have been give a second chance at life, and by all the gods I've ever known, I will not throw that away. But I will not stand idly by and allow people to be hurt. If I can stop it, I won't allow anyone else to be killed.

That includes you, Synneve. I don't... please. I do not know if I could bring myself to see you executed. After everything that's happened in this place... that might be the very last thing that finally breaks me.

[gyldenkjempe]

Even if this body is destroyed it won't be the end of me. Know that, Caelina. Even I couldn't destroy my fellows completely. If I couldn't do that then how could our captives?

[No, she'd be reborn. Eventually.]

I understand how you feel but sitting and doing nothing won't help us. Simply surviving will not help us! We must act. If they allowed me to regain even this amount of my power then we'll succeed.

[voicebreaking]

...Then is this to be the end of it? Is there truly nothing else I can say that will convince you to cease this foolishness?

[ She doesn't want to hurt Synneve. And she doesn't want to see anyone else hurt.

But she cannot just sit idly by and let this happen. ]

[gyldenkjempe]

There is nothing you can say for this is no foolishness.

[Too bad.]