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]

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.]

cw for suicidal imagery/ideation

[voicebreaking]

... very well. I suppose there's to be no more talking through this.

[ She lowers the knife and it looks for a moment as though she's given up. But then she looks back up, her eyes blazing with determination and the knife flashes in the dim light of the corridor

as she presses it to the tender flesh of her own throat. ]

If not words, then perhaps action. Will action shake some sense into your fool head?!

[gyldenkjempe]

Hn--!

[That gets Synneve to step back. No... no. She couldn't let this happen but she couldn't back down.]

Caelina put that down or I will make you do so.

[voicebreaking]

[ Caelina throws up her open hand in a warning gesture and meets Synneve's gaze with a hard, cold stare. ]

I would like to see you try. If you make even a single move to take this knife, I will open my throat here in the hallway. Do you understand me? I have nothing left to lose but the people on this ship and if I must toss this life away again to save them then I will not hesitate.

[gyldenkjempe]

[Even if her face couldn't show emotion, she moves her head as if she was relenting. She hoped it didn't come down to this but it was time to pull her bluff.]

Try it. See if the blade obeys you.

HEY MORE SUICIDAL IMAGERY JUST A HEADS UP

[voicebreaking]

[ Caelina stares at her with defiance in her eyes but it’s tempered by something else, something Synneve should know the sight of by now and well – fear. It isn’t her own death that scares her. After all, she’s all but a walking corpse already and even if somehow, against all the most impossible of odds, she could be saved then she’s still not sure she could continue on in her own world after everything that’d come to pass.

What scares her is failing. If she does this wrong, if she can’t even end her own life right… then what has she done to protect anyone here?

Well. There’s just one way to be sure of that.

She has to make sure she doesn’t fail.

The light in the corridor is low, but the blade still manages an impressive glean as Caelina drives it towards her throat. ]

[gyldenkjempe]

[She doesn't see that defiance but she knows it's there. That fear... her dear, stupid friend. Synneve wouldn't let this happen. She couldn't just let her throw her life away. Which is why she tightens her hand into a fist.

As soon as the edge goes against Caelina's throat--there wouldn't be a cut. The knife itself would seem far too dull to even cut paper.]

I don't think the knife will let you continue.