[ well. because the camp is a bitch, this is also about when the full memory of a factory (until 3:53) swallows them both up. it's- affected, somehow, is the best way to say it, white noise and static threading around the edges, signal interference making details flicker every now and then, but the most important portions remain vividly intact. alarms are blaring, the situation is in chaos, and you are being attacked on all sides by hostiles, some of which had been allies just scant moments before.
but after that desperate declaration- 'i want to live!'- the memory fades to static entirely, only fading back in with this (until 18:53). still as fragmented, in a way, as the one prior, but the image is stark and haunting. your sister and yourself in the middle of a ruined factory, smoke in the air and blood on the walls, signs and sounds of recent fighting obvious both in the near vicinity and in the distance, after one final duel she forced you into, a duel you never wanted.
and yet... you're completely unharmed. you realize this is the ending she intended from the beginning. the virus affecting both of you, that would burn away at everything of your self until there was nothing of you left, she took that entirely on herself, just to give you the chance to live.
you didn't know anything. you didn't know any of this until it was too late. too late to do anything but grant the final thing she asked for, to die as herself and not as some red-eyed (her eyes were gold) hollow shell, here in this damned building that's already become the final resting place of everyone else who was here.
your sister steadies your gun for you. the memory cuts off abruptly into static after you fire. ]
Bother? I wouldn't say that. I'd say she probably could do with a few more reminders of the fact that she did, in fact, promise me that she'll never be like me though.
[ it's chiding, exasperated.
... it's an older sister talking about a younger one, who knows there are things she can't control, but still thinks the younger is being stupid anyway. ]
Anyway, discarded probably isn't the right word for her either, considering the gang wasn't very happy to lose the Dolls they had in their employ.
[ what if all the sunnys were just like. sunny, but we've been getting weather patterns like it's the middle of the winter. what if the high was 40 degrees f. ]
Which means we were due for something very abnormal, considering our collective luck.
[ anyway come on, they need to go hiking. through snow. fun. ]
She thinks it for the wrong reasons. She looks up to me because she thinks I'm strong, but I wouldn't wish the kind of 'strong' I am on anyone. On the contrary, in fact.
Besides, proper employ or not, the fact remains that they would rather not have lost them. Not exactly the kind of situation I'd apply the word discarded to.
I'm not sure what part of 'self-destruct order' wasn't clear, but more or less yes. [ ... ] It wouldn't have been too difficult for them to enforce compliance anyway. Dolls were made to follow orders.
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Date: 2020-07-06 02:42 pm (UTC)[ ah. maybe if she explains it as simply as possible that can get through a conversation without triggering a memory share. ]
She and I were made for the same reason. But she's the reason I survived.
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Date: 2020-07-06 02:45 pm (UTC)[ in this weather, minako? ]
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Date: 2020-07-06 02:49 pm (UTC)Just making sure you didn't suffer any permanent damage from the other night.
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Date: 2020-07-07 10:08 am (UTC)[ this idiot got hypothermia, but didn't catch a cold. the world is truly unjust. ]
What about you? Were you okay?
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Date: 2020-07-08 12:32 am (UTC)[ if a summer camp of all things took her out where a russian winter didn't, then jfc. ]
I'd also like to hope that you didn't have any plans for repeat incidents?
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Date: 2020-07-08 09:02 am (UTC)[ 45, the freedom fighter ]
... Does it bother you? That she looks up to you so much?
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Date: 2020-07-08 09:03 am (UTC)Did something happen?
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Date: 2020-07-08 09:04 am (UTC)[ why is there snow in [redacted]!!! ]
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Date: 2020-07-08 09:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-09 07:09 am (UTC)[ bluntly. ]
I killed her.
[ well. because the camp is a bitch, this is also about when the full memory of a factory (until 3:53) swallows them both up. it's- affected, somehow, is the best way to say it, white noise and static threading around the edges, signal interference making details flicker every now and then, but the most important portions remain vividly intact. alarms are blaring, the situation is in chaos, and you are being attacked on all sides by hostiles, some of which had been allies just scant moments before.
but after that desperate declaration- 'i want to live!'- the memory fades to static entirely, only fading back in with this (until 18:53). still as fragmented, in a way, as the one prior, but the image is stark and haunting. your sister and yourself in the middle of a ruined factory, smoke in the air and blood on the walls, signs and sounds of recent fighting obvious both in the near vicinity and in the distance, after one final duel she forced you into, a duel you never wanted.
and yet... you're completely unharmed. you realize this is the ending she intended from the beginning. the virus affecting both of you, that would burn away at everything of your self until there was nothing of you left, she took that entirely on herself, just to give you the chance to live.
you didn't know anything. you didn't know any of this until it was too late. too late to do anything but grant the final thing she asked for, to die as herself and not as some red-eyed (her eyes were gold) hollow shell, here in this damned building that's already become the final resting place of everyone else who was here.
your sister steadies your gun for you. the memory cuts off abruptly into static after you fire. ]
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Date: 2020-07-09 07:25 am (UTC)[ it's chiding, exasperated.
... it's an older sister talking about a younger one, who knows there are things she can't control, but still thinks the younger is being stupid anyway. ]
Anyway, discarded probably isn't the right word for her either, considering the gang wasn't very happy to lose the Dolls they had in their employ.
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Date: 2020-07-09 08:52 am (UTC)[ wow what a mysterious redacted that i can't see all of a sudden ]
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Date: 2020-07-09 08:53 am (UTC)that's it that's the tag ]
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Date: 2020-07-12 03:26 am (UTC)[ she almost says 'aren't you her big sister' but. she can't discern that sort of relationship, even if she can tell that the ties are there. ]
I'm not sure that kind of situation can be called employing them, though.
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Date: 2020-07-12 03:30 am (UTC)[ can she really say that considering we've never gotten a highs/lows included in the forecast ]
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Date: 2020-07-12 03:31 am (UTC)I mean, if I think something is going to happen or there's a good reason, I'll do it again. I'll just be more careful about it.
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Date: 2020-07-12 05:44 am (UTC)And what, exactly, does being more careful consist of?
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Date: 2020-07-12 05:46 am (UTC)Which means we were due for something very abnormal, considering our collective luck.
[ anyway come on, they need to go hiking. through snow. fun. ]
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Date: 2020-07-12 06:08 am (UTC)She thinks it for the wrong reasons. She looks up to me because she thinks I'm strong, but I wouldn't wish the kind of 'strong' I am on anyone. On the contrary, in fact.
Besides, proper employ or not, the fact remains that they would rather not have lost them. Not exactly the kind of situation I'd apply the word discarded to.
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Date: 2020-07-14 07:52 am (UTC)[ and now she can say it, because that last exchange practically spelled it out. ]
You're a good big sister. I'm glad you were able to rescue her.
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Date: 2020-07-14 08:15 am (UTC)[ she is
not touching that 'good big sister' thing. ]
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Date: 2020-07-14 08:21 am (UTC)The camp doesn't count as abnormal?
[ trudge trudge trudge after 45 she goes! ]
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Date: 2020-07-14 08:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-14 09:04 am (UTC)[ it's like operations in the neo soviet union have inured her to this sort of weather or something. ]
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Date: 2020-07-14 09:55 am (UTC)[ but like
that's still not a great plan alone if they're having more snow ]