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 Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:47 am
[[ Louis? : Disney : Inside Kyla - Hall of the Cornerstone ]]
The boy standing next to Kyla listened to everyone speak, and for awhile, felt more and more like screaming. He felt like everything they said was lined with words to stab at Kyla and he couldn't stand just watching her take it. He felt the urge to step in front of her and verbally tear a hole in every other person there... including the angel boy standing across from him who was supposedly the same person.
As Kyla spoke, and asked him to calm himself, he narrowed his eyes, giving a pained expression before shooting his gaze in a new direction, away from anyone else. As the boy became visible, it was obvious he seemed upset about something, but exactly what would be up for assumption.
He gave a short glance at Kyle, a much fiercer glare at Joe, matched expressions with Yen Sid, then reverted back to glaring at the wall. There wasn't anything the boy wanted to add to this conversation.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 12:28 pm
{Bobbi .:. Disney Castle .:. Hall of the Cornerstone}
As Kyle spoke, Bobbi chewed on her tongue a bit, an odd habit she had when she was seriously considering words that she was neutral towards but could easily start to dislike. For some reason, biting her tongue helped to keep her dispassionate and neutral. Probably because it really kind of hurt, but hey, if it worked, it worked.
Kyle was right, of course; and looking back on the canonical instances he'd mentioned, she should have expected exactly what had happened. Still, she'd been kind of counting on the Cornerstone's influence to keep her Louis fragment from going all dark-s**t insane. And she'd really, really love if some of their problems with the darkness could be solved with diplomacy and hugs for once.
"I'll sit on him if I have to," she said, mostly to herself, when Kyle mentioned going in hoping for the best but planning for the worst. When Kyla admitted she wasn't emotionally prepared to take Louis' life if it came to that, though, Bobbi had to speak up.
"I am. I've known pretty much from the start that we might have to take a life in order to save countless others. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I'm prepared to take whatever lives are necessary to protect and defend innocents. That doesn't mean I want to; I'd rather not take any life at all. But it's a necessary evil we'll all have to face." And then Kyle of course pointed out that they wouldn't kill an unconscious man.
"Yeah, no, seriously, I'll sit on 'im. Good luck moving two hundred pounds of stubborn Bobbi when she's decided you ain't goin' anywhere. I'm Juggernaut, b***h! …or no one moves the Blob, whichever X-Man mutant that was."
As Kyla's Louis became visible via the charms, Bobbi made note of how drastically different from Kyle's Louis this one's appearance was. He was a lot… um, fluffier, than she had expected. She nodded a greeting to him, but he seemed to not want to even be there at all, so she didn't expect any kind of greeting in return.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:01 pm
[Kyla: Disney Castle: Hall of the cornerstone]
Bobbi’s words cut through Kyla like a knife, and pierced something that triggered an entire assault of memories. Her hands suddenly gripped very tightly till her knuckles turned white.
Kyla’s gaze was anywhere but on Bobbi or anyone else, but her voice…
‘- you’re just one stupid girl-‘
‘ no one going to help you!’
‘ The needs of the many, yah know-?‘
‘ it’s a necessary exception-‘
‘ who cares about just one useless person?’
‘- you’re a necessary loss.’
‘ we don’t need you.’
‘Everything would be better without people like you-‘
‘- filthy breed!’
‘- you’re a necessary loss.’
‘-why didn’t your people just get finished off! It’s for everyone’s good!”
“-BAMB! Every last filthy indian in the head- you- them- everyone!”
“- just die!”
'- you're not welcome here- you're kind, are not welcome here.'
'- don't like it? Too bad, we can live without seeing just you again.'
' is there really only one of you? Well then I'm sorry, then there's just no point.'
‘- them’s the breaks, you’re just unlucky’
‘ Just let go! You don’t need you!’
‘- why don’t you just disappear! Everything would be better!’
‘- if I had just known it turn out like this...’
'- oh? you were here?'
'- wow you made it back alive?!'
-‘ I know.. you wouldn’t have had kids. You wouldn’t have had me.’
Her voice was strangely low. Restrained. Like her teeth were clenched together.
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?”
Star trek.
“I can’t tell you…how much…
…I hate those words."
Her voice lowered even more, nearly a whisper. "That… justification, that sick numbers game… that oversimplification- how much I hate that concept-I---”
"?!?" the girl with the glasses stopped herself before she said anything else rude, semingly to snap out of a trance that lasted only a few seconds.
Kyla suddenly hissed, and a hand flew to her shoulder feeling the ache there again. Thankfully, it wasn’t growing. It was just there. It would fade in time, but in that moment, she was reminded of it’s presence.
Kyla closed her eyes and forced the images and voices to silence. Turning away from everyone in the room. One breath, two breaths, calming down now- just put it away.
She rationalized it. It was just a harmless comment, and Bobbi had other contexts behind it. No way the archer was so cut and dry- surely she knew the ramifications of how those very words cause destroy just as many lives in its justification! she was simply talking about, in the context of 1 villian, verses the lives of countless innocent- yes- REAL- innocent people.
But still.
Boy, she had a way with words.
"- I'm sure, Louis would agree with you.It's how he felt-"
Taking another deep breath, Kyla voice seemed back to normal and she waved non-challantly in her fragments direction.
“- anyway, back to the introductions. This is the fragment of Louis I have. I think he’s adopted some of my summons characteristics. Which I'm thinking is..more then likely a cause of inhabiting my heart. When we first met, he was so pale and vague in his details. He’s become more complicated since then.”
She turned back, a better more clam look on her face.
“He’s a good friend. And has been a loyal support since …well.. now that I think about it…”
She scratched the side of her cheeks, thinking back, further back.
“.. even when he was Ava Mat- ..he’s been like this. I can’t say if he was genuinely never – ever- going to turn had the darkness not been taken out, but even then, his desire to save everyone here was present. If I had to describe it though, previously, it was tempered with a sense of helpless, despair and regret-I remember how desperate he help when Kyle was hurt, before the cocoon. He was afraid. He was afraid he’d lose both of us, and took over the spell so there’d be no damage. I could sense his fear of losing. Since then, he’s been more like this. Where Ava Mat was guarded and calm…” she side glanced the huffy looking phantom,-“ he’s… more easy to read.”
She thought more about it, it helped, thinking and pondering helps Kyla clear her mind and control her emotions.
“It’s as if Ava Mat was the one carrying the emotional repercussions in a darker spectrum, and this version is less… tempered, more pure. But the desire is the same.” Kyla went a little pink in the cheeks, turning to Louis and apologized-“I hope this isn’t making you feel uncomfortable, being spoke about like this. You’re not a test subject or anything, promise.”
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 8:43 pm
[Joe: Disney Castle: Hall of the Cornerstone]
The monk went back to sitting on the ground, arms and legs both crossed as he just listened to everyone. He even resisted the urge to make grunting noises, let alone speak, as everyone talked.
He was getting annoyed, though. It was feeling like he was getting steamrolled, even though he knew he wasn't. He was the one choosing not to talk, after all. Still...he didn't understand exactly how everyone could have such...'blind hope'.
Maybe it was because of his eye, or maybe just his own personality. But they seemed to be defending someone they didn't know, someone that tried to kill them. No, correction. They knew a bit about him. What'd they call it...shards of his heart? That's probably what bugged him the most. Just because you see a pretty shard doesn't mean it comes from something beautiful or desirable. How did they know, based on three shards where one is still apparently rampant and dangerous in the light, that they needed to save this person?
Maybe he was being too callous, too cynical. But...as one of his arms dipped down a bit, feeling the scar on his abdomen through his shirt, and thinking to his eye and his shoulder...maybe someone needed to be.
Not that Joe knew, no, he was so unaware of what was needed, and it seemed he wasn't gaining much ground as leader...which didn't entirely surprise him. He chose to be leader, they didn't really choose him. Which could also mean that if he did one thing wrong, he could have everyone hate him. Like killing the Avatar of Mateus. Which begged the question:
Could he stand being hated for doing something like that? Could he stand having that blood on his hands?
He'd cross that bridge when he came to it.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:22 pm
[ Kyle ; Yen Sid ; Merlin : Disney : Hall of the Cornerstone ]Yep. Definitely taking after their hosts.
Louis' attitude--Kyla's Louis'... uh, Furry Louis'--was anything but positive. And he could pretty clearly tell what about judging by the specter's glare at Joe.
Bobbi's sentiments agreed with his own, and Joe's, so the conversation on that end was mostly over. Kyla, however, reacted a bit... notably.
And that's why you're not leading us.
She pulled back, but it didn't matter. He could practically feel Yen Sid and Merlin behind them. Though they gave no physical expression or reaction to anything going on--they were impartial observers at all times, likely weighing the travelers with every moment--Kyle almost felt bad for Kyla in that... there was really no other way her reaction could have come across.
Still, she moved on, and he'd let it drop.
Aaaaand then she mentioned healing him before the cocoon incident. Kyle visibly cringed at that part, scratching his head. This was going to be awkward.
"No, Louis, you're not. I'll tell you the same thing I told mine. Whatever you are, whatever you feel, is just as real as anything else," he said, nodding toward the fluffy Louis. Part of him wondered how hilarious this must all look to Yen Sid and Merlin, who couldn't see either of them. "We just have to put the pieces back together and hope for the best. However."
His voice trailed a bit as he hesitated, looking at Kyla. He bit his lip, scrunched his eyes a little as the very things he planned to say were going to hurt. "When you were healing me... that portion of Louis, helping you with the spell..."
Kyle sighed. "He wasn't just trying to help you by absorbing the damage for you. By connecting to me in order to take on my wounds, you also opened the door for Louis, who was connected to you," he explained, scratching his upper arm awkwardly. "He may have genuinely wanted to help keep you unharmed, I can't say one way or another about that, but... he was also trying to use that connection to put another facet of himself inside my heart after Joe and Noelle went out of their way to help me blow mine out."
"You remember, when Ajora latched on when I got pulled into the cocoon, and then came out with a sphere of crystal darkness?" he asked. "That sphere was another Louis specter; Ajora had intercepted and pulled him away before he could connect to my heart."
"Buuut I guess that's neither here nor there. We're all in agreement about the plans, if not necessarily the motives," he said, hoping to move along; the debate about Louis' intentions could be had until the metaphorical cows came home, because without the actual living Louis to talk to, they were all just theory and speculation. "The fact to face now is that we need to make sure our three shards don't have any taint Avatar-Louis might use against us when we approach. They've already checked mine--and considering what happened with yours in Atlantis, I'd wager yours is probably good as well."
"Bobbi, then. Why don't you give us some details about yours?" he asked, turning to face her. "You said you need reinforcements, so we'll help with that. What should we expect going in?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:53 am
{Bobbi .:. Disney Castle .:. Hall of the Cornerstone}
Bobbi didn't truly understand Kyla's reaction to her words. Sure, she could see how the phrase could be twisted around to cause pain, but Kyla should have known better of, well, everyone in their group. No one who was fighting to protect others and for the restoration of Earth would ever twist logic to suit their own selfish needs. When the pictomancer turned away, Bobbi reached out as if to touch her shoulder, but drew her hand back, unsure if the gesture would be welcome.
Much faster than the archer expected, though, Kyla quickly changed the subject and introduced her Louis. Thankfully, Kyle accepted the change in subject and continued on, explaining events in Atlantis. Then, he asked about her, Bobbi's Louis shard. The short brunette crossed her arms and licked her lips, trying to find the right words to explain the situation.
"I… guess that largely depends on if he's… reverted by the time we get in there," she said, slowly, her eyes focused on a point somewhere on the floor. "Let me just kind of start from the beginning, tell you what happened today.
"In the hangar, he didn't seem to have any memory of who he was. During the parade he was silent, but out in the festival, he was, well, shipping me with anything and everything in a five mile radius that had a p***s. Complete clown, full of mischief, seemed completely different from the Louis that had helped me in that last fight against… well, you know. So, I decided to talk with him, see if maybe I actually did have someone else in my head. I hadn't ever seen him clearly during the festival and his voice was weirdly distorted. But once I Dived… Dove… whatever. Once I was in there, I could see and hear him clearly. He had a bit of a show for the ostentatious, but seemed amiable enough. Then things started to get… weird. He asked me to dance, and seemed to be a completely different person again, someone more assertive and pretty thoroughly egotistical. The dance seemed harmless enough, so I went with it. Afterwards, though…" She licked her lips and looked up, now focusing her gaze on the ceiling, still not meeting anyone's eyes. It wasn't from shame or anything, she just had an easier time thinking if she wasn't looking at someone.
"I don't really remember the transition; it happened so suddenly I was caught almost completely off guard, but he went… bat-s**t insane. We were trading questions, and he seemed to think of it as a game, and next thing I knew, he's flinging dark spells all over the place like rice at a wedding. Shiva and I tried to fight him off, but… He kind of fed off of my darkness. I don't get scared, usually, I just get angry, and that seemed to fuel him. I tried my best to keep my anger in check and fight him off, but, well, his psychosis seemed to drag me down with him. He… well, apparently any harm that comes to him I also feel. Usually I can deal with some pretty intense pain; I blame shark week. But he learned to use that against me, and… well, y'all know me, I'm stubborn as all holy ********, pardon my French, but Shiva… Thank God for Shiva; she's my voice of reason. She kicked me out when it was clear I couldn't handle him on my own. I'd have found you guys earlier, but… I needed to calm myself down." She blinked, her gaze returning from the ceiling to meet the eyes of anyone looking her way, and she blushed a little, rubbing at the back of her neck. "Plus, you know, a couple hundred pounds of sleeping Chocobo in my lap didn't help any."
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 1:12 pm
[Kyla: Disney Castle: Hall of the Cornerstone]
Kyla realized she exposed her emotions once again, and once again it caused something to shift between her and everyone else. Some sort of wall of shame separated her, and it felt absolutely unbearable.
She caught the indifferent gaze of Joe, Merlin and Yen Sid, and knew right then and there she ******** up again.
Just one slip up, that’s all it took.
She didn’t meet anyone’s gaze after that, and good reason because once Kyle dropped the final bomb shell on her head- the last shred of comfort or solace that she clung to, and hope she had done anything right, at any moment-that just once she had contributed something that had done something positive to what occurred that day in Atlantis dissolved.
She was just as bad, a tool, and perhaps maybe everything that transpired after that moment could have been her fault. Kyle never would have been put in that situation.
‘ Ajora should have hurt me more. I deserve worse than that.I knew he wouldn’t kill me…. but he should have. Thats what he was trying to tell me.’
And while she had thankfully concealed whatever was going on inside her behind a neutral face of indifference, she was outright screaming inside her own head. A horrible, keening that left her feeling cold. Not even the Cornerstone seemed to help- seemed- because it was, had it not, she would have cracked.
So it was all a ploy.
And she fell for it.
Just like every other time. She forgave a monster because she felt she had no choice. She gave the enemy a second chance when all account point to letting go and letting him/her burn.
Perhaps killing wouldn’t be so hard after all?
Yes, she may have to kill him. She may have to kill her. She may have to be the one to end it all. It was her responsability after all. She was just runing around, trying to deny it. Using Louis as a proxy.
How selffishly shameful of her. Hiding behind this debate to cover up the other. Truly shameful.
No- that stubborn squirming emotion of hope still struggled. She didn’t want to give into despair. Again, perhaps the cornerstone was helping. This pitiful feeling, scrapping for some semblance of self-worth. She felt it shatter and crack, and dissolve, and just as quickly try to revive again.
As the artist turned her passive gaze towards Bobbi, having not responded visibly, or reacted to anything Kyle said, Kyla made sure her visage would never crack again this time. She visualized fortifying the storm behind that shield they saw down in the drop. And suddenly it’s appearance made sense to her. That’s what it was for- or...symbolized.
She unforgivably let her true feelings show way too many times and every time.. every time..
No. that’s enough. Kyla visualized that shield again, thicker, harder, more impenetrable then anything before it. She sent a cry for assistance to her summon, and carbuncle responded instantly, she could see the flash of the summons gem in her minds eye.
‘Just put it away, just push it down. Just use the presence of the cornerstone. Just shut ti down. Shut it down.’
Yes. It worked. Shields were up. The mental block was in place. I final cry reverberated inside her head, one final wail- and Kyla locked her true self down like a prisoner in a psych ward. No one was getting out.
She listened to Bobbi, watched her as she explained how things were going with her own version of Louis.
Louis. She had no idea how she felt toward him anymore.
Kyla faked a small laugh at Bobbi’s humor and it was actually very good. If Kyla really tried, she was very good at acting.
‘Yeah. I can do this.’ She thought, and she turned back to Kyle and the others with a calm nod,
‘I’ll be, and act like someone else.’
“Well, I guess something has to be done quickly if we’re leaving in a short time. What do you guys say?”
Kyla had no idea how long she could keep this up, but she decided she'd do it as long as she could. Being herself was bad right now. Being what they needed was more important. they had a job to do. everyone else was able to do it. Kyla had to be stronger.
The needs of the many... outweigh.
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:21 pm
[[Louis? : Disney : Inside Kyla/Kyle - Hall of the Cornerstone]] [[Cue: Little Punishment from Mawaru Penguindrum]] The young man sat listening to Kyle and Kyla, the boy softening his gaze slightly as he attempted to bore a hole in the wall with his mind, Not fake... he scratched the side of his head, his cheeks blushing slightly, real as anything else, huh?His sense of relief was quickly overlapped however as Kyle dismissed Kyla's claims of Louis' benevolent kindness. He could feel her growing colder and he, like a living mood ring, showed, his hair growing a paler, duller color than before. He looked at her as she locked up, her mask slipping over her heart and shielding her true feelings. He looked concerned, easily readable versus the girl's projected cheer and unphased persona. "I... have a question," it was something he'd been struggling with ever since he realized he and this Louis they kept mentioning were supposedly the same person, "What if... what if I'm... Louis is truly not actually a good person? Never was... even from the get go?"Kyle's angelic phantom, raised an eyebrow. He'd never thought about that oddly enough. He replied with a simple audible muse. "I mean, you guys talk about.. saving him... right, Kyla," he gave the girl a downtrodden glance, "I mean... what if... what if you're wrong? What if I'm actually... truly evil, and all this is just a farce, a fluke?"The boy hugged his arms uncomfortably and turned his eyes to the floor, "What... does that mean for me? What'll happen if... we have to kill him? Will I... am I..." he trailed off. He didn't want to be there anymore. He wanted to leave, but Kyla was still there. He had to stay, right? Leaving her alone would be wrong, right? From the way she reacted to Kyle's comment about Louis, how she'd been used for something the fur covered boy didn't quite understand, he wasn't sure if she even wanted him there anymore. Then, a thought poured over him, one nearly drowning him as he choked on it, What if... I'm just what Louis wanted? What if Kyle's wrong? What if I'm not an accident... but... worse. What if Louis made me on purpose? Just to hurt Kyla. Am I just a cruel joke? Do I even deserve to exist? his fur had died down to a grey and white. The voice in his head was little more than an whimper, But... I don't want to die. Why did this have to happen to me?
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:50 pm
[ Kyle ; Yen Sid ; Merlin : Disney : Hall of the Cornerstone ]
Kyle nodded as Bobbi spoke, absorbing what he could. Bat-s**t insane? Interesting. Flipping back and forth...
"So, we need to avoid harming him if possible. And he's crazy, and feeding off your heart, which makes sense if his original source was cut off by the Cornerstone," he said, scratching his chin. When Kyla spoke up, he nodded. "Agreed. And I think I have a plan."
Then, though, furry-Louis spoke up, with some fairly serious concerns. And Kyle had noticed his colors and fur changing--whether because of Kyla, or simply alongside Kyla, he could only guess, though it did start when he explained about Louis healing him. All the same, Kyle barely gave the shard's question any thought before responding.
"Not possible."
Kyle's response was dismissive. Nonchalant. Matter-of-fact, even. As if the sheer implication was preposterous. Had it been left at that, Kyle would have seemed like a fine p***k. But he didn't. Instead, he looked furry-Louis straight in the eye and explained himself.
"You exist. This Louis exists. We haven't seen Bobbi's without dark taint, but I'd imagine there's one of you existing there, too," he said, arms crossed as he looked at the other man, the furry one. "You each have emotions and feeling. If you were part of his heart, then he has, or had, emotions and feelings as well. Simple deduction, then, that he's not a sociopath."
"In which case, we take into account basic human behavior. If his is a normal human heart, with light and darkness and whathaveyou--and it obviously is, because again, you each exist--then he's simply not truly evil. Misunderstood? Probably. Misguided? Definitely," he went on. "The problem is how badly he's been corrupted, and whether or not we can strip that corruption away without also damning him."
"Seven days. Seven days with a dark scion, infamous for his title as 'The Corrupt', and the whole time with no leash or safeguards," he explained. His lips curled somewhat as if in frustration, but they quickly leveled out. "Worse, we know he was with Seymour for some time as well, someone touched by a dark abomination."
"I don't know what kind of man he would normally be. Maybe he's a saint, maybe he's an a**. But he's not evil," he said, shrugging. "You see, the question has never been 'is he good or bad', but 'how far down the rabbit hole has he been twisted'. And if he's too far gone, and we don't have a choice..."
Kyle looked off to the side, shrugging. He didn't like it. "Then with any luck, you won't be dragged down with him. And if you are... well, I dunno. That's an existential issue that I have no right to even ponder yet, but I'd still have hope."
There was a small pause. Then, with all the angst of a teenager, "Life freakin' sucks sometimes."
Sighing, he recomposed. "Anyway, the plan. It's... a stretch, but it's the best compromise I can think of between salvaging the shard and nuking it. Because nuking it... well, that didn't exactly work for me," he said, giving a sheepish look. "But obviously, we don't want Bobbi's Louis to overhear it. Do you happen to have him... I dunno, locked away so he can't access your memories or senses? Or should we take this to private charms?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 3:42 pm
[Kyla: Disney Castle: Hall of the Cornerstone]
" I agree with them. Louis."
He looks so pale-and she had no doubt it was her fault in some way. He was in her heart - and right now she was bottling evetrything up, she should have expected this reaction.
Meeting his crestfallen expression, Kyla smiled calmly but firmly.
"I believe you exist, and ..I don't know what will happen, but we're going to do our best to keep the real you with us. I mean, you were an earthling chosen by the light too- you survived just like we did. No matter what choices you made afterwards, that still happened."
She didn't know what else to say beyond that because Kyla hadn't a clue any more. Breathe in and out.
She had to try. As herself or someone else, this was about saving one or others or all. She wanted all. she wished that if things went wrong, she could keep what peice of Louis there was with her, forever.
'If only I knew I could keep you safe somewhere no more darkness could find you. Not even my own.' In that place by the golden fire where she found him sitting before. Some place quiet away from all the noise.
Louis was a fragment in her heart, a figment projected by thought and emotion through the charms-
She wanted to comfort him and let him know everything would be ok.
'...besides,' she thought towards him, eyes straying to stare at the pale phantom at her side- '..if things went south. I'll do my best to keep you. I don't know how. But if I could-, say I can, would you stay?'
May be the worst happened, and the bodily from of Louis was lost, and all that remained was this peice, and all the others in Kyle and Bobbi, still lost, still fragmented.
She didn't know what it meant ethically, but she'd be lying if she said she'd mind letting him stay. Kyla wouldn't mind sharing that space.
It wasn't fair. To be only part of yourself must be maddening.
Kyla took another deep breath as Kyle adressed Bobbi about Louis' range of awareness, and tried something to help her own peice.
The act transfered on the sphere of emotion, a heartfelt gesture, where she visualized something and sent it to him. Louis would feel something take his hand. It was warm, and laced it's fingers with him in a firm hold.
'- you -do- want to stay with us don't you?'
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 4:19 pm
[[Louis? : Disney : Inside Kyla/Kyle - Hall of the Cornerstone]]
The young man listened, but didn't speak. Couldn't speak. He was buried underneath emotional ton of built up wreckage, that came crashing down on top of him. Something, he didn't know how to deal with. All the insecurities, all the indefinite directions this could take, it was all so unclear, I want to help them... protect Kyla, But... if I have to kill myself to do it...
The boy could feel their stares burning into his chest, They hate me... hate him and they have that right. He hurt them... and now, They were good people... they still wanted to help him if they could. Be he was selfishly concerned with dying as a result if things went sour, Maybe it'd be better if I did die... I only I'd never been created...
Kyla's question posed to him, he replied meekly, "Mmm," nodding once before looking back up at the others, looking at Kyle for only a second before breaking eye contact as swiftly as a fleeing rabbit. That's right... I made a promise to Kyla I'd protect her no matter what. I have to keep that promise. Even if only to spite the b*****d to made me what I am.
The other phantom, the one blessed with wings and a glowing halo, never broke his gaze off of the other one. He couldn't help but feel some level of... was it curiosity? Was it concern?
The furry one was so different, such a massive difference in personality varying between himself and the other. He was like a completely different person. Brought up the question of whether or not maybe the original Louis suffered from multiple personality disorder, or something of that nature.
He eventually turned his attention away from Kyla's phantom and back to Kyle's conversation and the topic of facing Bobbi's phantom. Kyle's seemed intrigued, so he posed another implication, "You think, if we could find another way of dealing with Bobbi's F'd up shard, we might be able to handle the original the same way? Maybe not have to kill him or jump through insane hoops like you had to to end up with me as I am."
Kyla's shard perked up slightly, glancing over to the other boy who shared his face, though said nothing. Maybe there was more purpose to fixing this shard than he'd initially perceived. For now, they awaited the other's replies.
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 4:29 pm
[ Kyle ; Yen Sid ; Merlin : Disney : Hall of the Cornerstone ]
Kyle opened his mouth, had an expression of hesitance, and closed it, pursing his lips together.
"Possible... but I can't be sure. My plan has to do with the darkness I can actually reach," he said, looking less than positive. "Reaching the darkness in Avatar-Louis' heart would require... many many more hoops, I'd imagine. I'd have to somehow get pretty deep inside, and even then, if it's too tightly rooted, I could just end up doing more damage than good. We'll see, though, we'll see."
For now, he looked back to Bobbi, regarding his earlier question about her shard and his access to reality.
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 5:22 pm
[Joe: Disney: Hall of the Cornerstone]
Joe, only listening to the conversation, watched Kyla as her view seemed to...shift. Though, to him, it felt like less of a 'persuaded' and more of a 'giving in'. Kind of like when something bad was happening Joe couldn't do anything about, and would end up withdrawing from everything to deal with it in his own manner. Except less anger seemed to come from Kyla. Perhaps he was just pushing his own thoughts and feelings of the situation on her, projecting what he thought was going on...but he wasn't sure.
More conversation. Louis was insane in Bobbi's heart. The shard of Louis in Kyla's heart seemed to bring up the idea that maybe he wasn't a good person originally. Kyle shot him down real quick, which made Joe's eye twitch again. Of course, Kyle went into his reasoning, and it was somewhat sound, but Joe still felt that was a lot of assumptions on Kyle's part...but who was he to judge? Wasn't Joe himself making assumptions? Nobody hear actually knew what the Avatar of Mateus was actually like, after all, himself included. Still....
Kyla threw in her reassurance to Louis, and Joe cocked his head a little to side. Barely noticeable unless you were watching him closely. He watched Kyle, Bobbi, and Kyla closely, eyes constantly shifting from one person to the next, occasionally throwing in a look towards the shards of Louis. But he did...get an idea. One that he almost hated to say, just on sheer principle that it could be so simple it's brilliant, or so stupid it wasn't worth thinking about.
"Can't we just throw a leash on Mateus now? I mean, might not take him out of the picture, exactly, but could keep him from advancing deeper and corrupting further, making what everyone wants to attempt to do a bit easier." He bit the inside of his mouth a little. "Of course, depending on the control Mateus has, it could be putting a leash on the Earthling, not necessarily the summon, or it could just aid him further and not benefit us at all, but I'm not particularly sure about that brand of magic."
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 5:35 pm
[ Kyle ; Yen Sid ; Merlin : Disney : Hall of the Cornerstone ]
"I've wondered about that, actually!" Kyle exclaimed, once more easily distracted by a new conversation thread. He turned to Bobbi with a sheepish smile--"Sorry sorry sorry I know you keep getting interrupted but I'll forget please don't hate me too much."
"The only problem I could think of would be getting Louis to actually take the dress sphere, since that's where we got our leashes--sorry, summons," he vocalized, and he mentally felt Ultima shrug--she wasn't against admitting she would have used the hell out of him days prior.
"Unless there was some other way to activate that kind of magic...?" he asked, turning to Merlin, who gave a somewhat downtrodden look.
"There might be a few different ways, but it would take too long for me to research one or enchant another," he said, scratching his beard. "Honestly, the leashes in the dress spheres themselves weren't even intended that way; it was a side-effect of forcing the magic in your hearts to hold form."
"Theeeen that leaves us with trying to convince him to activate a sphere, assuming we can even get one into his hands," Kyle said, turning back to the group. "And that still leaves us with Joe's worries and whatnot. Might just be something we have to gauge when we get there, but certainly something to consider."
Rubbing his chin, he let that thought linger, carefully glancing at Bobbi and clearing his throat to indicate that he was done rambling again (again [again]).
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 6:50 pm
{James : Disney Castle : Library}
James nodded his head in understanding regarding Elsa's words. He had remembered that the boundary had already expanded by the time they had arrived in the hangar. When the Queen of Arendelle brought up it happening again during their meeting it had brought back memories of the vision they had all seen, the seven lights and thirteen darknesses, the end of the world. All of the information that had been revealed to them during that meeting now brought back right to the front of the corsair's mind, threatening to give him a headache because of the sheer amount of information.
'The cornerstone's barrier has become our Wall Maria. Hopefully it will hold up better than the wall did though,' The corsair thought.
'Magical versus physical. Plus the Cornerstone's barrier isn't just a wall, it is more like a sphere, protected on all sides. It will be fine I am sure so long as the Cornerstone holds power, Fenrir replied.
The corsair nodded his head again to the mental response. "I remember when it happened, we had all vowed to continue fighting and the cornerstone showed us a vision right before it expanded. That it happened because of us is all the proof that we need that we are here for a very important purpose. Something beyond just fighting against the darkness, and as of yet we do not have a clue what that could be, and while I'm certain it will all become clear to us when the time is right. It's hard not to think about it, to worry about it."
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