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[R] My Brother's Keeper [Erythrite/Hvergelmir]

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:45 pm


Alex wasn't answering texts. Alex wasn't at Des's house, or anywhere else Delilah could find him. Kerberos wasn't responding to calls on the communicator. For over a month.

There was no body. There was no mention of him being in Negaspace, or unavailable for duty, which meant not another round of "detox." (Impossible, anyway, since he hadn't touched alcohol in months - she knew that much, had watched him react with revulsion when she poured herself a drink.)

Which left very few possibilities. Dead, but not recovered yet. Lost in the Rift, like Natron.

Purified.

He had spoken months ago of a Knight of Cosmos who sat on a bench in North End Park and preached purification. Had told her days Hvergelmir was there. So Captain Erythrite, distressed older sister, was in that park, finding that bench. That Knight. Under different circumstances, she might have appreciate how attractive she was, how the dress made her even prettier and drew attention to her chest. But appreciating pretty girls was for when she was no longer worrying about one of her siblings.

"You must be Hvergelmir," she said, trying to keep her voice even - to keep either anger or fear from tumbling out. "I'm looking for Kerberos. He talked about you. Do you know where he is?"


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:36 am


Here it was at last. Finally, someone in the Negaverse had come around asking not for her, but for another agent. Finally some of the chickens she'd always been expecting were coming home to roost. The Negaverse was starting to investigate some of the leaks in its ship, and was tracing them back to her. That spelled danger for Hvergelmir and for Kerberos, but not just them -- it was anyone she talked to. Everyone from Umber to Labyrinthite to Titanlavenite . . . they could all be implicated. All punished.

Well, she'd thought about this quite a bit. She had some idea of what she meant to say, how best to go about it without endangering any of them. Hvergelmir felt, in this moment, very aware of the mark on her left shoulder, the weight of her promise.

"Yes," she acknowledged, leaving her distaff to rest against her shoulder. "I'm Hvergelmir. But I'm afraid I can't help you find the person you're looking for -- that's not a service I provide." Politely, she added, "What's your name?"

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:07 am


Erythrite exhaled. She should have realized that a more delicate approach would be required, with someone who was willing to preach sedition to the Negaverse's soldiers. There had to be more than just Kerberos who sat at this bench and listened to her pretty words, but she didn't care about them.

She just had to make Hvergelmir understand that. This was the closest thing she had to a lead - and even it wasn't much.

"That's unfortunate," she said, and she reached up to briefly push a hand through her hair.

"Erythrite," she introduced herself, and then offered a hand. "I forgot my manners. It's just - this isn't a call for the Negaverse." Be upfront, as upfront as possible. "Kerberos is my brother." There was nothing to be lost from revealing that information, and possibly everything to be gained.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:47 am


Hvergelmir sighed. "I'm so sorry," she said sympathetically. "You must be so worried."

Kerberos had several sisters. He'd told her that -- that one of his sisters had gone missing, and he'd joined the Negaverse to look for her, and another sister was in the Negaverse like him. And there were maybe more siblings -- she didn't try to push him too hard about the memories he'd lost.

He hadn't said what to do if his sister from the Negaverse came looking for him. She wasn't prepared to answer with certainty until they'd spoken about it.

"I want to help you," she said. "And fortunately I can, at least a little. I can send him a message on your behalf. Anyone can receive messages from knights, as long as they're addressed to the right name . . . and as long as the person's still alive to receive them. You'll be able to find out that much, at least."

Hvergelmir held up her signet ring near her face.

"Message Sailor Kerberos," she said -- then began dictating. "This message is from Erythrite of the Negaverse."

She looked up at Erythrite with a question in her eyes: what do you want to say?

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 9:18 pm


That was not what Erythrite had hoped for - what she had hoped for, of course, was for Hvergelmir to produce her brother and...and she wasn't sure what else. The loyal officer in her said she would haul him back, convince him to return to the Negaverse where he belonged. The grieving sister said she would just hug him and cry and maybe wish him well if she could get it together enough.

Because while Hvergelmir hadn't told her outright, she strongly suspected that the Knight's protecting him meant he was purified.

She inhaled, and she wasn't sure if the ring would pick up her voice - she was familiar with the Negaverse's crystal communicators and vaguely with Dark Mirror compacts, not with Knight rings.

But she spoke as if she were speaking to him.

"Hey, Kerb," she said, and her voice shook a little. "I just...wanted to know if you were okay, but since you're getting this, you must be? I miss you, we all do. Mom and Dad, and the little ones. So please..." She wanted to say come home, but she couldn't. "Stay safe."

She swallowed, sniffled a little. "Thank you," she told the Knight, trying to pull herself back together. Losing her composure wouldn't help anything. Or maybe it would, but she was still not particularly eager to cry all over a Knight she barely knew.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:13 am


It was painful to hear. This was the cost of all that the Negaverse did, all that their corruption stole away. They sank Chaos into a person like a harpoon -- clean on its edge, sharp as a scalpel, smooth as sailing: but like a harpoon, it was barbed for one purpose. To do even more damage on the way out. To tear a person to pieces just trying to remove it.

And here was the bloody aftermath of the surgery. This mourning, worried family, twice wounded now. Twice grieving a child that would never return.

Hvergelmir looked to the ground until Erythrite was finished. Then, she said simply, "From Hvergelmir of the Cosmos," and the message sent.

"It went through," she said. "So he's alive. I can't promise I'll have any more information for you if I see you again, but -- this is where you'll find me."

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 12:55 am


Erythrite aggressively suppressed her desire to sniffle or cry or otherwise break down, and she considered sitting down, but thought better of it, instead staring down at her hands and turning one of her fans over between them like that would somehow help center her.

"Thank you," she said, again. "It's good to know he's alive. After Cait - Persephone - went, I knew immediately; not knowing has been...I mean, if you knew him, you know that for a while he was doing extremely poorly." To put it mildly. "He'd been better for a while, but I was afraid he relapsed." Among about a thousand other fears. "I just...he's out there, somewhere, and that's what matters. I hope he's better." She laughed, dryly, humorlessly. "Though not being able to tell our parents I know he's alright is going to kill me. It was hard enough the first time."


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 6:45 pm


Hvergelmir blinked. This was . . . this was news. Kerberos had joined the Negaverse looking for his lost twin sister, and she'd been . . . she'd been there all along? Tiny, grief-stricken Persephone?

Kerberos has a sister? was what she wanted to say. "Persephone has a brother?" was what she said instead. Saying that didn't confirm or deny any connection that Hvergelmir had to Kerberos -- it was a neutral statement in that regard.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 1:00 pm


Erythrite hummed a confirmation. "A brother and three sisters," she said, and she wondered briefly if she was giving too much information - but Hvergelmir didn't seem like the type to take advantage.

"I didn't understand, when she corrupted. She...she wasn't my sister anymore, you know? She was a person that looked a lot like her, and sounded like her sometimes, but she wasn't..." Erythrite waved a hand through the air. "I think me not wanting anything to do with her, because I was angry and stupid, is why she didn't want anyone to tell Kerberos. Not...really a problem, now, since she, you know, extra doesn't remember anything." She sighed heavily. "Poor girl."


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 1:57 pm


Hvergelmir nodded sympathetically once more. She and Persephone hadn't exactly parted on the best of terms, the last time, but it was hard for Hvergelmir to hold much true animosity in her heart for her. Not everyone made the choices that were in the service of moving toward their best possible selves. Not everyone made every brave choice. Persephone was frightened and ashamed: she chose what made her feel safe for another day. What let her go on breathing.

"Persephone's been through a lot," she agreed. "Sometimes when a person's depressed . . . sometimes they can only make the choices that help them survive for one more day. Sometimes that's the best they can do. And we wish for better for them," she said, thinking of Bischofite for a moment, of Sarras, of Labyrinthite -- of all the people she'd loved in some small way, and hadn't been capable of carrying through their darkest hours -- "But sometimes . . . sometimes the road is very long, and we each walk down the only path we can manage."

Hvergelmir smiled, faintly. "Is this how you manage? Worrying about everyone else, holding your family together as best you can?"

Everyone had their own way of coping with struggle, even those whose pain went unseen. Some people coped by caring for others: they found strength in pretending to be strong.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:53 pm


Erythrite hummed agreement. "She was never the best decision-maker anyway, her and A --" she paused, coughed, "Kerberos, nightmares as kids," a vain attempt to lighten a mood that couldn't be lightened all that much. "I hear from mutual friends that she's doing better. As much as someone in that sort of situation can be." Though exactly how much better she was doing was probably Persephone's own decision to share or not; it really wasn't down to Erythrite to tell someone on the other side about that little growing family. Or to tell anyone, really.

It seemed strange, to actually sit back and think about how she herself coped. "I..." She hadn't even considered herself to be coping with anything, but she had grieved too, twice now.

"It's all I can do. I can't afford to be anything but strong. My little sisters still need me, my parents still need me. That isn't going to stop just because I wish it would."


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 2:30 pm


Hvergelmir nodded sympathetically. "I can understand that," she said. "The world doesn't stop for anyone. And there are few places you can go where someone will even slow it down enough for you to think. It's difficult, just getting by. It takes a kind of strength we take for granted."

That was what she tried to provide, in interactions like this -- in places like her bench, or anywhere else she chanced to meet anyone. If all she could do was make the world feel safe enough for someone to slow down just enough to catch their breath, then she'd given them some relief. Everyone alive stood a better chance if they had a moment to breathe. A second of peace.

And it would be good, for Kerberos, to have one of his sisters. Even better for him, she imagined, if he could be part of what led her to her own release from a life as Negaverse chattel.

She could start with letters. Something that felt safe, a way for him to contact his sister without needing to get too close to anything that made him feel unsafe. As it was, she feared his low self-esteem and his attraction to high-risk behavior. He needed slow building blocks, just like Erythrite might.

For now, she'd start small. With someone who devoted so much time to caring for others, it was a delicate, slow process to plant the seeds of the idea that they could care for themselves, too.

"I don't know much about family," she admitted, not able to keep a touch of wistfulness out of her voice. "But I know how hard it can be, to worry about someone on top of everything else. Your family won't move out of the city?"

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 12:42 am


Erythrite knew she shouldn't have been surprised by the sheer gentle compassion being offered her, but she was. It was a strange thing, in their world. Kindness. Offered to a stranger on the other side, because she had a tragic story about a family torn apart.

Erythrite did not intend to take that kindness for granted. She was tired, so very tired, and just being able to breathe and accept that Kerberos was alive, somewhere, was more than enough for her.

"They won't," Erythrite admitted. "I think...they keep hoping one of them will come home someday, and if they've moved, that chance goes away." She sighed. "Hope is all they have. I wish I could just...set them free, I'd like to see my little sisters out of here before they get wrapped up in this terrible mess too." That would be a blessing, though she supposed there was a chance she was already too late in wishing for that.

"Do they do better, usually?" Erythrite asked. "People who purify?"


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 12:16 pm


Hvergelmir was tempted to lie. Yes, she could have said, people who purify do better. They're finally happy. It's good.

The reality of the world was not so simple. No one who'd gone through as much hell as someone who purified ever really walked away from that unchanged.

"Every person is different," she said. "Metallia leaves painful marks on everything she touches, and healing from that takes time -- both for the people who remember what life was life in the Negaverse, and for the people who struggle with the torment of knowing they were part of something like that and not being able to remember it. But most people who leave -- they leave because they couldn't have stayed under her thrall anymore. It was killing them. Being free -- even for the people who struggle to make peace with themselves . . . It's usually at least a relief. A pressure valve being released."

The rest of it was up to them -- each person had their own path. But rarely did any former agent believe things would be better if they went back to the life they'd abandoned.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 4:27 pm


Erythrite nodded, slowly. That only made sense--Chaos took, and took, and took. Of course it took one last time on the way out of a soul. Of course it left scars. Thinking back on the things she'd done....if she kept those memories, she wasn't sure what she would do with them.

"I'd imagine. No one breathing down your neck anymore, demanding you kill and drain and harm to make the world Metallia and her Sovereigns want to build." A pause, and a snort. "....I say, like Metallia wants to build anything at all."

Finally, she took a seat in the open space on the bench, and started down at her lap. "....I joined the Negaverse because a handsome man at a bar thought I had potential. He's gone, now. I'm not sure where. Reassigned, I think. And in the years since...." She reached up to touch the claw marks that scarred her cheek. "I've nearly died once, at the hands of a fellow officer. Nearly killed a girl I loved, and then lost her anyway. I thought I was doing her better by giving her to the Mirror, but I wasn't. It drove her mad. And I've killed and drained and hurt, over, and over, and over again."

She looked up at Hvergelmir miserably. "It's taken my brother, and my sister, and I'm afraid for everyone else. And to think, once upon a time I thought the Negaverse would make me into the baddest b***h in Destiny City."


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