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[fuckchild]

[Maybe you've seen this punkass, maybe you haven't. He was kind of a wild thing in battle, hard to miss if you saw a lot of enemies floating in midair. Somehow, he doesn't look injured, not even a single scratch. The scar across his brow is an old one, from a time long past.

Dante's not one to mince his words, so...]

Alright, would anyone mind telling me what the fuck is really going on? First we're two pissed-off frat house that can't share a campus, now we're twenty invite-only clubs? And all of that because we wished upon a fucking rock?

[The expression on his face says he's clearly buying none of it. He's a stubborn one.]

I want answers. Real answers, not whatever fairyland shit you can come up with.

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[erythristic]

The real answers aren't going to make you happy, darling, if you can't learn to accept that your life's gotten a sight stranger since you stepped foot here.

[fuckchild]

I can accept a lot of things, shark teeth, but I'm not about to roll over and say, "it's good" after being dragged into this stupid war in the first place.

[erythristic]

[if this was video, he'd be getting a look for that comment on her teeth.]

I'm only saying that you're not going to be satisfied if you can't accept powerful magic is part of the explanation.

[fuckchild]

You don't know what I can and can't accept. I know magic and demons and Hell, and they've got their places. So what's the place for it all here?

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[erythristic]

Did you listen to the man who spoke to us before we came back here? Answer that first, if you would.

[fulminants]

You're a sight for sore eyes and ears. [ He grins. ] Shit is messier, but looks like we get a second chance at not letting it all hit the fan.

[fuckchild]

Not much of a second chance if we're all still forced to fight.

[fulminants]

So let's not. The last damn time was messed up enough.

[fuckchild]

Look, the only thing I'm fighting is for me and for the ones that can't fight back. I'm not anyone's pawn.

[Video]

[desperate_times]

New day. Same old story. I wish I did have answers that made more sense, but this place never does.

[Video]

[fuckchild]

I'm starting to see that. Same shit, different day.

[Video]

[desperate_times]

Chin up, handsome. We'll get through it. Just like the last time.

[Video]

[fuckchild]

Yeah but for how long?

[But then, of course, Dante being Dante, his mouth curves into a smirk.]

You think I'm handsome?

[survivra]

It's not like any of us are likely to know any better how a blazing rock works.

Unless someone has more information from those who fancy themselves not through with us yet, and you and I missed it—and we'll probably have to beat it out of them.

[fuckchild]

[Beat the crap out of someone for information?

Instant new friend.]

You got any idea where we can start on this beating?

[survivra]

[ she talks a bigger game than she walks most of the time, but she's done it before and if she felt a need she'd do it again ]

I want to find that man, the mad one who fed us tea before he threw us into the sky. He certainly knows something. After that, I'll find the first person who fashions himself king.

Or an imp. I'd not mind starting there.

[fuckchild]

That guy... [He frowns, because he's sure the tea man is full of shit.] I don't think he'd know anything.

[Again, he wonders what Vergil would do if he were here.]

It might be worth looking. I'm all for overthrowing the king. [He sneers a little at her imp comment.] Imps piss you off?

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[wasteofbreath]

Yeah, the gem's decided to make us do its dirty work, apparently, instead of finding some other way to grant our wishes. [Is he bitter? Yes, yes he is, since he's still here, and it's not over, and to top it all off the one person he cares about more than anything has gone home.

It's hard to not feel incredibly cynical right now. And he was usually cynical anyway, but only when it came to people, he'd always hoped he could change things.] Apparently now we get the chance to change history so there's never any Seelie or Unseelie, and stop the Void before it becomes a threat. Except we could get it wrong, like people always do in all the time travel movies.

[Not that he isn't going to try, of course, as it seems the best way to get home. The gem had already shown them it was capable of sending them back to their worlds.]

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[fuckchild]

You're a ray of sunshine, aren't you.

[But he supposes Mr Brightside over there has a point: they could fuck it up again now that they have a blank slate. But he's more than determined not to let that happen,

Still, it doesn't sit well with him that they're all still stuck here against their will.]

We could get it right, too. It'd be a lot worse if we didn't try at all.

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[wasteofbreath]

Just don't have much faith in people. Yeah, there's some good ones here, but I'm thinking more about the monarchs and the courts and how much they seem to like fighting each other.

[He doesn't feel the need to elaborate further on his lack of good mood. And he'd be a lot happier about being here and doing this if he could still go home whenever he wanted, even if it was only for short periods of time.]

I never said I wouldn't try. It's probably the only way to get home. And I do think we can change things here, just might make some mistakes first, we'll have to be careful. [A beat, then:] It's harder to change history when you don't know what led up to the things you're trying to change. [Someone among their number might know, though, maybe multiple someones. And he knows he ought to start looking, or bring the matter to Javik to see what the Red Hand will be doing about it.

He misses Kieren, yes, he misses him very, very much, but sitting around feeling sad and bitter about it is not going to get him back home any faster. He has to think of how much happier Kieren must be now, being home with his family, and remember that time passes differently here, so he isn't going to miss anything while he's not there.]

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[fuckchild]

[Dante frowns at what he says. Sure, people are pretty shitty, but demons are worse. There's a lot of good ones too, the ones that don't deserve the Hell from his home, the ones that get locked up for seeing and knowing too much. He couldn't imagine how Kat withstood any of it and kept herself sane for so long. Did she fight to prove her humanity too?]

Isn't that what books are for?

[Not that he's a reader, mind you, but he feels like that's something his twin would say.]

And you're not giving people enough credit.

[Dante doesn't like most people on premise, but to say that they can't do good things... He's learned already about the best and the worst of people. And the very worst of them were never human in the first place.]

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[nibelheims]

[ cloud is glad things have calmed down, though he's just as wary as you, man. ]

Looks to me like we bought ourselves and this place more time. That's it. [ which is to say that nothing has really been solved, and things are probably on rails for disaster town all over again. ]

video.

[fuckchild]

[The system is inherently suspicious, especially when there's a giant wish-granting rock involved.]

That doesn't make a damn different if we're all still supposed to fight.

video.

[nibelheims]

[ cloud only agrees with a hum. ]

I think... they think we'll believe it does. And then not ask questions.

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[fuckchild]

Then they must not know us at all.

[Unless they'll do what Mundus does: force them into submission without even being aware of it.

The thought makes him seethe quietly.]