⇝001 // video

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

<sub>[the video's dark, but it's definitely video; the screen is completely black. there's the snap and clink of a lighter, but the fire isn't seen on the video, as if he's pointing it elsewhere from himself, or isn't aware the video's on; there's a deep inhalation and a deep exhalation, which sounds more like someone breathing through their teeth. it quickly degrades into soft, under-the-breath giggling. his voice is soft enough that someone might not be able to hear him unless they're trying.]

...eeeeveryone's... gone.

[he keeps that low soft breathy giggling up for a moment, and it almost sounds desperate.]</sub>

That's what it says. It says, everyone's gone.

I've never thought about it. What happens when everyone goes away.

<sub>But now, now... they're all gone. Gone, gone... gone.

[his giggling starts to get more frantic but it never gets louder; it sounds more and more desperate, and suddenly-- it stops. he makes a quiet noise, his voice low and quiet. for reference, it's the first four or so seconds.]

zhuzhuzhuzhu...

...but still so noisy.</sub>

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[weaponiser.livejournal.com]

[That voice sounds eerily familiar, but she's not entirely sure how or why. But it's not Medusa's, and that's really all she cares about at this point.]

I don't think anyone's actually gone permanently. I've started to notice people showing up here at random. It's possible people from wherever you're from will show up too.

[video]

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

...

<sub>[that looks a lot like him.

in fact, that looks exactly like him, but... decidedly more female.

there's a low giggle.]</sub>

Are...

_{you're not real. Are you?}

[video]

[weaponiser.livejournal.com]

[Frown. It probably would have sounded like a terrible pick up line usually, but that didn't seem to be his goal.]

Yes, I'm real. Why wouldn't I be?

[video]

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

_{All the others weren't.}

They could speak and they could move and they could bleed but they weren't real.

_{[there's movement in the darkness, a shining of green eyes and he leans closer to the screen, his face lighting up just slightly. damn, he looks tired. or dead inside.]}

I'm not sure how to tell the difference, anymore. It used to be so easy. _{Now, there's too much noise.}

[video]

[weaponiser.livejournal.com]

[Her eyes widen and her jaw drops down to the floor. She can barely see his face, but she knows that face well enough to recognize it.]

Just what the hell are you?

[video]

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

What am I.

What am I?

_{That's a question I'm not sure I have an answer to.}

[video]

[weaponiser.livejournal.com]

[Rather than getting more annoyed, she actually considers an alternate idea and uses her Soul Perception. Either she had lost it and was hallucinating about herself as a man, soul and everything, or there actually is a male version of her running around somewhere.]

Let's start with your name. It's Stein, isn't it?

[video]

[scytheyouout]

[surprised? yep.]

Professor Stein...?

[video]

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

<sub>[enjoy another creepy breath out.]

You're not all gone.</sub> Another hallucination?

[scytheyouout]

[he is totally not creeped out by this. not at all. I mean it's not like he just woke up here a few hours ago and read some note about his world being destroyed or anything. why would this freak him out?]

Hallucination? No, it's me, Soul. What's going on? Are you ok?

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

Fine. Fine, fine. Just fine.

<sub>If only there wasn't so much noise. Can't think straight.

Can't breathe.

...zhuzhuzhuzhuzhu... how do I stop the noise.</sub>

[queenoftartarus.livejournal.com]

Are you okay...?

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

Okay?

_{[soft giggles.]}

Oh yes. Fine. Just fine.

Are you?

[queenoftartarus.livejournal.com]

I think so.

[That's actually a really good question. She's not even quite sure why she's alive at the moment...]

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

Good.

You and me. <sub>Just fine.

[he laughs again, leaning closer to the screen; very dimly, his stitched face is visible, half-open green eyes flashing briefly in the slight light.]</sub>

You don't have anyone anymore, do you.

[queenoftartarus.livejournal.com]

[She shakes her head.]

Those I love are always with me. [She taps her chest.] Even if they're not here at this Tower.

Do you have a friend here, Mr....?

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

Doctor. Professor. Something like that.

_{[there's a quiet scoffing sound and he leans back out of the light.]}

Stein.

[queenoftartarus.livejournal.com]

Well, Proffessor Stein, i'll be your friend.

[He obbbvioousslly needed one.]

[Video]

[savedbyasong.livejournal.com]

[Shion had set about seeing how these computers worked and found the network. When he clicked on the video that had just been posted he blinked in surprise.] Is everything alright? [Because it didn't seem alright...]

[video]

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

_{[a breathy chuckle.]}

Just fine. _{Just fine.}

[video]

[savedbyasong.livejournal.com]

[The chuckling is unerving but Shion tries to smile anyways] I'm glad, have you just arrived as well?

[video]

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

Don't know how. Everything was fine.

_{Maybe the Kishin killed them all. But why wouldn't he kill me, too..?}

[video]

[savedbyasong.livejournal.com]

Everything was fine where I was also [Well no it wasn't, but it wasn't world ending going wrong either. Unless the parasite bees had spread, but they would only effect humans and not the world itself.]

I'm not sure, I don't know who the Kishin is.

[video]

[patchworkdoctor.livejournal.com]

Ultimate evil.

_{[his voice has the sound of one simply repeating what he knows, in a low tone.]}

He's devoured enough human souls to become the ultimate representation of the evil and madness in the world. All the madness... wrapped in scarves.

_{[this makes Stein giggle slightly, under his breath.]}

[video]

[savedbyasong.livejournal.com]

Oh... [That didn't sound good... The ultimate represenation of the evil and madness in the world... Did that even exist? It sounded like something out of one of Nezumi's books]

And you think he ended the world?