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Hysteric Kingdom NPCs ([personal profile] lazyvassals) wrote in [community profile] hysterickingdom2014-03-13 01:13 pm

Welcome to the Netherworld!

[It is difficult to define what a normal afternoon is by Netherworld standards. In the dark, torch-lit halls of the Overlord's Castle, penguin-suited prinnies totter about pretending to do work, while most other vassals make no effort at all to pretend. No fights have broken out yet, but it is questionable how long that will last with the Overlord being awake. It is just the sort of calm that comes before something unexpected happens, or someone makes it happen out of boredom.

And that is precisely when the first stranger comes through the swirling vortex of the Dimensional Gate.

It doesn't seem so unusual at first, because people use that gate on a daily basis. But more people start to show up, people who aren't demons. The Gatekeeper herself has no idea where they've come from, or how they've found their way to the Netherworld.

Unfortunately, neither do the unexpected guests.]

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-14 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra nods, and it's uncertain she could hide the truth even if she wanted to, she's so direct and guileless.]

Yes. He rescued me from...from Kefka. He said to lay low until he came back, that he would take me to see Cosmos when the war was won. But...I never saw him after that.

[Partly because she decided to go fight manikins, but now given the condition of another Warrior of Cosmos, she has to wonder.]

Is he alright?
bound_skyward: (k)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-15 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Ugh, that jester isn't anyone Kain would care to see again.]

...He's no longer in the grip of the war's endless cycles, if that's what you mean.

[Sigh, yes, he's giving a partial-answer to begin with.]

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-15 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra's brow furrows, as she's utterly confused. It's not like she had the chance to learn about some things.]

Cycles? I don't understand....
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[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-15 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, right... because you've forgotten. [Even now, he can't recall anything before that last one, so those memories apparently are gone, compared to the ones from home.] The war we were waging had been through many cycles of warriors falling and fighting... but the revival for the next cycle came always with a price. Our memories. Chaos had won before, so their warriors were more aware of the past than us.

[Actually, how odd...]

I'm surprised you don't know this already, considering the side you were on.

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-15 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra chews her lower lip, trying to remember any of that but of course she can't. At that last part, she shakes her head and looks downward.]

I don't remember much of anything. Kefka...he did something to me, made me a mindless fighting machine. He probably would have done it again, if Vaan hadn't intervened.
bound_skyward: (broody thoughts)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-16 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Kain sighs heavily. He knows how that sort of thing feels, all too well thanks to his memories from home returning.]

Then I suppose you're truly not an enemy...

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-16 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Hearing that is a weight off her shoulders. She really didn't want to have to fight him, even if they both had the energy for it.]

I don't want to be. Kefka was the one who enjoyed destruction, not me. I just...wanted to meet Cosmos.

[And go home. Wherever that is, though she's pretty sure it's not here.]

And as strange as it sounds, I don't think the war even...matters here. No one else seems to know what I was talking about, or heard of Chaos or Cosmos.
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[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-16 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[That certainly makes sense about Kefka, and Kain could see him doing such a thing. It only makes him loathe the clown more, knowing that he'd do that to someone else. He has no idea what the real Terra is really like, but... he definitely knows what she's been through.]

Then it's someone else's war, perhaps... [They need to find out soon, and find out what purpose they've been brought here for. He's also oddly bothered by the fact that he's alive with no real explanation.] Tell me, were you defeated by manikins by any chance?

[Just to see whether or not they're all really dead in the permanent-manikin-sense.]

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-16 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra takes a moment to respond, trying to put together her last memories.]

I was fighting them just before I came here. Not all at once, but I kept encountering them on my way to find Vaan and Cosmos. There were so many....

[Evidently, she's not very good at hiding like Vaan told her to do.]

I probably was. I grew so tired that everything became a blur after a while. And I did lose consciousness.
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[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-17 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
I see... well, it would be the best explanation if so.

[Why else would they have appeared in this strange other world? If Terra were also taken out of the battle by manikins, unable to return, then... just like him, she'd have gone on to this afterlife. Or whatever it was.]

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-17 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[She bites her lip, still confused.]

If this is an afterlife, it's a strange one. And...what do we do now?

[Without a war to fight, what is their purpose? She barely decided on fighting to protect, but is that even needed now?]
bound_skyward: (mountainside)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-18 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
We find out what our purpose is in this life. It doesn't seem that we've found our final place of rest, whatever that might be.

[He'd have seen his father by now, he's sure of it. There has to be something more that must be done.]
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[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-18 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra nods, certain that there has to be more to it than a castle filled with demons and confused people.]

I guess not. But it seems we're to stay here for a little while, at least. After that...I wonder what's beyond.
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[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-19 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
I doubt anyone knows for certain... but the sooner I can accomplish what I must here and move on, the better.

[Kain is always single-minded about completing his goals, so that's no different for this.]

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-19 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's silent, wondering if she feels the same way. There's no reason to stay here, but she's not as driven, uncertain what her path ought to be.]

I suppose it will take us a while to find out what to do. No one else here seems to know.
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[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-21 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
I won't rest until I find some answers.

[He doesn't like not having a path, a purpose to set himself to. He assumes it'll be the same in this afterlife.]

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-21 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I understand. I want answers, too.

[She bites her lip, her tone growing more hesitant as she's not sure how he would react. All she knows is that she doesn't want to fight him, war or not.]

...maybe we could help each other?
bound_skyward: (not all roads...)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-22 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Kain has to take a few moments to consider this. He knows it's not her fault, and he knows if Vaan could trust her... she was at least worth giving a chance. His trust would have to be earned, however, by seeing what the real Terra is really like, as he would do for anyone he truly didn't know firsthand. He figures it's fair enough.]

I suppose we could. It's not as if we have much choice for now.

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-22 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's all Terra really wants; a chance to prove herself. She relaxes upon hearing Kain, a small smile forming.]

I know, but still...thank you.
bound_skyward: (greet the end here)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-23 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
It's nothing, really. Any enemy of Kefka is at least not my enemy.

[Perhaps even an ally, in time. Kain didn't give such chances lightly.]

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-23 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shudders at mention of Kefka.]

I never want to see him again. If it weren't for Vaan...I don't want to think of what would have happened.
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[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-24 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
You were fortunate that he arrived when he did.

[He wonders if they'll have anyone like that to deal with here...]

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-24 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. I just wish he was here, too, so I could thank him.

[Sigh. She had hoped with Kain's arrival that there would be a chance of Vaan doing the same, but not so far.]
bound_skyward: (mountainside)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2014-03-25 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps he'll yet arrive. If it was possible for me, then the others who were with me...

[Kain trails off, thinking yet again of the way it had all ended for him, for all six of them, truly.]

[personal profile] narsheprincess 2014-03-25 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra bites her lip, remembering what he said earlier.]

You said he was no longer in the grip of the endless cycles. Then you mean...?

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