[closed] and should the sky be filled with fire and smoke

[activatingcombatmode]

Who: Zack Fair & friends
When: when these threads happen
Where: where these threads happen
What: a catch-all for the month of december! threads are within. if you would like to do a thread you can contact me at michrure or at my cr meme comment!
Warnings: tba.

Comments

[activatingcombatmode]

I wasn't offering it because you were asking for it.

[Zack frowns and reaches out for her hand, taking it before she can protest.]

The more you don't want your magic the worse this is going to get.

[The scars and marks starting to burn her skin? It's only going to get worse.]

You'll end up getting sick. Or worse you'll die. Then what good are you to anyone here or back in your own world.

[sparkstrikes]

And so they just hand it to us by force?

[She snaps back almost immediately, her voice rising and echoing off of the walls of the buildings surrounding them.]

And you're okay with that?

[These "people" – whoever it is that runs this place – are no better than the fal'Cie. So why should she sit and keep her head down for them?]

[activatingcombatmode]

Yeah, we had no choice but now we're living with it! All of us are!

[Zack lets her go, his wings opening up wide.]

If I had a choice I'd rip these damn things off. But they're a part of me now. And for now, it's better than being dead. This might be the only world some of us get.

[sparkstrikes]

[Lightning backs off the moment his wings open up, her nose wrinkling. If it were her, she might have already torn them from her back; the antlers she grew two months ago were a nuisance, and she's seen first-hand what extra limbs are capable of ruining. She isn't thankful for what she does have, though, and although she'd much rather be alive, she isn't dead yet, and she isn't going to die before she finishes what she started, if she has anything to say about it. She has a sister to bring back.

But... Zack's words give Lightning pause, and the wrinkle in her nose lessens. Something about how he words it makes her stomach turn.]

Is this the only world you get?

[activatingcombatmode]

[Maybe that's why this is all such a sore spot for Zack. Seeing Lightning fight against the flow of these things gets under his skin so much and that's probably because she does have a world to go back to. The entirety of this world could be a joke to her, actually. Why else would she resist this much.]

Yeah. Back home I'm a dead man.

[Wow, that's blunt. He folds his wings back against his back and turns away.]

So some things about this world aren't so bad.