yves & marcoh

[noirges]

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[boxcar]

[ Giving him a short ruffle of his fringe, it's on instinct these days. ]

Sure thing.

...Do you know much about how he died, and what he was doing until he did?

[noirges]

... I saw it recently.

And that's... part of when I tried to have the conversation with him about everything. I don't trust the minister who looked after him and his sister, and I don't think his beliefs about Relivers are fair.

[ a sigh ]

I was able to reason with him enough to figure out how to help our country but... I don't know how to help him.

[boxcar]

[ Nods... ]

I obviously did not like what I was seeing, but there isn't much I can interject on.

[ Because it was the past, and it's kind of awkward to be like uhmmm this is wrong, and considering Lucas was a terminally ill and extremely delirious man, it's hard to be like you really shouldn't. He did voice his thoughts that it was incredibly wrong for these people to take advantage of a dying man that way but it does not seem like Lucas really took much away from that conversation. ]

They took away his final days with Nadia, and that is unfair to him.

[ Maybe Nadia can be the key ... ]

[noirges]

.... they did.

[ softly, sadly. and in the emotionshare, there is just so much heartache that comes from yves. he feels so much for these two siblings. he feels so much for nadia

even after he passed, I visited her as many days as I could ]

But he thinks that Nadia is safe in their care... even though I have all these questions that are never quite able to be answered.

[boxcar]

Even after all they did to him?

[ That is pretty dire sir get out of your fucking Stockholm. ]

[noirges]

Right?

[ and there's an actual little trickle of anger in yves' emotions, something directed at a person. people. not anyone in heaven, but my god it makes sense that they aren't here ]

How can I accept something like that being done to my beloved teacher? And yet despite my best efforts, he won't even listen...

[boxcar]

[ Oh good for Yves because he's right. ]

......

[ Gh... ]

Someone's power? An item...?

[ He still has his Command card, although he did offer it to somebody else for a different thing and he'd like to use it on that. Imagine fixing Lucas by literally ordering him to lock in. ]

[noirges]

... even if it gets to the better results, is it fair to use the same brainwashing methods to save him? I don't know.

[ softly, and... like he really doesn't know the answer to that question. can you force someone into a better life like that? ]

I don't know what powers everyone has but... I can think about it.

[boxcar]

It wouldn't be brainwashing him to think something that is not true though.

[ He does not think breaking someone's chains is the same thing as putting them into it to begin with. ]

Not unless you think forcing someone to accept bandages is the same as harming them in the first place.

[noirges]

[ hmmmmm ]

... no, I think... you do have a point.

[ but doing so by force still feels so strange to him ]

I guess... I'll have to see if that's even an option.

[boxcar]

[ They made him work down to the bone when he was coughing up blood and, crucially, robbed him of his last moments with his sister. There is no universe in which Marcoh will feel bad for snapping Lucas out of all that. ]

Anders told me about how he can do something called "spirit healing". I am not sure if it would work, but maybe.

[ It might just be normal-ass fantasy healing for all Marcoh knows but doesn't the name sound promising as fuck. ]

[noirges]

[ it really does but aki will not fucking let us heal lucas this way but there can be attempts made nonetheless ]

... I'll ask then.

I'd like to try all I can, since... I won't be going home with him.

[ and normally he's at peace with that. he really is. but right now? there is still that cloud of uncertainty and guilt that's making it murky ]

[boxcar]

[ FIX YOUR GUY AND LET HIM BE NORMAL FOR JUST ONE POST-GAME. ]

You have not changed your mind?

[noirges]

[ scawwy was fixing him, shockingly ]

... no. [ shakes his head ] Well, it's more like I finally came to a solid decision.

I think if I were to go back... it'd feel wrong for a lot of reasons, and the only thing pulling me would be a sense of responsibility.

[ but if I already died for them, then isn't that enough? how much more does he have to prove his loyalty? ]

[boxcar]

[ THE ONE THAT A RELIVER WAS ACTUALLY IN. ]

If that is what you have settled with, then that's good.

[ As long as Yves is happy with his decision... and doesn't have to witness Lucas going on a Rampage 2.0 or whatever, I guess. ]

[noirges]

[ (tears up) scien is lucas's true route

anyway yves just smiles, feeling encouraged by marcoh's validation ]

What about you, Marcoh? Excited to see Venere again soon?

[boxcar]

[ Have to get the train running again first, but... ]

Of course.

[noirges]

Ah... there's no way for you to go to a different timeline? Or you want to go back right to the one you left?

[boxcar]

[ He shakes his head a little. ]

I don't want to abandon the people I've met for a "better" timeline.

[noirges]

[ there's a bit of a pause here and then just, admiring: ]

You're a really wonderful person, Marcoh.

[boxcar]

......I thought about it, if things could be better. [ At the least, a different situation of Termina, but still back to Prehevil so he could help out Olivia, Tanaka, Marina. ] But Wis'adel mentioned we don't know what happens to the "old timeline", so.



[ Cannot emphasise enough that I, OOCly, am in shambles because that basically means Marcoh is going STRAIGHT back to hell but! Everything is fine. ]

[noirges]

[ help help help noooooo lowe,, ]

... I guess we don't. I sort of just... assumed that it would proceed on without me.

[boxcar]

I can't let that happen. It means that in that world, I would have abandoned Venere.

[ Since he died and she would just be alone, never knowing what became of him. Probably have to assume the worst, that the Family got him, except they never did. And then what? So he has to go back to the exact one he left. ]

[noirges]

... that is a lot of the same reason why Monsieur Lucas is going back.

[ softly ]

I know that's a risk that neither of you can take... Are you going back alone...? Will you take nothing from here with you?

[ what if he just

stocks up on bandaids there are so many just floating out there ]

[boxcar]

[ Help me he would not say no to just stocking up on some goofy-ass items. He has had a preview of what Prehevil is like and he does think that if he is here anyway, then he should stock up properly! Casts balding curse on random murderhand villagers in Prehevil. ]

I am. No reason for anybody to come back with me.

[ And Uruha can't, so. A thought that does hurt him; he'd love for Uruha to come to Rondon with him but he knows he has his duty that he can't abandon, and the weight of it is something Marcoh can't -- in good conscience -- try to convince him to abandon. Life is hard when you're good people. But also it would like, require a certain degree of being able to choose when Uruha would be able to come over since Marcoh also would not like him to suddenly be counted as a contestant of Termina... ]