08 | do you want me only for my body?

[alephbet]

Characters: Aleph and you.
Setting: June 1st, riiight after the reveal.
Format: Starting with actionspam, but will match you.
Summary: Aleph has had enough of it.
Warnings: Will edit if anything comes up.

[Aleph has always tried to stay strong.

He was a gladiator with no memories, then a Messiah with no choices. Then a hero with no ability to save the people he knew or even stop from killing them himself. Then a God-killer whose punishment would be eternal.

He did these things, he lived through these things and took minimal comfort because he knew it would all be worth it. For the people he would save, in the end. The future he would build.

Now he stares at what should be hands, his hands, as he sits outside his dorm room on the floor. He thinks about where he should be, what he'd done so much work for, and yet everyone on that world is dead now. He misses his demons. He realizes -

he doesn't even have eyes to cry-

-and so he just huddles up on the floor and sniffles pathetically.]

Comments

[technologic]

[April rubs his back gently. She doesn't want to think about her world right now, about her group and the promises she made and failed to keep.

She just turns her attention back to Aleph for now] ... I know. It's... a horrible situation right now.

... But this is something we can use. That if this is all the tower is, we can get out and find a life out of here somehow. And get back at the admins for what they did.

[alephbet]

...no cats and puppies, huh.

[technologic]

... I could still try to make fake ones, though it wouldn't be the same. But maybe we can find them outside the tower.

[She laughs weakly, before sighing.] ... We were told to look for something that is still true, if our beliefs about our surroundings were wrong... What do you think the true thing is?

[alephbet]

It could be the souls thing...

[technologic]

[Nod, nod.] Yup, I think it is. Aleph is Aleph, no matter happens. And I am me.

And I know that I love Aleph very much, no matter what. That's something that's true too.

[alephbet]

I love April too... No matter what.

[technologic]

Really no matter what?

[alephbet]

I can't say what will happen, but I know I love you.

[technologic]

So, hold onto that truth. That you're you, and everything that you've said and done and thought has been you.

... And this will improve. I doubt the admins will just leave things like this, at least.

[alephbet]

But, my demons - they were just as smart as me, and they aren't real.

[technologic]

The admins probably couldn't bring their souls over... Maybe that's something we could demand they do though, if you want them here.

[alephbet]

They're probably dead.

[It's likely anyway.]

[technologic]

Could still try. It's like how people are randomly brought here from their worlds months after someone else from their world was brought here.

[alephbet]

They're from different timelines, right? But that's something.

[technologic]

Exactly. And they are demons after all, I imagine that they are pretty tough... Plus, the souls of people who have died have been brought here too.

[alephbet]

It's true, but... I was tough.

[technologic]

And you still are... If our worlds really are gone- [Her voice wavers there, but she covers it up quickly.] -then when people got sent back, they were sent back into their actual bodies. Our bodies are still there, which would mean your demons would still be in your COMP back home...

... M-maybe what we need to do is get back to our original bodies.

[alephbet]

That's true. They can't control things when they send you back to your original worlds. Our bodies still exist!

[technologic]

Exactly! So, we just need to find a way to get to them.

And maybe there's a way to reverse what happened to our homes too.

[alephbet]

Then, hope's still here...

[technologic]

Of course there is. Even if a situation seems hopeless, there is always hope.

[alephbet]

I forgot for a second... Sorry.

[technologic]

[He gets a snuggle.] Don't apologize, this is a pretty bad situation. But there is still hope.

[alephbet]

Thank you. [He snuggles as best he can with a body that's so misshapen and strange..]

[technologic]

[It is strange and some part of her wants to curl into herself and hide, but instead she tightens her arms around Aleph slightly.] Y-you don't need to thank me. If I was able to help, that's more than enough for me.