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

[undroppedeaves]

That's it. [He held out a hand to help the figure to it's feet] No sense in letting something like this get the better of us.

[alephbet]

[Aleph takes Sam's hand and gets back up.] It was just for a moment.

[undroppedeaves]

I know. [He staggers a bit, since this frame is larger than his.] No shame in it at all.

[alephbet]

I'm not used to it. I think I made it almost to a year without major breakdowns.

[undroppedeaves]

I barely made it to two weeks. [The smaller frame checked to see if he were steady before letting go of his hand]

[alephbet]

To be fair... I guess home might have been worse than this in some ways.

[undroppedeaves]

You've been there? [It's probably not a good idea to distract from one awful thing with another, but he's not really thinking straight.]

[alephbet]

Not since I came here. I meant before it was destroyed.

[undroppedeaves]

Oh. [He sounded sad] Was your world not a good place?

[alephbet]

I was trying to make it better, but... Honestly, it was just bad in a different way from this, sometimes.

[undroppedeaves]

[He nodded] At least you were trying. My world had evil in it that was worse than anything we could have imagined, and at times my world seemed very dark. But at least we could fight it and stop the evil from taking all that was good.

[alephbet]

It's hard to keep doing that here, isn't it? But I know it can be done.

[undroppedeaves]

I would hope so. Someone's bound to think of something.

[alephbet]

Maybe we'll be those people.

[undroppedeaves]

You think we could be?

[alephbet]

I bet that we could be.

[undroppedeaves]

I hope we can, I'm not usually the one that comes up with the plans.

[alephbet]

I usually am. I have to help here.

[undroppedeaves]

Well if you need any help helping, I'm good with that.

[alephbet]

Thanks. I'll need it.

[Good roommate.]

[undroppedeaves]

Well consider it given.

[alephbet]

Are you still okay?

[undroppedeaves]

Yes, a bit confused but I'm alright. Are you feeling better now?

[alephbet]

A little better. About as much as I can expect.

[undroppedeaves]

[He nods] It will just take time, it's a lot to take in. [And truthfully he hadn't quite taken in the fact he was here, and this place was real. To then learn that it wasn't. Not exactly.]