Conversations and unfinished buisness [closed]

[culbutiri]

Characters: Nesir and Hidetoshi then Nesir and Sephiroth
Setting: Library and then Unpowered forest- 14th June lunch time then late afternoon
Format: Prose to start can switch
Summary: Nesir and Hidetoshi have a conversation that really doesn't go very well and then she and Sephiroth fight to the death
Warnings: The first prompt will contain ethical conversations, dubious morals and fall outs. The second will be violent, angry and result in death.

[For Hidetoshi] Nesir was exhausted but she had coped on less sleep before. Her nights had been filled with fighting, monsters which could control them with one bite. Monsters which were apparently some of those in the tower.

Another way they controlled them. She chuckled darkly as she turned a page in her book. She didn't even know why she was in the library, it wasn't like there was going to be any answers, there were never any answers and Nesir was getting sick of being powerless.

She was wearing her white tower given suit and the cloak Chidori had made her, which she drew around her as she threw the book heavily across the room. She didn't even care if Tohko came and shouted at her, she had her daggers, the interfering librarian would regret it.

[For Sephiroth] Well after that lovely and enlightening conversation Nesir was ready to destroy everything. To scream and kill and make things bleed.

She wasn't really feeling up to losing the remainder of her allies and so instead she tracked down Sephiroth, not after stealing the tree she had made for him back and attaching a small long haired figure she had made to it, by the neck.

She then tracked Sephiroth down and practically threw it at him. "Floor 32, you do be having until sunset, you will be being there."

She waited in the forest, knives ready, eyes blazing. Past any level of calming. He would pay for what he had done, what he had made her do, ruining her mission and making her fail.

Comments

[culbutiri]

"Maybe you should be learning." She looked round at him, "And start pulling your weight."

Unfortunately for Hidetoshi he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and Nesir was taking out her frustrations on him.

[altitonant_emperor]

"I don't recall outlining my past, current or future training plans to you," He retorted flatly, unwilling to simply stand back and let her vent her foul mood on him. "So I'll thank you to not make assumptions."

Hidetoshi wasn't much of a doormat. Besides, he knew full well the limitations of being a soft, urban teenager with no training skills and what would happen if he went up against one of those rabid monsters.

[culbutiri]

"So you can be fighting then?" She raised an eyebrow, "Or do you be as useless as the books you do be guarding?"

She was glad he wasn't a doormat, she wanted a fight not something who would just quietly leave her alone.

[altitonant_emperor]

"Reprimanding you for mistreating one book is hardly 'guarding' them," He almost snapped. "Certainly not on the level of many here, but I can fight."

Well, push a few buttons and it's a fight she'll probably get.

[culbutiri]

"So you do no be no knowing how you do be just being lazy." She glared at him.

"Or you do be being a coward, either way you do be useless."

[altitonant_emperor]

Did she just accuse him of laziness. B|

"Are you calling me a coward for not having any wish to kill another?" He returned that glare, trying to keep his temper. He sighs. "I am already aware I would be a hindrance in this sort of battle, thank you very much."

[culbutiri]

"Do you really be thinking your wishes do be mattering here?" She sneered. "It will be happening anyways, either they will be making you kill or you will be killing to fight them. That do be being the choice you do be getting."

[altitonant_emperor]

"No. I am taking what I want into account, even in light of what they will inevitably force me to do like you say," It's not like anybody else here other than himself is going to, or can even afford to, care about Hidetoshi wants. He doesn't want to kill people. Regular monsters? Sure, fine. People? No. "Even if it doesn't matter in the long term, that's still my preference."

His mouth twisted. "Besides, I know none of us can escape that choice. It's rather obvious."

[culbutiri]

"That do be just being stupid." She snapped at him, "If you do be knowing you can no be escaping it why would you be continuing to be being stupid, what you do be wanting do no be mattering, if we do be all be doing our own thing then we will be getting no where."

[altitonant_emperor]

"Don't call me stupid," He retorted, bristling. "Plainly stating what I want isn't foolish as long as I am aware of the reality and the low likelihood of it actually happening."

Hidetoshi folded his arms across his chest. "Nesir-san, you may believe that but the residents of the Tower aren't united under the same banner... Except in their collective displeasure or loathing of the situation."

[culbutiri]

"I do be knowing that. Most of them do be idiotic children who could no be organising themselves if their lives did be depending on it."

She looked up glaring at him, "As our current situation do be proving."

[altitonant_emperor]

Are you seriously calling him an idiot child, you aren't exactly a fountain of intelligence or maturity yourself. His jaw tightens.

"Are you attempting to insult me merely for stating a belief that you don't agree with? How mature of you."

[culbutiri]

"No." She rolled her eyes, "I did be agreeing with you, that no one do be being united."

She glared at him, "And your beliefs do be being stupid and unrealistic, that do be being why I do be insulting them."

She is the most mature, but at the moment she doesn't care. "Useless things do be being thrown away, so either you do be start being useful or no be crying when you do be being left to be being no more than a puppet here."

[altitonant_emperor]

He's not talking about the agreement they have about nobody is united in the same fraction, isn't that obvious?

"It's unrealistic and stupid to not want to kill people? Good grief, some of us feel otherwise, as you know," He scowled. "Inexperience doesn't equal uselessness. A few mouths of training isn't enough to take on a rabid, super powered monster. I am not useless, and don't you imply that I am."

What stunning displays of maturity from both of these morons.

[culbutiri]

"In this place yes it do be. I do no be understanding people like you." She really did sound confused.

"I do be getting that some people do no be liking killing. But this do be for your survivall. You can be getting better at fighting. But you can only be getting better. Even a light addled idiot like you should be understanding that." Her words are snapped and a lite loyder than they should be.

[altitonant_emperor]

"... 'Light-addled idiot?'" He raised a single eyebrow upward. Alright, that's a new insult.

"I'm not going to be fighting monsters that will kill me the moment I try, much less kill them if they're people brainwashed into doing this," Hidetoshi shook his head, still scowling at her. Killing? That wouldn't make him better. "That wouldn't improve my combat skills or allow me to gain experience. I'm learning what is necessary to survive, but this isn't one of those things."

[culbutiri]

She just scowled, not bothering to elaborate. "It do no be mattering, they do be coming back. The administrators do be holding us hostage over us because they do be knowing we will be baulking at killing our own. If we do be showing them we do no be caring they will be losing that leverage."

[altitonant_emperor]

He wants her to elaborate! It's a scowling match between the two of them. "I don't agree with that. Whether or not we give them displays of apathy as discouragement, they will continue on with whatever they have already planned. This isn't a hostage situation, this is a game to that woman. They don't care about our attitude towards killing our fellow residents, they merely want us to be crushed."

It's not fair and Hidetoshi hates it.

Less forcibly; "There are going to be whose who care, and will be as vocal about that as the majority if the majority choses not to care. That wouldn't send a unified message."

[culbutiri]

"It do no be being apathy." Her eyes glinted and her voice raised, apathy is a bit of a touchy subject after what had happened the night before. "It do be being survival, they can only be crushing us if we do be letting them. If doing nothing do no be being your style then maybe we could just be killing each other anyways, games or not."

She scowled, "If there did be chaos then there would no be anything for them to crush, no order for them to be disturbing. It do only because we do be clinging onto such stupid ideals that we do be being hurt by them."

So obviously the solution to being forced to kill your peers is to preemptively kill them...

[altitonant_emperor]

"'Apathy' is defined as 'not caring,' and in your own words, that is what you said to show them - " He starts off firmly and Hidetoshi stops abruptly in the middle of his sentence and blankly stares at her. Like he can't actually believe she said something that comes across as so unbelievably, entirely stupid to him.

"... Excuse me, what?"

Just. What.

He frowns. That didn't make any logical sense at all.

[culbutiri]

"You did be hearing me, if doing nothing will no be working, and fighting them will no be working, and crying over our dead will no be working then we do be proving we do no be caring about each other. If there do be nothing to pull apart then they do be having no leverage over us."

[altitonant_emperor]

It takes a few moments over the confusion to recede, which leaves room for the first spark of anger to appear at such an suggestion. "That's an idea that's so entirely ridiculous, I honestly don't know what to say. Forego the rules and just... Allow things to descend to a disgusting state of affairs like that!?"

[culbutiri]

"It do be being an option. One of many, but if we do no be wanting to be being hurt then being in a position where there do be nothing left to be being hurt may be being our only option."

She shrugged.

[altitonant_emperor]

He raised an eyebrow.

"It's an ill-thought out option. If a couple of your fingers were broken or dislocated, Nesir-san, would the correct course of action be to promptly cut off your hand?" It's a morbid anthology but it's the one of the first ones that come to mind after months in the Tower.

[culbutiri]

A morbid example, made more so by the fact she lifted her right hand, the one with the two missing fingers and jabbed it at his face.

"You did never be asking about this. Most people do be assuming I did be losing them in some knife fight, or because I did be being stupid and annoying the wrong person."

She shook her head, "I did be getting snow sickness, my fingers did be going black and dying, if they had no been cutting them off then I could have been losing my hand, or my arm or my life. So yes I would be cutting off the weak parts of my body, because they can be affecting the rest."