Taking the long road home

[bloodyashes]

Characters: Anyone. Everyone.
Setting: The few days after the event, throughout the Tower as you will.
Format: Mingle! Assign your own dates/locations/etc, tag yourself, do as you do.
Summary: Jason's dead. So are a lot of other people. Fallout and picking up the pieces.
Warnings: Discussion of death and cannibalism inevitable.

[Catch-all for events following the Event. Discuss Jason's death and its consequences, come back from the dead, party?, quiver in fear?, take a long, hot bath. Whatever it is you do, do it here.]

Comments

...I borked the HTML up there, I just noticed

[ambassadorasshat]

I heard that someone offed Jason finally. What...wait, is that what you were talking about? Or did you just try and fail?

[He didn't actually see the fight, just the part where Ruana ate him and no way was he going near her after that show.]

[bloodyashes]

[The aggravated noise he makes is actually a noise, although with his body paralyzed it comes out as more of a groan.]

Ruana handed out new powers to everyone. I could hurt others by inflicting the same injuries to myself.

[Hopefully Luke can put the pieces together, but - ]

It bypassed his defenses. It was the best shot we had.

[ambassadorasshat]

So you...

[Even he can piece together that.]

...You killed yourself to kill him? Just say yes or no, I don't want to know how it happened or anything like that.]

[bloodyashes]

[Good, he's not a hopeless cause yet.]

At the same time Zelda went for his heart. I wasn't sure if it landed or not.

[ambassadorasshat]

Well, you wouldn't notice a lot happening if you're busy dying anyway.

[At least Asch listened and didn't tell him how he killed himself.]

Who's Zelda?

[bloodyashes]

[Be so glad he can't facepalm right now, Luke. So glad.]

Have you paid attention to the last eight months at all? She was the one who initiated Dax's plan to break the Tower.

[Also Asch admires her very much. That's obvious from the tone of his thoughts.

...Admires may be the wrong word.]

[ambassadorasshat]

[Excuse you Asch, he can't keep track of all your girlfriends.]

I've been paying attention! She was one of the girls with you in the maze, right? I don't talk to any of them very much.

[Yeah, he gets that tone. And hopes that Asch isn't going to get all squishy on him.]

[bloodyashes]

[Asch is about as squishy as an unripe apple. He needs time before you can even make a dent.

At least Luke managed to pay attention to something.]

Right. The one who pinned me against the wall.

[If Luke even saw that bit.]

[ambassadorasshat]

[He did catch it--right before he took an inconvenient half-hour long trip into the void.]

Oh, okay. Her. So is she your girlfriend or something?

[bloodyashes]

[BE VERY GLAD THAT HE'S NOT CAPABLE OF PUNCHING YOU RIGHT NOW oh wait he can do this.

~*~headache intensifies~*~]

Don't say stupid things when you have no idea what you're talking about!

[That's a no.]

[ambassadorasshat]

[And times like these Luke wishes he could close the link between them himself. Because he thought he was entirely safe as long as Asch couldn't move...and then there was the sudden feeling of being shoved facefirst into a wall, only without the movement.

Headache intensifies indeed. He reacts physically, clutching at his head and then attempting to bury his face into the mattress, which slightly muffles his yelling.]

Gaaah! W-what's stupid? What're you talking about...?

[bloodyashes]

[It's a moment or two before Asch lets up - he has a point to make, and damnit, he's going to make it.]

Our relationship is nothing like that, understand?