Endgame: This Broken Jaw of Our Lost Kingdoms; Part One

[animusmods]

Characters: open to those trapped in cells
Setting: the cells
Format: any
Summary: Those left abandoned in the Tower have some time to speak to each other. In the middle of the room, a clock counts down...
Warnings: general animus endgame warnings

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[bloodyashes]

[Riku did you miss the fact that this is one of the people who killed Jason. That this is the guy who cut off his own head to kill Jason.

Regret isn't even in his goddamn vocabulary.]

That doesn't really answer the question.

[Guys don't make me get Xion.]

[justabignobody]

[it isn't in Riku's either, and currently his snark-meter is set to over 9000. Hence the snippy reply.]

Given the point of what everyone's been aiming at, it ought to answer enough.

[AKA what the hell do you think happened, Asch.]

[bloodyashes]

[Snip to snip combat, that's what's going down right now.]

I'd assume that if you regretted it, you'd be bellyaching over it somehow.

[Look who woke up on the wrong side of the timer.]

I'd assume that anyone who acts at this point realizes that there's no time for regretting what you do.

[justabignobody]

[Yep. What better way to fill the time after all.]

Hn. Sad to say, you'd probably assume wrong.

[Even with the world going to hell, there is always room to regret something. This Riku doesn't, not now at least, but he knows the feeling, and he knows exactly just who might likely be battling with that right now, but that isn't any of Asch's business.

Mental note to assess his double's state of mind and set him straight as needed goes here though.]

But I agree on the principle.

[He can give Asch that much.]

[bloodyashes]

[And then they were suddenly getting along, sort of.]

People always manage to surprise me, unfortunately.

[Example A is Enoch over there good lord. How do you idealist that hard. How.

But yeah, the point stands.]

I just don't see the point. Save it for after you've given up.

[justabignobody]

[What a surprising twist in the conversation, but Riku won't complain about it. Friendly banter is preferable to actual fighting right now.]

Nature of the beast, I think.

[Riku lost any hope for Enoch when he figured it a good idea to team up with Ganondorf.

The man is likable enough, but there is a line where idealism and total trustworthiness don't really go hand in hand anymore. Anyway.]

Giving up is for the dead.

[He's pretty much told Ruana as much and he stands by it.]

[bloodyashes]

[The first comment just gets a grunt of assent. He's not about to argue with that one or anything up to the second comment, really.

The second comment, though, gets one of those rare Asch smiles - the sort that don't mean anything particularly good for anyone in the vicinity, and that includes Asch himself.]

That's exactly the point.

[Give up when you're dead, and regret when you're dead. Or trapped in your dead homeworld unable to actually die, because that's still a valid possibility at this point.]