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simulsimul) wrote2016-11-02 07:40 pm
simulsimul) wrote2016-11-02 07:40 pm
a thing; w/ ruinsprofessor & conductingresistance
canon
breached
confessed
dadly
future
grigori
mercenary
MEover
origin
reversal
titans
scenario list
canon: Kratos needs to stop running off
confessed: wing reflex
confessed: actual wingpull
confessed: turning Renegade
confessed: son meets father
dadliness: confrontation
dadliness: awakening
dadliness: illness
dadliness: a fundamental lack of understanding on the word 'abducted'
dadliness: updating parameters
dadliness: assassination assignation
mercenary: hiding in the library
mercenary: aftermath of librarian saviour
reversal: oracle destroyed
titans: storming the tower
titans: safety in the canyon
titans: night horrors
canon
- combo of Kratos and Zelos ending
- Zelos does the stupid thing, but not so far as his death, and is still the eighth member of the party to Derris-Kharlan.
scenarios
scenario one: Yuan tracks Kratos down at Dirk's.
breached
- canon right up until after Botta’s death
- no one uses Yuan’s name around Mithos so Mithos walks right into the Triet base with them
- cue an epic OH SHIT in which Yuan gets a lil bit beat up while covering the evacuation of the rest of the base
- until Kratos appears to intervene and have the Chosen group get Yuan out of there
- Mithos gets Kratos tho and he’s a bit mad cos, yanno, traitor and all
- time to be locked up and punished and need to be rescued
- kind of puts a crimp in the creation of the Eternal Ring plans
- mostly cos Mithos turns Kratos lifeless, with some armour to regulate his mana so he remains a seraph. can't have the seal becoming less powerful, yo
- it does mean he can only obey orders tho
- the first rescue fails miserably but at least no one dies and they know they need to reforge his key-crest
- the second rescue attempt (circumstances of canon-point under percolation) goes a little better, though Yuan almost gets killed by Kratos trying to attach the key-crest
- luckily that and the first telepathy in a while gets through and Kratos manages to break out a la Colette, and heal Yuan enough for Raine to get there
- after which, angreh father-son beatdown on Mithos.
scenarios
None yet.
confessed
- almost successful assassination lands Kratos as an injured stranger in Iselia (1-2 years pre-canon)
- recuperation leads to accidental-on-purpose 'holiday' in Iselia
- doubts result in a request for Dirk to make a key-crest like Kratos' own
- oracle room undergoes some stealth sabotage
- regeneration journey is slightly delayed, prompted by Genis and Lloyd being discovered at the ranch
- Triet is awkward. so very awkward. for the Renegades -- whose side is Kratos even on these days and why was he vanished for two years?
- initial overall journey similar to canon, save that Kratos is a bit less circumspect about advising Colette on how to cope with angel transformations
- there are more overt Dun Wanna Feelings
- then Luin, wherein things happen and the group is in town during the Desian attack. the others naturally want to fight but tis a mite difficult against an army and building-destroying magitech. luckily, angel on their side. unluckily, wingpulls in order to muster the power to cover the townspeoples' retreat
- questions and confessions ensue
- Colette rejects the key crest (for the moment) so there's still hopefully maybe ambiguity about Kratos's position re the last seal
- it wouldn't fit anyway, it's modelled for the hand like Kratos's is because he was a derp and did not specify otherwise, so Lloyd needs to make a thing to make it fit
- slow protective retreat toward Asgard.
scenarios
scenario one: Kratos confesses before Salvation; Raine wants to follow up.
scenario two: Raine's examination of an angel; and also Kratos realises how far he's put his foot in it.
scenario three: Kratos goes to taunt Yuan a little, and also ask for his help.
scenario four: in which Raine makes Kratos tell the children all the things, and Yuan takes too much amusement from it.
dadliness
- Kratos retires in Iselia under the name Irving to raise Lloyd after the death of his wife
- no exsphere. ageing occurs! so does a beard and a braid
- teaches Lloyd swordplay, but on the sly, to avoid the other villagers noticing. his daytime job is weaving
- Lloyd finds the box of their exspheres and wants details. after some prodding by Dirk, Kratos explains how exspheres are made and that one is Anna's life. Lloyd is too young yet, but when Lloyd comes of age (~15) Kratos lets him make his own decision re wearing it
- Lloyd chooses not to wear the exsphere
- Genis befriends Marble and Lloyd meets her, as in canon; this happens before the journey begins, with the fallout
- difference being that Colette is still in the village so they can't be too horrible, so they just demand Lloyd be turned over for a flogging
- Kratos stands in his stead because natch. luckily, they're only mooks and don't recognise the bearded weaver as anyone important
- gives Lloyd his guilt complex early tho
- the oracle happens much the same way except Botta doesn't quite recognise the weirdly familiar bearded swordsman
- he does when he's reporting to Yuan tho
'there was an exceptionally skilled human'
/brief physical description/
/did x other faintly recognizable thing/
and both he and Yuan are aware that Kratos has been awol for a while, so there's a moment of pure silence and dawning 'no, it couldn't be'
- but then obviously one of them has to go make sure
- cue an interruption just out of Triet.
scenarios
scenario one: Yuan feels the need to investigate; this results in Kratos injured and abducted.
scenario two: Yuan realises he can't kill Kratos with his own two hands; Kratos gets mothered.
scenario three: Kratos gets sick on the heels of his recovery. Yuan mothers him some more. Botta disapproves.
scenario four: Kratos recovers and makes an escape attempt. Sort-of.
scenario five: Kratos recovers more and talks to Botta, when not needling Yuan about his lack of preparedness.
scenario six: Sheena's contract takes a slight shift into undercover instead of assassination work.
future
- Aselia is Earth ~10,000 years in the past
- all is peachy-keen except the tree is now underground and the elvens/half-elves/some humans are in hiding in the centre of the planet, hidden thanks to the summon spirits
- Colette is working with humanitarian aid in various impoverished nations
- Zelos is a diplomat in West Asia / Middle East trying to keep the peace
- Yuan is a crotchety lecturer at Cambridge who's also HUGE into environmentalism
- Lloyd and Kratos are having family time in space
- occasionally the trio on Earth meet reincarnations of people they used to know
- but rarely at the same time and almost never in a position where they meet
- but then they start meeting them
- lots of them
- all in the same span of years
- they're starting to think something's hinky
- until the space-elves attack
- and then they know something is hinky.
scenarios
None yet.
grigori
- at some point significantly before canon, Kratos actually calls it quits
- the Church's institution calls him a fallen angel of vengeance
- really he's just going around trying to help people and avoiding being taken back to Cruxis
- assigns himself to the Chosen parties whenever he can, up to Colette
- ????? idk some kind of profit somewhere
scenarios
None yet.
mercenary
- when Yuan visits Kratos at the beach when Lloyd is 3 months old, he does not manage to escape before Anna and Lloyd return
- accidental attachment to this kidlet who likes pulling his hair
- three years later, Yuan can't stand to hold back while Kratos fights Kvar, so he throws caution to the wind to help
- Anna is still killed but they rescue Lloyd and Noishe and both are branded as traitors
- Lloyd is raised as a Renegade with Dad, Uncle Yuan and the extremely reticent Uncle Botta (how dare)
- meanwhile in Tethe'alla Yuan infiltrates the castle as the library archivist
- stays out of sight, mostly, but has a good ear around the politics thanks to recruiting Princess Hilda
- also happens to stumble on Zelos hiding in the library right after his mother's death
- look he's got a 'nephew' he can't just do nothing (even if all he meant was to recommend a book)
- unwittingly accidentally 'adopts' the Tethe'allan Chosen by virtue of being the only one who doesn't treat him like the Chosen
- sometimes Kratos brings Lloyd to visit and basically they're all separate pairs of exasperated bros
- by canon Lloyd and Kratos are wandering mercenaries, helping people on the sly while gathering intel to send back to the Renegades
- Yuan and Zelos are actively building resistance to the Church using inside knowledge
- the ninja are all Renegades
- Colette is escorted by Raine and by the priests
- yes the 'chain up the Chosen and drag her to every seal if necessary' priests
- she meets Lloyd randomly in Triet but Lloyd doesn't know her as the Chosen. they're a bit out of touch on the Journey of Regen timeline
- stuff happens and they keep missing each other up until Palmacosta, which is a warzone between the Desians (and Dorr as their figurehead) and the Renegades (with Neil as their leader)
- Colette wants to help; priests say no
- out come the chains
- Raine objects, but she has no exsphere so what can she do
- btw Genis got caught in the Iselian ranch and tossed in as a traitor to be made a host
- he gets sent to the Palmacosta ranch
- right after Neil manages to take the city, after Colette and Raine leave it, Botta takes the Palmacosta ranch and rescues Genis, among others
- Genis becomes his little shadow and is much preferable to Lloyd, in Botta's opinion
- Lloyd and Kratos are still trying to catch up to Colette to rescue her when they drop by
- Genis hears what they're trying to do and insists on coming along.
scenarios
scenario one: in which Yuan accidentally adopts a Chosen instead of a book from a library.
scenario two: in which Yuan is accidentally-deliberately adopted by the Meltokio Castle Knights.
MEover
- Mass Effect crossover someplace in the realm of 15,000 years after TOS canon
- except started before then, cos elves are really from Feros, planet of the cranky telepathic plant
- got decimated by the protheans trying to assimilate them into their empire
- elves objected, got killed a lot, fled Feros and got stuck in Aselia's orbit
- kinda forgot a few things but planted a seed from the Ferosian mother plant on Aselia
- Origin hasn't forgotten tho, kinda has a grudge against grumblegrumbleprotheansgrumble
- the entirety of TOS happened, and then some
- Kratos, Yuan, Lloyd, Colette and Zelos are the only ones left, but tis okay, they have each other
- somethingsomething natural space disaster, Aselia is destroyed but they manage to move Yggdrasill onto Derris-Kharlan and do a quarian by becoming a roaming ship
- mana is a variant of eezo lbr
- Derris-Kharlan's too big to use the mass relays, but c'mon it generates its own mass effect field so they develop tech to do hops on their own
- they're in no hurry tho, i mean lbr primarily angelic, elf and half-elf population
- so they're just bumming around their local clusters doing thorough investigations on all the things
- so much eezo on their ship
- so much
- suddenly the Normandy running from a reapers comes along to hide behind them
- reapers start shooting
- everyone on Derris-Kharlan objects
- JUDGEMENT IN SPACE
- so much profit and judging of reapers.
scenarios
None yet.
origin
- Kratos tells Lloyd the dad thing in Triet
- dad and son feelings ensue
- they culminate at the Tower of Salvation in Kratos stabbing Yggdrasill in the back
- unfortunately he does not quite die but impales Kratos against a wall and goes berserk on the Chosen party to the point of Yuan stepping in to help
- that is, by threatening to stab Kratos in the back while he's vulnerable (with Kratos's permission)
- Yggdrasill calls his bluff and fails, and Yuan does the thing
- while Yggdrasill is distracted the Chosen's group nail him but good and he retreats
- luckily while heart-stabbing happened, Kratos's cruxis crystal is still intact, and between Raine's healing and Yuan's mana transfusion he survives long enough to be taken to the Triet base and a refresher
- stuff happens in some fashion or other up until opening Origin's seal
- as it turns out, the mana tranfusion has fused the lock, so to speak, and Kratos can't unlock the seal even voluntarily
- only way to get Origin out at this point is to let him fuse with Kratos, so Kratos becomes Origin
- stipulation of this: Kratos refuses to let go of his humanity
- luckily Yuan already has a literal bond with him thanks to the mana transfusion, so with him as his summoner Kratos can keep his humanity, and only use Origin's powers when Yuan summons them
- commitment like woah for a literal eternity
- but hey, they messed up but good and it's the only way they can reunite the worlds.
scenarios
none yet.
reversal
~ 2000 years in, Kratos and Yuan conspire to kill Mithos and succeed, sorta
- he's stuck inside his exsphere, possessing people
- but he manages to survive and while Kratos and Yuan claim Derris-Kharlan for their base, he takes most of the angels as 'fallen', as well as the Eternal Sword
- most of his bases are hidden behind dimensional slips created by the sword - Iselia included
- Origin refuses to trust either Kratos or Yuan with the job, anyhow, and they don't have a summoner
- instead they're forced to fight Cruxis, embroiling the worlds in an angelic war between Cruxis and the new organisation of Chayim
- the Chosen bloodlines are more important to Cruxis than Chayim, but Mithos seals the seals so only the Chosen bloodline can flip the mana switch. Kratos and Yuan need someone to do that until they can reunite them, so the Journey remains an institution, just without compulsory death at the end
- there is angelification tho, if only so Chayim gets more soldiers and so the Chosen can defend themselves against Cruxis
- Kratos sends Anna and Lloyd to Iselia, because even though enemy territory, it's the safest place there is for them
- Anna get word to Kratos that the Desians are using Iselia as a long-term cruxis crystal cultivation location, and that the sword is held there
- her spy succeeds but is intercepted, and Mithos locks down the dimensional slip to prevent exit and access by angels for ~15 years
- Lloyd grows up in a town with a heavy half-elf population and believing he's training to help the good guys
- he has his own cruxis crystal as a host, but doesn't tell his mother due to the faith-based propaganda encouraging hosts not to bring it up or risk the powers not taking
- he wants to help though, so he steals a key-crest to ensure he can fight
- Yuan and Kratos plan to assault the town and shrine but Mithos uses the sword to interrupt travel between worlds, keeping Yuan in Tethe'alla and forcing Kratos to attack Iselia alone.
scenarios
scenario one: Iselia is attacked by Chayim to claim the sword, with the sword already gone
titans
- Yggdrasill captures Kratos before Kvar finds Anna and Lloyd, but after Kratos makes an Eternal Ring
- Yuan figures hell no and raises the Renegades to try and take Derris-Kharlan, rescue Kratos and solve the split-world problem
- the attack fails. a lot.
- Renegades are wiped out, Kratos is still in Cruxis's hands, but Yuan manages to escape with the Eternal Ring
- Cruxis follows him to Triet base, which gets destroyed and the few remaining Renegades scatter
- Botta is still around tho, helping out how he can
- mostly Yuan just goes searching for Lloyd and Anna
- doesn't manage to find them before Kvar does tho, and Kratos hears from Yggdrasill that they're dead
- this is slightly inaccurate, cos Lloyd still winds up rescued by Dirk in Iselia
- where Yuan eventually finds him, not knowing that he's 'supposed' to be dead
- so Yuan settles in Iselia for a bit to watch Lloyd and the Chosen
- cuts and dyes his hair, the whole shebang
- learns how to carpentry, invents a new use of magic
- winds up being Genis's role model just because scholar and magic-user and half-elf who can pass but also takes no shit from people
- is one of Colette's companions on the Journey when it starts
- he's been challenging their understanding of the Church's institution this whole time lbr
- Sheena is still a thing because the ninja have taken over the Tethe'allan base, which has survived, somewhat
- a grilling ensues
- sometime just after the Asgard Ranch Yuan does have to drop the bombshell
- about how the Journey is just a front, he and his bestie are angels, btw his bestie is Lloyd's dad
- how they're out to topple the institution of religion
- forget sacrificing Colette for the Regeneration, when they get to the seal they can do that without anyone dying
- and then move straight on to rescuing Kratos in Derris-Kharlan
- then they get to the Tower and realise Yggdrasill has Kratos under a Prometheusesque punishment a la 'impaled on the Eternal Sword to suffer the Seed's pain and watch the Chosen get murdered'
- luckily this does not happen, as they manage to rescue him and escape Yggdrasill instead, barely
- retreat to Botta's hiding-place in Asgard so Kratos can recover
- and also find out that Lloyd is actually alive
- the Chosen group goes around to make as many pacts as they can while in Sylvarant
- they get up to Aska when Yggdrasill sends his angels to attack Asgard
- cue Yuan and Kratos being unstoppable battle gods together
scenarios
scenario one: in which Yuan leads the Chosen's party to the Tower of Salvation to dismantle all the traditions ever, and find Kratos waiting for them in serious need of a rescue.
scenario two: in which being in safety reveals that Kratos is not precisely unscathed, but he's doing his best.
scenario three: in which Kratos is emphatically not okay, but with Yuan's help, could be.
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[This understanding is a wordless transmission, followed by acceptance -- a sense of I wouldn't have blamed you if you'd had to choose the world, even though that ultimately turned out to be unnecessary. Kratos hadn't been convinced Yuan could talk Origin into helping if Yuan had wielded the sword, even though he would have had the best chance among the seraphim of doing so.]
I knew you were Renegade for a long time.
[It's not precisely a tangent. It might be an apology, of a sort, for making Yuan have to make that choice alone, long before he brought it to Kratos.]
I should have come to you earlier.
[Maybe they could have figured something else out ... or maybe it would have meant the end for the both of them, without Lloyd as a third option.]
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How long?
[And he'd never said anything. Of course he hadn't. It probably wasn't relevant.]
...maybe. I don't know if I would have trusted your intent, earlier.
It's over, anyway.
[What-ifs are only going to hurt now, he's realizing.]
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I've lost count. Some centuries, though. You weren't particularly subtle, and it never became relevant to Yggdrasill.
[At least, not as far as Yggdrasill was concerned.]
Yes. That's true.
[It is over, or nearly, and that makes a wash of relief rush through Kratos yet again; even know that the Seed isn't germinated, that the worlds aren't yet reunited. Kratos doesn't truly believe Lloyd will fail.]
Are the pair of yah gonna eat that stew or just keep yapping?
[That's Dirk, calling from the other side of the house, and Kratos laughs faintly.]
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[Centuries. The realization of how much wasted time there is comes as another pang, but Yuan flattens his expression out, doesn't reflect any of it physically. Mentally is another story; but even then it's only brief.]
We haven't 'yapped' this much in years.
[But nevertheless Yuan straightens a little to poke his spoon at Kratos' bowl, somewhat pointedly, ignoring his own in the process.]
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Hmn. One might almost think it was Armageddon.
[This is dry, very nearly resigned, but still with humour there. Kratos opens his eyes, finally, only to glance down at the rap of Yuan's spoon on his bowl. With a huff he raises his full spoon again.]
If you mothered your Renegades like this, it's a wonder any of you got anything done.
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[The humor vanishes rapidly, and Yuan taps Kratos' knuckles with the spoon instead.]
I don't mother, and if I did it wouldn't be my subordinates. Eat.
[If Kratos is eating, he cannot insult Yuan. Or that would have been the case before they reopened the mental link.]
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[This, just before Kratos is unable to respond, though even then he broadcasts his amusement. The bowl does not take too much time to finish, though ensuring Yuan finishes his as well takes longer; and given the argument on the definition of 'mothering' the time passes relatively quickly.
[Kratos is testing his mana, threaded with his groundedness but still not cycled enough to pull away from Yuan, when Sylvarant's mana abruptly expands. There's no other word for it, and it makes Kratos's breath catch, and it's the only warning before the ground tremors violently.]
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[But he isn't mothering. Kratos gets a flat look before Yuan keeps picking at the stew, adjusting his physical senses to match.]
[They subside into something easier than they've known in decades, and Yuan is absently tracking Kratos' mana with one corner of his mind and considering the gentle prickle of static with the rest when the world seems to heave, and the sense of the world's mana suddenly becomes so much more. It's dizzying. Yuan reaches for Kratos on instinct alone, hand closing like a vise over Kratos' wrist.]
Is that--?
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Yes.
[His voice comes out husky, and even though he's not by rights healed enough to set aside his angelic constitution, Kratos flings that benefit away if only so he has the outlet of tears. He draws in a breath and it shakes; and then the world settles, and Kratos feels the hollow wash of nothing under the combined mana of the two worlds, like an empty breath with nothing to feed it.
[Kratos doesn't quite realise that he's turned to Yuan, but he has, unspeaking and with an expression of mixed fear and hope, and unacknowledged tears on his cheeks. In their heads it's nothing but a blast of agonising suspense, feeling the worlds as they once were, waiting for the bloom of the germinated Seed.]
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[Now: hollowness, and the waiting. Hope is almost a painful thing in his chest, the force of how much Yuan wants that presence back. He leans into Kratos, barely breathing, till he has to gasp for having ignored it too long. He couldn't stand now if he tried. Unconsciously he's reaching out, please a quiet mournful thread at the back of his mind. Please: let them succeed in that final step.]
[It's been so long he's forgotten what right felt like.]
I think--
[Yuan forgets what he thinks in the next moment. What was gone is suddenly there, with a familiarity that aches, like he could turn the next corner and see Martel, smiling as she always had. It's only the sight of Kratos' face, now, that makes Yuan realize he himself is doing much the same, eyes damp.]
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[Please.
[The sensation of the Seed blooming is very nearly overwhelming, not because of its strength but because it's been so long since even a flourishing world felt like anything other than a muddy lake well below its level; and something else, too. It's not Martel, but it's so near to her that Kratos feels the aching lance of grief in Yuan's mind. Wordless, unheeding of Dirk hovering nearby, Kratos abandons the pressure on his wound to wrap his arm around Yuan and pull him into a hard embrace, even seated, even against the wall, with Yuan's hand tight around his wrist.
[He means to speak but what comes out instead is a scattered laugh; tearful, half a sob, but a laugh nevertheless, very nearly wild with uncomprehending delight.
[They did it.]
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[In the surprise of it he lets go of Kratos' wrist, turns closer into the embrace. There's a million little inconveniences -- the wall, the angle, armor, something twinging almost like pain -- but none of it matters. Lloyd and the others succeeded. The Seed is germinating, has bloomed into something greater. The worlds...]
[The worlds are one world again.]
[Yuan rests against Kratos' shoulder and mourns Martel in the same breath as he rejoices for the reunification of the world.]
They did it. It's... over.
[Mithos, too, must be truly dead.]
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[It's a murmur, an agreement, awestruck; and Kratos laughs again, even while he weeps, his face half pressed against Yuan's shoulder. He grips Yuan tighter, as if that will help relieve some of the wealth of emotion he's feeling, a wealth he isn't quite sure how to handle, after so long vying to keep it all at bay.]
It's over, and we lived to see it. Spirits.
[There's pain in there, somewhere; a deep wrench of a pain for what was lost, for what was necessary. It's overwhelmed by the release of everything Kratos had pretended he didn't have, couldn't do, wouldn't see.]
Can you feel that?
[Of course Yuan can feel that; a stream of new mana, flush with strength, united -- not withheld from half the world. Until now Kratos had forgotten how parched both worlds really were, in their never-ending cycle. It's almost enough to make him feel delirious.]
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[That's murmured. All of the spirits back in the same world. Origin, helping put the worlds back together.]
[Yuan feels that same pain, and it is somehow the less for knowing he isn't alone in it.]
I can. I'd forgotten...
[This is what the world should be. It's still small, but it's more than the Seed was. It will be enough.]
[He laughs quietly, with relief and delight more than humor. It turns into a pained sound for a second or two, as Yuan consciously recognizes that he may not be as healed as he thought, and then promptly ignores it.]
It's the Tree.
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[This is nearly whispered, but raw for all the emotion in it. I'd forgotten too. He has distant, hazy memories of first being able to read mana, how it felt, how overwhelming; but he only remembers because he hadn't lived with it from the off. The memories had grown so very dusty.
[Now it feels like he hasn't taken a breath of fresh air in four thousand years, and just never realised.
[Kratos draws back briefly just to cup Yuan's face, kiss his forehead, shake him lightly with another breathless laugh in a fit of tactile affection like he hasn't used since before Martel's death. It's a special occasion. He may or may not be trembling; too much energy, too many emotions, all at once.]
It's the Tree.
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...You are drunk on mana, aren't you.
[For all that it's dry it's so very fond. Until Kratos shakes him, at which point another quiet sound slips by Yuan's control. Damn. Should have spent more time with the refresher-- time he didn't have until now. He smiles anyway, despite himself, despite everything, to see Kratos so vibrant, to feel the mana flowing into the world.]
You're shaking. Here.
[He wraps a hand over Kratos', steadying, trying to balance him out.]
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It's your fault. You've thrown my mana all out of sorts.
[But the sound Yuan makes does filter through the euphoria, finally, and connects with the twist to Yuan's laugh earlier. Kratos catches his breath. He doesn't dare to turn anything off, but focussing on Yuan, listening to him in his head, cuts away some of the unmitigated joy. Kratos's eyes narrow.]
Yuan? Are you injured?
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[Yuan is completely ignoring the fact that he himself was crying just a moment ago, that he really is just as thrilled as Kratos.]
--it's nothing. I must have been less recovered than I thought, that's all.
[Right now, Yuan would really rather not think about the circumstances. Not when the world is made new.]
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[Despite the fact that Yuan's just revealed himself to be a gigantic hypocrite, Kratos is laughing at it. He really is a bit drunk on the new mana, on his own and the Tree's; for all that he's a seraphim, he's coming at his mana-sense from an entirely different place that most half-elves do. Sometimes, under certain rare circumstances, it's all a bit too much.
[Across the room, Dirk sighs over the tinkle of him collecting the broken shards of a pot.]
The both of you are idiots, and this is why yah asked for my definition.
[Kratos ignores him to shake his head and shift their positions a bit so he can reach down for Yuan's ribs. He, also, is blatantly Not Thinking about the circumstances of Yuan's injury, though that particular memory lurks just out of range, like a goblin. It's handily held at bay by everything else.]
Which ones?
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[Read: until he remembered about feeling pain again. Yuan thinks about the question for a minute before answering.]
The lower are the worse off. One is still grinding strangely.
[At least he admits it.]
I did stop at a refresher.
[He's not as irresponsible as Kratos, really. Yuan sighs quietly, and looks just a little bit aside from Kratos, for once not arguing anything else and submitting to Kratos' tender mercies.]
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[But this is affectionate, resoundingly so through the link; and though Kratos is managing to put some thought and care into his touch, it's still fairly clear through that link that he's still riding a high of catharsis. Which is why, when he finds the ribs tender under his hand, he thinks absolutely nothing of summoning a healing arte. This one rushes quick to his fingers, eager to respond to the mana in Yuan which feels more familiar to it than the mana in Kratos's own mending wound.
[It does remind him that he has a wound, and he grunts as it pangs from mana drawn away from it; but healing Yuan is easier, and quicker, than healing himself right now.
[From across the room, Dirk demands:]
What do you think you're doing?!
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[The impending destruction of all his people, for one.]
At least I had the common sense to stop and try to fix-- Kratos. That's enough.
[This as soon as he notes Kratos' discomfort. Yuan swats Kratos' hand away, abruptly all prickles again.]
Don't heal me at your own expense.
[Mentally, a quiet apology; he would have allowed it, in truth, but he had thought Kratos slightly more recovered than that.]
[Apparently neither of them know their own limits any more.]
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[Yes, this is a very deliberate throwback to Yuan's own accusation, regarding Kratos expelling his mana. That, at least, had been necessary. But there's no edge to the words, regardless; in fact Kratos can barely keep the smile off his face.
[Still, he does submit to the refusal by sinking back against the wall and Yuan's shoulder, waving Dirk away as the dwarf stamps closer rather threateningly. Dirk eyes him suspiciously, then grunts and collects their bowls, moving back to the other side of the room.]
Do your ribs feel better now, at least?
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[Kratos is still smiling. Perversely, it makes Yuan scowl just a little bit more. Kratos is taking none of this as seriously as it should be taken; but at least he's settling down.]
[In light of that, Yuan relents just enough to settle Kratos more comfortably, adjusting the angle.]
...yes. Thank you.
[It's an improvement. The unhappy grinding has subsided, leaving only aches. Fractures, if Yuan had to guess. It'll heal.]
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[Thanks to you, unspoken except in their heads, even though the very articulation of it proves Yuan's point. And his smile, if anything, grows slightly at Yuan's disgruntlement for its presence. It's been a very long time since Kratos has had any strength for joy; he's forgotten how much overt happiness can irk Yuan so.
[But he says nothing, only blasts silent amusement and settles more comfortably against Yuan's shoulder, his hand returning to the throbbing pain of the wound in his side. Now he's noticing it again; now some of the euphoria has worn off.
[But now Dirk's coming back, carrying some more pillows and some blankets, and scowling.]
The two of yah aren't moving from this corner and away from my sight until both of you are properly healed.
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~finis