#haaaaa...

[milkbreadtoast]

*points* THESE TWO R FRUSTRATING THE HELL OUT OF ME NGL *throwing rocks at them* BUT ALSO I LOVE THEM BOTH SO MUCH.... *the rocks being thrown at them are actually candy rocks and jesse catches them with his mouth like a seal*

[noonmutter]

Sentence

Daily Writing Challenge 2021 Day 14: Redemption/Hollow

"You INSUFFERABLE maggot! How do you do this? HOW?!"

Terry couldn't quite muster the energy to giggle, but he made a reasonable approximation by rasping the word 'heh' a few times. It was enough to piss Slant off, anyway, and that's all he really cared about. Nothing else was fun anymore, not after... fuck, how long had they been doing this, anyway? Weeks? Months? What was time, even?

"Answer me, you shitcrust! I KNOW you aren't that clever, I've seen your brain, I've held it in my thrice-damned hands, I've rewritten parts of it!"

He couldn't laugh this time; Slant put his anima canister in some kind of clamp thing and squeezed hard, and Terry felt like he was collapsing in on himself. More pain he would never be able to truly compare to anything else. Intense, abrupt, impossible to adapt to. It made no difference, but he gasped for breath when Slant finally released him again.

"Is it still funny now? Huh? IS IT?! Maybe I'll just wring the answers out of you until you finally resemble the worthless, brainless slug you really are!"

Again, the crushing, again, the impotent gasping.

"Why!"

Crush, gasp, crush.

"Won't!"

Crush, wheeze, crush.

"You!"

Crush. Crush harder. Harder still. Unrelenting.

"BREAK?!"

Terry was distantly aware of the sound of glass cracking, and the unbearable pressure suddenly releasing, but he couldn't do anything about it. His entire being felt so weak, he was amazed he could still see or hear. He wondered, in the vague, distracted way of someone who had nearly died, whether this was what roadkill felt like.

Slant didn't do much to improve Terry's demeanor when he put his face mere inches in front of him. Expressions made the man so much uglier; far and away the worst one was the snarl he had on him right then. If he'd had the energy for it, Terry would've cracked wise about how shit Slant's teeth still looked. Weren't venthyr supposed to be pretty? Or at least classy? He was pretty sure his wife could rock the venthyr aesthetic a helluva lot better than Slant could...

...oh. right. Slant. Yelling at him. What...what was he yelling about?

"--nothing special about you at all! You're just a bloody human! Weakest things in all of Azeroth! You didn't even sling the Light like the SMART ones did, you were just a fleshbag with a gun! TELL ME WHY!!"

The former undead man's eyes were wild, practically popping out of his head, and Terry was almost positive there was froth at the corners of his painted mouth. He only stopped screaming when Terry gave signs that he was gathering his strength to speak. There was a long, expectant pause.

"Cuz I fucked yer mum."

There was no crushing like Terry had expected; he had, truly, expected to be finally killed. There was never any chance of him answering the question, not out of defiance--well, not solely out of defiance--but because he simply didn't know. He had no idea why Slant couldn't convince him that the desire to give up was his. He had no idea why he could tell, every time, that something was pushing him. It had, as far as he could figure out, been seamless. It just...never felt right.

And Slant wasn't destroying him. Slant wasn't even in front of him anymore, though Terry could hear him talking to someone nearby. And then there was the rush of shuffling feet, and the clinking of glass shards moving around. Another strange Venthyr stood up with a handful of ruined anima canister and muttered that Slant was a worthless little shit, and Terry wheezed an agreement that he was in fact a twatwaffle, and for a nanosecond, they laughed before clearing their throat and disappearing from view.

He was alone for quite some time, and as he recovered his energy, he was dimly aware that there was shouting from somewhere a ways away. Maybe still inside the building, but in another room? Or down a hallway or something? It was hard to pick out words from the noise, but he could almost swear he heard Slant begging for a second. Gods, he hoped that was real. Just give him that one little thing.

Whether it was or wasn't, he never found out. A few minutes after that animated conversation ended, a much-ruffled Slant returned to the chamber, and adjusted his collar with a vicious smile that Terry liked even less than normal. It reminded him of a schoolkid who’d been ordered by the teacher to play nice, and left immediately unattended.

"Congratulations, T-1. You win."

"...Win."

"Indeed! You are no longer my assignment. You have been deemed ...irredeemable, as it were."

"We both know you weren't tryna redeem me."

Slant flicked a bony hand negligently as though swatting a fly. "Hardly relevant. The fact of the matter is that you are irredeemable, and as such, there is no place for you in these halls."

Terry knew better than to hope. He had no idea what was about to happen, but he knew he wasn't being offered freedom, so he didn't bite at the silence Slant was trying to tempt him with. The venthyr growled briefly to himself, then beckoned toward the darkness. A great, bat-winged beast stepped forward and hefted Terry, cage and all, off the pedestal.

"You are thus condemned to the Ember Ward. Perhaps someone will be along to check on your temperament before you've been driven mad or simply burned to ash, but..." He smiled, showing every single one of his crooked, blackened teeth.

"I truly doubt it."

( @daily-writing-challenge​ )

[grauntiemotersblog]

Hey how are you during this time? :3

Snsksf I'm .. uhh greatttt

Yeeaaahhhh...

[fuyuyuu]

March 30 2017 = 5 years of Konoha no Sekai Jijou, 4 years of Lost-time Memory, 2 years of Kagerou Daze VI -over the dimension-...

[impulsivexcreator]

I'm. Officially past the point of being overwhelmed

[companionwolf]

Kind of wish I could curl up and die. Or just. Not have to do things anymore. I know it's just the brain being real bad with its thoughts but. I don't know. It sounds appealing. Not having to do things. I don't know how the hell I'll make it through this year if I'm already crashing so hard. I hope the psych can help. I hope I don't make her so fed up with my lack of ability to answer concretely that she gives up like the last one did.

[n7keidence]

11 Questions

Thank you again @sabinasanfanfic!

1. What is your favourite colour? Do I... do I have to pick just one? Um... blue I guess? But green is nice too. So is purple. And red. This is too hard.

2. What is your all-time favourite movie? This one is even harder. It changes depending on the day, but the most recent one I saw that I loved was Moana so we'll go with that.

3. What is the last song you listened to? Post a link to the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQgHcQTuXA

4. What is your favourite season? Why? Fall. Because during winter I usually have to shovel snow (Canada), it rains too much in spring, and I'm terrible with the heat so I don't enjoy summer that much. So fall is my favourite by default. :D

5. Do you have any pets? If so, what kind of animal? We used to have two cats but one got too old and the other couldn't deal with my older brother when he was born so he was gone before I could even meet him. My mom keeps talking about getting another two kittens during the summer though so hopefully that'll happen.

6. What is your dream job? I honestly have no clue at this point. I thought I wanted to do animation or comics but I had a massive episode of self-doubting recently so now I'm completely lost. Something art related for sure, though.

7. If you won the lottery, what would you do with the winnings? You know, I'm really uncomfortable spending money because I know I have no willpower when it comes to buying things. I'd probably end up giving most of it to my parents for safe keeping and immdiately spending whatever I kept for myself.

8. What is your guilty pleasure television show? I bet you were expecting Hakuouki but it's not! HAH! Probably the Ace Attorney anime. I hate how half-assed the animation is at times and how they skipped some of my favourite scenes (*coughtoupeecough*), but I still watch it sometimes because I wanted an Ace Attorney anime ever since I beat the first case of the first game. Beggars can't be choosers I guess?

9. Have you ever been to a concert for a band? Which one did you see? Nope. Because money and loud places full of loud people aren't really my thing.

10. Who is your fictional character crush? Why? Hijikata. Because

11. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? Why? Anywhere without light pollution. Just for a bit. I went on a camping trip once for school and we got to see the stars. It was probably the most amazing thing I had ever seen and I really want to see it again.

Aaaaaaaaand I’m still not comfortable with tagging people so I’m just not going to do that. One day I’ll get over it.

[konohaprodigy-blog]

If anyone would like to do something with THIS verse idea. Hit me up.