#mrdiamondheart

[pocket-full-of-poppies]

Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck-

[Diamondheart starts grabbing the mandibles, trying his best to pull, pull, FUCKING PULL GET THEM OFF GET THEM OFF GET THEM OFF-]

- @mrdiamondheart

And all that brings is pain from the action, from hurting yourself, the way it puts stress on new joints, that don't give and remain strong enough to hold. A change isn't something easy to be rid of.

[meangreengamblingmachine]

[A humanoid darkner stumbles in the darkness of his own laboratory, clearly ill physically in some way. He's barely even able to hold himself together, metaphorical and literal. But that doesn't matter now.]

I know where he is.... And-

[Hacking coughs, almost falling, having to press both his hands against a wall to stop himself. Multiple colourful glows come from a nearby room, the main part of his lab.]

-I'll FIND him! Ghcuk! And then... EVERYTHING... I've done will cul... CULMINATE!

Giving ME means to eliminate the one who took MY own face!

Ending his ovation with his EXTERMINATION! TO CELEBRATE MY OWN DETERMINAT- cauhgk! Ghack!

[More coughing....]

- @mrdiamondheart

[is his health due to the lack of a face or it is perhaps negligence? I’d imagine a bit of both. Maybe some unrelated factors as well.]

[he seems persistent and devoted to revenge. Determined. Of course having lost his face that is understandable.]

[of course who would I be if I didn’t question how he’s found Talhiasi? What will his revenge entail? Will he take his face back? Put it back in its rightful place? Will he take something more?]

[how will Talhiasi handle this?]

[meangreengamblingmachine]

[I don't care if I joined willingly or not.]

[I found out about these places a long time ago, these worlds of dark. Went to them often by myself, grew used to them, a place where I could stop being so studious and enjoy myself. I had friends there.]

[I grew too complacent. He wasn't a friend. He told me his name was-]

[A darkner without a face, he had it stolen. Just another tragedy I thought. And then he lured me in deeper with knowledge, more knowledge and more.]

[And It got to the point where I didn't feel that much when he took my SOUL. Threw it in a lab with a yellow one, a dark red one, and a monster's SOUL. Part of the monster's replaced with mine and vice versa, that hurt.]

[... I'm cold.]

- @mrdiamondheart (sorry about all of this, but this is the backstory for the SOULs a certain darkner has...]

[you’re all good! 👍]

[indifference.]

[and you were also seeking a sort of escape. Anyone who doesn’t live in the dark treats it that way. Like a vacation home.]

[things that most certainly are not call themselves friends. That’s familiar. So is getting hurt in your own pursuit of knowledge. Did you ever consider that he’d lie or did you trust him completely? Did he even tell you his real name? Do we know his real name?]

[you know what they say. Complacency kills.]

[anger, fear, hurt, and cold. Well none of that is positive but it is expected.]

[meangreengamblingmachine]

[I joined him willingly.]

[I was all alone after the house fire, all bitter and chewed up by the other kids. Needed some kind of escape, any kind of escape, but not the sort of things the adults did.]

[... So I found something. Worlds within the dark. Beautiful worlds. And I was still so angry. It just wouldn't stop. A cold heart over my chest, dull grey, I wanted... Revenge.]

[And that's when I found him. A darkner, one with no face, one who was stolen from by another, one that wanted revenge too. His name was-]

[Finally, something to direct the anger at. I let him take my SOUL. Quick and painless. Thrown into a lab with a yellow SOUL.]

[It hurts. But I'm too mad to care.]

- @mrdiamondheart (hopefully do all these in order?)

[Willingly? I suppose it makes sense. When you’ve lost everything and have even less.]

[an escape. A nice thought, a nice place. Are you sure you’ve found it?]

[was this the right choice? Is it okay even if it hurts?]

[is it beautiful?]

[has anger and the desire for revenge clouded your judgement?]

[meangreengamblingmachine]

[I was a human.]

[I didn't join his efforts willingly, I think?...]

[I remember finding out about the worlds in the dark. I looked different there. A yellow heart on top of my chest. Powers, abilities. I was willing to use them for good. I DID use them for good.]

[And then I found him. Or, he found me? Maybe. He looked so ill. He didn't have a face, just a hole where it used to be. He said that his name was V-]

[We talked. Another darkner stole his face for himself, left him for dead. I remember feeling so angry on his behalf, how could someone be so wicked that they'd just do that because they COULD?!]

[... And that anger was how he got me.]

[It was quick. Before I knew it, I was just a yellow floating heart trapped inside a lab. I've never been able to leave since. I don't know how long it's been.]

[But for some reason, I'm still so angry. I want to help him, but I don't know if that's just the want for justice or something else. It feels like I'm being controlled and I'm okay with it.]

[I'm afraid.]

[But I'm more angry than I am afraid.]

- @mrdiamondheart

[was? Did he change you? Did he shape you into something entirely different? What are you now?]

[the name unfinished? V. Has his original name been lost in his efforts to remember it? Maybe they simply don’t want to say his name.]

[doing it just because he could. That sounds like Talhiasi as I know him to be.]

[I can’t say I blame you for feeling so enraged, it’s an unfair, unjust thing to do. Though I get the feeling Vannelheim has his own wickedness about him.]

[be careful not to become too focused on your end goal. The way you get there matters just as much]

[meangreengamblingmachine]

EVERYONE!...

I'LL ANNIHILATE ALL OF THEM!!!!!...

@mrdiamondheart

[…oh dear. How troublesomely determined.]

[meangreengamblingmachine]

Lightners...

- @mrdiamondheart

[Lightners.]

[meangreengamblingmachine]

Darkners...

- @mrdiamondheart

[Darkeners.]