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kaisou2026-02-06 07:35 pm
droptheious) wrote in kaisou2026-02-06 07:35 pm
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[Action] Every loss is harder to excuse
WHO: Varian and anyone in the lower levels of Meropide
WHERE: His workshop/production area in the Fortress of Meropide
WHEN: A week+ into the kidnapping, nebulous timey wimey
WHAT: The continued Bad Time that everyone is having
WARNINGS: Probable talk of torture but no specifics!
[ Varian's stress levels have been at a high since Jun, Haru and the others were taken. With each passing day that they remain kidnapped, his stress raises ever the more. It was part way through that first week that Varian started getting wellness check pings back from Jun when he checked. He still couldn't find his partner's location, but at least with this he knew he was alive. It was a small comfort- it was still bad, but he knew they still had time.
...Right until it stopped being that. As the week wore on and started to turn into the second week, Jun's wellness pings kept coming back worse and worse. He's been working in his lab, getting the Gardemeks and any weapons he wants to use up to snuff, as ready to move out as he can get them. But it's while he's doing that, that the worst of his wellness checks comes back.
He lets out a soft, distressed cry, clutching his hand with his engagement ring on with the other, and pulling it close to his chest - as if he can provide comfort to the person wearing the one the ring was linked to by doing so. It doesn't work like that, and he knows it, but it's the only comfort he can give. He stays there for a moment, wide-eyed, looking beyond horrified- and then he snaps himself out of it and starts to move.
He gets to the closest line of Gardemeks, starting them up - his brow furrowed, his lips a thin, angry line. There are people watching him, he knows that. He can't get away from them if he tried, so he will at least give them an explanation. ]
They're killing him. He's- [ his breath catches in a sob, before he tamps it down, his hands shaking, back to getting the robots online ] he's dying. I'm not waiting anymore. We don't have time to wait anymore.
[He's barely holding on with spit and determination, but he needs to have action now. He is not willing to let Jun die while they were trying to find the place they were being held. He might not even be in the city, Varian knows this, but he doesn't care. Because if he misses the chance to save them and Jun ends up gone, he will never forgive himself.
(And the whole fucking place can burn for it, that nasty, dark part of himself he's worked so hard to get distance from tells him). He takes a deep breath, focusing on the robots. ]
I- I've held back, like you asked. But I'm done. I'm not letting them kill him.
WHERE: His workshop/production area in the Fortress of Meropide
WHEN: A week+ into the kidnapping, nebulous timey wimey
WHAT: The continued Bad Time that everyone is having
WARNINGS: Probable talk of torture but no specifics!
[ Varian's stress levels have been at a high since Jun, Haru and the others were taken. With each passing day that they remain kidnapped, his stress raises ever the more. It was part way through that first week that Varian started getting wellness check pings back from Jun when he checked. He still couldn't find his partner's location, but at least with this he knew he was alive. It was a small comfort- it was still bad, but he knew they still had time.
...Right until it stopped being that. As the week wore on and started to turn into the second week, Jun's wellness pings kept coming back worse and worse. He's been working in his lab, getting the Gardemeks and any weapons he wants to use up to snuff, as ready to move out as he can get them. But it's while he's doing that, that the worst of his wellness checks comes back.
He lets out a soft, distressed cry, clutching his hand with his engagement ring on with the other, and pulling it close to his chest - as if he can provide comfort to the person wearing the one the ring was linked to by doing so. It doesn't work like that, and he knows it, but it's the only comfort he can give. He stays there for a moment, wide-eyed, looking beyond horrified- and then he snaps himself out of it and starts to move.
He gets to the closest line of Gardemeks, starting them up - his brow furrowed, his lips a thin, angry line. There are people watching him, he knows that. He can't get away from them if he tried, so he will at least give them an explanation. ]
They're killing him. He's- [ his breath catches in a sob, before he tamps it down, his hands shaking, back to getting the robots online ] he's dying. I'm not waiting anymore. We don't have time to wait anymore.
[He's barely holding on with spit and determination, but he needs to have action now. He is not willing to let Jun die while they were trying to find the place they were being held. He might not even be in the city, Varian knows this, but he doesn't care. Because if he misses the chance to save them and Jun ends up gone, he will never forgive himself.
(And the whole fucking place can burn for it, that nasty, dark part of himself he's worked so hard to get distance from tells him). He takes a deep breath, focusing on the robots. ]
I- I've held back, like you asked. But I'm done. I'm not letting them kill him.