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foundationmods) wrote2018-11-29 04:47 pm
foundationmods) wrote2018-11-29 04:47 pm
GRAVEYARD
[On the instant of your death, you're suddenly outside of your body - probably staring down at the remains it's become.
Yet, you're not alone. For all of you (except Szayel), a young man appears from behind you, his face set into a firm, yet sad, scowl. His shaggy strawberry blonde hair is pretty eye-catching, along with the black and white Shihakusho he wears and the large sword on his back, even as he gently tries to lead you back into the lobby and away from what was once your body. You can still clearly hear and see the living, if you want to try - but they can't see or hear you.
'Welcome to the world of the dead in this Resort,' he says, quietly. 'Looks like you're stuck here with the rest of us.'
He hands you a tablet, just like the one you had before. "You'll need this if you want to keep talking to them,' he explains, looking sad.
It looks like you've passed on, and yet...You still feel like you have a role to play in all of this.]
Yet, you're not alone. For all of you (except Szayel), a young man appears from behind you, his face set into a firm, yet sad, scowl. His shaggy strawberry blonde hair is pretty eye-catching, along with the black and white Shihakusho he wears and the large sword on his back, even as he gently tries to lead you back into the lobby and away from what was once your body. You can still clearly hear and see the living, if you want to try - but they can't see or hear you.
'Welcome to the world of the dead in this Resort,' he says, quietly. 'Looks like you're stuck here with the rest of us.'
He hands you a tablet, just like the one you had before. "You'll need this if you want to keep talking to them,' he explains, looking sad.
It looks like you've passed on, and yet...You still feel like you have a role to play in all of this.]
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[His face drains of color ]
..............
What?!
W-when I said that the other day... I was just joking! Shitposting! How on earth...?!
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[Ah, is that how he looked when he saw Gabe? It's - interesting, seeing it on someone else, but he's too tired to really pay much attention right now.]
...He showed me his chest, which had the beginning of a hollow hole forming. He said - it'd been cracking, but after he stopped the last trial, it opened up - and his powers can't turn off.
...I was even attacked by what I think is the start of his own hollow...somehow.
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Well.... I know that Dr. De'Orain was planning to continue her work on the "Reaper" project, but it's news to me that the clown decided to help her -- incorporating Hollowfication without asking the expert on it, what were they thinking...?! But it must have been, as Moira doesn't work with souls yet.
[he sighs and adjusts his glasses]
... I don't have to tell you that this is a very dangerous situation. If he's in his original body from 6350, or in a generic gigai, it's not likely that his body will survive complete Hollowfication. At worst, it may result in soul suicide. Especially if it reacted so violently to you and Zangetsu. This moves our timeline up significantly. I can't fix him here, I need my tools and my lab... but if I can get my hands on him, I should be able to at least stabilize him until we can get him back to the Foundation. [he didn't think he'd be recreating Urahara's Vizard experiments so soon...]
[tentatively, he places a hand on Ichigo's shoulder]
... But you need rest. And I need time to modify one of my reishi-eating worms. I also need this. [he removes a vial from his clothes and teases loose a sample of Gabe's hollow reishi from the wound on ichigo's neck. The wispy shadow gets placed in the vial] Please quickly deliver whatever information you must to the others and then get some sleep.
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Did - did it finally happen? Did what he said would happen come to pass - has Szayel learned about friendship?]
....Alright. Thank you, Szayel. It's -
[He trails off, rubbing at his face, and for a moment?
He looks so very lost, and small - not the perfect being Szayel wants, but someone in pain and uncertain about what's going to happen in the future, and -
aching that he couldn't save someone he cared about.]
...Never mind. I'll - do that.
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It seems like confirmation of that will have to wait. But for now, at least, Szayel isn't moping anymore, and he's actively participating. Something changed while Ichigo was brain-spelunking.
But that expression the boy makes. So tired, so pathetic, so weak.
It's not an expression that belongs on the face of a perfect being like him. On a boy usually so full of vigor and life and piss and vinegar.
It brings another bout of feelings he doesn't care for to the surface]
.... They will succeed, Ichigo. You can't do everything all by yourself... Besides, you were right about them. And... I was wrong.
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[Though, a slow, small smile spreads on his face when he hears that last bit - not out of malice, mind you - but more that it's nice to see Szayel finally warming up to what Ichigo's been repeatedly telling him these past days.]
....am I allowed to say 'I told you so?'
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Once. You may say it once.
[he doesn't seem to notice the smile spreading across his own lips as he sees one on Ichigo's face -- it quickly disappears in favor of the sulky look from before, but it was there]
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I told you so, Szayel. I knew they wouldn't abandon us.
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Hmph. I hope you enjoyed saying that, because you shan't have a chance to say it again!