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Hilda ([personal profile] ourlegends) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2014-05-16 12:55 am
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[day 186] you shoot me down, but I won't fall (closed)

Who: N and Hilda
Open: Closed
When: Day 186 - Night (After everyone is home from the Skyway Shenanigans)
Where: Their House (Pokemon Daycare)
What: Not every relationship is easy.
Format: Action Brackets
Warnings: Two very emotionally destroyed people and a lover's quarrel.

[ N had been gone for most of the day.

It worried Hilda, who had no idea where he had gone to. So, when he arrived back home, she was relieved. What she wasn't so relieved about was the state he was in. Ever since returning from wherever he had been all day, N had been barely responsive to her, even though she tried to talk to him.

With everything that had happened lately, Hilda had been blaming herself. For all of it. For not being strong enough to tell him about their world before this happened, for not being strong enough to be there for N, who was clearly not doing well ... for not being strong enough to take care of herself during all of this, too. The relationship she had with N was becoming even more fragile every day, and the tension between the two of them was thick.

She had to try to do something. She was afraid of losing him. She didn't want to lose him just because she was stupid and didn't talk to him when it needed to happen.

She sat next to him now, quiet for a long time.

Such a great start, Hilda thought to herself. She was already starting to beat herself up again. Finally, she reached out and tried to take his hand into her own. ]


N ...
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-05-17 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[And yet, after his breakdown in the castle, after reliving all those painful memories, that is not what he wants to hear.]

You know what he made me! You saw that room, you know what he intended me to be!

[His voice raises louder, startling and even frightening a few of the nearby Pokemon who could feel his rage and anger.]

When we found the Daycare Center, I didn't even care about the people who died in the Calamity! All that I cared about were the Pokemon! My father was right about me - I am a freak without a heart!
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-05-17 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Their world is gone. They are being forced to rebuild with vague imitations of the things in that place that was considered "normal" for Unova, for the entire world that included Pokemon and humans. More than that, N is being forced to start a life in an entirely different dimension with absolutely no closure for the 18 year he spent under his father's thumb.

He has suffered multiple blows emotionally. He's had his ego built up, torn down, slowly pieced back together again only to have it kicked in the damn teeth by seeing that place again. There was so much his life could have been with his gift but the man that had crushed any hope of that between his fingers while watching a little boy suffer over emotions and pain that was not his own (until it became his own) no longer existed.

And by no longer existing, there was no way for N to see his life as anything but wasted. If he had the chance to speak those words to Ghetsis, maybe his righteous anger given voice would have been what it took to finally convince himself he was worth that love Hilda was so willing to give...

But that anger was still inside, stewing, twisting, crawling in to the dark spaces in his mind and taking shape as shadows and nightmares and constant doubt that he was ever going to be anything more than what he had been made in to.

Cold. Heartless. Caring only for creatures and not for the flesh and blood race that he himself was supposed to be a part of.

And beyond that?

A failure.

He could hear her sniffling behind him, and while something tugged at his chest, urged him in a tiny, frightened voice to do something for her... he didn't.

He wouldn't even turn around.]
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2014-05-17 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
You're only going to get hurt.

[She was already hurt. And yet he couldn't bring himself to do anything about it. There was still that voice in his head, that tugging at his heart that told him this was wrong, this was wrong and he could fix it but--

But he couldn't. There was something left over from their trip to the castle that was blocking his heart, telling him that he was incapable of being the one to fix it.

He moved towards the door to the house then. He didn't know what was going to do - if he was just going to sleep or stare at the ceiling or what, but he knew that he couldn't stay there.]