[log] SUTEKI NA AFTERNOON, FURACHI NA MIDNIGHT YEAH [closed]

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Characters: Stephanie Brown, Mami Tomoe, Al Elric, Ed Elric, Freya Crescent
Location C10, building 49
Date: Day 26, evening
Summary: Thundersnow shenanigans
Warnings: will be in subject lines

If your character is hallucinating, please create a top-level comment describing their behavior.
OPTIONAL: Tag hallucinating characters with characters that are also hallucinating for maximum clusterfuck!

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[fataliteas]

Again and again she brings the knife down, desperate to cut herself free.

"I'll kill you, I'll kill all of you, do you understand me?! You won't take anyone else!"

[armoured]

He doesn't even hear the clang of a knife on his arm, she has become invisible to him as the transmutation circle ripples and a giant eye opens up in the centre of it.

All of a sudden he releases Mami and stumbles backwards, trembling from head to toe in a shivering, clinking mess.

"Stop it, stop it! Don't! I didn't mean it!"

[fataliteas]

The tendril frays, snaps completely. She's free. Mami leaps away, then raises her knife for a more precise stab into wherever the Witch's vitals might be. Except the hallucination abruptly changes in a crazy blur of color and light; Gertud and her feverish, insane excuse for a flower garden are gone.

Instead, there's a rooftop. It's sunset. The wind howls mournfully around them.

And she can see Alphonse now, shuddering and afraid, but not the transmutation circle. It doesn't exist for her. Just him, perched on the edge, the sigil of a Witch's kiss glowing and pulsing against the dark gray of his armor. One, then then, then a thousand, swarming over him like living tattoos.

"A...Alphonse-san?!"

[armoured]

He can see the tendrils of shadow creeping out from where that eye is, the tiny hands reaching towards him to try and grab him and pull him towards the portal. He didn't commit the taboo again, he's sure he didn't, but who else could have activated this human transmutation circle?

He hears his name in a croak from behind him and turns his head, only to see a warped and twisted thing on the floor. It still sort of has Mami's shape, bits of her that are familiar, but she's blackened and bleeding and in pain.

"Mami?"

He wants to be sick. He did this to her, he did-- he...

"Mami, no... No, I'm so sorry!"

[fataliteas]

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry....!"

She hears this in his voice — tinny and young like always, but now choked by a despair too heavy to lift or dispel. The tones of someone a step away from ending it all.

A horrified knowledge pierces her confusion. She lunges for him.

"No, Alphonse-san! Don't...!"

[armoured]

He watches her move with a sincere horror washing through him like a tsunami. To his eyes her movements are slow and jerky, and every single one only causes her more agony. Her skin is black and flaking as if burned, peeling away and cracking into new weeping wounds when she tries to stretch her arms and legs.

"D-Don't-- don't move, don't--"

He reaches out towards her, but he's too late.

Tiny black hands of shadow catch hold of him and he's catapulted backwards towards the portal (in reality, he's being knocked over by a lunging magical girl). He has no more words, he just screams.

[fataliteas]

She can't let him do it. She can't let him jump, his mind enthralled by the sigils that glow with unearthly power against every inch of his metal body. They have their differences, their disagreements and clashes, but no matter what Alphonse is or might be to her — friend, ally, stranger — Mami doesn't want him to die.

Especially not like this, a puppet for a monstrous creature's will.

Her arms close around him as they collide. Mami holds him as tightly as she can, continuing to beg and plead for him to snap out of it, that it'll be okay, that she's sorry, that it doesn't have to end like this. In her reality, she's pinning him against the roof, away from the edge, as that awful, lonely wind continues to scream all around them.

[armoured]

His scream goes on and on as he feels himself being pulled backwards into the portal of truth. He sees the little black hands of shadow fastened onto him at all points, he sees the giant eye staring beneath him, and he can feel how powerless he is to move or resist.

He twitches once... twice... underneath Mami, but without any of his usual strength or fighting ability.

The white light fills his entire vision, bright and alien after the darkness and horror of the scene before. The transmutation circle is gone, Mami is gone, everything is gone except for the dull thud of the doors closing behind him. And with that... he passes out.