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| [Graded]What Lies Beneath Part 3 - Salvation; Noel/Eric Arc 3/4 | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 9 2013, 11:30 PM (2,023 Views) | |
| 博 Tenken | Jun 25 2014, 11:13 PM Post #41 |
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Hoennese and proud!
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Hanging there as he was there weren't really many options available to the little image of Eric that was inside his mind and the boy was well aware of this so he simply smiled a little at Noel as the older boy gave his answer, as he told him that there was nothing he could do in this place and time for him. That was more than fine to him, he nodded a little as a large shining screen opened up next to him that showed Noel standing there before... well, actually before nothing. Eric himself was not on the screen and nor were his chains; Noel was standing there speaking to the empty air. "That's fine Noel," he said in an understanding voice, nodding his head again and the screen closed into nothingness, "Really. I can always watch you wherever you go in here and even though I can't see myself I wont need to - you'll be back and I trust you it's that simple." And thus Noel had walked off, had moved past the chained young boy and into the black abyss that surrounded him. It was a seemingly infinite darkness, it was a place with nothing there but darkness and the loud echoing steps of Noel's feet as he moved through it. It was the kind of blackness you couldn't even imagine, blacker than the space it occupied and moved through as Noel himself moved from one place to another... probably. After only a few minutes there was no light shining behind him, no illuminated pillar of light showing Eric waiting in the air and chained by something that very much resembled his own powers, nothing but more darkness. It was thick and it was oppressive, any light Noel may have shone into it was eaten up and dimmed to barely more than a foot of light around him in any direction, just enough for Noel to know his next footstep would land on solid ground. And it was solid, it was just... seemingly infinite. It took some time before things began to change, though whether it was ten minutes, ten hours or ten days was almost impossible to judge when there was nothing there to change except for the painful black abyss that ate up the world around Noel. The first change was simply a lessening of the darkness slightly, enough that there was a few feet of light shining around him naturally without need for any aid to show him the way. The next change occurred after only a few moments when Noel would find that there was a wall before him only a few feet away, a large black bricked wall of obsidian that showed a pure white doorway before him. It was almost coincidental how suddenly it had appeared before the young man, almost as though it was telling him to open the door and go inside, almost daring him to do so. It was a simple doorknob for Noel to open, a black handle on a white wooden backdrop that lead into a room that mirrored Eric's own living room in Acacia - a moderately sized room with dark wooden detailing and a few lush couches with books scattered around and a nicely sized television against one wall. Seated in one of the couches there was a young boy made from pure blackness, or at least something in the shape of a boy. This was not the first time Noel had met Hakore and yet as a pair of eyes opened up where eyes should have otherwise been on a human's body with burning red pupils that stared up at Noel. A mouth opened not long after, a mouth that was slightly too long with teeth that were slightly too sharp, a mouth that spoke with overly exaggerated movements and a long thin tongue flickering out after every word as those same unblinking eyes stared into Noel's own. "Hello Noel," the voice was soft but it was clear, "We need to have a little chat about Eric and you." |
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| Noel | Jul 27 2014, 12:08 PM Post #42 |
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Teh cuteness =3
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"I will definitely be back. I promise," the boy said quietly to the hanging figure in the air, even though he was in fact talking to nothing but thin air, as shown by the image that had appeared near them, supposedly showing the actual state that this part of the mind was in. He knew that Eric was there though, he could feel him, and just having been able to talk to him like this, had somehow calmed him down. He was reminded once again of why he was here in the first place - and that alone was a slight push, driving force that wouldn't let him be stopped here, after having come this far. For Eric's sake, he was going to get to the end, no matter what. He sort of felt that from here on, it was going to get difficult, mostly because his objective was to settle things with Eric's darkness, Hakore, which on its own already implied that it wasn't going to be easy. Was he going to fail..? There was a chance. Could he afford to fail..? No. He was here to find out more about Eric, and he wasn't leaving at least until he found out what Hakore was all about. What his essence was, what drove him, what intentions he had and what exactly it was that he was doing to the boy. Information was better than nothing; even if he didn't manage to stop Hakore from harming Eric or whatever ill intentions he had for the boy, learning about him and what he was doing could be beneficial both to him in his attempts to save the boy from the darkness that was trying to consume him, and Eric himself. After all, as soon as he got out of here, he was going to tell his best friend everything that he'd encountered within his mind - after all, there were things in it that not even Eric himself knew about and one of the reasons why Noel was here in the first place was to help the boy understand himself better. With that in mind, the boy continued down the dark path, hoping to get to the other side. He didn't think much of the darkness at first, having believed that it would perhaps be a short stroll down the hall until he reached the other end, but when he walked for one minute.. then two.. then five.. then probably ten.. until he finally lost track of time and messed up his counting, he was slowly, but surely starting to panic. At first, that could be noticeable only by his eyes moving to the left and right with a bit of nervousness to them, but then he actually started to look around himself, turning his head to each side, erratically. His breathing was becoming less and less even, and without even really knowing, he began to walk a little bit faster. The darkness prevailed though, keeping him trapped in his own thoughts, wondering about what was going on, and where he was. Whether there was even an end to all of that darkness that seemed to press at him with such force that it was becoming difficult to breathe. It was all in his mind, of course, but despite the fact that he knew that, he was still rather uneasy. Right before he would've broken into a run though, the darkness started to get thinner, or at least it seemed like he was able to see a bit further. That eased him up a little bit, gave him hope that this unimaginably long hall might have indeed had an end, or at least that he wasn't walking in circles. He walked for a while longer, but he wasn't feeling as uneasy as before - that was why in the end, he managed to reach the doors that seemed to mark the end of the hall, and consequently an entrance to a new part of Eric's mind. He carefully placed his hand on the doorknob and then pushed the doors open, entering what seemed to be a well-furnished room, looking rather modern in comparison to those that he'd seen in the rest of his memories that showed pieces of his childhood. Yes, this had to be a room from the present time, though Noel didn't recognize it, since he'd never been to Eric's place in Acacia before. Not that the room itself mattered all that much. What mattered, was who was in it. Hakore. Noel's lips tightened, when he saw those eyes opening up. That smirk, the pointy teeth, the smell of evil in the air. It made him shudder a little bit internally, but he had collected himself. The dark boy wasn't hostile at the moment. Not yet. He'd offered to talk, and Noel was okay with that. Slowly, he approached one of the couches on the opposite side of where the blackness of a boy was sitting, and he looked at him. "Okay, I'm willing to talk. What is it, that you wanted to discuss specifically, regarding me and Eric?" he asked. |
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| 博 Tenken | Aug 5 2014, 11:31 PM Post #43 |
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Hoennese and proud!
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Reaching out with a deft hand to a side-table nearby, Hakore casually pulled out a pot of tea and two cups on saucers, moving them with a single extending arm -and far too many fingers, several growing just to handle the pot and cups without extra effort- to place them on the table between Noel and himself. In that same moment he poured his own cup and pulled it in, raising it to his mouth he seemed to pour rather than sip some of the illusiory tea into himself and then put his cup back down on the saucer, his unblinking red eyes never leaving Noel. "Thank you for agreeing to see me," he inclined his- well, the area where a head would be on anyone else, "I am aware that you and I have not had the most cordial of relationships before, due in some part to the actions each of us have taken in the shaping of Eric as a boy, however there are things you must know if you are to remain a part of his life." He took another drink of his cup, draining it and placing it back on the table between them, several more eyes growing on his body as he did, randomly placed and all staring intently at Noel on the opposite couch. "Eric loves you," Hakore said bluntly, "As he would love a brother if he had one or a good father if he knew his. He sees you as a mixture of both forms of family and to him you are the closest friend he has ever had. His Guild Mates are nothing more than allies at the best of times and open hindrances at the worst and yet his feelings towards you have never waivered." He paused for a moment, his stare somehow gaining intensity as he did so, though there was no otherwise signs of this until a second mouth opened up on his body, running diagonally down his chest and when his first one spoke the second one echoed it and the voices combined into something akin to the crack of a whip. "I feel that you are squandering this." Accusatory words, almost bordering on angry, but Hakore in no other way moved again, both mouths echoing and their words -somehow in different tones- began to harmonise as he spoke now. "How often do you see Eric? Never except for when he comes to you and what do you do? You invade his mind, you enter the most personal space of the boy who loves you above all others and every time you leave him a little bit less. You weaken him and make him a shadow of what he was before, every iota taken from him by you is a destruction of his being and yet you do not see it." The disgust in one tone was evident, but the other... the other was intrigued. "We know you took memories the first time," the thing said, "Placed them elsewhere for yourself and while we do not know why it matters little. You have stolen from the boy, you have weakened him - maybe without meaning to and maybe not. But your magic is more anathema than you realise, and that is why we speak now." And with that he fell silent for the moment, letting Noel process and awaiting any questions that were to come. |
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| Noel | Sep 18 2014, 08:26 PM Post #44 |
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Teh cuteness =3
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The boy remained quiet for a while, weighing the creature's words, pondering them. Despite the darkness that resided in him, or that he was, since he was essentially the reason for Eric's darkness, Hakore didn't seem violent, volatile or otherwise anyhow.. destructive. Instead, it honestly looked like he only wanted to talk, to perhaps clear some things out in between the two of them, who'd never had the chance to do just that. Talk. Regardless, Noel wasn't prepared to put his guard down just because of that. Instead, he'd carefully eye the creature on the other side of the table as he talked, following his every movement, every gesture. He didn't even pick up his own cup to take a sip, not until Hakore did so first. In truth, if it was poisoned or anything like that, it likely wouldn't have mattered. There was a good chance that if Hakore wanted to do that, he could make sure the concoction didn't harm him, while it killed the boy. Or, even simpler, he could've poured the poison only in Noel's cup. The point was, if he'd wanted to do that, he would've. But he didn't. Instead, it began to occur to Noel, that Hakore was concerned about Eric's future as well. Perhaps in his own, twisted way, but that was likely the case. Otherwise, he wouldn't have bothered conversing with him, a boy that Eric cared about, he would've either ignored, or annihilated him. But if he did the first, then he couldn't convey his words to him, to make him realize the point he was trying to make, and if he did the second.. well, maybe it would've affected Eric in such a way that it wouldn't be beneficial for him. Either way, Hakore must've had his reasons that Noel couldn't even try to fish out with his Sixth Sense at the moment. Not just because his magical power was already required to remain here, but because it didn't quite matter at this point. What mattered, was the conversation. A lot of it was right. He'd left Eric alone when he'd needed him the most. He'd broken into his mind, not once, but multiple times. He'd taken his memories and stored them away. But was all of that to hurt the boy..? He cared for Eric as much as the boy cared for him, and he would've never wanted to hurt him. He was almost like a little brother to him, a brother that he never had, and one that he was desperately trying to protect from the darkness that was threatening to envelop him. The darkness that Hakore himself was responsible for. How could he be the one accusing him of all these things in the end..? Had he not existed, none of this would've happened! He wouldn't have needed to venture through Eric's mind, in search for answers that the boy was looking for. "I've made mistakes along the path that I've taken," Noel agreed, setting his cup back down onto the table. "I don't deny that. Some are bigger than the others, but I'm deeply sorry for them. I could say that I'll always make mistakes, just like everyone else will, but that would be an excuse. And I don't want to make those. There's no more room for mistakes, when it comes to something as important as Eric is to me," the boy said. He lowered his head. "I never meant to hurt him. I only ever wished to help him. I'd done all of this, learned about him and his past as much as I could, so I could do that. I can't help him without knowing more about him first. About what happened, the reasons for it, and everything else." He fell silent for a moment, then he looked up, this time setting his eyes onto one of the creature's. There were many of those scattered all over the body, so he could glance at each and one of them as he continued to speak: "I know you want to stop me. My wish to drive the darkness out of Eric, goes against what your desire is. You must've worked long and hard to bring the boy to the state that he's at now, and you don't want a boy, just a random boy that happened to waltz into the boy's life, to squander and foil your plans. But I can't back off, Hakore. You know what I want. I want to bring the boy back into the light, I want to give him a chance to smile and see the world as a happy place, like he was supposed to, if none of this had happened. I don't blame you for wanting to achieve whatever it is you want to achieve, no matter how dark and corrupted that plan is. That's your being, that's essentially you. The only one I blame, is Eric's parents, for letting you ever get close to the boy." He moved around a bit in the sofa, almost uncomfortably. "I really don't want to fight you. But at the same time, I almost feel like this is essentially the only thing this can come down to in the end. Does it really have to be like that..? You're smart, you're coy and sly. Can't you think of a way for this to work itself out somehow?" he asked. He didn't quite understand what his magic had to do with all of it - what Hakore had mentioned earlier - but he didn't dare to ask. This wasn't supposed to be about him, and his magic, after all, it was about Eric. If Mind magic really played that big part in the story though, he felt that Hakore was going to tell him about it on his own, though. |
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| 博 Tenken | Oct 10 2014, 01:20 PM Post #45 |
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Hoennese and proud!
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[[OOC: Apologies for my own delay, work has been kicking my sweet sweet ass]] "You misunderstand," Hakore said with a shake of his(?) head as Noel spoke about the past and the reasons he perceived as his existence being opposite Hakore's own, "I speak not about the past of the body I inhabit but about its future. I speak not about my own wants but about the needs of Eric himself. I speak not about your own foolish and selfish desires to help him because you perceive him to be in need of it," Hakore's own tone spoke volumes about what he thought of that as a thing, "But instead of how Eric needs your help in other ways and how what you strive for is something his own body is already doing of its own volition. Observe." Holding an arm out to his left side -a new arm having formed in that very moment- an orb appeared above his palm, a heavily powerful orb that was clearly emanating the very essence of destruction itself... only for the orb to peter out and vanish after a moment, shrinking and disappearing with a small 'pop' sound. "You see? Watch again." Again Hakore tried, an orb forming, rapidly rapidly spinning but then vanishing with a small popping sound. If it was possible for disembodied eyes and grinning sharpened teeth to seem disappointed they would have then, but they couldn't so it wasn't a huge deal. Instead they all remained affixed, unblinking, to Noel. "Eric's own body is anathema to my powers as it is," Hakore said with the faintest of shrugs, "Your very universe is anathema to my very existence so it is not surprising to me - it was simply a matter of time. But my abilities linger within the boy now and they cannot be removed unless you were to somehow destroy the very core of his magic itself. It might be true that I altered his destiny, that I changed the magic he was to naturally gain of his own but it is not I who introduced but rather I was introduced by another. You know this, and that is as may be for it cannot be changed. I cannot be expelled for I am as much of Eric as his heart or his mind. I am a part of him and he is absorbing me quite readily, a fate I accept without query." Hakore took another sip of his tea for a moment, almost like he was whetting his throat before he went on. "His powers and your goals are not mutually exclusive," Hakore shrugged again, this time visibly, "But it is his persona you are at war with now, not just his abilities. The ones you have found here in the darkened and twisting corridors of his mind are fractures of his personality, offshoots each from the true Eric. Maybe there is no true Eric, maybe he is a broken and thoroughly unwholesome child at his core though, maybe there is no way to turn him from his path down the darkness. He is uncorrupted now by me, I am of no influence on his powers beyond the strength he requires at times. What truly matters here is that you removing parts of his mind is just that - removal. You are harming him more than I am at this point in time, your war is against his very essence and against his very lifetime. What you are doing, Noel, is fighting with yourself on a battleground you mean to preserve. Do you understand the problems here?" |
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| Noel | Oct 11 2014, 05:14 PM Post #46 |
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Teh cuteness =3
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Noel was silent. And he was silent for a long while. Probably, his drink would've gotten cold by the time he finally spoke up; his thoughts had to run through a number of difficult mental processes, parsing the words Hakore had spoken and trying to make sense of them - not because they wouldn't be comprehensive on their own, but because Noel's own experiences, goals and attempts in regards to Eric seemed to be going against what Hakore had said was a good thing, if he truly wanted to do good for the boy, like he'd so desperately been trying to achieve. There was several issues with that. The first one of them was, whether to believe what Hakore was saying, or not. Technically, considering that he'd been fighting for ideals that went against Hakore's own, and that he'd stood on the opposite side of the battlefield before, there was a good chance that the grinning blob of blackness was just trying to catch him into one of his traps once again. After all, magic existed that could do what Hakore had done to show him the effect Eric's body had on the darkness he was trying to produce within him. However, while there was reason, there was also that other part, the one that couldn't be so decisively explained. His sense, what Noel thought was the right thing to believe in this case, was telling him a different thing from his mind. But.. if what Hakore was saying was really true.. then everything Noel had done up until now - and not just that, but also everything he'd been trying to do - to make Eric see the light and prevent him from slipping further into the darkness, was actually more destructive to the boy than he could've even imagined. Could it be, that he'd done less good for him, than he'd been hoping for, all this time? Thinking about the fact that he could've actually made things worse, felt like a cold, iron hand wrapping around his heart. Not all that surprisingly, that thought had never occurred to the boy before. Up until now, the Fairy Tail mage had been more than certain that his actions were taking his best friend in nothing but the right direction. Of course he'd been beating himself up over that half of a year during which he'd not visited him, but aside from that, it had never crossed his mind that his mental journeys through Eric's mind could've actually.. really hurt the boy. But then, what was he supposed to do? Was stepping back really a good thing? Considering what damage he'd done by not being around Eric for that extended period of time, he would've said it definitely wasn't. He couldn't simply leave the boy to deal with the problem all by himself - not just because he was more than certain that there were parts of the problem he couldn't solve on his own, but also because it was much more difficult to attempt to deal with such emotional trauma without any support whatsoever. Noel had been there, trying to provide that, but aside from that, it had also been his goal to solve the problem once and for all - to find out what happened in Eric's past, and get rid of the darkness that plagued him. That was why he'd entered his mind on numerous occasions in the first place, and that was also why he was trying to bring light into his mind, where it didn't exist. But if whatever he was doing was somehow worsening Eric's mental condition and making the mental world Noel was now in deteriorate and falter, then.. then there was something else that needed to be done. But what? What sort of a decision could Noel make, without hurting Eric? There were always options, so many options, but too little answers to questions that just kept popping up. Good decisions couldn't be made without answered questions, and a part of the reason why Noel had been breaking into Eric's mind, was to get these answers. He'd gotten a number of them already, but all of that didn't seem to be enough when it came to answering the question of what needed to be done. Maybe, Hakore could be the one to tell him that. "If I'm really just.. making the entire situation worse for Eric.. then, what am I supposed to do?" he finally asked. "Our goals and desires might be different, but neither you, nor myself want harm to Eric. Which is why I assume you've come here to tell me this, to warn me of my actions that were putting him in danger. So, if I'm really doing the bad thing here, if I'm just.. removing parts of him, like you've said.. What am I supposed to do, to prevent that from happening? How can I even help Eric?" |
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| 博 Tenken | Dec 9 2014, 02:46 AM Post #47 |
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Hoennese and proud!
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Hakore listened impassively to Noel's reaction, the thing's many eyes unblinking (since they were more in the nature of extensions of his body than true eyes after all) and his mouths unmoving. Only one thing he had said to Noel here was a lie and that was the least of all the things he had said, though the one with the largest ramifications beyond this current event and it was not something the Mind Mage was capable of dealing with right now. Truth be told it was clear Noel was at a limit of sorts, was pressing himself to his very verge of power to stay here and converse so easily since every trip that he took here to Eric's mind was as much a power drain on Eric as it was on Noel as well. So Noel fretted to himself and asked the right question, finally, and Hakore shrugged. "Surely you are no fool, Noel Aramis," Hakore said slowly, "You are a mage, certainly, but above that there is one thing you and Eric share in common that I, in my infinite power and wisdom and knowledge do not share. You are both human. Mages make up a single digit percentage of the population of your planet, were you aware of that? Of the entire planet your special sub-kind of your own race make up only 8%, a number so low as to be pitiful. Why is it however that so few of you remember what it means to simply be a human? It puzzles me greatly." He took another sip of tea before continuing, and when he did his tone was rueful and fairly amused. "How do normal humans interact with each other? With their words and their emotions, through talking and interacting with one another in vaguely equal ways. What you are doing to Eric every time you enter this place is not equal - you are in his mind, he is not in yours, any ramifications that reflect in there are completely unintentional after all. Have you ever simply tried talking to the boy about his life? Have you ever, in your power and ability to 'read minds' -whatever that so means- simply considered that maybe you should just be there for him and to be his friend?" Then there was the thrust. "And what makes you so sure you could help him? What makes you so sure you could save him from something he truly does not wish to be saved from? His path is as different as yours, true, but they intersect in several ways. Why not simply try being his friend as a human, not as a mage with powers. How has that not occurred to you?" |
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| Noel | Dec 13 2014, 11:38 AM Post #48 |
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Teh cuteness =3
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He couldn't argue against those points, not when everything of what Hakore had said to him, was actually right. Over the past few times that he and Eric had met, it was always so.. inhumane, distant. There were hardly any words said between the two, save for the greetings and farewells, the entire point of the two meeting was always focused on Noel's penetration of Eric's mind. In order to find answers to questions that had been troubling the boy for a long time, nonetheless, but ultimately, in his attempt to help him with that, Noel wasn't supposed to forget about what the two of them were to each other in the first place. Friends. Best friends, even. So, how could he have forgotten about all of that? Was he so engrossed in his own (perhaps even selfish) attempt to try and 'help' the boy out of the darkness Hakore had enveloped him in, and push him onto the 'right' path that he forgot about the value of their own friendship..? There was that time, when the two hadn't talked for over half a year; and after that, when they once again began to hang out, Noel could actually state that their relationship had turned better for a little while, but when every single one of their next meetings revolved around the boy's mind that the young Fairy Tail mage kept entering, it almost felt like the strength of their relationship had begun to diminish. Not because the two of them wouldn't care for each other, oh no. Instead, it was simply because not enough time had been taken by the brown-haired boy to actually spend with his friend, instead of.. "I was going to.." he thought to himself. "Right after finding out what I came here for, to pass it on to Eric, after resolving this whole.. issue, I was going to spend more time with him," he thought again. But that was an excuse. He'd always searched for excuses. In this case, there was nothing stopping him from still hanging out with Eric while occasionally trying to find answers within his mind; it wasn't like these mental journeys had to be the one, sole thing that bound them together. Finally, he looked up, his eyes stopping on one of the many of Hakore's. He had a sad look in his eyes. "I realize I was at fault there. I should've done that, I should've been there for him, not as a mage, but as a human, a friend. That's my mistake, and I can only promise to try even more so in the future, for I cannot change what happened in the past," he said. "But that doesn't mean I'm simply going to leave this place because of that, now. I've not come here for nothing. Even if all of this can't possibly 'save' him like you've stated, it'll at least help me understand him better. And he'll be able to understand himself better, as well," he finished. "So, what good things are you doing for Eric, Hakore?" |
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| 博 Tenken | Feb 1 2015, 03:27 AM Post #49 |
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Hoennese and proud!
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Hakore remained impassive as the emotions flickered across Noel's face at the accusations thrown at him by the void-thing, emotions the boy thought he controlled well but were all too readable to something like Hakore was. He also didn't react when the mind mage's own thoughts were quite audible, the lies he told himself were of no care for the thing inside Eric's soul so he let them pass and simply drank his seemingly never-ending tea. Noel struggled with himself for a few minutes before speaking, half-admitting his own wrong-doings but mostly attempting to justify himself and his actions, Hakore actually putting the tea down and folding his arms in his lap by the time Noel was done, all of his enormous red eyes across his entire body affixed to Noel's face unblinkingly. "Your excuses are poor," he said almost conversationally but with a whip-crack of blame behind the words, "What more of him do you understand from your little journies here that you could not learn simply by asking the boy? He is a veiled little creature, a dissembler, but from you he has never actively lied. If you wanted to know something from him all you ever had to do was ask." He picked up his drink again and consumed some more, a second set of arms slowly erupting from his shoulders and reaching behind him to bring forward a small plate of biscuits, the horrors of Noel's host casually belying the otherwise fairly lovely afternoon tea that was set before him here in Eric's mind. "I have given the boy enlightenment." It was a casual sentence, almost throwaway but the way Hakore's eyes all closed en masse for a moment as he spoke, leaving nothing but hundreds of grinning pointed mouths over the entire black humanshape showed there was a touch more importance than that. "He was oppressed, kept down, beaten and broken both physically and spiritually. It was my influence that kept him alive, my powers that surged through his broken little form whilst he was tortured in Raven Tail, my powers that kept him alive against the gods of Taiji, my powers that prevented Evelyn from crushing his existence into nothingness when they last met. Through me Eric has found protection and from me he has drawn strength." His eyes opened once again, and if anything there were more of them now than before. "And from me he has found his own way. He has taken what I have given him and made it his own. My influence wanes in this place as he turns the edges of nothingness into his own abilities, his own powers. He shall never be truly rid of me of course, I am affixed to his soul like a dagger poised above his heart - to remove me would be to kill himself into a husk of nothing. But I have given him a life of his own, Noel Aramis, all you have done was drain it." |
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| Noel | Feb 7 2015, 12:16 PM Post #50 |
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Teh cuteness =3
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"I can't seem to shake off the feeling that you're very biased and subjective in this statement," the boy replied, though his voice might have gotten a bit cold. Perhaps it was the fact that he felt attacked by the creature's words, after everything that he had done, and had tried to do for Eric. His words were blunt, and even cruel in some ways, targeting Noel's feelings that were related to the relationship he'd built over the years with the younger boy. In a way, it almost felt like he was mocking it, as if it had caused nothing but negative emotions to the dark-haired young mage. Whereas Noel couldn't say that their friendship was exactly perfect, he believed that the two of them would've never become best friends, if there wasn't anything right about it at all. The way Hakore was describing it, it seemed like he wanted to say it would've been better that Noel had never entered his life, at all. And then, in the same breath, he'd say how his presence in Eric's life was the reason many bad things were prevented from happening to him. Except he'd probably forgotten about the fact that none of these things would've happened in the first place, if he didn't exist. And if Eric's parents were normal, and didn't corrupt the boy the way they did, from childhood onwards. If Theodore hadn't planted Hakore inside Eric and given the darkness the power to rise and alter the boy, perhaps the child's life would've been completely different than it was now. Maybe it would've been more 'boring', casual and less adventurous - but it would've also been deprived of violence, gore and killing that he'd committed. In a way, it seemed to Noel like Hakore was trying to justify those crimes that he had caused Eric to make, by stating that he'd enlightened him. Did innocent people really have to die, simply so that Eric could have an extraordinary talent and access to powers that he could've otherwise only dreamed of? Could that enlightenment truly be considered a good thing when it caused so much grief, not just to the boy alone, but people around him as well? Noel didn't see it being a good thing. There definitely had to be bias in Hakore's words. Neither he himself, nor Hakore did only good or bad things for Eric. So, Hakore's view of the situation was something Noel wasn't planning to accept. But did it matter, really? Who had done what for the boy? What was done, was already done, and Noel was here to find out more about Eric, so he could fix things. And while Hakore was saying that he could find out everything by simply asking him, Noel had to disagree with that; the sole reason why he was here in the first place, was because Eric himself didn't remember some of the things that had happened to him in his childhood. Exploring certain parts of his mind was essentially uncovering some of the things that had happened to him, so that he could convey them to Eric later on when he exited the boy's mind, and the two of them could talk about them, and then act accordingly in their best interest to fix certain things. After all, how was asking Eric about his past memories that he couldn't remember going to help with that? That was beside the point, though. "Was that what you wanting to talk to me was all about?" he asked. "I thought we needed to discuss something. When you said that, I thought that maybe we could work in a constructive way together, to do something for Eric's well-being. Because that was my original intention, and I was positive that you wanted to do that, as well." |
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