[OPEN] ❁ don't let it get the best of you, you'll make it out alive

[roseblooms]

WHO: Fawkes and YOU!
WHERE: All around Recolle during the nightmares/fog event!
WHEN: Various times in the month of October!
WHAT: Nightmares, fog encounters, and etc.
WARNINGS: Will be attached to the headers of various top-levels within!

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[roseblooms]

[In a nightmare that Fawkes were facing alone, an outcome like that never would've happened. This nightmare is supposed to be about being helpless, being trapped, being tormented for his weakness.

But this nightmare is also supposed to be about isolation, and with someone else here, that defeats the fundamental purpose behind the horror, right to its core.

Quite simply, the crow dies. It's an unsatisfying death, one in which he as much disappears as he does outright dies, but one way or another the threat is gone, and so are the bombs.

In the distance, a roar goes up from the crowd (the crowd?), and it's not a happy sound. But for the moment, in the center of the clearing, all that's left is Shuji with his scythe and Fawkes with his wounds, reeling in the aftermath.]

[thesettingsun]

[It's better that he disappears than that the severed head remain. Shuji wouldn't regret what he did, but he still doesn't want to see the results.

The crowd can boo all it wants. Shuji turns towards Fawkes, taking in the extent of his injuries, but also-]

You're going to be okay...

[Shuji tries to take a step towards Fawkes, but all the adrenaline that has kept him going is gone now, and he collapses to the ground, his scythe returning to book form when he drops it.

He's not dying, at least. Just too weak and in too much pain to keep moving.]