Rest in Trees [M]

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POSTED ON Sept 23, 2022 17:34:13 GMT

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MORE HUMAN[break]THAN HUMAN

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I HOPE YOU KNOW WE HAD EVERYTHING. WHEN YOU BROKE ME AND LEFT THESE PIECES.

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"Somewhat, he taught my Malamar how to do it." he replies. "Something about locking it away in the deepest parts of your mind. Apparently he had a hand in doing it to a lot of people in the past to keep rocket's presence in Hoenn a secret." he shares with Isaac. [break][break]

"And he's apparently damn good at it too. Probably wiped out entire personalities." he says as he pulls out a cigarette and lights it in his hand and taking a puff of it before handing a pack to isaac. "You smoke?" he asks wondering if Isaac would oblige him. Wouldn't blame him for denying it, not like everyone was as 'resilient' as he was.

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Rest in Trees [M]

POSTED ON Sept 24, 2022 18:24:04 GMT

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[attr="class","skullbody"]The idea left Isaac shuddering some. Just how long had Rocket been operating in the shadows of Hoenn, the minds of the eyewitnesses scrubbed of any evidence? Shit, not even just the evidence. From what Bryan said, some of them were scrubbed of everything. The idea of having your entire personally locked in the recesses of your mind was horrifying to Isaac.[break][break]

Though the lock wasn't even the scariest part. "What if it leaked?" Isaac asked. Intrusive thoughts were bad enough when they were the regular type. Imagining intrusive guilt bubbling from the surface of his brain, an overwhelming grief tied to a name and face he could no longer place, sounded like a special kind of hell. "Wouldn't that hurt even more?" [break][break]

Maybe Bryan already thought of that. After all, it was his own Malamar that knew how to do it. At any time, he could've given himself that psychic lobotomy and taken away his pain. If he hadn't already done this, there was clearly a reason behind it. For all Isaac knew, this was just a coping mechanism, an attempt at taking power over his pain.[break][break]

Or maybe it was self torture. Who knew?[break][break]

Ah, cigarettes. Isaac hadn't smoked one of those since he was young and stole one of his father's. The taste was bad and his father's reaction was far, far worse. Not an experience Isaac was eager to repeat. Did he mean the smoking, or the experience of being raised by a man that loathed him? The answer wouldn't be much of a surprise. "I'm okay, but thanks," he said.[break][break]

"What happens?" he asked. "When someone's entire personality gets wiped? Do they start putting together a new one? Or are they just . . . gone?"

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POSTED ON Oct 1, 2022 23:56:54 GMT

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"A leak?" he says out loud as he hadn't really thought of that just yet. [break][break]

"It's possible. I'd imagine you probably become more resistant to it over time or some shit. I don't know." he answers as he wasn't the expert on it. [break][break]

"I...I don't know. Chu-e knows probably. I'd imagine he did it a lot in Kanto. I'd assume if they forgot everything they'd probably just start forming a new one. I'm sure some people who betrayed rocket were lobotomized and dumped out in the middle of nowhere. Wouldn't put it past some of them."

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POSTED ON Oct 3, 2022 0:06:36 GMT

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[attr="class","skulloverlap"]BUT HOLD YOUR BREATH, GUESS WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW?

[attr="class","skullbody"]So it seemed the answer went both ways. If you were lucky, Rocket just deleted your memories and let you form new ones. If you weren't, they lobotomized you and threw you in the middle of nowhere. In either way it was a death sentence. It was just a question as to whether the new you had a chance at a fresh start or not.[break][break]

And this was a fate that Bryan wanted to risk for himself?[break][break]

There was a chance this worked out Bryan hoped it would. A chance. Maybe he'd forget this ever happened and he'd be able to move on without any further trouble. Or maybe he'd be haunted by the ghosts of his past, faces he no longer remembered and voices indistinguishable from static tickling at the corners of his brain.[break][break]

Or maybe it'd work all too well. Maybe the freedom would be intoxicating. Maybe he'd start chipping away at his brain, bit by bit, any setback and any heartbreak another wrinkle to be smoothed out in the grand scheme of things. In his search for freedom, he'd simply be imprisoning himself. He'd chase that comforting numbness, sweeter than any drug, until it overtook him.[break][break]

"I don't know if I'll ever know the pain you're feeling," Isaac admitted. "But I know what it's like to be haunted. To have scars on your brain you don't think you'll ever be able to get past. To want nothing more than to get away from it all, at any cost." The town of Lavaridge loomed in the back of his head, and in the center a man he refused to call father.[break][break]

"I spent four years trying to get away from my own. And those four years might have been the biggest wastes of my life. Shit, even now, I'm still running and hiding from it all," Isaac admitted. "I think I'm gonna have to face it all at some point. I don't know when. I don't know how. But it's a chain I want to be able to break, not forget. It's the only way I know I'll be strong enough to handle it. To handle all of this."[break][break]

"Pain fucking sucks. And you don't deserve ever having it happen to you. But in some weird, fucked up way, it helps us learn, makes us stronger. If we forget it all, then isn't all this suffering for nothing?"

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POSTED ON Oct 8, 2022 15:24:57 GMT

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He stays silent. [break][break]

"That's the problem, Isaac. I'm gonna be facing this...forever." he says look at the ground. "I'm not like the rest of you all. Where you all might die one day and find peace. I won't. Xerneas made me immortal. The likelihood of someone having that same level of power to undo my immortality would be that of the time space distortions. It's the only reason my appearance changed." [break][break]

It was amazing, the applications of infinity energy.[break][break]

He didn't want to live like that, he wanted to know peace again. "This...this is too much. I need to go." He says standing up suddenly, as several realizations dawned on him at once, overwhelming him. He hadn't experienced a sensation like this before, his heart was racing, his palms began to sweat, why wouldn't he calm down? Where was priam conrad. He needed him. [break][break]

He was on the verge of a panic attack and he was choosing flight.

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