subordinacy: (45.)
sekreuz "setz" trenkel navarus ([personal profile] subordinacy) wrote2018-03-23 11:10 pm

week 2 ( friday )

[In terms of self-preservation, approaching someone with a record of violence, including against him personally, and who's blatantly unstable in his grief? Likely not the best idea. In fact, it's probably a terrible one, and the part of Setz that acknowledges this is why he doesn't inform Jacopo where he's going.

Still, he has to see him.

... Even if Shinssin doesn't consider him a friend and may never have—even if Eleanor was wrong about all of that. It doesn't change this.

When he finds Shinssin, he has nothing with him. (Nothing to give, especially when he knows that the one thing Shinssin must want right now is something he can't grant.) He stops a short distance from him.

Quietly,]


Shinssin.
shinssin: pixiv illust id: 65173862 (天魁)

[personal profile] shinssin 2018-03-24 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shinssin remains in place, back toward him. ]

Eleanor and the blonde woman are dead. But the third one is still alive...

I wonder who that could be?
shinssin: (地文)

[personal profile] shinssin 2018-03-24 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's gone.

In the next moment, he grabs Setz.

They're gone.

In the next moment, Shinssin has Setz shoved against a nearby wall, pinning him down with an arm that threatens to cut off his air supply. ]


Don't tell me you're sorry, Setz. Lying's not a good look on you.

Oh look, your dad's not here. I guess I can do whatever I want now.
shinssin: (地魁)

[personal profile] shinssin 2018-03-24 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Shh, shh.

[ He covers Setz's mouth with a smile. It's not friendly. ]

It's alright. I'll make it look like an accident.

[ What was meant to muffle turns into a vice grip.

In one fluid motion, he grabs Setz's face and attempts to slam his head into the wall. ]
shinssin: (天暴)

1/3

[personal profile] shinssin 2018-03-24 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's about to slam Setz's head again when he hears him speak. His hand freezes in the boy's grasp, as if their words have seized control over his body. If he killed Setz now, Eleanor would definitely kill him. ]
shinssin: (天平)

[personal profile] shinssin 2018-03-24 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ and Maya would definitely not share her McNuggets with him but anyway ]
shinssin: (天哭)

[personal profile] shinssin 2018-03-24 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[ The anger is there, but it's no longer with Setz. There's no point in taking it out on someone who might have been innocent in this entire affair, so he breathes and lets go.

Like what his partner said: he mustn't give into the Darkness. ]


Dammit...
shinssin: (06)

[personal profile] shinssin 2018-03-25 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ He grits his teeth. ]

... I know.

[ But he can't help his instincts. He can't help feeling sad and angry and scared—

All he knows is how to fight.

No, that's not true. Because he's lived so long and come this far and he didn't get his name on record to have it erased from history and the Throne.

All he knows is how to survive. ]


I'll live.
shinssin: (天哭)

[personal profile] shinssin 2018-03-25 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ He has a knack for hitting the nail right on the head, doesn't he? ]

... Hey, Setz. What's your fee?
shinssin: (天退)

[personal profile] shinssin 2018-03-25 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[He smiles.]

... Nothing. I just wanted to confirm something. Maybe we got more in common than I thought.

[In a flash, he disappears.]