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almightythirst ([personal profile] almightythirst) wrote2017-08-30 12:11 am
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-10 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Slowly, the bowstring goes slack.

The arrow lowers as he listens to Genji recount that terrible night in perfect detail. How well he recalls that pulse of fear, the quiet questioning voice before it was savagely silenced. Images and sounds that haunt him even now, but those ghosts are his. No one else had been there with them, save for the elders. No one else would have possibly known what transpired.

Slowly, anger gives way to stunned surprise, to shame and guilt, and then the quiet dawning of realization. It has to be him. With stunning clarity, he knows it to be true, and Genji only looks as if he is waiting for Hanzo to catch up to the truth of the matter.

"...how is this possible?" His voice is hoarse, now. He's not entirely sure how he manages the words at all.
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-18 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't believe him. Not for a moment. How could he? How could he accept that Genji would forgive him after what he'd done, the pain and fear and whatever had followed and transformed him after death.

Not a vampire like him, small mercy that that might be. Something else. He can sense it around the edges now that he knows what he's looking for, and it's the glance towards Jesse that reminds him of that feeling.

Demontouched.

"...what have you become?" The words feel numb, spilling out of his mouth.
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-18 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's distinctive to the demons of their land, the final proof that he's speaking the truth. This is Genji, or rather, this is what has become of him. Not dead and at peace, but lingering in this world as a cruel parody of himself.

One moment of blind hunger had doomed them both.

Hanzo's shoulders sag slightly, the corner of his lip almost curling upwards, not i mirth but disgust instead. "Then we are both cursed. After all that, I thought killing you was the worst thing I could have done to you. But look at you now."

All the more reason he wouldn't have forgiven him. And it explained the mask, didn't it? The clan deserved to understand what haunted and hunted them, after what they put them both through. This was a monster of their own making, all of them.

Himself, just as much. Perhaps that is why he was here, now.
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-19 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Forgive? No. There is no forgiveness for what I did."

He was the elder brother, meant to guide and watch over him. To lead by example. And yes, blame lies with the clan and what they hoped to turn him into, the way they intended to divorce him from his humanity, and make an example of the rebellious younger brother all in one. They deserved whatever vengeance Genji could muster. But it was the beast inside of him that delivered this fate upon him.

His hands were the ones left bloodied. And years of solitude to turn these thoughts over in his head, again and again, stewing in fury and despair, had let him come to terms with what happened only by accepting the blame himself. If Jesse had decided to slay him, then and only then would justice have been done for what was done to Genji. An honest death to release him.

Though that hardly seems to be the case now. Genji remains in this world, cursed as Hanzo was cursed. Now, even his death would not suffice.

His jaw tightens, eyes going harder around the edges. "Why now? If you were truly alive all this time, why only seek me out now?"
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Before what starts?"

He spares a swift glance towards Jesse, when Genji's gaze flirts that way. There is something there to take note of, but later. There are more important issues at hand. This, he feels, has something to do with the attacks.

With Talon notifying him of Genji's appearance, and actively wanting him to seek him out. What reason could there be? Why is he suddenly involved in all of this, when a year ago he'd been alone and perfectly content to keep it as such?
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-19 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
He studies the card, doubt written into every line of his face, before he extends a hand to take that card and read what is written upon it. But his focus doesn't remain there long. Instead it lifts back his brother, the twisted demon's form that now defines his existence.

"One belonging to the 'right' side. The side you are on."

There...is some appeal to the thought of joining him. Of reuniting with the brother long thought lost, and defeating the evils of this Talon organization. But life is never so black and white as that. It is all too good to be true.
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-21 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes. We will discuss many things."

He is pointedly not looking at Jesse when he says it, and his expression is a tell-tale shade of neutral.

"...where will you go, now?" It is not a 'yes', just yet. He doesn't like the feeling of being corralled into anyone's game, played for either side. He will make no decisions just yet, and there is no telling if this is even truly the Genji he remembers. Perhaps the years have changed them irrevocably, if their respective curses did not.
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-21 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
If he wishes. That should be a clearer answer than it is. But there's too much not to consider before opening his arms so readily. It might be a trap. It might be genuine, as offers goes. And either way, there would be consequences.

"...very well."

And, at long last, the arrow slips back into its quiver, the bow collapsing back down once more into a more portable form. There would be no more battle this night, not for them.

"I will consider your words. I can promise no more than that."
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-23 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Alive but cursed. Something he dared not hope for, and would not have wished upon him. The conflicting emotions sweep over him in a wave, his chest tightening as he allows him to pass and disappear into the darkness.

Jesse is there, he can feel his presence and his eyes upon him, and suddenly why Jesse hadn't told him who his informant was becomes abundantly clear. He knew his brother was alive. Watched him mourn for him, and said nothing.

It is more understandable, now. But no less infuriating.
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-23 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Not moments, but minutes later, Hanzo's foot catches on the windowsill, and he slips back into the room as silent as a shadow. Dark eyes dart up in search of Jesse, wherever he happens to be.

If he hasn't slipped away to avoid Hanzo's wrath. Which would have been wise. He doesn't expected he's taken that course, however.
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-23 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Trust that, in this volitile and fragile moment, that is what he asks. Hanzo doesn't reply immediately, setting the collapsed bow upon a nearby table, his thumb tracing the polished curve at the tip in a moment of quiet reflection.

Was he? No. Absolutely not. But he felt oddly composed, despite that.

"I thought I had done the worst possible thing," he replies after a pause, brow knitting faintly. "Something I could never be forgiven for. Instead, I have done something far worse."
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-23 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
"You were not there."

Jesse nears, and that's all it takes for the vampire to tense, shoulders going rigid like he's braced for something. Steeling himself silently as he locks gazes with his fledgling.

He'd known all along. He'd come to find him where he traveled each year to mourn his brother, knowing he was alive. Knowing what had truly become of him. Of course, Genji doubtlessly told him not to reveal his survival, not knowing what Hanzo would do if he'd known but...
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[personal profile] nockturnal 2019-08-23 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
"What it changes is that you cannot possibly pass judgement on things you do not understand!" he snaps, and there it is. That first burgeoning twitch of anger finally slipping through the facade of calm and numb.

"What happened that night changed everything. Every night since. I saw what I had done and I fled. And my weakness doomed us both."

If he had stayed, perhaps he would have seen the change in his brother. They might not have suffered alone as they had through the decades. So much would be different and...even Jesse might still draw breath as a mortal man. Doesn't he understand that?

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