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foundationmods ([personal profile] foundationmods) wrote in [community profile] thefoundation2019-04-06 11:24 am
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WEEK 2 TRIAL

It was noon on Saturday.

No matter where they were, no matter what they were doing...the moment the chimes rang out through the hall, they felt a change.

The world...began to expand, as they felt themselves leaving the world they were on, and towards another, much larger world...🗈



This new world looked like...the inside of an ornate courtroom, like something that wouldn't be too far from some kind of grand fantasy novel. The audience was full of people with Goat Heads...like some kind of bizzare trial proceedings.

The Witch - Yuuko - was there, sitting in the most important place, smiling in her mysterious way at everyone. There was no music to be heard, but... perhaps on another plane, in another place, someone else heard music as they gazed upon the proceedings.

Again, their forms had changed - perhaps into something different than last time, but...still a change, no matter how dramatic or inconsequential it was.

...There was a deep silence in the room, one that no one wanted to break. It was the faint tension in the air, like the moments before a race or a competition begins.

The conclusion to the last trial hung in the air - deep and forboding.

It was due to their own mistakes that an innocent person had been executed, last time. Would such a horrible end happen this time? Would they be able to find the culprit?

...

No one knew.
incrediblystressedout: (learned new information about dammek)

[personal profile] incrediblystressedout 2019-04-06 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Joey grits her teeth.]

It's called establishing motive. If you cared about Watanuki, I don't believe you could have done this. Say it in Red: "I don't care if Kimihiro Watanuki lives or dies."
lutea: (is nowhere to be found.)

[personal profile] lutea 2019-04-06 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
....

[She's quiet...and then shrugs.]

I do not care if Kimihiro Watanuki lives or dies.
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[personal profile] excavated 2019-04-06 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he knew this already but y'all didn't have to say it ]
incrediblystressedout: (learned new information about dammek)

[personal profile] incrediblystressedout 2019-04-06 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah you don't.

[Joey folds her arms. She'll be back later, but making "Yuuko" say that validates a tiny, spiteful part of her, and gives her something to follow up on later.]
anonnomnomnom: (I really need a new outfit.)

[personal profile] anonnomnomnom 2019-04-06 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[He takes a moment to look over and then grin, sharp and challenging. Oh, it's on, isn't it?]
lutea: (bloomed a jellyfish bell.)

[personal profile] lutea 2019-04-06 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[She just smiles back, with a smile hiding the same sharpness.]
byanyother_name: (Go fuck yourself)

[personal profile] byanyother_name 2019-04-06 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I do wonder if you could tell us the same way that 'Yuuko Ichihara does not care if Kimihiro Watanuki lives or dies.'
lutea: (Bombard them with)

[personal profile] lutea 2019-04-06 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
....

I refuse.
byanyother_name: (You see me trollin')

[personal profile] byanyother_name 2019-04-06 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought you might.

[Smile!]
anonnomnomnom: (I really need a new outfit.)

[personal profile] anonnomnomnom 2019-04-06 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. Come to think of it, Watanuki isn't actually dead.
lutea: (Swaying; flickering;)

[personal profile] lutea 2019-04-06 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Watanuki Kimihiro is dead. He died from being shot in the head, and nothing else. 'Watanuki Kimihiro' refers to the body that you found in his room.

[A few truths that are piercing her break, but she's still clearly in pain...]
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[personal profile] excavated 2019-04-06 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Then say it in red: "Only 'Watanuki Kimihiro' can use the name 'Watanuki Kimihiro'. Nobody or nothing else can use that name on this island."
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lutea: (Swaying; flickering;)

[personal profile] lutea 2019-04-06 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
....

Only 'Watanuki Kimihiro' can use the name 'Watanuki Kimihiro'. Nobody or nothing else can use that name.

[personal profile] excavated 2019-04-06 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He nods quietly at that confirmation... but says nothing. ]
cryosurgeon: ([scalpel] cuts me too deep)

[personal profile] cryosurgeon 2019-04-06 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[That strangely specific addition... could it be?]

What about the mind in that body?

Was the soul in that body Watanuki Kimihiro?
lutea: (None of my words)

[personal profile] lutea 2019-04-06 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[....THUNK.

She's silent.]
cryosurgeon: ([scalpel] cuts me too deep)

[personal profile] cryosurgeon 2019-04-06 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Five months at the Foundation. He's seen so much, things that his scientific mind continues to rebel against. Magic.]

The soul of the person we know as "Watanuki" is in someone else's body right now.
lutea: (None of my words)

[personal profile] lutea 2019-04-06 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[His truth...breaks.]

"Watanuki's" soul is not in anyone else's body. All pieces present have their own souls.
cryosurgeon: ([ventilator] breathe through my pain)

[personal profile] cryosurgeon 2019-04-06 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[One of his two insane hypotheses down, then. The other is... far less magical, but... Occam's Razor. He says it very quietly.]

... Syaoran and Watanuki are the same person. Syaoran is also Watanuki, therefore he can use the name. The person standing here with us now, calling himself Syaoran... is Watanuki.
lutea: (Swaying; flickering;)

[personal profile] lutea 2019-04-06 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
....

[...She doesn't refute it, and it stabs into her.

She looks...like some kind of obscene sacrifice...but she's not even crying out in pain anymore.


What is this...? Is this...really...the truth...?]
literalidiotball: (OH GOD WE'RE GONNA DIE)

[personal profile] literalidiotball 2019-04-06 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
What...

[He looks at the pincushion witch.

He looks back at the doctor.]


WHAT?!

[personal profile] excavated 2019-04-06 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, he's actually going to pipe in here for this one. ]

While it's true that we share the same existence, we are entirely different people.

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byanyother_name: (Hindsight is 20/20)

[personal profile] byanyother_name 2019-04-06 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kurama sighs and looks unhappily at Syaoran. And hopes to get smacked down, for his sake. His eyes flicker between gold and green.]

Was the soul we knew as "Watanuki" actually the soul of Kimihiro Watanuki in the first place?
lutea: (understood by no one.)

[personal profile] lutea 2019-04-06 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...I...cannot answer. that is....too much of a question...
aleph_armed: (Kali: Flustered)

[personal profile] aleph_armed 2019-04-06 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, I genuinely have no idea what's going on here anymore.]