FINALE

[foundationmods]

[And finally, after everything...it's over.

Everything is back to how it should be, once you exit out of the door behind the Waterfall. There are so many Monsters around, all of them excited and running around. Some are wondering what happened - some are just overwhelmed.

But, regardless....they're alive. They're here, after so much time. All of Monsterkind, back where they should be.

And everyone who you've lost...

They're back. They're back.

You have overcome so much. You have suffered through so much, and seen to the other side.

But now, for the first time in a long, long time...

...The Future is truly the brightest it's ever been.

No more pain. Only....forward, into wherever you go from here.

Though there is still so much to fix....there is still, as always...

Hope, and Dreams.

Hold onto those...

....And there's nothing you can't accomplish.]


SCP: THE FOUNDATION

THE END.

Comments

[reanimania]

I mean

I don't know, it depends on the lie and the truth.

Anyway, what does that have to do with it?

[ He doesn't think you were texting him to say you're not sorry!! ]

[kaliedoscopes]

I think you'd rather not know.

But I still needed to say that, at least.

[ He absolutely wasn't but he's also not going to apologize for the specific reason he apologized to Marona for because in his view its better for Saphir this way. But he is Hikage so he's also an idiot. ]

[reanimania]

You're not even giving me a reason you're apologizing! That's not a lie, that's just withholding information!

You're making it sound like this is the last thing you're ever going to say to us, and if that's the case, I DO want to know.

[ And he remembers enough about the situation with his sister in their world to maybe have some theories about where this is going. ]

I'm still your friend.

[kaliedoscopes]

I know.

And in that case, then I really don't need to say it when you've said it on your own.

[ An elaboration would be great, but his stubbornness hasn't changed. ]

[reanimania]

[ ... ]

She's trapped there as long as you're here, right?

1/2

[kaliedoscopes]

Right.

[kaliedoscopes]

[ He should leave it at that and he does for several minutes, but eventually— ]

As long as I'm alive.

[reanimania]

Ah.

[ That hits like a brick, and now it's his turn to hesitate for a few long moments. ]

There isn't any way around that? You can't just set her free with a wish or whatever Watanuki's whole thing is?

[kaliedoscopes]

Do you honestly believe I should trust something like that, knowing what got her into this mess in the first place? This is simple and straightforward.

[ At least it should be, because he's never valued his life. ]

[reanimania]

It wouldn't hurt to TRY it though, would it?

You already know this is going to hurt Marona or you wouldn't have apologized to her.

[kaliedoscopes]

I've hurt her enough. Even if there's the slightest chance it would...I can't risk that. Not again.

Marona will be alright, she has you.

[reanimania]

[ There's another lengthy pause as he thinks about this. ]

There's no reason it has to be now though, is there? As long as time is frozen there, she's not actively suffering, either. Isn't that right? So doing it at the end of the year or something wouldn't be any worse for her than doing it today.

I'm not

[ ...Hit send too early there. ]

I'm not trying to be callous about this, you know. And I'm not going to tell you not to do it at all, even though I DON'T want you to, because I know it's important and that this is always hurting you.

I just think she'd probably want you to experience more nice things while you can.

Because from everything you told me, she loved you.

And Marona does too. And me, for whatever that's worth.

[kaliedoscopes]

[ His typing starts up and stops again because only halfway through he realized that he's typing in Japanese and that won't fly. ]

If I don't do it now, I'm afraid I never will. [ That says a bit more than he would like in many directions, but it won't matter soon anyway and it's the truth. Immediately following it is several lines of blank space, returns that speak for him when he can't seem to find the words even over text. ]








I'm not worth it.

[reanimania]

You are to her and to us, though, and you don't get to decide how other people feel about you.

Which I think you already know.

[ Since Hikage has sure never been able to get rid of him. ]

[kaliedoscopes]

I used to be able to.

[ Because when all you're doing is wearing different sets of masks its not personal. ]

[reanimania]

I'm sure that was easier.

You weren't happier that way, though, were you?

[ They're obviously very different people, but personally, his experience with having to lie about himself is that it kind of sucks. ]

[kaliedoscopes]

[ Hikage wouldn't say it sucks but...it's really very tiring after you do it for nearly one hundred years. And also you kinda lose sense of yourself after a while. ]

I thought I was.

But I wasn't.