A facade. A hologram posing as the old Cyn that the Absolute Solver is creating to lure him in.

But here he is, adamantly standing his ground. Not through bravery, but fear - fear that he doesn't have much time with the Cyn he used to know left.

choice or not.

"I-I... w-w-why are you so... You're n-not...?" N was struggling to form words. He was face to face with... well, the demon that lobotomized him, turned him into a killing machine and ruined what little life he had.

"...Th-the Solver. It's n-not... here?"

wanted to draw his guns. But he couldn't. All his systems were locking up.

"...Y-y-you... are supposed to be dead. H-how...?"

His mind relayed what she said earlier - she didn't want to kill anymore...?

N what's happened? I dunno how much help I'll be, but... y'know! Weirdly enough, I've been here before!"

Flashback to the terminal velocity, plummeting therapy session with Uzi after she went insane and ate half of her class. A natural stage for every relationship, really.

tell if he actually recognises the figure or not, but it doesn't really matter.

"Hey... you okay? What's wrong?"

He's just on his way to Uzi's place. But he can't just walk past this, can he?

🌸 fr

like god. Bluesky is so much the better platform in everything but its userbase.

I still kinda have to have a twitter for all the stuff that hasn't moved over and it'd do my writing mojo wonders if I had fresh characters to write with

but also Elon is a spineless nazi troglodyte so uhhh??