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130bladeworks2015-04-29 02:09 pm
kbcctv) wrote in 130bladeworks2015-04-29 02:09 pm
corruption au meme
 The Sword Army pursues the Retrograding Army through history, encountering familiar settings and reliving old memories. Though strong, with every change in time and setting, the swords dread the old memories. As they fight to preserve history as it is meant to be, the Sword Army must steel their hearts and resist temptation lest they come to fight themselves…  |
| A popular fan theory is that the enemy swords you fight are actually your swords from an alternate universe who wished to change history. For this meme, feel free to make up your own starters or use one of the prompts below. Remember to state if your character is corrupted, not, or if you have no preference. |
PROMPT IDEAS 1. How could you let this happen? They wanted to be left alone, their mood was poor, and maybe you should have noticed the signs but now that you have, it’s too late. They can’t stop these thoughts in their head and something in their soul has turned dark and ugly. Is it too late? Maybe you can get through to them… if not, are you ready to draw your sword? 2. Possession. Even the smallest trace of doubt can attract them— evil spirits. Once the dark spirit has latched on to your soul, it takes over and consumes you. Maybe the possession is gradual or maybe it happens suddenly. All you know is that everyone has regrets and anyone can doubt… this could happen to anyone. 3. Cry Wolf. We fought the same battles and shared the same meals together so it was only natural that we would be considered allies and friends. The fateful moment approaches and suddenly it is revealed: One of you is not a true friend. There is a traitor among you. 4. Becoming your own enemy. Your mission is to go back in time and let things happen as they were meant to be but their fall into despair was never supposed to happen, right? And so you went back in time to prevent their misfortunes but you keep failing again and again until, this time, you think you’ve got it. This time, you’ll be able to save your friend - but will you be able to save yourself too? 5. Reborn again. When destroyed in battle, the sword disappears only to return again anew. You can’t choose the fate you’re born with though and this time, someone has returned… from the wrong side. |
INSPIRATIONS There are some corruption fanart floating around Pixiv, as well as a FST made by Aki ( fletrir). Other canons with similar themes to this meme are first and foremost Puella Magi Madoka Magica, as well as Shin Megami Tensei and other demonic-theme heavy series. |
Original premise and coding was done by
eskimo, image taken from here.
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He doesn't want to, because it's about ten different layers of wrong; falling past embarrassment, awkwardness, then discomfort, straight into the pitch-black abyss of things that were cruel and filled with despair. It's all wrong, and he's painfully aware of it, even more aware than he is of the insidious infection blooming in his ruined eye. And it isn't just because he is at his most pathetic in possibly the entire seven centuries that he had lived - because this isn't about himself, ultimately. What brought him the most pain is having to subject his partner to seeing him in such a state.
It just wasn't supposed to be, wasn't meant to be. Life is never fair, and his friend drew the short end of the stick several times. He knows more than anyone else about what made Ookurikara the withdrawn and unhappy person he is now, and he had stayed by his partner's side all this while - because even if they can't change the past, they could always change the future. And he's tried, over all these years, to make it one where his friend could live better, because it's just the least that the other deserves.
To take all this away now, in the most painful way possible, it's just plain downright cruel. Because he knows he's tainted beyond saving now, feeling the sickly sweet perfume of the lilies not in the surrounding air but inside in his mind. The only thing left for him to do now would be to pass into the darkness for a second, final time ... he doesn't know if he can do it himself. And yet, he also can't bear to ask his best friend to do it, because what hurts more than having corruption eat away at your sanity is to be forced to watch a dear friend fall to its insidious grip.
Then again, Ookurikara is the only person he can possibly trust this with. Because he knows no one else will do a better job than the other tachi would.
"You know what this is...?"
It's more of a request for confirmation than an actual question. Slowly, he lowers his hand, revealing the flower taking root in his mutilated eye. And he doesn't say any more, because he knows the other would understand even without prompting.
But it doesn't make the pain any less acute.
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The ticking of the clock pauses. The sands of time stops. The cube of time is breaking. Everything seems to be put on halt.
What's happening right in front of his face is shattering everything about Ookurikara. As in literally everything; physically, mentally, and emotionally. Any sign and prospect of staying composed quickly left the inside of his brain as his eyes scans over for what in the world is happening behind Mitsutada's face. In fact, thanks to what he's witnessing, he can't even bring himself to put any strength in his legs as he falls to his knee. Rather unceremonious of him to show that kind of weak action. But such thing matters not to him at the moment.
Mitsutada... Mitsutada is... His best friend is...
"...How...?"
His take on his tone is not that different that the other tachi's. A confirmation, or at least a short explanation of this... He's going to appreciate them. A lot. Lest the tachi with the dragon carving will never be able to understand, let alone accept what is he looking at.
This is not happening.