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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CHEERYCHERRY. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 019.46.820.17 * CHEERYCHERRY has joined 019.46.820.17 <CHEERYCHERRY> It's Riley! <CHEERYCHERRY> Please leave a message! <CHEERYCHERRY>** Please be someone with their priorities sorted out properly!

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That's okay. I get it. I'm glad they're gone too, mine was...not great. Which is why I'm a vampire now.

[There's a pause, but not long enough that Riley might respond before he messages her again.]

He used my coins to make me a different monster.

So he could keep me locked up and mess with people freely.

[ Right.

Shades.

It must've been the only way Ryou's double could think of, to make sure Ryou couldn't escape.

Riley almost shivers involuntarily. It's not Ryou's fault. She just really doesn't like shades. ]

How awful... I'm glad he didn't do worse but it must be disorienting.
Do you know how long it's for? Is Atem able to lend a hand with the adjustment?

You're right. It could have been worse.

[It's better that she believes that. Much better she doesn't know how many times he'd been concussed, driven back with the light, and tied up. All in the span of two days.

It's best if he keeps it to himself that his physical body had starved for two days, and that he'd experienced a death (admittedly costless, since vampires all need to die to completely change over) before being taken care of.

Yeah...better that she errs on positive.]

Yes, Atem has been helping me. His other self made my transition easier, then fed me out of the blood supply in the refrigerator. Both of them helped me adjust.

I'm in good hands.

[ She has no illusion that it wasn't horrible. You have to die to become a vampire, after all. He was locked up, locked away— she knows how bad that is. For days. Stuck. Begging, begging someone to come. To save you.

But she remembers waking up, bound and buried in garbage, wriggling through it for hours... ]

His other self?
You don't mean Yugi, do you?
She helped you?

Yes. The other Atem, not Yugi. I never saw him...

But she found me first. She looked and sounded so much the same, that I couldn't tell the difference at first but when I found out I was terrified thinking she would hurt me.

But she didn't. She only treated me kindly. I guess you really can't mess Atem up, can you?

[It's a bit of a joke, but also not really. Ryou's biased.]

Edited (little better wording) 2022-02-13 18:06 (UTC)

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You can. I've seen it.
Things using his face or weird monster types messing up his head.

I thought she was just like that too.
I was sure of it.

[Ah...

Ryou doesn't respond as immediately this time. It's not Riley's fault or anything, she's right to have said what she said. But it still shakes Ryou to remember the parasites...and how Atem had behaved as a nephilim.

Mostly though...he doesn't want to think about the parasites. He doesn't want to think about trying to claw it forcibly out of Atem, and having it nearly try to embed itself into him instead.

He doesn't like thinking about the emptiness he felt after falling into Atem's death and having his capacity to feel stripped away. So...it takes him a minute.]

you're not wrong for being distrustful.

So many of them were bad.

many things that happen here are tough to swallow.

[ The parasites... She knows it didn't go very well for Atem either, then. She knows, logically, Ryou would've been involved. There's something she should be delicate about, but.

The second time being taken over by something like that was worse than the first. More relationships to play on, more emotions to manipulate. How the hydra shoveled her away into the corner of her own mind, until it needed her to funnel the pain from Mukuro's claws into its host. Steve in the car. Atem in her apartment. Frantically clawing at the hardwood, begging him to wake up, to listen to her.

It's left her wary. And she can never let herself forget that wariness. ]

but not her?

She actually wanted to help you?

No...not her. She was very much like Atem, and they came to an understanding that whoever made it past the end of the week kept their life. She just didn't believe she wasn't real, but it didn't make her hurt Atem, or me.

She even...punished my copy for what he did to me.

[Ryou just wishes that he hadn't absorbed the memories of that death. It felt like he'd been the one who had been decapitated.]

[ Punished...? Like Atem. Like what Atem would do himself.

Guilt sits like a hot rock in her gut. ]

I guess Atem got lucky. Not a lot of doubles out there who weren't acting like jerks.

No. No there were not.

I hope we never have to see another copy ever again. Who knows how long I'll be reversing all the damage mine's done. With people, with possessions, all of it.

[He wants to sympathize with Riley, but he also doesn't want to get further into her business...so he tries not to ask any rude questions.]

[ Sympathy would be great, in some ways. To commiserate— misery loves company, isn't that the saying? But, she also thinks if she keeps dwelling it'll weigh her down like an anchor. And, as a phoenix, she needs to fly. ]

Yeah. Me too. To all of it.
Not like possessions mine couldn't do that but

All the rest.

Thank you for reaching out, Ryou. I know it's hard.

Thank you for understanding. I think very highly of you, and you're very dear to someone I love, so I wouldn't want to push you away for something as stupid as what the other me tried to start on the network.

[Ryou wants to say more...he does. But...it's not a good time for him, and he's sure it really isn't for Riley either. He's taken enough of her time up at this point.]

I hope I can make it up to you properly. Until then, I appreciate your faith and understanding, Riley.

You're welcome.
But, you really don't have to make anything up to me.
I'm not going to hold it against you. I swear.

[ Rachel screaming at her. Rachel with her knife. Rachel, in utter dismay and pain. ...No. This is nothing. After what her own did, she couldn't. Even if she wanted to. ]

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<WhiteWizard> cw; death? just. out there. vampires are weird. i should have cw'd on my last tag

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