Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated

[chosen_gigolo]

[Well look who it is back on the network, Vatheon! None other than Zelos Wilder, looking very much alive but perhaps slightly off. Not upset, not angry, just a little... off.]

Ah, hey there. Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm fine and all and, uh... to anyone who actually saw that broadcast, well. It was just a big misunderstanding, alright? No need to look more into it, just me sticking my foot in my mouth.

So what'd I miss?



[Filtered to Duke]

Hey, uh. No hard feelings. Let's just try and keep out of each other's hair or I think Zelda's head might explode or something.

Comments

video; filtered to Duke

[chosen_gigolo]

Heh. Can't say I wouldn't have preferred that.

[He doesn't have the words to explain how terrifying it was to feel his body changing, to make the decision, to run himself through

To go cold as he bled out

To see the look on Estelle's face, on Zelda's face

On Lloyd's face...

He wishes he could be pissed at Duke for it, he wants so hard for it to be someone else's fault, anyone else's fault, but it's his own shoulders that slump under the weight.]

I don't know about change, but you don't have to worry about what I'll do. I've kinda learned my lesson.

video; filtered to Zelos

[radiantwingedone]

..... Cannot say it would have been better. [ Silently showing the back of his glove as a why.

And still awkwardly studying somewhere else. ]

Change can be good or ill, slight or dramatic. Have been told since, by others, that... relationship between source of information and yourself is not best. Other side is possible for... more sense of ... actions. [ Even if... Duke really doesn't think there's much of anything that can explain them well enough for him. ]

... Apologies. Will drop it and leave alone.

video; filtered to Duke

[chosen_gigolo]

Probably for the best. Take care, alright? Zelda's had enough trauma 'cause of me already, I don't want you adding to it on accident.

[Despite his generally cheerful demeanor that sense of oddity, of 'off'ness is more clear as Zelos reaches to turn off the feed. He just looks tired, so very weary, and maybe even a little hopeless in that short moment before the screen clicks to blackness.]