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eeeonetwothreeOmega is quiet on the first Monday after Snow White’s execution. He keeps to himself mostly, patrolling dutifully, keeping to his thoughts to himself.
It’s after the sun goes down that he decides to act on those thoughts, sliding a poorly scrawled note under Ferdinand’s door. The writing is barely legible, but it reads: “MEET ME AT THE ARENA.”
It’s there that he waits for his friend, staring up at the moon, nervousness and guilt weighing on his mechanical heart.
It’s after the sun goes down that he decides to act on those thoughts, sliding a poorly scrawled note under Ferdinand’s door. The writing is barely legible, but it reads: “MEET ME AT THE ARENA.”
It’s there that he waits for his friend, staring up at the moon, nervousness and guilt weighing on his mechanical heart.
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Date: 2025-08-08 01:21 pm (UTC)[ he runs to his side, already preparing a Heal]
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Date: 2025-08-08 02:04 pm (UTC)…shadow…is that you…?
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Date: 2025-08-08 02:11 pm (UTC)[ his heart breaks- or maybe it's been breaking all week. Hot tears in his eyes from stress and guilt as he pours the magic into his friend]
It is... just me. Ferdinand.
[ he wasn't enough, but he was what they had]
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Date: 2025-08-08 06:44 pm (UTC)He blinks his optics, before straightening up. ]
FERDINAND…I AM SORRY FOR PUTTING THIS BURDEN UPON YOU.
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Date: 2025-08-09 12:39 am (UTC)I THOUGHT PERHAPS, IF I COMPLETED IT EARLY, AND SOMEONE DIED…OBVIOUSLY THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE, BUT I COULD SOMEHOW TAKE THE KILLER’S PLACE, AND WE WOULDN’T HAVE TO…
[ His voice trails off, the implication all but stated. ]
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Date: 2025-08-09 05:44 pm (UTC)[He gets it, he really does. But they both know that Typhon has never let anyone get close when the culprit is taken. Torn right from their arms even.
...he should try to talk Omega out of this. He thinks Omega would listen if he showed even a touch of fear or regret in doing this.
Instead:]
I don't know how possible that would be.
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Date: 2025-08-09 05:52 pm (UTC)…THERE MUST BE A WAY. I COULD LEAP IN AT THE LAST SECOND! I COULD SHOVE THEM OUT OF THE PATH OF THOSE WRETCHED HANDS! I could…I cuurddzzzt!
[ He grabs his head, his voice distorting into an endless stream of mad static. ]
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Date: 2025-08-09 05:56 pm (UTC)If... if something happens once the weapon is done, we shall see. I could not ask you to stay your hand when someone is literally on the block.
[But unknown to them plots are already brewing for this very night. There would be no time. And damn them both for it]
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Date: 2025-08-10 01:49 pm (UTC)ARGH! THESE BLASTED SERVOS! I HAVE NEGLECTED MAINTENANCE IN FAVOR OF THE WEAPON…AND WHAT’S MORE, I AM EXPERIENCING ERRORS FROM BEING ONLINE TOO LONG…
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Date: 2025-08-10 09:32 pm (UTC)YES...IT IS NECESSARY TO KEEP MY SYSTEM ERROR FREE. BUT THE WEAPON, KEEPING UP THIS CHARADE...IT HAS REQUIRED ME TO STAY VIGILANT!
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Date: 2025-08-11 06:35 pm (UTC)[He looks around]
But doing so with it so close to the deadline is dangerous. Here.
[He moves to his side- he of course can not carry Omega, he's much too heavy. But with his crest improved strength he can at least bring some weight off his leg until it's fit passes]
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Date: 2025-08-11 06:49 pm (UTC)[ He allows Ferdinand to support him, and lets out a mechanical sigh. ]
I WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT YOU, FERDINAND. I TRULY MEAN THAT. THANK YOU.
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Date: 2025-08-11 07:37 pm (UTC)[It says something about Ferdinand that dying is the easy part- it's facing the others that is the real trial]
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Date: 2025-08-11 07:43 pm (UTC)ARE YOU CERTAIN THIS IS THE ONLY WAY?
[ As he says that, his leg ceases his fit, and he steps away, able to stand on his own. ]
WE CAN WAIT FOR ANOTHER CHANCE…WE COULD PERHAPS TRY TO FIND A WAY THROUGH THE BARRIER!
[ Even as he says it, he knows that it’s fruitless. He has studied the barrier since this all began, and he has come no closer to finding a way through than the day he started. ]
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Date: 2025-08-11 07:45 pm (UTC)[Like Athena, another option may never come.]
If you can not do this Omega, I will call it off. For our friendship if nothing else. But you must be sure.
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Date: 2025-08-11 07:55 pm (UTC)IT IS NOT FAIR, FERDINAND! I FINALLY DESIRE TO DO MORE THAN DESTROY! I WANT TO LIVE, AND LOVE, AND SHOW THE WORLD I AM MORE THAN A WEAPON!
I WANT TO FIND MY CREATOR AND FORCE HIM TO ACKNOWLEDGE ME! I WANT HIM TO ACTUALLY BE A FATHER! I WANT A RELATIONSHIP WITH MY SIBLINGS! I WANT TO CREATE SOMETHING OF MY OWN! I WANT TO SEE SHADOW AND ROUGE AGAIN AND SHOW THEM WHAT I HAVE MADE MYSELF INTO!
BUT INSTEAD…Instead I must do this…
Because if I don’t, one of our other friends will do something more horrible, until none of us are left…
[ His shoulders sag, and he looks directly at Ferdinand. ]
DO YOU THINK, IF THEY KNEW ALL OF WHAT WE MUST DO AND WHY, SHADOW AND ROUGE WOULD UNDERSTAND?
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Date: 2025-08-11 08:01 pm (UTC)But they can't, for the exact reason Omega states. Because someone else will die.
(and unknown to them many would. tiny broken corpses litter the future. is this the red path hubert spoke so much of? how could have ever wanted to join him on it?)
And eventually they all would.]
From what you've told me of them, yes. I think so.
[Saints, he really is a monster, isn't he?]
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Date: 2025-08-11 08:15 pm (UTC)This will have to be enough. ]
THEN I HAVE MY ANSWER. YOU WILL HEAR NO MORE DOUBTS FROM ME, MY FRIEND.
NOW, I MUST PREPARE TO MEET ASTARION. WE HAVE TO FINISH OUR WORK.
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Date: 2025-08-11 08:17 pm (UTC)[He worries]
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Date: 2025-08-11 08:23 pm (UTC)BESIDES. VELVET WILL MISS YOUR PRESENCE.
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Date: 2025-08-11 08:24 pm (UTC)Goodnight, Omega. Hopefully I will not see you at a trial in the morning.
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