http://aesopunbroken.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] aesopunbroken.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] srwug_alpha_rp2012-09-14 10:50 am

Shellshock and Horror / The fracturing of a Hero

[After the events at the DC base have unfolded Mad just rushed to her room as quickly as possible. She was clutching herself tightly, she was curled up into a ball. But she was doing her best not to cry. She was failing badly of course. The tears were still there and she was choking back sobs.. but whenever she did noticed she would just rub her eyes and shut them tightly and try to force herself to stop.]

Fuck...fuck... those...what the fuck were those... goddamn...

[She's struggling to get her emotions into check, but it was near impossible with how hysterical a state she's worked herself into.]
can_not_fly: (Sad)

[personal profile] can_not_fly 2012-09-16 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Cue Pit looking at you somewhat aghast at that, before grabbing you in a sudden hug]

No! No you didn't! This whole mess wasn't your fault! Don't even think like that!
can_not_fly: (Sad)

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[personal profile] can_not_fly 2012-09-16 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pit chokes. In truth, the reason he took a couple hours to appear here instead of coming right after the mission is that he'd been in a somewhat similar state - though in his case there was less crying and more near-catatonia. He's an angel. He's supposed to save people - it's kind of what he was literally made to do. Yet he never even got to sortie because the first shot turned the hangar into a disaster zone and by the time he got Cherubot out it was all over.

He wants to tell her that it's not anyone's fault, but that would also excuse him - and that's not right. He's an angel supposed to protect these humans here. Some enemies may be above them - but none, not one, should be above him. He doesn't get to lose. (Yes, Pit has a small bit of legacy racism on the human/angel thing to work through. Someone should probably call him on it somewhere down the line).

So he hesitates, and simply returns the hug for a few seconds, visibly trying to find words to explain what he wants to say...]
can_not_fly: (Neutral Palutena)

[personal profile] can_not_fly 2012-09-16 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
You two are so much alike. Always so self-centered. Eager to take the blame for yourselves. [And suddenly, before Pit can find words, a light bathes the room and Palutena's voice comes up, soft.]
I know how you feel. But you can't take the weight of everything that happens as your own fault. There are those who are to blame for this, and it's not you. It's the ones who did this. Blaming yourselves is only excusing them in your minds.

But even if there was nobody to blame... Pit, Madeleine, remember this. Sometimes, things happen and we can't do anything to avoid them. But you can't just dwell on it. "What if" is a sentence whose weight has crushed gods themselves. And if you trap yourselves under it, when the time comes where you can do something you won't be able to move.
[Palutena speaks softly, but with the heft of experience behind her words. She knows all too well what she's talking about, here...]
Edited 2012-09-16 19:23 (UTC)