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[darkcharge]

Who: Vanitas & Asura
Which: Closed Log
Where: Asura's Farm
What: Talking about them shards
Warnings: None... I don't think?





[ Vanitas always takes the opportunity to go out exploring when it's going to be of some use to. The Dream Board asking for people to venture out is one of those said opportunities. He had done things like this before, prior to arriving in this place. It's not out of his nature to do that.

What he hadn't expected is the feeling that being close to those shards would bring. Vanitas could feel the pull and tug inside his own chest. That, too, is a familiar feeling that he had all but dismissed upon arrival here. It's a connection. Almost an invisible tether. While not quite as strong as when he had been bonded to several individuals or eve when he could feel Ventus no matter where he had been... It's still there.

That means he knows who is responsible. It's the reason that he's now making his way to where he had first come across the man that had given Vanitas a shard of his own, temporary it might be. More than anything, he has questions. Vanitas wants to know what's going on here. What is the endgame? What is he trying to do? What's going to happen?

How is it going to affect him...

As Vanitas sits on the fence, he knows that Asura will realize he's there. The guy can talk to him directly so chances are? He already can feel Vanitas sitting there. Waiting. ]

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[darkcharge]

[ Maybe it is just like that for Asura. In truth, Vanitas doesn't know. What he is, however, is patient. Allowing Asura to explain it the best way that he can.

There are so many questions that he has about why Asura is doing this. Vani has bits and pieces, yes. Realizes that this all has something to do with the person that Asura loves more than anything. But not how the two are connected. ]

Are you... Trying to destroy yourself?

[ Because he keeps talking about the god of destruction. But then he draws power from himself is from himself? Have they blended? ]

[abyssbound]

[ The answer to that question is not a simple one, but Vanitas isn't entirely off the mark. Asura lets out a single bitter huff of a chuckle, and the shard in his hand dissolves as he reabsorbs in through his skin. ]

That god of destruction is me, yes, but I wasn't born as the Destroyer. I gained that power to change an unacceptable fate, but the weight of those sins is what keeps me from walking in the light. Someone must bear that weight, so this dream world is going to take some of it off my shoulders.

[darkcharge]

Let me make sure that I've got this straight.

[ Because complexity is something that Vanitas can understand. Doing things to be strong enough so that a goal or a desire can be obtained... He gets that. By now he has learned that, in reality, the things that he had wanted for himself aren't innately 'evil' but sometimes that doesn't matter.

Vanitas is still pretty "meh" about that over all, but at least he understands that aspect of it. ]

Something happened or was going to happen and you didn't want it to. So you took on this what? Power with some sort of negative side effect? Now you want nothing to do with it so instead of dealing with it, you're shrugging it all off on everyone else and this world...

[abyssbound]

Yeah. [ Asura answers with a self-deprecating grin. ] That's exactly what I'm doing.

[ There's a bit more nuance to it than that, but Vanitas's words aren't wrong. ]

I never claimed to be a good person.

[darkcharge]

Implying that what? I am?

[ Because he isn't. Not really. He's still stubborn and selfish. Still greedy and prickly. Doesn't go around doing good deeds. ]

Look, I don't care that much. At least not about this world, I don't. Do what you want, but know it it starts giving what's mine problems...