video -> voice | un: sharpshooter (april 2nd)

[azurestar]

( cw: alcohol/substance abuse and visible corruption symptoms. )

[At first, the post opens with video. Lance is using his omen for this because he's probably too intoxicated to operate the omni. Corruption has started to increase again and rapidly given what he's trying to announce. The scar over his left eye looks a bit bigger and his iris of that eye is a glowing, crackling electric blue. He's not looking at the 'camera', his expression trained hard on the table in front of him as he grapples with the pain of loss.]

So… Hunk's gone… [In real time, the scar over his eye grows length-wise and cracks open horizontally and the darkness of space seems to be underneath: black void with stars and a nebula. The glowing light of his eye flashes brighter and seems to overtake the rest of his eye.] …baaaack to th' sea.

[His speech is a bit slurred and his hand comes up to his forehead as he leans to brace his elbow on the table. He looks at his omen and his brow furrows.] Valor, this's audio, right?

[What sounds like an 'oops' comes from his omen and then the video cuts out. There's the sound of a heavy, rattled breath being let out from Lance before he continues.] Whatever, not like it matters, [snort] as if I'm even gonna remember, right?

…Oh yeah… anyone in town got some memory findin' powers? I'm missin' some, so I need you to like… reach into my head hole or whatever.

[A breath is heaved, but it sounds shallow and wet, like there's something wrong with his lungs. Then the sound of a glass clinking on something.] Anyway, here's to th' ocean! I'm gon' go yell at her to give me my bro back. Later.

[There's the sound of a scraping chair as he gets up, and then the loud thump and crash of someone immediately fumbling their footing because they're too messed up and falling to the floor.] Oww…

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[survivalthroughhate]

Oh yes, blow up the ocean, I'm sure that will have absolutely no consequences that will affect anyone but yourself.

[He shrugs.]

The fact you responded proves that you at least have the intelligence level of the average canine.

[azurestar]

I've done it before! She said it tickled. Or… I think that's what she meant, she's super hard to understand sometimes.

[He rolls his eyes. Or eye, since the other is still a bright blue star.]

Dude, if you're trying to hurt my feelings you're gonna have to try harder than that… later.

[Preferably when he's not a corrupted ticking time bomb.]

[survivalthroughhate]

Alright, go on and have it out with the ocean. And then go home before you hurt anyone else. If I hear in the morning a quarter of the city has been obliterated, I shall come for you.

[He says this in the same tone a normal person might say they were going to check on Lance to see how he was dealing with his hangover.]

[azurestar]

Y'know what? …Fair. [He can be heard drinking from a bottle.] Maybe I'm just wasted, but sometimes you're not so bad. I mean, you're good to let a guy… self destruct on his own terms so long as he's just killin' himself… I respect that.

[survivalthroughhate]

[Maul shrugs.]

Don't think I'm doing it for you. I'm simply doing it because I care about others who might be affected by your idiocy.

[azurestar]

I didn't. [He says flat, but honest. Then he snorts.] And don't act like you wouldn't be doing the same exact thing if it was your brother.

cw: suicidal ideation

[survivalthroughhate]

[Maul can't even deny that.]

If it was my brother, I would have already leveled half the city and then thrown myself in the sea at the end of it all. I'd rather be a pair of squids together with him than live here without him.

cw: suicidal ideation | private

[azurestar]

[Lance hums and it shakes a little in the middle because yeah. It's always rough hearing how you feel voiced by someone else. His omen switches the conversation to private for him.]

Dunno if I'm… really gonna do all that… but 's fair to say that's where my head's at.

Yeah… g-good talk. [Awkward.]

[survivalthroughhate]

Well, don't let it stay there for too long or you'll risk hurting people.

[He says gruffly.]

Anytime.

[Is he being sarcastic? Sincere? The world may never know.]

[azurestar]

[The look on Lance's face says he agrees with the first part and is extremely skeptical of the second part. But overall he's too fucking done to really give much more energy to it. It feels like the right moment to just close his eyes with a sigh and minute nod and then hang up.

If you saw a tear escape a split second before the screen goes black, it was completely in your head.]