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The Ψiioniic / The Helmsman ([personal profile] biiowiired) wrote in [community profile] thearena2014-12-31 07:45 pm

My head is warm my feet are cold

Who| The Ψiioniic [personal profile] biiowiired and The Signless [personal profile] 69problems
What| Put the best friend back in the box!
Where| Safety Bunker
When| last day of the arena
Warnings/Notes| language, death prophecies

There was one place Psii hadn't combed over in search of either food or Signless: the deepest parts of the abandoned areas. Finding food was less important now. Psii knew his time was coming, and it wasn't just his labored breathing, parched throat, or dizzy spells interrupted by more headaches. He'd seen his own death in a vision.

Psii had always thought that when he finally knew, he'd be properly scared and spend his last nights in dread. But instead, he found he couldn't afford the luxury. Psii, like many lowbloods in rough situations, had accepted that he was more likely to die violently. He drew on that impassive store of cold practicality now. He had never died himself, but he'd lived with the voices of ghosts since he was hatched. He knew how it went.

What his vision really meant was that he was running out of time. He had to deliver one last precognition before his usefulness expired. He'd spent most of his life delivering bad news, so it was fitting that his last swan song would be the opposite: Everyone would die, everyone, except Signless. It might be too much to ask that he see his friend one more time before his demise. But if he could give Signless the assurance he wouldn't die in this arena, give him a bit of foresight so he could plan his next move when his allies were either dead or being resuscitated back at the Capitol.... Psii didn't dare presume he'd give him actual hope. Psii was a downer on a good night.

He delved into the dripping dilapidated halls, dark even for his nocturnal vision. He still had his guard up, mental fingers ready to release his psionics if needed. Xenomorphs were more concentrated here. He wouldn't allow himself to die until the proper time. When he heard a sound nearby, he steeled his breath and drew close, nerves coiled in tight wires.
69problems: <user name="robokatar"> | darizard @ tegaki (2 | Hard not to break down and cry)

[personal profile] 69problems 2015-03-07 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Get in with me. You're right here, Mituna, don't you tell me you can't. I don't care what your voices say."

He steadfastly ignored how stupid of an idea that was -- if everyone died but the two of them, the Gamemakers would just find a way to off the spare. Force them to fight to the death, probably. He wouldn't mind dying one more time on top of all of his other deaths if it got his friend out of the arenas. The Psiioniic would probably even make it quick, almost painless... it wouldn't be so bad.
69problems: <user name="conniiption" site="tumblr.com"> (xtra | This is his body)

[personal profile] 69problems 2015-03-07 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
There was something particular about the Psiioniic that was both endlessly endearing and utterly infuriating. I knew you wouldn't understand. Ugh!

"Understanding is not the same thing as agreeing," he hissed, letting his stress and worry morph into anger because it was easiest (and some detached part of him knew this was a far better show than just meekly stepping into the bunker would be. It might get the Psiioniic at least one more chance, if it was dramatic enough).

"Fuck destiny. Destiny has never done anything for me and I've already stepped outside of it here. Either you follow me in or you force me."
69problems: <user name="robokatar"> | darizard @ tegaki (2 | Hard not to break down and cry)

[personal profile] 69problems 2015-03-17 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
"If they still work, it doesn't matter what I do. It will still go as you saw."

He kicked at the Psiioniic's approaching foot, took a step back (but only one). Then he planted his feet even more firmly and crossed his arms. Some way or another he was going to wind up where the Psiioniic had known he would go, but he wasn't going to do it himself.
69problems: <user name="robokatar"> | <user name="rumminov" site="tumblr.com"> (4 | Has been wrong)

[personal profile] 69problems 2015-03-27 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
The best way to get the Psiioniic to do something he doesn't want to do was, and always had been, to get him annoyed. The Signless was well-versed in wrangling his skinny banana of a best friend and even life or death situations were no exception. After a show like this, of course the Psiioniic would be brought back. He had to believe that.

He fell when those invisible hands grabbed his ankles and yanked them into the air (his head made a satisfying whonk on the floor), but he gave only the barest of struggles.

"My growths are unique and give my face personality," he said calmly from where he hung upside-down, his hair barely brushing the floor.
Edited (TENSES) 2015-03-27 05:10 (UTC)
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[personal profile] 69problems 2015-04-03 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
This wasn't how it was supposed to go.

Well, no, it was how it was supposed to go because it's what the Psiioniic had said would happen, but there was still something sinister about that door slamming shut. It hit him all in a moment of clarity: of course the bunker was only intended for one. There was no drama unless someone was left panicking on the other side of the door, and there was no Games without a definitive victor.

"I'm fine," he said, sitting up (and ignoring the dull ache from where he'd fallen). "But I think I'm locked in. Or at the very least, you're locked out."
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[personal profile] 69problems 2015-04-03 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
Soon. He could hear the countdown, and realized with a jolt that it was closer than he thought -- he'd lost track when he and Psii had been arguing. The sense of urgency he'd lost then slammed back down on him like a musclebeast carcass. He pressed a hand against the door as though he might reach through it and touch the other troll's shoulder.

"What's going to happen. Mituna, what's going to--"

BOOM! The bunker shook around him. He could hear the shriek of metal tearing, the crack of concrete and plaster, the sheer deafening burst of sound that came with an explosion the size of an entire arena.

Well. That answered that question. No one could possibly have survived that. He'd won. He'd won and he didn't feel relieved or elated or proud so much as sick to his stomach.