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The general’s demand is spoken into the space between them , and the air silences . It contains the same weight as a chorus falling quiet , a hundred strings upon cellos ceasing to vibrate . It is heavy , it is new , and it is theirs . Is it not the same , uneasy tension that weighs upon husband and wife ? Have they not been here before , seeped in their own silent anarchies , the pillars of love and merciless justice ?
I loved you then , I love you now .
The image shatters . The tension dissipates . The sense of anxiety and paranoia is quieted . Reality resumes , untouched .
A swan lands in the empty lake that love sank , extending its neck in search of its muted light . Is the general still the prince ? Or is he the crossbow that he held ?
The pieces of the mask that float in the air cascade to the ground . What remains of the mask peels back , retreating like the falling of flower petals . The angular features of wife appear . She gazes at him with the eyes of Eurydice when Orpheus dared to look , and she kisses him .
She kisses him , pushing the revolver to the side , far deeper and more lovingly than any of the kisses they had shared in the past months . She kisses him as if it were their last , as if the light were to leave her eyes in seconds , as if the prince had always intended to hunt its prey .
❛ I love you . I love you , ❜ Odet says , eyes lush with the anti - thesis of control , the antiquity of their love , the decade and a half of laughter and sunlight and promise . ❛ Come back to me . Come back to me . ❜
The revolver falls to the floor. The revelation is horror.
James leans into the kiss, desperate and ashamed, his arms pulling Odet into a tight embrace. As Odet pulls away, James' body shakes, tears of relief and terror beginning to stream down his face. Vulnerable — disoriented, he is, once again, a husband.
By the lake, the prince sets down his weapon. The season of spring emanates from the swan. Love is a wound that the lover accepts. The beloved is love.
❛ Odet, Odet, ❜ he whispers, chanting his wife's name — sweet like an elixir. His hands grasp for nothing, bunching the fabric of Odet's clothes into his fists. ❛ Odet, — I love you — ❜ His false stoicism shatters into fine powder.
Again, nausea. Nausea of the indomitable shame: raw like an animal. James' embrace suddenly slackens. He turns his face. His breathing wavers, despite a deep inhale meant to stabilize it.
❛ Why? ❜ He finally asks, the subject of his question amorphous and unclear. Why did you become the Black Swan? Why did you reveal yourself? – Why do you love me? Slowly, the cold mind of the general struggles to return, and love, shining — bleeding, like always threatens to coalgulate.
Even so, James surrenders to his love. Come back, she says. Come back to me.
And he, though lost in the landscape of himself, wants to — he wants to, desperately.
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The mask of the swan splinters , much like the wood of a tree that has taken an axe to its throat or a reflection in a punched mirror . Shards of it pierce the general’s glove like the small cuts of a scalpel , grating against the metal that lies underneath like nails against a chalkboard .
Then , the mask fights against the general’s grip , its broken pieces floating in the air around it like icicles . It does not move . The air and vision before him distorts , glitches like a computer program : between the cracks , there is only nothingness . I am the machine you wish you were , I am the monument that moves . I am the thing that lurks in your shadows , I am what you see when your eyelids close .
❛ Did you expect this to be easy ? ❜ Black Swan does not let go of his hand . His voice is not unkind . ❛ You’re asking the wrong questions , James . It isn’t about who I am It’s about who I am not . ❜
❛ I am not your enemy . I am not a puppet . There are no strings for you to cut and trace . I am an agent of my own free will , and I wish to protect you from yourself . ❜
His throat tightens. Hysteria vesicates upon his internal face. A blister, swollen with the beginnings of fear. As reality flickers like a screen, the general is relentless, his inhuman hand refusing to let go. Slowly, he raises the revolver again, pressing it against the pseudo-broken mask. Silence veils his face like an opaque sheet.
The general is the pillar of Atlas — its backbone, its strength. Beneath the veil, he is a malfunctioning machine, a fragile order finally splintering. In the air, a subtle violence takes hold. Severely, he remarks, ❛ Save it. ❜
Now, the shadow of love runs into a dark room and disappears, like hope or peace. Now, love escapes into an empty lake and sinks to the bottom, like desire.
❛ Whether or not you are my enemy is not for you to decide. ❜ Each word is a deliberation. Inevitable paranoia of the body, and the body politic. The general digs the muzzle of his gun into the dark mask. Truth does not interest him. Reason does not interest him. ❛ I do not need your protection. I do not need your interference. ❜
Facelessness of the enemy. Enmity of the heroic machine, which makes self after self after the same, futile image. ❛ You will tell me who you are. ❜ A shallow breath, simmering. The gun adjusts. ❛ Now. ❜
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AND LIKE A NIGHTMARE , they adapt fluid and formless like a dark sea , like a spill of ink across white paper , like the black around constellations . Where do they begin and where do they end ? They touch his hand , gently and honestly . Black Swan breathes a breath that is full of static and unspoken adorations . If James were to listen closely , perhaps it sighs in the same way his husband does at night .
If James is a marble statue in the process of crumbling , Black Swan is the artist that sketches the cracks of his facade and envisions them filled with gold . ❛ I am afraid of many things , James Ironwood , but never once have I feared you . ❜
❛ I know you . Perhaps better than you know yourself . I see you . I know you are tired , I know that your shoulders ache with the burden of the world . I see that you are Atlas . I see that it has always been you . ❜ Their mask gleams like a familiar pair of eyes . The touch through their gloves is warm , like his husband’s embrace , a long and forgotten spring . When was the last time he was held by him ? ❛ But . . . You are no machine . You are a man , not a monument . You have a heart that beats and loves and yearns and aches . ❜
❛ If you kill me and take off my mask , what do you expect to find ? ❜ In the urn of politics , Odet is the queen who kisses him chastely . I loved you then , I love you now .
Made breathless, the general is suddenly inconsolable. To his own surprise, he does not recoil at the intruder's touch. Unnerved, his gaze flits from his caressed hand to the intruder's faceless mask. Love does not belong here, but its familiar shadow takes shape at their feet. Parroting the Black Swan's question, he refuses to devise an answer.
❛ Who are you? ❜ His voice is a whisper. In his mind, an impossible — unspeakable trajectory yearns to begin. Nightmare of betrayal. Amorphous clarity of nausea.
Again, he asks, ❛ Who ... are you? ❜ An edge emerges in his now-louder voice, blunt and severe like a hammer. James is a man who wants to be a symbol. I am a machine. I am monumental.
In his soul, winter is a perpetual season. There, a sculpture of Odet stands in the snow-muzzled landscape, almost alive against a backdrop of death. He lowers his weapon, as if disarmed and harmless.
Then, his face transforms with a wordless revelation. Decisive, instantaneous.
Taking advantage of the Black Swan's closeness, the general reaches out his gunless hand, and with inhuman swiftness, grasps the smooth, gleaming mask. His thumb and middle finger press inward against the intruder's temples, moving to wrench off this second face.
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𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐎𝐏𝐔𝐒 , 𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 , I am the voice that puts you to sleep . They are a thread of void against the violent white light , a silk cocoon of promise and power metamorphosing into something unrelenting and beautiful , much like the act of loving . I am doing this for you .
Black Swan turns and stares down the barrel of the revolver , so close that they may reach out and caress the familiar engravings that adorn it , take James’ hand and remove their mask and kiss it .
❛ I did not expect hesitation from you , General , ❜ they say in their robotic tone . Monotone but loving . Distant but adoring . ❛ What stays your hand ? ❜ They step closer , stretching their arm out to touch nothing . To only hover there , in air , next to his fingers : a ghost of a lover’s touch . ❛ Is it that I am the only one capable of killing Arthur Watts ? Is it that I know too much , too quickly ? ❜ they ask , tilting their head . ❛ Is it that Desver would surely never speak with you again , should he find my dead body ? You of all people should understand that some things must be sacrificed for the greater good . Your husband’s technology is little compared to actual lives . ❜
The general scowls. As the intruder approaches him, intimate as a nightmare, he shifts his grip on the revolver. It remains upheld like a just, Socratic lie. James is a crumbling marble statue, calm and irreproachable.
❛ What do you know of the greater good? ❜ Spit out like a confession, the accusation splinters in the general's voice. Deep within, love remains asleep, and fear wide awake. ❛ You are a coward hiding behind a mask and a voice changer. I did not expect Desver to ally with such people. What do you have to hide? ❜
My husband ... In his husband's embrace, James is a man. In his husband's hands, James is a weapon set aside, the soft creature it spared. He looks inside himself, and sees that the lake is empty and loveless.
Somewhere, in a myth or a dream, a man kneels and repents, accepting his Sisyphean fate.
The general's face, the same face of the husband, is pristine and unrecognizable. I want to be a machine. His voice changes in some uninterpretable way.
❛ Are you afraid? ❜ In the urn of politics, James Ironwood wallows like a king

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Washed in white light, he is the shape of a once-promising man. Inside the enormity of nation, James is dispensable and incandescent. Inside him, his rage, his indignation, is a scar.
His revolver is raised. His hands are still and precise, like perfection. In the general's mind, the intruder wears an enemy's face. Watts, Cinder, Salem, anyone —
Violence stains the general's face like tears. Like a politician, he has removed his loving face, as if it were a mask.
His enervate voice does not shake, does not waver. Even now, he is heartless and magnificent, like the myth of justice. ❛ Give me one reason not to shoot you dead right now, right where you stand. ❜
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hello! this is a blog for rwby’s james ironwood. i used to be ironsleeve, and i also wrote james at machineri. i’m a dash only blog for my comfort, but please give this a like or a reblog if you’re interested in interacting, and i’ll check your blog out!