#fictional death

[Overkill is made by Pedro and Sam]

transcript below:

As a child, she always stared too long at people, was always a bit too reckless with a knife, stared slightly too long at an open flame. Was just a bit too passionate about the “wrong” things.

One day, her mother was having a bad time. She was yelling at Cherri’s dad, something about not raising a monsters child. And Cherri got too upset.

The fire that burned down the house that day was deemed an accident by authorities, the sole survivor a miracle. Cherri didn’t remember a thing, just that one second she was staring up at her family and the next she was outside, firefighters asking if she was hurt.

She always suspected that the fire wasn’t just misfortune, but what else could it have been? And she didn’t have time to worry about that. She studied hard, kept the wrongness hidden, and got a scholarship. She was nice, not kind.

And things were looking up. She was close to graduating. She met the love of her life. She had a side job with this Organization that payed well.

And then, in the process of beating up Owen during his attempted kidnapping, she loses her eye. And the next time she gets too emotional, a fire sparks in its place.

Abolish says that she’s a fire spirit, or at least partially one. Cherri convinces him not to tell the organization to avoid the paper work. Really, it’s because she doesn’t want anyone looking into that house fire so long ago, the one that she now more then suspects wasn’t an accident. What would they think of her then?

When the fire erupts from Cherri’s eye, she doesn’t see from it. She only detects what near her can be burned.

She wonders if that’s how she knew she could make her parents arguing stop. If little Cherri just wanted it to end and recognized two threatening, flammable objects in front of her.

(Wow that got long and dark very fast I’m sorry)

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They act like he wasn't out there every day of the week burning and sinking dragon hunter ships with his friends in rtte. He just seems to be very stuck in the mindset of: 'if I don't see the bodies, then who's to say I've done something as morally reprehensible as murder?'

Like he literally caused multiple of Krogan's henchmen to be electrocuted at once and fall off their dragons but he didn't actually see their bodies hit the water so it's fine.

But he can't directly kill someone. He struggles when it's not some faceless soldier, and he has to look at or speak to them knowing he needs to take their life.

"And they were found like this, you say?" "Well, not exactly, but near enough. Have Braya show you the sketches."

During NOAH's excursions into the Crystal Tower two bodies were discovered in a control chamber on one of the upper floors. The Sons of Saint Coinach recorded the find and removed the remains for further study. Though their identities are a mystery, they are thought to have died before or perhaps during the Fourth Umbral Calamity.

The exact cause of death too is unknown. Although a peculiar red crystal recovered with the bones may contain clues- if any can decipher them. The only person to handle it closely nearly collapsed, later reporting being overcome by a sense of terrible anguish.

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Jack and Alba had horrifically gotten into a car accident. Jack had left the crash with a broken leg and a few bruises, while Alba had tragically passed away a few days later in the hospital.

It had hurt Jack deeply, and he was every day grieving and sobbing into Ryan's arms, Ryan being the only real support he had along with Adam's occasional visits when he had time. Ryan never said it was okay; because it wasn’t, but he stayed there as something for Jack to lean onto.

Three days later, Jack and Ryan are sitting on the couch when Jack reaches for the remote. Ryan, deciding to be nice and hand it to Jack instead, also reaches for it. As their fingers brush, Jack feels a jolt shoot up his arm. He doesn't know what it is, and he freezes. Ryan doesn't notice, instead handing Jack the remote. Jack shrugs it off as nothing, but the next day when Adam comes over and he sees both his brother's sit down on the floor and play with the dogs, he feels a sense of affection for Ryan. At that moment, he realizes he doesn't just want Ryan to be there for him. He wants Ryan.

Jack feels an intense guilt tag along with his grief. He felt as if letting that feeling of affection stick around after Alba’s death not only felt like he was cheating on a ghost, the one he had seen as the love of his life, but also like a betrayal of the brotherly bond and connection he and Ryan had.

He tries to push the feeling away, hoping that if he just ignores it and keeps atleast 3 feet away from Ryan that it will magically dissapear, but it didn't. If anything, it grows stronger, and his own guilt grows bigger.

It continues as a slowburn, Jack feeling the guilt every single time tension built, until they eventually let the feeling live amongst them both and accept it.

I LOVE THIS. It’s so sad but also so sweet, goddd.

The guilt and shame Jack would feel would be so immense- I think at a certain point he would be split between staying alive for his brothers and just… not.

I want to see Ryan slowly beginning to sense the change in feelings, and his first concern is comforting Jack and reassuring him that he’s not a bad person… but then he realizes that he’s too ok with this, and he has to reckon with the fear of “taking advantage” of his brother who he loves so much.

Jana’s timeline contest: Submission fanart

(TW: PEBBLE BEING DEAD, SLIGHT BLOOD/ICHOR AND YOUR FAVS GOING THROUGH HELL)