tentacruelest | 8th Wave

8th Wave

Th' next time this Barge feels like poking around in my head, I'll be keeping to my quarters. The lot of yeh - useless dregs not fit to scrub a floor. It's bad enough I'm locked in here with you, I don't need to call any of yeh friends.

[Private to Bush]

Was dealing with me yerself so difficult that you sought to work through less offensive channels, Captain?

[Private to Arthas]

A word, my king.

[Can you feel that heavy sarcasm, Arthas?]

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So why did you do it? Because you were too cowardly to have one in the first place?

I am no coward.

I've asked you twice, and you haven't answered. I think that speaks for itself.

It speaks to you minding yer own business. It's a private matter.

Betrayal, then.

Better to feel nothing at all.

[A sudden explosion. Hide, Zane]

She betrayed ME!

[ He was expecting an outburst, the way he's pushing. He's being a little unfair, and he knows it: Jones won't be the one to cut the connection first. ]

So what?

[ Pushing more. Trying to provoke, more. ]

[It's easy to get Jones worked up, and the easiest way to do it is to dismiss the object of his affection and hatred and the reason he is how he is. Looking ready to kill Zane where he stands, Davy smashes his claw arm into his organ pipes, hissing]

So she deserved what happened to her! She DESERVED to be locked away, as she tricked me into locking myself away, after she promised love and delivered only misery!

You ripped out your heart for her?

I did everything for her.

And you never made her suffer like you did?

I locked her away. I helped to bind her, I took away her power and made her dependent on men like me for her survival.

Then you had revenge. Isn't that enough?

It was never enough!

I didn't want to punish her! She'd left me no choice, and my revenge brought nothing but ages of pain for th' both of us!

Then what you did was wrong.

[Voice thick with sarcasm]

Aye, I figured that out my first week out at sea! Any other high-handed, obvious moral lessons ye'd like to pass down from on high?

I was just thinking that you're more complicated than I thought.

If what you did was wrong and you regret it, why haven't you fixed it?

Yeh cannot take back what's been done to destroy a person so utterly. I...thought by tearing out my heart, I was fixing it.

And she was no longer at sea. I was bound not to step foot on land for a decade. And she didnae wish to see me.

I...attempted to reconcile once. The day before my death.

What happened?

She promised she would come to meet me when her powers returned.

She did not.

[ He's off-balance. He's not sure what he's doing here, anymore, what he's trying to accomplish in this conversation. ]

I'm sorry.

I was betrayed, too - by a woman.

Was it love?

Obsession, probably.

Obsession can be love, in a certain light.

It was the closest thing I had. I thought she would save me.