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Become Mods ([personal profile] becomemod) wrote in [community profile] becomehero2023-11-04 10:12 pm
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Week 6: Execution

week 6:
 
execution

Sunday morning starts off quietly enough, almost peaceful after the events of the past few days. Today, the alarm on everyone's phone starts at 12 PM, with a reminder of the execution to take place at 1 PM at the stadium. Unlike the Saturday notifications, however, this is the only reminder you get. It appears that attendance is not mandatory this time.

Well. Not for all of you, anyway. One of you feels a compulsion to head to the stadium, heading straight inside and following the staff to ready themselves for what's to come. All others who arrive at the stadium, hero or civilian, are led to spectator seating.

As the clock strikes 1 PM, Will walks into the arena. On the opposite end of the field, Nico steps out to greet them. As long as they both live, neither will able to leave the area, nor will any outsiders be able to enter.

You don't have to watch, of course. That's your choice. But with the event being broadcast all over the city, it may be hard to avoid. In-person or across town, everywhere is buzzing with gossip of the newly discovered villain about to face justice. Regardless of where you go or whether you choose to watch, the only thing to do now is wait.


tongshi: ꜰᴏʟᴋʟᴏʀᴇ ∗ ᴘʟs ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ (123)

[personal profile] tongshi 2023-11-05 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he squeezes her hand tightly, radiating displeasure and tension.

there's a weak comment, bitter, unhappy, wishing that he could, while things are still only the baseline terrible and not two teenagers who love each other having to kill one another:
] My second mayoral decree is to call an end to all executions, public or otherwise, in the city of Oceanside.
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[personal profile] floridas 2023-11-05 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ just pats him very weakly... ] Babe, I think at this point, being "mayor" has about as much political impact as being the Queen of England.
Edited 2023-11-05 18:39 (UTC)
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[personal profile] tongshi 2023-11-05 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a dry, humorless laugh leaves him. he doesn't understand that reference, but it's fine, it's fine. he gets enough of it.

it's just hard to watch the two of them walk the perimeter, try to find an out, and listening to them talk about this. it's true! it's all very true! but it sucks!
]
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[personal profile] floridas 2023-11-05 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ haha she just. suddenly tightens her hold on one of hung's arms as nico is hurt by one of those shitty zits in the ground. ]

Fuck this... why...
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[personal profile] tongshi 2023-11-05 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ squeezes tightly and some of the oripathy spreads further as his fur bristles.

but then will uses his power - reflex, maybe, or just throwing caution to the wayside in the face of his love for nico - and he swears softly.
]

It's just the two of them in there... what's he going to do about the cost...
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[personal profile] floridas 2023-11-05 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she twitches as she's held tighter, shaking her head and watching like a hawk. her fingers dig in tightly to him, trembling as she watches on. ]
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[personal profile] tongshi 2023-11-05 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hate hate hate hate

the branch breaks, and will says to go ahead, and he doesn't - he doesn't trust that will isn't going to do something very, very bad when nico lets go of his hand. so he hopes, even if execution has never been anything but despair, silent now, while nico tears forward to lead the way.

and now this! the arrow flies and he tenses up more.
]
Edited 2023-11-05 20:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] floridas 2023-11-05 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Will—

[ fuck fuck fuck fuck haha she just stands up immediately, slamming her hands against the barrier. ]
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[personal profile] tongshi 2023-11-05 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's fine, he's lunging up with her, tail lashing behind him. ]

Get up, get up, go Nico. [ please make it to the flag, please make it together, please don't make nico have to kill will. the moment of clarity turning to blankness again makes his stomach drop. ] Will, you have to hold on -
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[personal profile] floridas 2023-11-05 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ please don't please don't please don't... she just shakes her head as she watches, her eyes wide. ]

Come on, boys... come on...
Edited 2023-11-05 21:32 (UTC)
tongshi: ꜰᴏʟᴋʟᴏʀᴇ ∗ ᴘʟs ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ (137)

[personal profile] tongshi 2023-11-05 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ we really let them do this to us huh.

he sets his hands against the barrier, knowing it won't do anything - and then he closes his eyes, if only briefly, so they don't intrude even more on this moment that never should've happened in the first place.
]
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[personal profile] floridas 2023-11-05 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
... oh fuck—!

[ clutching at the barrier. ]

Nononononono!
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[personal profile] tongshi 2023-11-05 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ jolyne's voice causes him to open his eyes, and then there's the boom of thunder, the crack of lightning, and he looks

horrified at the universe's idea of a joke
]
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[personal profile] floridas 2023-11-05 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ and then... as the body fucking flies out of the water

literally all the tension in her just snaps like a rubber band. ]
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[personal profile] tongshi 2023-11-05 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god.

[ tears off after everyone else running to the field ]
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[personal profile] floridas 2023-11-05 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ SHE IS COMING WITH HIM IMMEDIATELY DUH ]