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Atem ([personal profile] metagame) wrote in [community profile] linknet2024-08-04 07:31 pm
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week 8 - dream sharing: look at me making up memories on the fly

[personal profile] finalmix 2024-09-23 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ you dream.

it's been a weird occurrence all week, hasn't it? something as mundane as sleep eluding you, plunging you into the dream bubbles that you have heard or experienced for yourself over the course of the past two weeks.

this dream is different. this dream is not yours, and you are a visitor.

in the dream, joshua is there. he doesn't look quite the same as you know him. he looks older, a quiet observer. the other participants in the dream don't seem to notice that joshua is there, either. you are the only one who can see him.

what you can also hear is the conversation - between two teenaged-looking boys and a man with sunglasses.

"is it done? we survived seven days, we won the Game, we can go home now, right?"

"not quite. what if i told you that we could only send one of you home, instead of you both?"

"the fuck does that mean? wasn't it in the rules that if you won the Game you get to go back, right?!"

"the Composer wills it so."


there is a dead, horrified silence.

"w-wait, you’re really only sending one of us back?"

"it's up to you."


the two boys look at each other. the first one swallows, clenches his fist and says in a rush, "i can't choose. i want it to be me but... it's--that's not fair. we did this together. so i guess i'm, i'm choosing him? i don't-- why are you making me choose?"

there's another silence, the man in sunglasses looking impassively at the second boy. waiting. joshua waits too, looking at all three of them.

"i can't... i can't do it either. i guess it's both of us or neither or something, i don't know. it's not fair. i want to go home but you can't ask me to kill my partner to make it happen, y'know."

joshua sighs. the other participants in the room don't seem to hear him, but you do, loud and clear. ]


A little weak, but it'll do. Send them both back. That is my judgment.

[ the man in the sunglasses then says: "the Composer is satisfied with your answers. so we are sending you both back home. well done."

the dream fades, but joshua remains. ]


Did you enjoy the show?

[ he's addressing atem directly now. ]
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ur welcome

[personal profile] finalmix 2024-09-25 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't sound happy to see me~

[ it's perfectly calibrated just to annoy atem. but for the most part, joshua is used to people coming in and out of his dreamscape, even if it's intentional like it seems to be with our poor pharaoh.

so joshua shrugs. ]


It's not me. Or well, even if it isn't me, it's probably something the Nekyia is doing. Something about a Dream-King?

[ he skimmed through the commissions, ok. ]

Or, it thought that maybe this was something that you wanted to see?

[ they're in a kind of room, though it's definitely not atem's. it's stone walls and concrete, and there's a throne where joshua is perched on delicately, almost looking down at atem in very thinly veiled curiosity. ]

I don't get very many visitors, most of the time.
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dn: piss off / un: kaine || towards the beginning of week 11

[personal profile] moonshaded 2024-10-17 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
sooo what the hell's going on with the temple?

[When the prospect of stargazing at the temple had come up during the aquarium sleepover, Kainé had made it sound like anything to do with it would have to come from Atem's initiative. Who knows why she decided to stop by and see the grounds despite little interest in playing nice with Braphine and her followers? Whatever brought her there, something about the eerie silence of the place prickles the hairs on the back of her neck.]
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[personal profile] moonshaded 2024-10-18 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
the city's the same. back to being scapegoats. [Which, at least to her, is nothing strange. Better for them to direct their hostility in her direction when it isn't a change from how her life has always been.]

this is really pissing me off. maybe fucking up some more shadows will do something about it. [That, or she's needless redirecting her feelings into violence again, but no big deal.]
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[personal profile] moonshaded 2024-10-24 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm not gonna say no.

at least in there it feels like we're supposed to be in the shit, instead of it leaking out all over the place.


[With the boundaries between the real and the imaginary blurring every day - and about to blur even more - distinguishing up from down is starting to become a dizzying task.]

guess people are just like this. [It's easy to be angry and suspicious.]
beathollow: (OA. 032)

a couple days after sou's palace

[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-19 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
( there's a knock on his door. when he opens it, mafuyu is waiting sheepishly, a familiar puzzle in her hands... but she isn't quite meeting his eyes. )

I- I shouldn't keep forgetting, should I? So...
beathollow: (CA. 012)

[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-19 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It wouldn't have been a bother.

( and then he invites her in. ... that was not part of the plan- )

Eh?
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[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-19 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
( logically she knows this is not a bad thing. good luck telling that to her emotions, though.

she still does as requested, gently handing the puzzle over. )


About...?
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[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-19 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
... Oh. Um.

( is he going to finally scold her or get upset? there's a heavy pit in her stomach starting to form and she hates it. ... she'll take the desk chair and sit. )

Okay.
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[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-19 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
( oh, water. ... she just kind of holds the bottle at first, slowly turning it in her hand. )

... Shin's palace was... a lot to deal with.
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[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-19 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
...

You're nicer than I am, then.

( because she can't stop thinking about how stupid she was. )
beathollow: (L2D. 019)

[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-19 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I- I'm still the one who gave him an opportunity, though, and I knew it was a bad call.
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[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-20 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
I- Atem! I was the one who pushed for the vote, we both know it!

( ... yeah, no, she's only getting more upset. )
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[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-20 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
( ...

there's a soft break in her voice- )


I still see your husk when I look at you, sometimes. It hurts, Atem.
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[personal profile] beathollow 2024-10-24 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Atem...

( she knows, on some level, that he's not as open to touch. but it hurts, and she's emotional, and maybe she's a little selfish, because she closes the distance to hug him regardless, blinking away tears.

sorry, atem. )