IC Contact

[pianistofraielin]

E-mail: bachtothefuture @ gmail . com

AIM: bachtothefuture

Phone: (voicemail) "Hey, this is Russel! Sorry I can't answer right now, leave a message and I'll call you back!"

[method & date in the subjectline please!]

Comments

[pianistofraielin]

[the first time he reads the word, it means nothing to him. and then an echo hits, and the second time he reads it he's overcome by sudden visceral hatred.]

[THAT'S, UM. PRETTY CONCERNING. he pulls himself back for a minute, thinking about what he knows of his world that might connect to that overwhelming hate. it clicks--the monsters he remembered yesterday morning. the monsters keeping humanity living in fear under their heel. mazoku. yes, that hate sounds entirely justified to him.]

They're completely fucking terrible is what they are. [that is some pretty strong language for Russel off the cuff, usually you have to really piss him off before he gets to that point]

[abhero]

[Yes, Emil can tell it's a strong reaction. The last time he heard Russel say "fuck" was after he nearly killed him.]

ok more details would be nice

[pianistofraielin]

Our world was infested with vermin. Vermin called Mazoku.

Because of them, humanity lived cowering in fear.

[abhero]

[Good thing Emil decided to use text because no way he can keep his voice from revealing something now.

All the feelings he Echoed back with no context start to make sense. The uneasiness whenever destiny came up, the fear of being found out. Hamel hated being a Mazoku, he must’ve never told his traveling companions, not with how people treated him.

And that made no sense. Why would Hamel save them? Emil got to experience the memory in first person and it made him feel sick. He was just a kid, he didn’t do anything and all these people kept arguing about the best way to kill him like he wasn’t even there. Like he really was a vermin.

Some answers, even more questions.]

ok don’t freak out but
i think hamel might have been one

[pianistofraielin]

[...oh.]

[did he remember...that?]

[Russel's not surprised by the conclusion; it makes perfect sense. that thing, whatever young Hamel turned into, that was certainly not human.]

[his next question is a very careful one, because he doesn't want to reveal what he knows without knowing for sure whether Emil also remembers it]

Why do you think that?

[abhero]

i remembered people calling him that
when he was a kid
bc he had a horn

[No mention of how he ALSO got a whole bag of murderous, inhuman urges.]

[pianistofraielin]

[yeah it's probably best that goes unsaid]

[but that doesn't sound like the same memory at all, so Russel can be somewhat relieved that 1) he doesn't have to reveal he knows Hamel killed Raiel's parents, and 2) Emil doesn't have to remember being a murderer.]

Well I didn't remember anything like that but you're probably right.

1/2

[abhero]

i don't think he told raiel
but he must've been different bc he fought the others

[abhero]

[And once he hits "send", something else clicks. He types the next message so fast it has typos.]

wait
when i showd you the hirn you said yuo remembered somthing intense
soething under your hat
but that doesn;t make sense unless riael was a mazoku too
and you cated funny
what up w/ that

1/?

[pianistofraielin]

[oh no CAUGHT RED-HANDED THIS IS A DISASTER]

[pianistofraielin]

[QUICK RUSSEL, THINK. COVER STORY. YOU CAN DO THIS.]

[pianistofraielin]

[admit that you're also a mazoku??]

[...no, even jokingly he doesn't want to stoop to that. he just...he hates them so much... he wouldn't be able to stand that kind of pretending.]

End

[pianistofraielin]

[WAIT]

[PERFECT]

Sorry something must be wrong with your phone your last message came through all garbled I can't even tell what it's trying to say

Maybe you should switch carriers and try again after

[abhero]

[Are you fucking kidding him right now.]

can you read this

[pianistofraielin]

Nope

1/??

[abhero]

ok i'll try again later

[abhero]

[wait a second...]

[abhero]

HOW COULD YOU SAY NO IF YOU DIDN'T EVEN READ IT

[abhero]

ARE YOU TO WALK OUT OF THIS CONVERSATION!!!!!!

done

[abhero]

i'm calling you YOU BETTER PICK UP

[Sure enough, it's a phone call.]

1/?

[pianistofraielin]

[OH GOD HE'S ACTUALLY CALLING]

[OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD]

[pianistofraielin]

[PANIC MODE ENGAGE]

[he throws open the balcony door and flings his phone off the edge]

[pianistofraielin]

[SUCCESS, NOW HE WILL NEVER HAVE TO ANSWER HIS PHONE AND ANSWER TO EMIL!!]

[pianistofraielin]

End

[pianistofraielin]

[............FUCK, NO, WHAT WAS HE THINKING?! HIS PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS THE 38TH STORY!]

[HOW WILL HE EXPLAIN THIS TO HIS PARENTS?!]