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[EFFECT ROOM] Dresses for the Dressing Room!

[Welcome to Lapin Angelique! Everyone who enters this room will suddenly find themselves wearing a Gothic Lolita Dress. They may also have other gothic accessories such as tiny little hats, frilly parasols, vampire capes, or spooky plushies.

Bizarre things will happen if you try to take off the clothes. Maybe it will just be downright impossible, they're stuck to your body. Maybe you'll start to FEEL GOTH and the BLACKNESS OF YOUR HEART compels you to put the clothes back on. Maybe you start taking off the clothes, only to find that doing so causes you to slowly morph into a bunny until you put them back on (or until you're a bunny. But was that REALLY worth it?) It's all up to fate!

Either way, these dresses are probably staying on, at least until the effect wears off. Which could be anything from a couple hours to the rest of the day.]

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It's more than just ideals. I want to live my own life! Even if that includes facing these "awkward situations", I'd rather do it myself than let some spirit do it for me...

You can't earn a keep you were never offered in the first place!

Edited 2013-11-03 01:39 (UTC)

Then I guess you're screwed.

[All of his previous humor drains away in an instant. Was it even real? It's hard to tell. Troublesome child... Did he really think it was just his life any more? Did he think he was so easily rejected? Folding his arms over his chest, he looks at the boy almost sternly.]

I'm not going anywhere! I've finally come close to my goal... and until I reach it, your 'Aniki' will have to put up with me.

Ryou! Remember this! I won't drown in the darkness of the Ring any more. Not for you or anyone!

Aniki said you've changed, but I don't see it.

[Ryou sadly shakes his head. What an inescapable man...he was like a parasite.] You're just as cruel and selfish as before...

If you were different, I wouldn't mind sharing so much...

Edited 2013-11-04 23:30 (UTC)

Selfish?

[What a rude thing to say. True, but rude. Lifting a hand, he jingles the Ring at him as he speaks.]

Do you know what it's like to be trapped inside this thing?

No...no, I don't. And I don't claim it's any good, but that still doesn't give you the right to use other people for your own means.

We all have our own lives, and you had yours...so why should you get to take that away from anybody else?

Rights? Don't make me laugh. Rights are lies that people call upon to explain away their own failings. "I can't do it myself, but it's my right." Bullshit like that just makes me sick.

[He lets the ring drop, looking at Ryou with a calm expression on his face... albeit aa dark one.]

It's the purest emptiness in the world. There's no sound, no light. Nothing but my own mind to occupy myself. Time becomes nothing. Even if you cry out, nobody can hear you. Nothing changes. Nothing moves. You begin to wonder if you're really existing.

If it's selfish to take the opportunity to get away from that, then call me selfish.

I'm not doing this to steal anyone's life. If Ryou has something he wants to do, he only has to tell me... and I won't interfere.

[That empty nothingness the spirit described...

It sounded unimaginably awful, so terrifying in thought that Ryou let out a small noise that rose up from within him, like a whimper. He takes a slight step back, his eyes wide. Had this guy really dealt with that loneliness...for that long?!

He felt bad for him... He knows he shouldn't, not after what he did, but he does.]

I'm...sorry. I didn't know...

But, but even if that's true, what about when you do things he doesn't want you to do? Borrowing to escape the Ring for a little while is one thing...

[That whimper surprises him, almost as much as Ryou's shock. He'd not expected that strong a reaction.]

...Ah- You're talking about Yugi and the others, right? That's right... you don't know.

[Folding his arms over his chest, he leans against the wall.]

I got a few of my memories back, a while ago. It's probably the effect of that Millennium Puzzle. I'm not planning to take it from him any more. On top of that, I haven't been 'paying rent' since then, either, so there's not too much that he can protest about.

[Ryou blinked a few times, in utter disbelief. He was shocked, so much so he could barely find the words to speak. It was as if everything he'd thought about the spirit now--as he was now--felt unjustified.

He really shouldn't be so fast to judge...people change, right? He felt guilty for that.]

You...aren't? I, I guess it's not so bad then. [He brings a hand up to his chest.] As long as you don't get Aniki into trouble, or take over too much...

[Ryou remembered something suddenly, backtracking on his previous guilt and looking at the spirit with meek defiance. As if he wasn't quite sure what to feel.]

But he told me that he woke up with a knife wound, in the hospital! And that he's got a lot of gaps in his memory... You can't control him that much, it's not fair!

[Lifting his hands as if in surrender, he grins a little.]

Didn't he tell you about our agreement? I'm not controlling him that much anymore. The only time I've reneged on that agreement was when he was sick, about a week ago. I was in too bad of a state to remember to wake him up.

As to the hospital thing... that was a pain. Do you know how boring hospitals are? Especially when you only have an annoying old man for company. He should have slept right through it.

...and if he told you about the duel, that wasn't me. An idiot I know forced me out of control.

Tch, that idiot... he could have killed Ryou doing that. Talk about a dirty move...

[It makes him a little irritated.]

Anyway, don't worry about that. Ryou was fine, wasn't he?

[He really had to wonder how much of the spirit's words were true, and how much were twisted just enough to put him in a good light. Ryou felt uncomfortable having to be so defensive and heavy handed with his questions, but what else could he do?]

I guess...things could be worse. As long as Aniki still gets to come out, the most I can do for him is not give into the Ring myself, when the time comes.

...Sorry. [He settles the spirit with a determined, but somehow sympathetic look. Ryou wanted his freedom, even if it meant this guy couldn't escape the confines of the Ring. Did that make him...selfish? It was his body... At the very least, he'd try to talk to the spirit. Maybe that would ease his boredom?

Ryou felt guilty already.]

Edited 2013-11-11 17:27 (UTC)

Are you an idiot?

[He sounded amicable enough at least. The words had no bite behind them at all.]

There's no need to apologize for trying to stand on your feet. If you find a way to get by without my help, I'll... probably be annoyed, that past me, but that's his problem.

[He'll always find another way.]

I'm used to waiting, after all. Eventually, the Ring will pass to someone else, if you never give in to it.

...You're...okay with my decision? Even if it means you have to wait?

[This guy...didn't make a lot of sense. Maybe he just had no hope in his ability to resist. Maybe he was just being honest...

Maybe he really didn't care if he had to wait.]

I'd thank you, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate...

I didn't have much patience when I was alive, but I've been waiting so long. What's a few more decades? Human lives are relentlessly short, after all...

[As you know well.]

It's not really appropriate. You still have to earn that right with the past me. But someone with the strength to risk their soul against me... heh. That doesn't come along often. Who knows? You might actually manage it.

[Like hell.]

Un... [He didn't want to think about how "relentlessly short" those lives could be.]

I'll just have to wait for that time, for whenever "Duelist Kingdom" happens... [He closes his eyes, nodding firmly.] I'll prove myself then.

Heh... that's the right mindset. It won't be long, once you get out of here.

[But it won't be over with just one time. He trusted in himself. No matter how strong Ryou's will got... he'd be worn down over and over again.]

Speaking of which... do you always carry that bag with you?

Whenever that is... [Ryou mumbles, his eyes shifting back down towards his bag briefly before meeting the spirit's eyes again.] Un, I don't quite trust this place not to just...whisk it, or me, away.

Heh... but wouldn't that solve all your problems in one sweep?

...I guess...

[Ryou seems reluctant to admit it. He felt attached to the Ring, he didn't want to let it go...]

H-heh heh... [His shoulders shake slightly. This is too precious.]

I guess it was a treasured gift, after all. It's only natural.

U-un, my father gave it to me, but... I'm sure you already knew that.

[Not just that. It was the only constant in his life. When his friends left and he had to change schools--ironically because of it--and his father was in Egypt, and he was all alone in the silence of his apartment...

At least he had the Ring, and at the time, its inexplicable presence. It'd been more than just an object to him. It was like a good luck charm, or a security blanket.

...Too bad it had turned out to be none of those things. It was an omen, if anything.]

Of course. I was the one that arranged that, after all. Although I didn't expect it to be passed on to a child. My target was your father, but he never bothered to put it on.

[He folded his arms over his chest again, looking thoughtful.]

...Eh? But I picked the Ring out myself at a pawn shop.

[His father had bought it for him, sure, but the man hadn't even noticed the thing until Ryou toted it over with a smile and lots of questions.

Still, how could the spirit have possibly arranged that? And why would he assume his father would take it?]

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