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the_campus2013-12-31 06:19 pm
fluffydeathdealer) wrote in the_campus2013-12-31 06:19 pm
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DUEL 003: The Bored Spirit At Play
[To say that Bakura's been in a good mood lately is an understatement.
Thanks to the thief king, he has the eighth key that he needs once he gets out of here. It's frustrating being trapped in this place, but he's spent so long with the Ring's imprisonment that it's easy to cope with this. It's just a waiting game. It always has been.
It's said that the greatest enemy of the immortal is boredom. For Bakura, that's an understatement. There weren't many duelists around, getting rid of people wasn't possible with the curse upon this place bringing them back, and the problem with letting his darker instincts out was that in this place, there was no way to get away with it without word spreading too fast, or his victims recovering. How tedious! Even if he took their souls, this place would probably return them to their bodies before long. He couldn't even pursue the remainder of his collection, with Shadi not being accessible.
So for now, he's sitting on the ground in the courtyard despite the cold, working with a much more mundane hobby. He's making a marionette.
It's not quite finished, but it might look familiar... It looks a surprising amount like a creepier version of a certain young boy with ridiculous hair. It's symbolic! And it isn't the only one there. Hanging over the nearest doorway, waiting to fall down on anyone who opens the door to come outside, is a slightly more intimidating one...]
Thanks to the thief king, he has the eighth key that he needs once he gets out of here. It's frustrating being trapped in this place, but he's spent so long with the Ring's imprisonment that it's easy to cope with this. It's just a waiting game. It always has been.
It's said that the greatest enemy of the immortal is boredom. For Bakura, that's an understatement. There weren't many duelists around, getting rid of people wasn't possible with the curse upon this place bringing them back, and the problem with letting his darker instincts out was that in this place, there was no way to get away with it without word spreading too fast, or his victims recovering. How tedious! Even if he took their souls, this place would probably return them to their bodies before long. He couldn't even pursue the remainder of his collection, with Shadi not being accessible.
So for now, he's sitting on the ground in the courtyard despite the cold, working with a much more mundane hobby. He's making a marionette.
It's not quite finished, but it might look familiar... It looks a surprising amount like a creepier version of a certain young boy with ridiculous hair. It's symbolic! And it isn't the only one there. Hanging over the nearest doorway, waiting to fall down on anyone who opens the door to come outside, is a slightly more intimidating one...]
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[How did humans do it? Surrounded by one incredible improbability after another, and yet they invented boredom! He nudges the marionnette with the staff of his scythe.]
AND THIS IS INTENDED TO END YOUR BOREDOM?
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[Looping his fingers through the strings, he lifts the unfinished... thing and makes it wave at him. He knows the voice, at least; this guy was the same one who claimed to be Santa. Guess he really was lying. Or maybe this was his day job.]
You're one to talk about odd methods, roaming around like that. Halloween was over a few months ago. Anyway, it's just a hobby. I've never made these before, so I wanted to try it out. I've always liked puppets.
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[He cocks his skull slightly, baffled.]
WHAT IS "HALLOWEEN?"
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[Sitting back, he stares up at him curiously. If he didn't know what Halloween was, that meant he went around like that normally. Heh. Kinda cute, really... It was a good look. He liked it.]
Is it really that weird?
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[That sounds very much like Soul Cake Day. The whole thing always perplexed him, really.]
WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE FOOD SERVE? THE DEAD CANNOT EAT.
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In places where they give the dead food, it's supposed to make them feel like they're still one of the family and still being thought of. In other places, people just eat to celebrate their former existences... like a party.
Of course, in a lot of places, they just make a party out of it for no reason and forget the dead side of things anyway.
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[Contrary to popular belief, he really had very little to do with ghosts or the long dead. The dying and the recently dead were his domain; after usually no more than a few minutes, he had nothing to do with any given individual. Some of the living, however, did keep in contact with the long dead; maybe this man knew someone like that.]
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[He's in a better place than most to answer this, but even so... he's never met another spirit beyond the Pharaoh. Well, even if he can't speak for most ghosts, he can speak for himself.]
It's harmless, but it's also unnecessary. The living have little concept of death, and act based on what they think the dead want. But viewing the dead as being different from the living... it's pointless. Those that pass on neither know nor care. Those that remain... it might be enough to ease their anger and misery at being left in such a state. Or they might not care at all. Waking up dead isn't enough to make someone become vengeful.
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[He should know, after all. "Waking up" is a rather impossible feat when you don't have the hormones required to do so, and anyway, they generally knew what had happened pretty quickly. Even if he did sometimes have to gently clear up the confusion for them.]
WHY WOULD THEY BECOME VENGEFUL? IT WOULD NO LONGER HAVE ANY EFFECT ON THEM.
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Tch. It's a figure of speech... nothing more. If you were asleep when you died, or don't remember it, the return to awareness could be said to be waking up.
But the other part... Keh, you really don't understand at all, do you? Have you never heard of vengeful spirits? It's a famous phenomenon. Countless movies and books have been made about the idea, and rituals passed down by generations of humans have been developed over the last few millennia to appease potentially angry spirits.
Not all the dead are happy about it, and some will take any slight as a reason to get even less happy.
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[Amazing, really, if this man is telling the truth. What good would it do to hasten the insanity and death of someone you hated? You'd only wind up sharing an afterlife with them that much sooner.]
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[A hard-worker, huh... surprising, for someone in that getup. He wouldn't have believed it. ...Unless that skull wasn't fake. Lifting his head, he looks up at the skull curiously, trying to see if there's anything behind it.]
What do you do?
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[He shrugs.]
I AM A GUIDE, OF SORTS.
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If you don't want to explain, don't bother. It's not important.
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[...Not that they don't sometimes find their way back on their own, but that's not really his business.]
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[His tone takes on a somewhat darker edge now.]
THERE WOULD BE...VERY SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES IF I BROUGHT THEM BACK WITH ME.
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[His voice is filled with interest now.]
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I DO NOT KILL.
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[Jeez. He wouldn't be making wrong guesses if the guy'd just tell him, but oh well. Maybe he likes the mystery.]
Did you bring the horse through the halls? ...do we even have a stable here?
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HE STAYS WITH ME.
[He'd have thought his occupation would be very obvious to someone who could see him.]
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And suddenly, with the realization this guy wasn't playing a role, everything clicks in place.]
Don't bullshit me... you're actually Death? I thought you were some kind of roleplayer.
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[At least on Soul Cake Night, the whole thing had started as an attempt to frighten away evil spirits.]
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