cruelties: (Serious | sleep of apples)
Vincent Nightray ([personal profile] cruelties) wrote in [community profile] sirenspull_logs2012-01-29 12:52 pm

Heaven did decree that in your arms sweet death should dwell.

Who: Gilbert and Vincent Nightray, Ahiru, and later on Ciel Phantomhive. Jack Vessalius only post-mortem. Kyubey will be around solely to be a creepy jerk. Maybe others-?!
When: January 29th
Where: Phancyhive, Jack’s bedroom
Summary: Collapsing into despair, Jack becomes a witch at the end of his contract as a puella magi. Vincent takes it upon himself to slay him at the end of the labyrinth.
Warnings: CHARACTER DEATH BY BEHEADING, death of a parental figure and resulting psychotic breakdowns, stabbing, blood. It’s a mess of blood and angst basically. And oh yeah Vincent may finally stab out Kyubey's eyes with some scissors. Lovely all around.



A witch’s labyrinth.

Oh how Vincent hated witches. He hated a great deal of things. Fakes. Selfish people. Misfortune bearers. Liars. Anything that could reflect in a mirror he loathed. Witches however were beyond even that petty hatred. Witches were the creatures who had stolen away the light of the world. In their grip everything turned fetid and rotted away until there was only darkness.

So how could he, how could it have happened-?!

Leo was gone too. That realization had hurried him back to this place; this place he had banished himself from but where he had known protection and even comfort. It was where his master and brother dwelt but he could not return to them. This place should not exist! He should not be allowed to return to such a warm and golden time. So he had stayed away and stayed by that boy’s side. He had woken up alone however and a useless search had drawn him back to here.

Perhaps he would have to return to that place too, in time, and confront his memories there too.

Perhaps, also, he had already had the intention to kill him even then. In his rage and hurt at that being, the Core. Like that woman, it should not exist to make the world however it wished! He had carried that dagger on his breast ever since Jack had given it to him a few months ago. Perhaps he had taken it for permission, acquiescence, a request.

Yet when he had come to the door he had not received a touch of the golden light. It was only the darkness again, the yawning maw of the Abyss waiting to swallow the entire world whole. A ruptured world crafted by a witch’s hands. A world where there was only despair. A world that should be erased.

And he had found the witch in the middle of the labyrinth, waiting to be slain.

Perhaps he had only understood because of everyone he had ever met, Jack and he were the most alike. They were even more alike than his precious brother who could forget all of his sorrow. Jack could never forget, like Vincent, yet in the end he had given in to his despair.

So the knight had slain the witch at his request. Using the last gift the man had given him with a note that warned of the five minute effect of the poison, and a reassurance he still loved him. He told him then too he still loved him, and had given him one final gift.

It had been disgustingly easy to kill him. Even if it had broken Vincent’s body into a thousand pieces it still would have been too easy. He had killed him as easily he had so many others, here and at home. A single thought and it was done. Only the Chain’s shriek of delight reminded him of the contract he had made long ago for this power.

The power to execute whoever he wished.

So the black knight was left with a headless corpse in his arms, dagger still within the poisoned heart. Reality warped about him but he ignored the storm over head. With a single blood stained hand he removed the earrings and replaced them with a single one. As the blood dried on his cheek, Vincent noticed how lucky he was that he could not see Jack’s final expression of judgment from where his head had rolled a few feet away.

I really have lost everything.

Gilbert would not forgive this.
motioned: (it's like a choose your own adventure)

[personal profile] motioned 2012-02-26 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Executioner... Defend her life? She finds it hard to stop staring at the monster above, and it takes her a moment to process the meaning behind the words. Once she realizes the threat, she looks from the chain towards the man caressing it. As Gilbert move in front of her, she freezes, suddenly gripped by terror. Vaguely, she wonders what she's done to have deserved something like that. It takes the sight of him squeezing the gun to stun her into speaking.]

Don't! [Of course, it's not immediately clear who she's speaking to.]
retraced: any icon marked "please do not take" was given as a gift from my RP partners; please don't repost/use on tumblr (Is Gil gonna have to choke a bitch?)

[personal profile] retraced 2012-02-27 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[In this moment, he wants to shoot him. He wants to fire the gun and stop him. This man who once ran towards him with his arms open wide, the smile that was so familiar and yet completely foreign. The brother that he'd promised to use and finally remembered that he'd once loved.

I can only hold my brother's fragile body and push away my ugly feeling.

I'm nothing but a lowly person...


He doesn't pull the trigger in the end. Instead, he lunges forward in the path of the gun, ignoring the huge Chain hovering over Vincent's head as he attempts to tackle him to the ground, only inches from his fallen master's body.]
motioned: (naked and depressed.)

[personal profile] motioned 2012-02-27 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Normally, even she would have the sense to realize that as long as he wasn't aiming for her Soul Gem, she would be safe. In the moment that he raises the gun, however, adrenaline chases every such thought from her mind. All that trails through her consciousness is the frightened awareness that he's going to shoot her, that she's going to die. In the short seconds before Gilbert rushes forward, she urges herself to move, but her feet seem planted to the spot by fear. After he lunges for the other man, she sinks to her knees without a word, too shaky to stand.]
retraced: (holy shit he's not wearing his glove)

[personal profile] retraced 2012-02-29 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[He can laugh all he likes, Gilbert still holds him down and in place as though he's still a threat. And unless that Chain disappears over their heads, he'll continue to treat him like one. The gun is raised once more and pressed into his brother's ribs, out of the sight of his daughter.]

Ahiru, get out of here! Go find Alois or Ciel and stay with them until I come and find you!
motioned: (it's like a choose your own adventure)

[personal profile] motioned 2012-02-29 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[For all she wants to stay and be able to do something - what more could she do here? Breathing hard, she struggles to stand; she can barely stop her legs from shaking, and it takes her a few moments before she's able to rise from the ground. As she stumbles backwards, there's a second of hesitance once she reaches the doorway. Begging herself to stay and make things better, but begging herself to leave and not get hurt at the same time...

It takes a few additional moments before she moves past the frame of the door, running out into the hallway.]
retraced: (I plan on sleeping)

[personal profile] retraced 2012-03-01 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[He follows her out of the corner of his vision, but mostly continues to stare directly down at his brother. The man who just killed their master; the one who once gave them both purpose.]

Remember what? [He hisses.]
retraced: (/CRADLES HEAD)

[personal profile] retraced 2012-03-06 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[His hands mirror his brother's, and he puts a few inches of space between the two of them. Without your power, you must and will still protect. What other choice did he have but to at least try? It was still futile in the end, and the blond haired man lying there unmoving at their feet was proof of it.

He covers his face with his hands and lets out a very long breath. Despite the faith that his brother is trying to remind him that he still has in him, he has absolutely no idea what to do now.]
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[personal profile] retraced 2012-03-09 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[The silence is the greatest gift that his brother could leave him in this state. Hands still gripping his head, he turns towards his fallen master and crawls across the floor to him. Head bowed in both pain and forgiveness, he tears himself away from Jack's lifeless eyes and reaches up to the bed to grab a blanket to cover him with. His hands shake so hard that he drops it twice, but eventually he manages to tuck the man in comfortably, respectfully.

This isn't the end here. He might come back. He might...

Or he might go home and wait for me.

Jack...I won't let you down again. I swear I won't! Please...please forgive me...


But before he can call for the police to send an ambulance to pick him up, he bows, lays his head down on the ground near Jack's, and cries weakly. For his fallen master that he couldn't say a first or second time, for his current master who has been taken from him twice, and for his brother who he's once again tossed aside without taking the time to try and understand what he's thinking.

When he's finished, the call to the police will be made, but for now he can do nothing else but cry for his hideous, selfish failures.]