WEEK SIX EXECUTION

[grigori]

week six: execution and the zest was history

Hopefully you got a long night of sleep? Barring that, you got whatever answers, or closure, you might have needed. Because it's strangely quiet, the following Sunday morning, the everyday background music you've all gotten used to reduced to mere echoes on the wind.

Breaking the silence, somewhere, much like the song of Friday, there is the echoing, cruel laughter of voices you should faintly recognize throughout the city. It's followed by humming of that newly familiar song. It's strongest, interestingly, in Star Circle.

As time turns to 1 PM, though, there is a change as the voices fade. While there's no compulsion to investigate it, there's a small gathering in the heart of the city square. Your three Watchers are here with their daemons, and so are... Spike, and his daemon, front and center. All damages and evidence, anything amiss from the weekend, is all gone, and replaced with the state of the Star Circle from the week prior.

Standing close are the Watchers. Baraqiel is nearby, arms crossed, daemon skulking tiger-formed around the edge ring of the Star Circle. Shamsiel stands a bit to the side of Baraqiel with one of their hands grasping onto their wrist as their daemon rests on their shoulder in falconet form. Suriel stands on Shamsiel's other side, daemon nowhere to be seen as they rest their hand on the other's arm.

And then, another party will be compelled to join them. Diluc will find that his feet are carrying him to his destination, Canopus sticking close to him as they travel through the barrier. Once he passes into the innermost sunburst of the circle, opposite where Spike stands, he'll find that he can't go back, and neither can his daemon.

Likewise, no one can enter Star Circle further than where the Watchers are. There will be no interfering from outside parties, no matter what it is that's about to happen. Any attempts to do so will result in them meeting an invisible barrier, one that rebuffs them with the same amount of force used against it—so take care.

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REMEMBER -

[grigori]

remember
and dust you shall become in the end

 

 

The Watchers step forward in unison as the barrier falls, the same as they had with the verdict against Spike. With their presence and a sheen of light and Dust, before the uninvited participants can weave amongst the crowd gathered, the spectres are forced to disperse from the plaza. Their reactions after the light fades vary - Shamsiel with their fingers laced together as they look to the where Diluc remains, Baraqiel's chin lifted to watch the last remnants of the spectres dispense, Suriel tired but holding their head high, ready to face the end.

The shot rings out, final and true, the choice made by a man plagued by his very soul. Erastis shimmers into golden Dust, fading on the wind. The gun and staff both disappear much like the stake had after they were chosen, and it seems like nothing will be left behind.

And that includes the executed, Spike's body turning to Dust like much his daemon - and then there's nothing left.

Spike is dead.

The laughter from before returns, echoing, before the unknown but newly familiar voices turn to song again:

love is truly a powerful thing,
enough to defy whatever fate brings.
but devotion can take it one step too far,
then again, he never knows where the lines are.
what he wanted most was simply to be seen,
an equal, for once, but he still feels demeaned
as a monster who makes yet another mistake
but doesn't regret it when his own life's at stake.
it's a fight he can't win, so he'll pay the toll.
for what does it matter, to lose one more soul?

After the Dust clears, and the song ends with more of that laughter, the Watchers will disappear in a shift of space around them. Diluc and Canopus are left alone in the heart of Star Circle.

[shinetrue]

[ spikes last words ring loud in his head, diluc having been unable to do anything to prevent it from ending this way...

his legs shake as he stands alone, canopus laying down at his feet, he looks up to the sky and closes his eyes. ]

Archons...

[callalilies]

[ from absolutely frozen and stock still, to immediately moving, kaeya sprints quickly to collect diluc the moment the barrier drops, a look on his face that doesn't evoke anything save maybe a bit of relief in but one eye. he's confused and he's tired and every nerve ending in his body is alight.

polaris swiftly positions himself in front of diluc as kaeya takes his shoulders in his and looks him over once before embracing him with a quiet murmur. ]

I've got you.

[ his brow is drawn, but he does not move away or show repulsion, there is only the desire to understand. we will talk. ]

[shinetrue]

[ his eyes don't open to meet kaeya's, he just lowers his head to his shoulder, letting out a long shaky breath.

he shouldn't have let it come to that, it should have gone different, he should have just pulled the trigger on spike. it went on too long... ]

...

[veraltwin]

[Power is yelling at Diluc, but Alisaie is just watching Kaeya from where they'd all been standing.

"Do you imply Diluc's character to be so low?"

Mayhap he believed Diluc's character to be too high.

But that's not a conversation for now--neither of them are ready for that, and she doesn't want to hear any reasons or excuses for what he did. There's nothing that will make attempting to sacrifice Spike like that okay.

Nothing at all.]

[powerplay]

[ Whether Xie Lian has to hold her back or whether she's able to walk up to him, she's sure to get one of the rare, very rare samples of her spite out at him. ]

You did that! You could've shot him earlier but you made it happen like that!

[yueshen]

[ TFW YOU GOT NAME DROPPED TO DO SOMETHING AND WERENT PAYING ATTENTION RUNS

xie lian is here to hold power back, but he doesn't stop her from shouting, just presenting something of a barrier. ]

[powerplay]

[ Thanks, she's not exactly trying to shove aside Xie Lian or hurt him to do this because it's Xie Lian, but she's still half-climbing over him to throw her words of spite at Batman anyway. ]

[shinetrue]

[ she can yell at him all she wants, because he is also regretting not ending it himself, sooner. ]

[powerplay]

[ It's not good enough for her, this regret that Diluc is feeling, because -- ultimately, it was still him, who had the chance to fire the bullet in his head and spent it on the sky, and spoke the words from his own mouth -- it'd be too merciful. ]

Not even most devils would do this.

[ Spat hatefully. And the only reason why she doesn't go on for longer is because Spike wasn't taken by the Spectres, he ended it himself with a shot. But she will remember this. ]

[aono]

[It's probably not a good idea because he's already been scolded, but Rin is upset and he's not known for his critical thinking skills while upset. So.

He is going over to Diluc once the barrier drops and the spectres are gone. He'll stop short since Kaeya is there too so no physical harassment, just yelling.]

Why?! Why did you do that?!

[shinetrue]

[ he shakes his head. ]

It was supposed to be his choice...I just missed a step...

[ the timing of it all really just sucked. ]

[aono]

His choice-

[Ah. So Diluc was trying to let Spike choose how to die, huh? It wasn't meant to be cruel, things just spiraled out of control too fast.

How cruel.]

You mean you weren't trying to make him suffer? That it wasn't all on purpose?

[bloodread]

[ Usually Akira's walked off by now, but this one he stuck out for obvious reasons. ]

What a way to go. [ No judgement here. ]