[Clawed gauntlets dig into the ground, ripping up muscle and sinew as Akechi shoves himself upright, clutching his ribs.
With the real Akechi standing across from it, somehow, the fake looks more puppet-like than before, its joints creaking, eyes just a little glassy. Fake, artificial when compared to the real thing, plastic smile stretched across perfect skin.]
It's going to keep hunting you, and it won't stop. Believe me, I've tried.
[If Ren looks, there are fresh and scabbed wounds sliced through the other boy's bodysuit, hinting that it isn't his first encounter with the apparition.]
That's right. [Even its voice sounds more artificial now, like it's being broadcast over TV.] Hurting you is the only thing I'm capable of, after all.
[Akechi snarls, reaching for a gun he simply doesn't have. He inhales to yell for Loki, but before he can say anything, a gunshot echoes through the cavern. It sounds like the engine room again, even though there's no way these fleshy walls can echo like that.
Akechi's horned mask shatters, and the back of his helmet cracks. Soundlessly, the older boy crumples, eyes wide as blood leaks down his face. Across the cavern, the doppelganger collapses like a marionette, limbs akimbo at awkward angles. The pistol it had held in its hand clatters across the ground, sound inordinately loud in the wide space.]
cw character death, we in it now fam
[Clawed gauntlets dig into the ground, ripping up muscle and sinew as Akechi shoves himself upright, clutching his ribs.
With the real Akechi standing across from it, somehow, the fake looks more puppet-like than before, its joints creaking, eyes just a little glassy. Fake, artificial when compared to the real thing, plastic smile stretched across perfect skin.]
It's going to keep hunting you, and it won't stop. Believe me, I've tried.
[If Ren looks, there are fresh and scabbed wounds sliced through the other boy's bodysuit, hinting that it isn't his first encounter with the apparition.]
That's right. [Even its voice sounds more artificial now, like it's being broadcast over TV.] Hurting you is the only thing I'm capable of, after all.
[Akechi snarls, reaching for a gun he simply doesn't have. He inhales to yell for Loki, but before he can say anything, a gunshot echoes through the cavern. It sounds like the engine room again, even though there's no way these fleshy walls can echo like that.
Akechi's horned mask shatters, and the back of his helmet cracks. Soundlessly, the older boy crumples, eyes wide as blood leaks down his face. Across the cavern, the doppelganger collapses like a marionette, limbs akimbo at awkward angles. The pistol it had held in its hand clatters across the ground, sound inordinately loud in the wide space.]