nightmares never last

[fighting4afuture]

Who: Trunks and open
Where: Island
When: Nighttime, Tuesday
Status: Open

[Trunks isn't a fan of this week so far. It started with the fairy--dissolving and turning into nothing, that was weird.

The faces of 17 and 18 rising from the puddle was disturbing. But it was their words that were messing with him--words that no one else could hear, as far as he could tell.

'You're so weak.'

'This is boring.'

'Maybe we should go play with someone else.'

'Your one-armed friend put up a better fight than you ever did.'

Trunks' energy flared gold, swirling up around him as he let go and went Super Saiyan--he reacted to fear with anger, and if this was going to last all week...

Well, he wasn't sure what he'd do.]

Comments

[neededahand]

Doesn't sound like that's helped you at all.

[He hovers over, directly above the illusion, distaste very clear on his face.]

Is it following you?

[fighting4afuture]

Would it help you?

[He can put two and two together, he noticed when he got close to other people he could see other things. Presumably their things.]

Yes. That's why I left the house.

[neededahand]

[He can't stop himself from turning to look at it every few seconds or so. It's... slightly enthralling. Angering, too.]

You've already... you have nothing to be afraid of anymore. You've proved that.

[fighting4afuture]

[They'll just be chillin' in your periph, smiling disconcertingly. Perhaps waving if they catch you looking.]

...sixteen years doesn't go away so easily, I guess.

[Plus he hasn't definitively won yet. These are just the faces of his feelings of inadequacy.]

[neededahand]

[It isn't exactly difficult to catch, because he's unnerved and he can't stop his neck from craning that way.

Can't.

Stop.]

Taking care of the one here wouldn't help, would it? I wouldn't be disappointed if you did.

[fighting4afuture]

Now that killing people brings consequences, and the fact he'll be back...not worth it.

[Definitely unnerving.]

And...it's hard to believe, but the actual 17 here hasn't done much of anything. He's capable, I'm sure, I won't say that he's not and I still can't stand to look at him. So much in that other timeline is different...

[neededahand]

I don't like hearing that. It makes me wonder, you know? Things would have happened differently if my father lived, and that makes me wonder if he would have handled things by destroying the androids like he did Frieza.

[Because that's how Gohan still remembers it going!]

Or if he would have tried to give them chances like he did-- well, nearly everyone else he knows. You say things like that, and I wonder if I haven't taken the wrong approach all these years.