#RA Goretober 2024

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TMA x LU AU. Statement 2 of 9. Statement giver: Wind

Accompanying fic chapter Here!

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TMA x LU AU. Statement 7 of 9. Statement giver: Time

Accompanying fic chapter posted Tomorrow!

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TMA x LU AU. Statement 4 of 9. Statement giver: Four

Accompanying fic chapter Here!

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TMA x LU AU. Statement 6 of 9. Statement giver: Legend

Accompanying fic chapter posted Tomorrow!

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TMA x LU AU. Statement 5 of 9. Statement giver: Hyrule

Accompanying fic chapter posted Tomorrow!

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TMA x LU AU. Statement 3 of 9. Statement giver: Warriors

Accompanying fic chapter Here!

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Transcripts from the Chain

- - - Nine Heroes. Nine Fears. Nine Statements to give. - - - 4/9 Chapters Published - - - TW: Chapter Dependent, Discussions of violence, Discussions of death, Descriptions of auditory gore, TMA Statement typical content - - -

[TAPE RECORDER CLICKS ON]

ARCHIVIST Statement of?

FOUR Call us… Four.

ARCHIVIST (Mildly Suspicious) …Four? Okay. Uh, Statement of Four, regarding?

[LONG CHUCKLE, DRAWN OUT AND ECHOING ENOUGH TO SEEM UNCANNY]

FOUR Us.

ARCHIVIST [LONG, UNSETTLED EXHALE] Right, Right… Statement recorded direct from subject, October 13th. Statement begins.

FOUR Do you know what it is like? To be torn apart? A worthwhile question to ask. I mean, you don’t look torn apart, but then again, look at us!

[DISTORTED LAUGHTER, AS IF THERE ARE FOUR ECHOS TRAILING AFTER THE SOUND, JUST BARELY OUT OF SYNC]

FOUR (CONT.) It's quite the process! One second, you're grabbing the hilt of some sword, and then, you’re- how would you describe it? I? Us? [A SLIGHT ECHO SOUNDS AFTER “US”]

Does it really matter anymore? Maybe it doesn’t matter what we are, just that we are.

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TMA x LU Au. Statement 9/9. Statement giver: Wild

Accompanying Fic Chapter Posted Tomorrow.

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TMA x LU Au.Statement 8 of 9. Statement giver: Twilight

Accompanying Fic Chapter Posted Tomorrow

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Transcripts from the Chain

- - - Nine Heroes. Nine Fears. Nine Statements to give. - - - 3/9 Chapters Published - - - TW: Chapter Dependent, Discussions of violence, Discussions of death, Descriptions of auditory gore, TMA Statement typical content - - -

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ARCHIVIST Statement of?

WARRIORS Warriors. Or Wars, I guess…

ARCHIVIST Okay. Statement Regarding?

WARRIORS The- [LONG, UPSET SIGH] The War. 

ARCHIVIST …Recording taken direct from subject, October 10th, 2024. Statement begins. 

WARS There is no point to war.

Well. There is, just not a good one. I- I don’t know. It was necessary, I guess. It doesn’t feel like it was.

[BEAT OF SILENCE]

WARRIORS (CONT.) …We won in the end. 

I… I don’t know if I can say that it was worth it.

There was so much killing, so much death on both sides, I don’t know if that can ever be justified. I’m at fault too, I know that. I- [SHARP LAUGH] I have an amount of blood on my own hands. I didn’t notice it at first, but now…

I thought I would be able to handle it. Being the hero. That it would be ‘Such an Honor’ to save my kingdom. I don’t know where that bullshit came from, but it's not true. 

I don’t regret it. Do I regret it?

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Do you ever think about how terrifying it must be? To actually be down there in the complex, being hurt and dragged and killed. What do you think it feels like to be dragged into a beasts guts?

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Transcripts from the Chain

- - - Nine Heroes. Nine Fears. Nine Statements to give. - - - 6/9 Chapters Published - - - TW: Chapter Dependent, Discussions of violence, Discussions of death, Descriptions of auditory gore, TMA Statement typical content - - -

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ARCHIVIST Statement of?

LEGEND Hm, Legend, I guess?

ARCHIVIST Okay, Statement regarding?

LEGEND …I- [BITTER LAUGHTER] My adventures. The chase, I suppose.

ARCHIVIST [HUMS THOUGHTFULLY] Recorded direct from subject, October 19th, 2024. Statement begins.

[THERE IS A LONG PAUSE, LEGEND BREATHS NERVOUSLY. THE TABLE SHIFTS AS LEGEND DRAWS CLOSER, LEANING TO THE RECORDER AS HE TAKES A HEAVY BREATH]

LEGEND Do you think I deserved it?

All of the sleepless nights, all of the days, wasting away as I ran from them. It was always a different one, each time a different face. They all start to blur together now.

It was the knights first. I was young, younger than I like to think about. I hadn’t even known what had happened. Just that something went wrong, and that they were trying to kill me. Those knights I had looked up to, that had protected me, were hunting me down.

It took days to figure out why. There wasn’t anything to be done at that point, just move forward.

It didn’t stop after that. It. Never. Stopped.

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The Death of Jason Todd

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Some concept art from a game I was spinning around in my head.

I don't now if I'll ever use if for its original purpose, but pulling the design ideas back out for new project :D

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Transcripts from the Chain

- - - Nine Heros. Nine Fears. Nine Statements to give. - - - 2/9 Chapters Published - - - TW: Chapter Dependent, Discussions of violence, Discussions of death, Descriptions of auditory gore, TMA Statement typical content - - -

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ARCHIVIST Statement of… your name?

WIND …Oh! Wind. Call me Wind.

ARCHIVIST …Alright then. Statement of ‘Wind’, regarding?

WIND Sailing during storms. One storm in particular.

ARCHIVIST Recording taken direct from subject, October 7th, 2024. Statement begins.

[WIND TAKES A STEADYING BREATH]

WIND D’ya know what it's like, out there on the ocean? Its- (vaguely amused,) it's not something easy to describe.

I love it most days. Standing on the deck, staring at that wide open sea, I love it. The smell of salt, the gentle rock of the boat, the- [SNORT OF AMUSEMENT] the wind in my hair. It's good to be out there. Comforting. There is nothing but me, the crew, and our boat.

Some people hate it, it's easy to feel so small in that expanse of water. The boat is always bustling though, running back and forth, fixing things, chartin’ courses, finding other boats to plunder. I liked that, bein’ useful, helping out across the deck and what not.

I don’t- I didn’t mind the long nights before. I found it comforting almost, being out there for so long, starts to feel like home. Guess that runs dry eventually though.

[SOFT STATIC BUZZ BEGINS TO PLAY UNDER THE CONVERSATION]

WIND (CONT.) It was a storm that did me in.

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Transcripts from the Chain

- - - Nine Heroes. Nine Fears. Nine Statements to give. - - - 6/9 Chapters Published - - - TW: Chapter Dependent, Discussions of violence, Discussions of death, Descriptions of auditory gore, TMA Statement typical content - - -

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ARCHIVIST Statement of?

WILD Hm… Wild works. Or Link. Champion. Take your pick, it doesn’t really matter.

ARCHIVIST Okay. Statement of Wild, regarding?

WILD Death.

ARCHIVIST …Right, Okay. Recording taken direct from subject, October 29th, 2024. Statement begins.

[WILD TAKES A DEEP BREATH]

WILD Death is an interesting topic.

I mean, so many people speculating, ‘what's it feel like?’, ‘what comes after?’, questions questions. All pointless really, when you die, it doesn’t matter too much what caused it- your dead, who cares!

I can tell you one thing. It hurts. That's what it feels like. Pain.

There is… a disconnected feeling to it. I don’t remember anything from before, except those few seconds, when I knew I was going to die, when I was dying. It hurt, sure, but most of all, those last few seconds, I felt nothing.

Cold, pain, all of that yes, but as if it wasn’t happening to me, not really. Maybe it didn’t happen to me, maybe it was someone else. I mean, this [SHUFFLING FABRIC] doesn’t feel like me, not anymore.

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