#bold of amano to assume they wouldn't have tried to kill kawahira as soon as she showed up for real at the end of the arc

[hopeswriting]

I'm sorry but I'm on a Sky Arco roll, and I don't think we write them angry enough actually.

And by angry I mean furious, wrathful, merciless against whoever or whatever would come for what little's left for them to call theirs.

The world makes it so it survives only if they die, only by taking so much from them, curses them twice over with visions of the futures, and expects them to be, what?

Kind, gentle?

Forgiving?

They have to laugh.

I want Luce to speak before Kawahira has a chance to, and her first words are "I've been waiting for you", and it's a threat.

I want her to crush the map to the meeting place in her fist and says, "I will bear the Sky pacifier, but if you ever should manage to have my Guardians bear theirs, I would have had no part in it."

Luce leads them on top of that mountain, but they aren't there to look for a treasure.

They're out for blood, and Kawahira looks them each in turn, realizes he could very well submit them, but it'd mean the pacifiers would hang around corpses' neck.

"It's unfortunate," Luce says softly, and means none of that, "but you don't become the Strongest in our world by being selfless."

She smiles, and she means every inch of it.

I want Luce to watch the world crash and burn and to laugh through it all, because she has memories of her grown-up daughter and knows what happiness looks on her face, and never had to see again that horrible, betrayed look on her Guardians' face she saw in that future that was never going to happen.

(It still haunted her, and who said she hadn't every right to decide which futures were worthy enough for her to let them come true?)

I want Aria to put her foot down, Aria who also sees parallel universes and is no less overpowered than Byakuran, and meet his war blow for blow.

And win.

I want her to kneel beside Genkishi, who's about to betray and slaughter them all, but he sees death in her cold eyes and he can't move.

Aria softly holds his hand, and he feels death pulling him below.

Did he think he was the only one who knows the terror of looking death coming for you and having nowhere to escape?

Did he think Aria's bitterness and anger from death coming for her so much sooner than it should have, weren't leaps and bounds greater than his?

After all someone still has to show up and save her, and she'd love to see Genkishi try to put her one leg in the grave deeper.

Genkishi doesn't.

I want Aria to go to that little, silly, trap meeting of Byakuran, look him dead in the eye and remind him where his place truly is.

How dares anyone calls themself god in her face, when the world stands only on the life she'll never get to live?

She was born with already so little time left, and Byakuran will not taint her remaining time with war and loss and death.

He will not push the Sky pacifier onto her daughter a second sooner than she'll have to bear it, or so God help him.

I want Aria to look him dead in the eye, and dare him to try to make himself at home in the worlds she was always meant to bleed for.

(She wants him to.)

I want Uni to give it her all in the representative battles, to be a major player, to be a threat.

Why shouldn't she?

She's still a child, and this is not how soon she was told she'd die.

I want her to, let's say, side with Bermuda.

Why not?

She knows the representative battles are a scam, a trap, knew it even before Bermuda confirmed it for her.

It's only the last use Kawahira will have of her, and who does he think he is?

(He might truly be some kind of god, but she never believed in them.)

How dares he bait them with a chance to be free from the Curse, how much more will he demand from her?

Didn't he take enough?

He did.

I want Uni to make Kawahira bleed if it's the last thing she does—let him bleed alongside with them for once—, and who knows, being an Earthling herself she might just succeed.

Because Uni truly is like her grandmother, and she will not let the Curse be forced upon her loved ones.

(It's a promise.)