#yesssssssssssss the time is finally here........... i am so excited to throw barok at your ryunosuke; aaaaaaaaaa!!!
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Right now, wine glass in hand and staring vacantly into the dark corners of the room in which he dwells - Barok can't help but think about his brother. To think about Klint during hard times, the man who he's always admired so much, has always come naturally to him - but it can't bring him any comfort now.
The truth is, Barok doesn't know what he should feel more betrayed about. The fact that the brother he'd wanted to emulate all his life was nothing but a killer, who's actions resulted in the ending and ruining of so many lives, including Barok's own? Or... is it that, until the very end, Klint was too afraid to share that horrible truth with him, even when that fear allowed him to be controlled into committing the most heinous acts imaginable?
It makes him want to laugh with a bitterness he hasn't felt in years. It makes him feel ill; desperate and angry and like a fraying rope about to snap. Perhaps it's sinful, and a sign of Barok's own weak character, that Klint's lack of trust in him might be what hurts the most. Had he thought Barok would break under the weight of the truth, and sought to protect him from that fate? What's worse is that Barok doesn't know how he would've reacted deep down. What's the scarier thought - that Barok would've turned away in despair and been unable to carry on just as his brother feared, or that he would stand with Klint, perhaps even turning a blind eye to his crimes...?
...There's no point in thinking about it now. But if he doesn't think about Klint, then there's no shortage of other things to take his place at the forefront of his mind. Such as the true identity of the Reaper, and how Barok had been complicit in his crimes for the longest time - allowing himself to be used and manipulated like a puppet on a string, even when he didn't see the full extent of it all.
His whole life, these past ten years in which he thought he'd endured so much, all for the sake of the people of London... what were they all for?
When he hears the knock on the door, it's tempting to ignore it entirely - he barely has the energy to stand, anyway. He doesn't know who it could possibly be, considering everything, but... in the end, he rises like a man possessed, and finds himself walking to open the door as if in a trance. What he sees when the door opens is the last thing he expects.
"Mr... Naruhodo...? You... pray tell, what are you doing here at this hour?"
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#ic#tenacquity#v. mainverse.#c. barok.#yesssssssssssss the time is finally here........... i am so excited to throw barok at your ryunosuke; aaaaaaaaaa!!!#i love them so muchhhhhh and i'm super hype about this thread; tysm for your patience while i finished the games! <333#i haven't fully settled on all my headcanons for barok's feelings post-canon yet; but it was really fun to explore some ideas here...#i'm gonna spend the next like 5 days thinking about it at least LMAO but like#i feel like he was actually fine for a while immediately after the trial - it's only when he was left on his own again that the weight of i#all started to sink in??#but yeah his thoughts and feelings and mental state are likely gonna be all over the place for a while. not that i can blame him for that..#anyway i don't want to ramble on too long in the tags but don't feel the need to match lengths; i ended up writing more than i intended her#and lmk if you want anything changed. OKAY THANK YOU ;ww;
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