𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒

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MISFIRES

a rambunctious duo in salt has stuck their nose where they shouldn't and now you can all reap the rewards! this is a MISFIRES meme. post a header for your character, and receive accidental texts from your local saltburntian guests. nudes, nasties, confessions of a certain persuasion? things you'd otherwise never write or send? they're all on the table. (meme threads aren't game canon, but they're not not game canon either, right)

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[viver]

Anything you can't handle now is merely practice.
How long ago was it? The best day of your whole life.

[temporicide]

We went skiing. Not so long ago. Maybe six months.

The marks lasted a third of that time, but I wanted to be fresh here. Like a canvas. You know? Everything about here is a new start.

[viver]

The past seems to keep haunting our new starts, I think.

I'd like to work on it.

[temporicide]

A particular piece is getting you down?

Because I'm here for you, you know. You've been really good to me, so I want that to go both ways. (Including with working on it.)

[viver]

Nothing can get me down, as much as they try. Do the people who love you ever blame you for it? Like it's a crime that they care about you.

I'm not interested in being good to you. I will be, but that isn't the goal. It's always to make you better.

[temporicide]

No, not like that. But maybe I'm on the other side. Love has hurt me a lot, but I'm still grateful for it.
Did they come here on purpose, to continue the blaming?

I understand, I think. When you say better
That's the only way I know how to be good, your way. Otherwise it gets caught up in those moral tales. Stuff from back home. Things I don't ever want to go back to doing.

[viver]

I only came here to find one of them. The rest were a curious coincidence.

It's the way that it should be. Moral tales bore me to tears, Roza. But maybe there's one out there that will change my mind.

I wonder if there's a way to turn things around. I'd much rather we be the ones who get to torment our past. Do you abhor revenge?

[temporicide]

I've noticed some of those, too. Those coincidences.

If I ever hear one I think doesn't fall into the same old beats, I'll pass it along, see how you judge it.

I don't think so. No, I don't. I think it's like anything. Sometimes it's good to settle old debts, so long as a person still enjoys other things, too. Especially if the debt keeps coming back to you. It must want answering.

[viver]

When was the last time you became revenge?

[temporicide]

A few years ago. After I came back to the States.

I was really upset about being separated from my other half, and one of my cousins said something awful to me back then, when I was 16. I never forgot it, so when I got the chance to do something back to them, I did.

What about you?

[viver]

Tell me what you did first.

[temporicide]

She said
Something about him. Where he came from. New money, only wants you for the status. Which isn't what did it. They were all saying that. The part that did it was when she looked at him and said, guys like that just use you up, anyway. They aren't capable of real love. That last thing is what did it.

Grandmother picked her the man of her dreams. Before they were married, I took him to a different kind of party. Where we come from, you're not allowed to fuck around outside of your relationship, and he did. I didn't tell her until they got married. And she wanted to know if I'd been with him, too, and I just wouldn't tell her yes or no, and he denies it, but she doesn't believe him now.

So she'll never know. She'll always be afraid. A whole life with this man, always afraid. I was never afraid with mine.

[viver]

You found a way to haunt her.

Do you think they'll stay together? Through the fear, doubt, resentment. I wonder if they have a choice.

[temporicide]

If I didn't get to have the person I loved
Neither did she. Even if he's right there, she can't love him now. That's all.

But I think they will. You're right that they don't have a choice, and she cares about appearances. She'd never been the scandal before. I think everyone should have it happen to them at least once.

[viver]

That's all to you. It's everything to her.

[ Well done, you little monster. ]

Where's your choice?

[temporicide]

I had to make my own, I guess. Or to decide and to accept the fallout. But failures by nature have more room to do that. That's the glory of underperformance, or only being good at things that aren't as consequential.

I really want to know about your revenges, though. Will you tell me, please? If not now, sometime.

[viver]

Perhaps another time, when all our diabolical plans aren't being sent to the wrong numbers. It involves someone who's with us here, you know. Several someones.

[temporicide]

Several! I won't ask for names or details until and unless you want to tell me, but
I have to ask one small thing. Will it happen all at once, or sort of like a domino cascade?

[viver]

More of a death by a thousand cuts, I think.

Sans the death. I don't do that.

[temporicide]

I really never want to make you mad.

But I don't, either. Despite rumors.

[viver]

Thank you, Roza.

[ trust al to take anything as a compliment. ]

Do you think they make people more interested in you? These rumors.

[temporicide]

The opposite, I think. I don't know if I can view it objectively. Maybe some people like to rubberneck, but
That's different from genuine interest, isn't it?

[viver]

It makes their interest like a match. Burns away quickly, but its flame still stings. And then there's nothing left.

[ And those same people are gone. ]

[temporicide]

What does one even do in that circumstance? With the wrong attention. With all the little burns.

[viver]

Personally, I became immune a long time ago. If the person is unlucky enough, perhaps I'll be in the mood to burn them harder.