(closed) december catchall

[entreats]

Who: Ange (entreats), Chizuru (tealeafs), Daniel (miyagimagic) and various others.
What: December shenanigans.
When: During all of December.
Where: Locations vary.

Content Warnings: Bullying, (mild) violence, will edit to add more later.

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[survivalthroughhate]

Maul watched the scene without saying anything else, just taking it all in. He could see why Daniel wouldn't look back on this moment with any pleasure. He was weak in addition to being judgmental. The weak couldn't handle training such as this.

But for Maul?

This was all too familiar territory. He'd been trained in such a brutal manner from the time he was a child, both by his master and at a school later on called Orsis Academy, a place where they trained children on how to become cold-blooded assassins, bounty-hunters, and mercenaries as adults. He'd become inoculated to such methods after the experiences he'd had throughout his life, so he honestly didn't see how wrong this whole scenario was.

He turned back towards the older Daniel, looking at him with a judgmental expression on his face. "Are we done here?"

[miyagimagic]

Daniel has to look away by the time the figures in the memory start celebrating this. Like it's a good thing. It makes his stomach turn to remember how the other man had twisted his mind, to a point where Daniel briefly believed it was a good thing to do this every single day for training. To constantly hurt himself, come home with those injuries, and lie about it to mister Miyagi - because of some mistaken belief that this was the only way for him to survive.

It makes him feel awful, emotions mixing together in his gut, but all of them just as negative and painful as the next one.

He doesn't know if he could see more of it, so technically he's thinking the exact same thing as Maul is when Daniel sees a white stag standing by the dojo's exit, symbolizing the end of the memory.

At least it's one relief in the middle of all this. Facing such an awful memory, and then having the worst possible person seeing it alongside him. Maul, who wouldn't understand, who's a murderous psychopath, who knows Terry Silver as if Terry Silver is a man you can know, rather than a snake that poisons everything around it.

"Yes," Daniel says, not bothering to hide his curt tone, or the way he glares at Maul. Instead he just quickly paces over in the direction of the stag, and the moment it touches Daniel, the memory ends - both of the men returned to where they had been before any of this began.