Mm, you needn't watch this bit. I'm about to kill a great many people.
[He doesn't know how strong a stomach Ange does or doesn't have for, you know, people getting quickly and efficiently murdered. But he doesn't reach out to try and prevent her from watching, either, if for whatever reason she wants to. If she's here at all she's seen some nonsense by now, and for all he knows her world was equally nasty, too. He'll warn her, but beyond that, it's her choice.
The version of him in the memory has grabbed up a sword someone dropped and is getting to work, diving into the fray despite his condition. It's dangerous to have the Hatter out and striking on its own this far into his illness, so he works in conjunction with it, the two of them lashing out together with alarming speed. Both the Baskervilles themselves and the Chains they attempt to summon crumble to dust when hit, and they work themselves into a panic, screaming back and forth about how summoning their Chains is a waste of time and they can't risk getting close to the Hatter.]
...at its simplest, a Chain is a creature of the Abyss that wants to exist in the real world, but is too unstable to do so unless it can bind itself to a human. To that end, a Chain finds someone with a wish, and dupes that person into believing that the wish can be granted through a Contract. Instead, when the time of the Contract is up, that person is dragged back into the Abyss with the Chain -- and, in the meantime, the Chain drives its Contractor to murder, feeding on the people they kill. [It's fine.] The organization I worked for had found a way to displace the human side of the Contract onto a special mirror, enabling us to fight Contractors with Chains of our own, without having to kill for them or suffer that ending.
[In the memory, a Baskerville attempts to attack Break from behind while he's caught with his sword buried in some other guy, wielding a battle axe as big as Break is. Dodging neatly, Break steps on the blade of the axe to keep it embedded in the floor as he whirls around, knocking the guy's head clean off in one elegant sweep. He has to pause to catch his breath after, head thrown back as he gasps for air. But just a moment later he's at it again, twisting and turning as he avoids the mace of the Baskerville who carried him in here in the first place.]
Mm, but of course there's much more to the story than that, and it's awfully long. For now, suffice it to say that -- while all people attract the Chains who suit them best, the Mad Hatter was a special case, created just for me by the Will of the Abyss herself. Its power was to destroy anything and everything associated with the Abyss. She knew that, sooner or later, I was liable to be fighting these people on her behalf.
[He watches as a nasty chest pain stops his past self in his tracks, twisting as he tries to support himself through the agony of it. Sharon summons her own Chain, the big, black unicorn diving to Break's defense the second it manifests.]
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[He doesn't know how strong a stomach Ange does or doesn't have for, you know, people getting quickly and efficiently murdered. But he doesn't reach out to try and prevent her from watching, either, if for whatever reason she wants to. If she's here at all she's seen some nonsense by now, and for all he knows her world was equally nasty, too. He'll warn her, but beyond that, it's her choice.
The version of him in the memory has grabbed up a sword someone dropped and is getting to work, diving into the fray despite his condition. It's dangerous to have the Hatter out and striking on its own this far into his illness, so he works in conjunction with it, the two of them lashing out together with alarming speed. Both the Baskervilles themselves and the Chains they attempt to summon crumble to dust when hit, and they work themselves into a panic, screaming back and forth about how summoning their Chains is a waste of time and they can't risk getting close to the Hatter.]
...at its simplest, a Chain is a creature of the Abyss that wants to exist in the real world, but is too unstable to do so unless it can bind itself to a human. To that end, a Chain finds someone with a wish, and dupes that person into believing that the wish can be granted through a Contract. Instead, when the time of the Contract is up, that person is dragged back into the Abyss with the Chain -- and, in the meantime, the Chain drives its Contractor to murder, feeding on the people they kill. [It's fine.] The organization I worked for had found a way to displace the human side of the Contract onto a special mirror, enabling us to fight Contractors with Chains of our own, without having to kill for them or suffer that ending.
[In the memory, a Baskerville attempts to attack Break from behind while he's caught with his sword buried in some other guy, wielding a battle axe as big as Break is. Dodging neatly, Break steps on the blade of the axe to keep it embedded in the floor as he whirls around, knocking the guy's head clean off in one elegant sweep. He has to pause to catch his breath after, head thrown back as he gasps for air. But just a moment later he's at it again, twisting and turning as he avoids the mace of the Baskerville who carried him in here in the first place.]
Mm, but of course there's much more to the story than that, and it's awfully long. For now, suffice it to say that -- while all people attract the Chains who suit them best, the Mad Hatter was a special case, created just for me by the Will of the Abyss herself. Its power was to destroy anything and everything associated with the Abyss. She knew that, sooner or later, I was liable to be fighting these people on her behalf.
[He watches as a nasty chest pain stops his past self in his tracks, twisting as he tries to support himself through the agony of it. Sharon summons her own Chain, the big, black unicorn diving to Break's defense the second it manifests.]