Thread by @BrivioTomalyn

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【𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒐: 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔】
〔Aᴄᴛ 1: Sɪʟᴇɴᴛ Sᴛᴀʀs〕

(Content Warning: Death, Grief, Violence and Gore)

[Will update periodically.]
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🎵 (Surely the dawn... will come again.)

🎵 (It won't be long... seasons will end...)

🎵 (But until then... hold me together...)

🎵 (Hold me together...!)
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⠀⠀⠀Tomalyn slowly walked, plagued by visions of the past. Holding their head, they tried to focus on... a song. A song someone sang to, or near them.

⠀⠀⠀The singer mattered to Tomalyn... and they always feared, one day... they won't hear him anymore...
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⠀⠀⠀Their eyes opened... as they watched threads of darkness, piercing out of a corpse...

⠀⠀⠀The body was male. Older... old enough to be...

⠀⠀⠀“DAD!!”

⠀⠀⠀...Tomalyn's father.

⠀⠀⠀The tone of hospital machines pierced their ears, and they grasped tight...
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⠀⠀⠀But when they covered their ears... a laugh rang out, unmuffled by this pitiful gesture.

😈⠀“HYEEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!”

⠀⠀⠀“...?!”

😈⠀“Weak... too weak... too weak to make a difference in your own family's fate...”
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⠀⠀⠀“...Where...?!”

⠀⠀⠀They turned... only to see, in the night skies... just where that demonic voice came from...
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😈⠀“You know full well... Might controls everything. Those without strength lose everything... so tell me...”

😈⠀“How much have you lost to your weakness?”
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⠀⠀⠀“Hraagh!”

⠀⠀⠀They tried to strike at this demon whispering in their ear... but it wasn't even there...
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⠀⠀⠀“...Tch...!”
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⠀⠀⠀“...”

⠀⠀⠀...They couldn't respond to it yet... not when they make a point that their entire world... the entire Multiverse would make.

⠀⠀⠀Might makes right, and that's all there is to it... at least, that's all there is... right now.
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😈⠀“Hah. Such pain, we can free ourselves from with power. Power from our anger and hatred... power from the darkness our family longed us to inherit.”

⠀⠀⠀“...”

😈⠀“Yet, you resist... why?”

⠀⠀⠀“...because I've seen this darkness kill my father.”
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⠀⠀⠀“The power you want will protect nothing... only destroy. Even if we're to destroy what could harm us... that's not how I want to live my life. Not a destroyer...”

⠀⠀⠀...A destroyer... like their mother...

😈⠀“...Well, either you prove to me...”
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😈⠀“Prove to me that there is power worth seeing on the defensive. Otherwise... that vessel...”

⠀⠀⠀“?!”

⠀⠀⠀Dark chains wrapped around Tomalyn's body...!

😈⠀“You shall surrender it to me!”

⠀⠀⠀“Mrgh...!”

⠀⠀⠀They pushed out and slipped away from the chains!
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😈⠀“Still, you resist... very well. It'll be your last conscious actions!”

⠀⠀⠀...Tomalyn narrowed their eyes, before taking Snake stance... watching as this other self of theirs...

⠀⠀⠀...adopted their Tiger stance, in turn.
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⠀⠀“Hrmph!”

⠀⠀Tomalyn ducked underneath a laser blast aimed for their head, quickly springing forward to strike at the Eater with swift strikes, subtle movements leading them ever forward, ever closer to this demon... the very essence of Wing Chun, and yet...
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😈“KYEEAAGH!”

⠀⠀The Eater broke out, slashing away at Tomalyn before enveloping them in dark energy...!

⠀⠀“In a world of even superpowered martial artistry, what good has simple combat ever done you?!”

⠀⠀This power erupted, and Tomalyn was sent flying!!
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⠀⠀“...rrgh...!”

⠀⠀They stood again... still so stubborn. Not caring about how that darkness likely would've evaporated their physical body...

😈“...Your body submits. Your heart succumbs... so why?!”

⠀⠀...Their eyes widened as the Eater appeared an inch away!
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😈“WHY DOES YOUR MIND RESIST?!”

⠀⠀Quickly, they switched through Crane and to Tiger Style, interrupting a bash with the pixel wings with a one-inch punch to the demon's abdomen!

⠀⠀“SEIYAAAAHH!”

😈“Grh...! ...Gwooogh!?”

⠀⠀...It can't teleport. Not in Agony...
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⠀⠀“...Hrmph!”

⠀⠀And with its movements locked in agony, Tomalyn tensed, drawing back their fist... before slipping past chains, lasers, and all sorts of attempts from the demon to stop them before...!

𝐊𝐑𝐑𝐑𝐑𝐑𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐂𝐊!!!

😈“GWOOAAAARH!!!”

⠀⠀...it's over.
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⠀⠀“...I should already know by now. No matter what happened to the people I loved... I should still live.”

⠀⠀...Images of different people appeared. A starry-eyed boy, a draconic barkeep, an otherworldly cook...

⠀⠀“For them, and for the ones that treasure me now...”
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⠀⠀...They turned to look at the demon on the floor, slowly fading back to the darkness whence it came...

⠀⠀...Yet... that darkness quickly surrounded both them, and the very shrine that symbolized the Path of Desire they refused to take. The one their mother accepted.
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〔Aᴄᴛ 1: 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞!〕