fifteenth feather [Video/action] - Doppelganger

[charcoalfeather]

[The video flickers to life, and it shows Rakka's face. She appears to be in Neuschwanstein. An odd sort of trend for people on the network recently, making posts while at the castle grounds. It was likely to not raise any particular warning signs, unless you know what this coincidence probably means.

Rakka brushed some hair from her face. It didn't help to improve her fairly disheveled look at all, and in fact might have made it worse. All in all, she didn't seem to be happy, or even smiling. Hey, was that a bruise?]

Hey, it's Rakka. [There just wasn't as much energy in her tone as usual.] It seems like everyone around here's been losing their minds. Apparently it means that there's clones of all of us running around... but, maybe it just means that things are getting even worse. In a way, that would make sense, right?

[But, honestly, she wasn't sure what was happening. She'd been thinking about what Emi had said to her, about her apparently showing the vampire some kindness. She wouldn't lie about that, would she...? What would she even have to gain, except for a moment's confusion on the Haibane's part which could be a little funny for someone else...]

Dammit... [She whispered with a sigh, expression quickly turning frustrated.] I don't fucking know. It's not like anything in this world makes any sense anyways. It doesn't even matter, does it? [A question that seems to bother her.] I'm trying really hard to figure that out... but I can't.

[And she kills the feed.]

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[dead_black_eyes]

I still don't know what you mean by "sinbound", but... if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say that you're implying guilt for her suicide attempt.

That's no way to live.

[Audio]

[charcoalfeather]

It means you did something horrible in a past life, okay? Something bad that reaches over into this life. A girl I knew had the same problem, but I never learned how it stopped.

No, it's not. Too bad for me that it's true.

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[dead_black_eyes]

So you're "sinbound" but you don't know how to fix it? Maybe Rakka's not because she has so many friends and no reason to dwell on things that are past.

[Audio]

[charcoalfeather]

There's no way to fix it. [she'd given up on that much.] None of my echoes helped.

If she's like me at all, she's still dwelling on it. You just don't know it.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

We all have things we dwell on, but recognizing there's no reason to do it is a fine first step.