Video

[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole
Broadcast: Fleetwide (because he doesn't get the 'private' setting)
Action: A shuttle from the Pathstone which is currently out on its own
When: Two days after this broadcast and minutes after this exchange on the Red Fish.

OOC: This post has potential cw: self harm, suicide, murder, and other self destructive things. Please use discretion.

[The broadcast shows Cole's face, too close to the camera, tear streaked and eyes red rimmed and looking the very model of misery and distress. His voice is a cracked whisper.]

Fenris? I need to see you. I need you to do what Cassandra would've and I know you will. Can.

Comments

[Private]

[killedwithlove]

He Despaired and I was Despairing too! It was cold! I won't be Despair!

[His voice cracks in the shouting and then gets softer. Both for quietening down and moving further away.]

No.

[Private]

[namisan]

So what?

[Nami's concern is often kind of rude, to be honest.]

Despair doesn't have to be permanent. You recover, you keep going, you wait for things to get better. You were in my head; you know that's possible. Are you actually Despairing or are you just caught up in what he was feeling?

[Private]

[killedwithlove]

I'm not like mortals! Spirits aren't like that! Justice angers and seeks Vengeance and Mercy Despairs and is too cold to unthaw!

I should have guessed that a demon's help ended with blood.

[The words are clearly not his. Neither is the accent he says them in.]

[Private]

[namisan]

[Clearly. And it's enough for Nami to lapse into silence. She barely understood any of that, and if she can't understand she shouldn't be applying her own logic here.

She's out of her depth. So she withdraws, listening in to the other conversations that aren't private.

His conversation with Hawke is telling. It's along the same lines, but the other woman knows more. Nami will bow out before she can inadvertently cause any damage.

After about a minute, she responds, voice heavy.]

I'm sorry, Cole. I hope you find a way out of this.

[And not necessarily the one she suspects you're after.]

[Private]

[killedwithlove]

[He pauses in his other talks, and then appears to Nami, blinking and nodding.]

Thank you.

[Private]

[namisan]

[And she'll leave it at that. Though she does continue to pay close attention to the other conversations. A normal person trying to seek his own death fills her with a lot of disgust. Cole...

Cole has issues. Empathy. She thinks she gets it. But rather than let her temper get in the way, she butts out.]