Donatello Hamato (
polyturtle) wrote in
thearena2013-08-01 06:55 pm
Entry tags:
The end is the beginning
Who| Don, the Neophyte, the Initiate, and Lindsey
What| You live crazy, you die crazy. Its Don's time to die and there are some District 5 Tributes who might do the job.
Where| Desert Arena
When| Closer to the end of Week 7.
Warnings/Notes| Violence, death, and possibly some gruesome shell-related happenings afterwards.
His leg was dead weight. It was a pity. It had lasted a good, long time, but like all things, its had finally expired, the nerves which connected his leg to his shell wrecked beyond repair from his constant use and disregard for rest. His face still caked with old, dried blood, Don frowned at this new development. Pity it would take too long to just cut it off and adjust to the new balance, if he didn't bleed out entirely.
The voices still bothered him, the visions of his brothers and fatherbut they weren't, he knew this to be true, for clones like him did not have real 'parents' or 'family' save for their hidden genetic progenitor. They were a bit stronger due to his lack of sleep, and the further injuries he'd received; that his makeshift belt survived when his costume didn't was a miracle. The scorpion bite festered on his hand, causing it to be swollen and full of pus. It didn't seem to do anything to suss out the monster in him; clearly only catastrophic injury did that. And nothing had been catastrophic enough, apparently.
Not that it mattered if he'd become a literal literal monster anyhow anymore. He already was one in every other sense of the word, wasn't he? He no longer cared if he died as himself or as a snarling beast. They were one and the same in his mind now. His already broken mind pushed just a little further from exhaustion, hunger, injury, and his own deep, dark, but truly impotent and pointless anger and rage at everything.
And in that mind he weighed what might happen to him now, so late in the game. Maybe he'd die. Maybe he'd win. He'd not make it easy on his opponents, either way. It was what made the crowds enjoy the Games, after all.
And--they always did say an injured animal was the most dangerous kind, didn't they? Maybe there was one more show for the folks back in the Capitol after all.
He just needed to find those left in this combat and encourage their co-operation.
What| You live crazy, you die crazy. Its Don's time to die and there are some District 5 Tributes who might do the job.
Where| Desert Arena
When| Closer to the end of Week 7.
Warnings/Notes| Violence, death, and possibly some gruesome shell-related happenings afterwards.
His leg was dead weight. It was a pity. It had lasted a good, long time, but like all things, its had finally expired, the nerves which connected his leg to his shell wrecked beyond repair from his constant use and disregard for rest. His face still caked with old, dried blood, Don frowned at this new development. Pity it would take too long to just cut it off and adjust to the new balance, if he didn't bleed out entirely.
The voices still bothered him, the visions of his brothers and father
Not that it mattered if he'd become a literal literal monster anyhow anymore. He already was one in every other sense of the word, wasn't he? He no longer cared if he died as himself or as a snarling beast. They were one and the same in his mind now. His already broken mind pushed just a little further from exhaustion, hunger, injury, and his own deep, dark, but truly impotent and pointless anger and rage at everything.
And in that mind he weighed what might happen to him now, so late in the game. Maybe he'd die. Maybe he'd win. He'd not make it easy on his opponents, either way. It was what made the crowds enjoy the Games, after all.
And--they always did say an injured animal was the most dangerous kind, didn't they? Maybe there was one more show for the folks back in the Capitol after all.
He just needed to find those left in this combat and encourage their co-operation.
