menaceunleashed: (i'll come back like a lion roaring)
Demon King Ganondorf ([personal profile] menaceunleashed) wrote in [community profile] shellphones2025-08-05 07:06 pm

CW; TORTURE, VIOLENCE

Type: Voice/Video
Sender ID: menaceunleashed | Ganondorf
To: Public
Subject: Regarding Treachery
Warnings: CW; TORTURE, VIOLENCE

I am not one to suffer fools. When I find that not only has one of my crew taken it upon themselves to act beyond stupidly, and more so believed they could use me to their advantage...

A lesson must be taught. An example must be made. Behold, Escordvi- the price of treachery.


[The camera flickers on at this point.

A body hangs dangling, small, bloodied, and ...familiar? The skintone. The hair. That generally scrawny build. They all match a certain riftfarer who has been absent for some time now: off on a mission, then completely unresponsive to even text messages, despite one of their closest friends having recently experienced a harrowing ordeal... at the hands of Ganondorf.

No one knew who'd given Turo that ring of returning.

But Chris does love to visit Daily Kneads.

And yet, something is distinctly wrong here. Beneath the blood and bruises are scars too old and too healed to have been inflicted by Ganondorf. Dozens upon dozens of them. Some could be surgeries, others battle wounds, but most of them...

This isn't the first time they've been tortured.

Even more striking, however, are the markings. Orange, impossibly bright and intricate, a butterfly of spirals and circuitry spreading its wings across their chest and becoming lines that spread across them, entangling their limbs like vines. Not tattoos--to bright, none of the fuzziness that comes with healing--but something that looks like it's a natural part of their skin, except the bar code in the center is anything but. Marked, not like a person, but a product.

Looks like they really did have a reason for covering up after all.

They try to say something, but it's impossible to make out.

Ganondorf reaches forwards, then, forcing the figure's face to look at the camera. For all the damage inflicted, the face is unmistakable. Making it clear beyond any doubt just who this is as they try and speak again- this time, the words are, however barely, audible]


Should have betrayed you months ago.

[And then they spit right in Ganondorf's face. There's blood in their spit and blood on their lips.

There isn't even a jostle in the camera. Just the sound of a long-suffering sigh, the hand pulling back - presumably to wipe away the spit, as Ganondorf's face is out of frame - before that hand returns to cup Chris's face almost tenderly.]


The more fool you, but you will make a sufficient deterrent towards others.

[Where his hand touches skin, black starts to spread, spreading out in a pattern somewhere between veiny and weblike. As if Chris's own veins are somehow being poisoned through his magic.

And they scream like some dying animal, body writhing and thrashing as they try to pull away from Ganon's hand, gray eyes wide open but seeing nothing as their world is consumed with pain.]
emet_sulk: (30 what Vauthry did with bliss...)

voice; [emet-sulk] (PRIVATE)

[personal profile] emet_sulk 2025-08-07 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ He watches the video impassively. Not because he doesn't care but because he's seen things like this so often that he's completely numb to it now.

Something prompts him to tap the call button. Maybe to halt the torture, however briefly. Maybe out of some small hope that he can actually dissuade this man from continuing. ]


I understand the need to set an example to one's own men, but is there really a need to broadcast this to everyone else?
emet_sulk: of kindness (03 a clear and unambiguous act)

[personal profile] emet_sulk 2025-08-15 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
And what lesson are you trying to impart to the largely uninvolved masses? That you will flay them alive if they join you? That is an expedient method of driving them away, I'll give you that.

If you are the sort of man I think you are, you ought to be winning them over with generosity first then tightening your grip on them.
emet_sulk: (33 fools)

[personal profile] emet_sulk 2025-08-27 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a small sigh. He expected that answer, frankly. ]

Even the gods know better than to rule solely through fear. You would dare call a god 'weak'? Such hubris from a mere man.
Edited 2025-08-27 06:13 (UTC)
emet_sulk: (04 if your heart can be broken)

[personal profile] emet_sulk 2025-08-31 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
Hmph. Continue this way and I may just have to do so in their place. For harming one of my crew if nothing else.
emet_sulk: (32 every word I spoke was the truth)

[personal profile] emet_sulk 2025-08-31 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hardly. What did I just say about hubris? But the eyes of mortal men find it difficult to distinguish between divinity and power.
emet_sulk: (50 you are a mistake)

[personal profile] emet_sulk 2025-09-01 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Good thing this is only voice or Ganondorf would be seeing Emet-Selch's raised eyebrow. The arrogance is more amusing than offensive. He's already purged one so-called 'god' from this world - all this man has done so far is bully the weak.

Emet-Selch doesn't need validation about his own strength. ]


Yes, I suppose we shall. If you lay hands on my people again, not even history books will remember your name.