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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.]
withermarked: (fear.png)

accidental video; un: BlossomingTide

[personal profile] withermarked 2025-08-06 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[The view is of the sky, like the phone was dropped or set down. Someone is breathing raggedly and ranting and muttering and pacing in the background. Only bits of it are audible enough to make out. ]

Prayer-marks. Those look like prayer-marks. What manner of Saint— [...] —the hell are you, Chris? [...] Only they can't be, why lie about that? The rest yes, that's no business of ours although—

[...]

—the tides and Angels still obeyed me this man would learn exactly who he's crossed—

[ There's some more not quite comprehensible talking and… scratching sounds?]

Hear that, you two-faced bastard? [...] —want any dominion in a world without the Legislatures you'll damn well show those faces now—

[The vaguely unhinged rambling continues, further away. Until, suddenly, the image is obscured by the nose of a very large dog sniffing at the phone.

And then it's snatched up by a visibly wretched looking Faulkner. He's a panicked mess. It's possible he was crying at a point.]


Bait an’ flesh, was this thing on?

[Click.]
forgeabettertomorrow: (Dammit!!)

[VIDEO]

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2025-08-06 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh Darin knows that voice. He knows that voice and if it's rumbling out over the network, it can't possibly be a good sign.]

[So, when he looks, his stomach completely bottoms out.]

[He hates being right.]


...Chris...?

[Wait...'One of my crew?' 'Should have betrayed you months ago?' Was Chris...were they...?]

[...The whole time...?]

[But then Ganondorf goes about his work and...none of that matters. None of the betrayal matters, all that matters is that Darin's friend is being tortured. Infected by Gloom and gods does he remember that pain. Instinctively, his hand snaps up to his chest to the left of his heart where his own scar seems to throb in synchronous pain.]


Ganondorf!!

GANONDORF!!

STOP!! LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!
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[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?
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[not here]

[personal profile] seasaltkeys 2025-08-07 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
[This is. Roxas can't say he likes this. He doesn't like it at all. It's a lot to take in. He's not really sure what to do.]
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[personal profile] multidisciplinary 2025-08-07 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Screaming, crying, and hysterics are exactly the reactions Ganondorf wants right now, so Zelda makes the effort to be as calm and controlled as possible when she responds. Because of course she's going to respond; she may not know Chris as much more than a friend of Darin's, but she knows Ganondorf.

And it's hard to fight against feeling responsible for Ganondorf's actions. He is of her world; it is her responsibility to stop him from hurting the people of this one, native and riftfarer alike. ]


Stop this, Ganondorf. This isn't about "teaching a lesson"-- it's recompense for your injured pride at finding out that you were the fool all this time.
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Action

[personal profile] telepathicignorance 2025-08-09 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
(The Rat-King has been here for some time, alternating between walking and a sort of eerie half bounce half hover... when it's not standing entirely still, seemingly doing nothing at all.

This is one of the latter times: the components minds are out exploring, touching the perspectives of the many, varied creatures of the-

!!!

The suit bursts into sudden motion, grabbing at Faulkner and his shellphone! Familiar! Show! Show!)
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[personal profile] withermarked 2025-08-09 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ The empty suit hanging around has been... deeply disconcerting at best, even if it's not one of the weirdest things Faulkner has encountered here.

Maybe he would have put more effort into figuring out if it wanted something without everything else that's been going on. And maybe he would have noticed it approaching sooner, now, if he wasn't caught up worrying about Chris.

As it is, he's distracted enough that it will be able to grab his shellphone. ]


Hey! You give that back—!

[ Whatever else he's starting to say is drowned out because now there's also a cerberus barking at the suit. ]
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[personal profile] telepathicignorance 2025-08-09 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
(The minds get frantic, and Faulkner might feel the urgency as they broadcast a sense of no no please not attack and a sense of needing the shellphone to both boy and dog as it plays the video and makes a bunch of excited gestures at it.

There's a sense of building distress.)
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[personal profile] withermarked 2025-08-09 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The mental impressions are unsettling in their own way, but enough to make him stop trying to grab the shellphone back.

Angel, meanwhile, mostly stops barking but does start aggressively sniffing. Sniff sniff sniff. Familiar? ]


I don't want to watch that again—

[ And then it at least starts to click. ]

That's Chris. Do you... know Chris?
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[personal profile] telepathicignorance 2025-08-10 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
(The scent is stale, but the suit reeks of Chris all over. Angel can probably recognize it.

Yes! Yes! More excited gestures and jabbing at the image of Chris on the screen with those claws.

It might damage the shellphone at this rate.)
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[personal profile] withermarked 2025-08-10 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ This calms Angel down more, although now they're... going to try to lick the suit because it smells like friend. That's a lot of dog slobber. ]

Hey!

[ Faulkner finally snatches the shellphone back, because he's worried the suit is going to crack it. But it's certainly gotten his attention at this point. ]

Are you—are you looking for Chris? Do you want to help them?
Edited 2025-08-10 05:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] telepathicignorance 2025-08-10 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
(The suit does not seem bothered. It's also not nearly as nice to lick as an actual person.

More frantic gestures. Yes! Yes! Help!)
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[personal profile] withermarked 2025-08-10 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's not, but for the moment it's going to keep getting pestered. It's very confusing. It's not a person but it moves like a person and it smells like friend—

Faulkner takes a deep breath. Now they're getting somewhere, at least. ]


...I'd like to help if I could. But I don't know where they are. Or what I could do.

[ Which makes him feel awfully powerless. Although he supposes knowing how to find them would be a start, and maybe others would help with the rest. ]

What can you do? I still don't know what the hell you are.

[ His tone isn't aggressive so much as just deeply confused and frustrated. ]
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[personal profile] telepathicignorance 2025-08-11 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
(The rat-king reaches out mentally to Angel, who might get a sense of small scurrying things and belonging. Do the rats belong to Chris or does Chris belong to the rats? There is a sense of the same bond he shares with Faulkner there.

The Rat-King stands, head cocking to the side. Its ability to communicate is, in many ways, limited. It does better with minds already attuned to its way of seeing the world; why it was so relieved to be in the hands of a telepath.

Does it know where Chris is? Yes, but it has no way of indicating this.

As for what can it do... it leaps, blasting its jump jets to target the ceiling, where it sinks its claws into the wood with ease and assumes a gravity defying crouching position that Chris probably could not have maintained while in the suit themself. It is strong, fast, and has limited flight. It is growing increasingly comfortable with independent functioning. With being embodied.)
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[personal profile] withermarked 2025-08-11 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ And while the thing that feels like rats is... very strange, that at least gets across. They both have humans. It does help that Angel likes Chris: that's who told them they had a human. In a similar way of talking.

There's some tentative tail-wagging, but then startled barking. Faulkner is visibly startled, too. He scrambles back a little. ]


...Damn, alright. That's—that's impressive.

[ Which means it's probably able to help, but that doesn't solve everything. He has a lot of questions, but he supposes he should start with the most immediate. ]

Do you know where they are?
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[personal profile] telepathicignorance 2025-08-11 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
(Yes! Yes!

The suit begins nodding then drops fown to land in front of Faulkner, still nodding.

...There are holes in the ceiling now.)
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[personal profile] withermarked 2025-08-11 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, at least that's a solid answer.

...He supposes he'll have to tell Turo about the ceiling holes later. But that's not important right now. ]


Alright, that's. That's somewhere to start. Guess you can't tell me?
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[personal profile] telepathicignorance 2025-08-11 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
(The Rat-King cocks the head of the suit, staring at Faulkner blankly. It can't speak the way people do, even if it's time with its master/friend/human has given it some understanding.)
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[personal profile] withermarked 2025-08-11 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ This gets a sigh, and he starts to pace again. He's not quite sure what to do with all this or where to start, but clearly time is going to matter and so he's very on edge. ]

Could you—could you show someone the way?
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[personal profile] telepathicignorance 2025-08-11 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
(Yes!

More nodding.)
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[personal profile] withermarked 2025-08-11 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
Okay—okay, that's good, that's something. But I can't... this isn't something I can do. By myself at the very least.

[ Or at all realistically, from what he knows about how powerful the man who has Chris is. And Turo's hurt and Keigo's hurt and who else could he even find fast? No, this isn't the time to panic again— ]
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[personal profile] telepathicignorance 2025-08-11 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
(The suit cocks its head, then turns and starts bounding off down the hallway.

Problem: Friend can't help alone.

Solution? More friends!

...This is probably gonna result in it bursting into whatever place Keigo is staying. Hi bird! Have a surprise visit from a villain(?) friend!)

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