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[fourthmade]

This is a place to send your prayers to the Fourth god. He may not always respond, or he may respond in ways you don’t expect, but he is always listening.

Speak, he hears you.

OOC note:  As of April 2020, threads with the gods will be capped at three NPC replies! Please keep this in mind when writing god prayers to make sure you get everything you need out of the thread.It’s also possible to handwave prayers by titling your comment HANDWAVED PRAYER. Handwaved prayers lack our usual flourish, but you can expect a faster response!

As of February 2024, god prayers will be handwaved only. Please only submit a prayer if you have a question for either god which needs answering in order to progress your character's arc within Ryslig. If this is something you need to tier up within the god boon system, or just to set up a player plot in general, please don't hesitate to submit a prayer about it! You may shorten it down to an OOC summary of what your character is asking. This will allow any of our helper mods to reply much faster, without having to dig into the specifics of either god's personality/writing quirks. Should this limitation be lifted again in the future, this note will be removed.

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backdated to memorial event

[raidraptors]

[It's been a little while since Shun last turned to the Fourth, since he prayed or tried to hear his whisper, for all that he has done his best to help, for all that he had secured the area around the Obelisk for Loki. Taking it out… he thinks it was stupid to do, stupid and uncoordinated and pointless… but that's not why he's here tonight, it's not why he's come to Laurel's burial mark, why he's gripping tightly to his larkspur pendant as he starts to talk.

There is a slight hitch in his voice, a mark of hesitation in his usually so confident and clipped tone – it isn't easy to confess what he has to say aloud. It isn't easy to admit that…]

It's my fault. Even if I didn't kill them, the death of our comrades is my fault.

[He shifts his hands, pressing them and the pendant against his forehead as he kneels, eyes closed tightly.]

I thought if I went to Standard, if I got my hands on Akaba Reiji… maybe I could trade him for Ruri. I chose Ruri over them.

[He shakes his head sharply, breath shaky with distress.]

It was either to abandon Ruri or to leave Heartland and I couldn't; I can't– She's my sister! I have to rescue her; no matter what it takes!

[But in the end that's the crux of it, the fact that he's willing to do near everything, anything to rescue Ruri… that's what's gotten him here too, what had driven him into the Lancers first, and then towards the Fourth. Without wanting to, without realizing he had sacrificed so much, too much maybe… and that's why…]

It's not an excuse. If I had stayed for a little longer… if I had talked to Yuto maybe instead of just taking off…

[If he had talked to Yuto, maybe the other would have stayed behind and defended their comrades. Maybe he wouldn't be dead – or for whatever the hell being absorbed into Yuya counts. Maybe their comrades of Spade district would still be alive.]

It's my fault… I have to live with that. I know that.

[It doesn't help. It doesn't make anything better. The regret, the guilt… it doesn't go away even though he says it out loud and it's utterly aggravating, especially after what Yuya told him, after finding out that–]

Yuya says that– [His voice cracks at that, it's so hard to believe.] –that there's a chance to return them to life.

[That people that were turned into a card aren't truly dead after all, not like they believed – and yet that seems so impossible, almost even more impossible than all of Academia present within Heartland turning their back on the Professor because of Yuya.]

…I don't know what to believe in anymore.

[He truly doesn't.]

[fourthmade]

[When he returns home, Shun's laptop is already turned on. There is a message waiting for him on the screen.]

i can help you make up for that

i want everyone to be with the people who are important to them

but i need all my friends need to work together first :)

i hope that can happen soon

[raidraptors]

[Shun sighs when he receives no reply in the grave, resigned that his prayer has gone unanswered… at least until he returns home to see that message. Which is so not the kind of help he had hoped for, but well… he'll work with what he gets.]

How?

Your "friends" are mostly idiots and a child.

["Mostly" because he doesn't count neither Yuzu nor himself in that number.]

What the hell do you think we could accomplish with that together?

[fourthmade]

[There's no response for some time - because the Fourth God is unhappy, or because he wasn't paying attention for a while after he sent that first message? It's hard to tell. But eventually:]

my friends arent stupid :( why do you think they are?

well
either way
i can make all of you a lot stronger
then if you stay together nobody will really die ever again

and you won't have to feel bad

[raidraptors]

[Shun isn't about to complain about the speed as long as he gets an answer.]

I think this whole disaster with the obelisk speaks for itself.

Death is death, even if you revive afterwards.

[Dying is really dying, one way or another. No comment on how he feels about that – Yuzu aside, the other followers of the Fourth aren't his comrades.]