002 | Voice

[purgation]

[This communicator has been hacked.

Attached to the broadcast is the alias LUNATIC, a name some of you may have come to know by now, though most of you will not have. Not to worry, of course. There will be plenty of opportunity in the future...]

I have been watching.

[The speaker's voice has been manipulated to sound both artificial and faintly hollow.]

There are sinners in your midst. [You know their names, don't you? Perhaps some of them even spring to mind: Lucifer, The Manipulator, Annie Leonhart, Reiner Braun, Bertholdt Hoover...and so on. It's possible you even sympathize with some of them, though it's clear the speaker does not.] You answer their crimes with rewards of friendship, forgiveness...and freedom.

Foolishness.

[What follows is clearly exasperated, but spoken in such quiet tones that it forces listeners to be all the more attentive.]

As expected, heroes...your idea of justice...is weak.

But that is why I have come.

[The speaker pauses, perhaps for dramatic effect, for when he begins again there is a certain zealousness to his tone.]

My name...is Lunatic.

[Do not mistake him for a hero.]

I will strike down the evil that has arisen. For the wicked ones...there will be no escape. The time for them to atone for their atrocities is now.

They will hear the voice of Thanatos.

[Those listening closely may hear the crackling and hissing of flames in the background...it grows louder and louder before the communication is suddenly cut and the line goes dead.]




[OOC: Please note that icon links have been broken. This broadcast in no way reveals the connection between Yuri and Lunatic.]

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[purgation]

That is true, but not all hands are stained in the same way, by the same sins.

[infomodder]

But they're still sinners. We're all sinners, every single one of us. Good reason for none of us to have cast the first stone, because none of us can.

[He should not be getting this into the conversation, he really should not.

But Jesus Christ, it's been a while since he's gotten one like it.]

If Thanatos isn't here, you can't, either, can you?

[purgation]

Who said Thanatos was not here?

[infomodder]

[One shoulder lifts a little, almost uncomfortably as opposed to a shrug, and he waves his hand.]

I...read most everything on this network and I've never seen anybody going by it.

[Him.

It's him. He says it. He says the thing.]

[purgation]

Someone like you would not.

[infomodder]

["There are no men like me"—nah, too egotistical. He does wrinkle his nose at it, just enough to be seen.]

Not reading enough, then?

[Ha ha ha.

He reads everything.

It's sort of a problem. He has a fever, apparently the cure is more stalking. Healthy choices.]

[purgation]

No, reading has little to do with it.

Thanatos is simply not among you.

[infomodder]

[Aha oh God.

That just.

Yeah, this won't be fun. Not that he'll do anything about it, because law enforcement is a world away, but aha. Haha. Welp.]

Not yet among us, you mean.

[That's not a question.]

[purgation]

I believe I said what I meant, Will Graham.

[infomodder]

[This is not the look of someone who is doing his version of a smile because he's frightened, nor is it the look of someone who's doing it as a bring it on sort of gesture. No, this is someone who is very very used to what he's hearing and what it means, who knows this song and dance like he knows breathing. Someone who's comfortable in this situation despite it not being a comfortable one at all, despite every part of his insides crawling under his skin, heated and screaming.]

I believe you said what you meant, too.

[And Lord have mercy when PSA becomes more.]

[purgation]

We understand each other, then.

[And even if they don't, Lunatic still disconnects.]