From Null to Void [SUGGESTIONS WELCOME]

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>You don’t know why you did this. Nor can you truly understand what you’ve done.
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>You can see the violet sludge splattered on the walls, bits of black and violet hair slowly sliding down with a sickening sound.
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>Then, in front of you, you see him. The Prince of Hope was laying dead at your feet. His head practically a pile of mush with only a few traces of its original visage buried underneath the gore.
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>You look at your hands. Your blood runs cold as you could see it coated in the cerebral remnants of the once proud seadweller. As horrid as what he had proposed to you may be, this was far, far worse.
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>Your name is Equius Zahhak and in a blind fit of rage, you’ve murdered a highblood.
>Equius: Explain yourself.
>You like to believe that you know yourself quite well. You love being STRONG, you once had dreams of joining the ARCHERADICATORS in spite of your inability to wield a bow, you have an affinity for art revolving around MUSCLEBEASTS, and you do your best to quell your anger by either engaging in FISTICUFFS with your robots or speaking with your moirail.
>However, it seemed like that last part has been compromised.
>Equius: Turn around.
>...
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>It appears that there is nobody there. The only people who were in here were you and him.
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>You're not sure why Eridan opted to call you of all people to his room. He seemed more likely to speak with either Karkat or Feferi considering that they seemed to be the only two people he actively engaged with. Well, in a friendly manner, anyways. Aside from Karkat, he held a great contempt for pretty much all LANDWELLERS. In particular, he held a great disdain for Sollux, especially after the latter had gotten close to Feferi. Needless to say, he was a rather volatile individual and you never really got along with one another.
>Though, it seemed like Eridan didn't exactly know that as when you came to him, he expected you to treat him with respect as he was a seadweller with violet blood coursing through his veins. His plan, needless to say, was something that you couldn't accept.
>Equius: Remember the plan.
>His exact words escape your mind, but you do remember the main premise: With all hope lost, defecting to the Demon would be the best option. You naturally refused even when Eridan attempted to emphasize the apparent importance of this plan since it was clear he had no intention of letting anyone else survive. Well, anyone other than him and Feferi. "you should knoww that our blood should be preservved abovve all others" seemed to easily sum up Eridan's idea. In any case, you remember getting % with him as when you repeatedly rejected him, he threatened you with his new weapon: The Empiricist's Wand, which brimmed with what he described as "white science". However, before he could use it, you grabbed his head and...
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>And...
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>You still can't believe you've done this.
>Equius: Try and remember that this was in self-defense.
>That isn't the problem! Murder barely had any real repercussions in Alternia! There was even a game dedicated to it! However, when you kill one of the last trolls left of your kind and the only other seadweller to boot, the significance of it has been raised through the roof. More importantly...
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>You've murdered someone who was above your rank! This just doesn't make any sense to you! You should've known your place as an indigoblood and allowed the seadweller to kill you! You should've had no problem with submitting to him! How could you have possibly betrayed your own views like this!? What kind of troll are you?!
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>...Though, he did say something else to you right before you snapped. Something that caused your blood to boil. However, you seemed to have voided it out of your memories once the deed was done. Whatever those words were, they must've been truly infuriating if they drove you to do this.
>Equius: Make a list of who's next.
>What is wrong with you? Why are you thinking of lists right now? One murder is horrible enough, not only because you disrespected the hemocaste system, but...
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>Imagine how the others would respond to this! Even though Eridan's plan was horrible and would've doomed them all, killing him like this was not the solution that they would desire. Karkat and Feferi would especially be against it, as the former wanted to keep all of them alive while the latter abhorred violence against other trolls. Letting any of them know that you've murdered him in what may have been cold b100d would be a 100dicrously horrible idea!
>Equius: Just hide the body.
>His head is practically liquid and his blood is all over the walls. It'd be nigh impossible to fully hide the body like this!
>Equius: Clean the blood off the walls.
>How are you going to do that, genius? It's not like you have anything to wipe it up with.
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>...Wait.
>Equius: Get a towel.
>Could this really work? I mean, it'd be abhorrent to ruin a perfectly good towel with someone's blood, but...it seems like you have no other choice.
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>You open up your SYLLADEX, which is currently equipped with the Fetch Modus: SHOTPUT. A shotput lands your hand and you grip onto it as you ready yourself.
>Equius: Throw shotput.
>HERE WE GO!
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>You throw the shotput across the room with a fury that could break through walls and...
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>Right when the shotput is about to hit the wall, it dissipates as a towel gracefully floats down to the floor.
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>Thank goodness these things don't actually break anything when you throw them. That would've caused a lot of issues.
>Equius: Wipe the blood off the walls.
>You spent a good amount of time wiping Eridan's blood off his walls. You also wipe it off of his HISTORICAL STATUES AND ARTIFACTS. Doing this is quite arduous, especially since it becomes more difficult for the towel to absorb all the blood. You spend a good while doing this.
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>And...done. You've cleaned the Prince of Hope's room of his remains. Well, aside from his actual remains, that is.
>Equius: Just hide it.
>This is ridiculous. How can you hide someone's body when their head has been crushed into a pulpy mess? You already spent so much time with your towel to hide the blood! What else could you possibly do?
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>A few thrown shotputs later.
>You feel like you're committing a cardinal sin by wasting all of these good towels. Nonetheless, they seem to be doing a sufficient job at hiding the corpse. They could easily be mistaken for discarded robes for all you know. Though, that's just wishful thinking.
>Equius: Look at the clock.
>You mean the countdown? Well, as you look at it, you see that it was at 03:33:33. Three hours, thirty-three minutes, thirty-three seconds. You've spent 12 minutes trying to clean up the mess you've made here. Although...
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>The fact that you saw it at that particular time may be a sign of something. ...Of course.
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>Nepeta may be able to help you through this! Moirails always look out for each other, right? And Nepeta had always been there to help you calm down! Even as an oliveblood, you've come to truly rely on her for help and vice versa! However...
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>How are you going to explain this situation to her? How will she react? You know for a fact that she disliked Eridan, but you realize that by killing him, you explicitly fail to live up to your moirail's hopes. You've stained your hands with the blood of another and you don't feel good about it at all.
>Equius: Talk to her anyways. You don't have to tell her anything yet.
>...Well, you guess that is fair. Besides, you haven't spoken to her in a while, so you should check on her anyways.
>Equius: Troll Nepeta.
>centaursTesticle [CT] started trolling arsenicCatnip [AC]
>CT: D--> Nepeta, are you there
>AC: :33< *ac was furrolocking around when she hears ct approaching her lair*
>CT: D--> Nepeta, please do not do this
>AC: :33< awww! can't you play along just once?
>CT: D--> I'd prefer not to at the moment
>AC: :((< oh...is it because of what happened earlier?
>CT: D--> ...
>CT: D--> I don't quite understand what you are referring to
>AC: :33< you know exactly what i'm refurring to!
>AC: :33< alright, that wasn't called for, but
>AC: :33< are you really going to stay silent because of what happened with aradia?
>CT: D--> Oh
>CT: D--> Oh, you were referring to that
>AC: :33< what did you think i was talking about, silly?
>CT: D--> Well
>CT: D--> Nevermind
>CT: D--> I assumed it was something else entirely
>AC: :33< well, in any case, what made you decide to start talking again??
>CT: D--> It's a rather long story
>CT: D--> You see
>...
>AC: :II< equius, why did you pawse just now?
>CT: D--> Oh
>CT: D--> Well
>CT: D--> Nepeta, if you were to something that can only be described as an E%TREME reaction, what would you do
>AC: :33< that honestly depends on what i did. it's hard to describe!
>CT: D--> Well, what if someone were to become a STRONG threat to your allies
>AC: :oo< a threat? i don't entirely understand what that could entail!
>CT: D--> What if they were planning that would led to everyone being e%terminated
>AC: :oo< uh...well, i'd do my best to stop them, of course!
>CT: D--> Through any means necessary?
>AC: :((< well, if i really had to...
>CT: D--> ...Nevermind
>CT: D--> I believe I'm been in a 100dicrous slump for quite a while
>AC: :33< well, maybe you should try and fix that!
>AC: :33< go and s33 everyone! that should get you back on your hoofs!
>CT: D--> It's hooves, Nepeta
>AC: :33< oh right. my mistake! sorry.
>CT: D--> It's fine
>CT: D--> It was a simple flub
>CT: D--> Still, what would you do if I did something regretable
>AC: :((< that's a purretty strong question, equius.
>CT: D--> I understand that the weight of it is heavy, but
>CT: D--> It just felt like something I needed to ask.
>AC: :33< from what I could tell, you really should go m33t everyone! you can't stay all cooped up in your stable like that furrever, right?
>AC: :33< in fact, i'll m33t you there! how does that sound?
>CT: D--> Nepeta, that really isn't a good idea
>CT: D--> I highly discourage you interacting with the others at this moment
>AC: X((< come oooooon! it'll be fun!
>AC: :33< it'll cheer you right up! i purromose!
>CT: D--> Oh dear
>CT: D--> I should go
>AC: :33< are you sweating on your keyboard again?
>CT: D--> What
>CT: D--> No, don't be 100dicrous
>CT: D--> I have not done that in a while, actually
>AC: :33< well, in any case, grrrreat! s33 you soon!
>CT: D--> I will
>arsenicCatnip [AC] ceased trolling centaursTesticle [CT]
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>You dumb cretin, what have you done? Why would you agree to meet with everyone else after what you've just done? Why are you suddenly being so WEAK to everyone else?
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>You look back at the corpse you've hidden with towels. You wonder if anyone would end up finding this when they check up on the former seadweller. If so, who would find it and how would they respond?
>Equius: Find the key to Eridan's room.
>A key? Why would there be a key here? Even if there was a key, you doubt that it would be easy to find and-
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>Oh, wow. The key is actually on his desk.
>Equius: Exit
>You take one final look at the seadweller's corpse before leaving. You shakily lock the door to his room with his key before capchaloguing it in your SYLLADEX. Your sin has been hidden. For now, at least. Now there's only the matter of what to do now.
>Equius: Look for answers to the stars
>Normally, you'd find that ridiculous. That would be something Gamzee would do, not you.
>...But you have been hearing something else as of late.
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>Through reasons that would be explained later, you've started to hear voices of an unknown source. You doubt that they're omniscient, but you do feel their presence somewhere. Like they're looking over and they wish to aid you on your endeavors.
>Equius: Consult the voices.
>Against your better judgement, you take a moment to sit in the hallway as you focus on the mysterious voices. Perhaps they can lend a helping hand. If not...well, you've made this choice. You may have to stick with it.
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