Edmondia: sheSeth appears to be humming to herself
EnsTren: yay?
Edmondia: well, she's happy, so I guess so
Edmondia: now she's got headphones on and is bopping her way through the mansion
Edmondia: she's very pleased with herself.
Edmondia: apparently all of her pentience went well and she's now a priestess again
Edmondia: this appears to be her victory dance - she's all dressed up from the rituals, so the headphones look rather odd with the rest of her outfit
Edmondia: she's already made two of the servants walk into walls, and yet is completely oblivious to it
Edmondia: whups, she just found Mokuba
Edmondia: she's now teaching him her victory dance
Edmondia: it works a bit better for her, but he appears to be catching on swiftly
Edmondia: they are now dancing their way through the mansion
Edmondia: "Sway your hip a little more out to the side - that's it!"
Edmondia: Her smile softened. "You remind me of one of my daughters... you look just like her. She would've been about your age when she learned to dance like this. Hip out, then spin."
Edmondia: ...uh oh, they just danced past Seto
Edmondia: he's choking on his coffee XD
Edmondia: "M-Mokuba! What are you doing?!"
Edmondia: "Dancing!"
Edmondia: A hip wiggle. "It's fun, niisama!"
Edmondia: Cinnamon and raven black hair tossed in perfect unison. "You should try it!"
EnsTren:"..."
Edmondia: "Come on, niisama! Hip wiggle!" He twirled to demonstrate. "You know you want to!"
EnsTren: "You are not going to dance like that in public, ever."
Edmondia: Tiny fists planted on tiny hips. "Why not? It's fun! Seth made some of the servants run into the wall!"
EnsTren: "You are not going to dance like that in public!"
Edmondia: A perfect clone of his own glare stared back at him in miniature. "Why not?"
EnsTren: "Because, you're too young to be doing that kind of dance."
Edmondia: "It's a victory dance, what's wrong with that?" he complained loudly, "You laugh maniacally, and I wanna dance!"
EnsTren: "It's provocative. Seth's jiggling."
Edmondia: A raised eyebrow. "Seto, I KNOW, why do you think I was dancing with her?"
Edmondia: Seth snickered.
EnsTren: Seto's lips thinned and his eyes widened, "You will not dance like that in public."
Edmondia: Mokuba folded his arms behind his head and pursed his lips, "Seto, Seto Seto... it's not like I have anything to jiggle. You really should lighten up, you'll give yourself an ulcer one of these days." He suddenly leaned forward, a decidedly demonic glint in his eyes. "Unless you're jealous."
EnsTren: "You shouldn't dance like that, and jiggling isn't the only way to appeal."
Edmondia: "I know. Seth's been teaching me." Mokuba flashed him a sly smirk. "She knows all sorts of things."
EnsTren: Exasperated eye roll.
Edmondia: Seth chuckled. "He's got a fanclub, hikari, he does need to know about young girls - and older ones, for that matter."
EnsTren: "But he doesn't need to dance like that in front of them!"
Edmondia: She rolled her eyes in good humor. "Seto, we're at home, and we're happy. I'm not suggesting that he dance like this in front of everyone - unless he decides to become a priest, there'll be no need for it."
EnsTren: Eye bulge, "Hell no."
Edmondia: She blinked slowly at him, kohl-darkened lashes narrowing in annoyance. "I believe that should be his decision, not yours," she said sharply.
EnsTren: Her hikari was having a minor paranoia attack and something that defied description beyond "Agh-what-am-I-going-to-do-if-he-becomes-a-priest-w ho-will-he-worship-will-I-have-to-donate-to-the-temple -who-will-be-my-vice-president-worry-worrry-worry-ar gh!" attack.
Edmondia: She blinked several times before her lips curled upwards in amusement. "Mokuba, be a dear and go step on your brother's foot before he gives himself a heart attack."
EnsTren: His brother was going though files and being stuffy and fussy.
Edmondia: Mokuba reached up and tugged on his hair. "Seto, I don't want to be a priest, chill out."
EnsTren: Mokuba promptly found himself crushed and enlaboured breathing.
Edmondia: He pried at his brother's fingers, gasping. "AIR, Seto, AIR!"
EnsTren: Deep hugglesnuggle squish.
Edmondia: He rolled his eyes and snuggled back, exasperated and amused. "Niisama, sometimes you're such a dummy."
EnsTren: Mokuba got wacked in the face with a pillow.
Edmondia: "It's the truth!" he complained, and took the pillow and whacked back.
EnsTren: And lo, Kaiba Manor Pillow War One started.
Edmondia: At first, it seemed that one Seto Kaiba was in the lead, but that only lasted for a few minutes.
Edmondia: Mokuba and Seth had declared an alliance and proceeded to attack him on both fronts.
Edmondia: He soon found himself backed into a corner by two blue-eyed demons, and held his pillow up to defend himself.
Edmondia: "I suggest you surrender, Seto," Mokuba said, grinning evilly, "Or else we'll be forced to unleash our secret weapon!"
Edmondia: Mokuba and Seth pounced on him.
Edmondia: "Tickle attack!"
EnsTren:A wailing kicking squirming Seto, who was laughing but would never admit it.
Edmondia: They wiggled around and managed to get him pinned.
EnsTren: Wailing giggling and kicking lightly.
Edmondia: Mokuba sat on his stomach, triumphantly running his nails down his niisama's sides. "Gotcha, Seto!"
EnsTren: Seto squalled and wriggled.
Edmondia: Seth shifted her grip on his shoulders to wriggle her fingers under his armpits. "I think we win, Mokuba!"
EnsTren: "You're my yami, you're supposed to be on my side!"
Edmondia: She reached over and tweaked Mokuba's nose. "Sorry, but your brother's much more adorable!"
EnsTren: "I'm hurt!"
Edmondia: She leaned down and kissed his nose. "Sorry, sweetie."
EnsTren: He frowned. A bit more lip and it would be a cute pout!
Edmondia: She kissed his nose again. "Don't hate me, sweetie, he gave me the Cute Look. No one can resist its almighty force."
Edmondia: Seto didn't say what he was thinking, as the position of her cleavage when she leaned down to kiss him made his brain momentarily cease functioning properly.
EnsTren: He twitched as an animatronic with a glitch.
Edmondia: She reached over him and fluffed Mokuba's hair, chuckling. Wow. Jiggle.
EnsTren: Twitch, spark, maybe he blew a fuse?
Edmondia: Her top ended a few inches above her navel. Her bare tummy was pressed against his cheek. He was beginning to realize why the servants had walked into the wall instead of through the doorway.
EnsTren: His eyes started to bulge out and he quickly closed them. Yamimine, Yamihis, was... He didn't know, he felt a bit queasy though.
Edmondia: Okay. He could think this through. Yamihis was currently very happy with the world. That was good. She was playing very innocently with him and Mokuba. Also good.
Edmondia: Yamihis... was a girl.
EnsTren: But Yamihis... wasn't a girl to him, hadn't been at least. It was changing and it was upsetting, but very nice too.
EnsTren: He felt as if he shouldn't think it to be very nice.
Edmondia: ...it was hard to think with Yamihis right there, with all her fine linen and her gold jewelry and her smoky eyes and her soft jiggly girl-bits.
EnsTren: He didn't like jiggly bits though; at least, he liked boy bits better. And those jiggly bits were Yamimama's jiggly bits, yamimommy, yamikind, yamicomfort, yamihis.
Edmondia: Not mommy. She'd shoved him away every time he'd slipped and called her that. She didn't want to be his mommy.
EnsTren: That made him cry when she did that. She didn't want him. She took him like that and played with him like that and then tossed him away carelessly when she decided she didn't want him like that.
EnsTren: It made him hurt inside.
Edmondia: Yamihands were soft on his shoulders, and he wondered if she still loved him.
EnsTren: She pushed him away, how could she? She just needed him, the light she claimed was in him to fuel her darkness. He believed her to an extent, that there was light in him, but she brought it out.
EnsTren: Held him and polished him to make the good things in him shine bright and uncover them from under the grime on his soul. Like a mother. And after she got that--she didn't want him anymore.
Edmondia: He'd made her cry when he was playing with Anzu.
EnsTren: Part of him thought she deserved it. Part of him thought that he deserved to get a kiss that didn't make him feel horrible.
EnsTren: Part of him, that he hated, didn't care.
Edmondia: Maybe it was good that she'd been spending so much time alone lately.
EnsTren: He still hurt.
Edmondia: She was happy now, it made him warm inside, she was pretty and shadowy-dark now, that was good.
EnsTren: But she didn't want him. He had been right before, he wasn't even second best--but he was happy for Mokuba.
Edmondia: "Hey, you." Low, warm voice, made him tingle in strange ways.
EnsTren: "Hmn?"
Edmondia: She looked down at him, her eyes thoughtful, palms gentle against his skin. "Mokuba's gone... is there something you want to talk about, pretty one?"
EnsTren: "No, I'm fine," he flashed a smile for her, "Just catching my breath, you two squashed me."
Edmondia: Her eyes were serious. "You're not lying to me, my love?"
EnsTren: "Why would I lie to you?"
Edmondia: Her full lips firmed into a thin line. "Why wouldn't you?"
EnsTren: "What have I to hide? Besides, you two really did squish me."
EnsTren: "But I admit I was a bit lost in thought as I caught my breath." Another smaller smile, "I was thinking of how well you and Mokuba get along, and how happy you seem recently."
Edmondia: She blinked twice. "That's... sweet of you." Her voice was soft and surprised.
EnsTren: Careful building of a lie from a lattice of truths and smiles. He added another smile and sat up, intending to end it before it crumbled.
Edmondia: "...I wish I could believe you," she said softly, and pulled away from him.
EnsTren: "Mew?" He really hated it when he did that. Really honestly despised it, he, and from what he'd seen all hikaris, did it when surprised and confounded, especially if by their yamis.
Edmondia: She pulled him to his feet with a dainty hand, and her prettypretty eyes were so sad. "I wish you'd really tell me what you meant," she whispered.
EnsTren: He didn't want her to be sad. He had hidden from her in a small tight ball without even touching her darkness so she could forget and be happy, no matter how much his soul screamed for her dark.
EnsTren: And if he told she would be sadder.
Edmondia: She stood on her tiptoes and pressed a shy kiss to his lips, all soft and warm and shadowy-dark.
EnsTren: And he twitched again, but not like he did when he saw her jiggly bits.
Edmondia: "I'm sorry," she whispered against his lips, and oh no oh no oh no she mustn't be crying! Nonono!
EnsTren: He touched her and held her, "What's wrong?" he asked, even though he knew--she was sad because her toy was broken.
Edmondia: "I wish you loved me," she said, and curled her faced into her hands and cried harder.
EnsTren: "I do! I do! Oh never say I don't love you please don't!" It hurt, it hurt so much to hear her say that he didn't.
Edmondia: Oh no, oh no, she was crying so much, what was he supposed to do?!
EnsTren: He didn't know, so he held her.
Edmondia: "Then why don't you believe me when I tell you that I love you?" she whispered brokenly, "Why don't you understand that?"
EnsTren: "...Because you play with me as a toy and discard me as one as well." He was a good liar, but he could never tell the truth well.
Edmondia: "...is that really what you think?" She gave a little shuddering sob. "Of course it is, why wouldn't you..."
EnsTren: "I've seen no evidence against it. But I still love you, I can't stop." He was tempted to call her mother, so she would go away or in weakness submit to being one to him again.
Edmondia: She shook her head sharply. "You're so stupid. All of you are so incredibly stupid." She gave a tiny, sobbing laugh. "You're so STUPID!"
EnsTren: He held her and whispered in his heart which he hid from her the name he knew her as.
Edmondia: She squirmed in his arms, choking on her sobs. "So stupid. Stupid stupid STUPID! You're not supposed to love me, stupid, none of you are!"
EnsTren: "I don't understand Yamim-ine."
Edmondia: She squirmed more frantically, nails digging into his arms. "STUPID!" she shrieked, "You aren't supposed to love me, stop it, stop it! Nobody can love me, let go of me, you can't love me!"
EnsTren: "...Is that what you really want," mother?
Edmondia: She crumpled, burying her face in her hands, wailing softly. "Nonononoshould'veletmediewhydidn'tIdie?!"
EnsTren: "When should have you died?"
Edmondia: "IN THE DESERT LIKE THE FILTH THAT I AM!"
EnsTren: "...You are not filth." He said with finality. He builds deceptions but tells no lies.
Edmondia: She laughed harshly, the sound jagged and ugly and cold. "Stupid little whore," she spat, "Stupid little squirmy thing, break his legs to keep him still, tie him down and keep him from the shadows. Don't worry, it's not human, it doesn't matter if you kill it, it's disgusting!"
EnsTren: He squeezed her tighttighttight and held her as if to keep her here with him.
EnsTren: "Shadows are here whenever you ask and love you so I think they'd answer you on the face of the sun."
Edmondia: She wriggled and squirmed. "Stupid little bitchwhore, tainted little thing, what's it good for? Disgusting little boygirl, who let it out? Keep it away from the children, it'll get them dirty."
EnsTren: "Wasn't Happi, the Nile god, both male and female? No shame in it."
Edmondia: "They let something like that become an apprentice? It's disgusting, they should've killed it - they're going to marry it to the freak brat, I wonder, can it have children? They'll be demons, we'll have to kill them too."
EnsTren: "But you get the last laugh, you're here, and he's here, and they are all dead and forgotten, true death, while your children live on in your heart and may be waiting in the wings to be born."
Edmondia: She laughed again, vicious and ugly, and how could someone so perfect hate herself so much? "They killed me," she hissed, "You'd be wise to do the same."
EnsTren: He kissed her forehead, "Yet you live."
Edmondia: "I can't have you. I'd rather die."
EnsTren: "I'm right here."
Edmondia: She laughed again. He hated the sound. "You're not MINE," she hissed, "So kill me and make it stop - or would you rather I be useful to you?"
EnsTren: "Useful?" He sounded bemused and his arms tightened of their own volition.
Edmondia: She tossed her hair wildly, lips curling in spite. "Of course. A little extra incentive with your business dealings, why not? You might not care for my body but the men you deal with do. I'll even let you rip the babies out, watch them drown in their own blood - it's only good if it's in working condition."
EnsTren: It was easy to forget that the hikaris were as fierce as the yamis, as strong and as frightening in equal but opposite measure. This was true too, for Seto Kaiba, but he was hurt and injured and damaged long ago--So he was just as vicious as his Yami at times.
EnsTren: So he bared his teeth in a feral grimace and shook her, "Don't you dare say that! And if they even think about you in that way I'll kill them!"
EnsTren: "You are not to think of yourself like that! I'll kill them! I swear it I'll kill them, I'll ruin them, and kill them as they live in sloven poverty on the street!"
Edmondia: Her lips twisted. "Stupid little hikari. Haven't you listened? What it's good for - only that. Stupid little whore."
EnsTren: "No!" And he shook her again. "You were a good mother, a good wife, a strong person!"
Edmondia: She laughed again. "Demon-girl for demon-babies. Married her to the freak to keep them away from the normal people. Scared little whore, tossed around, take five minutes, she's a good fuck, why not?"
EnsTren: He bent his knees and curved his spine so he was exactly level with her.
EnsTren: "You listen to me, right now! I want you to listen to me and to hear me, do you understand?"
EnsTren: "If those wretched peices of filth still lived I would draw them out on the desert with a thousand bleeding cuts to die a slow death. Then I would petition to Isis in person for her to make them new insoluable bodies to place their souls in and I would push my way onto the sun barge and shove half of each new body down Amit's and Apep's throats barehanded!"
EnsTren: "And I'd send you many postcards of my exploits and take pictures and and even a few videos. Definitely videos because we don't have any home videos of us, do we?"
Edmondia: She was hanging limply in his arms. "Because you don't want me."
EnsTren: "I love you. But you made me this way, I cannot help it. You are as Isis, a beautiful queen, and she could make a working penis out of gold or ivory and working hands for her son after she cut them off. You are perfect and beautiful and you made me this way."
EnsTren: "And you could make me this way because I love you, because I was willing to do and be anything to love you and make you happy. But the clay is drying already and is hard to move."
Edmondia: Her eyes were dull and clouded. "Stupid little bitchwhore - breaks everything she touches, filth spreads everywhere, shatters perfection and makes the Nile dry."
EnsTren: "Those who spoke such words were jealous."
Edmondia: Softsoft hand brushing against his cheek like silk. "Can't be jealous of the damned."
EnsTren: "No, nay, nein, iie." He reached up and touched her hand, holding it against his face, "Isn't this proof of a blessing? How many find their soul's twin?"
Edmondia: "How many break their soul's twin?" she spat, "How many can take something so good and make it so wrong?"
EnsTren: "Am I so evil to your eyes?" his own were getting blurry.
Edmondia: "I love you more than anything," she said softly, "You're so beautiful but all I can see is how much I hurt you. Every time I look at you I see how much I failed you."
EnsTren: "We're the confused ones, yamimine. And even Yugi and Atemu had a falling out." Little smile, "Atemu tried to push me off a battlement, Yugi was rather appalled."
Edmondia: Her eyes were so dark. "You are rather appalled every time I try to kiss you."
Edmondia: "...I suppose it makes sense," she drawled idly, "You wouldn't want to know where my mouth's been."
EnsTren: "No, it's not that. And I'm not appalled."
Edmondia: One delicate brow arched. "Oh, it isn't? I don't even know who they were, pretty light."
EnsTren: "Because you made me this way, and are trying to change me, but I'm not changed and I don't know if I want to."
EnsTren: "It feels right to hold you, hug you, kiss you even, on the cheek. I want to be close to you but it... hurts me when you try to make it in this new way."
Edmondia: She stared at him dully. "Even when I try to make it better you hurt. Why don't you kill me?"
EnsTren: "It would kill me to hurt you intentionally."
Edmondia: "You want to, though. You should, everyone else does."
EnsTren: "When have I given indication that I wanted you dead?"
Edmondia: "Not dead. Dead is too easy. Hurt."
EnsTren: "When have I indicated that I would wish anything of the realms of harm or hurt to befall you?"
Edmondia: "Every single time you called or thought of me as your mother."
EnsTren: He finally dropped his eyes from hers. "I only do so in deepest respect and love. I'm sorry that I am too flawed for your liking."
Edmondia: She seemed to sag against him, soft hands reaching up to cradle his chin. "Oh Seto, pretty one, not like that, it's not like that, I thought you knew, oh sweetling, look at me honey, let me show you why it makes me hurt so much, okay?"
EnsTren: He was afraid, afraid and ashamed to look up at her, his careful shields with light fractures. He upset her and saddened her, he didn't deserve to look at her or know her thoughts.
Edmondia: Her lips brushed against his nose, his cheek, his eyelashes, just barely touched his mouth. "Pretty precious beloved-mine, sweet little savior, will you look for me?"
EnsTren: He didn't flinch but pressed close, turning the brief touching of lips into a nuzzle. Sure? I don't... I... you... you... why me?
Edmondia: She tilted her face up, accepting the affectionate gesture. Because I love you, and I trust you, and I give myself to you completely. Will you see me, my beloved, and still be afraid?
EnsTren: He sounded confused and she heard a little of that child in him again. But... you love Mokuba and Atemu more.
Edmondia: I love Mokuba because he holds your heart. I love Atemu because he protected me. But you... have all of me.
EnsTren: It does not seem this way. It seems as if others are your best beloved, most precious ones.
Edmondia: It is not so. I have given myself to you as to none other. Perhaps it is foolishness to love like this, but I have never been accused of sanity.
Edmondia: ...I am poison, my love, and only to you do I dare give this much.
EnsTren: Some say I am poison too. I love you, and if you say that I am first in your heart I will make myself believe it for you.
Edmondia: Her lips brushed against his again, slowly, lingering. Believe it, precious one. You are the one I love above all others.
EnsTren: He turned his head and kissed her fingertips. For your I would believe that the waters were orange and all the skies were brown.
Edmondia: For you I would make it so. She leaned into his touch, tucking her head beneath his chin. ...do you want to know how I died, pretty one?
EnsTren: No yamimine, only that you live now in my heart.
Edmondia: I'm not your mother, she said quietly. I can't be.
EnsTren: Why not?
Edmondia: She kissed him again, hard, deeply, swift enough that it seemed she never moved at all.
EnsTren: And he shook under it and wept. Why have you made me this way but wish to have me in another?
Edmondia: And then the palace was crumbling around her and her dress was stained with her own blood, and the cries around her were deafening and she stumbled again, coughing up blood - still? Scrambling fingers found the Rod, wrapped around it - she was the Darkness' daughter, she would not go quietly, not while some of her children still lived.

The tiny girl clutched to her busom woke with a scream as the wall fell, shattering one baby-soft arm, and she stared in numb horror as her child wailed.

Louder, louder, the enemy tore through the palace, she could feel them coming closer, and knew what they would do once they came upon her precious baby.

"M-mama?" she whimpered, tears shining in her beautiful blue eyes, "Mama?"

"Mama loves you, baby," she whispered through her tears, "Close your eyes now, daddy's waiting to see you, close your eyes..."

She did.
Edmondia: And Seth pressed the blade to her baby's flesh and ripped her throat open.

Her daughter was dead in an instant, and she couldn't think, she couldn't breathe, oh gods she'd killed her baby her daughter her -

And then the enemy was upon her, and she had nothing left to live for, so she threw her head and hands to the heavens and let the Darkness tear everything away.
EnsTren: ...Thou proud warrior. How could I not love you for that? How could any wish for a better mother?
EnsTren: I see glory in you and I see love in you and I see something that I can only pray that is in myself.
Edmondia: She screamed and sobbed against his neck, clinging to him desperately, wailing in anguish that had no shape nor words to frame it.
EnsTren: And he held her and cradled her and whispered love and gave her light.
Edmondia: She fell asleep, hours later, in his arms.