[Closed] A perfect storm

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Anders, established-CR people; poke me on plurk or in Discord for a top level if you'd like!
WHAT: A pair of triggers collide and fuck up Anders
WHEN: Early Guardian
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Panic attacks, possible talk of trauma in the past, related issues, dark thoughts

He'd run from being locked up seven times, knowing that the seventh was a death sentence, and been willing to go in alone to what seemed likely to be a lethal trap (and was) to try to destroy his phylactery. With both of them, life like that wasn't worth it.

Now both are back. He's held again, in a Circle, his phylactery is being messed with, and on top of that he can't heal in Darktown so he can do even less than he could in Kirkwall seven years ago.

Comments

[overharrowed]

"I think that's an excellent idea," Julius says, warm. "So much of the writing about the Circles has been academia produced by mages or focused on conflicts. But the people who lived in them deserved to be remembered the way they would if they had families to think of them. Landon always had a joke ready when you needed cheering up, or Bridget had a lovely singing voice and was an excellent teacher. That sort of thing."

He's thought before, and thinks now, that he's not even really sure who has and hasn't died among those he didn't see fall with his own eyes. He's sure at least a few people had needlessly mourned him, during his disappearance. No matter what they built next, or what they hoped to build, much had been lost and perhaps acknowledging it would help.