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The Royal Castle of Canterlot. Quite a lot goes down within the castle everyday it seems. Wether it's new recruits or the workers just driving each other crazy. Let's Rp ... More

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Leon

August 3, 2025 12:59 pm RP

Leon slowly walked his way up to the door leading to the holding cells, dressed in his usual clothes, a measured look on his face as he slowly gripped the handle, pausing for a moment before taking a ... View MoreLeon slowly walked his way up to the door leading to the holding cells, dressed in his usual clothes, a measured look on his face as he slowly gripped the handle, pausing for a moment before taking a deep breath and calming himself. The stallion had learned from Diana that Artemis had been taken over by something, he'd guessed as much from the fact he'd been awoken by a code blue but hearing the confirmation from someone else confirming his suspicions had left him somewhat at ease, although he couldn't shake the feeling that whatever was down there was something he would not be ready for. He took a few deep breaths, steadying himself as he did. Whatever this thing was inside of the former King, he had to make sure it didn't get to him. He had a plan in mind, not a particularly good one but he had to make sure that whatever was on the outside, Artemis was still inside. He was going to try and make him mad, get any semblance of the former King to reveal that there was still something inside that shell that was fighting for control. He had to steel himself. Leon turned the handle and let the door creak open, entering the stairwell and closing the door behind him before slowly making his way down it, his heavy, metallic footsteps echoing through the tight well as he made his way down to the bottom. Rounding the corner, he laid his eyes on Lord Somber, looking over the magically caged alicorn with a look of nothing but sheer, unparalleled disappointment in his left eye, sitting himself down on the second to last step as he studied the form before him. Even without a scan, he could tell that whatever this thing was, it had immense power radiating from it, he could feel it just in the air alone. The large stallion reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a box of cigarettes and his lighter, tapping one of the cigarettes out of the box, putting it between his pursed lips and lighting it with a single flip of the lighter, taking a long drag before puffing out a large cloud of smoke, studying the being in front of him for a few moments before taking the cigarette between his metal index and middle finger and tapping the ash onto the cold concrete floor. "Heard you took a demotion in position, went from King to Lord. How very humble of you, Artemis." He spoke mockingly, his voice monotone and cold as he looked over the former King again, studying him as he waited from a response from the creature in front of him. #rp

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Lord Somber

Somber would glance up from his thoughts, looking at the new presence in his current prison room. He expected the usual faces. The Queen. The Lunars. Perhaps that Nun or the Changeling. Yet..before him was.... "Do I know you?" He spoke, seeming rather bored. "Artemis? Ah...wrong Alicorn. He's aslee... View More

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Leon

"Not much of me left that's natural, parasite, hasn't been for a very long time. Does that bother you, having someone around as incomprehensible to you as you are to everyone else in this city? Worried I'll steal your limelight?" The stallion asked coldly, not a hint of care in his voice as he conti... View More"Not much of me left that's natural, parasite, hasn't been for a very long time. Does that bother you, having someone around as incomprehensible to you as you are to everyone else in this city? Worried I'll steal your limelight?" The stallion asked coldly, not a hint of care in his voice as he continued to study the caged monstrosity in front of him. He listened to Somber explain himself, taking in every word, every syllable as he stood up, making his way over to the edge of the cage and standing right on the other side of the barrier. "A touching story, lovely family reunion and all but I really couldn't care less about what you are. Far as I'm concerned, you're just another tyrant to be felled and you made a substantial mistake getting vicious enough to grab my attention. No, what I want to know, is if Artemis is in there and can hear me." He spoke coldly, a hint of threat passing through his voice as he looked directly into the eyes of the creature before him. "I want to know if he felt good about betraying his family. Leaving his wife to shoulder the burdens of an entire kingdom by herself. Terrifying his children into thinking they're destined to become just like him. Killing allies who would have laid down their lives for him before the thought of him asking for such a thing even concocted itself as an idea in his head, and all for what? Power? Dominion? He had nearly the whole of Equestria at his beckon call, and it wasn't enough for him? I wonder, what did it feel like to abandon those he swore he would protect until his dying breaths, to truly give in to something so..." He paused for a moment as he looked over Somber. "Unimpressive. Pathetic, even." Another moment passed before Leon looked directly into Somber's eyes again, his gaze glacial as he threw his cigarette onto the ground and snuffed it out under the sole of his shoe. "Most of all, I wonder just one thing. Did he ever love his family? Or were they just a convenient shield from the beginning?"

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Lord Somber

Somber would give a grin, every single word from Leon making it grow larger and larger. "Project much?" He spoke with a final grin. "The Queen would slap you for even speaking such words of Artemis. Y'know? You are just like everypony else that claimed to be his ally. His protection. Friend even." ... View More

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Leon

Leon listened intently as Somber spoke to him, a subtle, barely noticeable frown coming to his face as he took his gloves off and slipped them into his pockets, before unzipping his bomber jacket and slipping it off his arms, throwing it behind himself onto the stairs and exposing some of his cybern... View MoreLeon listened intently as Somber spoke to him, a subtle, barely noticeable frown coming to his face as he took his gloves off and slipped them into his pockets, before unzipping his bomber jacket and slipping it off his arms, throwing it behind himself onto the stairs and exposing some of his cybernetics and the black, almost crystalline plate that acted as a chest plate to Somber, pressing a pair of sections on it and causing it to hiss, before slipping it off of himself and exposing his internals to the being. Inside of him was a mess, a titanium rib cage, clear pipes running every which way, transporting the bright pink neon that acted in place to his sickly, blackened heart, a strange device wrapped around it squeezing it rhythmically to keep it beating in time. The stallion put the plate down against the wall, before returning back to eye level with Somber. "You think you've got me all figured out, don't you? Think I'm not honest with myself, alright. I am a monster, I'm nothing more than a corpse, puppeteered by titanium strings, bought back from a death I couldn't possibly have avoided. I shouldn't be standing here, I shouldn't have been standing for the past twenty four years and yet, here I am in front of you. I failed my family, three metal monstrosities broke into my house back when I was still a full body, and they tore me to ribbons. I told them to run, I screamed and I pleaded for them to go out the back way even as my skin was flayed from my flesh, even as my limbs were torn from my body, even as my spine was shattered like glass, even as my chest was caved in like it was made of plaster and it wasn't enough. The damage I managed to get on those creatures with my shotgun was nothing more than token, I knew I couldn't win but I just had to buy them enough time to get out safely. I couldn't. As I drew my final breath of my full body life, I saw them being dragged away to a waiting harvester truck, screaming out for me, pleading for me to get up, to do something, anything and I couldn't." He kept looking Artemis in the eyes as he continued on. "I woke up in a hospital bed three and a half years later as you see me now, begging for them to tell me where my family was, begging them to tell me they'd been found. All I found was a token grave with their names on it and immediately following that, I was ordered to fight until I expired, to never stop tearing those machines apart until one of them finally got the better of me or I would have three micro explosives planted in my heart, my brain and my spinal rig detonated. I did as I was told and more. I was bitter, hateful, I despised the full bodies who looked at me like I was a freak, as if I had chosen this for myself, as if I had a choice in the matter as nothing more than a corpse that couldn't beg to be laid to rest. I stopped caring about civilian casualties, any amount of them were acceptable to me, I tried to justify it with platitudes of 'they shouldn't have been out past curfew', but I killed a lot of them. I didn't care how many full bodies stood between me and those metal monstrosities, they were acceptable losses to me. I am deathly honest with myself, parasite. I have no qualms with accepting what I was." He paused for a moment before looking down and shaking his head, looking back into Somber's eyes. "I've no doubt that his family loves him but that's the thing. You're not him. You're his titanium strings, you're controlling his body, his mind, his powers. They don't see you, they see him, a power mad child playing despot and using his body as the medium for it. A family's love is deep, borderline unbreakable, but it's not unconditional, especially when the one they loved is no longer recognizable to them. Diana for example, she doesn't love him anymore. I talked to her, she's been hollowed out, petrified of repeating your mistake. His mistake. She thinks she's fated to become you, she thinks she's got no other alternative in life to becoming your mirror and it's broken her. Which is precisely why I am going to do what you can't. I'm going to be a father figure to that little girl, I'm going to teach her kindness, teach her goodness, teach her to stand tall while holding her ground against monsters like you or I. You've clearly got no interest in doing it, no interest in saving her from herself, so I will take up that interest. I won't let you throw away the family Artemis always wanted in his stead. You won't have them."

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