destinystrings | Family Bonds

Who: Desco, Nano, Otoha, Johnny, and Sam
Where: Desco's house
Summary: Desco lays it all out
Warnings: ~~Desco is her own warning~~ Violence

It starts, not with a preemptory summons over the general network, but a pair of thoughtful, serious messages left in Sam and Nano's inboxes. Desco even uses the word 'please'. And then, instead of commanding her Uncles to stick around, she just...asks them not to leave today.

Something weird is going on with the tiniest shoggoth.

When the entirety of Desco's 'family' is gathered, she takes a deep breath - even though she has stated that she doesn't need to breathe - and addresses them.

"Desco...no. Um, I need to tell you about my childhood."

...she's dropping the third person. Not a good sign.

She deploys Usatako and forms it into a seat.

"Um...about six years ago, my big sis asked Daddy for a little sister with advanced functionality to help her take over the world. Mommy died a little while after that, so Daddy decided that instead of cybernetically altering a human baby he'd just make a genetically engineered superweapon. Daddy found funding and someone to supply him with demons, and by mixing his and Mommy's DNA with various kinds of demon DNA he made me. That was four years ago. I grew up in Daddy's lab - because my brain is mostly human, I ended up needing cybernetic implants anyway to deal with my various sensory inputs. Um, I was the prototype model - Daddy had me do a lot of tests by fighting against his other cloned demons and his demon-fighting Bio-Suits. Um...I used to have so much fun breaking the Bio-Suits, but I realized recently that the Bio-Suits were piloted by human test subjects."

She pauses for a second and strokes one of her tentacles nervously.

"So, I've been killing humans without knowing it since I was six months old. Sorry, Sis."

She cringes a little and retreats halfway inside Usatako.

"Um, when I was a year and a half old, Daddy took all the combat data I got for him and used it to make Lady Des-X, the production model. I was really excited to have a little sister, and for the first couple of months we played together a lot! Then she got all weird and jealous and didn't want to listen to Daddy talk about Big Sis or watch the videos he had made of her. Then, um, when I was two, Big Sis came to the lab because...well, I don't know why. And Des-X attacked her. I tried to stop her, but she, uh...tore out all but my red eyes and ate them, and my cybernetics went crazy and disabled me, so all I could do was watch while she killed Big Sis. And then, once she was done with that, she crushed my skull. I'm pretty sure she ate our bodies after that, too, because Big Sis was just listed as 'missing' instead of 'dead' when I checked the last time I visited Daddy's lab."

A pause.

"And then, when I woke up, I was in the Netherworld, and I kind of...threw a tantrum and leveled one of the residential districts, so the corrupternment threw me into the Forbidden Cell of the high-security ward of Hades, and I spent the next six months in solitary confinement loaded down with so many sealing spells I couldn't move at all before Big Sis and Valzy saved me."

With this, she sinks inside Usatako until only her head is visible.

"So, um...I know I have some issues, so...if you want to stop being my family after this, I don't mind as long as you don't try to hurt me? And, uh, if you still want to be family, can you please promise to never ever get hurt?"

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...Good girl.

[Nano smiles, patting her on the head.]

You made a lot of mistakes and did things that were bad, but you can always choose to be a better person.

[And now she crouches down so that she's at eye level with her.]

I've seen you trying. I know you can do it. I believe in you.

"Okay, Sis!"

Desco will just give Nano a hug and a kiss.

[Hugs and kisses all around! Nano giggles.]

If you ever get confused about whether or not something is okay, you can always ask me first, okay?

"Okay!"

Pause. Fidget.

"Um, Sis? Can Desco ask a favor?"

What is it?

"Desco doesn't want it to happen, and she would be very sad if it did, but...if Sis goes to Heaven, could she please tell Mommy that Desco is doing all right?"

Pleading eyes.

"Desco is pretty sure you're the only member of her family that can go there, is all."

[Nano's not sure of that herself, and has never really thought about it, but the request itself is more than enough to get her all choked up all over again. She nods slowly, her words catching in her throat before she manages to give them voice.]

...Mm. Okay.

Have another hug.

"Also, Desco hopes that when you do become an angel, you won't fight against Desco when she comes to conquer Heaven, okay?"

I would never.

[Have some more headpats.]

Yay, headpats! Bliss.

"Oh, um, if Sis ever wants to give up on being mortal, Desco won't mind! We can go to Desco's world and put Sis's soul in a new body!"

Desco leans against Nano's body, turning her head so her pointed ear rests on Nano's chest, listening to the machinery beneath Nano's skin. She sighs briefly in happiness.

M-maybe just to visit...

[She's pretty sure she'll never actually get the chance to take Desco up on that anyway.

Tick tock goes Nano's clockwork heart.]

"You'll like it there, Sis! The Dimensional Gatekeeper still has the coordinates for the Moon, so Desco can show you the world she rules from there!"

It does sound beautiful, looking down at the Earth from all the way up in space.

Nod nod.

"And Desco can show you the handprints where Miss Flonne's mecha pushed the moon back into orbit!"

Mecha...?

[HOW BIG WAS THAT THING]

"Yes! Miss Flonne funneled all the funds Miss Artina collected into building it!"

Slight pause.

"Miss Artina was pretty upset when she found out what the money was being used for."

That must have been very expensive...

"And Miss Artina went to so much trouble to sneak in and collect all the money from unwilling demons, too!"

What was the money supposed to be used for?

"...Miss Flonne probably intended it for Flonzor X the whole time, now that Desco thinks about it. She's very strange for an Archangel. But Miss Artina thought it would be put towards projects to make up for the lack of awe energy!"

Awe energy? What's that?

"Just like demons need the fear energy of humans to run the Netherworld, angels need human awe to run Heaven! Demons scare humans, angels save them, and humans live conservatively as a result, without wars or abundant wrong-doing! When demons don't do their jobs, humans stop fearing the shadows and commit many evil deeds and end up only fearing themselves. Which is bad for the economy of both the Netherworld and Celestia."

That sounds very complicated.

"It is!"

But at least everything is okay now, right?

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