[Accidental Voice]

[dissonates]

[There's two voices- one is obviously Asch, and the other is too muffled to hear.]

-ing out to investigate. I told Natalia to stay inside; you should do the same.

[A pause.]

...I am not sick. I already rested enough.

[Pause.]

I'm not a kid, so stop acting like my mother.

[...]

Wh- you are not "as good as she is", shut up!

[Pause.]

Goddammit, Guy.

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[dissonates]

[The replica is using his head, oh my.]

The sooner you let go, the more likely it is that you'll survive.

[Yeah, she could. And Guy, too. And mom and dad. Okay maybe some hugs are acceptable. >_>]

[prismshards]

[ He tries! ...it's still a new experience for him. Letting go and jumping away now! ]

Truce! Truce! No harm, no foul, yeah?

[ Give it up, Asch. You like them. ♥ ]

[dissonates]

[So he's slightly less inexperienced now! Ohoho.]

...Fine, whatever. Just don't do it again.

[That depends on who he's getting it from.]

[prismshards]

[ ...not even going there. The replica has had his share of abuse for a while. Though having survived hugging Asch gives him a dangerous sense of accomplishment. That was scarier than facing Van! ]

You might not have liked it, but I thought it was pretty nice.

[ Point. He'd never want one from Dist, that's for sure. ]

[dissonates]

[Clearly you should have hugged him in Eldrant after you royally kicked his ass. He'd have been in a grand mood then.]

There was nothing nice about it.

[It was uncomfortable and annoying and asjdsksf. Also: ew, Dist hug. No.]

[prismshards]

[ If he had tried that, Asch would have ripped him a new one bare-handed and then Auldrant really would have been screwed. ]

It was warm.

[ A stark contrast to how the Asch he knew had last felt. See? Not so bad after all! ]

[dissonates]

[But it would have been kind of awesome. In a morbid Game Over way.]

What? That's a stupid thing to say.

[And Asch is a little clueless about the whole "I carried your corpse" thing.]

[prismshards]

[ The whole screen would be covered in replica red with "And he was never heard from again..." scrawled in the blood. ]

Just because you don't understand something doesn't make it stupid.

[ He wouldn't have it any other way. It's bad enough the memory haunts him. ]

[dissonates]

["You Are Dead", Resident Evil style.]

...

[Asch is getting the feeling that he's missing something he probably doesn't want to know about, so he'll just shrug carelessly and look away.]

Fine, think whatever you want, I don't care.

[prismshards]

[ Possibly with "Dreck!" somewhere. ]

I might have died of shock if you did care.

[ He'd like nothing better than to give Asch another hug to make up for lost time, but risking death once per day is his limit if he can at all help it. ]

[dissonates]

[A fitting end for a death by the hands of Asch the Bloody.]

Maybe I should fake it next time and finally be rid of you.

[What if he smiled? Would that be enough of a shock?]

[prismshards]

[ Good luck prying his lifeless, cold hands offer your person, though. ]

Are you even capable of faking what it is you're feeling? You're as easy to read as an open.. book...

[ Enough of a shock for Luke to brake completely and just stare. Hold on, he needs a closer look to make sure he's not imagining things... ]

[dissonates]

[Oh dear, and then the Oracle Knight replicas would burst in to find Asch trying to wrestle off himself. Now that is messed up.]

...What the hell are you staring at?

[What is that look, replica, you're weirding him out more than usual.]

[prismshards]

[ In the worst case scenario he'd make it to Van with the replica glommed onto his front and looking very, very wrong. ]

...

[ Not answering. He's too busy trying to poke one of Asch's cheeks. Was that just a trick of the light? ]

[dissonates]

[Admittedly it would be kind of awesome to use him as a projectile weapon or something.]

Hey.

[Asch is not amused by your poking, and bats the hand away.]

[prismshards]

[ Maybe then even Asch would admit to his replica being useful! ]

You smiled.

[ He's never smiled before. Not to his knowledge, anyway. Luke had even made a bet that his original's face had a 50-50 chance of breaking if he ever did! ]

[dissonates]

[I wouldn't hold my breath for it.]

...So what?

[He only smiles when nobody's looking. But it looks like he lost that bet. |Db]

[prismshards]

I've never seen you happy enough to smile.

[ Dammit! Anise will never let him hear the end of it. XO The replica himself looks quite thrilled with the prospect of Asch not being an angry panda all the time. ]

[dissonates]

You don't have to make a huge deal out of it. Are you that easily amused?

[He shouldn't look so damn happy about someone else being happy.]

[prismshards]

[ He can't help it when it's Asch they're talking about. ]

They always say it's the small pleasures in life that count, yeah?

[dissonates]

[Oh replica, he'll never understand you.]

If you wanted to see me smile that badly you could've just looked in a mirror.

[prismshards]

[ Ours is a complicated relationship. ]

It's not the same. That would still be me smiling, not you.

[dissonates]

[In very, very simple terms, yes.]

Fine then, you saw it. Now you can die happy.

[prismshards]

[ This is a very, very simple replica after all. ]

You're a bit late for that.

[dissonates]

[Simplistically complicated, then?

Also: oops.]

You're alive now, aren't you? Don't complain.