The Guild of the Forsaken

CHAPTER 30 - Until Somebody Loses Their Head

!TW: Violence, Blood!

I Can't Decide - Scissor Sisters

September 26th 2024

GOTHAM CITY

The Court may work fast but Ewan McKinney works faster.

Perhaps that's because time is his weapon. Both figuratively and literally. The man wields the delicate nature of time with a deathly accuracy. It bends to him, a concept normally so abused and misunderstood is warped and taken advantage of by a mere mortal man.

Yet that isn't truly the case either. The polished clogs of time made him in their image. Made someone worthy of using their gift.

Time cannot be defined by numbers or any such human concepts. To simply be able to process the infinite number of futures for an infinite number of choices would drive a lesser man mad.

And it has, many a time.

Only those whose blood was stirred and created under Destiny's starlight eyes would be able to bear the burden of ultimate knowledge. They are the deity's children essentially. Sharing the brunt of her work and power.

To know every life and every death.

To know and not be able to prevent it.

As for there to be life there must also be death.

A balance so delicate that only the ones who can be trusted not to let selfish desires cloud their vision are called to keep it so.

But as humans often do, we begin to care.

Being selfish is in our nature, woven into our fragile genetics.

Being a wielder of the Rabbit Miraculi is a lonely existence. Forming connections is nigh impossible. Who would want to see exactly when and how everyone they love dies? To know the second their heart takes it last beat. To hear their last beautiful words before they even speak them.

It works differently from the other Miraculi, in more ways than simply needing a chosen soul to wield it.

The previous soul doesn't need to die for the next one to arise unlike the Ladybug or Black Cat. Though they both are in the body of their true soul, Marinette. Being a Celestial means she is the balance. The two Miraculi need her to function just as much as she needs them.

While one Rabbit lives another grows not far behind. There is no specific age that they will be ready at.

It will simply happen when it's meant to.

And isn't that just an infuriating thought.

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Air refuses to move into Luka's lungs, his chest hollows and expands desperately trying to push urgently needed oxygen into the deprived cavities.

Ewan showing up is never a good thing. To be frank he hasn't shown up in a long time.

If Marinette ever wanted to speak to him she would find him and be done in under five minutes. Her confusing relationship with the man was something that had always stumped the Court.

Ewan is powerful and dangerous, but it is Marinette that holds the reigns.

She bestowed the curse of knowledge on him just as easily as she could take it away.

Each meeting between the two ended in blood and screams often followed by a sombre hug and twisted declarations of affection. They truly were an odd pair.

A destructive one at that.

The man currently resembles someone in his mid-twenties. The Rabbit also gifts the wearer with the ability to alter their looks to appear younger or older.