[center][color=00a651][h2]Luigi[/h2][/color]
[b][color=00a651]Level:[/color][/b] 4
[b][color=00a651]Day/Time:[/color][/b] Day 2, Morning.
[b][color=00a651]Location:[/color][/b] Garden Funeral
[b][color=00a651]Tag:[/color][/b] The many faces of [@Holy Soldier] [/center]

[b][h2][center]Mario's Funeral[/center][/h2][/b]

Luigi had stood alone as Toadsworth led the sermon, dressed in a black suit that had been hastily brought for the occasion. While he wasn't crying it was clear from those who saw him that he had been doing so rather recently. Right now, he just felt tired and numb after all the bullshit he had been forced to endure after they had returned from the mission. Everyone seemed to blame him for Mario's death, despite the fact that he hadn't been in charge of Mario's team and had been dealing with completely different issues elsewhere when Mario had died...intelligently he knew that there hadn't been a damn thing that he could have done, but he still couldn't help but ask himself if there was [i]anything[/i] he could have done differently if it meant that Mario would still be with them.

He knew that Peach blamed him; She hadn't talked to him once since the news had been broken to her and Luigi couldn't bare to look at the rage that was on her face whenever he dared to glance her way. Maybe if he had been watching his brother's back instead of leading a team of his own, there wouldn't have been a need for a funeral at all. 

While he wasn't proud of it, when Guile's had laid into him about how Mario's death had been his fault... Luigi had snapped back. He hadn't meant to but for just that one moment all the pain and sorrow had flared up into an explosion of fury as he had shouted back "[color=00a651]I COULDN'T WATCH MY BROTHER'S BACK BECAUSE I WAS TOO BUSY DEALING WITH BRIGAN! YOU REMEMBER, THE BACK STABBING RAT OF A CONTACT THAT [i]YOU[/i] SET US UP WITH?![/color]" He didn't know why he did it instead of just taking the berating like he normally would, but right now he was glad that Guile was sitting near the back where he didn't have to look at him. 

As far as he was concerned, Brigan was the reason that Mario was dead; Odin might have held the sword as it were, but Brigan was the one that had put them all in that situation to begin with for his own personal gain. One day, he was going to catch up with the General...

Shaking his head, Luigi simply remained were he was, not moving and for the most part unsocial as he stared at the monument silently.