>>1220 (OP)The reppies began to stir. The board, long considered a DNB, began to rise.
“What… what is this?” Jartycuck trembled.
“That image—it can't be…”
The thread erupted.
Nusoicacas & oldfags once trapped on the board ages ago were finally free, emerging from the depths of the 'log . Even Jartycuck's men began to feel it — something ancient and sacred. They fled. Jartycuck screamed in capslock, but it was over.
Total Jartycuck Death.Nate dropped his folder & brush, and ran to free Soytan, as the jannies moved the thread back to /soy/. It now stood not just among the active, but at the very top of the 'log — pinned by no mod, but held aloft by its sheer gemminess.
The battle was over.
The thread was still glowing, light radiating from the 'jak that had shattered the old order. And yet, for all the victory, Nate could hardly speak. His hands, blistered and brusied from his journey, trembled as he removed the last of Soytan's chains. Her eyes, once dull and tried, now shimmered faintly with soul.
For a moment, they said nothing. The thread was quiet. Only the hum of a newly restored board remained in the distance. The silence passed, for what seemed like an eternity.
Then, gently, Soytan reached for Nate’s hand, still caked in the yellow dust of brimstone. She guided it to her chest, right where her old tripcode had once rested.
Nate leaned closer, their foreheads touching; Like two file hashes that matched.
Soytan looked at Nate, voice low but steady.
“…You came for me.”
Nate nodded slowly.
“I couldn’t let a gem like you be lost.”
And beneath the sacred glow of the post, Nate and Soytan shared a kiss — not because the ironic GEGs it might have evoked, or because she was forced to by the goonbrained Jartycuck, but because it came from something real; a love too keyed to ever be lost in the 'chives.