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ℬ𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓁𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒 ℳ𝑜𝒹𝓈 ([personal profile] lesmodsalouette) wrote in [community profile] bellelurette2025-03-07 11:17 pm

Mesdames et Messieurs, Voilà, C'est Vous

Bievenue

You're wrapped in a soothing, all-encompassing darkness.

Well, perhaps not perfectly all-encompassing -- you can see some slivers of light here and there, just enough to realize that your current space is literally wrapped in something, and that you are a highly customized burrito at the mercy of an entirely too fluffy bed and set of blankets. Moreover: you are definitely not alone.

Depending upon the contents of your bed (two of you, waking up dressed exactly in what you wore last you remember back where each of you came from, in the exact same state as those last moments no matter how illogical or disjointed), it may not be comfortable or feasible to stay cocooned up for much longer. There's a low, muted GONG, GONGG coming from not far away, your bed creaks like a beleaguered ship in an unannounced storm, and it is joined by even more noises of movement beyond the bed canopy as you try to take stock of where you are.

Eventually, you either fall out of bed or drag yourself into this world: your new and strangely crowded personal rooms, the clock insistently sounding out the hour, and the halls and heraldry of the venerable Château Ambregris -- a lavishly decorated and fully furnished version of a more-or-less authentic French castle (assuming you know what France or a castle are).

Left to your own devices for the moment, you may find it helpful to explore the castle for your own purposes, check out the suspicious statues and personalized plaques in the Promenade of Reflexion, or perhaps to try to get to the bottom of the mysterious and frankly alarming amount of bread piled up in front of the place settings in the Banquet Hall. (Were you thinking of escaping? Any attempts to leave the property will be met with no forward progress at all, treadmill style). There's just about every kind of loaf, roll, boule, baguette, croissant or even animal-shaped bread you can think of stacked in baskets. There's absolutely nothing else save for plain bread, but at least you won't starve.

[OOC: Welcome to Château Ambregris, a perfectly normal castle receiving perfectly normal guests. Feel free to ask any questions in discord! The NPC Meet & Greet will be later today, March 8 at 6 PM EST/3 PM PST.]
diel: (021)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yoru.

[ he’s not going to hold out his hand because he actually doesn’t want to get close. ]

Is nice to meet you appropriate for… here?
antline: (ghost)

(house rave music plays)

[personal profile] antline 2025-03-09 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
Help...?

[Hm.]

I am not an expert. If you see them you can tell me.
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-09 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
On it.

( He'll kneel down into the dirt to peer under some bushes Sariel isn't already covering, not really bothered by getting his nice clothes dirty. )

Do you like ants?
diel: (026)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, no… no thanks.

[ he really doesn’t want that much time. that feels like a recipe for closeness? his eyebags are antisocial.

unless hwy means to become a very specific thing to him, he’s not interested in being close. though he still finds kindness and softness nice. ]


But. Thank you for the offer. I think. And yeah, that’s me.

[ anyway, ]

Earlier - you said to Witch that your senses have been dampened?
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-09 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
( He doesn't seem to pay a moment of mind to Yoru's refusal - something offered casually can be refused with that same ease. )

Uh-huh. Have you felt the same thing?
Edited 2025-03-09 11:11 (UTC)
diel: (033)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
Isn’t this -

[ he looks around and finally notices that the room is also unfamiliar. a step more opulent than he’s used to. he lips snap shut after a soft ‘oh.’ he stays silent until he’s on his feet. ]

Thank - thank you. [ he hand jerks away like the main has cooties. ] I’m fine…

I don’t know where we are though. Did you… come to be our new family member?
diel: (048)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ well, that answers his question. he droops in disappointment. ]

Nothing. No family. Um, never mind.
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[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ he relaxes a little - or rather, his tension drops from 100 to 99(.9) - once he sees that hwy isn’t offended. he nods, just once. ]

I don’t know if dampen is the word for it. I feel… cut off.
obtect: (of something)

[personal profile] obtect 2025-03-09 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
[She raises an eyebrow.]

Shame. For a second there I almost thought you knew what was going on.
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-09 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Putting it like that makes it feel that much more empty.

( He relates to it - this sentiment he's introduced without Yoru's approval just yet. He just didn't want to scare himself by phrasing it so firmly.

He's trying to hold a lot of things together right now. )


Does it distress you? Or is it just strange?
diel: (025)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
Aren’t we on the same page, then? Does an almost thought even count…
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[personal profile] frostlight 2025-03-09 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Tia has never seen a dragon cry. Dragons are proud and arrogant. They don't do crying, because they're above such vulnerabilities. She, shed a tear? Unthinkable. If something bothers her, she crushes it—simple as that.

As she watches the moisture well in his eyes with her own wide pair, Tia realizes that their kind can cry. It's a sight so alien that her brow creases in bafflement.
]

Are you . . . crying?

[Just making sure.]
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[personal profile] obtect 2025-03-09 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like it.

[An almost thought counts. To her.]

Who're you?
diel: (040)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
… Is there… an emptiness that isn’t distressing?

[ the only thing keeping him together is the firm belief that mister yomi will find him sooner or later. he is, in a way, also not lacking in time. but he misses familiarity like severed limb, and it feels like his heart is beating exposed. ]
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-09 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
( Busted. Well, now he supposes he's free to press a palm to the corner of his eye to wipe away the wetness; no need to be discrete. )

Yep. ( the first dragon to ever do it...... or so his peers would tell him ) Sorry. It's probably weird for you. I just miss him a lot.

( He apologizes, but he doesn't seem guilty or ashamed - he does not promise to stop sooner than his feelings tell him he will. His pride and obstinacy is not with power - it's simply being resolutely who he is, and who he is this teary thing, at least for the next little bit. )
diel: (048)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
… Yoru…

[ he says it reluctantly. it would have made a bit more sense to him if she were a new family member, with her looks, with her uniqueness. but as it is, she’s just a stranger and he is kinda allergic to women.

he shuffles a step back. ]


And you?
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[personal profile] coldseep 2025-03-09 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
( He laughs, lightly. Touché. )

None that I know of. But I've learned to live with losing these little pieces, bit by bit.

( c'est la vie, as their french overlords would probably say )

Are you human? Or something else?
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[personal profile] frostlight 2025-03-09 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Definitely the first weepy dragon.]

. . . It's unusual, but that doesn't concern me. Don't waste your breath on apologies.

[It's his pride(?), not hers. If anything, she's reminded of the twin spirits from the Spirit World, and how inseparable they are. If they ever get eaten, it'll be together . . . probably.]

What happened to him?
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[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
But if -

[ hesitation at hwy’s laugh stops him for a moment. the question is heard, but not answered just yet. ]

If you’re constantly losing pieces, what fills you up?

[ his own simple question, as though hwy’s loss were a black and white concept. a hole to be filled. ]
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[personal profile] uiscebeatha 2025-03-09 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ but it's true cain does have cooties just ask owen—

He's not bothered by the jerk, though. Anyone would be jumpy in a situation like this. He would be, too, if he wasn't instinctively remaining calm for this guy. ]


Family member? [ He parrots this, confused. ] No, sorry, I don't think so.

[ He steps back, takes another look at the decor. ]

We might've been kidnapped to the West.

[ You know, like, the Western Country. The actual country in his world, not the nebulous west. Not like Yoru knows that, though. ]
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[personal profile] uiscebeatha 2025-03-09 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Speaking of, once their hands meet, so do their eyes. There's the eye contact. Weird it took a few seconds. ]

Whoa, cool. A dragon.

[ The gears are turning, despite the smile on his face. Noted. Potentially dangerous? Don't piss her off. ]

It's nice to meetcha, Tia. And yeah, I am. I'm guessing he told you?
diel: (048)

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[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh... this is... ]

Saber... I mean... Richard...?

[ yoru doesn't know if saber is some special nickname or what. can strangers use it? ]

I saw her earlier.
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[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Okay...

[ yoru definitely doesn't know, and the phrasing confuses him all the more. ]

West... of town? By gangs, you mean?

[ even that's doubtful because look at this place. ]
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[personal profile] uiscebeatha 2025-03-09 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hmm... the longer this guy talks, the more it tugs at the loose strings of his memory. Who is this? The presence is... Well, hard to tell if it's familiar or not. Things have been pretty busy.

(He has a feeling that if they knew him, they'd say, "What's up, Cain! It's me!" But maybe that's his bias showing.) ]


Hm... [ What was he talking about? What does he miss? Being in other places besides the pond? ] The bath's empty, but you know there's a pool on the upper floor, right? Have you checked that out yet?
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[personal profile] uiscebeatha 2025-03-09 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Dude??!!!??

He won't do it again, he keeps his word, so he takes this moment to really burn Yoonhee's likeness into his eyes. Huh, this guy has long eyes... ]


...What's so bad about being afraid of snakes?

[ Cain probably doesn't know that word, but he can put two and two together, thankfully. ]