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bellelurette2025-03-09 11:31 pm
lesmodsalouette) wrote in bellelurette2025-03-09 11:31 pm
WEEK ONE
WEEK ONE
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Maybe being swept away to a fancy castle isn't what you wanted (Hickey aside), but the fact of the matter is that you're stuck here, at least for now. Thankfully there's enough food even if hot chocolate for breakfast might be a bit rich for some palates. There's at least a stock of raw food in the kitchens, but your hapless kidnapper is a Witch, not a chef, so you'll have to perform your own, manual kitchen magic if the provided meals aren't to your liking.
Just try not to burn the place down before you get the chance to take your host at his word (that you'll be leaving in a week's time, certainly, trust).
If you do get the cabin fever immediately, the grounds are a beautiful reprieve from the great indoors -- and if nothing else, perhaps you can find time to get to know your fellow guests. The weather is gorgeous all week, cheerfully sunny, which lends something to the mood.
WEEKLY EFFECT
This week, characters will feel heightened emotions periodically. If they're very happy about something, it'll feel like the best thing in the world! If they'd usually brush off something mildly annoying, suddenly it'll grate on their nerves. This effect will last throughout the week until investigation and is completely optional.
cw continued
I’m not a fighter and I don’t like violence, so… so if you’re looking for someone to fight to the death tonight, look… uh… look away!
[ a small pause. ]
I’m Yoru… by the way.
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[ He lifts his hand off of his blade...
That's a joke because he hadn't rested it there, but you know, it was a potential consideration for real; instead of allowing it to drift there, he crosses his arms. ]
...You already know who I am.
[ He still sucks at conversation, tho. ]
let’s just keep the cw
Why…?
we are keeping the cw!
I've lived long enough. It's agonizing...
What benefit is there to it?
[ Blade's words are straight to the point. They cut to the heart of the matter in an instant.
A torture of a thousand deaths and more and other means of suffering have left him burdened. But, he can just lay his feelings out here for it, plain and simple. ]
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I think… there’s some. Like… family meals.
[ but then he thinks what would have happened if he hadn’t - well… he did… like eating with her once upon a time. family meals then would have been a dream. still. ]
But it’s better if it’s a different life. It worked out better for me.
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[ Blade supposes he should have expected someone to mention that. People still have those sorts of things. Many do.
Something does register in the back of his head, though he knows well enough not to pursue it at this time. Memories are that far away for a reason. ]
How did it "work out better"?
[ He doubts it will for him. It hasn't for a long time now. Nor will it ever. ]
additional cw: implied child abuse/neglect
[ he gets a little more animated as he keeps going, nervousness making way for a full, fond heart. he wants everyone to understand how wonderful his family is. ]
When I come home… there’s always someone who says, “Welcome home.” It’s not… much… to some people, but these are things I never had before.
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...Never.
[ He repeats the word carefully, and slowly.
He chases the rabbit into the hole where the thoughts lie, unable to keep from the strange sensation of familiarity - the heightened awareness of emotions that supplies, the odd desire to see more in his own head. But, there is a fog of haze, even if the idea will remain. ]
Do you believe it was luck? That you found one.
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[ he looks down at his hands, curled. sometimes they feel other, as though they were a stranger's hands. ]
And what? I suffered enough and finally was lucky enough to find something good? What decides when something is enough? Do you know?
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Luck, happenstance, action, inaction.
...Karma, lack of karma.
It can be anything. But, what is it you believe?
[ Blade pauses, watching Yoru cycle through potentially something - but definitely a flurry of questions aloud. ]
Whatever decides what is enough could be something beyond our knowledge.
But, even that is finite. Everything gained can be taken away in an instant. How could I know anything? Would it change how happy you are now with your family if you knew there were more horrors were to come? Or would you say you could still cherish their memory, in the wake of even more pain than you have experienced before?
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[ cherish their memory... no, no. he shakes. ]
No one will take them from me. No one.
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[ Blade simply says, as if that very fact is damning in of itself. ]
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[ he sounds certain. ]
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[ Even like this, Blade can't help but feel that isn't true. There is no certainty from him with things having progressed as they are.
...And, now knowing how dire it is, even if it's twisted, he knows it means it is nothing good for the lot of their fates. ]
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[ he might sound like a wimp, but nothing can shake his certainty on this one matter. ]
And… you’ve seen the plaques, haven’t you? Would you let him make this place permanent, Blade?
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You would stop at nothing.
[ Blade boldly assumes. Is he wrong in that?
As for the second question, he turns it all around in his head. He remembers how he lashed out at the Witch - how easy he slipped from his grasp. How far away his strange capabilities are - how the Shard Sword is no way near in his possession. ]
I've seen them. [ ... ] What makes you anyone can stop him?
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What makes you think we can't stop him? Where's the... the proof that we're helpless?
[ he was that once. he won't be that again. ]
I've learned that... nothing is inevitable. Not even death.
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Believing in things happening for the better doesn't exist for him. It won't ever. Or so he thinks, anyway. He offered threats, but couldn't make good on them. ]
Isn't it clear that we're at his mercy? At any time he could have had our throats slit; our bodies smashed, and our lives snuffed out.
But, we breathe. To live at his whims, to dance to his tune.
[ There's a pause. ]
Death is inevitable for all things. An eternity doesn't exist even for an Aeon.
cw: implied child abuse
You know, I've lived that life before - with someone who had that much power over me. Years and years.
[ and in the end... ]
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(Actually, this is the case, but it is what it is.) ]
...And you escaped.
[ Is the conclusion Blade supplies - but there is a small question in the statement, as he stares intently for confirmation. Did he really escape that person in the end...? ]
cw: patricide
[ at least, he thinks he did. he knows he did. thinks. knows. he saw the body. ]
So... [ his voice is barely a whisper. ] Not... impossible. After all.
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Not impossible...
[ Blade turns it over in his mind. This must Yoru's determination.
Can he ever really grasp it? He doesn't know. But, he hears it, acutely now more than ever. ]
...We'll see if we can reach him that same way.
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[ it’s determination. and as horrible as it is, as humans are, it is a miracle that only humans can achieve. a tenacity all their own. ]
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[ His words are straightforward still. Blade doesn't beat around the bush.
He then briefly fixes his gaze above to the false sky that hangs above them, in the garden of lies that seem to obscure more than what any single one of them can possibly fathom. A silent night that speaks to a depth of uncertainties waiting to bloom in stars crafted from illusions. ]
I don't have the will.
[ Then, after that, Blade moves forward, more like a phantasm than a person, passing by Yoru. But, something stops, the reflection of that determination familiar, like something trying to sprout in the unknown. And then, a potential ripple in the still pool. ]
...I can't even see that possibility. But, if you achieve the impossible, what will you say this time, if you live to see it?
[ Yet, Blade doesn't want to hear an answer on the question now, and will instead move to depart. ]