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deercountry2022-09-21 01:20 pm
clocktowers) wrote in deercountry2022-09-21 01:20 pm
Entry tags:
- alice baskerville (black): holly,
- ange ushiromiya: jelle,
- anna amarande: celene,
- battler ushiromiya: chrono,
- beatrice: mila,
- keith: sailor g,
- lance: charley,
- luca: robin,
- michael: lu,
- oscar pine: basil,
- ozpin: rona,
- penny polendina: kei,
- peter graham: jhey,
- pyrrha dve: silyara,
- ruby rose: josh,
- stanford pines: kei,
- takashi "shiro" shirogane: red,
- wanda maximoff: jade,
- xerxes break: callie
11 . clockhouse rebuilding!
Who: Those who have offered to help rebuild the Clockhouse, and anyone else who'd like to pitch in!
What: An open mingle log to repair after fires and floods.
When: Throughout September, precise dates not specified.
Where: In Gaze, at the forest's edge.
[ When the weather and chaos dies down, work on the Clockhouse picks up. The building was once an old Deerington mansion, luridly green and eccentric; age faded it into half a ruin, and July's fire did the rest. August's flooding came fast and hard, and now there's very little left to salvage.
The first step has been a damage assessment, with volunteers picking through the structurally unstable ruins, finding singed fiction novels, crisped houseplants, and a weird number of melted grandfather clocks. Demolition goes quickly, while Ozpin stands by and does not even try to control the situation.
Volunteers are needed to design the new structure, carry in materials, and build... and then to decorate and enchant what they've created. The few Sleepers with genuine construction experience provide direction, Ozpin sometimes among them, but things are largely chaotic. A few Sleepers provide snacks and cheerleading.
This is a mingle log. Please feel free to make a toplevel, and comment with your character's contributions below! ]
What: An open mingle log to repair after fires and floods.
When: Throughout September, precise dates not specified.
Where: In Gaze, at the forest's edge.
[ When the weather and chaos dies down, work on the Clockhouse picks up. The building was once an old Deerington mansion, luridly green and eccentric; age faded it into half a ruin, and July's fire did the rest. August's flooding came fast and hard, and now there's very little left to salvage.
The first step has been a damage assessment, with volunteers picking through the structurally unstable ruins, finding singed fiction novels, crisped houseplants, and a weird number of melted grandfather clocks. Demolition goes quickly, while Ozpin stands by and does not even try to control the situation.
Volunteers are needed to design the new structure, carry in materials, and build... and then to decorate and enchant what they've created. The few Sleepers with genuine construction experience provide direction, Ozpin sometimes among them, but things are largely chaotic. A few Sleepers provide snacks and cheerleading.
This is a mingle log. Please feel free to make a toplevel, and comment with your character's contributions below! ]
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I'm going to murder you and then bury you in the basement! [ A very normal threat.
Clearly that's what this new house was lacking: a resident house ghost. Break would be the perfect poltergeist.
Although she isn't grabbing another book or item to throw at him, despite her threat from a moment ago. Instead she's just standing there, looking as huffy as Ange can be. Which is quite huffy, mind you. ]
At least do this stuff somewhere I won't see it every single day for the rest of my life..!
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[Break would make a phenomenal house ghost. Mostly this means he should never be permitted to be one.]
Anyway, you'll not have to see such things every day. You said you'll come over to watch movies and such with me, sometimes.
[There are some extremely stupid decorations in Break's house, too, but those tend to be Black Alice's doing and she is more concerned with embroideries depicting her favorite meals than with butts. For now.]
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[ There's not even anger in that voice anymore. Not the fiery anger of a moment ago, anyway, with Ange getting all embarrassed and huffy.
This, instead, is Ange's more lowkey version of flustered and huffy. The moment she calms down from the initial phase, and instead gets all pouty. She's saying those words in the same way a five year old may announce that it's running away from home. Same energy. ]
I don't want to watch Anastasia ever again. [ G-Gasp! That one is serious, clearly. Ange's favourite movie!
Except, no, she's still being pouty. She may even be moving to lean against a wall dramatically, because clearly Break is being the meanest bully to little old Ange. ]
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[Break is not falling for this one yet.]
As the two of you seem to have called a weird truce, I'll invite Lady Beatrice over instead, see if I don't. I bet she'd enjoy it. She is basically Rasputin.
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It's not that part that gets Ange to pause, though. No, of course it's the mention of that witch.
It renders Ange quiet. Quiet enough that one may wonder if she's actually offended by even the idea of this joke, due to the sheer nature of said 'weird truce.'
But then the girl squints, and the thing she actually says out loud sounds much less severe than that. ]
Are you going to tell her that?
[ A beat. ]
To her face?
[ That may just make it worth it. ]
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On the other hand, well.]
...can you undo it if she turns me into something yucky?
cw: murder threat (slightly less joking than the usual)
Maybe not the part where she punishes Break for it in such a way, because Ange would certainly not be happy with it if the witch did as much as touch someone she cares for so much, but it would be kind of nice if it'd miff Beatrice, even if it's just a little bit.
Ange can be mature enough to at least not continue a dumb spiraling cycle of hate and hurt in this place, but she feels like she's allowed to still be at least a little bit petty in return for everything she's had to endure in life at that witch's hands.
Still, as Ange replies, her tone sounds very casual.
Despite the words themselves being anything but. ]
If she does anything to you, I'm going to dump her dead body into the ocean.
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[Obviously??]
-- but am I going to be watching you do this as a weird little toad in your pocket, is what I am wondering.
[Break does not necessarily condone the Trenchian revenge culture going on amongst the Sleepers, but he also knows better than to argue with Ange Ushiromiya about Beatrice of all people visiting physical harm upon someone she considers family, even if Break started it in the first place by being generically terrible. It is the Umineko way.]
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[ Of course Ange wouldn't let him stick around in such a guise. It's why she can joke around about it in the first place.
At least she does let Break in on that too, instead of just dangling this eternal frog life above his head, waving a dismissive hand. ]
It should be fine though. My magic and her magic is technically the same - or close enough, at this point. [ Since Ange's magic did drift a little bit away from the exact kind of endless magic Beatrice uses, thanks to the influences in Trench. ] Which means that the worst possible fate for you would be being transformed back and forth between being a frog and being a human, kind of like that dress at the end of the movie where that one princess is very grossly awoken by a guy kissing her while she's asleep.
[ Of course that's the part of Sleeping Beauty Ange would opt to focus on, right. ]
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Like, if someone Break had met exactly once kissed him awake even if it was to fix a curse he'd absolutely punch them in the face and he's encouraged the Alices to do the same because any man worth anything will consider it charming. But still. That one is his favorite, so ow.
Much more importantly:]
...that won't do at all. Turning into a frog isn't nearly so cool as turning into a crow, especially if I'm not going about it on my own. I can't look that lame next to him when he's already got that scythe.
[Break dislikes Harbinger as a concept, honestly, but look. The damn thing's extra as hell and kids love that nonsense and Qrow is so professional at wielding it that you can't help but admire him and Break is not immune to any of that. His current mental image of Qrow being all amazing while he himself hops angrily along on the ground is very potent.]
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But, look. She just didn't expect Break to start about this out of nowhere. That's why it managed to genuinely catch her off guard so much.
Ange frowns, but then does indeed decide to continue with the same statement she was trying to make a moment ago. ]
You're considering eternally being stuck as a frog, and the first thing you think about is your boyfriend?
[ Sorry for saying the b-word in front of god and Break's newly created butt-shaped doorknobs.
But to be fair, she says it in front of Qrow just as easily. ]
That's so sappy. [ Pause. ] That's way too sappy.
[ Said as if she and Break don't share sap on the regular. ]
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[Unlike Qrow, Break is not afraid to say the b-word, and while he is respectful of said boyfriend's commitment allergies there is no reason to be coy about it when it's just himself and Ange just now and she said it first. As she well knows, sometimes Break is even inspired to be brave and say the L-word!! He is doing very well.]
The important bit is, if he were that much cooler than me I should never hear the end of it. He'd go flying about doing all kinds of bird tricks and he'd tease me terribly while I was stuck on the ground all hop-hop-hop. He already gets to be my hero far more often than I am his, so I really can't lose at the teasing, Miss Ange.
[This really isn't as bad as it could be. Break could be likewise plastering himself dramatically against the wall, on about how Qrow could never love a frog. Apparently looking dumb next to him is a much bigger problem.]
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[ THANKS, ANGE... GIRL...
It's not like she means it terribly badly though. It's just that she thinks Break is being a little dramatic here, though she can't quite figure out how much of that is on purpose and how much of it does have a center of truth in it. But just in case there is a bit of the latter, Ange doesn't fully grind this poor old man into the dust.
She does have a heart, after all. ]
But fine, fine. I can ask her to change you into something at least marginally cooler than a frog, so you won't have to feel so bad next to him. [ You know, like Beatrice would just cooperate with that when the intention is to punish Break for his Rasputin-related insolence in the first place. ] What animal were you thinking of?
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[Break says this with confidence and a prim sniff, as he pats his hands against his legs and rises into a leisurely stretch. Your posture gets a little funky when you are on the floor concentrating really hard on being a brat about other people's doorknobs, it turns out.]
You know, I've never really considered what sort of unsavory creature I might like an offended witch to turn me into? This is not a problem I have ever had in the past. [Trench sure does bring about new and exciting quandaries!] I'd make a terribly fetching weasel, I bet. You could make me a little doublet, like in the Redwall stories.
[...Break does consume media for grown-ups from time to time, but only when it isn't too explosive or depressing, so. Mostly his life is just musical princesses, talking animals, and Pride and Prejudice now.]
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If it helps, that's basically Ange's own daily life as well. ]
Sure. I'll make sure she'll turn you into a weasel.
[ It's said with the same kind of tone one may use for deciding the decorations in the elderly retirement home room a grandparent is being stuffed in.
What is an animal body, if not a very Trenchian elderly retirement home room. ]
With a doublet, if you want. And a fancy little hat. Do you think you might stand a chance next to Qrow like that?
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Oh, yes, I quite think so. Then, we can carry on with our usual bit wherein he's the rogue and I am the gentleman, and we can go about swindling people out of snacks together.
[Okay but Break does not mind the constant threat of curses from other witches because he regards this as superior to the constant threat of crossing paths with Vincent Nightray in the hallway and having to remember he exists.]