Kageyama Shigeo (
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Who: Mob, Viktor and others
What: december log catchall for my characters
When: december and potentially beyond
Where: around the trench
Content Warnings: in thread headers
What: december log catchall for my characters
When: december and potentially beyond
Where: around the trench
Content Warnings: in thread headers
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As she runs through the woods, new sights and smells invade her senses; unfortunately, she can't appreciate any of it, since she's still unused to her new form to the point that she trips and falls. For a moment, she's disoriented...but then she spots a familiar shape, someone who may in fact be responsible for what she's become.]
Mebh! [Robyn chases after the other wolf, following the new scent through a wall of vines to a cave behind a waterfall. She collides with the other wolf, and they fall into the darkness of the cave behind them.
The memory ends there, but Mob may hear a voice now--one that sounds as though it belongs to whoever this memory focused on.] Er...hello? Are you alright?
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he stands at the entrance to the cave, puzzled until he hears another voice, familiar at that. he turns to try to find it.] I'm okay.
... you're the wolf. Or the girl? [both?? that's the voice though.] Is... this your memory?
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That was the first time I left me body while asleep. It was...
[Strange, and more than a little bit frightening at the time. But she's since gotten used to it.]
How were you able to see that, anyway?
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[kind of cool? honestly? though he imagines alarming give, you know. everything he just saw.]
I'm not sure. I think the Trench is doing something weird. [when isn't it.] I'm kind of new, but everyone says sometimes you wake up to weird things.
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[She's still getting used to being more open about what she is to other people here, but since Mob saw her memory of the first night she left her body behind, she doesn't have much choice but to tell him.]
I haven't been here very long, either, but that's what everybody's told me, too. I didn't know you could see other people's memories, though.
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[that's the important thing to impart here.] It seemed pretty stressful though. [that too.]
I don't really understand it either. No one seems to find any of it that strange though.
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Most people are afraid of wolves where I'm from. If you're a wolf in a town, you're as good as dead. But it wasn't so bad once Mebh helped me get used to it.
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the bit about the town makes him nod though, a touch solemn when he says,] People really don't like things they don't understand sometimes. It's the same in my world. [and probably the trench for that matter.] I don't really see what's wrong with being a wolf sometimes though.
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They don't, do they? I kept tryin' to tell Father that we could let the wolves leave without havin' to kill them, but he wouldn't listen. A lot of adults are like that.
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and boy does he also agree with that, nodding quickly.] I think when people are scared they lash out. I guess when you're an adult it's harder to just say you're scared and don't know what to do.
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[There's a lot to being a wolf that Robyn has mostly gotten used to by now, though it's thanks to Mebh that she was able to learn how to do it at all.]
...he did tell me he was afraid. [It was during a rather tense moment between them, but it was still surprising for her to hear that her father really was afraid of losing her. Too bad his way of dealing with it only made her feel trapped and miserable.]
But even if you are afraid, you can't just stand by and let things happen.
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[not that he's going to self-reflect much on that.]
No, definitely not. I don't think it's good for the person lashing out either. They can't learn to change to be better if you don't stand up. [a pause] That must have been really hard to do if it was your father.
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[Thankfully her father learned just how stifling his behavior had been, but it was still a long time coming.]
If we both just kept doin' what we were told because we were too scared to do anythin' else, neither of us would be happy.
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My brother can be kind of protective like that. Not the same way, but I think the same idea. He gets really worried about things that can happen, things he imagines happening. It sounds like your dad was the same.
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[It wasn't until tensions were at their highest when they both realized what they needed to do to make things right.]
Well, things did turn out alright in the end. But it was hard. [Especially with a whole army out for your blood.]
Did you talk to your brother about that?
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Oh, well... a bit. [a glance to his hand.] Things have been a lot better than they were at least. [another pause and he looks up to ask,] Did something make your dad protective like that?
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[And ultimately, she and her father were both able to help Mebh in the end, which was what she'd promised Mebh earlier.]
...before Mother died, Father promised her he'd keep me safe. And after we had to move, he was scared of either of us bein' put in the stocks.
[Even with the threat of being arrested over their heads, though, she still couldn't live that kind of life.]
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Would... you have been in trouble for having this power? [that made sense too in a depressing way.]
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[Especially after she ran into Mebh and Mebh bit her by accident.]
Everybody in town was afraid of wolves. They caught Mebh's mother, and they wanted to kill her, too. Father almost did it, but I had to stop him.
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I don't understand, what did the wolves do? [he supposes a wolf is kind of scary if you run into one in the forest, but this seems pretty extreme to him.]
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[Farmland meant to feed the English who came over, not that Robyn really knows this.]
I wanted to help Mebh and the wolves leave the woods for somewhere safe before it was all cut down. I thought Father could help too, but he wouldn't listen.
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The um, the normal world and the weird side of the world, sometimes it seems really hard for them to live together. Maybe because they don't understand each other. [in this case the natural vs manmade, but that is beyond his level of critical thinking.]
What happened to the wolves in the end?
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[Robyn sometimes wonders if that's why most people don't normally see things like mermaids and fairies. After all, the Wolfwalkers turned out to be real where she's from, so who knows what other stories could be true?]
We left with them. All of us--me, Father, and Mebh and her mother. We got a wagon fixed up and went to find somewhere we could all live together.
[That's what she was doing before she ended up here in Trench, at least. And even if the future was uncertain for all of them, at least they'd have each other.]
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Just um, it'd be nice if that happened without all the drama and fighting. [a little exhale like a sigh there.
but! that answer has him lift his head, lips quirking.] That's great. Well, not that you had to leave, but that you got to be together.
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[She wasn't sure if her father could, but he overcame his own fears in the end.]
I don't think things would go well for us if we stayed. I didn't much like livin' there, anyway. [After all, the townsfolk were still afraid of wolves.]
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