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ange "the definition of chuunibyou" ushiromiya ([personal profile] entreats) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2023-03-13 08:29 pm

(open) you're looking at me like you don't know who i am

Who: Ange, Ruby, Break, and anyone who knows any of them.
What: Corruption turned Ange into a true Umineko witch who decided the best way to keep the people she loves safe from this town is to drag them into a pocket dimension.
When: For a while in March.
Where: Ange and Ruby's house-turned-small-pocket-dimension.

Content Warnings: Potential violence if anyone acts particularly antagonistic. Potential talk of violence or gore. Other warnings will be added when things pop up.



Perhaps you have seen Ruby's odd network post and decided to check things out. Or maybe you're just wandering around Trench and notice that Ange and Ruby's house suddenly looks.. different.

The house has been completely overgrown by way oversized roses, big thorns growing out of all the stems, completely obscuring the structure that's supposed to be underneath it. If you get close enough to the cluster of roses, you may feel your connection to any of the three people inside suddenly pull you in. (Please note: only people who know either Ange, Ruby or Break will be able to enter the pocket dimension because of this!)

If you give in to the sensation, everything around you might go black, and when the light returns, you seem to find yourself in.. a hedge maze. A rather odd one, though. As you stumble through it, you may suddenly find yourself in random rooms, and then back out of them into the hedge maze once more. The Moss King's wild plants seem to have even invaded corners of this place, so you might want to watch out you avoid having those snap at you. Retracing your steps through the labyrinth feels impossible, like the way is changing up behind you with every step. Some rooms make perfect sense - like a neat and elaborate kitchen, or a library - and others seem to consist of nonsense with stairs leading upside down or to nowhere, or gravity not working in a specific room at all.

Flying throughout the entire maze are golden butterflies. They seem to fly with direction, and if you follow them, you might find them leading you to one of the people you were looking for..
hauntedsavior: (⚡ the future told from cursed hands)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2023-04-03 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[it's funny. the first thought anna has when she realizes what's happening isn't a string of swears or a terrified mental yell or even the comedy option of "oh no, not again". no, what she thinks, and what gets transmitted through her bond, is the very simple this is how it should've happened. because by some mercy, ruby rose isn't trying to blind her—that spear is going straight through the thin fabric of her eyepatch and shattering the silverblack glass eye underneath.]

[there is a searing pain through her body, radiating from the socket. it's not a neat pierce. there's blood almost immediately as shards of glass dig into parts of her flesh that was never supposed to be injured. when she'd lost her eye the first time, it had been painful, but it had been clean, and it had been over quickly. here, now, she's present the whole time. her face feels warm and the pierced eyepatch is already turning red, she's sure of it.]

[all of these thoughts happen in a handful of seconds before she screams, the kind of anguish that she hadn't thought herself capable of in a long time. it sounds like the cry of a raven. it sounds like the reveille of an eternal war. she screams out ange's name, and she yells for her to stop, and her eye is fucking bleeding and what isn't red in her vision is blurred with tears. she tries rolling away too late, like that's going to do anything, and just gets her eyepatch caught on the spear and she can't even fucking tell if it's still in her eye or not because everything hurts, everything hurts. she cries out one more time, a blind plea to see if her sister is actually still in there.]


Call her off!
onekindsoul: (In waves of shame)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2023-04-03 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ruby hears the scream when her weapon connects and it resonates with her fractured soul- hits her to her core. Eye sight shifts over to check on Ange quickly- But then shifts back to Anna. She's hesitating for a moment- Not entirely sure what to do. Ange was in trouble- But that pain was clearly being caused by Anna, right? And not Anna being hurt like this of course, but for doubting what Ange was doing here. It was Anna- All the blood. All the pain. It was her fault this was happening.

That was it. That was it for sure. She knew it. She was doing her witches bidding, keeping her safe. Keeping her safe from anything that could hurt her.

She steps off Anna for a moment, but she's not done here. She reaches down and grabs for a handful of intruders hair and yanks her from the ground.]


Stop hurting her!

I warned you when you came here. Told you what would happen if you caused trouble.

This is all your fault.

[There's venom in her voice. As she drags Anna along the path- Eyes darting around until she finds the nearest door sticking out of the maze. With a brisk pace she quickly enters the room dragging Anna along with her into the darkness. The door slams shut with an ominous finality.]

A few moments later.

[What feels like an instant later. Ruby emerges from some bushes and distinctly not the door she had pulled Anna through. She's rushing to Ange's side scooping her up into her arms.]

I'm sorry- I'm sorry. I never should have let her come here. I shouldn't have let her hurt you.
hauntedsavior: (⚡ let the memories ignite)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2023-04-04 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[getting pulled up by her hair and dragged along with ruby rose is really just adding insult to injury. anna would think it was funny if she weren't leaving a trail of blood for anyone to follow. (it felt warm and sticky on her face as it dribbled past the eyepatch; she could hear it burbling through the hole in the center when the fabric got too thick with it.)]

[she's brought into the darkness of an unfamiliar room and she's still in so much pain that it's hard to even speak. her fingers are shaking, and as impotent as she is, she tries to reach up and at least remove the eyepatch. so she doesn't have to worry about one of her memories from home bleeding into another. ha. they're both gone now, aren't they? and what does she have left? a bloodstained t-shirt from a band that doesn't exist in trench. her katana, which isn't even hers. what else is there that she brought over from recollé when she washed up on the beach a year and a half ago?]

[she'll think more on that later. she won't have a choice depending on what her captor has planned for her. wordlessly, anna runs her hand through the trail of blood coming down her face and flicks it at ruby.]
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[personal profile] onekindsoul 2023-04-04 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[It would be a lie to say that Ruby didn't care about the mess of blood being left in the wake of her dragging Anna away. She cared a lot, it infuriated her. The fact that Anna had tarnished the perfect world that Ange had created for her. It wasn't something that she'd let slide.

It might be why the room Anna finds herself being dragged into isn't as perfectly decorated as the ones she had found for Penny, Oscar, or Blake. This one was cold, dank, with stone walls with manacles hanging from them. This didn't have the illusion of a guest room to protect the person inside it, it was clearly a dungeon to protect the people on the outside from Anna.

Ruby brings Anna to the middle of the room and drops her there. She turns to face her just in time for the blood to hit the tie of her uniform. The red glow of her eye adds a certain menace to the smile on her face in the darkness.

There's a snap of her finger and the manacles on the wall extend to clasp over each of Anna's wrists and ankles. Then pull back to lift her from the ground and force her to stand with outstretched hands.

Ruby's hand move to clean wipe the blood from her tie, but there's a dark splotch that won't come clean.]


You don't know when to stop, do you?
hauntedsavior: (⚡ the future told from cursed hands)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2023-04-04 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh, the manacles are a good touch. fun. cute. ruby rose couldn't possibly know anna's history with them here in trench, but that's not gonna stop her from blessing this witch's servant with a bit of education.]

Careful. [in the darkness, in the red glow of ruby's eye, she's smirking like she's got the upper hand.] The last person who chained me up like this, your golden witch blew up like a fucking piñata. [but that's an empty threat and one that really, really won't work here. she's still in pain, and her body just wants to pass out and give up, but if she does that, she loses. if she passes out, that's a victory for the girl who got so corrupted that she took out anna's artificial eye. and her sister.]

[she doesn't actively think this, but in the future she knows that she'll forgive ange and ruby for everything. they're corrupted. people do stupid, terrible shit when they're corrupted. it's the same as any mental illness and to blame the two of them for it wouldn't do anyone any good. in the moment, however, her smirk turns into a deranged smile.]


Why not take out the other one, you fucking pussy? Afraid of what might happen when Kainé finds out?
onekindsoul: (pic#15218825)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2023-04-04 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[If Ruby were in a normal state of mind her stomach might twist at the implication. Not Ange blowing someone up like a piñata. That completely within the realm of possibility here. But the fact that she might do something that could upset her. She was Ange's furniture, everything she did was to please and complete her Witch's will. Just like a Huntress should, she'd protect Ange with all she had in her.]

When that happened. You were her ally. You're anything but that at the moment.

[Spoken with absolute confidence regardless of how wrong it may be. She does consider the words gently.]

I'm not taking it out of respect to the relationship that you and my witch have shared in the past. Out of hope that you might change your mind and stop causing trouble for us.

But I'll crush anything or anyone who tries to cause harm to the world my witch has created.

[And she steps in to grab Anna by the collar of her shirt, not worried if it soaks her hand or sleeve in blood to do so.]

Whether it's the Pthumerians, whether it's you, or anyone else who decides to be a nuisance.
hauntedsavior: (⚡ did you cross the earth to be silent?)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2023-04-04 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[anna's not paying attention, or more accurately she's slipping in and out. head trauma has a way of doing that. the teeth on one side of her mouth are starting to turn red from the blood leaking into it, but she supposes everything's a little red in the light of the rose.]

[her head lolls back when ruby grabs her shirt, and she laughs thickly.]


All right, fine, I'll apologize. [her voice is weary, but the expression on her face isn't fading at all.] Sorry that I told Ange she's just making a dream bubble. Sorry that this is the one time I'm fucking right about something and nobody's listening to me. Sorry that I'm the one with the ruined eye and you're still blind to it all.
onekindsoul: (heart burst at the seams)

Cw: just a little but of torture. As a treat.

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2023-04-04 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[That. Was not the answer she was looking for, but perhaps she should have expected it.

She gives a snap of her free hand and the chains pull a little tighter. Not outright stretching limbs out of their socket but it’s certainly not a comfortable experience.]


Maybe you need a little time to think over and figure out what you should really be apologizing for.

[And she let’s go of Anna so that she can take a few steps back and dust herself off. Unfortunately the blood that’s been spilled wont come clean. But she turns to step out of the room regardless.]

I’ll check in on you later.
hauntedsavior: (⚡ let the memories ignite)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2023-04-04 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[anna groans as the bindings stretch and her arms and legs get even less comfortable to exist in. she knows that ruby is on her way out and that nothing she can say will actually stop her, so she takes the time to get a final jab in.]

Sorry for calling you a pussy! [a beat, like it matters. like ruby will listen to her. like this room isn't going to be her cell for however long it takes, and like she's not already getting too woozy to stand properly even without the restraints.] Pussies are stronger.
onekindsoul: (I promise)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2023-04-05 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ruby only draws Ange up closer into her arms when the other ragdolls in her grasp. There's an intense anger that something that could have hurt Ange boiling up inside her. She knows the danger has passed but that didn't mean there weren't wounds that would take time to heal. Of all things her witch- her wife didn't deserve it was this.]

It's nothing that you need to worry about.

She's gone now. She wont question or hurt you ever again. I promise.

[That was good, right? That Anna had been dealt with. Ruby carries Ange back toward her table and tea set. Clearly she just needed time to rest and recover. ...Even as the trail of blood from Ruby's outfit and arm gently trails along behind them.]
onekindsoul: (pic#15331913)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2023-04-07 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[The power Ange had bestowed Ruby boiled the more she lingered on the thought of what happened. Part of her wanted to go and take out that frustration out on the person who had caused Ange to feel like this.

But she knew her priority was here, at her witches side. So that might have to wait for another time.

She aches at the pain in Ange's voice and does her best to cradle her with all the support she can.]


It's because you cared for her.

It's because she knew that and she tried to use it against you.

[...If there were any screaming sirens that Ruby wasn't in her right mind. These were them.]
onekindsoul: (pic#15218813)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2023-04-09 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Where Ange might be realizing that something is very wrong with this situation, Ruby doesn't seem incredibly bothered by it. She had protected her witch, she was tending to her needs, she was doing everything that good furniture should do.

So when the question is brought to her attention, she just stares blankly for a moment. She appears to be thinking about it but there's no gears actually turning to process the question. It was one of those things that were just missing from at the moment.

Instead of any sort of heartfelt answer she'll smile sweetly and let her hands rest gently on Ange's shoulders.]


I'm not sure what you mean.

I was protecting you. Keeping you safe. Isn't that what good furniture does?

Did I not do the right thing?
onekindsoul: (pic#16381025)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2023-04-11 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[The last thing Ruby had wanted to do was cause Ange some sort of distress. She didn't see anything wrong with what she had said. ...But that was the point wasn't it?

She sees the fear pick up in her precious witch and she quickly moves to try and console her. She doesn't understand why she's apologizing? Why she's rejecting her the way she is. One bloody and one clean hand move to gently shake Ange before hugging her, and if that doesn't work trying to cradle her.]


No, no. You don't have to apologize for anything.

You did nothing wrong.

You gave me the strength to stand again. You built this world for us. You let me serve you faithfully- As your furniture?

[But had she been? Would good furniture have let her witch fallen into such shambles. Her own panic starts to build up. The butterflies start spilling out of Ange's mouth and she's not sure whether she could be clearing them- or shoving them back in as they're a part of Ange's powers.

She settles on clearing them out.]


If anyone has messed up here it's me. You're the golden witch. You're perfect in everyway. If something made you imperfect it's me because I couldn't serve you properly.