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deercountry2023-03-13 08:29 pm
entreats) wrote in 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..
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..
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And, wherever you decide to be, no matter the reason…I mean to be at your side.
[This may not have the effect Break is hoping for here. After all, he doesn't actually sound all that different from Ruby at the moment. To anyone outside the situation something like this would probably sound like more addled vows from brainwashed furniture.
Unlike Ruby, though, Break hasn't had to have any of his essence replaced in order to keep him alive. He does retain a great deal of his independence, and he’s thought long and hard about whether he'd be able to say this honestly. His conclusion is that it's a promise he can make. Of course there are things he would grieve if Ange did shut this place up for the three of them alone, chief among them the relationship he's built with Qrow. But he and Qrow have always agreed that they'd place family above all else, and it's not like Ange will go anywhere without Ruby.
Break will do what he can to ease Ange out of this before things get that far. If worse comes to worse and Qrow is left behind, however, his lover will want someone he trusts looking after the girls. So, here he is.]
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It's why they're sitting here together.
Or maybe it's just because Ange has higher expectations of Break than most people. Of course he wouldn't ever reject her, or hurt her as simply as so many people who have entered this world did. That's just how Break is. He stands by her side, no matter what happens.
She's left quiet for a moment or two as she seems to consider all of this, but then she speaks up again. ]
Yes, but.. you are also too smart to think this place is a prison in the first place.
[ Granted, Break grasping Ange's intentions and the right way to go about treating her while she is like this has a lot more to do with his understanding of her than general intelligence - but it's harder for Ange to see that while she is in this state. ]
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[Break is under no illusions about this, and says as much with a careless, unflinching shrug.]
Perhaps that's another thing complicating matters for them. To be dressed up so grandly, and to be so casual about having the power to craft whole dimensions…I wonder if the troublesome ones are seeing only the Golden Witch, and fretting over what she could do, if it suited her.
[He watches Ange carefully, to gauge how she'll take the notion that the people she loves could be frightened of her.]
Certainly I'm terribly clever. This time, however, I think it has more to do with experience. Knowing Miss Ange and the Golden Witch will always be one and the same, deep down, I’m not afraid of what you can do any more than you're afraid of the Red-Eyed Ghost.
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[ Apparently this is impossible for Ange to figure out, even in this form - or maybe especially in this form. But even outside of it, it wouldn't seem like as big of a deal to her. Isn't the proof in the pudding exactly in the way she treated Break when she found out about his past?
As far is concerned, all you need is faith in a person. Then little things like this don't matter.
Though, if she were to follow that thread of logic..
Ange's finger moves across the rim of a teacup. ]
Doesn't that then mean that no one trusts me the way you do? [ If even her own friends aren't able to see the obvious truth the way Break does. ]
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[There's no reason to deny that the sense of trust Break has in Ange is different. It is. But it's because Break has a clearer idea of the directions Ange leans in, even corrupted. Perhaps especially corrupted. However, that's certainly not to say that the trust others have in her does not exist at all.]
After all, the friends you've made tend to be hero types, right? Helpers. Since that's the case, even if they aren't able to see eye to eye with you just now...if I had to hazard a guess, probably they aren't thinking "Ange is wrong".
[Break takes a sip of his tea.]
Rather, they're probably thinking something like, "To give up on a whole world this way...Ange must be very hurt."
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Break's luck lies in the fact that he's quick to move on to something else, or rather a different angle on the same thing. It makes Ange's mind move right along before the witch can throw any sort of tantrum over here, even if she still doesn't exactly look happy. ]
Of course. I'm hurt. I'm tired of Trench.
[ She made that very clear to everyone. And she knows that Break knows that almost more than anyone else. ]
If they want to help me so bad, couldn't they help with this world? What good would it do them to drag me kicking and screaming out of here?
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[If it is necessary to drag Ange kicking and screaming, it will mean she is still corrupted, and thus nothing will be accomplished! The ideal will be for Ange to make the decision to back down on her own — and, Break is realizing, that's going to require a group effort. He's never going to be able to bring her around on his own, with his valiant knightly words.
Break is not especially put out by this. She may not be halfway to beasthood this time, but her condition is very clearly much worse, a result of multiple traumas all building up over time rather than the one trigger of the house fire. It's no surprise at all, then, that it might likewise take multiple appeals to help her heal.
Which means his effort will be better spent catching her other friends before a Ruby does, and manipulating them as best he can into being a little less obnoxiously heroic.]
Perhaps you might leave the barrier open just a little longer…? I'll see if I can't bring some of them around on your behalf. Dear Qrow's gone off to brood about something or other, too, so I'll want to go catch him properly before you close us off for good.
[He is not at all above using his boyfriend to play the "do it for meeeeeeeee" card.]
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[ Thankfully this card is extremely powerful to use on Ange. It's extremely powerful when it's Break, anyway. Even if he wouldn't be laying it on thick, the girl just wouldn't be able to resist granting his wish.
Sure, keeping the barrier open for longer is a risk, but not a big enough risk that she doesn't feel confident in granting his wish for a little while longer all the same.
Hence why she says it, seemingly even without having to think about it - just going by her reaction speed, anyway. ]
Just.. [ For a moment she pauses, and there's something a little more vulnerable in her gaze, even if the girl - the witch - would not own up to it right now. ] .. don't leave for too long?
[ Especially if he's going to chase after Qrow. It's not something she'd deny him, but the idea of him potentially leaving this place even for a little bit is scary in its own way. What if the Pthumerians try to keep them there, having caught on to her plan? ]
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[He is teasing, but it would probably work.
He himself is not worried about getting stuck outside. He can find allies out there too if he must, and it's not as though he hasn't been skipping around between dimensions he shouldn't have been able to access half his life. With this strange link to Ange and her magic intact, he has no reason to believe he couldn't rip another hole between the other reality and hers if he really needed to.
Hopefully, they won't have to test that.]