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Entry tags:
- *event,
- ahiru: timmy,
- anakin skywalker: michele,
- ange ushiromiya: jelle,
- anna amarande: celene,
- ariadne: wizera,
- cassandra: drizz,
- chara: kai,
- darth maul: shade,
- darth nox: saint,
- fat billie: lucy,
- glitch: ceej,
- izuku "deku" midoriya: tea,
- lance: charley,
- luna lovegood: cheryl,
- luz noceda: pedro,
- makoto kino: mesi,
- manabu yuuki: elle,
- mebh og mactire: oggy,
- minako aino: fay,
- nehan: ray,
- obi-wan kenobi: timmy,
- orpheus: qv,
- palamedes sextus: laura,
- paul atreides: beth,
- peter graham: jhey,
- reaper: vette,
- rose da silva: jhey,
- savage opress: vette,
- scorpia: gore,
- snow white: jax,
- soldier blue: elle,
- stiles stilinski: charley,
- varian: tf,
- willow rosenberg: lucy,
- wu: mads,
- yuri lowell: mads
I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't
DECEMBER 2021 EVENT
WINTER MOURNING
RUN, RABBIT, RUN
LOCKJOINT
CODING
Hello! We are trying a new style of event this December with archival-like entries that characters can ICly find in the Archives. This should allow characters to be able to plan against certain events that occur in-game and do research ahead of time, during the event, or after the fact.
The idea is that these prompts will provide you with all the possibilities characters could theoretically face from the prompt. We hope this leaves more open-ended opportunities for people to engage with. Anything mentioned in the excerpts could be an experience characters encounter. You can always ask for clarification on any prompt on the plotting page.
This is a way to keep all event prompts relevant since new characters would be able to "read up" on these events/excerpts by visiting the Archives or other such resources for information about past events and what they can anticipate from the setting.
We hope this new style makes sense and is fun for players to work with! They will rely on players creating more of the atmosphere than the prompts, but we think that the prompts will provide the perfect guidance as to what the atmosphere should feel like. Enjoy!
IMAGE DESCRIPTORS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Prompt One
[Image One: Holiday themed antler decoration.]
[Image Two: White stag with perfect, circular antlers with bits of ice attached.]
Prompt Two
[Image One: Sculpture of white rabbit with neck caught in a snare. Non-graphic.]
[Image Two: Person in red cloak and wolf mask turning around.]
Prompt Three
[Image One: Puppet making bloody snow angel in snow.]
[Image Two: Bloodied hands wrapped in bandages clenching.]
The idea is that these prompts will provide you with all the possibilities characters could theoretically face from the prompt. We hope this leaves more open-ended opportunities for people to engage with. Anything mentioned in the excerpts could be an experience characters encounter. You can always ask for clarification on any prompt on the plotting page.
This is a way to keep all event prompts relevant since new characters would be able to "read up" on these events/excerpts by visiting the Archives or other such resources for information about past events and what they can anticipate from the setting.
We hope this new style makes sense and is fun for players to work with! They will rely on players creating more of the atmosphere than the prompts, but we think that the prompts will provide the perfect guidance as to what the atmosphere should feel like. Enjoy!
Prompt One
[Image One: Holiday themed antler decoration.]
[Image Two: White stag with perfect, circular antlers with bits of ice attached.]
Prompt Two
[Image One: Sculpture of white rabbit with neck caught in a snare. Non-graphic.]
[Image Two: Person in red cloak and wolf mask turning around.]
Prompt Three
[Image One: Puppet making bloody snow angel in snow.]
[Image Two: Bloodied hands wrapped in bandages clenching.]
WHEN: Begins in December and can last until the end of Feb.
WHERE: Everywhere
CONTENT WARNINGS: Spoilers for various canons, survival situations, forced memory share
WHERE: Everywhere
CONTENT WARNINGS: Spoilers for various canons, survival situations, forced memory share
[A passage from Rituals of Trench: Remembering Our Pasts reads the following:]
"A long-standing tradition to celebrate Bone Season is for Deerians to collect antlers and bones salvaged from natural resources and create decorative home accents. These antler-bone decors are known formally as Winter Mournings and can be found in almost every residential home throughout Deer Country. Winter Mournings can be made to look like wreaths, candle holders, or simply an antler with a bow hung up on a wall.
Winter Mournings is seen as a way to honor one's past tribulations and how one has managed to survive and overcome hardships during their life. Winter Mournings serves as a testament to survival and a willingness to keep surviving even when things look bleak and dismal.
Creating Winter Mournings is considered a blessing to the Pthumerians Dorothea, Remina, and Argonaut. You will know if the blessing was accepted once your Winter Mourning begins to glow like the moon. Touch your Winter Mourning and you will be pulled back in time to a memory of a specific time when you or someone else had to survive something physically or mentally challenging. For some, it is merely a memory that cannot hurt, but for others, you may want to proceed with caution as it has been known to pull people physically back to times of war.
One cannot choose which memory they wind up in if it is their own, a friend's, or a complete stranger's. Winter Mournings was designed to create a sense of union and empathy among residents and is meant to open your mind and heart to those who have suffered around you. It is time you explore your past, or someone else's past, with an open mind and see how the other side has lived through hard times. These memories are known to be from adolescence, adulthood, or sometimes even futures that have not yet happened or timelines you have never known. After all, Remina sees all past and all history. That means they see all of your past and history too.
No memory lasts forever though. Once the memory has been concluded, you shall be brought back to the present by the Winter Mourning Stag: a great white beast with a circle of frozen antlers. It will come to you when the time is ready, and you will return to the present like waking from a dazzling dream.
Experiencing Winter Mournings can stabilize one's mood and provide restful sleep after, even if the memories may be difficult to swallow. It truly is a tribute to honor past horrors and traumas. Some memories are painful to remember, but forgetting them will never do anyone any good either. So hang your Winter Mournings and remember what matters.
Survive another day. You are worth it."
FAQ
"A long-standing tradition to celebrate Bone Season is for Deerians to collect antlers and bones salvaged from natural resources and create decorative home accents. These antler-bone decors are known formally as Winter Mournings and can be found in almost every residential home throughout Deer Country. Winter Mournings can be made to look like wreaths, candle holders, or simply an antler with a bow hung up on a wall.
Winter Mournings is seen as a way to honor one's past tribulations and how one has managed to survive and overcome hardships during their life. Winter Mournings serves as a testament to survival and a willingness to keep surviving even when things look bleak and dismal.
Creating Winter Mournings is considered a blessing to the Pthumerians Dorothea, Remina, and Argonaut. You will know if the blessing was accepted once your Winter Mourning begins to glow like the moon. Touch your Winter Mourning and you will be pulled back in time to a memory of a specific time when you or someone else had to survive something physically or mentally challenging. For some, it is merely a memory that cannot hurt, but for others, you may want to proceed with caution as it has been known to pull people physically back to times of war.
One cannot choose which memory they wind up in if it is their own, a friend's, or a complete stranger's. Winter Mournings was designed to create a sense of union and empathy among residents and is meant to open your mind and heart to those who have suffered around you. It is time you explore your past, or someone else's past, with an open mind and see how the other side has lived through hard times. These memories are known to be from adolescence, adulthood, or sometimes even futures that have not yet happened or timelines you have never known. After all, Remina sees all past and all history. That means they see all of your past and history too.
No memory lasts forever though. Once the memory has been concluded, you shall be brought back to the present by the Winter Mourning Stag: a great white beast with a circle of frozen antlers. It will come to you when the time is ready, and you will return to the present like waking from a dazzling dream.
Experiencing Winter Mournings can stabilize one's mood and provide restful sleep after, even if the memories may be difficult to swallow. It truly is a tribute to honor past horrors and traumas. Some memories are painful to remember, but forgetting them will never do anyone any good either. So hang your Winter Mournings and remember what matters.
Survive another day. You are worth it."
FAQ
1. Winter Mournings can produce new memories every time you touch them or the same memory.
2. Characters cannot choose what the memory is.
3. Characters can arrive in each other's memories regardless of if they already know each other. Multiple people can experience the same memory.
4. You can either experience the memory as a memory you can't touch or experience - or you can physically be in the memory and have to survive the situation as well. If you die in memory, your body will die wherever you had been touching the Winter Mourning.
5. Palebloods are capable of altering memories or how they or others experience memories.
6. Characters can be pulled into memories at random - as long as one of the characters in the memory share is touching a Winter Mourning at first.
WHEN: Month of December
WHERE: Everywhere/the woods
CONTENT WARNINGS: Themes of hunting, ghosts, curses, attempts at animal violence, hunting people based on blood types.
WHERE: Everywhere/the woods
CONTENT WARNINGS: Themes of hunting, ghosts, curses, attempts at animal violence, hunting people based on blood types.
[An excerpt from Legends of Trench: Curses and Causations reads the following:]
"One of the most notorious legends of Trench is without a doubt the tale of The Huntress and the Hare. Most Trenchies have been told this tale since they were children, but for those unfamiliar, settle in.
This story begins with a mischievous god and an ambitious huntress. The Pthumerian Dorothea loved to play tricks on hunters trying to survive the Bone Season, setting animals free from traps and remaking the traps to catch the hunters instead. One day, a darkblood Huntress was fed up with Dorothea preventing her from catching food for her family and decided to settle the score. The Huntress began to hunt for Dorothea specifically, but it is no small feat hunting the god of trickery and survival.
The Huntress started to rely on her darkblood powers to alter reality to make the perfect traps. Innocuous trees turned into glue traps that anyone would stick to until they were freed by a darkblood or death took their pain from them. Walking through bushes would snag legs and necks, effectively trapping whatever creatures were unfortunate enough to wander for food. Magical snares and beartraps lock around victims with unrelenting force, leaving people and animals to try for help until they cry no more. While this took many innocent lives in the woods, animals, and people alike, it never seemed to work on Dorothea.
Dorothea continued to outwit the Huntress until she eventually drove the Huntress insane. The Huntress died without ever catching Dorothea, but they say her vengeful spirit awakens in winter and begins to set her traps yet again. The Huntress sends her traps and her dead animals after vilebloods and warmbloods to spite Dorothea and hope to maybe catch the god's attention. But Dorothea is no passive god. Dorothea spurs vilebloods and warmbloods to defend themselves against darkbloods and coldbloods.
Infamously, this has created enormous tension between the blood types during December some years, and it is said that the blood lust has caused the types to begin hunting one another regardless of old friendships and alliances. Beware the Huntress's curse. Some believe darkbloods and coldbloods can still hear her haunting commands and cries from the Trenchwood.
They say there is no ease for the tension between the bloodtypes until December has passed, but some believe palebloods may provide relief if they are willing."
FAQ
"One of the most notorious legends of Trench is without a doubt the tale of The Huntress and the Hare. Most Trenchies have been told this tale since they were children, but for those unfamiliar, settle in.
This story begins with a mischievous god and an ambitious huntress. The Pthumerian Dorothea loved to play tricks on hunters trying to survive the Bone Season, setting animals free from traps and remaking the traps to catch the hunters instead. One day, a darkblood Huntress was fed up with Dorothea preventing her from catching food for her family and decided to settle the score. The Huntress began to hunt for Dorothea specifically, but it is no small feat hunting the god of trickery and survival.
The Huntress started to rely on her darkblood powers to alter reality to make the perfect traps. Innocuous trees turned into glue traps that anyone would stick to until they were freed by a darkblood or death took their pain from them. Walking through bushes would snag legs and necks, effectively trapping whatever creatures were unfortunate enough to wander for food. Magical snares and beartraps lock around victims with unrelenting force, leaving people and animals to try for help until they cry no more. While this took many innocent lives in the woods, animals, and people alike, it never seemed to work on Dorothea.
Dorothea continued to outwit the Huntress until she eventually drove the Huntress insane. The Huntress died without ever catching Dorothea, but they say her vengeful spirit awakens in winter and begins to set her traps yet again. The Huntress sends her traps and her dead animals after vilebloods and warmbloods to spite Dorothea and hope to maybe catch the god's attention. But Dorothea is no passive god. Dorothea spurs vilebloods and warmbloods to defend themselves against darkbloods and coldbloods.
Infamously, this has created enormous tension between the blood types during December some years, and it is said that the blood lust has caused the types to begin hunting one another regardless of old friendships and alliances. Beware the Huntress's curse. Some believe darkbloods and coldbloods can still hear her haunting commands and cries from the Trenchwood.
They say there is no ease for the tension between the bloodtypes until December has passed, but some believe palebloods may provide relief if they are willing."
FAQ
1. Characters will increasingly feel the urge to actively hunt one another using traps/etc.
2. The Huntress's curse includes undead animals/beasts chasing after warmbloods and vilebloods and magical traps. Players can invent unique traps for their characters.
3. There will be an innate urge to chase/hide from one another.
4. The curse can be broken by paleblood intervention, character death, or a gradual wearing off by the end of the month.
WHEN: All of Bone Season
WHERE: On Sleeper bodies
CONTENT WARNINGS: Mild body horror, blood magic curses, physical curses, cures through blood ministration/blood letting, possible skin removal, injuries, possible death via starvation/exposure.
WHERE: On Sleeper bodies
CONTENT WARNINGS: Mild body horror, blood magic curses, physical curses, cures through blood ministration/blood letting, possible skin removal, injuries, possible death via starvation/exposure.
[An passage from The Sleeper Condition; Chapter 13: Bodily Aches and More. Found exclusively at the Lumenarium:]
"Generally speaking, Sleeper blood allows Sleepers to navigate this world without the fear of illness and disease. However, no organic body is perfect, and Sleeper blood has its own set of ailments to fret over. Blood Ministers have studied the phenomena of Lockjoint for years now and believe that it is linked to the crystalization found in Sleeper death, though the exact connection remains unknown.
Lockjoint tends to begin and last throughout Bone Season. Some Sleepers may never experience it, but for many, it becomes a reoccurring issue to dread each season. This condition forces blood magic to gather at the joints and effectively lock up. Sleepers find it difficult to move their bodies at the bends, fingers, knees, shoulders, etc without some form of discomfort. Minimal lockjoint can be painful and annoyance, but critical lockjoint can be fatal.
The most severe cases of lockjoint documented have shown Sleepers to have crystalization form over their joints, rendering parts of their bodies completely immobile. Some Sleepers have been found dead in this condition, all their joints crystallized, and it is believed most died from natural causes thereafter.
One can determine they are experiencing lockjoint when the coloration around the joints begins to darken in color, typically looking like a bruise. Calcification may occur rapidly the more magic a Sleeper uses or the more they expose themselves to outside elements. It is imperative that Sleepers remain properly clothed during Bone Season, even if they are coldbloods, and to invest in enchanted clothes that can lock in heat.
A known cure for lockjoint is the art of bloodletting. Puncturing the joints with small incisions seems to allow a release of the built-up magic and can provide immediate relief to the Sleeper. Catching lockjoint early is imperative. Alternative methods are soaking in hot springs and salted water.
Those who are in a more severe state will have to carefully have the crystals removed. This will likely remove the skin as well. Local anesthesia is highly recommended for the procedure. This process is known to leave scarring. The crystals can be saved and used as bloodstones from whoever they were harvested from. If you find a Sleeper dead from lockjoint, make sure to harvest the crystals as they are incredibly valuable.
This curse is believed to stem from Sleeper blood magic congealing within the body in contrast with the atmospheric magic of Bone Season. There is no known prevention for lockjoint. Lockjoint can impact all Sleepers regardless of bloodtype or the material their bodies are made from."
FAQ
"Generally speaking, Sleeper blood allows Sleepers to navigate this world without the fear of illness and disease. However, no organic body is perfect, and Sleeper blood has its own set of ailments to fret over. Blood Ministers have studied the phenomena of Lockjoint for years now and believe that it is linked to the crystalization found in Sleeper death, though the exact connection remains unknown.
Lockjoint tends to begin and last throughout Bone Season. Some Sleepers may never experience it, but for many, it becomes a reoccurring issue to dread each season. This condition forces blood magic to gather at the joints and effectively lock up. Sleepers find it difficult to move their bodies at the bends, fingers, knees, shoulders, etc without some form of discomfort. Minimal lockjoint can be painful and annoyance, but critical lockjoint can be fatal.
The most severe cases of lockjoint documented have shown Sleepers to have crystalization form over their joints, rendering parts of their bodies completely immobile. Some Sleepers have been found dead in this condition, all their joints crystallized, and it is believed most died from natural causes thereafter.
One can determine they are experiencing lockjoint when the coloration around the joints begins to darken in color, typically looking like a bruise. Calcification may occur rapidly the more magic a Sleeper uses or the more they expose themselves to outside elements. It is imperative that Sleepers remain properly clothed during Bone Season, even if they are coldbloods, and to invest in enchanted clothes that can lock in heat.
A known cure for lockjoint is the art of bloodletting. Puncturing the joints with small incisions seems to allow a release of the built-up magic and can provide immediate relief to the Sleeper. Catching lockjoint early is imperative. Alternative methods are soaking in hot springs and salted water.
Those who are in a more severe state will have to carefully have the crystals removed. This will likely remove the skin as well. Local anesthesia is highly recommended for the procedure. This process is known to leave scarring. The crystals can be saved and used as bloodstones from whoever they were harvested from. If you find a Sleeper dead from lockjoint, make sure to harvest the crystals as they are incredibly valuable.
This curse is believed to stem from Sleeper blood magic congealing within the body in contrast with the atmospheric magic of Bone Season. There is no known prevention for lockjoint. Lockjoint can impact all Sleepers regardless of bloodtype or the material their bodies are made from."
FAQ
1. This impacts characters regardless of blood type or their body - meaning it can impact characters with metal/plastic/plant/wood/etc bodies.
2. Players can choose how rapid or severe this gets and how quickly they can be healed.
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Luz had been seeing a lot of people getting together in Deerington and Trench, and not having that someone she cared about in that way was more of a double-edged sword reminding her she chose to be here.
"I believe you. But it's not like I can do anything about it now, is there?"
She could remember that night though, and she did. Often.
"I can tell that much," Luz said softly. "Come on. Talk to me."
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And in the meantime, he plans to use this knowledge to his own profit because it's fun to be able to mock someone else's love life for a change. He grimaces a little, shifting uneasily.
"I...Luz, I honestly don't even know where to start. It's... look, it's fine," it blatantly is not fine. "I just need to find the right piece of research and I'll be able to stop it before it gets...worse."
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Luz realized there was some selfishness in wanting Amity here, same as there was for wanting Eda to come back. At the same time, Luz had begun to realize that she really, really wanted to see Amity now. She wanted to see her so bad that she wouldn't have even minded Varian's teasing. Mostly.
"It isn't fine, Varian! You should at least be lying down and lighting incense since I know you won't meditate! You're even more corrupted than I was!"
Oops, she had not meant to let that bit of information out.
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It's a complicated matter, really. He raises his hands as she starts to insist on him taking better care of himself, in actually dealing with his corruption when she goes and says that and he swiftly switches tracks.
"What? What do you mean more than you were? You were corrupted?"
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And now Luz has mistakenly put the spotlight on her. Drat.
"Varian I...I was in the farm a few times. They even got into me. You know. I got lucky. Some people, like Wesker, they didn't get out in one piece. I just got some scarring and some corruption. I've been meditating pretty hard after though and staying indoors."
It mostly helped, but certainly didn't emotionally fix anything for her.
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Drat so much. He knew she was in the farm- hard to miss that, but he didn't know how much. Or how badly it hurt her. Which was stupid, he knew how badly she'd taken being kidnapped, tortured before. Of course, this would hit her hard again. Guilt surges in his chest- and the familiar orange of amber creeps into his field of vision with it. He tries to ignore it- he knows it's a hallucination, he knows it's not there.
"No that's- that's not lucky. That's-" oh god, how did he miss it. "Are you corrupted now? Are you hurt? Oh...oh geez, I didn't even ask, I'm sorry."
Just like he missed how badly Usagi had been suffering, how badly Fern had been.
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Granted Luz had become pretty used to them now, so they didn't even bother her as much as they could have. Besides, she had plenty of other things to think about, as Varian was beginning to understand.
"Varian, I'm alive. I could have been taken apart. Am I corrupted now? A little bit. I told you, I've been trying to stay indoors and slowly work through it. I'm not a hundred percent, but I can at least hide some of the changes. Am I hurt? Not right now, but, well..."
Luz turned her back to him and lifted her shirt up. At her back were several deep imprints of where they had taken blood from Luz, ugly marks that were definitely not going away.
"I wanted you to know as much as you wanted ME to know about you. But I went through the farm! What's happened to you, that it progressed so badly?"
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Because that's a whole other strain of guilt for him, Luz carrying too much for the house. The scars left by the Farm on Luz's back does very little to ease the guilt. He thinks about the numerous scars he's got from his time here, how that sort of thing can hurt much deeper than the scars themselves.
"That's not good, Luz! That's...those are awful! And I didn't know it was that bad and that- that's the sort of thing that's causing the problems."
'The problems' being his own corruption. He closes his eyes, willing away the images in his periphery. They're not real, they're not there.
"I just- I keep not seeing how badly you guys are suffering," he knows, at least, what snowballing mess is getting him here. "Usagi is corrupting, Fern was so badly hurt when the moonflowers died, Shiro's been shoving himself into...into danger all the time and-and now here you are and you've been through hell too. So many people I care about are hurting and I didn't even realise. What sort of person does that make me?"
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The most impossible thing to ask Varian, obviously.
"No, they weren't good. The first time I was there was bad enough, trying to escape and all. But the second time was probably one of the worst experiences I've ever had. I couldn't do anything but stay there and they took my blood. Thank Rose Da Silva for getting me out. I was a bit of a mess."
That was honestly putting it mildly.
"But I lived, and I didn't die. Varian, sometimes this place doesn't give you a chance to breathe, and you have to try and push some of that trauma to the side. It's not healthy, but you can't...you can't let it rule you. If it does, well, I've seen enough media to know I don't want it to happen to either of us."
At the mention of Usagi, Luz winced. "All of us have our something. Look, Varian, just poke your head out of your room and check on us, I promise you that I'll keep you updated! Besides, if you think you're a bad person for not checking up on me, how do you think I feel seeing you like this?"
Luz said this jokingly, but she absolutely did feel awful about it. She definitely was not happy to hear Usagi was corrupting. That poor girl had really been through enough.
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"...I meant more around the house than my own workstation, that's- it's organised chaos. It's fine how it is."
Obviously, the actual health hazard is totally fine and a-ok. Obviously. As she speaks, he looks increasingly uncomfortable- because he knows she's right. He's shoving his trauma down as hard as he can and pushing forward all the feelings of inadequacy, of not being enough for the people he loves.
"It doesn't matter if you didn't die, it still hurt you. It still added some corruption to you."
And he's so scared of that getting worse. Of Luz being sicker. He frowns at the floor.
"...Maybe. Sorry, I didn't mean to worry you, I just- I don't know. Everything's a lot right now. I got Maul to put me to sleep because I thought that might help? It did before. But it...that didn't work this time."
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"Is it really though? You haven't stubbed your toe, or sat on a few screws or stumbled around in the dark? I'm skeptical."
As for the other stuff, while meditating Luz has had to have a good, long look at herself. Between all of the craziness and chaos, she was at least hoping she could at least calm her corruption and cope. Still wasn't quite sure how it was all working out.
"I know it did, but I'm trying to deal. It's not easy. There's always crazy stuff happening around here and I keep finding out worst things about my friends. It's been hard."
And seeing him like this? Not helping.
"Trust me, it IS a lot. But I want to make sure that you're not in danger of being corrupted yourself! Let me make you some tea, we'll light some incense, maybe watch a comfort movie. We'll work on this, one thing at a time."
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It really is very cave-like down there. He does let out a long, slow breath at her comment.
"Yeah, you're so right there. Like...I know we're supposed to take it easy to try and fix it, but how can we do that when this place is going insane every few weeks?"
And, naturally, feeding into each other's own corruption. Like a horrible trauma feedback loop.
"Okay, okay," he really wants to bury himself in his work, avoid this completely- but he knows she's right. "We can give that a try. Who knows it might help?"
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Take THAT, Varian! Counter!
"You're the smart guy, you tell me! I'm trying to keep busy with chores, my part time job and meditating a few times a day. It helps, just slowly. Sometimes it helps to just stay home."
Sometimes being the key word and absolutely not something Luz can comfortably do.
"Good."
On top of all the bad things, the idea that she might be missing out on bonding time and not noticing him getting corrupt was already weighing on Luz slightly. "I'll make us the tea and the popcorn. You can even pick out the movie."
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Can he though?
"...I guess. But I don't know, I've been distracting myself by helping the new people out of the ice, but I don't think it's...helping as much as I hoped."
At least he can admit his attempts to calm himself are...pretty much failing. Frustrating as that fact is.
"Hah, it's okay, give me a selection to pick from, because I only know like...five entire movies, Luz."
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He's not getting away with that one, thank you.
Luz smiled. "Good. I go there too, you know, to give people a hand. I guess we're a little similar like that. But I think unless you're actually sitting down and trying to calm yourself down, it's not going to work out as well as you think."
Luz was not surprised, but she was definitely concerned.
"Oh, well, we are heading into the holiday season, aren't we? There are a few me and mom loved to watch.Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer is a cute one, if a little dated and insensitive in some moments! All about a misfit and his friend trying to find their way in the world. Oh! There's Scrooged a sort of retelling of the Old Christmas Carol story but set in the eighties where your Scrooge character is the super worst, but they have the best ghost of Christmas Present in my opinion. Hmm. Oh, Polar Express if you like whimsy and nightmarish motion capture. Home Alone if you want to see a kid cruel punish thieves trying to rob him. And then there's my favorite, It's A Wonderful Life, about a guy who makes a difference in people's lives without realizing how much he's done until he's about to kill himself. Take your pick!"
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He's going to listen to this list. Tragically, he's before even the old Christmas carol story so it means nothing to him. Or motion capture. He kind of stares into the middle distance for a while there.
"...Okay but is the future okay? Like... nightmarish, cruelty and suicide don't really sound like the spirit of Christmas."
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Luz really wished it did, but distractions tended to make things worse, not better.
"Varian, compared to what other people have told me about their</i< future, I think you can handle some movies. Besides, sometimes people have to go through some dark stuff so they can really appreciate the stuff they DO have. That's a common theme to a lot of different stories."
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People around him (particularly his dad) a little less so, but there you go.
"...But I guess narratively speaking it works out."
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Luz listened quietly, now very attentive.
"Tell me about it then."