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"Can Cry" Mod Account ([personal profile] cancrymods) wrote in [community profile] cancry2020-07-31 08:27 pm

introductions

It comes to you suddenly, at the end of an unravelling thread of thought. A sudden, piercing sense of wrongness stops you in your tracks and sends you tumbling through rapidfire questions that you realize you have no answer for. How long have you been here? How long have you been doing the same things, over and over, blindly going through the motions of a routine? Just who are you, anyway?

Questions beget more questions and answers prove illusive until you arrive at the only things you know for certain: the first is that this place is Purgatory.

The second is that you're here because you're dead.

Oddly, this doesn't feel like a surprise of any sort. You don't remember how or why it happened, but it did and that's that. It feels rather as though you've been slapped awake and everything around you has come into sharp focus. You're in Limbo, where you've been wandering since you arrived here in Purgatory alongside all the other mindless souls who are acting out what little they remember of their original lives.

Still lingering is that horrible sense of something being terribly wrong. It hasn't dissipated with your realization of the truth – if anything, it's intensified. There's no way to tell what it is, but there's something going on here.

Maybe you should investigate – or at least see if there's anyone else here who's had the same realization as you...

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seasharp: (auf dem flusse)

[personal profile] seasharp 2020-08-01 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[She wants to insist that she's got it, she can get herself back up, but...

...Well, it's okay to just offer a little bit of support, right? It'd be rude not to use this. She pulls herself back up without too much.]


Ah... um... [Then she finds herself looking up, as she re-situates herself back up on the path. Oh. Hello, very... tall... person?] Thanks...
beknights: into flame (sacrificed)

[personal profile] beknights 2020-08-01 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ They crane their head to observe her. While they wouldn't know what to do if she was injured, it's another instinct left over. To check if someone is 'fine', that they have no injuries, because injuries mean more to others than it does to them.

They find nothing. They give her a small nod, a little dip of their head, and release their grip on her hand. After that...now what? They're at a little bit of a loss, it seems.
]
seasharp: (voices of spring)

[personal profile] seasharp 2020-08-01 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Ariel just stares. She might as well be drilling holes into their eyes with her stare, honestly, but, well. This is all a lot.

This is kind of awkward, actually. Maybe something to break the ice!]


...So, do you usually go around rescuing maidens, or am I special?
beknights: (a knight comes along as i wait)

[personal profile] beknights 2020-08-01 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ They stare right back!! Mostly because they don't know what else to do and they were taught, somewhere, that eye contact is polite and proper.

Oh that's a question. Hmm. This seems like a tough one.
]

« Helping others in need is
responsibility. A duty.
»

[ It's just...a thing. They do it because...it feels wrong not to do it. Because why not? It's an instinct, something instilled. ]
seasharp: (the rite of spring)

[personal profile] seasharp 2020-08-01 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I see, I see.

[She visibly brightens at that, nodding sagely with a big smile.]

I totally get how you feel! Like you've just gotta help someone, right? Well, I guess that makes you the heroic type, hm?
beknights: into flame (sacrificed)

[personal profile] beknights 2020-08-01 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ That sounds...right? It sounds at least somewhat correct, so they nod. Yes, they feel like they should help, even if it might be difficult.

Heroic, though...They're not sure. There's some uncertainty about the word. They don't know where it comes from, like most things.
]

« You are also heroic? »

[ She did say she understood how they felt. That strikes a chord in them, somehow...the yearning to be understood. ]
seasharp: (die ideale)

[personal profile] seasharp 2020-08-01 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? [Oh, she did kind of imply that, didn't she?] Well, hm... Is it okay to describe myself like that, I wonder? I don't wanna sound conceited or anything.

[A hero, though... She doesn't know why, but she really likes the sound of that.]

But, wanting to help people and save those in need... Hm, it just feels right! So I guess so, yeah!
beknights: (a knight comes along as i wait)

[personal profile] beknights 2020-08-01 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It feels reassuring, somehow, seeing someone else reaffirm themselves in front of them.

They incline their head in a supportive sort of nod. They think it's perfectly fine to be whatever you want to be.
]

« Then both of us are. »

[ There's almost unease in them, as they sign the words. Are they supposed to do this, to affirm that they might have something in common with another? But at the same time, it's only logical to acknowledge such a connection, isn't it?

They let none of that inner conflict show. It's far easier to pull off with the conspicuous lack of conventional facial expressions.
]
seasharp: (flower duet)

[personal profile] seasharp 2020-08-01 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ariel definitely notices nothing amiss, she's just grinning brightly.]

Like two peas in a pod, huh? Well then, nice to meet you, fellow hero!

[And she just kind of... pats them on the arm? It's meant to be a supportive gesture.]
beknights: last to die (burdened down)

[personal profile] beknights 2020-08-01 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They look down at her when she pats their arm. Even brief contact is enough to notice that they tense when they're touched, but it's not something that's born out of wariness or fear; they simply don't seem to understand the purpose of the gesture.

They do, however, give her another affirmative nod. If only all interactions with people could be this easy.
]
seasharp: (waldstein)

[personal profile] seasharp 2020-08-02 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
So, did you just, um... What's the right way to say it, I wonder? "Wake up", maybe?

I only just remembered I'm dead, anyway. Is it the same for you?
beknights: deep inside (laden with monstrous souls)

[personal profile] beknights 2020-08-02 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That gets two quick nods. It feels a little impolite just to leave it at that, though, so after a moment, they raise their hand to sign. Their fingers move slowly and carefully, as if they're thinking hard about what they're saying. ]

« Yes.
I do not remember
much else though.
Is it the same for you?
»
seasharp: (jeu de cartes)

[personal profile] seasharp 2020-08-05 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, pretty much. I mean, I guess I was going to school... maybe? [She just kind of, pulls on her skirt a little, for emphasis.] But I don't remember attending or what school it was. I'm just pretty sure this is a school uniform.

[Heck, maybe even that's wrong and she was wearing it for some other reason. Who knows. Maybe it was just cosplay.]

So I can't even properly introduce myself or anything. It's a little awkward, huh?