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cancry2020-12-06 07:30 am
ourtomorrow) wrote in cancry2020-12-06 07:30 am
all tween heartthrobs are angsty as hell
A-ah......AAUGH!
[ It happens because of sunlight.
The boy had been drifting through Limbo, as he does every day - reporting to a school without any sense of how he gets there or how he returns, or even where he returns - when the sight of sunlight shifting against a wall had caught his eye. He'd paused, for the first time, reflected upon this. Sunlight means it's gotten warmer, doesn't it? And warmer means....seasons....
....wait, do seasons exist here, so then how does he know what they are
where is he going
why is he going there
what is he doing here
he's
he's
It hits him like a slap to the face, and he's running through the streets now, pushing past people (sorry), trying to make sense, for the first time, of the roads and the paths and route he's been gliding down every day without thinking, but it doesn't, and the MORE he thinks about it the more lost he gets, this isn't normal, this isn't right, and the reason it's like this is because it's....because he's....
I'm dead, the boy realizes, and that knowledge comes coupled with another thought. He doesn't know where it's come from, but only that it opens a pit in his stomach that he feels himself falling into.
I've failed. ]
I-it can't be...It can't be!
[ Someone will be hurt, if he dies - it's burned into the core he's only just realized he has, an aversion to being dead, an aversion to doing harm. To whom? He doesn't remember. Who has meaning to him? What meaning does he have to himself....?!
Oh. This stops him. And he finally falls to his knees. ]
W-who am I....?
[ Weird that a kid this bland-looking could be so dramatic. But here he be. Good luck with that. ]
[ It happens because of sunlight.
The boy had been drifting through Limbo, as he does every day - reporting to a school without any sense of how he gets there or how he returns, or even where he returns - when the sight of sunlight shifting against a wall had caught his eye. He'd paused, for the first time, reflected upon this. Sunlight means it's gotten warmer, doesn't it? And warmer means....seasons....
....wait, do seasons exist here, so then how does he know what they are
where is he going
why is he going there
what is he doing here
he's
he's
It hits him like a slap to the face, and he's running through the streets now, pushing past people (sorry), trying to make sense, for the first time, of the roads and the paths and route he's been gliding down every day without thinking, but it doesn't, and the MORE he thinks about it the more lost he gets, this isn't normal, this isn't right, and the reason it's like this is because it's....because he's....
I'm dead, the boy realizes, and that knowledge comes coupled with another thought. He doesn't know where it's come from, but only that it opens a pit in his stomach that he feels himself falling into.
I've failed. ]
I-it can't be...It can't be!
[ Someone will be hurt, if he dies - it's burned into the core he's only just realized he has, an aversion to being dead, an aversion to doing harm. To whom? He doesn't remember. Who has meaning to him? What meaning does he have to himself....?!
Oh. This stops him. And he finally falls to his knees. ]
W-who am I....?
[ Weird that a kid this bland-looking could be so dramatic. But here he be. Good luck with that. ]
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But... who else could even fill in for her if she wouldn't? ]
It's good to have you with us. We all keep an eye on each other here, so there'll always be someone who has your back while you're working things out.
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[ He...doesn't need to ask why? She gave it to him already. The Executors look out for each other. Just by being an Executor, he's....
No matter what he's done? Even if he doesn't know what he's done?
That's strange, and part of him hesitates to accept it, but there's another part of him that is encouraged. No one here fully knows what their sins are yet, do they? He's not alone.
He's not alone.
You could probably revitalize a droughted field with the pure, healing peace radiating from the smile that prompts. ]
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We'll have to introduce you to the rest of us, and give you some space to test out your powers, whatever they may be. And give you a crash course on the, hm, unfortunate social politics going on here, but- well, it isn't as though we lack time. [Time is a fake concept but at least Invida has some kind of day/night cycle!]
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Just– try not to pay attention to the things Chiron comes out with.
[ Of course, it's hard to take her too seriously when she looks so flustered. ]
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.......Ah.
[ Take this moment, for instance! He has powers? And there's something occurring in Purgatory - something social, when so few of them are cognizant? - that is best described as "unfortunate"....Where should he even begin?
Blinking and looking completely disoriented seems like a good starting point, apparently. ]
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Monarch, dear, I know this is a touch overwhelming. But I promise you're about to meet some people who would very much like to make you feel welcome, and to help you adjust.
[and then there's wolfsbane who will do that not at all but shh he said some]
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Th–that's right! There's Beast and Lion and Ariel and– [ abruptly realizing that throwing a list of names at him is probably going to make him feel MORE overwhelmed and forcing herself to stop. ] – w–well, anyway...!
They're all so kind and ready to help. You don't have to worry about it.
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But all of those are a smokescreen, Monarch notices. They have invited him to be Part of something. And this makes him both thrilled and nervous.
He decides, after a moment, to be thrilled. ]
Mm. Thank you.
So....
[ he's considering the particulars and realizing he may not have examined all the fine print ]
....what should I do?
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[however you sir are a CHILD!!!]
There's a rather large house a number of us have commandeered into something of a home. You are more than welcome there, at least to start to get your bearings and to meet some of the rest.
And a park we use for training not too far from there.
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[ she's helping!! ]
Limbo might be a little strange but you should be able to manage fine when you settle in.
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[ As much as he can under the circumstances, anyway. So they're even offering him a place to remain. It really is...somewhere to belong.
To belong.
Going back to the house he'd been commuting to and from every day before feels so wrong now, as does the fact he can barely remember the faces of the people who lived there with him. It was a lie, wasn't it? Or an act. They were only acting out a family. No one there actually cared, including him.
This fact makes Monarch, for some reason, sad. So although this alternative also makes him extremely nervous (what if he's in the way, he is new, and a child, and knows Absolutely Nothing): ]
If I'm not imposing, I'll house with everyone.
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Rei, dear, I do apologize for dragging you from your practice. Did you want to go back?