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lostcarnival2017-11-11 10:17 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-11-11 10:17 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- 9s,
- @heartstone manor,
- alphys,
- amethyst,
- cole,
- commander syrlya,
- doll,
- five,
- ginko,
- gongenzaka,
- hinawa,
- ichigo kurosaki,
- john childermass,
- joker,
- jonathan strange,
- julien delacroix,
- junko enoshima,
- lambert,
- lauren,
- mari makinami illustrious,
- miko nakadai,
- papyrus,
- reira akaba,
- rita mordio,
- sans,
- sora,
- susan,
- tallisibeth (scout),
- tyki mikk,
- yotsuba tamaki,
- yūya sakaki,
- zangetsu
⇨ THE PRINCE IS DEAD
Who: Everyone!
When: Day 178 - B1: Day 6
Where: The Carnival and sometimes on top of the Heart of Stone.
What: Now that the Prince is dead and gone, there's a lot left to sort out. As the remaining servants are liberated and those captured by the Prince are tended to, it's time for recovery and goodbyes.
Warnings: Nothing in particular.
When: Day 178 - B1: Day 6
Where: The Carnival and sometimes on top of the Heart of Stone.
What: Now that the Prince is dead and gone, there's a lot left to sort out. As the remaining servants are liberated and those captured by the Prince are tended to, it's time for recovery and goodbyes.
Warnings: Nothing in particular.
HOME GROUND↴ At long last, it is over. The Prince is dead, and all of his stolen Names have been restored - all that's left to do is treat the wounds and move on. For the first day or two, the Ringmaster will be arranging passage for the servants that are left, all of which have remembered their names for the first time in years. The earth elemental that had been trapped and forced to serve as the Prince's manor, the Heart of Stone, is happy to help for the moment. It appreciates the Ringmaster's mercy, and is free after untold eons of imprisonment. Yet, there are plenty of aspects that are far from simple. There are still servants left mad and transformed into beasts, with no easy way to change them back. The Prince's spells outlive him, and those bearing his poison and his curses will have a difficult road ahead of them. Though most of the bestial servants have been rounded up, and a large number that had been reduced to unmoving statues returned, even the Ringmaster can't return them to normal so simply. The next week is for rest and for settling remaining affairs. If you want to bid farewell to any particular NPCs, or assure care is given where it's needed, now is the time to do it. ► A CURE: The Ringmaster will tell everyone simply - there is no simple way to undo another fae's magic. The Prince's powers were essentially on par with hers, which means that those who have been transformed to stone and those that were cursed into beasts and driven insane are not something she can trivially fix. It will take the work of the carnival and a couple weeks of treatment to shed the curse of stone, and the maddened servants are an entirely separate matter. She will do what she can, but for the most part she is arranging for the Prince's servants to be cared for elsewhere. At least for now, the Ringmaster will be animating the stone portions of people's bodies with magic, though those portions will still be a bit clumsy and numb feeling. ► THE NEW HEARTSTONE: In the absence of the prince, the Heart of Stone will be taking over the remains of the Prince's realm and preventing it from collapsing into void. As it turns out, the manor had been an earth elemental all along - a form of Wyld Fae almost on par to the Prince and Ringmaster themselves. How the Heart of Stone was enslaved is a long story presumably, but the Ringmaster considers it to be a sign of the Prince's own depravity. The Heart will be allowing visitors for the first couple days of this period through the portal, but keep in mind you are essentially just walking around on its body. At least the realm has a floor, now, instead an endless abyss surrounding it. |
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Well, that proves it. He wasn't sure--he didn't even know if he wanted to be sure, if believing was worse than disbelieving, or knowing worse than ignorance. If it was something he could ignore, or something he was supposed to ignore.
But she just put a claw in his eye, so.
"....I wasn't sure," he says, eventually. His voice comes out so disconnected from his awareness that he is acutely aware of it, for once. Is that what he sounds like? Bitter. Disconnected. Unwieldy and thick.
"I didn't expect you to be--be real."
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"I, uh... I'm sorry I kinda just took off right after we got back from all that... y'know."
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"I knew you wanted to avoid me," he responds matter-of-factly. He's still watching that abdominal maw chew through its slimy contents, slices of potato sticking to its sharp teeth, pale piles of pulp rolling over its tongue. It's horrible and repulsive. Mesmerisingly gross. The urge to stick his arm in there is...
He finally does manage to look at her actual face again.
"... I don't understand why you're back?"
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"You, uh... what? Why wouldn't I be back?"
Please stand by, your Foster is melting down
"I'm not... I'm not gone. You're here, and I'm still here. I don't--you're six months too early!" He keeps glancing down at that mouth, which is still chewing, but he's arguing with her face. 'Arguing' might not be the right word. Pleading. He's pleading with her--begging, because it's all starting to be too much, very abruptly, and he all-too-suddenly remembers where those potato peelings came from, and why he's dragging them across the Carnival, and what a horrible, disgusting, absolute fucking failure he is--
And how long it took at the end of Portland--
And--
No. This is his fault. It's always his fault and he doesn't understand why she's back, or what he's supposed to--
Supposed to--
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"What?? Dude, you -- no, I just left because I couldn't handle, like... Ugh, y'know, all the... feelings an' stuff, not because you suck."
Now she looks super embarrassed on top of everything else, THANKS FOSTER
"--And anyway, that wasn't even the whole reason, there was a bunch other stuff too," she adds quickly.
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And sometimes he'll hear echoes come faintly back when someone calls down into it.
For example: Peridot said something very similar, something about Amethyst having other reasons. At the time, he'd interpreted it as a genuinely offensive act, like she was attempting to make him feel better or deflect blame from him, which...
"I do suck," he points out, rather simply.
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Closes it.
Seems to think about that for an actual second.
Then he laughs. "No, don't worry about how I feel!"
That's ridiculous, Amethyst. Ampersand? The flicker of that memory--
Mmmm.
But it's weird, he doesn't... feel as bothered by it when she doesn't quite follow the script.
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"Look... I know we're not actually related or anything, but..." She shrugs lopsidedly. "I dunno. It wasn't the worst."
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He knows what she's actually saying, and he hates it. He should hate it. He wants to--he wants to laugh, what a terrible fate--he's supposed to prevent this...!
"I'm just garbage here. Worthless. Disgusting! Pointless, nasty trash. Repulsive, rotting--poisoned! A corpse walking! You're wrong. Wrong, wrong...!" Saliva flecks his lips, his prehistoric teeth, eyes wilder--his claws burying in his hair. Under the lime green clip. Vicious, vehement, excited, anguished. Which is it? Is he angry now? He doesn't know. It doesn't even matter. He just knows this is wrong--wrong, wrong, wrong, he's wrong, and she--
"You should have stayed gone."
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"Dude..."
And then her expression shifts from alarm to indignation, and she stiffens in anger, making fists at her sides with both hands.
"What the heck, dude! You don't get to pull this crud on me." She takes that step back forward, and it honestly looks like she might thump him, although she doesn't. "You know how tough it was for me to come back here and even speak to you? Because I thought you were gonna be like, oh wow, gross, I can't believe this trash pile wants to be -- I don't know, friends or whatever? I -- ugghhh, you clod!"
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"My opinion?" He asks, his voice clotted and wet. Better not to worry about what it's wet with. "To be--to be afraid of my opinion...!!" He barks a laugh--harsh, violent. Then he keeps laughing, and it becomes obvious that his voice was thick with heavy saliva, because he's drooling it from the corners of his mouth and over his bottom lip.
"You can't possibly be more vulgar, can't be more despicable, more insignificant and vile... you can't be friends with something so inhumanly low, no more than you could become trash without being made to be filled with it!"
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This is his worst icon
"Yes, yes--!!"
The peelings stick to him. It's kind of gross.
"... those are just potatoes. I'm... not a potato. I'm... decayed, decomposed, degenerate--a disgusting disease! Discard me, it's fine! It's my purpose here, anyway...!"
i really cant argue with that
Amethyst just throws the potato peelings at him in anger.
Splat.
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"...and?" he asks, after another moment, like he's waiting for a conclusion.
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Then she grabs him by one of his big furry bear arms.
"Okay, dude, you know what? Okay," she says as she yanks him after her. She is, it should be noted, superhumanly strong, even if Foster wasn't a malnutritioned emaciated disaster. "You ever seen my trailer before?"
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And by that point he's being dragged along anyway. So his protest is kind of pointless.
"Why would I have seen your trailer?!" What does her trailer have to do with anything at all? Why is she--?!
But it's too late, so he guesses he's going to find out.
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She huffs out a frustrated breath, and shoulders open the door to the trailer she shares with Sans.
It is, not to put too fine a point on it, kind of a disaster in there.
The trailer is significantly smaller than her room back in the temple, but she's also had way less time to accumulate stuff. The junk in the trailer is also less varied than her temple junk, which spans centuries of human civilisation and the entire globe. Here, she mostly has stuff left behind by the Carnival's patrons -- used glowsticks, empty bottles, deflated balloons, a few dolls and stuffed animals dropped by children who might be sorely missing them or might not be, depending on the passage of time and whether the carnival will be going back to their world -- and stuff picked up from the places they've stopped at that for some reason caught her eye. There's a stack of used tyres (both inside and outside the trailer, in case you didn't want to go so far to get your used tyre fix), some dead pot plants, some alive pot plants, bent street signs in various different languages, old carrier bags, at least one busted out TV, rocks, pipes, straight up just a few heaps of dirt, what looks like a broken-down, water-damaged cannon... gradually accumulated junk that for some reason she decided was worth dragging back from their stops around the multiverse.
She also has a lot of game prizes.
The Carnival's games have prizes from all kinds of worlds, but it's still a carnival, which means all of them, to the people they were purchased from, are basically trash. Hideous chalkware dogs are nestled alongside inflatable bananas and giant foam hands. A plethora of unpleasantly textured cheap stuffed animals are draped over the furniture. Junk made out of seashells, junk made out of wood, junk made out of sturdy glass... A dozen worlds' variations on the theme of Shit Produced Cheaply Enough To Be Profitable Mass-Purchased As Prizes For Games That Cost A Quarter To Play. Amethyst has a ton of it.
It's not all garbage. There are a few things in there that look like priceless antiques or valuable treasures. But they're crammed in with the rest of it, indiscriminately: a worn old trunk spills over with equal amounts of sparkling jewels and broken parts of offputting chalkware figurines and stale bagels; the impressive fossil skull of some long-gone beast is crammed lopsided against the wall with a broken umbrella jutting out of its eye socket and a the deflated body of a cheap inflatable mascot of indiscernible species draped over its snout.
Amethyst kicks what looks like a detached sink full of dirty socks out of the way of the door so she can step inside and make room for Foster. She lets go of his arm.
"D'you get it, dude?" she says after a couple of seconds. "Do you think I care if you're garbage or you think you're garbage or other people think you're garbage? Do you think I care if this is garbage?" She brandishes a vintage lamp with no bulb in it whose slightly scuffed base is in the shape of a smiling old man with rosy cheeks. "D'you think I care if any of this is garbage?"
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Foster has... to put it mildly, seen some shit. A decade of his life spent living in homeless camps and 'sleeping rough,' he's met some atrocious collections of garbage. But this isn't a hoard of semi-salvageables or could-be's with impossible plans to 'improve' its contents. This isn't memories someone couldn't let go of, buried ever-deeper under a new layer of worthless 'unforgettables.' The odd piece of potential worth only highlights what a reprehensible gathering of garbage this space contains...!
By the point Amethyst is shoving some ugly, faux-vintage lamp base masquerading as 'sculpture' into his face, he's dropping to his knees--
He doesn't realise he's laughing until seconds later, and at that point he just gives up, falls back on his ass--landing on his tail, which causes a sharp pain up his spine but he doesn't care, doesn't even flinch, though his voice cracks and he feels the crack of some tendon or bone in his hip.
He's filled to overflowing with it, with something terrible, he's overcome by--no, moved by this disgusting display, this den of contaminated debris and worthless castoffs, a nest for even the most wretched trash to make its bed.
It's like coming homeno subject
Amethyst leans down a little, still holding the old man lamp. She doesn't know what she was expecting, but it ... pppprooobably wasn't this?
"Bro, are you OK?"
CW: self injury with shitty ceramic dog
He can't stop laughing, and he repeats the word, breathlessly, incredulous with joy(?)
But he's already rising--up off his tail, which sends a shudder of something, pain or relief or some unspeakable combination thereof through him, and then he's searching, clumsy with the awful high and his own deplorable state--
His claws land on something solid, something he can feel the potential of.
It's a shitty ceramic shar pei dog, the kind of poorly-painted kitsch piece with slightly-misaligned eyes and cheap production that belongs in a dollar store.
Or it was a shitty ceramic shar-pei dog, anyway, because the instant he seizes it in his heavy, hairy paw, he raises it above his head and brings it smashing down, shattering it on the edge of a pipe attached to her sock-filled sink.
His eyes are shining, his prehistoric teeth bared wide in a smile that might still be real, and he snatches back the biggest piece (somewhat awkwardly, the piece that retains the dog's head) to take another swing. This time, though, he diverts its trajectory, abruptly changing its course before he strikes the ground and instead burying the point of it in his own stomach, producing a short, choked-off gasp of pain.
But his eyes are bright with emotion, with passion, overflowing like his blood, his sharp-toothed smile more clearly defined than ever.
He rips it back out, and begins bleeding all over his paw.
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