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lostcarnival2018-03-10 07:09 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2018-03-10 07:09 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- 9s,
- @wismuth,
- cole,
- commander syrlya,
- doll,
- foster van denend,
- inquisitor lavellan,
- john childermass,
- joker,
- jonathan strange,
- kirigakure shura,
- lambert,
- lauren,
- miko nakadai,
- nui harime,
- papyrus,
- peridot,
- renzo shima,
- rita mordio,
- steven universe,
- tallisibeth (scout),
- tanyuu karibusa,
- tyki mikk,
- yukio okumura,
- yuzu hiragi,
- yūya sakaki
⇨ WISMUTH ENDGAME
Who: Everyone!
When: Evening Day 27
Where: The Wismuth Super Dome, Round 2
What: On the verge of creating a world ending army of Harbingers, CY-Ren and her followers are challenged by the carnival and the Star Guardian team. It's time to stop.
Warnings: Singing
When: Evening Day 27
Where: The Wismuth Super Dome, Round 2
What: On the verge of creating a world ending army of Harbingers, CY-Ren and her followers are challenged by the carnival and the Star Guardian team. It's time to stop.
Warnings: Singing
THE LAST REQUIEM↴ CY-Ren's planning of a charity concert has been well received - news of bomb threats and harassment from fans have painted her as a victim in the media spotlight, and her generous attempt to make amends is getting plenty of attention. She's been busy spinning things for as much focus as possible, and the threat of potential danger has the news focusing in on the proceedings. The date is set for Day 27 in carnival time. You won't want to miss it! ► BUILD UP: In the last couple days before the concert, CY-Ren will be reaching out to all of her Harbingers, regardless of where they might be at the time - yes, this means that even if you ran off, she'll come to find you! (Unless you're in the carnival like Taako, then you're fucked.) She'll tell you that her plans are coming to head, and that if you help her with one last task then the planet will be on its way to destruction. There are multiple ways you can aid her: you can help amp up her performance as evil backup singers/musicians, or you can set yourself up around the perimeter at specified locations, using your sparks as a beacon to her magic. She's certain that she's perfected her musical formula, this time - when the concert gets underway, all those present with the capacity to be a Harbinger will awaken, and the end of days will begin. ► THE CONCERT: By the time the concert arrives, the Star Guardians will have the idea that there's something unnatural about the way the new Harbingers were made - this isn't how it usually happens, and that sets them apart from someone like CY-Ren. Maybe that means that they can be pulled away with less drastic measures as well, given that the Void didn't have the full right to their souls in the first place. Anyone coming to help (and those who aren't Star Guardians will be encouraged to come as well, given that if they are making attempts at friendship, super powers aren't required) will gather in the area early, determined to stomp this one out before it can get too far. ► HARBINGERS: This is when they will be encountered by Harbingers guarding the perimeter, as well as a small army of void creatures defending CY-Ren's last performance. Star Guardians will become aware through the power of Creation that the Harbingers on the perimeter must be neutralized in order to disrupt the concert - CY-Ren is feeding on their negative energies, and it will make it too dangerous to attack her directly. Confrontations with any Harbingers can be worked out on an individual basis via plotting - just make up a location around the concert and have your Harbinger providing a beacon of their own design. As the concert ramps up, however, the excess of Void energy will cause the newly made Harbingers to destabilize - mentally or magically, their powers will be harder to control, and their negative emotions will be running wild. However, with that instability, there is also room for a breakthrough - for someone to blast the darkness from their Sparks with friendship and light. Now is the time to reach out. ► STAR GUARDIANS: If a Harbinger is successfully turned away from the darkness, they will briefly regain control of their Sparks, and be able to manifest as a Star Guardian for the first time. This will allow the Guardians to outnumber CY-Ren's forces. Their look and powers will still be based around the same Spark, but purified by Creation and aimed towards positive things. Time to win. ► DANCE OFF: Given that the Spark of Music and the Spark of Dance are colliding, it is perhaps not a surprise that this all manifests as a big ass musical number. As CY-Ren and Noa have a music battle, everyone present (even if you aren't a Star Guardian) will find themselves magically inspired to join in. You can dance, sing, or anything in between - the more people who support Noa's side, the stronger she will be. There will be a megathread for this part of the conflict, and at this point any unturned Harbingers will awaken and be able to turn their Sparks towards the light. As CY-Ren begins to lose power, what the players do with her will be up to you. |
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"I know, okay," he says, miserably. "Everyone's messed up... If I was the only one, then maybe... maybe I wouldn't have to do this."
He doesn't hold eye contact.
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"Yeah," he says simply. "Everyone gets hurt at least once, livin'. And I don't think there's anyone who's only had it happen once." Waiting a beat, he continues, trying to peer around the vines to Steven. "But, y'know, if my mum hadn't left me, I wouldn't have met Doll. I wouldn't have met anyone in my family, who I'm workin' in the carnival for."
He jerks his head back towards Peridot. "And, by the sound of things, Peridot gettin' stranded is how the two of ya met, right?" Another pause before he looks back to her again. "...Or wrong?" People's business back in their home is usually something he keeps his nose out of. Right now, he's only guessing.
....He'll say nothing about the concert kidnapping. There's no saving that one.
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Even bad things could have a purpose. That it was never too late to turn things around...
His heart hurts, and he puts his normal hand over it, wincing and flinching back from Joker's touch. The feelings make him feel cornered, like he did when the Void was pressing in on all sides of him, turning down any kind of hope he tried to offer. Over and over, over and over, until there was nothing left but-
"I can't," he whines, closing his eyes and shaking his head. "It hurts too much. And if I make it stop, I'll just be hurting everyone else who ever cared about me..."
He's seen the suffering caused by his mother's death. How it had been what she wanted, but the devastation it had wreaked regardless. He'd seen the cost of Pink Diamond's death, whose end had been necessary for the happiness of others. There was nowhere to move, nowhere to release the pressure.
He can't see a way out, and he feels like he's drowning.
"I can't do it," he pleads, and it's like the helplessness of it all is breaking him down, bit by bit. "All of us have to go, or none of us!"
A tremor goes through the rose, its thorns growing longer, and its vines growing taller. Steven's own arm is covering his body in thorns, like it's trying to protect him from the world.
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Every single scrap of pretense gets tossed out the window. Instead, Joker grimaces at the sight of the thorns, concerned at how worse rose and arm alike are getting, but there's no helping it. This is one of those things where it's likely to get worse before it gets better.
"Ya don't have ta do it- ya don't have ta keep doin' so much, and helpin' so many people. Ya can take a break from it. Because ya have other people with ya too- like Peridot, and me! So ya don't have ta go!"
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"Steven!"
Seeing this, she moves without thinking. She launches into the air, beating her wings with all her might until she closes the gap between them and haphazardly throws herself at him, entirely heedless of the thorns. She bumps into his side and wraps her wings around him in a hug, bracing for some kind of retaliation but holding on for dear life anyway.
She refuses to let him shut her out like this.
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But she's still here.
Something about all of this just makes him curl in on himself, like his heart is hurting him so badly that he's going to collapse in on himself. There was a time when he believed that things could get better, didn't he? A time before that empty place, before everything he wanted had been torn down in front of him. Before he had spent what felt like hours, or days, crying out for help, when no came.
He can feel Peridot's need to hold onto him, and Joker's sincerity. It's so hard, but just for a moment, it feels like there's something far away that he can reach out to. Something that will reach back for him.
Like he doesn't have to go.
"I don't know what to do," he says in a tiny voice, the rhythm of his wings faltering. He's been holding himself aloft with his floating powers mostly, but as they start to fail him, his wings aren't doing enough to keep up, and he gradually starts to fall.
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That's the kind of things you have to strive to keep on living for, honestly. Even in all the hurt, little things keep people afloat.
"Just trust us," he says, his hand smoothing out over the wild vine of an arm, nudging past the various thorns that have grown there. "Rely on us. Peridot hasn't left ya, and neither have I. So let's stay, alright? We- "
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Joker abruptly changes his grip as he realizes that he's not rising but instead Steven is falling, his fingers scrambling to get a hold of the boy somewhere, anywhere. Steven has wings, but it's clear that he's too distraught to remember them.
Hopefully he can be forgiven if his speech gets a little rushed. "We can make it through bein' if we're all together! Even if yer hurtin', we can be there ta help, whether durin' or in the aftermath! So just stay with us!"
WHOOPS SOMEHOW I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS MY TURN!?
"We've got you Steven!" she cries. "I told you I'm not giving up and I meant it!"
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Can they... can he really stay? For the first time in what feels like a long time, he feels like maybe he can. He pulls his thorny arm free of his own body, instead using it to cling to Peridot more gently. Suddenly, he doesn't want to do anything else.
Slowly, the giant crystal rose above them begins to wilt - until suddenly enormous petals are falling free, twirling towards the ground and shattering.
"I'm sorry," he whispers.
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Definitely not after all they've done to get here to him.
"It's alright," he says, and looks up to Peridot. "I mean, s'long as he comes back ta us, it's alright, innit?"
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The shell of his pink bubble shield forms around the three of them, like a flower of light blooming. For a moment, the light is too bright to see - and then the bubble bursts into a mist of glowing petals, revealing what's changed.
Steven is still there, but his appearance has changed completely - instead of black armor and spikes, he is now clothed in a simple white robe with shining pauldrons. Peridot will feel that he's become smaller in her arms, no longer putting on the image of a teenager... but maybe a little taller than he was before all of this. There are still tears on his face as he opens his eyes, giving Peridot a drowsy look.
"Huh?" he mumbles airily, a heavy weight gone from his soul, but a whirlwind of confusion taking its place. "What... are we...? Peridot...?" He tries to look around, seeing that Joker is still there, too. "Joker... what happened?"
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Instead, it's as if every bit of tension that's been in him, from this mess and even before, slips out of him as if he's a sieve. It's a good feeling, one he's almost glad for, and the way he ducks his head against the blinding light is almost belated. When everything is gone...
Blinking the spots out of his vision, Joker stares down at the boy, now very nearly back to normal instead of the older mask he'd put on. Something has changed, it's just...
Bewildered, Joker looks up to Peridot, hoping she's at least sharing his confusion. "Uh, I think.... Well, ya were brainwashed, and then..." Still not entirely believing what's actually before him, Joker looks down at him again. "I think ya got... better?"
It's honestly hard for him to believe. Talking, after all, has never helped brainwashing before.
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For weeks now she's been feeling like she's been teetering on an edge, but no longer; Steven's back, and now they can work together to stop this.