WEEK 6.

[trustwellness]

WEEK 6 With the deaths of Viktor Nikiforov, Varric Tethras, and Killia, you're down to half of your original number. There's only fifteen of you left. How much longer before your number drops again? Saturday is given to regrouping and rest; on Sunday morning the clock chimes as it always has, but at least there are no bodies to find today. It seems you're safe for now. The night before wasn't necessarily a peaceful one, however; you'll probably feel a bit groggy when you wake up, and it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... Of course, that doesn't mean that you've gained nothing else among the many, many losses you've faced; it seems that another floor has been made available to you for surviving another week. Congratulations and well done, even if you might not necessarily appreciate the reward. APPRENTICES REMAINING: 15

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: Welcome to week six of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Wordsmith, you can do so through letters or the switchboard!]

Comments

[acherontiastyx]

...Oh. Oh, you wouldn't know.

Oh, Hanyuu. We have such sights to show you.

[tsugomori]

A recipe, hm? I don't really have it written down, but maybe I can try to help. I saw Killia cook it a few times.

[ ... The result is going to be hilarious, however, given how "cooking" seems to go with Mikazuki, but it doesn't mean he won't try! ]

[tsugomori]

[ Mikazuki probably will even peer over his shoulder to very much read along! Somehow, he's able to read despite never reading a book before coming here, but. Anyway, he'll be able to follow along pretty well. He may even gaze in wonder at the pictures...he's always amazed at doodles in books, honestly. ]

I like the story more than I thought I would...Miss Xiaolan is quite the woman.

[ It's a story he is glad he hasn't heard of yet, so he could experience it... ]

Thank you for deciding to read out loud to me, by the way. I can tell you are putting in quite the effort, and it is very admirable.

[firstaid]

Oh, there isn't any of that, is there?

[Yeah she didn't get involved in that, but she's noticing a lack of that this week.]

Do you suspect the Wordsmith got upset?

[firstaid]

She is, isn't she? Reading this, I rather admire her character.

[She giggles a bit at hearing his response to her reading the story. Honestly, she's pretty happy.]

And you're welcome. I'm glad you enjoy it.

[Though he calls the character 'Miss'... which really gets Estelle to think...]

This might be a bit of a tangent, and I promise to finish the story, but may I ask you why you no longer call me 'Miss' Estelle?

[It's not a bad thing, but he's very polite and she certainly hopes she hasn't insulted him. Then again, she knows herself and she sometimes drops prefixes (or suffixes) from people she's found herself closer to. She... just doesn't want to assume.]

[acherontiastyx]

Oh. Yeah, that.

...Nah. I mean, I'm pretty mad about the whole thing, but like. The only way I'd go for that sort of thing would be if the deal was to leave with, like, thirty other people instead of one other person.

We'd just take Noir instead of Kira.

[acherontiastyx]

[...he just kind of grins at that.]

Come on, Watanuki. He's a hunky rich guy. They literally do not have anything better to do with their time than make weird sex tapes.

[tsugomori]

Well, even so, it is quite hard to believe you just hurt people. You've helped me smile too, so that can't be all that you've done.

[ The man's expression softens a bit, slightly confused as to why she thinks that she has only done that... it's also entirely possible he's misunderstanding things a little too. ]

[tsugomori]

M-- well, Orihime had asked me not to call her by 'Miss' either and just use her name, because I supposed she wanted to be a little closer. So, I just did the same thing, deciding that I'd like to be somehow closer to you, if you don't mind.

[ It seems Estelle was right to assume; that is how it's been for Mikazuki at any rate and he hopes he didn't cross a line or anything. She's someone who he cares deeply about. ]

[oyashiromama]

Any amount of hurt is a hurt that needs attention. It doesn't matter how big, or small...but that you nurture it, before it grows out of control.

[She smiles.]

And I was happy to take some of that weight from you. I know, everyone who helped you was.

[firstaid]

I... I would like that. Though, I honestly thought we were already close and I had done something to insult you. After all, you've been a great comfort to me throughout our stay here. I honestly don't know where I would be without you.

[And she better not lose him too, because the fact that they were able to come around and smile again... well... she's not sure what she'd do without Mikazuki there too.]

[feistytrader]

[...What does he say, to make her understand?]

There's a reason why Gold and I moved the week we did. Besides the motive, besides all the dying, besides our world.

There were... Five or six people, I think, that we were willing to kill by then. If we didn't move when we did, we weren't going to move. When we did, it was a lot more horrible than we imagined. That's why we messed up.

[He's not sure if there's anyone he could kill, in other words.]

...We sleep in the same room now. If you want to keep an eye on me, I don't mind.

[oyashiromama]

...I know what that can feel like.

[People think gods are so powerful, but really-]

I've been at points...very recently, in my memories and here, where I've felt like the only outcome is pain, and that I'm doomed to watch as everyone dies, able to do nothing. [...] But that... If we fall into that, then it becomes more and more true. You have to, even if it seems like you're doing nothing, believe in yourself.

As hard as that may be. ...Because I guarantee, even if you can't prevent a tragedy...the ones you love, to them- you haven't done nothing. You've given them joy, and happiness, and that counts for so much.

If we press on, I know we can reach a future where we can all be happy. If we all keep trying, and believe in ourselves and each other.

[firstaid]

You did. You helped a lot just by being there. I hope that when I've been able to comfort others they felt the same way I did.

[Because yeah, she did do that for others, didn't she?]

[oyashiromama]

[She shakes her head and-]

I- I was born on Earth, in the human world. I was the youngest Ryuun. My parents died early on in battle, and I took up their duty. The other Ryuun born outside our home realm, they fell too- I never even met them, because of how spread out we had to be.

[Hanyuu survived. Hanyuu was alone strong enough, fast enough, smart enough.

Hanyuu was, alone.]

The elders told me, don't appear to humans. Not looking like that. We look like what they call demons. We are demons. I... They would talk about our realm, our dead world, and I- I didn't know anything about it. I couldn't, with them, though they tried to tell me. What was real to me- Earth was real to me. The human world was real to me. I loved the grass and the air and the water, how everything felt. They would talk about how it was different where we were from, and I- I barely cared to know! All I wanted...was to connect with them, but I couldn't! I couldn't, I couldn't, I could only talk to the automated guide they gave me...!

Because... Because the humans were too afraid... I couldn't connect with other, much older Ryuun...so I tried with humans, I protected them, but they feared...because I couldn't hide these damned horns!!

[She punctuates her words with stomps, one for each. Filled with an overwhelming amount of frustration. She's said some of this, before, but she can't- she can't get Elda to see, just how much this hurts her, and it makes her feel even worse.]

[firstaid]

I... I want to reach that future. I... just want everyone to be okay and to be happy.

[But even that feels like so much to ask for now. Like it's impossible.]

I... will try to believe.

[oyashiromama]

Elda... You wanted to bathe together...and get jealous whenever anyone else speaks with me...

[ALSO A REAL TAG elda you jealous ho]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . !!! ]

I am not!

[ yet another real tag... ]

[matchbreaker]

[ It's... hard. Hard to understand this perspective intellectually. Emotionally, emotionally it's actually very easy to understand, she can relate to Hanyuu's meaning now that the woman spells it out for her so plainly as this. And once more Elda is filled with a feeling of vengeance, a strong desire to show the elders of her people, her people as a whole what for! How could they...

... But it's not that, is it?

It's less that she was abandoned, and more different circumstances. Elda-

Elda makes to squeeze the other woman's hands again. ]

... Hanyuu. The world, that world you were on. It isn't their world, it's not the world of humans.

[oyashiromama]

And...this is something you're only realizing now? What made you come to this? What did you remember that sparked this realization.

[acherontiastyx]

Well, he definitely took the opportunity to be a smug piece of crap at me whenever I sent an angry letter about it. I guess it at least got him to break the cold shoulder routine.

[oyashiromama]

I...definitely can't account for what others have experienced...but that's how it appears to me. Maybe... "Wordsmith" might have more to do with how careful he is at choosing his words...and less to do with writing them.

[foundfate]

I remembered asking Yuuko about it, specifically. And she didn't really confirm or deny it. She just told me that 'if I wished hard enough, my dreams could become real.'

[He feels like a much shittier version of Pinocchio or something.]

[foundfate]

What wager?

[foundfate]

Ah, it was...

[How does he tell Orihime without upsetting her...]

I confronted Yuuko about something. My missing memories, specifically. The ones I was missing before I came to this school here.

[Yeah btw that's a thing too.]

It was...stressful.