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@DABIL | backdated a bit

[dvmn]

[Very late in the evening (and maybe partially into the morning) after their brief altercation, Venus will receive a text message.]

sorry
I shouldnt have acted that way to you, I shouldve known better

[A brief pause.]

I was just scared
but thats... not really a good excuse

text; un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

yeah. i guess it isn't, huh

[ but that doesn't stay for along before it's followed by another message ]

but i don't even have an excuse like that for snapping at you?
i got angry, and freaked out, and i didn't hold it back.
so i guess we both messed up. haha.

i really appreciate the apology.
i'm not really used to that kind of thing.
and...
i'm sorry too.

un: gallowsCalibrator | after the meeting

[iustitia]

PST
H3Y
PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST

[wingstosee]

oh! hey.
didn't notice you there at first.
since you're being pretty sneaky.
what's up?

is this about troll michael jackson because i figured out some other people i could ask about

text; un: joker

[intrusivethot]

Hey, it's Amamiya. I don't know if you remember me from the first few weeks - voices in the walls? I called your wings creepy, but they were pretty cool, actually.

And I just wanted to ask you a few things about your party.

Moreso about Akechi Goro.

text; un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

yeah! yeah, i remember you. :)
and don't worry about it. i'm glad you think they're cool now.

what do you want to know?
about akechi, i mean

text; un: alucard

[reposing]

:)

text; un: alucard

[wingstosee]

hahaha!
oh my god. you actually did it.
that's great? thank you for that

:)

delivery |

[creatio]

( At some point a slip of paper is pushed under Venus' door. When unfolded, she'll see a drawing of herself in black and white. But with a few differences. One her face is definitely a fair bit more anime than real life, with big wide eyes and hair trailing all the way down to the ends of her wings. The second is that she has pointy ears. She's standing on what looks a smouldering mountain littered with dismembered body parts, two great battle axes bloodstained in her hands. Her floaty dress is also splattered, but Venus looks serene regardless.

In the very corner, instead of a signature, there's a small angelic rune. )

i'm gonna die this is so cute

[wingstosee]

[ venus doesn't even notice it for a few hours. it's only on the way out of the room that she finds it.

it honestly takes her a moment to fully process when she's seeing. but when it finally hits her, she giggles, and then she laughs, and before she really knows what's happening she's laughing and hiccuping and sobbing on the bed. it's a lot of emotions at once, and it's honestly a little alienating. turns out having the right body comes with a lot of weird side effects, and even if she doesn't mind them it's still a lot.

it takes a few minutes, but she finally pulls herself together. something this... just. nice? can't go unanswered. she'll need to find a way to make this up to clary. ]

un: hudie; after that one post.

[bu773rfly]

How are you doing?

un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

fine!!!
just great!!!

actually really badly!!!!!
but i'm glad you're alive at least???

text |

[creatio]

if you could turn into any animal you wanted, what would you choose?

text; un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

huh. i probably should know this?
but i guess i don't really know off the top of my head.
i might have said some kind of bird?
but i have wings now. so that seems like kind of a waste.
hm.

maybe a fish?
oh! wait. axolotls.
i just think they're sort of cute.

un: turntechGodhead

[oculusriffs]

[it's 12 hours into Operation Killed By Kidz Bop and Dave's got the weird urge to text pretty much everybody.]

[ok, so that's not actually weird for him at all.]

hey so
have you noticed the food tastes different
by that i mean it actually sort of has a taste
or maybe its being flavor blasted every time the proclaimers walk 500 fuckin miles
gives it that familiar hint of concrete and foot sweat
wait
hang on

[there's a several minute pause here, while Dave texts Terezi something really stupid.]

anyway
i thought id try seeing if i wasnt just making this up
so i tried getting it to shit out the gross food we made
clearly ive got nothing better to do right now than science experiments
but it turns out liver and onions are never not disgusting
ive been warning people about that btw
really would rather make em suffer unnecessarily you know
i tried making pizza too
here
what do you think
pizzawithpizzazz.jpg
i already ate it and i havent died yet

un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

why is your pizza in a cup

i mean i can answer the other parts too?
a few people were working on the replicators, and liver and onions sounds kind of gross in general.
but
for real. why a cup??

text; un: slothbaby

[morphogenia]

Hey! I just wanted to make sure you're okay now that I've slept a ton and ate like all the food. Sorry, I wasn't really around during that craziness. Long story, but I just wanted you to know that I'm here now if you need anything.

text; un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

oh! hey kamala.
i'm doing okay. i think? it's kind of hard to tell.
i've basically been useless for the past few days. haha.

i don't really know if i need anything off the top of my head.
actually, that's a lie. i do know?
but i don't know if it's really right to say it.

day 5 of the august event, when people really start catching on

[bu773rfly]

Uh oh...

[wingstosee]

uh oh?
did something happen

aside from the obvious i mean

text -> action

[merging]

I HAVE SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT TO SHOW YOU!!!
I'll be at your room in like a minute, okay? :)

[Once he's at her room, he refuses to tell her anything about the Very Important Thing. Instead he drags her by hand to the cafeteria where's he prepared a selection of space food for two. Or maybe more than two, he made a lot of food. There's, of course, bantha milk, but also space waffles, meilooruns, colo claw fish, deep fried nuna legs, and more. Honestly, some of it is food he's only heard of and never tried. Ezra does a little ta-dah pose, clearly proud of his spread.]

Soooo, what do you think?

text -> action; 1/2

[wingstosee]

um. ok???

[ and for a few minutes, she's actually quite concerned. what is it that ezra is wanting to show her? another cat? something scary? space problems? and the fact that he's refusing to say a word when he does show up just makes things worse! she follows him, her hand in his - and it's been long enough since she's had real, flesh-to-flesh contact aside from erika that it's actually kind of flustering - until she sees... ]

2/2

[wingstosee]

...oh my god.

[ at first, that's all she says as she looks over everything. it's food, that's for sure, and it actually looks pretty good, but it's- weird, and off, and stuff she's never seen before.

and then she sees the blue milk. ]

Oh my god! [ she beams, laughing and covering her mouth with her free hand (since ezra hasn't seen fit to let go and she hasn't tried either). ] Is that- it's bantha milk, right? Oh my god. Does it taste blue??

[iustitia]

[When Terezi had first gone blind, she had been so lost.

It's not something she talks about often. When she does open up about that day, it's always in positive terms -- the new perspective that came with being blind, the discovery of Prospit, the lessons of how to use her senses differently, the newfound connection with her lusus.

She doesn't talk about before. Waking up in the forest, eyes burning. Trying to get back up to her tree hive before the predators found her. Stumbling around her respiteblock in a daze, everything once familiar now foreign to her.

Her mother's voice had come to her while she lay dreaming in a pain-filled fog, terrified and full of despair. Chirpy and bright, she'd done her best to reassure and comfort her charge, and Terezi had drunk in every word like they were water in a desert.

"Oh. Hi there."

Hearing the devil's voice is a lot like hearing her lusus all those sweeps ago, but different, too. Terezi's breath catches in her throat, and it's like the whole world stops spinning.

"It hurts me so much to see you like this."

Trolls have no concept of the devil. There is no mythic creature of ultimate evil and temptation.

"All those thoughts and words and pain, trapped inside with nowhere to go."

There's no reason for Terezi to not sit there and listen. No reason to rebuke and deny.

"I can help you let it all out. These bodies I can give are so weak. But you don't have to feel this way anymore."

It's smoke and honey. A comforting voice cutting through the pain. The feeling of stretching out across timelines and universes for closure, taking what she wanted with her own power.

"You can change. But you have to be the one to reach out."

Terezi takes the devil's hand and lets herself be.






But change is hard, even desperately wanted and welcome change, and she finds herself knocking yet again at Venus's door. It's easier to ask for help like this, even after everything that's happened -- the disastrous pale proposal, the body double shadow makeout. The burden is still there, but it's lighter now. More manageable.

She doesn't feel as much like a dumb fucking idiot, at least.]

[wingstosee]

[ her memories of terezi and all the things surrounding her are fuzzy, there but just out of reach, like a perfect peach on a branch. she's thinking about terezi even before the knock - what sort of secrets does she have? she remembers most of their feelings jam (a pale one-night stand, according to the troll), and she can piece together a bit, but maybe not enough? definitely not enough. she wants to know more.

so when she opens the door, and, well- there she is? she can't help the way the smile spreads on her face, or the soft giggle that escapes her. mouths to speak, to open up and talk and to be heard for maybe the first time.

venus wants to hear them. ]

Come on in. [ she doesn't bother asking because she doesn't need to. they both understand, right? ] I'll grab the pillows.