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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-08 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ walks up behind him. also no longer midsommar and in her victorian fit. ]

What is that device?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-09 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... that was a reaction, but if he's not going to say anything then neither will she! ]

Yes. I've never seen anything like it.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-09 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ shaking her head. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-10 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Far away...? How far?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-10 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...

What would it need to connect to?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-10 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I think I understand...

[ as much as a victorian cryptid can. ]

So you'd need something that can... make those waves in the air?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-10 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I see... So it wouldn't be possible to reach anyone I know.

... Though it may be better that way, anyway. Do you have anyone you would like to try speaking to?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-11 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... hmm.

[ imagine having police. ]

Are you and your mother close?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-12 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
That's good. Bonds like that are important.
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Week 0, Saturday

[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ After the trial, Kate walked very quickly away from the pyre and ducked behind a building. Maybe it's the one Totty's staying at. Or he just happened to turn the same corner...

Here, she has her back pressed to the wall and her hands against her chest. She takes slow, deep breaths, one after another, like she's trying to regulate herself. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ another breath... and she bobs her head in a shaky nod. ]

Yes.

I just... needed a moment. We just condemned a person to death...
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
It didn't feel like it at the time, no...

[ ... ]

... What happened to Boothill could have happened to any of us, couldn't it?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
It does.

Our only source of power in this place, and it's already been turned against us...
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Right... Does finding one's partner only put us in greater danger? Or is the reward worth the risk?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know... If his partner was affected, surely they would be one of the other people who were active that night... either Aventurine, or the person who killed Death.

And if they weren't... maybe it's as you say. A coin flip, once the monster is summoned.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll try to talk to them, too. I need to know...

... I... I really don't want to remain powerless in a place like this.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

... So did I.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...

smoke starts rising from her head. ]


... It could have been... I don't know.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-16 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not afraid of him, or his gun.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-18 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ guess who also found a change of clothes! kate has a sunflower dress and matching headband. same shadowy visage, new sunny vibe. sort of! it's an attempt! ]

It is. It's all very peculiar, but I'm glad to finally have a change of clothes.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-19 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. You look very handsome, yourself.

It's fun to try new styles.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-20 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
That's right...

... In the manor, I always had to wear the same clothes every day, because clothes are one of the few ways shadows can distinguish themselves from one another. But if there's no one else here like me, then... I should think about what else can be expressed with clothes.

[ she will not wear a fedora. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-20 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. At the Shadows House, where the Shadows family resides.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-20 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ yes. but also, ]

Yes.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-20 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Family often is.

[ in a somewhat lighter tone. ]

But mine may be more so than most.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-22 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...... ]

... It's difficult to explain.

[ thanks kate, good talk ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-22 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
... Oh! What did they say?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-22 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That's... good.

... I'm not sure if good is the right word for it. But it's not as horrible as I feared.

Although... if someone is affected, and we have to dispose of them... the end result may still be the same.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-22 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she gasps. ]

You mean, someone from outside the fog came here to kill them? It wasn't one of us?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-22 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
... As do I. I feel terrible for bringing suspicion on Karma.
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Week 1, Thursday

[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-20 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ wherever todomatsu has ended up after cyoa returns, kate is coming to check on him. ]

Would you like some water?

[ she is, in fact, carrying a glass of water. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ she'll come over and hand it to him, then. and as she's up close, she studies him a bit. ]

You look very pale... How are you feeling?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ she sits nearby. ]

Would you tell me what happened, to give you those wounds?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ leaning in to peer at him. ]

What things...?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Monsters that bit your neck like that...

Could they be vampires?

[ she already knows there's a necromancer involved, so ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It must have been frightening.

How did you come to encounter them?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ eric how many of your characters have weird vampire trauma now ]

A party...?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
How strange... Could it have been an illusion or a disguise? Or did he really...

[ maybe that guy who sucks just wanted you to go to the vampire ambush party. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
You mean, it seemed like something the real person would do anyway?

[ yikes. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh... I understand. [ does she. ]

So you went to the party, and you were ambushed by vampires there...?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
... What happened then? Were the others there with you?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a soft gasp. ]

You were turned into a vampire?

What about now? Do you feel any different?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
In that case, you should eat something to replenish your strength...

[ ...?

but she does lean in a little closer to look at him. is he not breathing??? surely, she's mistaken about that. unfortunately for todomatsu, it's pretty much impossible to tell what she's looking at or what kind of expression she's making as she just leans in very close. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-21 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. I'm sorry. It's just...

...... May I check your heart rate?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-22 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Ah......

[ oh no. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-25 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...


... ]


W, wow...

I'm not sure I understood any of that.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-26 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
At least it seems... to have worked out in the end?

[ she sounds like she's hoping he will affirm that. ]

Were those people your family?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-26 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
How many brothers do you have?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-26 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow...

You were all just born that way? Like twins?

[ the way i keep playing from canons where people have to wonder if it's not some fantasy bullshit. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-01 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ walks up next to him, pulls out a book, and just starts flipping through it. ]

Oh, what are these? Illustrated stories?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-02 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
No, nothing quite like this.

[ i rolled to see if she'd luck into picking up his canon but no it's just some sparkly shojo manga... in the page she's looking at, the protagonist has just locked eyes with an incredibly handsome dark and brooding stranger. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-05 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ kate is still smoky after that. ]

... Yes. I thought someone would try to hurt her, but...

I thought we'd get a chance to say goodbye, at least.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-05 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Did she say that?

[ man...... ]

I think that would have been important to confirm, yes.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-05 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I think so, too.

[ tensing. ]

She wasn't going to be a threat to anyone, so why...
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-05 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
... But in the end, that's just... an excuse to kill someone.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-05 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I tried to ask Famine about what you told us... the person who might have acted for one of those prizes. But they weren't interested in discussing it.

War was willing to confirm that the prizes are only earned if one chooses to kill their target, and that those who are selected on Sundays and those whose monsters act for them are excluded.

[ so, things we kinda knew oocly. but kate can't read info page metatext so some of that was news to her. ]

... I wonder if we'll ever find out who killed Ichiban.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-05 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she nods, tensing as she does. it's really not fair. ]

Yes... It would be foolish for them to say anything. As much as Famine tells us not to concern ourselves with a culprit who won't kill again... they would surely become a target for revenge.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-06 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ or you were foreshadowing...... votes for you ]

I wish I could give them a piece of my mind.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-06 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
... Yes. We'll learn from this.

Thank you for telling us what you found out.
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Week 4, Monday

[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-08 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ happy thoughtshare monday! today's fit.

kate's at the boardwalk, staring up at the ferris wheel with awe. she gives a little start when she realizes totty is nearby, but then she gives him a polite nod and a soft little woof. ]


What a lively-looking place... even though there aren't any people.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-09 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
No, nothing like it.

[ I'm not sure the circus counts... ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-09 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Cat...?

[ she's rude too. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-09 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[ ??? ]

I'm not sure what to think of that... or of what's happening now. It is a bit intrusive...
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-10 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
... Yes, this way is really troublesome.

[ What if I start thinking something I really don't want someone to hear... ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-12 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, good point! There are a lot of interesting things here that I've never experienced before, after all.

[ It will be a good distraction. ]
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Week 5, Wednesday

[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-18 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ some time after the minievent, or maybe even during but like, when it's time for a break, kate is sitting out by the waterfall at the grotto. she's still in her dress and flower crown, but she's removed her shoes to give her little feet a break. ]

It's nice to get a little fresh air.

[ is it fresh air? in here? probably not, but it is a refreshing little spot away from the crowd. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-18 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes... it's a little overwhelming.

[ not that she can talk. her default emotional state seems to be one of intense misery and anxiety... though it seems to have lessened a little after this evening. ]

Still, I'm glad we did this. I've never been to a fancy party where I could just be myself before.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-18 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, well...

The entire system of nobility is a farce, really.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-19 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
I spent a lot of my time there pretending to be something I'm not, trying to blend in... It's very tiring.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-20 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ she's just sitting here in her bubble.

in tattered rags stained in red and black. horns out. wings folded neatly behind her. but otherwise, serene. she lifts her head just a little to face him. ]


Oh, Todomatsu. I'm sorry you had to see me like this.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-20 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ a pause. ] You knew about that...? [ when. ]

... No. The plan worked. I was unable to harm anyone last night.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-20 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ me yesterday like "i think you guys should gaslight totty for as long as humanly possible" but they were nice... tch.

she just nods. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-20 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ there's a pause, a little bit of reflection, and the feeling of something cracking a little bit. ]

... I wanted to tell him that it worked.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-20 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ another nod. and then,

smoke starts to pour out from her head. a sudden flood of grief and sorrow with it. ]


... Ahh. I told him, and then...

[ feelings of horror. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-20 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if that's the right way to put it. I did try...

But I was running away, too. Because I couldn't accept the answer in front of me...
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Week 6, Wednesday

[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-24 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ at some point, when they're away from the party crowd, this little faceless penguin approaches todomatsu. ]

Oh, Todomatsu. I hope we didn't scare you too much. Everyone got so excited...
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-24 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
No... it just kind of happened.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-25 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
... Everyone else was doing it.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-25 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Well--

[ oops! she blips out of existence. then she comes back. a little stunned. ]

...

... but "Jamba Juice" is okay now?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-25 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
... It's a bit frustrating.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-25 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
A little. Though I'm not sure which parts are getting lost at this point.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-08-04 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hehe.

[ she will give him a high five! ]

It's all thanks to you, Todomatsu. You did wonderfully.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-08-04 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Knowing what to say at the right moment is a valuable skill.

May I ask what's next for you now?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-08-04 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
R, really?

[ what do you say to that... ]

... Did you end up using your wish?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-08-04 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
We tried to warn you to use it sooner than later... One of the things we used our rocks for was to sever your ties to your monsters, so you can't become possessed in the future.

[ but that means losing the wish if it hasn't been used already. ]

... Do you have anything in mind yet?
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-08-04 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...

I see. That is important. [ i'm sorry to say that her opinion of todomatsu has just been elevated even higher. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-08-04 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
It would? Why?