#marella cipher

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For @descended-from-fairytales - Every Bubble's Got to Pop Starring Ash Waltz/Cora Vaguely Guest Starring Caladium "Cal" Waltz, Marella Cipher, Mary Delilah Rubinstein

"And just like that," Marella cocks her head to herself, as Iris climbs into her car to go back to the rehab, "We're ready."

"Ready?" Delilah looks at Marella. "Are you sure?"

"Completely, angel. She'll call ahead of her arrival, and when they remove him from his room, I'll--"

Blue fire flashes across the grass, forming a circle around the group. "--know. Now."

And with a snap of her fingers, ignoring Cal's overemotional reaction...

Waking up in her bed to the sunlight streaming in the window, she stretches and sits up, yawning and rubbing her face.

And, sitting there a moment, it all starts to hit her again.

Growing up in something that could count as a house, tight on space for the number of people in it. Her father's smile when she came in the door, last in line, whenever she and her siblings went out.

Joining Hemlock's gang, Aneela, the struggles she'd faced trying to keep her sister safe.

Kate, "Katie" before, someone who needed a friend, who needed people who cared.

Yarrow being released, the subsequent disappearance. Insisting to anyone who would listen that he hadn't run away, not really.

Learning the art of dance, learning to dance.

Meeting Ciri.

Meeting Basil.

She remembered.

Ash launches out of her bed, barely stopping for anything as she goes scrambling downstairs to see if anyone else was up yet. Cal looks over from the stove where he's apparently undertaking making breakfast for them. "Cora?"

"Uh-uh." She bounces lighting up. "Cal, Cal it's me. It's me, I remember, I--!!"

[autistic-arsonist]

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LOVE this, and I may have a few answers for you! (or at least, I've had some of the same thoughts abt the books lol)

I'm sure there are ways for elves to be born neurodivergent, but i don't think *they* know that. differing abilities already shows a huge amount of neurodiversity (and honestly the fact that one particular presentation of this, that being talentlessness, is culturally seen as the exception, i would probably consider that as neurodigergent even though it doesn't originate from a particular medical disorder.) i agree with your point that elves kind of don't care about mental health and maybe even psychology as a whole. Love that you brought up instinctively knowing the language, because elves have different accents, and as far as we know they are born with their accent, which again shows some level of diversity in this trait. They are also born knowing how to read their language in two alphabets, whereas Sophie, though she also possesses this trait, can read cipher runes instead of the formal enlightened runic alphabet. However, it's implied that this may not have been the case at her birth and resulted from subliminal training, so it may not be genetic.

I honestly take issue with a few things about Shannon's writing about elf birth, I don't know why she wrote that in. I have also wondered about them menstruating, and while I wouldn't completely put it past her to say elves don't menstruate, I also don't think she's gonna bring it up. I kind of wish she would though, if only for elf/human reactions to eachother's period devices. Elves would HATE tampons and cups. also, if elves do menstruate, then elves in their multihundreds must still have to deal with them considering both Edaline and Della have had kids in the twentieth century. At least due to their medicine, I'm sure elf birth control and/or other temporary reprieve (maybe permanent??) from periods is probably super easily taken with minimal side effects.

honestly there's probably a bunch of reasons they look similar even without being the same species or genus, but i wouldn't be surprised if there were a common ancestor.

as far that I know, Marella hasn't registered for the Match yet, if she ever will. She may have since I think she wanted to go early, but Sophie's a bit older than anyone in her grade, meaning it's possible that Marella manifested as a pyrokinetic before registering. (at the very least, I think she'd want to know if she has any abilities before registering since she's have to disclose them of her questionnaire, and she wouldn't likely risk giving wrong info by saying talentless before knowing, and it would be difficult to say that even when he ability was secret. then again, that's kind of the reason for a minimum age to register!)This would make her the first ever known pyrokinetic to register for the Match since the ability was banned, and there may not even be protocol for this considering she is the first pyrokinetic in that time not to be quote unquote "talentless", by means of either retroactive categorization or never triggering the ability, so any protocol in place may be outdated because she is a pyrokinetic who is not legally talentless.

That being said, I believe there is a good case for Marella being unmatchable. The Match exists, first and foremost, to min/max elf genetics, which is super gross. It also means there's a strong likelihood of Match algorithms being designed to discourage "unfavorable" offspring. That's why the triplets are considered to be the consequence of Juline and Kesler deciding to go against the system. While I'm sure there are bunch of questionable data or even straight up pseudoscience involved in the Match process, it doesn't change the fact that elves are likely to share an ability with one of their parents. Using the Diznees(/Reuwens) as an example again, Bex is a froster just like Juline, and Jolie was a conjurer just like Edaline. With all this taken into account, the Matchmakers may consider any couple that includes Marella to have too high a ""risk"" of having an elf baby that eventually manifests as a pyrokinetic, thus making her genetically incompatible with everyone in the eyes of the Match. on the other hand, depending on how high that chance can be before being deemed unacceptable, maybe she would be matched with talentless elves, because the offspring of a talented/talentless pairing are believed to have a decreased chance of manifesting, according to Marella circa. book one when she said Stina has a reduced chance of manifesting.

yes of course there should be an animated series. Dragon Prince animation style plus saturated colors is my fave idea. the architecture and clothing and jewelry etc is just BEGGING to be cartoon animated in any style!!

I agree that it's cool how many super feminine people kick ass in this series, and how it kind of uses the beauty of ball gowns to exemplify the elves' power, both percieved and material. (also gowns do serve absolute cunt and can make peiple feel COOL!)

But I wish the guys in the series got to wear gowns and flowy outfits too. You're telling me that THE sparkle species whose society revolves around shimmery lights so much they invented a color-shift ballgown, would also socially restrict men from wearing the color shift glitter gown? I think it's a cool worldbuild-y thing that gowns are a class thing, especially as a remnant from human-elf combined society, considering long, multi-layer gowns require so much fabric consumption and therefore cost to the sewist, which is honestly probably the logic behind flowy capes. I'm just saying, is it too much to ask that we get some frilly action on menswear? not to mention, I'm just not personally a fan of clothing being considered gendered in the Lost Cities since they're supposed to be less sexist (although the clothing thing is from earlier books and things have changed, even just by looking at dialogue, but that's for another day) since alot of the evolution of gendered clothing in humans came way after they forgot about elves existing. for example, girls and boys in the lost cities wear pants while only girls wear dresses. women beginning to be allowed to wear pants (aka being allowed to do something men do), the whole movement that brought us a social convention where lots of folks don't bat an eye at a woman in pants but don't like it when men wear dreses, is pretty damn recent. ESPECIALLY compared to the lifespan of even a single elf, so why would the evolution of elf clothing reach the exact same result? It's just not logical to me, and the part of me that can't turn off logic brain just wishes elves had mostly unisex clothing, emphasizing sillouette and fabric use, which denotes the hierarchies that DO exist (at least intentionally on Shannon's part) in the Lost Cities, rather than what is more or less a mirror of modern humanity, period-drama style.

also I did not mean to make that last one so long lol, all of these are just off the top of my head so sorry if it's weird and/or derailing.suspicious.

and while I'm on gendered clothing, ogre women and goblin women from what I remember all cover their chests while their male counterparts dont. It's possible this is less of a human-author-bias thing for a couple reasons. Ro mostly uses her "corset" chestplate to stache microbes in, Bo should be the same place as her in the hierarchy and has a similar amount of coverage, and I'm like, 90% sure there's a shirtless mother ogre character briefly mentioned in Neverseen. As far as goblins, the best reason i can think of for the women to cover their chests would be if goblins have humanoid breasts, and the bodyguard goblins require support, and possibly circumference-reduction for the sake of arm mobility. But it's a little strange that this would be the case because at least ogres and elves resemble primates, but goblins supposedly look like armadillos! WHY WOULD THEY HAVE BOOBS. anyways I just made myself go on a kind of rant there, and it is largely irrelevant to your original point. moving on now.

reverse theory: Youth water actually uses weird chemicals to make them age slowly and live long. Upon learning is The Water, elves would say it's the humans whose water is weird (and it is, but not entirely due to their reasoning). I really don't think any of the elves' brains are built to get ancient tbh. it seems suspish.

I bet Alvar knows about the French Revolution. and daydreams about it in a self-congratulatory kind of way, but doesn't do shit. Also I would LOVE to see and elf get over their genetically-ingrained near-fatal violence allergy that quickly. Actually, do you think they teach the French Revolution in interspeciesial studies class at Foxfire?

Marella is basically being watched, and she's lucky she made a good first impression on the council and didn't end up at exillium or worse (although exillium curriculum had a SERIOUS overhaul around when she manifested) other than her, Brant's ability was secret, and any other pyrokinetics who reached the manifesting age-window post-ban likely didn't ever manifest since their abilities weren't triggered, and could have dormant abilities. Marella was already unique case, but due to the rarity of her ability it's hard to say what a normal case would look like during the ban for someone her age, because there aren't any who were contemporarily known to the government. Socially though, if there WERE people in-the-know, I think it'd vary by the group. you know how Fintan, the guy who fucked up so phenomenally his ability got banned, was so judgy about Linh and Tam being twins? Imagine Brant watching a campfire and, idk, brooding, when done other Neverseen member gets all rude about him being near fire. Marella even mentions the way everyone reacts to her power, and while her freedom is basically dependent on her being liked-slash-percieved-as-nonthreatening by the council ir would probably take more than that to get her in real trouble imo.

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KOTLC thoughts/ideas/questions:

•Can they have congenital neurodivergence (as opposed to personality disorders [often a result of adverse childhood experiences] or TBI impacts [Mrs. Redek can confirm a bad hit to the head can cause mental health issues] or shattering)? Before you come after me, I am neurodivergent and as far as I know, the subject of things like ADHD/autism is only really mentioned as Sophie wondering if the Ability Restrictor functions like an ADHD simulator and we know elves and humans have significant differences. For example, elves have more emphasis on the brain but not as much emphasis on mental health. We also know they can deliberately regulate their body temperatures, suppress certain sensations such as hunger, and they pop out of the womb completely fluent in the Enlightened language.

•This may be a bit strange, but seeing as this is being posted on Tumblr… I just need to know if elves menstruate. They definitely have reproductive differences. Pregnancy is immediately obvious and childbirth is no more than a little uncomfortable. Multiple births are rare to the point of prejudice towards the babies. But we also know they’re not SUPER biologically different from humans or other organisms, really: they have toilets and defecation is mentioned. Also, Sophie’s biological (not necessarily neurological; developed several special abilities, one of which at the age of five) development was relatively normal. If elves don’t need toilets, there would have been major medical concerns. But I digress. Elf periods: do they exist and are they any worse than human periods?

•theory: elves and humans are actually the same species but they’ve been separated for so long that they just aren’t super genetically similar anymore. But we know they look like humans. So theoretically…

•Can a Pyrokinetic and a Talentless match?

•kotlc animated series. I’m reading the books but I am SO TEMPTED to write a script and stuff

•Gowns actually are empowering. They got that right

•theory: humans might be able to live as long as elves but we have toxic chemicals and no Youth so we age and stuff

•someone is going to learn about the French Revolution and kill the council. I can feel it.

•Would a young Pyrokinetic get in trouble for just looking at the fire? I feel like Kyrelle would just stare at her little fireball (top thought needs answer because it may be visual stimming)

[incorrectatdhqquotes]

Spencer, holding up a mop: Rebecca, what is this?

Rebecca: ...a mop?

Spencer: Alright, Marella, tell her what you think it is.

Marella: ...a wet broom.

[rages-ooc]

My Muses as Songs on My Playlist (2/3)

Keefe: “Home”, Three Days Grace

Kyla: “Don’t Worry ‘Bout a Thing”, SHeDAISY

Lexa: “Stand Up”, Fireflight

Lillian: “Better Than You”, Caroline Kay

Lily: “Dirty Souls”, Five Knives

Maelona: “No Such Thing as a Broken Heart”, Old Dominion

Marella: “Paranoid”, Milestones

Margo: “DARKSIDE”, Shinedown

Melinda: “Legendary”, Skillet

Nancy: “Are You Happy Now?”, Megan & Liz

Nick: “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)”, Gary Allan

Nikki: “I Can Feel It”, Hey Violet

Nova: “Most Girls”, Hailee Steinfeld

Oliver: “Life’s a Dance”, John Michael Montgomery

Owen: “Long Live Rock & Roll”, Daughtry

Penelope: “I Lived”, Caleb and Kelsey

Phoebe: “Little Miss Perfect”, Taylor Louderman & Write Out Loud

Rebecca: “Hey, Princess”, Allstar Weekend

Ruby: “Battle Scars”, Paradise Fears

Saavik: “Good Vibes”, Chris Janson

Sabrine: “Sit Still, Look Pretty”, Daya

Sammy: “Woman”, Kesha

Sapphire: “Bubblegum Bitch”, Marina

Sophie: “It’s Your Life”, Francesca Battistelli

Stephanie: “Stay Alive”, Andy Black & Matt Skiba

Stina: “Monster”, Imagine Dragons

Sylvia: “11″, Cassadee Pope

Taylor: “Queen Bee”, Rochelle Diamante

Teresa: “Run”, Lauren Alaina

Vanessa: “Better Than Love”, Hayley Kiyoko

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Double Solo Para: Got a Real Good Feeling Somethin’ Bad About to Happen (Delilah/Marella)

Delilah grips at the lunch tray for a minute and glances around, spotting empty seats around a girl and going over. “This seat taken?”

Looking up, Marella blinks at the new girl. “No, but I’m sure you’ll find out why before too long.”

Delilah smiles as she sits down. “What do you mean by that?”

“Oh, just that people aren’t usually lining up to talk to me,” Marella chuckles coldly. “I’m Marella Cipher.” She extends her hand to the other.

Delilah nods, shaking her hand. “Good to meet you, Marella. I’m Delilah.”

Marella blinks. Okay, wasn’t expecting that. “Sorry, maybe that wasn’t clear--”

“No, no, Cipher, shaking hands, no one likes you, gotta be Bill Cipher’s kid, right?” Delilah raises an eyebrow with a laugh and eats a bit of her lunch, shrugging. “Believe me, sunshine, I don’t care.”

Marella blinks, sitting up and squinting at the girl a bit, glancing into her eyes and pausing and lowering her voice. “Oh. You’re good.”

“Anything but, darling,” Delilah lowers her voice as well, smiling a bit and leaning in. “I’m what’s known as an Angel of Darkness, and my official business here is looking for a little half-breed angel who wasn’t supposed to survive her dive from our tower, and yet... well, she’s hiding here at Auradon Prep. Unofficially, I’m just ordinary, sweet little human transfer Delilah from New York.”

Marella giggles, leaning in a bit as well. “Ooh, I like you. This is gonna be fun.”

“No doubt about that,” Delilah agrees as she sits back again and goes back to eating. “So, friends?”

She offers her hand again.

Delilah doesn’t do friends, not at her core.

Neither, however, does Marella.

Smiling, Marella reaches up and shakes her hand. “Best friends.”

This was going to be fun.

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descended-from-fairytales​:

Quin reaches down, lining himself up and pushing into her slowly. He pushes in as far as he can, focusing on fucking her deep. Groaning softly, he starts slow, deliberately thrusting his hips teasingly.

She gasps, eyes crossing and rolling up. A loud moan escapes her, and she barely reaches up to grab onto him, digging her nails into his back. "Ngh, ah, Quin--!!!"

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Solo Para: Things Are Gonna Get Weird

"There you go, firecracker," Bill remarks to his daughter as Marella pulls back to glance at the eye she'd carved into a post. "That'll serve you better if we ever get out of here, but your technique is perfect."

Marella turns with a smile. "I've been working on it."

"I know," her father answers with a smirk, and Marella chuckles and rolls her eyes as he throws an arm around her shoulders. "Now, let's get going. We have so much more to take care of today still."

Not really, but sure. After another couple hours, they're finally out of the market and heading back to the little place they called home. Not much of a home, really not much more than a couple rooms atop a much larger building that was only accessible from one door directly outside it and necessitating a lot of rooftop climbing, but it was a shelter and a place to talk in private.

Nobody bothered the Ciphers but if they did, it was impossible to sneak up on them at home. Most people didn't even know where it was. So Marella was pleased with just a pretty, torn purple curtain door in the entry, she thought it added character and her dad didn't complain much. Once they get inside, she sets their gains of the day on the rickety, three-legged table they'd propped against a wall, ensuring it remains balanced. "So, one thing I've never gotten. How're you so sure that we'll ever get out of here?"

"I just know," comes the usual answer and Marella can feel the mischievous 'I know something but I'm not telling you what' glint in his eyes with her back turned to him. "Do you need to work harder in your concentration sessions?"

"Ugh," is her response. He makes her spend a couple hours everyday after school (even when she doesn't go he lets her wait till the end of the regular school day) practicing 'concentration' of... her energy, she supposes is a good way of putting it. Her power.

It's strange, but sometimes she swears he's onto something, because it's like she feels something there, in her, but... it always goes away before she can grasp it and fully form it. Shaking her head, Marella continues. "What aren't you telling me?"

"Have you ever wondered how they did it?"

"Stop answering questions with questions," Marella sighs as she pulls a bruised apple out of their groceries and tosses it over her shoulder at him. No thump-- be it to the floor or his head-- signals to her that he caught it, of course.

"Fine. I meant, how Auradon managed to change my form and trap someone like me under a barrier that renders me pretty well powerless."

"Gravity Falls kept you and Weirdmageddon in a bubble," she comments offhandedly, finally turning and glancing partially over her shoulder. "So, no."

"Ouch, right through the heart," Bill melodramatically clutches his chest.

"You have no heart," she scoffs, "So what's your point exactly?"

He laughs a bit at that and shakes his head. "You're smarter than that, firecracker. Think back."

Marella runs through their conversation, pausing as she considers one of his phrases and her eyebrows furrow, finally turning to fully face him with the next question. "Wait. You said 'pretty well' powerless. There's no way you're telling me-- Hades and Chernabog are--"

"Chernabog isn't powerless, otherwise we wouldn't have a little squadron of his brats running around," he reminds her, and she pauses because he's right, and then he continues, "Hades was never exactly strong to begin with, but the weakened faith system in deities since Auradon came together rendered him useless when the barrier came down. I may not be at full strength, but I'm by no means dead in the water. I, my dear, remain a being of pure power. Something not even Auradon can control."

"So, why did you let this happen?" Marella asks, rhetorically because she knows he's not going to answer, and of course, he doesn't. Just turns back to putting away the things they'd gotten today at the market and leaving her to think on it.

And she finally has the answer when she comes to visit him today in rehab. "So, you like it here?"

Slightly coded phrasing, it sounds and looks like a concerned daughter seeing how her dad is doing, but they've worked out a system to keep from being listened in on since she was a kid, and he knew what she was really saying. Her dad smirks and sits upright in his seat across the table from her, leaning forward. A confirmation of her theory. "Does anyone like a cage?"

"I'm sure you learn something new everyday." Marella mirrors his posture. "It seems like a lot of folks around here know what they're doing, and routines make it easy not to worry about their processes and all."

"Sure, but I'm keeping an eye out," he answers, confirming her next theory. "There's always weak spots in any armor. It just takes knowing when to exploit them."

"Good luck, dad. I mean, who knows what they're learning too, outside here?"

"Only one way to find that out."

Their conversation continues but Marella files away her mental notes. Auradon got their hands on dad because he let them. They have him right where he wants to be, because he can learn more about their magic's strengths and weaknesses from the inside. He can adapt to it if he can figure it out. And he's already strong enough that he has the full use of his eyes again.

[incorrectaskstorykidshq]

Lyra: What is wrong with you?!

Marella: I don't know! A lot of stuff I guess!

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Double Open Starter: Save Me! (Billy/Marella)

“Hello.”

Billy looks up at the voice, jumping in alarm at the appearance. “...hi?”

Marella grins, something very “cat-caught-the-canary” about the look on her face. “You’re one of Spencer’s friends, right?”

“Uh, that’s a bit roundabout, but kind of?” Billy shrugs. He was much more connected to Rebecca, but he definitely had gotten to know her boyfriend through the years.

“I’m Marella,” she introduces with a smile, offering her hand to shake his.

He doesn’t take it, holding up his gloved hands as silent explanation and glancing around for some kind of help. Yeah. Spencer talked about Marella Cipher.

So did Yarrow.

Billy looks around desperately for help as he just answers, “Oh, yeah, he’s mentioned you-- hey! Hi, how’s it going?”

He throws an arm around the nearest passerby, eyes begging them to help him get out of the situation he’s found himself in.

[ofragesaesthetics]

                             Marella Soleil Cipher                       Daughter of Bill [Gravity Falls]

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descended-from-fairytales​:

Fuck, that feels amazing. Quin moans deeply, quickly getting to work with his own tongue. He moans again at the taste of her. He starts slow, taking his time to make her feel as good as possible. One of his hands wraps around Marella’s thigh, while the other rests in Delilah’s hair.

she moans against Him when He moans, shivering and oh so slowly pulling gently back off, licking up Him, wanting, needing to make Him feel so good as she takes His tip in her mouth again, oh so slowly bobbing her head.

Marella moans, tilting her head back slightly already. Fuck, that felt incredible.

[winniethepoohx]

presmouse starter meme !

"i think i heard screaming coming from the swamp. wanna go check it out?”

"oh, my god, are you vomiting? OH, MY GOD, ARE YOU VOMITING -"

“i miss him/her/them/you.”

"so, spill the tea ... who do you think will be president after mickey?”

“can i hold your hand? maybe i shouldn’t have asked that ... but can i?”

“as long as we’re friends, you’re never going through anything alone.”

“girls don’t want boys. girls want other girls who will hold their hand and braid their hair.”

"hey, what should - no, stop screaming, it's just me - what should we get for breakfast?"

“alcohol isn’t my friend? YOU’RE not my friend.”

"so, like, no offense or anything, but ... is 'into the woods' ever actually gonna have an opening night?"

"have you ever slept in your life, because it sure doesn't fucking look like it."

“not everyone is going to hurt you.”

“oh, my god. you need to take better care of yourself!”

“i’m gonna bail you out of jail one day. i know it! i just know it!”

“i couldn’t fall asleep, so here i am.”

"what do you think would happen if someone just ran head first into the isle's barrier?"

"no, take me to get french toast with maple syrup. it's what i deserve."

“excuse to see you? check.”

“no. i want CUDDLES, not SNUGGLES. there’s a difference.”

"i'm not saying that one of the students here has to be powerful enough to take the barrier down, but ... that's exactly what i'm saying, come on."

"i'm bi - bilingual, bisexual, probably bipolar, too."

“oh, my god. stop calling me that.”

“well, i thought you were funny, but, hey, life’s full of disappointments.”

“put the sweater on. it’s cold, just put the fucking sweater on -”

“hypothetically ... what would happen if i snorted ibuprofen?”

"do you think all of the royals are real? one of them has to be an alien. which one do you think is the alien?"

"how come when a child has an attitude it's 'gonna get them far in life', but when i have one it's 'disrespectful'?"

“you … you never had a problem with it before.”

“i will pick you up and carry you if that’s what it’s going to take.”

“you’re only ever crying, oh my god.”

"nothing interesting has happened in forever. where did the monsters, dragons, and mysteriously dead people go?"

“you could have fucking alcohol poisoning!”

"why are you running - WHY ARE YOU RUNNING -"

“no, i cried in the bathroom. you know, like any NORMAL person would do.”

"is there even a straight person in auradon?"

"oh, fuck me ... oh, no, not literally. and most certainly not you."

“these flowers would look cute in your hair!”

"do magic, not drugs."

“you’re about as useful as an expired coupon.”

"IS THAT BLOOD, OH MY GOD -"

"i don't mean to sound like a bitch, but i deserve a fairy godmother."

"i would trade you for the robots any day."

"well, i could have texted, but then i wouldn't be here."

“if you were a plant, you would be a weed.”

"i'm not saying that isle food is better than this shit ... because it isn't, but -"

"please, don’t go.”

“drinking until you puke is not normal.”

"so, king adam or king beast? you know, for research."

"what happened to going with a grand, romantic gesture?"

“how long will this go on for?”

“i’m running for president. run, RUN, running for president!”

“what are you doing out here? it’s late.”

“where can i get some good cough medicine to get high on?”

"i'm not a math problem, i don't have to make sense! ... but i do!"

“you look like you’re on the verge of death. lets get you home.”

"no, i'm just kidding ... but really, though!"

“no. you’re not invited. tonight is girl’s night and you’re a dick.”

“we’ve been through so much and i told you: we’re in this together. always.”

“easy. i’ll throw myself down the stairs so you’ll have to take me to the emergency room.”

“you’re my best friend. you’re SUPPOSED to deal with the second-hand embarrassment.”

DRACO erebus | TAYTUM possible | WESLEY fenton | HADLEY long | CERIDWEN blackwell | AIKO hamada | PRIMROSE lee | LONDON lunar | EIRA wynters | BEAP meap | BERNADETTE bernard | LAVINA morte | OTULISSA showenhower | BONNIE utonium | ARTIS muir | NO-FACE too | AMERYKAH rogers | AIRLEA tesia | MINNIE mallow | MEREDITH purcelle | AMBER mclain | VENICE archer | SERAPHINA moreau | KENNETH gucci | LUCINDA tasi | ORALEE fitzherbert | GALATIA marmoreal | DESERAE tremaine | MALLORY corville | LETHE haddock | DOVE pines | MINGXIA zhang | DELTA babcock | CHAO cipher | POCKY von schweetz | JEZEBEL-VELVET cruorem | NERO flynn-fletcher |ALMERA sutton | ERO 404 error | CASTALIA lefevre | CIRCE godwin | PETAL lour | MARELLA waters | SWEETLY mosi | VIOLET rus | COPELAND coddaire | RASPBERRY pie | AUBURN bear | LEVIATHA nerezza | JULIAN theros | LUMETTE asteria | ZIMA ellisair | KELEOS leures | ELSPETH kelty | LOLITA monrova

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Marella, taping a small knife to a roomba: Be free, my child, be free.

Spencer, coming into the room with a small cut on his ankle: WHO THE FUCK--

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Lyra: What is wrong with you?!

Marella: I don't know! A lot of stuff I guess!

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Marella scoffs. "Oh, wow, you seem to have vastly misinterpreted this situation, thinking you have power here. Let me make something abundantly clear."

In an instant, the world seems to pull to a grayscale and time outside the house freezes. The only color seems to come from Marella, the nearby candles that suddenly have a pink flame burst to life around them... and oddly enough, Cora. Marella sneers, her voice warping, echoing, and she seems so much... bigger, all of a sudden, growing significantly larger than the pair. "You are nothing, you have no power with me, and if you think you're in the place to argue or backtalk when I allowed you use of what I am, you should think again before I do something really drastic." Her eyes turn to slits, pink and almost glowing.

Cora almost whines in fear. A half-whimper bubbles out of her. But then she remembers the message Cal had passed on to her, through Hemlock.

Don't be afraid. You'll know when.

Now seemed to be the best time.

Launching up, getting between Marella and Ciri, the hybrid snarls and growls at Marella, black veins extending down her neck and snapping her fangs. Marella suddenly backs off, the color and light returning, pink flames dissipating as time starts again. She practically falls back into her chair with how quickly she'd retreated from Cora.

Cora growls, curling back into Ciri again, weighing it all over in her head. Had Marella been... scared of her? That didn't seem possible.

Marella regathers her composure. "I can see now isn't a good time. I can come back when your dog's out."

Cora growls, getting up before Marella has a chance, grabbing her by her shirt collar. "You won't be coming back. It was so kind of you to leave your connection in my brother loose and that you allowed Ciri to use it."

She's not compelling her, she's not even trying. But she sees the fear in Marella's eyes, she knows it's not a lie this time, and Marella takes a breath and nods, forcing her own composure. "I'll be on my way. But I'll be keeping an eye out. Don't test me again," she adds to Ciri, vanishing.

Cora relaxes back, blinking a few times, turning back to Ciri as if confirming that happened.

Ciri scoffs and rolls her eyes. She's spent too long being scared of how people might use her powers, and she does not have a fuck to give anymore. "I didn't play with anything. I fixed what I broke. The help was appreciated, but if you didn't want to be a part of it, maybe you should've taken better care of your own magical connections."