#but riku is the lake lady

[hollowwhisperings]

The Mythology of Keyblades: Riku the Beach Boy of Avalon

This theory is partially Crack and partially a genuine investigation into the usage of Arthurian mythology within the KH series.

(this line from Monty Python & the Holy Grail inspired this whole theory: all i had to do was replace the referenced [Lady of the Lake] with Riku)

If you've loitered about the Kingdom Hearts fandom enough and read enough interviews with Tetsuya Nomura, you'll soon conclude that Riku is Tetsuya Nomura's Favourite Child in this series. Riku is the driving force for most of KH's story beats & Riku has played deuteragonist to Sora, story-wise if not in gameplay, in every game that isn't a prequel. Riku seems to gain a new & unique special ability with every game (often at a harsh price). Yet, for all the time the audience spends with Riku... the series is very careful about revealing anything about the boy beyond his utter devotion to Sora. The game even encourages players to Forget and Overlook the integral roles Riku plays in the series, typically via throwing a Kairi between him & Sora.

Jokes aside, while Riku's Secret Anime Prince coding is STRONG, it is not the point being explored here: there are 2 seemingly nonsensical Disney Crossovers established prior to most everything else: 'Alice in Wonderland' (something somewhat explored in my 'Princesses of Light as Stars' series of tinhattery) and 'The Sword In The Stone'. This post shall examine the latter, an animated adaption of the King Arthur myth, and how it is represented in KH not solely through the character of 'Merlin' but as the underlying principle behind the x-blade, Keyblade Wielding & how Riku acts as Kingdom Hearts itself.

Boy at Beach Distrubiting Swords

Let's start with Riku's Keyblades: he has had more than one, not due to gears or keychains but due to... apparently being able to churn fresh swords from his Heart as the Plot Requires.

The different keyblades used by Riku throughout the series thus far are the following:

Kingdom Key (Sora's default keyblade)

Souleater/Way to the Dawn (Riku's default from KH1 until KH2.9)

the Keyblade of Heart (while possessed by Apprentice Xehanort's Heartless, AKA Ansem Seeker of Darkness);

the [Combined Keyblade/"Gayblade"] (alongside Sora)

Braveheart (Riku's current keyblade)

(given that King Mickey found Kingdom Key-D in the Dark equivalent of the Destiny Islands & the whole "x-blade was made of light & darkness" thing... THAT keyblade, currently wielded by King Mickey, may ALSO come from Riku)

That's 5 different keyblades (6 if we include Kingdom Key-D), and ALL have been seen onscreen with at least 1 other, typically Kingdom Key, marking each of these keyblades as being 'distinct' and 'separate' from each other. Before figuring out what Heart Maths may be at play here... a brief interlude.

Young Adult Gifts Toddler Giant Sword: More Wholesome than it Sounds

Supposedly, the ability to [manifest] & "wield" a keyblade is only possible through a successful Bequeathing Ceremony: Terra performed such a ceremony for Riku in BBS. This, however, is a method passed on by the Master of Masters & subsequent schools of keyblade masters: given... literally EVERYTHING seen on "traditional" schools of keyblade mastery, this Premise is Factually Dubious. The series shows multiple characters manifesting or otherwise wielding keyblades without any such ceremonies: even assuming that these rites "carry over" through acts of Posession and Cloning, the Need for a ceremony becomes questionable. This would not be the first (nor last) time in the KH series that the "knowledge" of Foretellers, Mentors & Scholars prove to be Assumptions rather than Absolute Fact.

Exhibit A: Axel & Accidents

Axel is the best example as, unless we are later informed that Subject X performed the ceremony on Lea (or that Roxas or Xion did so without knowing), Axel has never been part of nor possessed by an existing keyblade wielder: his keyblade is entirely his own, a surprise to all.

Sora & Kairi were never formally bequeathed a keyblade though the latter "accidentally" inherited the ability from Aqua in BBS. Sora never had such a ceremony, the KH Wiki (dubious resource that it is) explains Sora's keyblade wielding as being a result of Ventus sleeping within Sora's Heart: I think it is more likely that, unlike the Formal Ceremonies of past keyblade schools may have taught, Hearts do not actually require outside recognition of "worth" in order to manifest a keyblade.

Once Upon A Meteor Shower

Riku's Heart entrusting Kingdom Key to Sora in KH1, a last-ditch effort from its Light to keep to its Oath of Protection, strikes me as being more "faithful" to what we have observed of keyblades in-game. For all that the formally schooled Keyblade Wielders past recited "May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key", no one embodies the intent of this principle more than the entirely self-taught Sora: Riku and King Mickey likely next closest in trusting their Hearts over what they have been taught.

A Heart entrusting its physical manifestation to Another due to the Connection between them seems a "Truer" bequeathment than the (admittedly heartwarming) recitations of a stranger. Keyblades may NOW be deemed "weapons" to conquer Darkness... but the original x-blade was made of Light AND Darkness, a union of forces working in balance rather than opposition. The first x-blade was a tool for Protection, not Hurt: a creation of Heart and, thus, of Love.

Exhibit B: Body & Hearts

A creation of "Heart". As in, 1 heart = 1 keyblade. Multiple hearts in 1 body? Multiple keyblades.

Roxas is the Go-To example: the Nobody Twin of Naminé, created when Sora "unlocked" Kairi from his Heart whilst Ventus slept within it.

Roxas, in his every appearance, is capable of Dual Wielding: a keyblade from Sora, a keyblade from Ventus. Upon gaining an independent, replika body... Roxas can still, apparently, dual-wield.

...despite no longer sharing the Hearts of Sora nor Ventus (nor Xion).

(as this is a Riku speculation post, not a "what the heck is up with Roxas" one, i'll just... put a Pin in this mystery for now but the "maths" of 1 heart = 1 keyblade are, indeed, still facts of canon: Nomura confirmed as much when revealing the Above Album Art he made for Utada Hikaru's KH3 songs)

Exhibit C: Proof of Concept

Then we have Aqua: she lost her keyblade between saving Ven & falling into Darkness. The keyblade of Master Eraqus came to her aid: this is consistent with the established concept of Bequeathing Ceremonies. It's uncertain whether the same person can bequeath keyblade-wielding to multiple persons but it seems likely given the scale of the Unions in KHX.

(At that same point in time, the Heart of Eraqus was hidden within a Nort'd Terra: 3 Hearts existed within Apprentice Xehanort, all of them in conflict with each other, to varying degrees.)

The keyblade Aqua receives, the keyblade of Master Eraqus, is named 'Master's Defender'. This was originally the keyblade of the Dandelion Brain but was passed onto Ephemer and from pupil to student until eventually being inherited by Eraqus. This seemingly aligns with the concept of Masters 'bequeathing' keyblades to students, specifically THEIR keyblades.

Interestingly, Riku has never wielded Terra's keyblade (or its likeness, via keychain) 'Earthshaker/Ends of the Earth' after its being bequeathed to him, likely due to its remaining with Terra's 'Soul', the 'Lingering Will' within his armour. If this is the case... NONE of the keyblades Riku has conjured or wielded are a result of his Bequeathment Ceremony. Terra's Keyblade becomes a 6th (or 7th) keyblade connected to Riku, albeit an unused one.

Speaking of Terra...

Xemnas (the Nobody of Apprentice Xehanort AKA 'TerraNort') is NEVER seen wielding a keyblade, let alone two.

...but he DOES wield two [lightsabers]/'Ethereal Blades'.

If Xemnas had ever believed in his own personhood, it's plausible that he could have dual wielded keyblades like Roxas... though the conflict between the Hearts of Xehanort & Terra are unlikely to have cooperated long enough for dualwielding to be sustainable in combat.

Back to the Beginning

Kingdom Key was formed by the Light within Riku's Heart. That Light entrusted itself to Sora while Riku himself was lost in Darkness. Riku is later seen wielding a different keyblade, 'Soul Eater'. Given that KH1 sets up a premise of there being 'two' Kingdom Keys, one of Light & one of Darkness... perhaps 'Soul Eater' was made from the Darkness within Riku's Heart. Maleficent or Ansem SOD would know better than most anyone how to create such a thing.

(it's still Weird that Riku's Heart is the ONLY Heart we see capable of manifesting TWO, simultaneously existing & separately wielded keyblades: Riku using Souleater never prevented Sora from using Kingdom Key; Souleater becoming 'Way to the Dawn' did not affect Kingdom Key; and Riku & Sora use each other's keyblades interchangeably in KH2, even dualwielding at times)

While Riku is possessed by Ansem SoD (the heartless of Apprentice Xehanort), he wields a keyblade forged by the hearts of 6 of the 7 Princesses of Heart: this keyblade is named 'Keyblade of Heart' or 'Keyblade of People's Hearts'. This is an artificially made keyblade, wielded by an entity made up of at least 4 people's Hearts (Riku, Xehanort, Terra, Eraqus) and it does not seem to survive past Ansem SoD's defeat.

During the events of KH2.9 (at the 'Drop Point' between the first timeline of KH3 & Sora's First Retcon), Riku and King Mickey find themselves struggling in the depths of the Realm of Darkness. They had hoped to find the missing Master Aqua yet their journey has only proven the point of Master Yen Sid's preventing such a rescue 10 years prior: alone, surviving the journey to the abyss would be all but impossible. Similarly, Sora immediately post-DDD would not have survived the pace set by Mickey & Riku: Sora needed the lessons and confidence boost he found through Herc & Meg before he was truly ready for Aqua's Attempted Rescue.

Before Sora has his Hero Moment (complete with Riku's slow-mo heart-eye reaction to it), Riku's keyblade 'Way to the Dawn'... breaks. Riku also spontaneously gets a Hair Cut. Not due to any attack landing on him from the Demon Tide nor due to any bout of Gay Agony: just... "randomly" (Sleeping Realm Theory covers this).

So then Riku casually manifests a BRAND NEW KEYBLADE, while not at all possessed nor acting as a Heart Hotel, and that keyblade is Braveheart.

(which is basically Kingdom Key but Make It Modern)

It's also in the Realm of Darkness that Sora & Riku first wield their Combined Keyblade whilst in the same plane of reality: in DDD, they wielded their blade across parallel dreamscapes. The [combined keyblade] in KH3 looks exactly as it did in Dream Drop Distance: half Mirage Split, half Nightmare's End.

How Many Hearts Does 1 Riku Have?

The highest number of "hearts" occupying 1 Riku is 10, in KH1: his own, Xehanort's & Terra's, the ghost of Master Eraqus (still biding his time for Maximum Drama), with the 6 Disney Princesses of Heart smooshed within the 'Keyblade of Heart' the Riku Vessel is wielding.

By that time in KH1, both Sora and Riku have wielded Kingdom Key. Riku had also acquired & begun wielding the 'Souleater' keyblade.

Kingdom Key is the keyblade born of the Light in Riku's Heart: a sword entrusted to a Crowned Prince from someone hidden within water, a gift that marks its wielder as a saviour and a fate-chosen king. Sora bears Riku's Crown, a pendant he is never seen without, and Riku (& his Heart) was sinking within both literal (storm and tide) and metaphoric (falling into darkness/sinking within deep waters) waters when Sora receives Kingdom Key. When Sora arrives in Traverse Town, the Final Fantasy & Disney characters there hold Kingdom Key in reverence: the Key follows Sora so THEY follow him too.

There is an Irony about every keyblade-related argument Sora & Riku have in KH1: Kingdom Key WAS Riku's before it was Sora's, the authority of the sword & reverence given to its wielder WAS on "loan" from Riku... but, ultimately, the wielder chosen by the Physical Representation of Riku's Heart & the Light within it?

Yeah, no, sorry Riku: your Heart Likes Sora More.

After KH1, Riku never attempts to "reclaim" Kingdom Key: it's probably during the events between KH1 & KH2 that Riku realises that Kingdom Key is not only a literal manifestation of his own Heart but that he believes Sora to be the best person to wield that "Heart", that "Destiny".

Even if Riku had not somehow managed to manifest the Souleater/Way to the Dawn keyblade, needing to "borrow" Kingdom Key during his year-long vigil at Sora's bedside... I doubt he would have KEPT the sword or that it would let itself be "kept".

Riku's unique connections to both Light AND Darkness make it somewhat reasonable to conclude that 'Souleater' is the Dark counterpart to Kingdom Key: a keyblade formed by the Darkness of Riku's Heart, a keyblade that evolves to 'Way to the Dawn' and Riku's efforts to master his Darkness and return to the Light.

(this still begs the question: how the heck does Kingdom Key-D fit into all this?? no, i'm genuinely asking: what is up with that keyblade)

ALTERNATIVELY! Kingdom Key-D was very logically forged by Riku's Darkness, manifesting in the Realm of Darkness alongside the Fallen Destiny Islands. This makes it Interesting that Mickey could carry it around prior to personally meeting Riku but, regardless of any realizations on its nature & likely relationship with Riku (or Sora), Mickey wields this keyblade-D from KH1 onward.

(This potentially leaves Mickey's Original Keyblade, seen in BBS, as yet ANOTHER keyblade available for Riku's use: the count has risen to 9, 8 if excluding Key-D.)

So... if Riku's Darkness forged Kingdom Key-D, what was Souleater & what IS Braveheart?

Alt #1: Riku, like any Strange Pond Person, can summon as many Magic Swords as Destiny Requires because... he is Literally Kingdom Hearts & that leaves ALL hearts "free" for his use.

Alt #2: The keyblades Riku wields (Souleater, Way to the Dawn & Braveheart) are all manifestations of SORA'S Heart. Sora may be oblivious as to why he is so fixated on Riku but, if Chain of Memories is anything to go by, Sora's HEART knows what it wants, damnit! Even without any allegedly required Bequeathment Ceremony, Riku is a "Child of Destiny" and had already crowned Sora as one too: just as Riku's Heart reached out to Sora, Sora's Heart may have reached BACK for Riku. Thus both boys end up with Keyblades: each holding onto a piece of the other (somewhat literally).

This gives additional explanation to their easy trading & wielding of each other's Keyblades in KH2: the keyblades "belonged" to BOTH boys and always had.

This interpretation easily applies itself to Sleeping Realm Theory, too: 'Way to the Dawn' still "broke" because of Riku's Sacrifice but instead of figuratively representing Riku's Heart "breaking" via his actually Dying, it would represent physically the effect that Sacrifice had on Sora: his Heart broke, "dying" with Riku.

Alt #3: Riku's extra keyblades were from Maleficent, "Ansem", Ansem &/or King Mickey. The timeline allows for Maleficent's providing Riku with the 'Souleater' keyblade: it does not QUITE align for the broken connection between Riku & his Would-Be Fairy Godmother that we can assume happened upon her death in KH1, nor account for any effects caused by her subsequent "resurrection". The timelines required for the other candidates to be involved are not consistent with that of the games nor supplementary canon.

Before wrapping up, let's acknowledge the Giant Crowned Rainbow Sword in the room:

The [combined keyblade], wielded by Riku & Sora in DDD & KH3, is a manifestation of "their Hearts [beating] In Tune". It is That Simple: any efforts to straightwash its existence WILL cause plot holes so just Accept The Gayblade is Gay.

That the Gayblade just so coincidentally resembles both the Ultima keyblade(s) and various x-blades, definitely fit most description of what the x-blade is & how it can be made?

These are also Just Gay. Kingdom Hearts has been building up to (gay) Love being the Ultimate Power of the series from its very beginning: it has ALWAYS used heart imagery and symbolism, used Disney Couples to mirror the changing relationship of Sora & Riku, used "the connections between hearts" as a child's understanding of love (in all forms).

The logical evolution for a Coming of Age journey about a Boy & his Best Friend, in a series that repeatedly uses & is named for 'hearts', who have become stronger as their hearts became more attuned... is for said Boy to realise, acknowledge and recognise that the connection of their hearts has Changed into something less platonic: romantic love, like that between couples in Disney films, like Riku (& Selphie) brought up to Sora through star-shaped fruit before ever exploring those stars personally.

The [combined keyblade] was naturally forged through mutual devotion: its existence implies that the fabled x-blade of legend was ALSO forged by mutual love, that Kingdom Hearts chose its guardian because of Love, that the x-blade's legendary strengh came from its need to protect its dearly Beloved: there is no Straight Explanation for Sora & Riku being able to make the combined keyblade.

[bearsanpancakes]

Nagi Rokuya i-HAKE! Rabbit TV - Part 3: The gentleness of a gentleman

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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Nagi: Mitsuki, Mr. Momo! It’s morning already! Let’s go find the lost Kokona together!

Momo: Yawn, morning… Eh, it’s still dark out…

Mitsuki: You’re already awake, Nagi? You got up really early, huh…

Nagi: I was unable to rest at ease knowing that Kokona is all alone in that forest.

*Rustle!*

Nagi: …!? This is—

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Mitsuki: Here! The coffee is done brewing~!

Nagi: Thanks!

Nagi: Oh! It smells nice!

Momo: You’re right, it does smell nice. Thank you, Mitsuki!

Momo: …ah, it’s hot!

Momo: But it tastes so good…! It’s a suitable drink to have when you’ve just woken up~

Mitsuki: Using firewood to brew coffee is also one of the joys of camping.

Momo: So that’s what’s known as field coffee!

Nagi: The cup is a kuksa [1], isn’t it? How nostalgic! The owner of a bakery that I’m acquainted with really likes this, they always use this sort of cup.

Mitsuki: Oh! Even the tableware has a Scandinavian style to it!

Momo: Using such stylish tableware early in the morning, my mood has become better.

Momo: Plus… we were able to find Kokona, that’s amazing!

Nagi: Once our coffee time is over, let’s return it to the little girl. I hope we can see her smile with ease.

Mitsuki: Yup, I’m sure she’ll be very happy!

Momo: That’s right! But… I never would’ve expected Kokona to be left right beside the tent.

Mitsuki: It’s easier to forget things if they’re nearby, after all…!

Nagi: Hm… Is that so?

Momo: Hm?

Nagi: Maybe Kokona wasn’t forgotten beside the tent, but was instead delivered to us by someone in the middle of the night.

Mitsuki: …are you talking about the staff?

Nagi: No, the hint lies with Kokona’s sandwich cookies.

Momo: That’s… the snack you gave the forest fairies, right?

Nagi: Yes! The gift I gave them is gone, whereas Kokona appeared at the same spot as I’d placed the snacks.

Nagi: Although they like to play tricks on people, they’re still very kind. Maybe they saw that the little girl was on the verge of tears and quickly brought it back.

Mitsuki: Then, what you’re saying is…!?

Momo: If that’s the case, then it truly is romantic!

Momo: It sounds like something out of a fairy tale!

Nagi: I’m being honest. It reminds me of Northmeir, with the way it feels mystical and joyous.

Nagi: This truly is a pleasant morning, I’m really happy to be able to experience camping!

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IDOLiSH7: …

Riku: Wow… that’s amazing! Were there actually fairies!?

Tamaki: There definitely was, right!? They brought back Kokona, after all! Sogo: That is true, the forest and the lake are spacious, so it wouldn’t be weird if there were unknown beings there.

Yamato: Yup, just like how a Zashiki-Warashi would appear in some Japanese-styled hotels~

Iori: The atmosphere of the VCR suddenly feels like that of an urban legend’s…

Mitsuki: Hang on a second…! The VCR was definitely leaning more toward the beauty of a Scandinavian-style camping trip, wasn’t it!?

Nagi: Maybe it was the beauty of a Japanese style, instead.

Mitsuki: I don’t think that’s how it works!?

Riku: Um, Nagi! Did the little girl feel better once her Kokona plush was returned to her?

Nagi: She did, she was happily hugging Kokona!

Mitsuki: It seems like she slept soundly at night as well because Nagi’s Kokona plush was there by her side.

Tamaki: Nagicchi’s so considerate. How do I say this, you’re suuuuper cool!

Iori: You’re like a gentleman who, without a trace, spreads kindness, since you were naturally able to make that little girl feel at ease.

Nagi: Making a lady feel at ease is a gentleman’s duty.

Yamato: As expected of an authentic gentleman.

Mitsuki: She gave you and your Kokona a matching set of camping outfits as thanks for helping her find it too!

Nagi: Treasures that are important to me continue to grow in size…! This truly is a wonderful memory!

Sogo: Camping does seem really fun. The same goes for fishing, although everyone didn’t know what to do at first, you all had so much fun fishing in the end.

Tamaki: That’s so nice~ I want to go camping too…!

Nagi: Oh… If that’s the case, should we discuss it with Mr. Momo?

Nagi: I coincidentally received a message from him earlier saying “I’ve compiled a list of recommended campsites for you!”

Tamaki: Really?

Nagi: I gave him my thanks for letting me experience such a wonderful camping trip, so he invited me along for the next trip as well.

Tamaki: Really!? I want to go too!

Riku: Me too!

Mitsuki: Yeah, then let’s all go together! I can be the guide for everyone once again.

Tamaki & Riku: Yay!!

Yamato: Have fun, just remember to bring home some souvenirs.

Tamaki: What are you talking about!? Yama-san, you’re coming along as well!

Mitsuki: Ossan, there are a lot of things for you to do! For example, starting a fire, building a tent, and so on!

Yamato: Even if I went camping, I’d just stay in a small wooden hut…

Sogo: If we all work together, the work can be completed in a flash.

Yamato: Aha, you’ve gotta be kidding me…

Iori: Although it’s simply camping, there still are various different styles to it. For example, your camping experience this time was that of a Scandinavian style.

Nagi: That’s right, this camping trip reminded me a lot about Northmeir.

Riku: I really hope that we can go camping in Northmeir someday!

Nagi: The summer season of Northmeir is very comfortable and pleasant. It’s unlike the winter season that you’ve all experienced the last time you went, so it’s perfect for you all to experience a different side of Northmeir.

Nagi: Just leave the tour guiding part to me.

Tamaki: Yay!

Sogo: Nagi-kun’s i-HAKE was really interesting as well. It’ll be Riku-kun’s turn next.

Riku: I’m looking forward to it…! I’ve had some ideas on what kind of i-HAKE I want to make, and I’ve thought of a lot!

Iori: I don’t think that decision is in your hands…

Riku: I know that! I’m just saying that’s how excited I am!

Nagi: I’m sure a wonderful experience awaits you ahead.

Nagi: Just like this camping experience, it has already become a precious memory of mine.

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End of part 3 

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[1] - A Kuksa cup is a hand-carved wooden cup made of a birch burl. You can read more about Kuksa here and here 

[scout-company]

Atlas—Chapter 4: Get a Wiggle On

“We’ve been…having an issue with thieves as of late,” the coily-haired woman starts, twisting the cuff of her glove some more and fidgeting with it until the button fitting it to her padded sleeve comes undone. 

“Bandits?” Scout wonders. Riku mentions things about bandits every now and then. 

The lady shakes her head. “Not technically, no.”

“They’re ex-convicts from the penal colony here,” the other lady pipes up, leaning forward to peer around Scout. Briefly she dips back into that oddly bouncy language that makes Scout’s translator ping again and relay her mutter, “Olga, fix your glove.” But then she switches back to Galactic Common just as quickly to continue explaining, “They’ve been a nuisance ever since we set up this camp.”

Scout tilts her head with a concerned buzz, “Penal colony? Ain’t that jus’ a fancy word for a jail? Why do y’all have a jail nearby?”

“It was here before we came,” the coily-haired lady—apparently named Olga—notes, “Been here for decades. We’ve only dared check it out once, but as far as we can tell, the ex-convicts there have completely taken over their facility and turned it into a base.”

“There’s a reason we settled way over here. This is one of the few suitable areas far enough away from them that they don’t give us any trouble,” the other lady adds. 

Olga nods, lips twisting a bit into a disgruntled frown almost as scrunched as Semyon’s. “But recently they’ve been sending raiding parties to try and steal some of our stuff. Last time we tried to tell them off, Lonnie nearly got a hammer to the face,” she says, gesturing to the other lady, who grimaces. Apparently her name’s Lonnie. 

Lonnie groans and rubs a hand across her cheek as if massaging a bruise there. “Ugh. Don’t remind me.”

“So…they nabbed the stuff for the trade whatsits just before I got here, I reckon?” Scout concludes.

Both ladies nod. Lonnie lets her hand flop into her lap as she sighs, “First it was provisions. Now it’s this. What to those jerks want?”

“They want us off their turf, probably,” Olga scowls.

Scout looks between the two of them, then turns to watch the blurs of light outside dance along the wall of the tent, tossed and turned in the sandstorm. By now she’s fidgeting by running the cloth back and forth over her dagger’s blade, despite the blade being more than dry by now. The soft sound of coarse cloth over that resonant metal rings just under the whistle of the outside wind, filling the silence for a moment, but then Scout inquires, “So where’s the jail from here?”

Olga blinks at her, automatically replying, “Several miles southeast from here. Near a dried-up lake,” before frowning warily and saying, “You don’t…you don’t actually plan on going there, do you?”

Scout shrugs idly with a pop. “Yeah.”

“I wouldn’t recommend that. Those guys really don’t like outsiders,” Lonnie warns quickly, leaning forward enough to look Scout square in the face. “They don’t even leave the native Fenerox alone. The Fenerox locals treat that facility like a curse.” 

“I ain’t a Fenerox though…whatever that is,” Scout fizzes back, finally putting the cloth down and twirling her dagger into a solid backwards grip in her hand. “An’ the folks back home were mighty pushy ‘bout this trade deal.”

Both Lonnie and Olga’s eyes flick warily to Scout’s dagger when she twirls it into a firm grip, but then they glance at each other before glancing at the lights dancing along the tent as if seeing through the storm. 

After a long moment of biting her lip a bit, Olga takes a breath and says, “…I still wouldn’t advise going there. Especially since you’re not Human or Fenerox. But if you’re still determined to go, at least wait until the storm blows over. It’s not good to travel in a sandstorm.”

Scout tilts her head to concede her point. “Eh, that’s fair. Can’t ever see nothin’ in the storms back at Haven Valley, either.”

So she waits. There isn’t much to do in the small tent—Lonnie eventually even puts her helmet back on and heads back outside—but Olga is more than willing to pass the time with a bit of chat. Apparently this camp is only a few months old, according to her. Aiming to build up a proper mining town. She mentions something about the prospectors finding some resources in the planet’s crust in this area that are said to sell well on interstellar markets. Hence the trade deal with Riku, who has connections. Although Olga does complain a fair bit about the climate, having apparently grown up in the northern regions of her home planet. Scout just thinks her moaning about the dry air is funny. 

Eventually even chatting gets boring, and Scout barely contains her fidgeting enough to not try and stand up right there and then in the squat tent. But fortunately for her waning patience, the wind starts to calm down within an hour. As soon as Olga idly mentions something under her breath that Scout’s translator catches as thinking the storm’s passed, Scout tucks her dagger and her miniature Matter Manipulator—that she’d taken out to inspect and fidget with—back into her pockets and lets herself out of the tent before the lady can say otherwise. 

“Now ya said southeast, right?” Scout verifies once Olga follows her out of the tent, orienting herself that direction. There’s still too much dust in the atmosphere to see the stars above very clearly, but the rest of the camp is visible now. 

It’s bigger than Scout expects—several clusters of two to three tents, each around a campfire, are scattered throughout a small valley. Most of the campfires are doused, but a few are still going and a few other tents have lights on inside. There aren’t very many trees at all—Scout can’t quite tell if they’ve chopped trees down to clear the area or of there just weren’t many trees originally—but the few trees that do stand are pale and leafless. And the ground isn’t much better; it’s parched and barren, with some of the stone looking just as pale as the trees in the light of the campfires. A far cry from the colorful, lively desert back home. The only thing keeping the settlement from feeling absolutely dreary is the echoes of laughter and indistinct chatter from some of the tents. 

“Yeah, southeast,” Olga confirms, stepping around Scout to point over the hills that direction. The sky over the hills is barely starting to turn purple with the haze of pre-dawn. As she and Scout peer at the dawn, Olga notes, “It’s several miles away, so it’ll be a fair trek by foot. I…would offer to let you use one of the minivans, but they’re in need of maintenance.” 

Scout hums idly, watching the stars slowly hide from the hazy sunrise, twinkling away one by one.

“Wait, you came here by ship,” Olga realizes abruptly, “Couldn’t you just—”

Scout shakes her head, fidgeting with the Manipulator in her pocket. “Nah. Not as far as I know. Not unless y’all got coordinates for me.”

Olga makes a disgruntled noise as her expression twists a bit. But then she huffs lightly, tucking some of her coils back behind her ears before putting her helmet back on. “Good luck out there, then,” she says, patting Scout once on the back before shouldering her rifle and walking off.

Time to get a wiggle on.

As far as Scout can tell as she weaves between the clusters of tents, most of the folks here are asleep. Some are awake and chatting to each other in that bouncy language Scout can’t identify and her translator fails to pick up due to low volume. But most of the tents are dark and silent aside from the odd snore or two. Scout does her best to step quietly through the camp, but between the insects she keeps riling up and the stones and sticks she keeps snapping underfoot, she doesn’t manage that very well. 

There’s a small hill roughly in the middle of the settlement, crowned by another one of the barren trees and braced by wooden scaffolding. A few Humans are on watch atop the scaffolding; one gives her a wave while the others stare. Scout returns a quick salute as she passes on her way out of camp.

The dreary, parched desert continues a fair ways past the camp boundary. The soil beneath her is cracked worse than a shattered window, and here and there are small piles and stacks of—are those bones? A quick scan from Scout’s Manipulator confirms, yup, those are bones. Dry as the rest of the desert, crumbling to a shapeless pile when Scout accidentally kicks one. Morbid. Scout avoids them as much as she can.

Fortunately the driest part of the local desert seems to be behind her. Before the camp even hides from view, arid grass starts to overtake the parched soil and shrubbery dots the idly rolling hills ahead of her. As does the occasional hut, made of packed dirt and woven sticks for walls and dried grass for a roof. Scout catches sight of a few of the hut dwellers peeking out as the sky continues to gradually lighten; the few that spot her back just stare.

So they could be where that incessant feeling of being watched is coming from—that niggling buzz on the back of her neck that returns as Scout wanders away from the Humans’ camp.

But despite how huge the eyes of those hut-folk are, even from hundreds of feet away, somehow Scout doesn’t think the pricking feeling is because of them.

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[amyhayanora]

@khoc-week​ Day 6 - What are some special connections your character has?

A very special connection the twins have is Merlin. and they don’t even know it. I’ve expanded The Sword in The Stone’s world, which is their original world, with some Arthurian cycle’s lore inspirations and so they were basically raised by Ambrosius (one of the old names of Merlin) and Nimue (Viviana/Lady of the Lake and in some versions mixed with Morgan). Ambrosius and Nimue taugh them writing, reading and magic on the island of Avalon, and according to both legends and disney movie, he has prophetic powers and is a time traveler: that’s how, even if his powers were not so accurate yet, he predicted the betrayal of Nimue and settled a plan B to save their kids, sending them to Daybreak Town and applying on them a spell to help reversing their transformation in Dream Eaters after khux. The twins have no idea Merlin is ambrosius, they can’t imagine he’s still alive after all that time, and even if Merlin recognized them immediately, he doesn’t want to tell them the truth about Nimue and the end of Avalon, and ruin the memories of the woman who basically was their only mother figure. I’d say Merlin has his share of fun playing dumb with the twins, noticing they still keep their hair pink after a funny accident happened during a potions lesson as children, an still using the names he and Nimue gave them...

Chirithy: once in Daybreak Town, they were alone, the two of them. living alone in a small apartment, sharing the same room and paying the rent with money gained killing monsters. Chirithys are always the ones who give them wise advice, and kinda acting like life coach. Tia’s chirithy kicks her out of the bed when she’s late, and scold her when Touma isn’t there. they are friends, but they are mostly a family.

speaking of friendship, out of the circle of their friends/party in union X, someone who they both can address as friend is Kairi. They train and live together with her and Lea for most of their KH3 storyline. Tia is just happy to have a girl so close to share love torments, treats and jokes. she shows her all the pictures Sora sends them from different worlds. with Touma wasn’t so easy, but they are the firsts to wake up and Touma usually cooks for everyone in the morning, so they started to share time in the kitchen. Sometimes they sleep together if Tia isn’t around, because the twins suffer insomnia and nightmares when alone.

Touma has also a strong particular friendship with Ienzo, so particular that if riku didn't make up his mind in time, it could have defeloped in a romantic relationship. Ienzo anctually has a crush on Touma, and when I have Tou interacting in Friends’ AUs where their ocs are already paired with Riku, Touma is usually dating Ienzo. Riku is with Hinata in the picture below, lovely @hinataoc​ ‘s OC.

Otherwise, they are usually paired with Riku and Axel. tia and Axel are partners in crime for pranks, betting and challenging each other for every stupid thing. She calls him ‘her sidekick’ . They aren’t a couple yet, Tia just thinks isn’t fair confess her feelings now that Axel isn’t still used to human emotions.

Touma developed his crush for Riku during DDD, confessed at he start of KH3 and rejected. Riku simply never had so much time to focus on his own sexual preferences, or if he can date a boy or not. in that moment sounded weird and anyway he saw Touma only as friend, so no, except for slowly changing his mind later. They are both the ‘big brothers’, the responsible ones, so it’s easy showing weakness to someone who understands the same burden.

[figureskatingfanblog]

More 2021 - 22 Olympic Season Programs

Men

Kao Miura (JPN) - SP: Four Seasons by Vivaldi

Mikhail Kolyada (RUS) - SP: The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky; FP: “Schindler’s List”

Dennis Vasiljevs (LAT) - SP: Princess Mononoke; FS: Romeo and Juliet

Shun Sato (JPN) - SP: Summer by Vlvaldi

Yuma Kagiyama (JPN) - SP: When You’re Smiling by Michael Bublé

Keiji Tanaka (JPN) - SP: Paris (Shin Evangelion Theatrical Version)

Kazuki Tomono (JPN) - SP: Love Theme (Cinema Paradiso)

Alexander Samarin (RUS) SP: The Matrix soundtrack; FP: ‘Lord & Master’ by Apache, ‘Save Us’ and ‘La terre vue du ciel’ by Armand Amar

Keegan Messing (CAN) -  SP: "Never Tear Us Apart" performed by Joe Cocker; FS: "Home" by Phillip Phillips; Choreography by Lance Vipond

Daniel Grassl (ITA) - SP:  Nureyev - The White Crow, coreography by Benoit Richaud

Matteo Rizzo (ITA) - SP: Hurt by Johnny Cash, choreography by Benoit Richaud; FP: Two men in love, choreophy by Massimo Scali

Petr Gumenik (RUS) - SP: Leave a Light On by Tom Walker

Ladies

Alina Urushadze (GEO) - SP: Creep (Contortion)” by Les 7 Doights

Rion Sumiyoshi (JPN) -  SP: Je suis malade by Serge Lama; FS: Mulan Soundtrack

Young You (KOR) - "The Leftovers" soundtrack; FP: Les Miserables

Mai Mihara (JPN) - SP: I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables

Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) - SP: Gladiator Soundtrack

Satoko Miyahara (JPN) - SP: Lyra Angelica

Mana Kawabe (JPN) - SP: Winter by Vlvaldi

Rika Kihira (JPN) - FP: Titanic

Yuhana Yokoi (JPN) - FP: Fat-bottomed Girls/We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions medley by Queen

Bradie Tennell (USA) - SP: "Restrictus" by Mario Batkovic, choreography by Benoit Richaud

Stanislava Konstantinova (RUS) - SP: Gypsy Dance from Don Quixote

Loena Hendrick (BEL) -  SP: “Caruso” performed by Lara Fabian, choreography by Adam Solya; FP: "The Mystic’s Dream" by Loreena Mckennitt, "Spirits" by Chronis Taxidis, "Enta Omri" by Achraf Kallel

Gracie Gold (USA) - SP: East of Eden; FS: Daphnis et Chloe

Wakaba Higuchi (JPN) - SP: Your Song by Ellie Goulding

Eva-Lotte Kiibus (EST) - SP: Barbatuques by Baiana, choreography by Benoít Richaud

Pairs

Anastasia Mukhortova / Dmitry Evgenyev (RUS) -  SP: "El Choclo" by Ángel Villoldo

Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord (SWE) - SP: Twilight Saga Soundtracks

Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (RUS) - SP: Claire de Lune by Debussy

Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson (USA) - SP: “Come Together” cover by Gary Clark Jr; FP: “Never Break” by John Legend

Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) - SP: Hallelujah by K.D. Lang

Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitri Kozlovskii (RUS) SP: Swan Lake, choreography by Nikolai Morozov

Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier (USA) - SP: House of the Rising Sun, choreography Shae-Lynn Bourne; FP: Fix You by Coldplay, choreography Renée Roca

Ice Dance

Oona Brown / Gage Brown (USA) - RD: "How Ya Like Me Now” by Kool Moe Dee and “I Got The” by Labi Siffre; FD: "Exogenesis Part 1" and "I Belong to You" by Muse

Carolane Souscisse / Shane Firus (CAN) -  Tina Turner/Donna Summer/Barbara Streisand medley; FD: Music by Charles Aznavour

Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin (RUS) - FD: Romeo and Juliet soundtrack

Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha (CAN) will be keeping their Rhythm Dance from the previous season.

[ac-liveblogs]

Okay, I have reached.... I’m going to say probably halfway or so through Ladylake(I haven’t hit the dungeon yet)? Sorey has made a contract with Lailah and being honest... this game is really cute!

The plot premise - evil calamity corrupting the world, only King Arthur the Shephard can bring the light back - isn’t the most exciting, but so far the cast is endearing enough that it’s not bothering me too much. Sorey, Mikleo, Alisha and Lailah are all adorable - I’m especially fond of Mikleo and Lailah, who are both quite cute. 

Sorey’s a nice, if unexciting, MC. His relationships are kind of goofy (mostly with Mikleo), and he’s funny enough in his own way. It’s funny to watch him manhandling Mikleo while Alisha is in the midst of hero-worshipping him, for example. I’m not expecting any depth from him, but he’s fun for now.

I like Alisha! Even if I don’t like her minishorts design! I’d assumed she was the love interest, but Kyogre tells me that’s not the case (lol). 

Lailah zipping between a wise and mysterious lady and... kind of an airhead, is actually really nice. Though... a fire-elemental Lady of the Lake isn’t... exactly what I expected. I’m also surprised they didn’t name her Vivian or Nimue; they aren’t exactly going easy on the Arthurian references here (they’re a liiiiittle inconsistent on that, actually; it’s seriously bugging me that Elysia is named for a Greek concept. Tir na Nog or Avalon were right there! Why is there Celtic iconography in Elysium???)

Mikleo on the other hand isn’t quite what I expected from him. I’d sort of anticipated a more kh1 Sora-and-Riku-esque dynamic, but there’s... really no word for he and Sorey besides ‘entirely wholesome’? While I initially assumed there’d be bitterness over Sorey heading into the company of humans (I expected the two to separate for some angsty reason), I’m now thinking the corrupting force that’s turning people Hellions is probably more likely for drama issues (there’s plenty to mine with Sorey and Mikleo; I can think of a few things already).

I’m not expecting anything too deep or subversive in the plot, so I plan to take it easy and enjoy the characters. And maybe work out why this game turns my controller red :I

[swynlake-spill]

So as Lady Fipplehorn, which dream couples are you rooting for IRL? And which ones should definitely ONLY be in our dreams??

oh u mean rate them all and pass ultimate judgement? absolutely! 

Duke Tod Sionnach & Baroness Melody Oceana: 6/10 

HONESTLY... 

i think they’re both too shy iRL?? ive never seen two introverts work what would they even talk about where is the passion 

might work best as friends  

i do desperately want to believe im wrong 

ok i have a grudge bc melody should be with tiana irl... 

But maybe. Just Maybe.

Her Royal Highness, Ashley Armbruster & Countess Ashleigh Quinlan: 8/10

overall very predictable 

if i say anything too mean though i’ll be kidnapped and duct taped to the front of a moving car headed straight into the atlantic

best remains in dreams bc if they dated IRL then we might as well rename the town Ashley-Lake 

truly the stuff of both nightmares and viral reality tv shows. i shudder at the power

 Baroness Gliss Wintergrove & Miss Tiegan Khan: 7/10 

didn’t see this one coming but never met gliss in my life!! she keeps to the hollow so far huh 

um two hot ladies though what is there to complain about???

Gliss seems too sweet and down to earth IRL for Tigg to woo her but I love crazy people with introverted people its the spice of my life 

would like to see on a date at hatter’s even if it isnt otp  

Lady Holley Shiftwell & Marquess Mu-yeol Bae: 7/10 

this one is wIIIIIILD 

imagining the awkward vibes in real life i think they are strong enough to topple buildings 

would not trust holley with a teenage child personally (for HER own safety to be clear)

ok i admit it........im so curious

why not

MAKE IT HAPPEN 

Lieutenant Tiana Truitt & Viscountess Amity Blight: 2/10 

absolutely not

amity is not technically too young but she does not have her shit together enough to be the strong, supportive, sweet, responsible, rich partner that Tiana deserves (she deserves melody. yeah i know she was a gossipy ho that makes me like her MORE) 

thank u next 

Viscount Iandore Lightfoot & Viscount Riku Nakayama: 11/10

YES

OTP 

CLEARLY MEANT TO BE FOREVER

HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT MY GIFT FOR THE WEDDING 

Lady Tallulah Robinson & Rev. Al McWiggin: 8/10 

contrary to tallulah’s opinion probably, she does not actually deserve him

that being said i think they would actually work together p well 

they have “opposites attract” energies. 

as a bonus, i think tallulah would look really hot in cosplay 

Captain Thomas Harrington III & Lady Arista Triton: 5/10

middle of the road couple for me 

probably bc im sure if u swapped arista for another blond ol’ tommy probably wouldn’t even notice

ultimately think Arista settled 

i dont hate this tho and tommy WOULD BE SO LUCKY to date arista.

 So! Here’s some advice, Harrington: Arista is your ticket to reputation redemption. 

[angelspigeon]

Rewrite  the Stars - Chapter 06

Thank you to everybody who kept reading it!! You’re awesome!

Thank you so much!!

Here is the AO3 door! |  °|

Exhausted, Isa was lying in his bed. Just a few minutes between the representation, more training and the next representation… But at least, he could offer himself just a handful of minutes. He should eat something too but Demyx got his back for that. The easiest way for him to be sure his brother was eating.

Often, he asked himself if he was just too focused on work to forget all the time to take some food… or was it something else?

Isa moved his hand on the side, searching the big rabbit plush Demyx has offered him. It was quite rare he did need to hug it but sometimes, like today, he needed it. His fingers landed on something soft and he grabbed it but… it was Lea’s scarf. He clenched a bit his hand around the soft fabric and brought it against his Heart.

Today, it has been hard…

Xemnas showed more possessiveness and it was hard. While he could have done a relieving spectacle, with Braig, he felt that Xemnas was jealous and wanted to show him he belonged to him. He could understand because he really did get well along with Lea… He had been genuinely sad and frightened that he could use him, lie to him, for sad purpose… And it seemed like non-sense to him because… Because the only other person he’d feel that way, except for Demyx of course, was Braig. But he knew him since so long…

“Is it possible to just want to make people happy?” he wondered, pressing his fingers on the fabric.

“I do!”

Isa turned his head toward his brother.

“However you’re a treasure,” he replied.

“Whatever the reasons! I do!”

Demyx put down a plate next to him and smiled at him. Isa let go on the scarf and got up to hug him. The younger couldn’t help but smile, snuggling in his arms. The hugs coming from Isa were so rare, he could only enjoy them.

“You’re okay?” he still asked, glancing at him.

“You’re here, why would possibly go wrong?” Isa whispered back.

Demyx snuggled a little more in his arms.

Isa rubbed his back but something was still in his guts…

“The new recruit, Lea… He was in Radiant Garden with us before…”

“Yay! That’s fun to find him back!”

“He… You remember him?”

“Yep!” Demyx looked up at him. “I’m not surprise you didn’t though… You were always busy. When you weren’t taking care of me, you were studying or training!”

Isa did know that but he didn’t tell it so because Demyx tone was so soft there, he just hugged him tenderly, pressing a kiss on his temple.

“I love you,” he said under his breath.

“I love you too!!” Demyx replied, hugging him more tightly, a big smile on his lips.

One week later

Fire circled around the ring, you couldn’t see the slightest thing, a real storm, seeming untamable blocking the view, letting the public breathtaking.

At the moment it became less strong, they could see silhouettes through the flames.

And when it disappeared…

Twenty-four artists at once.

The public didn’t know where to look anymore, amazed. At every second, there was something new to watch. Two acrobats in the loop, the lady in the tightrope, young boys flying in the air, animals…

They could only get excited by the elements.

And when the lady jumped from the tightrope, only caught up by a big and strong man?! What about the acrobat helping the other to get down on the floor only to jump and landing on the shoulder of the Strongmen that didn’t even flinch when he received this weight, just moving his hand to hold the artist as he was only on the tip of one foot? And the boy climbing on the back of a Lion, or the lady surrounded with snakes licking her skin. Or the little girl in such a strange position because of contortions.

“This was the Organization XIII Circus! Here to amaze your eyes, here to make you forget what real life is!”

Fire suddenly appeared and when it disappeared, there were no more artists. The curtains of the backstage were closed and, indeed, it was like the whole crows had dreamed all of this…

In the other side, Dilan held out Isa’s hand so he could easily jump on the floor. Obviously, the man thanked it and moved aside to catch Demyx when he launched a hug on him.

“That was awesome!” he said.

“Yes!!” Ventus approved along with Xion.

“It’s really fun to be all on the right at once!” Ava continued, a fox next to her.

“Yeah!” Sora approved.

Gula walked toward him to help him to get down of the big feline.

Lea felt happy that his idea had been liked, that Xemnas had given a try. In his opinion, there was something strong between all the members here.

“Ienzo, you were right to offer this,” Xemnas said, walking toward Isa.

Ienzo and Lea glanced at each other at this moment. Of course, Ienzo never said it was an idea from Lea because the Ringmaster really didn’t like him. It wasn’t surprising. Isa and him kept training and Lea kept making smile Isa. And his fire Performer was good. He couldn’t even try to push him out because the public loved him and few member pf the Circus too. Like Roxas, Xion and Kairi but also Ienzo who kept help him with ideas. He was a master in illusions, of course it was fun to find surprising tricks together.

“Now, you can leave. Be ready at the first lights tomorrow, don’t forget we’re leaving for another town.”

Lea was relieved about this because he was sure there will be distance between him and his previous Circus. He was sure he could just enjoy being here and having fun with his new friends.

But there was something…

He saw Xemnas grab Isa by the waist and, in silence, push him to let go on Demyx and so to follow him and there… there, Lea felt that two things didn’t go well. But what he could do? If Isa couldn’t see the problem…

However… he could do something.

He walked toward Sora who caressed the Lion under Gula’s look.

“Excuse me. Sora? We can meet in one hour here? With Riku?”

Sora turned his head toward Lea then glanced at Riku, few pace away, talking with his twin. This Circus had the peculiarity to have three twins. Sora and Vanitas who didn’t work together; Riku and Yasude, doing dance or ballet and rhythmic together; and Ventus and Roxas, the sons of Aqua and Terra, doing mostly Korean plank but often working with their father.

“Okay!” Sora smiled.

“Nice!”

Lea smiled back to him and then moved back to his trailer. If they left tomorrow, he had to be sure everything will be good and that he can help when it will be asked.

But, especially, he had this thing to do…

In his trailer, Isa was checking everything was on place. When it will move, it wouldn’t be the moment to have bottles rolling around. And if he forgot something here, or worst if Demyx forgot something here, it will be really hard to have it back. Plus, it was always good to have a home clean and tidy. He often took care of this but lately, the trainings were closer. Because he had to prepare the act with Lea but… but something didn’t work.

And Xemnas became impatient.

He didn’t like them to train and have nothing to offer.

Of course.

Lately, Xemnas was…

Isa sat on his bed, clenching his hands on his legs. He was wearing a black pant so nothing was showing but he knew where his bruises were. More and more.

Coming in his trailer the night was difficult and he just searched excuse to don’t go but… he had no excuse. Yesterday, it was…

Isa pressed his hand over his belly and then forced himself to get up. He had to make the bed. He wouldn’t sleep here tonight. He would sleep with Xemnas because the man had asked so and… he didn’t want at all. He didn’t feel good.

As he was doing the bed, his fingers brushed something really soft. He tugged out Lea’s scarf and blinked.

Lea’s scarf?

He must give it back to him.

Lea would be worry if he couldn’t find it!

The Big Top seemed so empty as Dilan and Aeleus had already moved things. It would only stay to close the Big Top. For now, they let him open so, from far away, the magic was still there, the Dream in the citizen’s head. And maybe they’ll talk about them? Maybe they’ll try to follow them in another city too?

Lea was used to this, of course, but he didn’t like it.

He loved staying in people’s memories but he always had the feeling that, once they won’t see him, they’ll forget him…

He had this feeling too when he talked with Isa, to be honest… The fact the acrobat couldn’t remember him. The fact he couldn’t remember Isa. Everything was ephemeral.

“Lea?”

Lea turned his head toward Riku who walked toward him with Sora.

“What do you want?” this one asked with a yawn.

It would be time for them to go to sleep. They were only teenagers after all.

“Do you know where we go tomorrow?”  Lea wondered.

Riku frowned. This was quite weird to have this question addressed to them like that. Did he really plan a ‘reunion’ for that?!

“We don’t know?” Sora replied, surprised.

“’Kay. So you really have to help me! You know there is a lake outside and…”

“Really?” Sora asked, even more surprised.

Lea had a cold smirk on his lips as he turned toward the big curtains surrounding the tent. If it wasn’t the prove Xemnas was doing something bad…

“Yes! And I want you to help me to bring Kairi there!” he said.

Riku immediately nodded. He did know this wasn’t the best idea because it was still risky, even if the lake was close, but he couldn’t just stay there when his best friend had to be in a simple water tank again and again. She knew nothing except her trailer and the tank. Sometimes, they had the chance to get a glimpse of the exterior World, especially him who was a bit older than Sora and could do groceries or else but Kairi?

It was time to let her know a bit more of the real life…

As for him, he waited the moment they will be all older and they could just walk out the Circus. Discover more. They loved their artists live but they craved more. One day, they’ll leave. It was a promise.

Today… they followed Lea as he walked out to the tank were Kairi was already readying her to sleep, squashed in as a sardine in a box.

“Kairi?” Sora called, climbing on the side of the tank.

It was raised thanks to a wooden stall and there it was easy to Sora to be at her level as she was rubbing her eyes. But when she noticed him, she smiled and swam so her head could peak out.

“Sora! What is it?” she smiled.

“Lea said we’re going to bring you swim!”

She tilted her head in the side.

“How’s that?”

“There is a lake not far away,” Riku replied. “We’re bringing you there!”

This time she blinked, her expression being between the incomprehension and the excitation.

“We can?”

“We will!” Lea said.

They couldn’t. They couldn’t at all. But he was ready to take the risk to bring a bit of happiness to those deserving it. Kairi really deserved to know what the pleasure of swimming was if she wasn’t able to be a part of the spectacle as she wished for.

“But I won’t be wet before hours and it’s late,” she said.

“I’ll carry you,” Riku said.

Kairi wanted to protest she was too heavy but she also wanted to go and she couldn’t just crawl…

So, she let Lea and Sora help her to come out of the tank. Usually, it was always Aeleus or Dilan taking her out. Something that had pissed off Lea as soon as he knew it. This tank wasn’t good at all!

“Don’t move too much!” Lea said.

“I’m doing my best!” she replied, her arms around Sora’s neck.

“I know!”

They managed to take her out and Riku came to held her. She was thrilled and thanked him with a kiss on the cheek.

Since they have no more time to lose, they walked out of the trailers park, Lea using his fire to light their path. It wasn’t far away, of course, but for Riku it still was heavy. Anyway, he said nothing…

When they arrived, Lea swallowed the pinch in his heart. The place meant a lot for him but it wasn’t the moment here. He pushed back his thoughts and walked to the edge of the lake with the others. You could see the excitation and pleasure in Kairi’s face. Suddenly, it was as if the light was coming right from her.

Riku crouched and helped her to slide in the water. It was cold but she let out a scream of pleasure before jumping in the water, splashing them. They laughed as she rolled in the depth on the lake. It wasn’t that deep… maybe two Kairis deep? But for the first time, she could totally let the length of her body be free. She could swim! She could enjoy the water as she never did!

The lake wasn’t full of life and yet, she could find fishes among the slight vegetation around. And it was so funny for her. She caressed the scale on one carp then dashed to the surface. Coming to the edge, she grabbed Riku and Sora’s hand.

“Come with me!” she said.

She let them the time to protest but as they didn’t, and as they were already wet, she throw them within her, making them laugh too.

“Come to see with me?” she offered.

“I want to!” Sora said, excited. “But can we see?”

Not only they weren’t half-fish but it was the mid of the Night.

“I’ll lighten for you!” Lea said. “Go have fun!”

“Yes?” Kairi asked.

They both nodded then. Riku didn’t want to hurt Kairi, especially when he saw her smile on her lips. And Sora was already so excited.

Kairi dived into the lake and, holding their hands, led them to the bottom of it. They couldn’t see anything but, suddenly, the water was colored by soft orange reflects. They could see the fauna and the flora here and it was beautiful. A Whole New World… Sora held out his hands to those bryophytes on the mud.

The Mermaid didn’t let go on them, liking to see their joy as much as to see the fishes swimming around.

She had to bring them at the surface because they wouldn’t have enough air. After that, they immediately jumped in the water again and one time with one, then with the other, or with both at the same time, or even alone, she did capriole. Each time they were coming out of the water, laugh reverberated around…

Sat on the edge of the lake, controlling the fire for them to have enough light, Lea could only smile.

It was so beautiful.

It was so nice to see them happy.

“Do you have pleasure?”

Lea froze when he heard this voice in his back. He turned to see Xemnas, standing at few paces from him. Dominating.

“Xemnas…”

The man walked toward him. Even when he crouched, he was still more forceful than him, which made Lea shiver.

“Who are you to come in my Circus and take what is mine?!”

“I just let Kairi have fun!”

Lea saw him smirking and the second after, his face crushed the surface of the lake, the cold liquid jumping in his throat. Bubbles floated away and Lea tried to save himself, to grab the man, to throw fire at him. Do anything to stop his life to pass back in front of him and, damn, his life wasn’t pleasant at all.

“XEMNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!”

Kairi’s voice echoed, making shiver and break windows around.

The man groaned his pain. Having a Mermaid hadn’t just advantages. Riku and Sora both swam to the edge. The man was trying to prevent his ears from bleeding, pressing against one.

A hand grabbed his wrist, the one holding Lea in the water. As it forced him to let go on his prey, Xemnas swirled wildly and his hand slapped with a loud sound. His golden eyes grabbed the face now red. His golden eyes grabbed a rage he never saw before.

“Let go on him,” he said.

Lea was hiccupped next to them, spitting as much as water as he could…

“Saïx…” Xemnas glanced at the redhead. “See, I let go on him.” He got up and walked to Isa, brushing the red mark on his cheek.

Isa moved back.

“No…”

Xemnas frowned. Lea glanced at them, his breath short and the three teenagers next to him, showing worries.

“Excuse me?” Xemnas asked.

“What’s happening in your mind? Why did you do this madness?” Isa replied.

“He’s a parasite for our Circus. See this?”

Xemnas showed the three friends in the water. It was no doubt that the idea was coming from Lea. None of the member of this Circus craved for something like freedom. The trailers park, the Circus, was the only thing they had. Even to go on the lake, they wouldn’t have done it.

Isa knew it.

Himself, the only time he did, it was because he thought it was the last thing he’ll do…

Xemnas saw the doubt in his eyes. His fingers caressed Isa’s skin but the man paced backward again, though his legs shaking.

“I said ‘no’,” he stated with a voice full of hesitation.

The yellow scarf flew in the air.

“Don’t ever touch me again…” Isa said.

You could still hear the doubt in his voice as he moved to the edge of the lake and held out his hands to help Lea to get up, his hands tightening very strongly around the wrist.

Xemnas twitched.

At this exact moment, the only thing he wanted to do was to push Isa in the lake. If he couldn’t have him, why someone could?

“Saïx, you’re doing an error. You know nothing about this man while I only try to protect our family. He’s blinding your heart and gives fake dreams to them. Now, Kairi will only feel the sadness, not being able to be in a lake anymore.”

Kairi looked down in the water, holding Sora’s hand who couldn’t help her to move outside of the lake.

“Come with me, it’s getting to cold,” Xemnas said, holding out his hand.

“I won’t come back with you,” Isa replied. “I don’t… I don’t want to be with you,” he whispered.

Xemnas frowned and walked toward him.

“What did you say?”

“I…”

Lea squeezed back Isa’s hand when he felt his hesitation. When he understood that Xemnas was about to use that grip he had on Isa. For Isa, it was obviously already so much… He did more than he never did lately. He said ‘no’, he was about to break this toxic relationship… and all he needed was a hand.

Just one hand.

“I don’t want to be with you.”

Xemnas looked him right in the eyes and Isa moved his away.

Riku noticed the hand the man was moving toward them and he jumped on the berm. Coming in front of Lea and Isa he held out his arms.

“Sir. We’re coming back.”

“We’re leaving early tomorrow. Don’t hope I let you stay longer in bed because you had chosen to enjoy this lake.”

He turned the heels and walked toward the trailer park.

As his silver mane disappeared, Isa slid on the floor, still holding Lea’s hand.

“Are you okay?” they asked at the same time.

Lea crouched next to him. “I’d be okay…”

Isa nodded slightly. He held out the scarf.

“This is yours…” he whispered.

“You…”

Lea wanted to say to him he could keep it but it wasn’t the night to shake his self-confidence. He wouldn’t impose him to keep the scarf… and maybe, Isa didn’t care at all about this scarf…

“Kairi…”

Isa turned toward the lake and he plunged his arms in the water before getting up, holding her.

“Thank you,” she said.

“You’re alright?” he asked to the teenager.

“Yes,” Riku replied.

“Yes, don’t worry,” the mermaid added.

Sora nodded and scratched his nape. “I’m sorry you’ll be sad, Kairi. It seemed to be a good idea and…”

“It was!” she said with a smile. “Please! Don’t listen to Xemnas on this. I’m so happy to have discovered that!”

But Sora couldn’t help thinking she will be sad, lost in a tank when she could have been in bigger water area…

When Lea saw him that way, saw them all that way, he only could feel sad. Xemnas had something to worm in them, let his impression within them…

When he opened the door of his trailer, Isa’s hand was still shaking a bit. As soon he pushed the door, he received Demyx in his arms and he hugged him tenderly.

“You’re doing okay?” he asked with worries. “I heard… It was Kairi, right?”

“Yes… everything is fine. Nothing had been broken?”

“No…” Demyx replied.

But he found his brother a bit…

“You’re sure everything is okay? You need to sit?”

He accompanied him at the bed and Isa didn’t push him back. He actually needed this help. Everything was blurry in his mind. Why did he react that way? For years, Xemnas had been like that with him and yet, he let him do, sure he was the bad boyfriend in the couple… and to be fair, he still thought it. He had broken up with him because seeing him hurting Lea did something in his heart.

It hurt.

Why would it hurt that much?

Why would he care about Lea being hurt or not?

It gave him the strength but it seemed wrong and he was afraid… what if Xemnas decided to follow his threat? What if…

He gulped as he pushed out his shoes and laid in his bed.

“I… I broke with Xemnas…”

“Oh no! I’m so sorry, brother.” Demyx climbed in the bed with him. “I’m here!”

“Thank you…” Isa whispered as he hugged him.

He still didn’t want to hurt him, told him how much he suffered. He didn’t want to shatter his dreams. He had to protect him…

[continuouscalamity]

CHAPTER 1 TRIAL TRANSCRIPT

Ding! Dong! Ding!

"Alright, ya filthy worms-- it's trial time! Quit yer teen drama and blubberin' and head down to the first floor in the foyer! Oink, I'll go from there, ya hear!? Oink!"

TRIAL 1 - BEGINNING

[Trial chart done by Mod War]

[3:18 PM] Monoboar!: As you all crowd into the elevator and the doors shut behind you, the noise of the elevator slowly descending down rings in your ears, the low, ominous hum of everything moving around you.

The more you descend, the more it dawns on you-- someone had truly died... someone who was a beacon of light, a light that someone had taken upon them to snuff out.

While you're scared, you can guess what could happen now... in this deadly class trial...!

....

The elevator finally stops to it's destination, revealing a large trial room, with stands all in a circle. One stand in particular only dons a portrait of the late Akihiko Oshiro, a grim reminder of what you're all here for. [3:19 PM] Monoboar!: @Alive (You may have walk to their stands.) [3:20 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: ...Lake reluctantly let go of Hazel and Wilma's hands, looking at them both with a slightly tense expression. [3:21 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "This is all mighty theatrical," Wilma says, with barely hidden disgust in her voice. She squeezes Lake's hand and lets go, walking to her own stand and examining it as if it was going to come to life and eat her. [3:21 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn takes a shuddering breath as her eyes land on Akihiko's portrait. This was horrible. She walks around and finds a stand with her name on it, and silently and falls to a crouch at it, curled up in a ball. [3:21 PM] Willy | DDR King: Willy steps out and looks around the place whilst going to his stand. [3:21 PM] Riku Yasui...: Riku exited the elevator then quickly made his way to his stand. [3:21 PM] Eri [around]: Eri looks around the trial room before walking over to her stand. [3:21 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: Artemis cringes at the portrait, Akihko deserved much better than this. She scowled, a foul mood setting in anew as she took her stand. [3:21 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: Cerviel walked in, arms wrapped carefully around himself. He stepped up to his stand and took a deep breath. [3:21 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...What the fuck are we doing here again?"

@Monoboar (Mars) [3:21 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: Wallace steps up to his stand like it's the most natural thing in the world. He surveys everyone around him as if it's actually a throne. [3:21 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana stomps over to her stand and grips it tightly. "Okay," she begins, voice shaking ever so slightly. "whoever did this needs to tell me NOW so I can banish you from my kingdom forever and ever and EVER!" she yells. [3:22 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: Except he's next to Artemis. Which he isn't all that happy about. [3:22 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Investigation: Rayne walks to their stand. Hello [3:22 PM] Monoboar!: "Woah, woah!" Monoboar cuts in, appearing on a tall throne. "Lemme introduce the trial, you impatient worms!" [3:22 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "SHUT UP! YOU SMELL LIKE A BARN! I HATE YOU!" [3:22 PM] Monoboar!: "Eh? Like that's an insult?" [3:22 PM] Monoboar!: "Anyways!" [3:22 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: She heads to her stand. "What's all this?" [3:23 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: Lake groaned. [3:23 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie heads to his stand and avoids looking at Akihiro's portrait. I would too. [3:23 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue at her stand. [3:23 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Yeah! It is! You look dumb and stupid! I hate you!" [3:23 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: Artemis gives Wallace a death glare. This is awful. [3:23 PM] Monoboar!: "All this is th' trial room! You gotta have a class trial to find out who did the dirty deed! Usin' the clues you found after th' crime, you gotta discuss it all here! 'Course, there's some certain limits-- jus' make sure you ain't talkin' over each other!" [3:24 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Oh hi she's right across from Wallace. She gives him a look. :( [3:25 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...Why do we have to figure it out? You started this, you figure it out!" [3:25 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: At least he was next to the One person he's really talked to. That's something. [3:25 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: Also, retcon. Lake's still holding Hazel's hand. [3:25 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana's quiet for a minute, just frowning at the ground. [3:25 PM] Monoboar!: "Enough gab! Let's get this show on th' road!"

Slamming a gavel onto the arm of his chair, he officially declares the trial open for business.

"Let the trial for Akihiko Oshiro, Ultimate Lucky Student start!"

[GIF LINK]

[Sketch done by Mod Death, Finalization done by Mod War]

[3:26 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...That didn't answer my question!" [3:27 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana hated what he just said. She hated hearing Aki's name come out of his mouth. She hated that THEY had to solve all this, and she hated that SHE had to witness it! "Just be quiet, stupid hog! Smelly pig! Just be quiet!" [3:27 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "S-So..." Hazel started, looking around at everyone. "...where should we start...?" [3:28 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: 'Ugh, not listening to it probably won't help, as much as I don't want to play detective when it should be left to professionals...' [3:29 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Um..." Lake coughed, "Don't they usually, um... talk about the... the body first in crime shows? Or what?" [3:29 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "That sounds smart, Lady of the Lake." Hazel nods. [3:30 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana looks at Hazel sadly. [3:30 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: :cluebullet: "The victim received one stab wound to his lower back, and four to the chest," Wallace recited. "As far as I can tell, those were the only wounds." [3:31 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "God..." Lake covered her mouth as she attempted to fight against the rock in her throat. [3:31 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn winces. "T-Too much," she mumbles. "... One was enough..." She glares at the stand in front of her, feeling sick just hearing about it. [3:31 PM] Willy | DDR King: { "Like a slasher movie more than a detective show if you ask me..." } [3:31 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel sniffles, trembling. [3:31 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: { "D-Don't even get me fucking started...!" } [3:31 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma frowns.

"I assume the one to the back was received while th' victim was...trying to escape." She says slowly. "Then the others to. Finish the job." [3:32 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: { "You all make me wanna tear out my hair!" } [3:32 PM] Riku Yasui...: :cluebullet: "His eyes were also red and puffy, as if he had been crying.  There was also a distinct bloody handprint over his mouth." [3:32 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: Heavy breathing! [3:32 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma's frown morphs into a glare.

"Someone tried to stop 'im from calling for help." [3:32 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana whined, covering her mouth. She didn't have anything to say. [3:32 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel covers her mouth. [3:32 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: Wallace nods. :consentbullet: "I agree with Wilma. He received the stab to the back before the other wounds." [3:33 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Shut uuup...please..." [3:33 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "H-How did you figure that out?" [3:33 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie shakes his head, somehow surprised at how they could stomach that.

:cluebullet: "He wrote somethin' out from his blood, a dying message, most likely. But I can't remember what it said.." [3:34 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana looked like she was in mortal anguish. [3:34 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: :consentbullet: "Yeah, I-I think it, um... kind of looked like a letter?" [3:34 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "I remember." Wilma concurs. ":consentbullet: It was a V-shape, but it was kind of messed up. I don't know if that was the letter he was tryin' for." [3:35 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn furrows her brows. "Like, maybe... M-Maybe a W, or... Or a Y? Or.. S-Something?" [3:35 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "M-Maybe it was supposed to be someone's name?" [3:36 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "No one here has a name starting with V, right...? Wait, was Oshiro-kun even familiar with the English alphabet?" [3:36 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel feels like people are going a little off the rails a bit.. [3:36 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Fuck. [3:37 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "Wh- what else.. Is there?" Aderyn asks carefully. "Wha-- um, the," she takes a breath. "D-Do we have... um.. a mm-- murder. A murder weapon...?" [3:37 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: Artemis winced, crossing her arms. "I think I found it- [3:37 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: Cerviel really wished he had actually investigated. [3:38 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel looks at Artemis. "Hm...?" [3:38 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: :cluebullet: "There’s a knife that's a little fucky in the knife block in the kitchen. It was also a little wet." [3:38 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana gripped the stand, frowning. [3:39 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn looks at her. "A... l-little, little fuh-fucky...?" [3:39 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Someone probably washed it before quickly putting it back?" [3:39 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: {"Uuuu..."} [3:39 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: :consentbullet: "It wasn't positioned correctly." [3:39 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "What Pickle said." [3:40 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: {"Haha, don't call me that."} [3:40 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Oh, uh, by the way, before it's, like, too late to bring it up, I had a thought about the 'V' Oshiro-kun wrote..." [3:40 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "We're all fine... Lake..." [3:40 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "...but continue!" [3:41 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: {"I wanna go home already! I hate this stupid place!} [3:42 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: { "I feel you there, Minami-sama... Really do." } [3:42 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Just thought that maybe, instead of it actually being the English letter V, maybe it was meant to be like an arrow pointing at something?" [3:43 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "Like, what?" [3:43 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Lake-chan! You're so smart!" [3:43 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel squints. [3:44 PM] Willy | DDR King: "Was there something else on the balcony even?" [3:44 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: The crime scene clue has not been brought up! [3:44 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: "It also might have been a different letter. One that he started to write, but didn't finish-- or failed to write, because he was dying. Like an A, a W, or a Y." Wallace crosses his arms. "Was this 'v' actually pointing towards anything in particular?" [3:45 PM] Riku Yasui...: :cluebullet: "The balcony still looks relevantly the same from the last time I seen it despite the body," [3:46 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Maybe it was pointing at something  that wasn't on the balcony...? Might be a stretch, though..." [3:46 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "Is that all, Sir Riku?" Hazel asks. [3:47 PM] Riku Yasui...: :cluebullet: "Well the blood surrounding Aki himself is smudged, as if he had been squirming, but on his left side it seems like the blood had been pooling around something, or someone," Riku added. [3:47 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: {"Urgggh...I feel sick..."} [3:47 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "A-Ah...?" Hazel nearly bites at her nails nervously. "It had to be the killer.. of course..." [3:47 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: {"Aderyn winces. Squirming. "He... must've... s-suffered," she mumbles."} [3:48 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: { Sob. } [3:48 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: {"There's no point in thinking about those things now. He is at peace.} [3:48 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: :consentbullet: "Shit! I remember seeing something that could be related to that!" [3:49 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: What Keiko said only made Hana's heart ache more. She just wanted to get out of this stupid trial already! Dumb place! Stupid people! Arggghhh! [3:51 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: :cluebullet: "There were some footprints from the stairs, it disappears at the foyer but it looks like it was going toward the kitchen." [3:51 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: :consentbullet: "Yeah, Hayai-kun. They looked like they were from bare feet, right?" [3:51 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: :consentbullet: "Yes, there was also a trail of blood drops leading to the kitchen as well. [3:52 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: :consentbullet: "Yeah. That's fucking gross also, why barefoot, but anyways." [3:52 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...Wait, why would someone be walking around with bare feet?!" [3:52 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "B-Barefoot?" Hazel asks. "Ew..." [3:52 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn crosses her arms. "Smart enough to-- to take their stupid, stupid shoes off, to be, silent, I guess," she says. "Dumb, too d-dumb to fuh-fucking clean up," [3:53 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...Wait, maybe to, uh... Not really have identifiable footprints, too. Since, like, shoe soles." [3:53 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: "Perhaps the killer wanted to hide their footprints by going barefoot. If their shoes were to have a distinctive tread, it would be a clear giveaway." [3:53 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn nods to Lake. That too.. That's smart... [3:53 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "...okay that's fair..." Hazel taps at her chin... [3:53 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: :cluebullet: "Bishop-san is right. The sink where the knife was found had vague red stains on it, as if someone had failed to fully wash them away." [3:54 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: {"Stupid-- Stupid, stu-- stupid culprit,"} [3:54 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: 'Heh, I said it first, prep Johnny Test!' [3:56 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "This wasn't much well planned, was it?" Wilma comments. "How'd the killer get Akihiko up to the balcony anyways? Just ask 'im?" [3:56 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: :consentbullet: "P-Perhaps..." She agreed with Wilma. "H-He's kind, and trusting..." [3:56 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: :consentbullet: "P-Probably," Aderyn mumbles. "He was.. really, friendly," [3:57 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: { "Good thing I didn't wash the berries..." } [3:57 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "We have to take the motive into consideration as well. Why would whoever did it want to kill Oshiro-san? Did they...did they have the gift given to them by Monoboar-san? Or perhaps they were trying to protect whoever has it..." she says nervously.

[3:57 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma pulls the brim of her hat down to hide the growing anger in her eyes. To take advantage of someone that kindly... [3:57 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "So someone fucking led him there to kill him?" [3:57 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel is shaking, covering her mouth to prevent herself from breaking down. [3:57 PM] Eri [around]: "Actually... I have a theory about the motive" [3:57 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "What is it, Eri-san?" [3:58 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "Wait." [3:58 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "Eri. Fore you say anything." [3:58 PM] Eri [around]: Eri waits. [3:58 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma looks up at Monoboar. "You said whoever got the gift'd die if they revealed they had it. Someone's dead, now. Does that mean that rule is done for?" @Monoboar (Mars) [3:59 PM] Monoboar!: Monoboar lifts his head.

"Eh? Oh, oink, yea yea, whoever got the ticket can reveal 'emselves!"

@Wilma Ortega (Auz) [4:00 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma takes a small red ticket out of her pocket. [4:00 PM] Eri [around]: "Right, does that mean I can-" Eri deadpans. [4:00 PM] Riku Yasui...: Riku takes out a red ticket [4:00 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "Then I must come forward...I had the tick--" she cuts herself off as Wilma takes out her ticket. [4:00 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Investigation: "....Me got one...?" They slowly pull a red ticket out of their pocket. [4:00 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: "...I've suspected that everyone got one from the start." [4:00 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: Cerviel slowly took out his ticket. [4:00 PM] Eri [around]: "Yeah, I thought everyone got one" [4:00 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel also takes out a ticket, looking troubled. [4:00 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn watches as people start taking out tickets. "... What?" She whispers. She sounds... horrified. [4:00 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...Ugh, that's a weight off my--" Lake was taking out her ticket before she noticed everyone else. [4:00 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie takes out a red ticket, feeling sick at the realization. [4:01 PM] Eri [around]: Eri takes out her ticket. [4:01 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "W-what..."

"All of us...had tickets."

[4:01 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: Artemis took out a ticket. [4:01 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...You fucking BITCH!!" Lake threw her ticket at the ground before grinding it under her heal. [4:01 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "W...What...!?" Hazel hisses, horrified at this reveal. "Then...!" [4:01 PM] Riku Yasui...: "The pig tricks us," [4:01 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "We were fucking baited." [4:02 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: "Obviously. Why place a motive that will only affect one person? The rule about not telling anyone was clearly established to prevent us from figuring it out." Wallace looks smug. [4:02 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn leans over, gripping her stand. "It-- It, ww, it, it wa, it," she takes several deep breaths. [4:02 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "YOU'RE FUCKING SICK!! SICK!!!" Lake shouted at Monoboar. [4:02 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "Wow, like it's something to be happy about, you dumb prick..." Hazel hisses bitterly at Wallace. [4:02 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Keiko regains her composure. "Calm down, everyone. Yes, we were tricked by Monoboar-san, but losing our heads won't help Oshiro-san. We still have to figure out who did this." [4:02 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue takes out her ticket. [4:02 PM] Monoboar!: "Oink! Tha's how th' cookie crumbles, ain't it!?"

@Lake Kawaguchi (Florence) [4:03 PM] Eri [around]: "You aren't the only one who figured it out" Eri crumples up the ticket and tosses it at Wallace. [4:03 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "I had a feelin' bout this." Wilma says, sighing. "Thought it was suspicious that we couldn't say we had the 'gift.' It'd make it easier to murder if one of us was singled out. But none of us telling it...each of us thinking we'd be the only one to die..."

She looks at Monoboar, and if looks could kill, that pig would be roast.

"The perfect me vs. them situation." [4:03 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: Cerviel looked down at the floor, close to tears. He let his ticket fall out of his hand. [4:03 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Gh...!!" Lake listened to Keiko and shook her head, trying to shake off the anger. [4:03 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: "Yes. It's gratifying to know that the one behind this isn't able to outsmart every last one of us. Maybe some of us will actually pass this test." [4:03 PM] Riku Yasui...: "People will start to take your motives less serious is you pull things like this pig," [4:03 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "...kay." [4:03 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "Shut up Walleye." Wilma says automatically. She's referencing the fish. [4:04 PM] Eri [around]: {"What test you jackass"} [4:04 PM] Monoboar!: "Gwahahaha, this is only the beginning, anyways!"

@Riku Yasui (Alondra) [4:04 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Shut the fuck up, Asshat! This isn't the time to be making insensitive jokes like that!" [4:04 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "Shut the fuck up!" [4:04 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: {"Callaghan-san, I think all of us are a little shaken right now. I'll be happy to discuss this at length with you if you wish later, but such comments may prove to be inflamatory in our current situation--" she interrupts herself as everyone else tells him to shut up, "Ah, my point is proven."} [4:05 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "I thought, I thought--" She's shaking. "But-- Even-- Even, even, if, if, it had been, just, just one-- It still, affected- everyone. Everyone, because, because--" She gasps. "Even, even if you don't have it-- you don't, know who, so, that's, you don't, know who will snap, you don't, but-- But-- we all-- we--" She's hyperventilating. "What-- What about the pu-punishment?! Was that-- Was that a fuh-fucking lie too? Were you-- Were you, really-- really gonna k-kill, kill us, if, if we didn't--" @Monoboar (Mars) [4:05 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "I think he was." [4:05 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: Wallace drags a hand down his face. "Am I the only one actually capable of focusing here? What happened to the presentation of evidence? Surely someone else here has something to contribute?" [4:06 PM] Monoboar!: "Heheh, I dunno! Was I? Sure is a mystery now that'cha know ya had a ticket like everyone else!" Monoboar snorts. "But it would'a been more fun if I did kill alla ya!"

@Aderyn Bishop (Beq) [4:06 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "UGH!!!!!!!!!" [4:06 PM] Eri [around]: Eri stops herself from saying something. [4:06 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel kicks her trial stand angrily. [4:07 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "Fie! cometh ov'r hither and englut mine own coxcomb, thee distemperate fooleth, thee hog!!!!" [4:07 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Hazel-san, you're my friend, but could you say that in a way I can understand, please? [4:07 PM] Eri [around]: "Please fight him" [4:08 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "I've never learned how to hear." [4:08 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Eri-san, don't encourage it right now!!" [4:08 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "Questioneth not mine own speech patterns, i'm very fell even but now!!!!" She angrily crumples the ticket and throws it at Wallace. [4:08 PM] Eri [around]: "Please fight him later" [4:09 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "Walleye, yer not helping the situation any. Please refrain from treatin' the rest of us like idjits." [4:09 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...ANYWAY! If we all had a ticket, how can we narrow down our list of suspects?" [4:09 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel huffs and turns around, crossing her arms. She's giving herself time to relax. [4:10 PM] Eri [around]: "That makes it super difficult, who would likely to cave in out of fear?" [4:10 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn has her hands at her head, pulling on her hair as she takes deep breathes. [4:10 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: {"Callaghan-san...should I repeat myself? Please refrain from purposefuly instigating our classmates.} [4:10 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana had a ticket. She crumpled it and threw it at the ground as hard as she could, and as it was paper, it floated down softly. That only made her more pissed off, so she started stomping on it. [4:10 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma looks around the room, observing everyone.

"Whoever killed 'im...now knows they were tricked. They can't be too happy right now." [4:10 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "I mean, whoever did it probably washed their feet and changed their clothes by now, right?" [4:11 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: {"I merely asked who else had evidence. If that qualifies as instigating, then I believe I am not the one with the problem."} [4:11 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "Did- d-did he-- If-- the b-boar was, was lying-- did..." Aderyn swallows, looking up with teary eyes. "Did... did he die for nothing..?" [4:11 PM] Eri [around]: "I would hope so, who just shows up wearing bloody clothes" [4:11 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "Whoever did it must've thought that it would've been okay to trade lives for one, or all of us." [4:11 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "I must say I am quite relieved to know all of us had tickets. I thought someone had murdered Oshiro-san for my sake, for a second..." [4:12 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue exhales, taking this all in. "... Hmph..." [4:12 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel turns around and slams her fists on her podium. "E-Either way, Akihiko would've been k-killed for nothing!!! The murderer is a villain, cruel and horrible! There's no use in killing, never!" [4:13 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "I'm not about to forgive whoever took Oshiro-kun away from us, either, Hazel-san, but don't forget the one here we should be the most pissed at..."

She gave a look to the swine in the throne. [4:14 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: :consentbullet: "I agree wholeheartedly with you, Hazeldine-san. Whoever committed such a horrid crime should step forward and admit to their guilt." [4:14 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn whimpers. "Can't-- You can't-- c-can't fuh-fuh-forgive them, you can't-- you can't," she's crying. "Killer is a stupid-- stupid, fuh-fuh-fucking, lowlife-- fucking FREAK, c-can't, fucking forgive, forgive--" [4:14 PM] Eri [around]: "Yeah, no one would outright admit to a murder" Eri looked over at Keiko. [4:14 PM] Monoboar!: Monoboar only leans back in his throne, entertained. [4:14 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: Artemis makes a bit of a face. [4:14 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel frowns, looking at Aderyn. [4:15 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Can't the kuh-" she didn't want to say it. "killer...just reveal themselves already? Everyone already hates you, so just, like, ugh! I hate both you and the smelly pig! Tell me who you are now so I can stomp your face in like I just crushed this stupid, dumb, idiot...ticket..." she was only repeating herself at this point. [4:15 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: {Keiko gives Artemis a Look ™ . :unamused: } [4:15 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "Much as I agree with y'all, this ain't helping none." Wilma speaks up. "This ain't gonna encourage no one to step forward and admit it. I don't think nothing could convince someone to admit to this."

"Let's review the evidence one more time. There ain't nothing we forgot to look at, is there?" [4:15 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "We- we can't, c-can't f-figure it out, we, we looked over all the- the clues, there's, nn, there's nothing else..!" Aderyn pulls at her hair. [4:16 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: {"Don't look at me."} [4:16 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...Maybe we could look at the V shape again?" [4:16 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana draped herself over her stand, rocking restlessly. [4:16 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "...w-well..." Hazel wrings her hands. "Recall the file info... it says he died at 2am last night, did he not?" She says. "Who'd be up so late...?" [4:17 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: She ignores Artemis' words.

:consentbullet:  "I believe we have looked over all of the evidence...but yes, as Kawaguchi-san has stated, I was about to suggest we go over the 'V' shape once more." [4:17 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel goes silent. [4:17 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Um, well...uh..." she thought. "like, I don't wanna accuse anyone. But, like, who here stays up late?" [4:18 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "I've made sleeping early a habit, but that's probably not gonna help anything." [4:18 PM] Eri [around]: Eri raises her hand slowly. "Insomnia" [4:18 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: "I go to bed at a decent time!" Qiuyue states. "I never deviate from it, no matter what!" [4:18 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "I'm s-s-ure, sure, many, many of us, do," Aderyn says quickly. [4:18 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: Cerviel shifted. "I haven't gotten a lot of sleep since i've been here" [4:18 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana looks at Eri. "Then, well...it must be you or something! You look like you'd commit a murder!" [4:18 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "Se--See!" Aderyn points at Eri quickly after her admission of insomnia. Addy that's rude. [4:19 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "If we think he was tryin' to write out his killer's name...well the V was smudged near the middle. I'm thinking it was either a W or an M."

Wilma spent too long thinking about this and ignored the staying up late convo. [4:19 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "I can provide a copy of my written out schedule if you wish. I don't stay up that late, and even if I did, some areas are forbidden that late at night, and I would not break such a rule." [4:19 PM] Eri [around]: Eri looks over at Hana. [4:19 PM] Eri [around]: Glares. [4:19 PM] Eri [around]: "No" [4:19 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana's just staring at Eri with wide, angry eyes. "Gimmie proof!" [4:19 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "I-- I also! I also, think, think it was a W, I mean, it w-wouldn't be, wouldn't be r-right side up, if, it were, an M," Aderyn says. [4:20 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: :consentbullet: "Smudged near the middle, Lady Wilma... if it's smudged, could it maybe be the letter A instead of a W or an M?" [4:20 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: :consentbullet: "I agree with Hazeldine-san...it seems more likely that the letter was an A." [4:20 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Ugh! This talk of when we go to sleep isn't gonna help us, guys!" [4:20 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Let's get back to the V shape thing!" [4:20 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "A? Okay, well, um...Aeri? Ari? Close enough!" [4:20 PM] Eri [around]: Eri just sighs and ignores Hana. [4:20 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "...Huh." Wilma didn't think of that. "Yeah, could be an A, too. Didn't consider that, Miss Basil." [4:20 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "A... An, A," Aderyn repeats, looking pale. After a few moments, she side-eyes Artemis very slowly. [4:21 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana drapes herself over her stand again. [4:21 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Keiko side-eyes Artemis as well. This looks is more of a "please tell everyone how it couldn't have been you" kind of look, though.

"Black-san?" [4:21 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: { Wallace is absolutely fuming right now. } [4:22 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "It wasn't fucking me. If I'd crack under a death threat I wouldn't even have my talent." [4:22 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "Or Miss Add-er-in, though I hate to put you in the spotlight." Wilma adds. [4:22 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel looks at Artemis and Aderyn. [4:22 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie quickly glances over at Aderyn. [4:22 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana looks at Aderyn, too. "It better not be you, Aderyn-chan, cause I trusted you I think!" [4:22 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "...Lady Artemis... has a point... she's more strong willed when it comes to... death..." [4:22 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn squeaks. "W-W-- Well, Well, m-m-maybe, maybe, maybe it wasn't a fuh-fucking A at all!" She snaps. [4:23 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel jumps. [4:23 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Aderyn-san, you're not helping your case!" [4:23 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "Addy, calm down." [4:23 PM] Riku Yasui...: "Profanity," [4:23 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Aderyn-chan, impolite..." she mumbles. [4:23 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: { "We've been swearing this whole trial, Yasui-kun." } [4:24 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "I'm j-just-- just fucking, fucking saying!" She says. "You c-can't, c-can't accuse, accuse, me, when, when it still c-coulda been, been a W, or, or something!" She defends. "I mean, it-- It wasn't even right-side up!" [4:24 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: Wallace sighs. "It likely was, when you take into account the perspective of someone lying down and trying to write on a surface behind them. It would be right-side up from his perspective." [4:24 PM] Eri [around]: "From the victims view it was" [4:24 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "..."

[4:24 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel bites her lip, staring worriedly at Aderyn. [4:25 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma stares at Aderyn, her whole demeanor shifting. She looks like a predator that's just spotted it's prey.

"Miss Aderyn. You didn't show up to the body 'nouncement, not at first. Was it cause you didn't wanna see the body, or 'cause you didn't wanna be reminded...?" [4:25 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...Ohh my fucking God, Aderyn-san. Don't you say it. Don't you fucking say it." [4:25 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana hides her face in her arms, groaning, half out of anger, half out of fear. [4:25 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "W-Well..!" Aderyn glances around. "Maybe, Maybe-- Maybe it was a fucking-- fucking M!" She tries instead. "Stop! Stop, I didn't I didn't fuh-fucking do it, I didn't-- I'm not--!" Tears are welling up in her eyes again as her eyes flicker about nervously. She takes a step back, looking terrified out of her mind. [4:26 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Gimmie more proof! I-I'll give you another chance if you do...! You're acting weird! Really weird!" [4:26 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "Aderyn-san, for your sake and ours, please just take some deep fucking breaths." [4:26 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: He tilts his head a bit. "Breathe for a sec. Calm down, get your words out. Be careful with what you say." [4:27 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "You called the killer a, um, I believe the exact word was, 'a fuckin' freak.' Do you..." Wilma is staring real hard at Aderyn. "Do you hate yourself that much?" [4:28 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "I'm fucking-- Fuh-fucking scared!" She shouts back. "Y-You-- You would be too if p-people were, were fucking ac-accusing, accusing, yyy-- you!" She points a shaking finger at Hana. "I don't-- I don't wanna fucking die!"

She flickers over to Wilma. "I don't-- I don't, b-because, I didn't-- I--" She's openly crying now. "I didn't-- He-- I..."

Aderyn looks down. [4:28 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "He..?" [4:28 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "..." [4:28 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel is trembling, biting into her lip hard enough to bleed. [4:28 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "Addy...." [4:28 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "Tell us the truth, Aderyn. You can still make this better. Not right, but better." [4:29 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana's hands are sweating, so she just zoned out as hard as possible, a dazed and angry expression stuck on her face. [4:29 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "Bishop-san? Please listen to Ortega-san..." Keiko looks...solemn. This sucks. I hate it. [4:30 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn's shoulders are shaking, and you can hear her sniffling and hiccupping, and she reaches up to wipe away her tears. "I didn't-- I d-didn't--" She hiccups.

"I just--- I didn't, ww-wanna die," she admits. "I thought-- I thought, I was-- I didn't--... I'm, sorry," Aderyn hiccups again, collapsing at her stand. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry-- I-- I'm," she trails off into wet mumbles. [4:30 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel is gripping her stand, glaring at Aderyn hard enough to blow her onto her back.

"Y-You... y-you admit it...? You truly admit it, then...?!" [4:31 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: Wallace's gaze is fixed on Anderyn. He jumps on her hesitation like a predator on prey. "Is that a confession?" [4:31 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "..."

Lake gave Aderyn one of her hardest glares since she first woke up here before she stepped down from her stand and walked over to the other's [4:31 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "......."

[4:32 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: In contrast, Wilma relaxes a bit, but it's more out of exhaustion than any form of relief. It's as good as a confession.

"None of us wanna die, Miss Aderyn. Akihiko didn't." [4:32 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: She pulled her head up. "I hate you!" she shouted. "If you're...you're seriously admitting to this, then, I hate you!" she said, but her lip was quivering. [4:32 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: Cerviel wasn't glaring. He just looked.. sad. He didn't want anyone else to die. [4:32 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel feels the tears well up again, and she sniffles, shoulder shaking as hides her eyes again, silently weeping. [4:32 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: Once she was close enough to her Lake took a step forward towards Aderyn before she-- [4:33 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: "I know," Aderyn chokes. "I know, I know, I know-- He kept-- He-- He said-- Don't leave me alone-- I was just, I was-- I couldn't-- I couldn't leave-- I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Akihiko, I'm sorry," [4:33 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: ...wrapped her shaking arms around her. [4:33 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "Bishop-san...you are lying. Did someone threaten you so you'd say this? You can tell us." [4:33 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "I don't even care how long I knew Aki-chan, he was like, like..." she slammed her hands onto the thing. "AAAAGH! DON'T TELL ME THAT! SHUT UP! SHUT UP RIGHT NOW!" [4:33 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "SHUT UP!!! I-I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT...! I DON'T... I DON'T WANT TO IMAGINE IT..." [4:34 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "Miss Pond, yer mighty kind, but she could still be dangerous." Wilma says, hand on her holster. [4:34 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn just sobs harder, reluctantly leaning into Lake's embrace. "Stop-- stop, I don't I don't-- you can't-- c-can't, can't fuh-fucking," she sobs. "I'm j-just a hor-horrible, fuh-fucking, mmm, murder-- I killed-- I k-k-- I-- He didn't-- I'm sorry--" [4:34 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie didn't seem to be listening, staring off into the distance. He idly plays with the bands on his fingers, thinking about something else. [4:34 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "Shut up, Woody. She's not gonna do shit again." [4:35 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...I know, and I'm not doing this out of kindness."

'...Maybe I am. I can't tell right now.' [4:35 PM] Monoboar!: "...Gyeheheh, so we've reached our climax, huh?" Monoboar snorts in amusement. [4:35 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...Aderyn-san," Lake spoke sternly. [4:35 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "Fuck you too, pig!" [4:35 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "All he wanted was friends...! I was too mean to him! So...I'm going to be mean to you instead 'cause you ruined that for him! He j-just...! Ugh!" she flicked her head towards Monoboar. "SHUT UP, STUPID HOG! SHUT UUUP!" [4:35 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn tries to curl in on herself further. [4:36 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Keiko keep her frown for a moment longer before...she just starts crying. "Bishop-san..." and to think she'd let that happen. If only she had done more, she could've stopped Aderyn from killing, and Akhiko would be alive...

[4:36 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "A-All he... uuu.. If only... I-If only I told him how good of a friend he w-was..." [4:36 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "It's a bit too late for 'sorry,' Miss Aderyn." Wilma says gently. "Don't curl up on yerself now. Stand up and own it, and maybe then you can 'pologize." [4:37 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: She shakes her head. "Do- Don't, d-deserve, don't deserve, to," she says. "Can this, please-- p-please, just... end," she begs, her voice cracking. [4:38 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Aderyn!" she dropped the -chan. It's too cute and sweet. "Yeah, stand up and own it! You killed him! You...he's gone! HE'S GONE!" she yelled, tears spilling from her eyes. She wiped them away as fast as she could, face pink. [4:38 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: Fuck. Artemis scowled, looking to the pig. "You're fucking sick! I swear to god, first chance I get I'm gonna make you fucking pay from the shit you put us all through! I'm gonna fucking kill you and your fucking puppeT master!" [4:40 PM] Monoboar!: "Gyahahaha, so I guess it's time, dont'cha think?" Monoboar says without a care in the world, and slams his... hoof? Boars are weird. On the arm of his throne, and a screen flickers onto everyone's trial stands.

A selection of all the students' faces blink on your screen with the words VOTE! in red lettering taunt you.

"I know I'm sick, so what? Get t' votin' you filthy maggots!"

@Alive [4:41 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "I think we're way past what you do and don't deserve, Miss Aderyn." Wilma is looking at her, expression carefully blank.

"Stand up and look us in the eyes. You owe it to Akihiko. To all of us." [4:41 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma votes for Aderyn. [4:41 PM] Eri [around]: Eri looks over at the screen and votes for Aderyn. [4:41 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie snaps out of it. Hi. He votes for Aderyn. [4:41 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: Cerviel looked down at his stand, voting for Aderyn with shaky hands. [4:41 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Investigation: Rayne votes for Aderyn. Im sorry. [4:41 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana stared at it for a while. She stared at Aki's face on the screen, a red x-mark crudely placed over it. She glances up at Aderyn, votes quietly, and then she puts her hand back at her side. [4:41 PM] Riku Yasui...: With a slight hesitation, Riku voted for Aderyn. [4:42 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel glares at the screen through her blurry, tearful vision, and taps to vote for Aderyn shakily. [4:42 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn pulls herself to her feet at Wilmas words, but she doesn't look at anyone. She can't.

She votes for herself. [4:42 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "What.. exactly will the voting do." [4:42 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: Wallace votes for Aderyn. [4:42 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "I dunno, probably, like, gets her out of here or something. Hopefully in jail." [4:42 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Keiko can barely see their faces. She's crying dawg :(

"We can't....executing someone isn't right! Even if they murdered someone else!" [4:43 PM] Monoboar!: "Yer votin' to send Aderyn off, obviously." [4:43 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Yep! To jail!" [4:43 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn tenses up. What? [4:43 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: Artemis scowled, hands shaking. She punched in a vote for herself, it was hard to vote for Aderyn, she knew the rules, she couldn't do that do her. [4:43 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "Did you all forget the fucking rules?" [4:44 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: Wallace's face twists into a disgusted frown. Was he the only one who paid any attention around here? [4:44 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Keiko composes herself as best as she can. "It's...stated in the rules. That we must vote for the execution of the blackened." [4:44 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "...Execution?" Hana squeaked. [4:44 PM] Monoboar!: "Gyahaha, thanks fer doin' my job, blabber mouth!" [4:44 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: "The ones that say we all die if we don't choose correctly? Nah, I think we all remember 'em pretty well." Wilma stares back at Artemis, challenging her to continue this bullshit. "You think any of us wanna do this?" [4:45 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: "Does that mean she's actually gonna...die? Did I just vote for someone to die?" [4:45 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel whimpers. [4:45 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: Lake gave Monoboar a glare before she turned her focus back on Aderyn.

"...I can't forgive you for what you did," Lake tried to keep her voice as level as she could, "But... But..."

'But... What? It's not your fault? It kind of is, but it's also Monoboar's fault. It's gonna be okay? I don't really want to say that to someone who killed Oshiro-kun, but...

Lake kept her offer for an embrace open as she gave Hazel a look. Vote for Aderyn for her?

@Aderyn Bishop (Beq) @Hazel Hazeldine (Mars) [4:45 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel won't do that. [4:46 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn looks pale, shaking at her stand, she's hardly listening. "N-no, I-- I don't-- I don't wanna die, please--" She whispers, wrapping her arms around herself. [4:46 PM] Monoboar!: "You say that, but'cha still kill someone anyways? Eh, kids are always selfish these days, Oink!" [4:46 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana didn't say anything, she just looked at the ground, stuffing a hand in her heart-shaped apron pocket. [4:46 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn hunches over, guilty. [4:47 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Keiko leaves her stand too after sorrowfully voting for Aderyn. Sorry GMs she's leaving that stand.

She approaches Aderyn, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Bishop-san..." [4:47 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma closes her eyes, sighing.

"I'm sorry, Miss Aderyn. But you knew the rules, and so do we. There ain't nothing we can do to stop that now without getting us all axed." [4:47 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: She was slow to wrap her arms around this time in case Aderyn didn't want it. @Aderyn Bishop (Beq) [4:48 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn doesn't react to either touch. She just... stands there, head down. Tears, still dripping from her face. She's... given up.

It's over. [4:48 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana didn't want to look at any of this! She hid behind her stand and put her head in her shirt. [4:48 PM] Monoboar!: "Wrap it up, fellas, we got a verdict to get to!" [4:49 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "I'm so sorry....Aderyn. I'm...please apologize to Oshiro-san, wherever you go. Maybe someday...you'll be forgiven for what you did." she doesn't know what to say, but she can't send Aderyn to her death without saying anything. Why do they have to kill at all? [4:50 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue votes Aderyn. [4:52 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...I..." 'What do I say? Should I just make it quick?' "I hope it goes by fast, Aderyn-san."

'...Dark, but okay.'

With that and a lingering touch on the shoulder, Lake ran over to her stand, and reluctantly voted for Aderyn. [4:53 PM] Monoboar!: "Yeesh, finally. Let's get on with it!"

The voting screens flicker black for a moment before a light begins to flicker down each name.

"Well, who's it gonna be, ya grubs? Let's find out who killed 'im!"

...

[4:54 PM] Monoboar!: ...

A victory tune chimes out as the light lands on Aderyn Bishop.

"Looks like it's the truth, gwahaha! Aderyn Bishop killed Akihiko Oshiro!"

[4:54 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn squeezes her eyes shut. [4:54 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana's still in her shirt. [4:55 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel covers her mouth, hand shaking. [4:55 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie shakes his head. [4:55 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Keiko walks back to her stand. "Goodbye, Aderyn." [4:56 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Investigation: They lower their head and looks down and to the side, folding their hands over their chest. [4:57 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "I hope you're able to find peace." [4:57 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: Artemis broke into another scowl, jaw going tense. "This isn't fucking fair. None of this is fair." [4:57 PM] Eri [around]: "Bye Aderyn" That's all Eri says. [4:57 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: "N-None of it... none of it is fair...! The motive drove Lady Aderyn to kill Akihiko, and now... it kills her for it...!?" [4:58 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: "...I hope you become an angel one day" [4:58 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana didn't say anything more. What else could she say? [4:59 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn shakes her head. "No p-pearly, wh-white gates for me," she mutters in response to Cerviel. [4:59 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: "...Addy. I..I'm sorry. I hope you get a lotta cute shit wherever you go." [4:59 PM] Wallace Callaghan || Foyer: Wallace had way too many questions and tbh if I was writing the full Wallace he would have been interrogating her but im just gonna [5:00 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: He looked away. He didn't have any further response. [5:01 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "Do you have something you wish to tell those outside? I can...I can tell them, your friends..." [5:03 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn winces, visibly. "Don't... tell them." She begs. "Please," her eyes well up again. This is... very selfish of her, and she knows. But.. still. "Just.. Don't-- Don't even.. talk to them. Just.. Leave it be. They'll ww-wonder, where, where I went, and... mm-move on. It's... fine." [5:04 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: "I think... they'll look for you. They won't forget you, Aderyn. But, as you wish." [5:07 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: Lake shook a bit as she snapped out of her slight daze when she processed Hazel putting the thoughts she had into the words she was looking for a minute before.

'God, I'm embarrassing! NOW I know what I want to say!'

"...Yeah, none it is fair!" Lake grabbed her stand and began to shout, "Fuck, I take back wishing it was quick as my last words to you, Aderyn-san! That's weak, coming from me! None of this bullshit is fair, and you shouldn't have to fucking die when you're not even twenty! What the fuck! Whoever's behind that disgusting swine will pay for the bullshit they put you, Oshiro-kun and the rest of us through!!! Neither you or him will have died in vain, I swear it!!"

"And if they're real friends, Aderyn-san, they'll miss the fuck out of you and remember you!! If not, I'll remember you! And Oshiro-kun, too!!!" [5:09 PM] classical bishop sacrifice: Aderyn sniffles and... nods. There's nothing else she can say. [5:09 PM] Monoboar!: "Gyahaha, touching! But this is the end, whether it matters to ya losers or not!"

Monoboar slams a gavel onto a big red button, and Aderyn is promptly whisked away by a metal clamp attached to a chain snapping around her neck, and she's off...

Aderyn Bishop has been found guilty. Time for the punishment.

[Done by @spiiderboiii]

[Done by @pitoumugis]

[5:10 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: She closes her eyes. She can't look. [5:11 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue watches, but... She regrets doing that. [5:12 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel nearly shrieks, and covers her eyes, and then her ears, and crouches down. [5:12 PM] Riku Yasui...: Riku turned around and put his hood up. [5:12 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana slowly emerges from her shirt, looking at the aftermath of the execution. She wished she hadn't. [5:12 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Keiko flinches as she hears the train, letting out a sob as she presses her hand tighter against her face as if that'd protect her from the sight. [5:12 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: Cerviel flinched, finally allowing himself to cry. It didn't matter that he hadn't known her. His tears fell down onto the ground anyways. [5:12 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Investigation: Rayne wants to scream but they just gag, having to turn themself around and cover their mouth. Why. WHY? [5:13 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie taps impatiently on his stand, still staring at the train. [5:13 PM] Monoboar!: "That's all for now, maggots. Save th' sobbin' and head back into the elevator! Scram!"

Monoboar slams his gavel, closing the case on this trial, and vanishes from his throne. [5:14 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Sadness: Artemis, for the first time in everyone's presence, whimpers. She whined from the back of her throat, turning away. Fuck. Fuck! She leaned on the pedastal to keep herself steady, trying to blink away the wet heat from her eyes. After a moment she steadied herself, walking off to the elevator with a stagger to her step. [5:14 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana fucking books it to the elevator. [5:14 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel shakily steps into the elevator. [5:14 PM] Cerviel Winter | Room: Numb, he walked back onto the elevator. [5:14 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie fucking yeets it. [5:15 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Wilma tips her hat downwards, listening to but not watching the execution. She won't revel in Aderyn's death.

She lingers in the trial room, not because she wants to, but in case anyone won't go back. She can escort them. [5:15 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana can't wait to go to her room and scream. [5:16 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Investigation: Rayne bolts to the elevator as fast as their legs can take them. The situation's magnitude hitting them hard finally. Once they get into the elevator they just hunker down into a ball. [5:16 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue rubs her arms nervously. [5:17 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: Out of respect for Aderyn (And just not willing to see a live death), Lake looked away from the screen.

...She heard the train and put two, two and two together. The first two being, 'Oh, a train.' Second, 'At... At least is was quick.' And third, '...Why a train?'

...

'...Oh, god,' A sick thought seeped into her mind before she dashed to the elevator, wanting to keep the train of thought from going on. [5:17 PM] Keiko Taisei | Death time: Keiko solemnly makes her way inside the elevator, crying quietly once more. None of this is fair. They don't deserve this.

'Akihiko, Aderyn...I'm sorry.' she thinks to herself, wishing she could've done something, anything to prevent this from happening. [5:18 PM] Wilma Ortega || foy air: Alright, I think everyone's in. Wilma follows. [5:18 PM] Hana Minami! | I can';t: Hana's still acting all princess-like in the elevator, hands on her hips, giving everyone a stare-down. Her eyes are puffy, though, and her cheeks are red. [5:20 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Trial: "...Do you need a hug, Minami-sama?" [5:20 PM] Monoboar!: The elevator closes behind everyone and rises back to the foyer, now two less people but a heavy atmosphere weighing down on all of you...

TRIAL 1 - END.

[wildgirlcinna]

Types of People : The Greek Gods | Cinnabar Toast

Aphrodite: laughter-loving, sweet smiles, dressed in silk and satin, flower in their hair, thrives on attention, sees the world as a runway, unapologetically sexual, the sea washing their ankles, in love with love, stirrer of passion, cunning concealed by painted lips, secret daggers, doves, revolution in their kiss, delighting in the waves, flirtatious winks, strolling along the beach, staring wistfully from a balcony, this is how to be a heartbreaker, your girlfriend thinks they’re attractive, wants to be adored, gets turned on by danger    

Apollo: glitz and glamour, art galleries, turning the volume up, being made of gold, neatly-organized music sheets, notebooks filled with poetry, bathing in the sunlight, the powerful urge to create, collecting vinyl records, beautiful cover of Wonderwall, playing multiple instruments, tasting like sunshine, healing touch, speaking in prophecies, smile mingled with wrath, shunning lies, sporting shades, hanging out at music festivals with their friends, sleeps naked, arrow to the heart, paint brushes, probably has a Tinder account

Ares: armed for battle, wants to raise a dog with their significant other, soft spot for children, gives piggyback rides, scarred body, blood on their hands and face, willing to fight the world for the ones they love, fights against injustice, warm hugs, well-worn combat boots, boxing gloves, bandages wrapped around bruised knuckles, fist raised in protest, ignites revolutions, fear is a prison, more sensitive than what their tough shell may have you think, exhausted, damaged goods, force to be reckoned with, red roses, curses under their breath

Artemis: keen senses of a hunter, freckles like constellations on their skin, piercing eyes, disheveled braid, moonlight peeking through the shadows, the calm of the forest at night, lying on the grass and staring at the stars, mother doe and her fawn, protecting their kin, the moon shimmering on a still lake, quiver full of arrows resting against the bark of a tree, running with wolves, bonding while circled around a campfire, not being much of a people person, arrow hitting its target, popping egos, patience on 3%, touches heaven and returns howling

Athena: discerning gaze, unreadable face, the patience of a life-long teacher, quiet museums, owl perched on their finger, armor that intimidates, eye for architecture, plays the sims for the sole purpose of building houses, studied the blade while everyone else was busy getting laid, big fan of logic, loves brain teasers, go-getter, balls of wool displayed on shelves, ancient buildings, sweaters in neutrals and cool colors, hair done up, can kill you with their brain, heads to the library often to research, sharpened pencils, abs that can cut steel, stoic statues, pottery classes  

Demeter: soil-covered hands, smile that can bloom flowers, skin loved by the sun, being the mom friend, can lift you and all of your friends, flowers kept in the pockets of overalls, takes pride in their beautiful garden, speaks to their plants, leaves rustling in the wind, stalks of wheat, picking fruit, greenhouses, heart as strong as a mountain, values simplicity, daisies dotted across a collarbone, curls crowned with flowers, folded pile of sweaters in warm hues, pulling out fresh-baked bread out of the oven and the smell wafting through the air

Dionysus: drunk shitposter, on their sixth glass of wine before you’ve even finished your second, seductive smirks, untamed curls, rich fabrics on dark skin, sleek-furred panthers, theater masks, stage productions, receiving a standing ovation, rose caught between their teeth, being the baby of the bunch, wild parties that last from sundown to sunup, creeping vines, inspiring loyalty, grand opera houses, masquerade balls, rolls of film, shattered chandeliers with broken glass scattered across the wine-spilled floor, pouring champagne into flutes, lives for the applause

Hephaestus: the calloused hands of someone who knows labor, sweaty brow, flame burning in their eyes, inventive mind, broad shoulders,steampunk goggles, nuts and bolts stored away in little boxes, ashes, striking a match, blueprints for future projects, fixing up a busted up car and giving it cool upgrades, wrestles with bitterness, work boots have seen better years, wrinkled plaid shirts, iron melted by blazing fire, huge jackets, crafting masterpieces, greased-stained overalls, fascination with robotics, pain is fuel, stack of weaponry, even their muscles have muscles

Hera: resting bitch face, dressed to the nines, cows grazing on a pasture, cool rain, loving and hating fiercely, hand clutching a string of pearls, large chandelier with glittering crystals, plays the sims for the sole purpose of killing off their sims, romance to realism, pictures of the sky while flying on a plane, files that under fuck it, downs glasses of wine as they relax with a scented bubble bath and netflix, like their selfie or you’re grounded, knows 57 convenient ways to murder a man, dark eyes that penetrate your soul, marble and gold

Hermes: devil-may-care smile, ink-stained hands, always up-to-date on the latest technology, will steal your french fries, does it for the vine, shitposter, puts googly eyes on everything, meme hoarder, long drives on the highway, ma and pop diners, spontaneous road trips, folded maps, fingers dancing across the keyboard of a laptop, shooting hoops on the basketball court, chatting up strangers as you all journey to your own destinations, goes jogging in the morning, mixes red bull with coffee, menace on april fool’s, hoodies and sneakers    

Poseidon: storm with skin, colorful coral reefs, waves crashing against the shore, the sea casting its spell, stroking the soft fur of a cat, their heart pounding as their horse’s gentle trot speeds into a gallop, tousled locks, clothes smeared with paint, owns several sketchbooks yet always yearns to own more, leather jackets, fondness for diy projects, handwriting that flows across the page, nimble fingers playing the strings of a violin, velvety singing voice that haunts your dreams, mood as ever-changing as the sea, the roar of a motorcycle, compass with a spinning arrow

Zeus: thunder in their heart, running on coffee, flash of lightning, natural charisma, eloquence, badass in a nice suit, aficionado of history, force of nature, lenny face, pretends that they don’t have feelings but they do, nightmare-filled nights, proud arm around their lover’s waist, high-rise buildings, planes soaring through a cloudless sky, technician on the piano, maintains order, strong handshake, juggling multiple events on their busy schedule with apparent ease, most likely to be voted class president out of their peers, expensive watch, like a boss

Tagged by: @bekizine & @lady-of-crowns

Tagging whoever else wants to do it!

Screenshot courtesy of the wonderful sweetheart catteman Riku Fujiwara of Faerie (he doesn’t have a tumblr), who was kind enough to let me pose for him in Eureka.

[helloelizabethsmithposts]

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THANK YOU OH SO VERY MUCH GODHEAD-YAHWEH AND YESHUA WITH THE HOST OF HEAVEN, FOR HELPING US[BOAZ AND I, WITH UPHOLDING YOUR PRECEPTS FOREVERMORE!!!! WE OBEYED THE HOLY BIBLE THROUGH THESE YEARS, BECAUSE WE VALUED THE VERY FACT OF THOSE WHO GODHEAD EL ELYON HAD DESTINED TO BE THE FATHER FIGURE=GODLY FEARING MAN,AND THE WOMAN FIGURE IN OUR LIVES GODLY FEARING WOMAN , JUST TO HELP US TO CLEAVE AND CLING ONLY UNTO YOU MY ABEOJI FATHER GOD!!!! GODHEAD BLESSED CERTAIN TRUTHFUL TEACHERS TO TEST ME, THROUGH THE YEARS, TO SEE IF THEIR QUESTIONS ABOUT ME WHERE RIGHT!!! IT WAS YOU MY KING OF GLORY, WHO REMOVED THAT PRINCIPAL FROM ARTHUR SCHOOL MR.CLEMENS THAT RACIST PRINCIPLE, AND YOU GAVE ME A PRINCIPAL OF MY KIND OF OBEDIENCE TO KEEP ME ON THE RIGHT PATH. MR.&DR. CONTRI WHEREVER YOU ARE IN THIS WORLD I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER ME,BUT THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING WHAT THOSE TEACHERS AND KIDS HAD DONE TO ME IN BRINGING FALSE REPORTS ON ME... 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SO BRING IT, WE WILL SEND YOU ALL BACK TO THE DIRT, FROM WHENCE YOU CAME, TO WHERE YOU ALL WILL RETURN TOO, AND BURN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!! DIDN'T MY VERY DEARLY BELOVED, CHOSEN ANOINTED ONE MY HUSBAND ALPHA AND OMEGA YAHWEH & YESHUA, TELL YOU ALL HE COULD HAVE COMMANDED A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ANGELS OF HEAVEN TO INTERVENE ON HIS BEHALF DEALING WITH BEFORE HE DIED ON THE CROSS??? BUT HE[MY VERY,VERY,VERY, AND VERY SWEET-SMELLING LORD JESUS CHRIST KING OF THIS VESSEL(ELS)WHOLEHEARTEDLY, WAS SO VERY DETERMINED TO ACCOMPLISH HIS TASK[ DIVINE PURPOSE GOD ASSIGNED JUST FOR HIM, TO SUFFER THINGS JUST FOR US SO WE COULD TRULY, AND SURELY HAVE A VERY LIGHT, AND A VERY EASY LIFE TO LIVE FOR ALL ETERNITY WITH Y'ALL KOH ONLY[KINGDOM OF HEAVEN].... 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I'M SO OVERFLOWING WITH JOY THESE BLESSED DAYS OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING MY KING OF GLORY, MEETING BOAZ, HAS REALLY TAUGHT ME THESE THINGS, THE HOLY BIBLE SAYS GOOD THINGS COMES TO THOSE WHO WAIT. AND YESHUA TOLD US THE PEACE MAKERS INHERIT THE EARTH, YOU KNOW ABEOJI I BET HE WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL LOVING BABY LORD JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, BECAUSE HE ALWAYS KNEW HIS ASSIGNMENT, AND WILLINGLY FOLLOWED YOUR GUIDANCE MY SUPREME KING OF GLORY, YOUR OBEDIENCE MADE ME DESIRE TO REALLY UNDERSTAND LOVE, BECAUSE ONLY THROUGH THIS IS HOW I CAN SAY I LOVE MYSELF, BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST LOVED ME FIRST, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH GENTLE HEART THAT QUESTION THAT DAY, I WAS JUST TRYING TO ACTUALLY SAY I HAD TO LEARN TO LOVE MYSELF AGAIN, CAUSE I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY SO MUCH HAPPENED TO ME, AND I WAS JUST TRYING TO MIND MY OWN BUSINESS AND OBEY GODHEAD LIKE Y'ALL TAUGHT ME TOO .... PEOPLE ARE REALLY BABIES THESE DAYS, BECAUSE IF YOUR DISCERNMENT IS NOT MATURE, OR YOU DON'T HAVE NO DISCERNMENT, THEN YES YOU ALL ARE DISOBEDIENT GOSSIPING BABIES, WHO NEVER WAS CORRECTED FOR YOUR WRONG DOINGS TO OTHERS. BUT YOU ALL JUST MADE EXCUSES FOR THE WICKEDNESS. I LEARNED THAT TOO YESTERDAY, PEOPLE EXCUSE WICKEDNESS BECAUSE, THEY ARE WICKED THEIRSELVES, BECAUSE WE JOINT-HEIRS WITH OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, WE DON'T AND WILL NEVER AGREE TO NOTHING GODHEAD THE TRINITY HATES= IT'S AN ABOMINATION (GAY AIN'T NO HAPPINESS THAT'S A DAMN LIE FROM THE PIT OF HELL, Y'ALL REPROBATE, TRANGRESSION MINDED ASS, WE GOTCHA, AND CAUGHT Y'ALL ASS RED HANDLY, IT'S THE FLESH-CARNAL MINDSET IN FULL BLOOM THESE DAYS!! JUST AS MUCH AS IT IS Y'ALL, IT'S EVEN WAY MORE OF US THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN CREW ALL IN 1IN TOGETHERNESS, Y'ALL COMPLETED FOR THIS VERY TASK I HEARD OF FROM LONG AGO, AMNESIA, WAS JACKED UP, DID Y'ALL NOT KNOW THAT THE SAME SECURITY GUARD YAL ALLOWED INTO MY ROOM THAT VERY NIGHT, ELOHIM JUDGED HIS FAMILY'S WHOLE LINEAGE, FOR TRYING TO FORCE HIMSELF ON ME, AND WHAT'S WORSE Y'ALL OTHER TRIFLING ASS WOMAN THOUGHT THAT DAMN STUFF WAS FUNNY, BUT IT WASN'T... HERE ME NOW, AND THIS DAY ALL OF THESE DAMN GREEDY ASS MONEY LOVING BASTARDS ON AND UNDER THIS EARTH, I'M PERSONALLY STRIKING Y'ALL ASS DOWN TO HELL!!!! FOR LAUGHING ABOUT EVERYTHING ABOUT US ALL THROUGH THE YEARS, Y'ALL DARE THINK I'M LEAVING ALL OF OUR MONEY IN Y'ALL HANDS, HELL NO!!!! MY KING OF GLORY I BESEECH YOU ALL THIS VERY DAY, PREPARE MY TRUE APPAREL AND WEAPONS FROM THE HOLY BIBLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, I WILL SHOW THEY DAMN FALLEN ASS, TO TRY TO LAY HANDS ON ME, WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ALL WAS NEVER SUPPOSE TO DO THIS VERY THING IT IS Y'ALL DAMN DEMISE[DOWNFALL OF A LIFETIME]!!! I WARNED EVERYONE ALL THROUGH THE YEARS DON'T CLASS ME WITH THOSE DAMN CHRISTIANS Y'ALL ANTICHRIST ASS, I KNEW Y'ALL AND THOSE DAMN CELEBRITIES & AND FAKE ASS MUSICIANS, AND FAKE ASS PREACHERS, WHERE BEHIND THIS DAMN STUFF!!!! NOW I SEE WHY YOUR ANGER DISTURBED MY VERY SOUL EARLIER MY KING OF GLORY, THEY DELIBERATELY ALSO, DID THAT SPITEFUL CRAP TO MR.AND MRS.MONROE, JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE BEGIN TO HEAR THE TRUTH IN THE HOLY BIBLE THROUGH OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST THE ANOINTED ONE'S LIFESTYLE, TELL THEM I TRULY THANK GODHEAD FOR THEM TOO, AND I LOVE THEM SO VERY DEARLY TOO. BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH YOU HAD THOSE SEMINARS WORLDWIDE, THOSE BENCH WARMERS BASTARDS JUST, PRETENDED LIKE THEY LOVED GOD, THEY WHERE JUST PLOTTING ON Y'ALL IN THE MIDST OF YOUR CONGREGATION!!! AIN'T THAT RIGHT YOU DAMN RELIGIOUS RULERS= RELIGIOUS LOVE, THANK YOUR FOOLISH MUSICIAN WHO ACTUALLY TOLD ME EVERYTHING... Y'ALL TRIED TO HARM US,BUT ACTUALLY Y'ALL HARM Y'ALL OWN ASS THROUGH THE YEARS... WHEN Y'ALL MADE THEM Y'ALL ENEMIES, Y'ALL REALLY MADE MY HEAVENLY FATHER GOD ELOHIM HIS MAJESTY OF HEAVEN AND THE EARTH Y'ALL ENEMY. WHEN YOU MAKE GOD YOUR ENEMY YOU'LL DIE OFF THE EARTH... HE SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE EVER BEEN TORMENTED LIKE THAT MY KING OF GLORY, I WAS IN THOSE SAME BATTLES WITH HIM, THEY DIDN'T KNOW, SINCE BATTLE IS MY SPECIALITY... I WON'T SHOW NO DAMN ENEMY NO MERCY, Y'ALL SHOULDN'T HAVE MESSED UP MY FATHER GOD CREATION LIKE THIS!!!! IF YOU ALL HAVE A WASTEFUL ASS MINDSET GO TO A COUNTRY WHERE Y'ALL ASS IS ORIGINALLY FROM ANYWAY AND AS FOR THESE SPECIFIC COUNTRIES [AFRICA, MEXICO, AND IRAQS] WOE UNTO ALL Y'ALL BLACK ASS, FOR COMING INTO MY COUNTRIES, DOING THE VERY THINGS YAHWEH, AND YESHUA SAID NOT TO DO... Y'ALL KNEW NO DAMN MAS, WAS NEVER SUPPOSE TO BE IN AMERICA ANYWAY, AND Y'ALL DUMBASS RULERS IN Y'ALL COUNTRIES PRESIDENTS AND OTHERS IN THOSE VERY TOP OFFICE'S, IT HAS BEEN DECIDED THIS VERY YEAR Y'ALL WICKED ASS HAS TO ANSWER TO EL ELYON FOR ALLOWING THE VERY WICKED PEOPLE FROM ALL COUNTRIES TO ESCAPE AND COME OVER HERE WITH THIS DAMN ARGUMENTATIVE LIFESTYLE!!!! THEIR WAS NO WAY ANYBODY WHO ALREADY HAD A FAMILY IN THAT COUNTRY, TO ESCAPE AND SLEEP WITH IN AND EVERYBODY JUST LIKE SOME DAMN CRAZY ASS DUMB DOGS IN HEAT AND HAVE SOME MORE DAMN HELLION-REBELLION ASS KIDS... IT'S ENOUGH DEALING WITH Y'ALL DUMBASS, THEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT SOME DAMN LITTLE BURNT ASS SMURFS, KEEPING UP STUFF ACTING LIKE THEY ARE GROWN WHEN Y'ALL CAN'T EVEN FLUSH THE TOILETS BEHIND Y'ALL NASTY ASS!!!! IT DON'T MAKE NO DAMN SENSE, IF YOU TOOK YOUR STINKY ASS TO PEOPLE'S TOILETS IN THE STORE'S, AT LEAST CONSIDER OTHER PEOPLE NOISE, WE DON'T WANT SMELL THAT DAMN CHAINED UP, BOTTOMLESS PIT UNTOLD FUNK, LIKE Y'ALL JUST ATE A SEWER... Y'ALL CLAIM Y'ALL HAVE MONEY NO HELL YOU DON'T CAUSE, A PERSON WITH MONEY KNOWS HOW TO USE IT THE RIGHTEOUS WAY AND BY THINGS TO STAY VERY FRESH, AND MAKE THINGS VERY LIGHT & EASY FOR OTHERS TOO. WITHOUT BEING TOLD TO DO THESE THINGS.... Y'ALL STINKY ASS AIN'T WELCOME IN NOTHING WE IS OWNING... Y'ALL HAVE THAT FUNKY AFFECT THAT STANK UP EVERYTHING, TALKING ABOUT LORD JESUS CHRIST, WE KNOW YAL ASS LIED, CAUSE HIS VERY BEAUTIFUL AND BRAVE PEACEFUL, POWERFUL SELF ALPHA AND OMEGA MY HUSBAND HONEY, I HAVE TO BOAST ABOUT YOU ALL THESE DAYS, CAUSE WHEN YOU STEPPED INTO MY ROOM IN 2012, MY NOISE CLEARED UP FAST, I SAID WHO IS THIS SMELLING OH SO SWEET, GOOD, AND DELIGHTFUL I WAS LOOKING AROUND AND JUMPED OUT OF THE BED AND SHOUTED... YOU CAN SUP WITH ME FOREVERMORE MY LOVE!!! SHOOOO JUST FOR YOU I THINK I WILL VERY,VERY, VERY, AND VERY SOON AM THINKING ABOUT HAVING A LORD'S SUPPER MEAL EVERYDAY OF MY LIFE NOW... SHOOOOI THIS STUFF WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH ALL MY 32 YEARS, I'VE HAD WITH EVERY DAMN ENEMY ON AND UNDER THIS EARTH... THEY CAN'T EVEN KNOW THE BASICS IN PRESCHOOL THAT ALONE CLAIM THEIR A PRESIDENT, YEAH RIGHT, STOP THOSE DAMN LIES A RACIST HAS NO LOVE, THEY HATE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, CAUSE THEY KNOW THEIR TIME IS ALMOST OVER... YOU CAN TAKE THAT YOU YOUR THIEVING WAS BANKS JUST LIKE Y'ALL, I KNEW IT WAS FUNNY CERTAIN PEOPLE HAD MONEY SHOWING UP INTO THEIR ACCOUNTS, AND I DISCERNED THE DIFFERENCE THAT GOD WAS SAYING MY CHILD THEIR BLACK ASS IS A THIEF!!! I SAID OH MY LORD JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH ANGELS CATCH ME, LOVL[LAUGHING OUT VERY LOUD...] OK THIS IS IT FOR MY ADVENTURES TODAY. THANK YOU GODHEAD FOR EVERYTHING AND AS WE GO TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD PREACHING SAYING THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND FOREVERMORE, TOGETHER IN ONENESS ALWAYS... TO GOD BE THE GLORY FOREVER AND EVERMORE, AMEN, AMEN!!!! UNTIL NEXT TIME OBEDIENT CREW THAT'S REGIONAL READ THE HOLY BIBLE AND ASK GOD TO GUIDE TO WHICH CHAPTER AND VERSE TO STUDY, CAUSE SOMETIMES MY FATHER GOD KEPT ME IN CERTAIN BOOKS & CHAPTERS IN THE HOLY BIBLE TO TEACH ME, HOW TO TRULY LIVE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS WHOLEHEARTEDLY... MY TIME WITH GODHEAD IS ALL 24 HRS SO BASICALLY HE[MY HUSBAND ALPHA AND OMEGA FREED ME JUST SO I CAN BE LIKE THIS WITH HIM AGAIN, BUT THIS TIME THERE'S NO TURNING BACK I'M JUST LIVING FORWARD, BUT I REMEMBER THE FUNNY TIMES AS A CHILD, BECAUSE IT REALLY TAUGHT ME HUMILITY THROUGH THOSE WHO IS WITH MY FATHER GOD, THEIR HEARTS FINALLY TOUCHED MY HEART TOO, AND NOW MY VERY DEARLY, PRECIOUS, AND BEAUTIFUL OBEDIENT ALPHA AND OMEGA THANKS FOR HOLDING MY HAND ALWAYS, CAUSE YOU ALL KEEP ME SMILING, AND VERY LOVING, PEACEFUL, AND JOYFUL IN THE HOLY GHOST DAILY AND ALWAYS, I PRAY OH KINGDOM OF HEAVEN THOSE PEOPLE AROUND THE WHO WE HAVE TO REACH AND HELP FREE THEM TOO, BEGINNING THIS DAY AND FOREVERMORE, THAT THEY HAVE THE SAME HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM TOO JUST LIKE MY LOVE BOAZ AND I, HE'S QUITE THE VERY PARTNER JUST FOR ME MY KING OF GLORY, DELIVER YOUR BELOVED PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, FREE THEM FROM THEIR DECEPTIVE PAST OF HEARTBROKE BECAUSE OF THAT OLD DAMN ADVERSARY, AND RESTORE NOT ONLY JUST THEIR HEARTS BUT ALL OF THEIR INHERITANCE TO THEM TO MY HEAVENLY FATHER GOD ELOHIM, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE NOTHING THAT'S NOT OF YOU TROUBLING THEM ANYMORE, BLESSED THEM WITH VERY GREAT DIVINE GRACE,MERCY, TRUTH, AND LOVE IN EVERYDAY AND FOREVERMORE, FOR ALL THOSE WHO TRULY OBEY YOU FOR GIVING THEM LIFE, MY GOD. AND AS FOR THOSE WHO JUST LIVE IN LUST GIVE THEM THE VERY THINGS THEY SPOKE OVER US ALL THROUGH THESE YEARS, THEY HAD A CHOICE TO WALK OUT OF OUR LIVES BUT DIDN'T, AND IT'S GARBAGE LIKE KIRA YAMATO FROM GUNDAM SEED SAID, BECAUSE WHEN THEY DEALT WITH SOMEONE OF THEIR NATURE, THEY LEFT THEM VERY QUICKLY, BUT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO A RIGHTEOUS HEIR OF LIGHT, THEY WANTS TO TARRY IN Y'ALL LIVES... Y'ALL KNOW WHAT YALL HAVE TO DO, CAUSE THOSE DAMN ENEMY KNOW ME, I WILL SERIOUSLY PUT TO ACTION ANYTHING I HAVE EVER SAID IN DOING, ONCE THE THOUGHT COMES TO MIND I'LL HAVE IT EXECUTED IN NO TIME, I'M ELEMENTAL QUEEN ELIZABETH L. SMITH THE DAUGHTER GODHEAD, I DESPISE ANYTHING OPPOSITE OF US, SEE WON'T Y'ALL ASS GET STRUCK DOWN AND STRUCK OUT, WITHOUT ANY RESPONSE. I'VE COME TO TORMENT Y'ALL ASS BEFORE TIME, IT'S ME BASTARDS IN THIS WORLD, I SAID IT LAUGHING IN THAT AEROSTAR GREEN VAN, Y'ALL NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK OR MENTION MY NAME OUT OF Y'ALL MOUTHS NO MORE, CAUSE I'M THINKING MY HOMIE'S ALPHA AND OMEGA, MICHEAL, AND ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN WANTS TO JOIN ME IN THIS WHOOPING Y'ALL WORLDWIDE, WE WILL SAY CRUCIFY EVERY DAMN DEVIL IN THIS EARTH, AND UNDER THIS EARTH. IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH YOU ENEMIES OF GODHEAD THE TRINITY, BE THOUGH REMOVED, AND DESTROYED, PERISH OFF THIS EARTH, RETURN BACK TO THE DIRT, AND CEASE FROM TROUBLING INNOCENT SOULS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, FOR ALL ETERNITY, JEHOVAH-ROHI SHALL WE GO AHEAD , LET US SENTENCE THEM ALL (THOSE DEVILISH CHILDREN WHO IS DISOBEDIENT TO THE CORE, YOU ALL IS NOW EXTINCT, GO BURN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOR ALL ETERNITY, WE BIND Y'ALL FROM THE TOP OF YOUR HEADS TO THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET FROM THE BACK TO THE FRONT OF YOUR BODY'S, SILENCE ALL OF THEIR 5 SENSE, THAT THEY CAN NO LONGER, SPEAK THINGS OR DO ANYTHING TO ANNOY YOUR PEOPLE NO MORE, SINCE THEY CHOSE TO BE LIVING IDOLS ON THIS EARTH, SENTENCE THEM TO ALL THE THINGS [THEY REAP EVERYTHING THEY CHOSE TO SOW INTO OTHER PEOPLE LIVES JUST BECAUSE THEY REALLY LOVE TELLING LIES] REWARD THEM WITH EVERYTHING YOUR HOLY BIBLE SAYS YOU HAVE JUST FOR ANY TYPE OF IDOL, AND EVERY WICKED SERVANT, WHO IS STILL LIVING IN THIS EARTH, DOING THINGS THEY KNOW YOU[GODHEAD YAHWEH AND YESHUA SAID DO NOT DO]!!! THANK YOU GODHEAD THAT OUR ENEMIES ARE BIND ON EARTH, AND BOUND IN HEAVEN, AND WE LOOSE THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN TO GO FORTH AND ASSURE GODHEAD CHILDREN PROTECTION WITH SHEKINA GLORY PROTECTING THEIR GOING OUT, AND THEIR COMING IN, GIVING EVERYONE THEIR GODLY INHERITANCE, AND TEACH THEM, ALSO ANGELS TO STAY CONSISTENT IN STUDY THE HOLY BIBLE DAILY AND ALWAYS, NO EXCUSES NO MORE CLAIMING YOUR TOO BUSY TO SPEND TIME WITH ELOHIM, BECAUSE IF THEY SAY THAT WE WILL SAY JEHOVAH-JIREH IS VERY, VERY, VERY TOO BUSY TO GIVE YOU ALL ANYTHING IN THIS LIFE ANYMORE. THANK YOU ALL KINGDOM OF HEAVEN FOR EVERYBODY WHO REALLY HELPED AND TRULY TRAINED BOAZ AND I TO STAY FOCUS ON YOU ADONAI ABEOJI MY FATHER GOD, WE ARE FINALLY FREE TO BE A BLESSING TO WHOMEVER YOU ALL HAS CHOSEN TO BE APART OF OUR MINISTRY!!! THANK GOD FOR EVERYTHING THAT THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN HAS LOOSED IT ON EARTH, IT IS ALSO LOOSED IN HEAVEN, PRAISING THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND THE EARTH FOREVERMORE, AND EVERMORE, AMEN, AND AMEN!!! I LOVE YOU OH SO VERY MUCH BOAZ MY LOVE, UNTIL NEXT TIME HERE YOU GO JUST FOR YOU ONLY MY VERY PRECIOUS DEAR PARTNER BOAZ SENDING YOU ONLY JUST FOR YOU MY MAN AMONG MEN A GODLY FEARING MAN JUST ME,😘😘😍😍💝. ARIGATO, XIEXIE, AND GOSAMANIDA & SARANGHAEYEO ABEOJI, &TOUSAN.[ THANK YOU IN JAPAN, ASIA, AND KOREAN THANK YOU, I LOVE YOU IN KOREAN. AND THAT IS MY FATHER GOD IN KOREAN AND JAPAN!!! P.S. OUR BEAUTIFUL REGIONAL FAMILIES OF GODHEAD THE TRINITY ELOHIM CHILDREN OF LIGHT, AROUND THE WORLD STOP DOUBTING GOD'S LOVE JUST BECAUSE OF OTHER FAKE PREACHER'S IN THIS WORLD, DON'T FRET I'M 32 NATURALLY, BUT I HAVE REALLY BEEN TAUGHT PERSONALLY BY HIS MAJESTY ALL MY LIFE, AND YES I'M A DIRECTOR OF MUSIC WITH PREACHING TOO, SO I CAN'T DO NOTHING FATHER GOD HATES CAUSE MY HEAVENLY FATHER GOD ELOHIM WILL REALLY GET ONTO ME, THEIR IS NO OTHER god FOR ME, JUST ONLY YAHWEH AND YESHUA MY FAMILY OF LIGHT,LOVE, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS... SO JUST RELAX AND JUST THANK GODHEAD THAT WE ARE STILL ALIVE WITH HIS BREATH IN US, AND THAT GOD'S GRACE IS SUFFICIENT UNTO US, ALLOWING US TO KNOW AND CONTINUE TO UP IN OUR VERY MIGHTY, VERY BEAUTIFUL, VERY OMNI-PRESENT, ULTIMATELY HE"S THE ULTIMATE ONE IN EVERYTHING ALPHA AND OMEGA, YOUR LIFESTYLE MY LOVE TRULY HAS MY HEART ONLY CAPTIVATED BY YOU, I LOVE THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS Y'ALL MADE, LET'S ENJOY THEM TOGETHER NOW, AND FOR ALL ETERNITY, I LOVE Y'ALL SENSE OF HUMOR, IT'S VERY FUN, LET'S JUST ALL HAVE FUN TOGETHER IN EVERYTHING KINGDOM OF HEAVEN FOREVER, AND EVERMORE, AMEN, AND AMEN!!!! SO MUCH VERY BEAUTIFUL, AND PRECIOUS LOVE JUST FOR TH KOH CREW WITH Y'ALL HERE IT GO JUST FOR Y'ALL THEIR ONLY THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ALL THE BEAUTIFUL HEARTED ONES CREW, AND ANGEL"S TOO🌞😙😍🏖🌟💗💙🎎🛩🛳🌏💑!!!!

[hollowwhisperings]

Kingdom Key & Kingdom Hearts: A SoRiku Theory

The Kingdom Hearts series (& its creators) actively emphasizes the ways that its primary protagonist, Sora, is a "normal, ordinary boy". Yet Sora wields the iconic Kingdom Key, the Ultima Keyblade & even a x-blade (as forged by Xehanort): Sora's Story has been that of a Chosen One, even as he fits the archetype of one "Unchosen".

This theory explores the nature of Choice within the KH series, specifically in the context of "Destiny" and prophecies. It employs the "Riku is The Light" & "Necklace" theories, as well as elements of "Sleeping Realm". It also casts Riku as one of those Strange Women in Ponds who Distribute Swords as a Basis of [Galactic World Order].

Sora's story seemingly begins as a Classic Hero's Journey only for such a reading to fall flat when Expectations such as "Getting The Girl" and "Becoming a Keyblade Master" pointedly do not happen.

The driving force of the KH series has always been Riku: Riku wished to see worlds beyond his home, knowing the truth of the KH Multiverse well before proof literally crashlanded in the form of Kairi (a literal shooting star).

It is Riku's Heart that drew the attention of the Worlds at large to the Destiny Islands: the brightness of his light lead Terra, Aqua & Xehanort to meeting Sora in the first place.

Terra chooses Riku as a future Keyblade Master.

Aqua chooses Sora for the sake of preserving Riku's Light, the events of BBS teaching her that the strongest lights cast the longest shadows.

Xehanort chooses Riku as a Dark Vessel, whispering to him & encouraging him to doubt, to mistrust.

It is assumed, by Sora and by Riku, that Riku was also the person responsible for "opening the door" to the Darkness that felled the Destiny Islands. Yet throughout his childhood, each attempt by Riku to open the mysterious door on the play island failed and, when Darkness Falls, it is Kairi who is found at its source (Kairi, who had been expelled from her home by a version of Xehanort & whose heart harboured yet another fragment of the Seeker of Darkness).

Regardless of whether he truly opened the Destiny Islands to Darkness, Riku believed it & through Darkness did he find "freedom" to explore the Worlds Beyond, just as he had always dreamed... except for one, rather significant detail becoming derailed: Sora's presence by Riku's Side.

The two were separated and Sora was almost lost: even with Darkness swallowing Riku whole, the light within his Heart acted in time to save Sora by entrusting to him 'Kingdom Key'. Riku's Keyblade. A physical manifestation of Riku's Heart.

(notably, the "Kingdom Key-D" found by King Mickey was found not too far from the scene where Kingdom Key manifested: it is plausible that this keyblade was also manifested by Riku's Heart, perhaps alongside its 'Light' counterpart - I'd need to check the timeline to see how such a theory holds up)

Kingdom Key was entrusted to Sora, a subconscious act of Riku's Heart that mirrored an earlier act of protection Riku gave to Sora: on the night where Kairi fell to the Destiny Islands, a young Sora felt frightened and a young Riku swore to protect his dearest friend. This oath was sworn in turn sworn by Sora to Riku. They sealed these oaths with tokens they held close: while Sora's charm gifted to Riku remains unknown, Riku entrusted Sora with a crown charm he had had since infancy.

When Riku was 5, Riku entrusted Sora with his Crown. Both boys swore to protect the other.

When Riku was 15, Riku's Heart entrusted itself to Sora in the form of 'Kingdom Key'.

When Riku was ~16, he subconsciously protected Sora by becoming the latter's Dreamel Eater. Within the same timeframe, Riku sacrificed himself entirely to save Sora at the Keyblade Graveyard (an act of sacrifice, an act of True Love).

At every instance where Riku has been at a crossroads, knowingly or not, his Heart has Chosen Sora's: Riku, presumed descendant of Ephemera and a child of the Destiny Islands, has always & continues to choose Sora.

When the pair were reunited in KH2 and confronted the threat of Xemnas, the two fought as one & passed their keyblades between each other intuitively

When the pair existed in parallel realms of Sleep, separated but connected, their heartbeasts joined to form a Waltzing variation of the melody 'Dearly Belove'. They then fought in sync with a Combined Blade, formed from the keyblades "Mirage Split" and "Nightmare's End", acting again as two halves of a whole.

When Riku was to meet his end in the Realm of Darkness, far within the abyss, Sora appeared to him and they once again wielded their Combined Blade. Beast had once reaponded to a 15 year old Riku's questioning of his impossible arrival to Hollow Bastion, where Beast's Beloved Belle was held hostage, that he had "simply believed": belief brought Sora to Riku in the Realm of Darkness, belief brought Sora to the Final World in the wake of Riku's Ultimate Sacrifice.

The premise of Kingdom Key & its counterpart, Kingdom Key-D, being Manifestations of Riku's Heart & indicative of Riku's being the "Child of Destiny" does run into some Logistical Obstacles.

One, if Riku's Keyblade is being wielded by Sora (& Mickey, assuming the two keys were originally one) then whose keyblade is Riku wielding?

Two, how can Riku's Heart manifest multiple keyblades? Posession by Ansem Seeker of Darkness explains 1 of the "extra" keyblades (the key of "all hearts"). The bequeathing ceremony by Terra could explain another. Kingdom Key-D is definitely connected to Kingdom Key yet never specifically associated with Riku, evem being wielded by King Mickey (a stranger to Riku, at that point).

To the first: if Riku's keyblade is being wielded by Sora (& its counterpart by King Mickey), how can Riku wield another keyblade in KH1 even before getting possessed?

There are several immediate & varyingly plausible explanations: Riku's nature as a "Child of Destiny" allowing his Heart to churn out keyblades on demand like some Fey Lady of Avalon; or the other keyblades were not actually manifested by Riku at all.

While I greatly enjoy the imagery of Riku playing the "Lady of the Lake" to Sora's "Arthur" in KH1, given Sora's opening dream sequence already set Riku as being stuck in a Body Of Water (which is additionally representative of Darkness), it is Stretching Things to assume all other Plot Focused keyblades were ALSO fished out from Riku's Heart.

Perhaps Riku's Heart simply conjured new keyblades in response to Sora's Heart taking in new quests: Riku's Heart supplying keys to the metaphoric doors of Sora's Heart Hotel.

It is more likely, however, that the "new" keyblade wielded by Riku (the one currently known as "Braveheart") is a manifestation of SORA'S Heart: Riku entrusted his crown & his heart to Sora, first on the night of the Meteor Shower & then on the night the Islands Fell; Sora, in turn, entrusted his sword & heart to Riku. It explains how each boy readily wields the keyblade of the other & fits within the theme of their hearts beating in sych.

Riku choosing Sora, Riku's entrusting his Heart (literally & figuratively) with Sora, resulted in Destiny Itself 'choosing' Sora: if Riku represents Kingdom Hearts, the subject of his love would naturally become beloved by the Worlds in turn.

Sora acting as "[the] One Sky, One Destiny" due to Sora having the 'Heart' of Destiny through its child (Riku)'s love.

Sora is not only Riku's Dearly Beloved, Sora is THE "Dearly Beloved": beloved by the Worlds, entrusted with their Hearts & appointed their Savior. And all because, dull and ordinary boy that he may be, it is Sora's naturally normal self that Riku fell in love with. Sora may not be any more innately special than anyone else but Sora is special to RIKU, the love between them (knowingly or not) serving as the driving force of their stories & of Destiny itself.

[continuouscalamity]

CHAPTER 1 - EVENT - MAGIC SHOW!

Ding! Ding! Dong!

Monitors around the mansion floor and in your rooms blink on, revealing a Monoboar lounging on a chair.

"Nafternoon! Make way to the Main Foyer this instant fer the show. Or not if you're a loser, oink."

GM’S NOTE: This is a direct transcript. Not a summary.

[2:46 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie was already here. [2:46 PM] Hazel Hazeldine | 🔖: Hazel is there. Hi! Bye. [2:46 PM] Lake Kawaguchi | Main Foyer: Lake headed to the main foyer for the show. [2:46 PM] Eri [napping]: She's interrupted by the announcement. "No... I'm gonna go nap now" Eri scooped up the apples and exited the kitchen @Keiko Taisei (Heather) [2:46 PM] Cerviel Winter 🦊: Cerviel  finally left his room at the announcement. He headed to the Foyer to see what this was about. [2:47 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "Yeah... That seems to be what the fuck is going on for the rest of us too. It's like our fucking brains and memories got picked apart and put in a room." She shuddered.

"It's kinda creepy."

@Aderyn Bishop (Beq) [2:47 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: "Wait, aren't you going to watch the show--Oh, she's gone. Hmph."

Keiko sighs, then heads to the foyer. [2:47 PM] Riku Yasui... Main Foyer: Riku made his way to the main foyer slight tired but determined to get good photos out of this. [2:47 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: Oh. shit [2:48 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "Hm. You wanna go to that?" [2:49 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn looks a bit taken aback by Artemis' previous statement, but she shakes it off and nods. "Yeah, I was gonna," she says. "Not sure if you want to, but," @Artemis Black (Alex) [2:50 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Show Time: Rayne... is here. [2:50 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie headed to the main foyer, still somewhat sleepy. [2:51 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "Eeeh, got nothing better to do, let's go."

@Aderyn Bishop (Beq) [2:52 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn nods. They head out and to the foyer. Magic Time :time: @Artemis Black (Alex) [2:56 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: Magic time. Artemis wonders if she can cause an disaster for a spilt second. It's her nature. "Hm. Hey, Addy?"

@Aderyn Bishop (Beq) [2:58 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: I'n a little scared, Arte. Aderyn glances over. "Hm?" @Artemis Black (Alex) [2:59 PM] Monoboar!: There are chairs arranged in the Foyer, feel free to take a seat. [2:59 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Show Time: OH SEAT TIME? They grab a chair, turn it around, and sit down on it with their arms up on the back of it. [2:59 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "Think I could get away with smuggling a gallon container of canola oil on stage?"

@Aderyn Bishop (Beq) [3:00 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: Keiko sits right in the middle of the audience, where she can observe everyone. She has a feeling something bad is going to happen... [3:00 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and girls, and any coordinate otherwise, I present to you: Willy Wonder!"

As the announcement finishes, a puff of purple smoke takes the stage. Emerging from a the mist shroud, like 'Who's this now?' is William Sherman. "Thank you! Thank you! You're all so kind! Say, I have an spectacular show for you today." A wand appears in his hand, as if from thin air. "However... I cannot do this alone. Dear viewers, please welcome the lovely Maggie!" [3:01 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie promptly gets up from her seat, happily trotting in her path up to the flashy stage. She waved to the audience with a smile. A few “Hello! Hello!”s were given here and there before she placed herself alongside the magician himself.

[3:01 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: "Do not." Aderyn stresses. "Do not," she says again. "Just... let them have fun," Aderyn moves to sit at a seat in the back, pretend I sent this before Willy appeared. @Artemis Black (Alex) [3:02 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: Keiko claps! Clap clap clap :clap: [3:03 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue does eventually make her way to the foyer. She stands in her own spot and minds her own business. [3:04 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "What, I was joking!" She followed, sitting down next to Aderyn. Magic show start.

@Aderyn Bishop (Beq) [3:04 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "Now, let's get this show on the road, shall we?" He heads off behind the drapes and starts setting up a sort of half-pipe/ramp with a large wheel being stopped by a rod, with help from Maggie. Willy laid down at the bottom of the halfpipe. "Now make sure to watch closely, this one goes by quickly."

An image for your viewing pleasure!

[3:06 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: The journalist is on the side, setting the equipment up and making sure everything’s spick and span. She double-checks the set up, and removes the rod as so.

"Huyah!" She adds for pizzazz. [3:06 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: That looks dangerous. Like, really dangerous. Keiko's worry that something bad will happen gets like...10 times worse.

[3:06 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue watches closely, intrigued... [3:07 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Show Time: Rayne starts wiggling from side to side with a huge smile on their face. Entertainment!!! [3:07 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: Oh shit? That looks DANGEROUS. She likely. [3:07 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie shifts around in his seat. He's never really had good experiences magic, but he's still excited to see the outcome. Just don't die. [3:08 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: As the rod is removed, Willy is gone as the wheel rolls over him, and rolls back and forth until it stops at the bottom of the ramp.

Then, with a quick puff of smoke, Willy appeared next to the ramp. "Ta daaaaa!"

[3:08 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn is like :O but you can't tell because she's wearing a mask. She claps very softly. [3:08 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie gives claps, and starts to put the first set of equipment away. [3:09 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: Keiko is 100% sure the wheel is going to run over him, and lets out a gasp as he reappears. "Oh god..." this is too stressful. But also...weirdly mystical and entertaining? [3:09 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "Oh?" [3:09 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: Taking large bows, Willy then addressed the crowd. "Well, if you liked that one then you're gonna LOVE this one!" He said as he started getting the scene ready. [3:10 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: Putting a small pole and two stools next to it, the magician pulled out a gold pocket watch. "Hm, seems to be a few hours off. Good thing that's not what I'm using this for." He winked at the crowd. "Now, assistant, if you would be so kind to lay down on these stools on your side and grab this pole here. I need you to hold it as tight as you can." [3:10 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie laid herself on the stools, holding the pole with her dominant hand.

[3:11 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "Now watch this, folks." The sorcerer said as he started waving the watch in a pendulum motion. "You are feeling veeeeery sleepy... Your eyelids feel heavy... You are falling into a deep sleep..." [3:12 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: She felt her eyelids grow heavier and heavier, and right then and there, she falls asleep. Maggie kept her grip on the pole.

[3:12 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: WHAT THE FUCK. [3:13 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: HELP. Dangerous. [3:13 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: Willy smiled as Maggie fell asleep, leaning on the pole. "Well, this is the easy part." As he finished saying that, He took away the two stools underneath the journalist as she floated mid-air. "And would you look at that! Even when sleeping she has an iron grip!" He waved his hands over the sleeping girl. "As you can see, no wires are being used!"

[3:15 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: Taking a quick bow, Willy placed the stools under his assistant once more. "Now, Maggie, when I snap my fingers, you are going to wake up as if nothing happened..." Snap. [3:16 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Within a snap, Maggie awakens instantly, looking around at the scene and smiling as she removed herself from the set. She heads to the side.

[3:17 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "One more round of applause for my wonderful assistant! Give her a hand!" Willy smiled as he started taking the previous set off and put a bird stand along with a fake nest. [3:17 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Show Time: CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!!! [3:17 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie claps hesitantly. Magic scary. [3:17 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie claps for herself! [3:18 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn claps very quietly. [3:18 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: Willy clapped for her too. As if on cue, a dove landed on the bird stand and started cooing. "Hello, pretty boy!" Willy rolled a finger down the dove's neck as he placed himself between the stand and the nest. [3:19 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: Keiko claps confusedly. What the hell is going on? None of this should be possible :cold_sweat: [3:19 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: Pulling out a hankie in one hand, an egg in the other and placing a feather atop his head Willy looked over the crowd then back to the dove. "So, tell me, William the Fifth, do you like eggs? No? Well don't worry, I can get rid of this for you." With a quick movement of his hand, the egg disappeared from sight. [3:21 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: She goes :open_mouth: !! This one wasn't dangerous! She claps more excitedly this time. [3:22 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie adds a dramatic "wooh!" for effect. [3:24 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "See? All better. What? You want that one back? You have to make up your mind, silly boy!" The feather fell off the magicians head and into the nest. As Willy followed the feather with his eyes, he tossed the hankie, throwing it passed the nest. As it passed, an egg sat in the nest. "Is that better? What!? You still don't like eggs? UGH! How moody can you be?" He turned towards the crowd. "What a bird brain." And he took a bow.

[3:44 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: "Ah." [3:44 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie gasps! The turn of events! [3:44 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "Aw fuck you've gone and turned a good woman into that fucking monstrosity!" [3:45 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: “Okay, who wasn’t giving their magic power out?” Willy looked at the crowd with disappointment. “She were supposed to turn into a teddy bear but instead we got THIS because SOMEBODY didn’t wanna participate…. Well, it’s fine. We can just revert this with the same amount of power we gave last time.” He closes the door to the box. “Alright, just like before. Focus REALLY hard for me!” [3:46 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn still doesn't know what that means. She stares at the box in confusion. Is this focusing. [3:46 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: "Channel your energy! Feeeeeel the magic!" She cheers for support.

[3:47 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: Magic: Channeled. Maybe too much. [3:47 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue is Trying. [3:48 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: Taking a stance slightly different from the previous transmutation, William begins to chant again. “Blibbity Bloppity Triple Twice Told, turn into your form that was once OLD!” Willy takes a moment before smiling and opening the door, revealing Keiko! “Well would you look at that! Spick and span, good as new!” He offers a hand to the person in the box. “Give a round of applause for our volunteer! Sorry about that, next time I’ll give a little bit more juice, I promise.” Willy smiles apologetically. [3:48 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie claps by the side! [3:48 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: She takes his hand, stepping out of the box. What the hell just happened? [3:48 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue claps! [3:48 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: She got a brain cramp. She was actually thinking too hard. She curled up in her chair instead of clapping to cope. [3:49 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn claps, confusioned and also totally enraptured. [3:50 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: Turning once again to the audience, this time in a grandois fashion, Willy announces “And now, for the moment you’ve all been waiting for… The Grand Finale!” Giving a smile and a nod to Maggie as he heads back stage. [3:50 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie follows along to help him. [3:51 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: Keiko grabs her cane with Maggie before she goes and heads back to her seat. She's still very confused. [3:52 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: A low rumble can be heard as a guillotine is pushed onto the stage. The magician lay on the platform with his head sticking out of the stocks, legs kicking as if it was just another day. [3:53 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie showcases it with a pose. [3:53 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: Oh no. That's like...super dangerous. Like, possibly the most dangerous thing he could do. :cold_sweat:

[3:53 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "Oh my god?" [3:54 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn stands up half out of her chair, looking about ready to bolt for an exit. After a moment, she hesitantly sits back down, reassuring herself that it's just a trick, it's just magic, it's fine, it's fine. She still looks a bit nervous. [3:54 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: "Sherman-san, are you sure this one is a good idea?!" [3:54 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "Of course." Willy gave a wink the to audience as he looked towards Maggie with a nod. [3:55 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: She pulls the grip and lever, sending the blade of the guillotine plummeting down in an instant. [3:55 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue's face pales. "Oh..." [3:55 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: Keiko closes her eyes. [3:55 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: SHWING, THUNK, SPLAT! ... ... … [3:55 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "CHRIST-" [3:55 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Promptly, Maggie goes over to remove the basket the head has fallen in, revealing… [3:55 PM] Monoboar!: A horrific scene. [3:55 PM] Monoboar!: … [3:55 PM] Monoboar!: … [3:56 PM] Monoboar!: … [3:56 PM] Monoboar!: 

Warning for decapitation.

[3:57 PM] Monoboar!: The head of the Ultimate Magician lay in a bloody pool, slowly spreading out across the stage. [3:57 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "...." [3:57 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "...oh my god-" [3:58 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue shoots up from her seat. "He's dead! There's no possible way he could have survived that!" [3:58 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: Oh my god that's a lot of blood. A lot. It's a lot of blood. It's all over.

Keiko passes out on her seat. [3:58 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "What the fuck." [3:59 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn gasps and shoots up from her seat in shock, knocking over her chair and stumbling back over it. [3:59 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Show Time: Blink. blink blink. ....

THEY SCREAM. [3:59 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "Keiko-!" Artemis leaped up, shuffling over to check on her, her own mind frazzled. That couldn't be real... right? [4:00 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: … … Then, Willy’s face winked at the crowd once more. “Ta daaa!” The body still atop the display kicked it's legs a little. [4:00 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Show Time: "OH GOD ITS A ZOMBIE-" [4:01 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: The curtain is drawn around the stage, then opened once more revealing Willy, standing next to Maggie, with his head on his shoulders. He takes a deep bow. [4:01 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue blinks, confused, and blushes. [4:01 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: ... ... ....

"YOU SERIOUSLY CHOSE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT HERE?!" [4:01 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie, who was trying to restrain her laughter, bows along with Willy. [4:02 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "What? It was thematically fitting!" [4:03 PM] 🔫Artemis Black🔫| Magi: "I was right. You're an asshole." She glowered and gathered Keiko up in her arms, storming up to go put the unconscious woman in her room. [4:03 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Show Time: "MARIONETTE THAT ISN'T FUNNY!" [4:03 PM] Keiko Taisei | Sleebing: Sleeby. Zzzzz. She is carried, I guess. [4:04 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "It's not supposed to be funny! It was supposed to make you on the edge of your seat!" Willy's brow furrows. "Nobody got hurt! I don't see the problem!" [4:07 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: "And like, its a show from the Ultimate Magician? Did ya expect things to really go wrong?"

[4:07 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Show Time: "YES!!!!" [4:07 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "No faith..." Willy pouts a little. [4:08 PM] Qiuyue Xu ♣ Foyer: Qiuyue sighs, relieved. [4:09 PM] Riku Yasui... Main Foyer: "Well you did got a reaction out of us," Riku said grabbing onto his chest. "I feel like you knocked the wind out of me..." Riku said trying to relax. [4:09 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie nods in agreement. "Haha, yeah. Sure, it was terrifying, but I get it was for fun." [4:10 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: "A terrifying fun, or a thrill!" [4:11 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn is still here, actually. Still on the floor, half clinging to her seat, as if hiding behind it. "I thought, I thought," she stutters. She starts turning pink, realizing how dumb she must look to have fallen for the trick, and she flops her head down against the fallen chair. "... You're. Good." She says. "Youu... You got me," he sure did. [4:13 PM] Wilma Ortega || Foyer: Wilma is muttering something about witchcraft. Yes, I placed her here. Fuck off. [4:13 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: I love you Wilma. [4:14 PM] Wilma Ortega || Foyer: She loves you. [4:14 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: "That's the spirit!"

[4:14 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "I just wanted to put on a show for everyone. It's not like I actually killed somebody!" Willy's shoulders slump. "Alright. I realize maybe I should have put a warning out before hand. That one is on me." [4:14 PM] Rayne Maelstrom 👹 Show Time: "The rest was fine!!!! Just that last one....." [4:16 PM] Wilma Ortega || Foyer: "Sure is," Wilma pipes up, somewhat unnecessarily. "Long as you recognize that, we're all good here."

Crossing their arms, they step sideways to examine the guillotine further.

"Yer a magician, not some two bit haunted house scare. I'm sure ya got better than this." [4:16 PM] Willy Wonder | 🎩MAGIC✨: "Alright, let's wrap this up then." Willy clears his throat.

“That’s all the time we have folks! Thank you all so much for attending! One more round of applause for my wonderful assistant, Maggie!” He does the Will Smith pose, the bows one more time. [4:16 PM] Wilma Ortega || Foyer: Wilma claps. It's just polite. [4:17 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: Maggie bows! [4:17 PM] 💤 Aderyn Bishop 💤 | Room: Aderyn flops her hand against the chair once. That's her clap. She tried. [4:22 PM] MAGGIE! 🖊 MAGIC!: "And another thank you from me!" [4:22 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie claps!

Credits: 

Mod War ( @redcrowz ) - Monoboar’s Announcement CG, Maggie’s icons, the Act “CGs”, and video editing for Willy’s BDA

Dingle ( @dingdongs-domain ) - Willy’s icons, Willy’s “BDA”

Beq ( @pitoumugis ) - Keiko’s icons

[continuouscalamity]

CHAPTER 5 TRIAL TRANSCRIPT

"You know the time, buckaroos! Head to the foyer, pronto! Snrk! Oink!"

TRIAL 5 - BEGINNING

[4:51 PM] Monoboar!: The dread of seeing a person die still lingers within the elevator. Another one lost, and perhaps another one after this trial.

Only you lot have the capacity of finding the culprit.

...

The stops at the trial room for the fifth time for the time you've been here. Ten stands take place of the ones who once lived: ten portraits of Akihiko, Aderyn, Akemi, Wallace, Wilma, Eri, Riku, Qiuyue, Rayne, and Keiko.

Monoboar heads to his seat, and chanted out, "Head to yer stands at once, oink!"

@Alive [4:51 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': Willy. Stand. Yeah. [4:51 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: ...

[4:52 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel headed to his stand reluctantly and placed his doll on top. [4:52 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: Artemis wobbles to her stand. She looks like she's had much better times. [4:52 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: Renzo goes to their stand and gives Artemis a sad glance. [4:55 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana looks to her left. It's a straight row of three empty stands before Willy's. Damn...she doesn't like that. She hadn't payed that much notice until right now.

"Okay." she slams her hands on her stand. "Start talking, 'cause I wanna get out of this stupid room as much as everyone else..." [4:56 PM] Monoboar!: "Y'all know the drill, y'all should be experts at this! Though, I can't expect much from grubby minds, gwahaha..."

The boar slams his gavel down excitedly, looking towards the circle of people.

"Let the trial for Keiko Taisei friggin' start! Oink!"

[GIF]

[4:59 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Ugh. Okay. So, like..." she started. "I was walking back to my room and there was a, like...brown-ish red-ish handprint on the thing? I mean-- the wall?" she explained. She's tired. "I think it's blood. Well, duh, it's blood. I mean, what else would it be? Chocolate pudding?" [5:00 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: :consentbullet: "It's blood. Saw it for myself." [5:01 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Ugh..." she groaned. "Gross..."

[5:02 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "The place where we found her seemed kinda normal, 'side from the body."

:cluebullet: "There's only one set of footprints and a trail of something, or someone, being dragged." [5:03 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Well, she has a cane. Maybe she was dragging it along? I dunno?" [5:04 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "It was a pretty fucking big trail." [5:04 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Well, at least there's evidence there's a killer, right?" [5:04 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Ya can't drag yourself, that's dumb." [5:05 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Maybe she was, wait...was her leg, like, not there...? When we found her? Maybe she was dragging her other leg? Hey, it's a good hypothesis!" [5:06 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "S-She has... both legs at-attached to her body." [5:06 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "What the heck." [5:06 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "I think you're thinkin' of Artemis, Hime-honey." [5:07 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Hey! No one can think straight in here, c'mon!" she huffs, looking embarrassed nonetheless. [5:08 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "..."

"Anyways. I should mention the body," [5:08 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "I had a closer look at it while Artemis was there, I think." [5:08 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': { "Go on..." } [5:09 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Well, Artemis altered the body and it's position, so I couldn't see how it was placed originally." [5:11 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: :cluebullet: "However! I did see her wounds on the top, and a shallower wound at the back. Her clothes were wet, assumedly from the damp cellar conditions." [5:12 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "I-I.. I remember how her body was at first." [5:12 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "OH!" Hana exclaimed. "Her cane! It was right next to her body, and, like...it was covered in blood and it looked broken." she said, seemingly proud of her perceptiveness. "Maybe someone, like, hit her with it...?" [5:13 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: :consentbullet: "Lookin' how the case file says she died from blunt force trauma, that has to be it!" [5:13 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Anyways, go on, Artemis." [5:15 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: :cluebullet:  She gave a rough cough, tilting her head downwards to stare at her stand. "U-Um... When I-I first saw her... she was face down on the cellar floor-- A-And she had her hands out as if she was trying to drag herself towards the door..." [5:15 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana grimaced. [5:16 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "Must have had some life left in her..." [5:16 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: :consentbullet: "Seein' how was still alive when she was discovered, I'd think so too." [5:17 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': { "I meant as she was left there, but yeah." } [5:17 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie winces. Okay, moving on from that.

:cluebullet: "There was one of those motive cards right beside her body. Maybe it's the one she received, or maybe the culprit's." [5:19 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: :consentbullet: "I found it... it was KUBOcard. I think I grabbed it..." She did indeed, she pulls it out. [5:19 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Oh! That reminds me again! I read that thing! It said something like, I know your secret, meet me in the foyer and explain yourself. I dunno. It was written with really, really neat handwriting, too." [5:20 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: { "I meant the motive card, but good thing you saw that too, Princess." } [5:20 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "Taisei-san's, probably." [5:20 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: { "Shuddup! I know what you meant, I was just, uh...adding on!" } [5:21 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: { "Cool."}"Would you, uh, mind reading it to us? Or would you rather have us read all the secrets we got first?" [5:22 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "I-I can do it." [5:22 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': { "I wouldn't mind knowing who got mine..." } [5:22 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: { "What the heck would they know about me anyway?" } [5:22 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Let's hear Kubo's card first, then we can discuss the motive cards." [5:23 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: She cleared her throat. Everyone be silent. :cluebullet:  "It says. 'What's new, Nosferatu? Kubo had to sacrifice his own sister to become a vampire!' And... yeah-" [5:24 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!:

[5:24 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: { "I hate the supernatural. Fuck my life." } [5:24 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: { " " } [5:24 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana blinks. [5:24 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: {"Kubo is too busy playing Minecraft to refute this."} [5:24 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: { "Damn." } [5:24 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "But considering... it could be a lie." [5:24 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: {"Yeah he's playing Minecraft."} [5:25 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "I mean-- Mines wasn't true, Lake showed me..." [5:25 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "That's the thing! Some cards, I've discovered, have false information..." Hazel agrees. "I'd shared mine with Lady Uzo's, and it wasn't true." [5:25 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "I got Lake's thing, and I wouldn't believe it!"

She takes out her pocketed card. [5:25 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Really? Thank friggin' goodness! I got Pickle-nii-chan's..." [5:26 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "I 'unno much about mine to say if it's true or not. And I'd rather not know."

He takes his card out and reads it again, making a face at it. [5:26 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "Wait, you got mine? What does it say." [5:26 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Do... some have false information...? Or are all of them, wrong?" [5:27 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "We'll.. have to tell and see." [5:27 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Oh, uhh..." she fidgets. "Hold on a second." she digs through her apron pocket, a packet of sugar falling out in the proccess. She finds a crumpled piece of paper.

"It was written by the boar, obviously. Um... 'Oi princess! Did ya know that your friend Packie caused his sister's "accident" on purpose out of jealousy? Can't see him the same way, can't ya?'" she read the card out loud, crudely mimicing the boar's voice. [5:27 PM] Monoboar!: Monoboar sniffs. [5:27 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "Yeah I got Keiko's 'secret'... That doesn't sound good right about now, doesn't it?" [5:27 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel's brows raise, looking at Packie. [5:28 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Ah, you did?" [5:28 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "The fuck? No, that's not true. It doesn't matter right now, though, not important." [5:28 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel is doing some math in her head right now. [5:28 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "Okay- Who else wants to share...?" [5:28 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Okay! I believe you, like, a thousand times more then that stupid hog." she said, but secretly she was curious. What was true about it? [5:29 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Can I share Lake's?" [5:29 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "Yeah it said something like 'Keiko poisons her parents to take care of them' or some shit like that." [5:29 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: She mimics Monoboar's voice, in the same vein as Hana. "Hey! Heard that lil' Lake tried to slip harmful substances into a batch of cookies made at her camp but got caught! Ain't that a treat? Bwahaha!" [5:29 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "Go ahead, Uzoamaka-san. I--" [5:29 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Ouuuahhhh... scary.." [5:29 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: Artemis lets out a teary scoff at Willy's talk. "Y-Yeah fucking right." [5:29 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "NO?" [5:29 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "...a bit late, but perhaps wait your turn." [5:30 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: She's referring to everyone. [5:30 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana groaned. [5:30 PM] Monoboar!: "Y'all's impressions of me friggin' suck."

[5:30 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "Who.. else. I can share the one I got." [5:30 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "I should share mine, but you may go first, Lady Artemis." [5:30 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "WHY THE FUCK WOULD I PUT SHIT IN MY COOKIES FOR KIDS!!! YOU'RE JUST STOOPING TO LIES TO GET US TO CRACK AT THIS POINT!!!" [5:31 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: She puts on her best Monoboar expression, but since she's been in tears the last hour and a half it's pretty shitty. "News Flash 'bout Willy! He sped up his mentor's death so he could take his place! So cruel, that boy..." [5:31 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Shuddup, hog! You're wrong! I bet you couldn't do any better, stupid idiot! You sound like you have a potato stuck in your throat at all times! I'll eat you for my dinner! Actually, no, I don't even wanna touch you let alone eat you." [5:32 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "Mm, I can read mine whenever you guys want." [5:32 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Bruh." She refers to Willy's secret. [5:32 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: {"Hana,"} [5:32 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: {"What? I'm right!"} [5:32 PM] Monoboar!: Monoboar plugs his ears. [5:32 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "Wh-" Willy stepped back at the lie of his. "What the fuck! I would never! Mortimer was a better parent than-" He stops himself. "... Now's not the time for that, but anyways... Yeah, not true!" [5:33 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel is making a face. "...and you all swear on your very life that these secrets are not true?" [5:34 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "I can swear that mines wasn't true... Ask Strawberry..." [5:34 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "I swear on my life and my mom's and my mama's!" [5:34 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "YES! I'M NOT FUCKING HEARTLESS!" [5:34 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "That's like, three lives. That's how much I swear." [5:34 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "Not only on my life, but The Magnificent Mort's as well!" He shoots out some doves. [5:34 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: { "Ghhuuhhh..." } [5:34 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "Mine definitely isn't true. You can ask me more about it later if you want to know what's up." [5:35 PM] Monoboar!: "Oh yeah, Kubo's playing Minecraft. Let me get his card."

[5:35 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana made direct eye contact with Packie. [5:35 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel sighs. [5:35 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Waiting for Monoboar. [5:35 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: He ignores Hana. [5:36 PM] Monoboar!: He yoinks the card out of Kubo's pocket, reading off as so:

"To thee, thy vampire. It has come to terms that Hana created a cult of her personality whose members she calls her "subjects". Bwahaha! Ain't that a card?" [5:36 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Why'dyoudoShakespearetalkwithhiscard." [5:36 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "WHAT?" [5:36 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "...okay, that sounds nothing like Hana. Are you even trying? And why are you speaking like me? DOTH THOU MOTHER KNOW I'VE EATEN HER FOR BREAKFAST?" [5:37 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: {"Jesus-"} [5:37 PM] Monoboar!: "Fie! Fie!" He shakes a fist.

[5:37 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: Packie holds back a laugh. The thought of Hana controlling a cult was too much. [5:37 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hana would never! Hazel snorts a bit, but puts back on an angry face. [5:37 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "That's not friggin' true! What the heck? You're not even trying!"

[5:38 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "We're getting off track... has anyone not gone yet..?" [5:38 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: "I haven't read mine yet, so I can read it now?" [5:39 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: God fucking dammit. [5:39 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel was about to speak but looks at Packie. [5:39 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "Ugh, mine said Artemis killed her mom on accident, or something, but that's not true, as if you could expect it to be anywhere near a truth." [5:39 PM] packie hayai 🌾 💤: He looks back. Thank you. "I have Fujita-kun's secret, let me fuckin'.." he reads it out loud in a monotone voice.  "From the down below, Renzo killed their parents because Zuz'gamath asked them to! A devil indeed! Gwahaha!"

He shudders after that. Bazing a I fucking hate supernatural shit. [5:40 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "These are sooooo farfetched." [5:40 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel likes it when it doesn't include weird bullshit. [5:40 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel looks at Renzo. [5:40 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: Artemis looks ready to snap. "I-I'm gonna kill that fucking pig--" [5:40 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: Bazing a I hate boars. Renzo looked uncomfortable. "That's.. that's n-not true.." [5:41 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Both of those have to do with them killing their parents or something! You aren't trying, you aren't trying, you stupid hog! You smell SO DISGUSTING! I'M GOING TO GAG!" [5:41 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel looks around. Did no one get something of hers? Oh well. [5:41 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: She clears her throat. "May I say mine, then?" [5:41 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "Go ahead, Haze..." [5:41 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana looks at her friend. [5:41 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Yeah, then Renzo's, then Cerviel's." [5:42 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Whoever they got, they still gots to share." [5:42 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "A-Anyways, with that in our information as well, for this case, would it make every one of these false? Because even in Lady Uzo's," She pulls the card out to read it, not bothering to recite every word. "Uzoamaka let someone die instead of helping them, all for getting the scoop." [5:42 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "...But of course, Lady Uzo refutes this as false." [5:42 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Like why the hell would I do that."

[5:43 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Hrhh.. so much death... Uzo is a good friend, not a bad person." [5:43 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "The pig's not fuckin' trying..." [5:43 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "Pbbbbbth! Zoa would fucking never do that, she's too nice for that." Willy crosses his arms. [5:44 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Exactly... what is the meaning behind all this, Sir Piggy!? I saw through this the very day you gave these to us..." [5:44 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "What? Is the dumb 'twist' you're gonna spin on us gonna be that one of these are actually true? That'd be so cliche." [5:44 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: { Uzoamaka will remember Willy's kind comment. } [5:45 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: Renzo looks around at everyone. "Ah, so... is it my turn..? That is what Uzo said... we-" They pause, "..I got Hazels." [5:45 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Hm?" Hazel feels a bit nervous now at Hana's speculation. What if hers has a truth? That'd be so embarrassing!! "...yes, go ahead." [5:47 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Okayyyy," Renzo takes out their card, which they had decided to take with them to trial because why not. "Fun fact-o! Hazel completely destroyed another writer's reputation because of a lie she told! Oh the writer's world... Boohoooooo..." They read, entirely word-for-word. [5:48 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: She bristles, hands clenching into fists. "Of course not...! I'd never do such a horrid thing-- the writing industry is hard, yes, but I respect others!" [5:48 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "These all sound like a load of barnacles." [5:49 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "So they were all lies..?"

'She was killed over a lie...' [5:49 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel shifted a little, uneasy. "It should be my turn now, but I um.. have a little bit of bad news." [5:49 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Whet." [5:49 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "...Ehh?" [5:49 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: He sighed. "I never read my card so I don't know whose I got. I buried it in the park." [5:50 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "..." [5:50 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "....!?!??!?!?!?" [5:50 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "Understandable. Have a good day." [5:50 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Whhoooppss... well, who didn't hear theirs..?" [5:50 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "WE NEED KUBO'S DIAMOND SHOVEL." [5:50 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "That.... Understandable- But that could've been vital evidence..." [5:50 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel stares at Uzo. [5:51 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "God- Damn it. Okay, we can focus on the other clues, for the time being." [5:52 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "I doubt the boar would let us out for some friggin' buried card that's probably a lie." [5:53 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel is fiddling with her hands a bit, looking down nervously. "But... consider what Hana had speculated. What if that one had a truth?" [5:53 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "How the fuck would we figure out which one is the truth, then?" [5:54 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Now Hazel wishes Keiko had been able to tell them the killers name... death is fickle. [5:54 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "I don't know, Lake." [5:54 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "...well then, we can perhaps come back to it." [5:54 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: ? [5:54 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Anyone of us could've lied, but we can look back to it."

:consentbullet: Consent. [5:54 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Ummm, I have, like, one more thing I noticed. I dunno if it's important, though." [5:54 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Oh? Hazel looks up at Hana. [5:54 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "Hm?" [5:55 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Keiko-chan was holding a little piece of cloth in her hand I think? It looked like it was torn off of...umm, something. Oh, it was darkly colored. I dunno what color it was, but it wasn't light." [5:56 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "Maybe it came from... The killer's clothes..?" [5:56 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Oh fuckshit! [5:56 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: Uzoamaka looks down at her mainly neon clothes. [5:57 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana doesn't look down at her clothes. She's wearing bright pink. [5:57 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel wears bright blue, so! That's all good. Either way, she continues on. "How dark?" She hopes that question makes sense. [5:57 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "Violet isn't dark, so I'm out of the question." [5:57 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Ummm...I dunno, dark? That's all I could see in the cellar light." [5:57 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Right, right..." Hazel nods. [5:58 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel shifted. Anxious. [5:58 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "You good, Cerviel-kun?" [5:58 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "That narrows it to a few of us..." [5:58 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: "I'm.. okay." [5:59 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Trail and pillar." She taps her ID. [5:59 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Oh! Pillar!" [5:59 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "Oh, I got a look at that!"

[6:00 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: :cluebullet: "I saww... one of the two big pillars in the foyer! It had a small bloodstain on it, yess." [6:00 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "..."

"So this means..." [6:00 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "...?" [6:00 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "...Ohhh..." [6:00 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Well, think 'bout it, why would blood appear in the foyer and bedroom halls?" [6:01 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "I dunno." [6:01 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "She was killed elsewhere... and then dragged to the cellar..." [6:01 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Okay." [6:01 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: :testitheorybullet: "Maybe the killer... for lack of a gentler word, bashed Taisei-san's head against the pillar?" [6:02 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: :consentbullet: "Yeah!" [6:02 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "And not with the cane?" Hana interjected. [6:02 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Well, there were two wounds." [6:02 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana blinked. "Ohhh..." [6:03 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Ohhhh." Ok. [6:03 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: :cluebullet: "Cuz, like, there’s a very, VERY obvious trail of blood leading from the pillar Renzo-san mentioned and outside on the grass by the cellar." [6:03 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Yeah! Alright, we got the big picture." [6:04 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana claps her hands together. [6:04 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel smacks her lips. [6:05 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana clears her throat. [6:05 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "So, we can conclude the culprit and Keiko met up about that secret thing, the culprit kills Keiko, then dragged her to the root cellar, yes?" [6:05 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: Uzoamaka turns her attention to Hana. [6:05 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana looks at her. "What? I had something caught in my throat." [6:05 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Oh, sorry, thought you were like, signaling something." [6:05 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Why would the killer drag her?" [6:06 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Perhaps, they are not strong enough to carry our friend Keiko..?" [6:06 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Well-- I mean, why to the cellar?" [6:06 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "I dunno." [6:07 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel doesn't know either. [6:07 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "To hide the body probably. Just a guess." [6:07 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Because it's spooky." [6:07 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "I was suspecting the same thing." Not you Hana. [6:07 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "The dungeon woulda fit more, 'cause of edge factor." [6:07 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana nods. [6:08 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': { "Not even a killer would wanna go in there..." } [6:08 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "Maybe get Taisei-san scared...? What the fuck, man..." [6:08 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "Maybe... they knew she was still alive. And they dragged her down there to make sure she wouldn't get help before she died..." [6:09 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: It seems the killer is a bit of a bastard, confirmed. Hazel shudders. [6:09 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: Uzoamaka frowns. [6:09 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "What the fuuuuuuck..." [6:09 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "That is quite dark... I dislike the notion of one of us doing something so cruel, during a murder such as this..." [6:10 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "...is there anything we've missed?" [6:10 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "..." [6:10 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Let's take the bloody handprint into account." [6:10 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel doesn't have any clues, I'm just going off the skin of my teeth. She tilts her head. [6:11 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Hime-honey, where'd you say the bloody handprint was again?"

@Hana Minami! | baby chain [6:15 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Oh! It was, ummm...like, leading to the right side of the bedroom hall. Hah. Pretty accurate, right?" [6:18 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "The right side, huh?"

"..."

Mr. Brightside starts playing in her head as she takes out her ID. [6:19 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazelisperfectlyfine。 [6:19 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: She takes out the map of the first floor, using her pen to "draw" a box around it.

[6:19 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel　points。 [6:20 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Can we say the culprit was from this area?" [6:20 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: ａａああ [6:20 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: ”Yes．” [6:20 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "I guess so...?" [6:20 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Was it leading to there or away from there?" [6:20 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "I'd say it's a fair assumption." [6:20 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: hazeliｓｐｅａｋｉｎｇｉｎｔｏｎｇｕｅｓ [6:21 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Away, I'd assume." [6:21 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Then... yes." [6:21 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Perhaps the killer's route was like this."

[6:21 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Specifically from Keiko's door, I think." [6:22 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Correction, it wasn't away." [6:22 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "But was the handprint here's or the killers...? Either one of them could've made it--" [6:22 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel stops speaking in tongues. [6:22 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel notices something, but her sudden godspeak was so intense she needs a moment to point it out. [6:22 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Another correction,"

[6:22 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "This was probably the killer's way back in." [6:23 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Disregard the past stuff, I got it confuzzled." [6:23 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: { "Ehh.."} [6:23 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "So they made it coming back?" [6:24 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "Makes more sense now." [6:24 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "I mean, I'd assume so, since there weren't any more bodies at the scene." [6:24 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Do you suppose..." [6:24 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel trails off. [6:24 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hazel tilts her head at Hana. Ok oops [6:24 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana tilts her head at Hazel. [6:26 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Regarding the-- the rooms. Shouldn't there be something to take into account with the people placed nearby her room...?" She doesn't know. [6:28 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "There's only five people there who hasn't be involved in a previous trial... and only a few wears dark clothes that could match the cloth in Keiko's hand." [6:29 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: So. She glances from Kubo to Cerviel a few times, since they're right beside Keiko in the dorms. [6:29 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Well, Kubo is playing Minecraft." [6:30 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel has been quiet for a while. He pulls his doll closer. [6:30 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Fair point. She looks at Cerviel, since Minecraft is on Kubo's side. [6:30 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "..."

"...Cerviel." [6:30 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Cerveee?" [6:31 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: He looked away uncomfortably. "Yes?" [6:31 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "..." [6:31 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Come to mention it, Cerviel's "secret" wasn't brought up?" [6:31 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "It...wasn't." [6:31 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "The only one that wasn't." [6:32 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: "Oouuuahhh.." [6:32 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "..." [6:32 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "................" [6:32 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana clears her throat. [6:32 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "And Keiko can't tell us the secret she got--... The one we found could've been planted." [6:32 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: Renzo coughs. [6:33 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel's eyes are darting from person to person as they speak. "Hold on.." [6:33 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "Hey boar, I got a question: Everybody got somebody else's 'secret,' right?" [6:34 PM] Monoboar!: "Yeh." [6:34 PM] Monoboar!: "Oink."

[6:34 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "So it would be fair to assume that Cerviel got somebody else's, not his own, right?" [6:34 PM] Monoboar!: "Yoink." [6:34 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: THANK you. [6:36 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "So it would also be fair to assume that Cerviel dug up his card that he got and switched it with Keiko's card that she got, hiding his own, right?" He's not looking at Monoboar for this. He's looking at Cerviel disappointedly. [6:36 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Dang. Never thought he'd do it." Hana says, automatically assuming. [6:36 PM] Monoboar!: "You tell me." He turns his head to Cerviel.

[6:37 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: Renzo is like :pits: rn. They're still coughing a little. [6:37 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel turns to Cerviel. [6:39 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel shrunk under the look. He's about to cry.

"I.. I have my card." He slowly pulled it out of the pocket of his shorts, hands shaking as he read it aloud.

What's up? Cerviel killed someone and took his identity! What a face off! He didn't bother mocking the boar. He stared down at his stand. [6:40 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "...What?" [6:40 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "IS THAT ONE THE ONE THAT'S TRUE?" Hana blurted out. "You're not saying it's not true!" [6:40 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: He flinched. "It's not true, but.. Miss Taisei didn't believe me." [6:40 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "SO YOU JUST FUCKING KILLED HER? IS THAT IT?" [6:40 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Oh my fucking god." [6:40 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "You-" [6:41 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "And you. Dragged her while she was barely alive." [6:41 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Wh... What is the truth, then!?" [6:41 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel wrapped his arms around himself. "Please let me explain.. please." [6:41 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "...O-Okay, okay..." [6:41 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "After I told her not to confront the person her card was about..." He shook his head. "She went and did it anyway... Look at what it did." [6:47 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: He took a deep breath, squeezing his doll.

"Miss Taisei asked me to meet her last night in the foyer. I didn't know who the note was from, but.. I wanted to trust that everything would be okay if I met with whoever it was." He had to pause to wipe his face.

"She.. wanted to confront me about my secret. She said I was a danger to everyone and that she was going to tell you all. She just.. wouldn't listen to me!" He held the doll even tighter. "I got so scared.. she just kept yelling at me. So.. I pushed her." He didn't make eye contact with anyone, pressing on.

"She hit her head on the pillar pretty hard and I got even more scared. She was going to tell everyone that I tried to hurt her, so I grabbed the closest thing and.." He trailed off for a moment. "I didn't know she was still alive when I brought her to the cellar I just.. wanted to hide her. I couldn't.." He trailed off again. Words were hard. [6:48 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "...Sooo...you killed her instead of trying to explain to everyone that she was wrong about your secret?"

[6:48 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "Y-You killed my girlfriend over a misunderstanding." [6:49 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel just puts her face in her hand. [6:49 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: Words couldn't describe how she was feeling right now. [6:49 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "...SO BASICALLY, WHAT I JUST FUCKING SAID?" [6:49 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "This is like, the stupidest motive I've ever heard here."

[6:49 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: "It's not like that!" He couldn't help but raise his voice, backed into the corner. "I didn't want to hurt her! I was scared!" [6:50 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "You think that's an excuse...!?" [6:50 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "The fucking multiple bashes in her head say OTHERWISE." [6:50 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "Instead of helping her you left her to fucking die!" [6:51 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: "No." He wiped his face. "There's no excuse. Miss Taisei.. just wanted to help." [6:51 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: Renzo is still coughing. [6:51 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Scared of people hating you? Huh?" she leaned forward in her stand. "Why didn't you let her go? She wasn't gonna hurt you! Did it look like she was gonna hurt you? I don't think so, killer! Why'd you drag her to the dungeon? You're sick!" [6:51 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Root cellar." She corrected. [6:51 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Same thing." [6:52 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "She walks with a fucking cane! She couldn't have done anything to you that you couldn't have talked your way out of!" [6:52 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: "She wanted to lock me up. I.. she said I was too dangerous to allow to go free." [6:53 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "YOU COULD'VE FUCKING--" Lake breathed deeply through her nose. [6:53 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "Alright, let me get this straight,"

"You killed her, instead of using words in the Japanese language to clear up something Monoboar made up."

[6:53 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "So this means she wouldn't have even killed you in the first place, Cerviel." Hazel stamps her foot. [6:53 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana snorted. "Lock you up where? In the root cellar? I'm sure someone would've found you there! You wouldn't have killed her if you didn't have some kind of sense in your brain that you were capable of that. I'm right and you know it!" [6:54 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "My girlfriend's dead--" Artemis let out a rough wheeze, leaning against her stand's railing. "She's dead over something you could've used your words to solve--" [6:54 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "And-- and... Cerviel, we could've helped you if she did something like that... her choice was brash and stupid, but it was nothing to kill her over... I have no words." [6:56 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel gently set down his doll. "None of you will understand." He wiped his face again. "It.. doesn't matter what I say." [6:56 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "I don't wanna understand." Hana says coldly. [6:57 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "No, luckily I hope I'd never understand feeling obligated to kill." [6:57 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: Lake leaned against her podium, face in her hands as she took deep, deep breaths.

"More innocent fucking people dead over some bullshit stirred up by some fucking freak," Lake growled to herself, seething. [6:57 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: "I understand completely." She hissed, scowling. "We're all fucking well-known people! Don't you think someone's tried to slander our fucking names before?! We understand! Don't go spouting bullshit like this!" [6:58 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: He curled in on himself, staring down at the floor. "Can we vote then? I just.. want it to be over." [6:58 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "E-Even so, from what Sir William said," Hazel clears her throat. "Lady Keiko did something... thoughtless. In her stead of wanting to protect others, she got herself killed instead... why does this happen?" [6:58 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Why did she have to do that? Why did you--!?" She turns to Cerviel, pent up, but says nothing more. [6:59 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: He doesn't say anything else. Cerviel closes his eyes, tears still falling down his face. [6:59 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: {"Waaah! Gonna cry, killer?"} [7:00 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel huffs. [7:01 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: {"Stop that! You don't get to fucking cry!"} [7:01 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: He's crying anyways. [7:01 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: {"Waaah! Waaah! Uuu, I wish my mommy was here!"} [7:01 PM] Monoboar!: "Let's vote!"

On cue, voting screens power on at your stands, and a selection of students is displayed by rows and columns.

"Who the friggidy frag is the blackened? Decide now! Gwahahaha!"

@Alive [7:01 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: Uzoamaka plants her finger on Cerviel's icon. [7:02 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel votes for himself. [7:02 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: With a bit of hesitation, Lake voted for Cerviel before looking away from the screen. [7:02 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana hesitates for a second before tapping Cerviel's thing. Ugh, she might be pissed as hell but she still doesn't want to kill someone. [7:02 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': Willy votes for Cerviel. [7:02 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: Artemis nearly punches her screen out of her flurry of emotions. She votes for Cerviel. [7:03 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel taps Cerviel's face rapidly. [7:03 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: On the panel~ [7:04 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: Renzo is currently clutching their chest with their hands, so they just drop their head onto the panel, because in their mind that was the next logical step to take. Cerviel just happens to get picked, how lucky! [7:06 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Monoboar? [7:06 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: Give him a moment. He's doing his best. [7:06 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Ok valid. [7:07 PM] Monoboar!: "AAAAAND- The votes are in!"

After everyone had voted, the screens flicker black, and proceed to light up in anticipation for each profile.

"Whomst is it? Hmmmm? The killer who's totally not bawling, who could it beeee?"

7:09 PM] Monoboar!: A musical tune plays out as it lights up on the fox trainer's portrait.

"You bet yer snrk'n butts that it's Cerviel Winter who made Keiko bite the bullet! Or should I say, cane 'n pillar. Gwehehe."

@Alive  

[7:10 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "That doesn't make sense!" [7:10 PM] Monoboar!: "Do you think I understand what I say." [7:10 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Ugh, no." [7:11 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: Cerviel took a deep breath. "I deserve whatever I get but please.. someone take care of my foxes when you get out. They.. don't deserve to suffer because of me." [7:11 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel sighs. [7:11 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "I see... foxes." Hazel repeats. "What are their names?" [7:11 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "And... address." [7:12 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: And credit card information. [7:12 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: And social security number. [7:12 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "I'm gonna take them with my friends and we're gonna dye them pink with kool-aid so they'll be all cute!" [7:12 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "...Hana." [7:13 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "What? It's plausible!" [7:13 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: He looked up at Hazel. "Their names are Zuriel, Micah, Theo, and Gabriel. I don't.. have an address. I lived in the forest, but you can find a sanctuary called Angel's Haven. It's.. there." He curled around himself again. "Please don't hurt them." [7:13 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "What the hell? I'm not a killer like you, I won't hurt your sweet babies!" [7:13 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: "They'll be safe with us." [7:13 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "...we'd never hurt an animal for no reason." Hazel sighs. She bats Hana's shoulder. [7:14 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: "Or... at all, really. I hope." She eyes everyone suspiciously. [7:14 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "...Sorry." Hana says. [7:14 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: Uzo should be the one batting since she's right next to Hana. [7:14 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: "Thank you.." He looked up at Monoboar. "I'm.. ready now." [7:14 PM] Monoboar!: "No other last weeeeerds?" He tilts his head. [7:14 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: She bats her in spirit. [7:15 PM] I'm sorry, Miss Taisei: He shook his head. "All I want to make sure is that my friends are taken care of." [7:15 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: But you killed one of them, Hana wants to say, but she holds off. [7:17 PM] Monoboar!: "Kay." With no further hesitation, he slams the gavel right then and there with a bright grin. "Get prepared, oink, fer some JUICY PUNISH-MA-MENT!"

Cerviel Winter has been found guilty. Time for punishment.

@Alive

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[7:21 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': "..." [7:21 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: Renzo isn't looking up at the execution as it goes on. They just keep their head down and try and drown out any outside sound, to little avail. They couldn't bring themselves to watch people die anymore. They didn't even know how they managed to watch before. [7:21 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: Uzoamaka blinks, wincing at the scenery and audio.

"..."

"Jails are better than executions, Monoboar." She huffs out in a fit. "This all could've been avoided, if it weren't for you causin' a damn domino effect."

"When the hell is this ending!" She throws her arms out, then lets them fall on her side. [7:21 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana didn't look as usual. [7:22 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: Artemis is silent, watching Cerviel's untimely demise.

....

A familiar feeling settled back in her chest. So similar, yet so different. "Can we go now." [7:23 PM] Monoboar!: Monoboar chuckles at the scenery, playing around with his gavel. [7:23 PM] Monoboar!: "Yeah, yeah, hang on." [7:23 PM] Monoboar!: He hops down to the elevator, opening its doors with a push of a button. [7:23 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana scuttles into the elevator. [7:24 PM] Hazel 🔖 final stretch!: Hazel follows suit. Fuck this place. [7:24 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| What the FUCK: Artemis hobbled into the elevator. [7:24 PM] Willy Wonder | 'Splorin': Willy gets in the elevator he looks at everybody else as he does, then bringing his glance towards the floor. [7:25 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Are Ya Mining Son?: Renzo lifts their head as they hear the door open, and look over at Cerviel's stand. They notice that he left his doll there. Was that intentional? Did Cerviel say he was gonna do that? Their head hurts too much to remember. Still, they cross the room to take the doll from his stand, and take it with them into the elevator. [7:26 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 WOW!: Uzoamaka enters as well. [7:28 PM] Monoboar!: As the doors close, you all ascend back up.

Another one gone from the roster.

TRIAL 5 - END

[continuouscalamity]

CHAPTER 4 EVENT(S)

Here’s like, an image summary. - Mod War

If anyone's by the foyer, you notice that lights flickered a bit and the setup of the letters and purple lights (which was still there, surprisingly) begin to glow.

If you are not here, wherever you are, you have a gut feeling of... this again. Some ghostly feeling, you could say. Something is compelling you, somewhat.

[1:25 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: Willy stepped out of his room and, for some reason, instinctively went to the lights again. Upon seeing them lit he pulls out his ID again. [1:26 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: Willy looked around and then back at the lights. "Hey..." he muttered out, seemingly at the lights. [1:28 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: RENZO STOMPS OVER TO THE FOYER. [1:28 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: Uzoamaka is here! Kinda terrified! [1:28 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana is here. "...The fudge is going on..." she muttered.

[1:28 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Cerviel poked out of his room at the messages, excited. Friends!!! [1:30 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: Artemis is here, soaking wet. Lovely. [1:30 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "So... Anybody got anything to say to those beyond the grave or are we just gonna stand here?" [1:30 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel appears. [1:30 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: Lake has arrived. [1:30 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain:

[1:31 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel hooks arms with Hana and Lake. [1:31 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana gets a little less pissed off. [1:31 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "Um..." She looks a bit reluctant, crossing his arms. Ah shit, how this works has left her brain. [1:31 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "You look like you just came outta water park." She comments to Artemis. [1:32 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: Lake gave Hazel's arm a little squeeze. (: [1:32 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Cerviel is still holding his doll. "Do our friends have another message for us?" [1:32 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Renzo points at the lights. “Speak or else.” [1:32 PM] Monoboar!: The purple lights flicker again. [1:32 PM] Monoboar!: H [1:32 PM] Monoboar!: I [1:32 PM] Monoboar!:   [1:33 PM] Monoboar!: A [1:33 PM] Monoboar!: G [1:33 PM] Monoboar!: A [1:33 PM] Monoboar!: I [1:33 PM] Monoboar!: N [1:33 PM] Monoboar!: This pace seems much more slower than last time. [1:33 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Renzo is waving enthusiastically with both hands. [1:33 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: His eyes lit up. "Hello!" [1:34 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "GUAAAHAAAAA!!!" Hana yelped, breaking into a cold sweat. "I-I'M GONNA DIE!" [1:35 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: Uzoamaka is startled from Hana's outburst. "Ha-Hime-sama, please! You're going to be fine!"

[1:35 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "I was in the pool." She squints at the lights. "Who is this? Hellooo?" [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: E [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: R [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: I [1:35 PM] Monoboar!:   [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: S [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: A [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: Y [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: S [1:35 PM] Monoboar!:   [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: H [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: E [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: L [1:35 PM] Monoboar!: O [1:37 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Cerviel smiled at the lights. "Hello, Eri! Thank you for the fox you made me!" [1:37 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: “Errrrrrieeeeeeee...” [1:37 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel looks uncomfortable... but still happy to know Eri is speaking. [1:38 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: The journalist waves. [1:39 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana bolts behind Hazel and Lake. Her eyes are as wide as saucers. "It's a ghost, Uzoamaka-chan...! I'm gonna be possessed and then I'm gonna, uhhh..." she blinked. "Then, I'm gonna die. I mean, It's probably not really Eri-chan."

"...Right?"

[1:39 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "Who knows... it's quite understandable to be cautious, though." Hazel smiles reassuringly at Hana. [1:40 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "We just got this set of lights and whatev's behind it." [1:40 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "I'm... I'm sure it's her." [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: Q [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: U [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: E [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: S [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: T [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: I [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: O [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: N [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: S [1:41 PM] Monoboar!: This pace is much faster now. [1:41 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "No. Nuh-uh. That's not real." [1:42 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "Mm. You all.. not having fun- Getting along down there? Wally being a pompus bitch?" [1:42 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Cerviel frowned a little at that. [1:43 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "Wow." [1:45 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel shrugs. [1:45 PM] Monoboar!: A [1:45 PM] Monoboar!: N [1:45 PM] Monoboar!: N [1:45 PM] Monoboar!: O [1:45 PM] Monoboar!: Y [1:45 PM] Monoboar!: I [1:46 PM] Monoboar!: N [1:46 PM] Monoboar!: G [1:46 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Damn. Hazel shakes her mothefucking head. [1:46 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana giggles a little at that. [1:46 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "Tell him to ease the fuck up or I'll make him. Somehow." [1:46 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "Hopefully he is resting easy, at the very least." [1:47 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: He sighed. "That's mean." [1:47 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: Uzoamaka chuckles behind her hand. [1:47 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "That's Wallace, alright." She whispers to herself. [1:47 PM] Keekoo Taisei | :(: Keiko was here all along. Nice.

"Be nice to him, Eri-san..." [1:48 PM] Monoboar!: N [1:48 PM] Monoboar!: O [1:48 PM] Monoboar!: T [1:48 PM] Monoboar!:   [1:48 PM] Monoboar!: E [1:48 PM] Monoboar!: R [1:48 PM] Monoboar!: I [1:49 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "Oh... who's this then?" Hazel asks curiously. [1:50 PM] Monoboar!: T [1:50 PM] Monoboar!: R [1:50 PM] Monoboar!: A [1:50 PM] Monoboar!: V [1:50 PM] Monoboar!: E [1:50 PM] Monoboar!: L [1:51 PM] Monoboar!: E [1:51 PM] Monoboar!: R [1:51 PM] Monoboar!: Pause. [1:51 PM] Monoboar!: P [1:51 PM] Monoboar!: U [1:51 PM] Monoboar!: P [1:51 PM] Monoboar!: P [1:51 PM] Monoboar!: E [1:51 PM] Monoboar!: T [1:51 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "...Is this some kind of code?" [1:51 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "Eh!? We had an Ultimate Traveler and Ultimate Puppet in the mix!?" [1:51 PM] Keekoo Taisei | :(: Keiko goes pale. "You're not our friends..." [1:51 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "Maybe it's a travelling puppet." [1:52 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "What ther fuck- What's your name then, fucker?" [1:52 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: “Heeeeheeeee..” [1:52 PM] Riku Yasui... yep: "That's creepy," [1:52 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Cerviel tilted his head. "Potential friend then?" [1:52 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: “More dead people!” [1:52 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "How odd... hopefully they aren't bad, if they're with our friends." Hazel shifts nervously. [1:52 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "I know enough Goosebumps to know that travelling puppets are no good!" [1:53 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "I don't trust puppets period."

[1:54 PM] Monoboar!: N [1:54 PM] Monoboar!: O [1:54 PM] Monoboar!:   [1:54 PM] Monoboar!: N [1:54 PM] Monoboar!: A [1:54 PM] Monoboar!: M [1:54 PM] Monoboar!: E [1:54 PM] Monoboar!: S [1:55 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "You're shifty as fuck. Why are you with them? What, is purg some sorta relm for ki--" She paused, brows furrowing. She was joking but shit, that'd be fucked up if she was right. [1:57 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel throws her arms out to calm down Artemis.

"Lady Artemis, we don't understand what's happening either, but just try and stay calm, alright?" She says. "Who knows how the undead world works..." [1:57 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "No names? What, did they forget them or something?" [1:58 PM] Monoboar!: G [1:58 PM] Monoboar!: U [1:58 PM] Monoboar!: A [1:58 PM] Monoboar!: R [1:58 PM] Monoboar!: D [1:58 PM] Monoboar!: I [1:58 PM] Monoboar!: A [1:58 PM] Monoboar!: N [1:58 PM] Monoboar!: S [1:58 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "..." [1:58 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "Of the galaxy?" [1:58 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Heh. Of the galaFUCKYOU [1:58 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: HELP. [1:58 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "You did not-" [1:58 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel looks at Uzoamaka weirdly. [1:58 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: His eyes are almost sparkling. "Guardian angels?!" [1:58 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "Doubtful." [1:59 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "SEE! SEE! I WAS RIGHT! I WAS RIGHT! I'M TOTALLY RIGHT ALL THE TIME! IT WASN'T ERI-CHAN! IT'S A D-D-D-" she pauses, breathing in deeply. "A DEMON!!!"

[1:59 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel jumps. "Lady Hime-sama, it's Guardians, not Demons...?" [2:00 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "B-Buh..." she frowns. "I don' believe it."

[2:01 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "Fair enough..." Hazel looks conflicted.  "But we have to try remaining calm over this- I-I... I don't want to get all emotional... or scared again. Fuu..." [2:01 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "They're ghosts, how bad would they be?" [2:01 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Hmnnn...I'll calm down, but only for you, Hazel-chan...everyone else, you're on THIN ICE!" [2:02 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel goes ^_^"" [2:02 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "Well.. if they're demons they'd bet scared off with holy water, right?" Were the fuck would you get that, Artemis. [2:02 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "This isn't a church, Artemis." [2:02 PM] Riku Yasui... yep: "If they are ghost do they have triangle ghost headbands or even a ghost tail? Do they still look like yourself even after death? Actually don't answer. That's too many questions to answer" Riku said. His just shocked to be talking to the dead. [2:03 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Renzo smiles at Artemis. [2:03 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Artemis can't see it but they are! :) [2:03 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "We can make it. I think- You'd just... have to boil the hell out it, right?" Oh my god. [2:04 PM] Monoboar!: H [2:04 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:04 PM] Monoboar!: L [2:04 PM] Monoboar!: Y [2:04 PM] Monoboar!:   [2:04 PM] Monoboar!: P [2:04 PM] Monoboar!: L [2:04 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:04 PM] Monoboar!: C [2:04 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:04 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: I have friends in Holy Spaces? [2:04 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: "Like.. the sanctuary?" [2:05 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "Teehee!" [2:05 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "Oh my god we're in Jesusland." [2:05 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "I don't get it." [2:06 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "STOOOOP!" She snorts and bats Uzoamaka's way. [2:06 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "We got fucking christian ghosts in purgatory?" [2:07 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "I mean-" Hazel tries to make sense of that. [2:07 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "...are we going off track? They asked for questions, yes?" [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: The slow pace comes back again. [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: Y [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: Pause. [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: M [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: C [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: H [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: R [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:08 PM] Monoboar!: T [2:09 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:09 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:09 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:09 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "Oh my god. I was joking. I didn't- What the fuck." [2:09 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: "......" He shifts uncomfortably. [2:09 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel looks like she's about to explode. [2:09 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "..." Hana was about to say something, but then she closed her mouth and went back to standing behind Hazel and Lake. [2:09 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "Well god bless." [2:10 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: Uzoamaka loses it. [2:10 PM] Monoboar!: Fast pace. [2:10 PM] Monoboar!: Q [2:10 PM] Monoboar!: U [2:10 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:10 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:10 PM] Monoboar!: T [2:10 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:10 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:10 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:11 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:11 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "Right! Right!" Hazel looks like  she's suppressing laughter [2:11 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: He looked back at the lights. "What are we supposed to do?" [2:11 PM] Riku Yasui... yep: "Have you seen God or Death?" [2:11 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "NO-" [2:11 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "O-Okay..." she cleared her throat. "Uh, like, who are you really? Why did you even wanna talk to us today?"

[2:16 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:16 PM] Monoboar!: R [2:16 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:16 PM] Riku Yasui... yep: "Oh" [2:16 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Well, that prospect sounds comforting. [2:16 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Okay! Cerviel looks uncomfortable. [2:16 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "They're helping!" [2:17 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana blinks. [2:17 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "What should we do, then... H-Helpers...?" [2:18 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:18 PM] Monoboar!: T [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: Y [2:19 PM] Monoboar!:   [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: F [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: C [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: U [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: D [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: Pause. [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: M [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: T [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: R [2:19 PM] Monoboar!: M [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: D [2:20 PM] Monoboar!:   [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: W [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: T [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: C [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: H [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: G [2:20 PM] Monoboar!:   [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: L [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: W [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: Y [2:20 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:21 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: Hm. "That's not fucking scary at all." [2:21 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: Now Uzoamaka is terrified!

[2:21 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Cerviel looks like he's gonna be sick. "We're being watched by someone?" [2:22 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "Well, Monoboar's watchin' us, right? So, there has to be someone behind that." [2:22 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "Somebody is behind this and they are watching us..." Willy looks at Uzoamaka. [2:23 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "GYAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!" [2:23 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: She looks back, face wavering. [2:23 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: He hugged his doll. "That's.. not good." [2:24 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "Ohhhhhhhhhoohhhh....." [2:25 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "W-Well- What else should we do?" [2:25 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "How do you know?" Renzo asks the lights. [2:26 PM] Monoboar!: Slower pace this time. [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:27 PM] Monoboar!:   [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: K [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: L [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: L [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: G [2:27 PM] Monoboar!:   [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: G [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: M [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:27 PM] Monoboar!:   [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: B [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: F [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: R [2:27 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:28 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "...This is, like, a thing? Like, a thing that's happened before? Plural?" [2:29 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "Other killing games...? Were they made by the same person?" [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: M [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: Y [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: D [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: F [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: F [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: R [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: T [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: P [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: P [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: L [2:29 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:30 PM] Monoboar!: The letters light up more frantically. [2:30 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "Wuh-What the..."

[2:30 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "...What the fuck?" [2:30 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "We see... this is not the first time........." Renzo is :pits: rn. [2:31 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!:

[2:31 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck?" [2:31 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck?" [2:31 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Cerviel stepped away from the lights. He looks like he's gonna cry. [2:31 PM] Riku Yasui... yep: Riku looked down. "How terrible," [2:32 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "This is fucking awful, other people has been through this shit before?!" [2:32 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: "So.. we can't stop it?" [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: P [2:33 PM] Lake Kawaguchi |: "TERRIBLE IS UNDERSTATING IT, YASUI-KUN!" Lake's voice rose an octave, "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!! WHAT SPECIES OF FREAK DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO SET UP A FREAK-FUCKERY CARNIVAL LIKE THIS!?!?" [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: R [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: Y [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: Y [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: U [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: C [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: N Small pause after. [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: D [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: B [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: F [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: R [2:33 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:35 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: "..I hope we can. I don't want any of our friends to die again." [2:37 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "Fuck! This is-" Artemis huff, tightly gripping her hair. This si fucked up! She's angry, she really wants to break something but she can't. "Why?1 Why is this heppening?! Why are people doing this?!" [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: A steadier pace ensures. [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: V [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: T [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: I [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: G [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: T [2:38 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:39 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "Investigate what exactly? Just any old thing around here?" [2:40 PM] Monoboar!: L [2:40 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:40 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:40 PM] Monoboar!: K [2:40 PM] Monoboar!:   [2:40 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:40 PM] Monoboar!: R [2:40 PM] Monoboar!: O [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: U [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: N [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: D [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: Pause. [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: U [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:41 PM] Monoboar!:   [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: H [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: E [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: A [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: D [2:41 PM] Monoboar!: S [2:42 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "Use my head..." [2:43 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "Ugh- I'm using commitin' crimes, not investigating them..." She huffed, gritting her teeth. "I'll try my fucking best, though. I wanna punch the mastermind in their stupid fucking face." [2:43 PM] Monoboar!: Out of nowhere, the lights shut off in the foyer, taking the purple lights along with it. [2:44 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "SHIT." [2:44 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "Whoops." [2:44 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "FUCK-" [2:44 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Cerviel let out a startled whine. "What the heck!" [2:45 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: "I guess that's the last we'll be getting out of that..." [2:47 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "..."

[2:47 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "Long power outage." [2:47 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: "..Do you think we've lost the lights for good?" Nervous. [2:48 PM] Monoboar!: "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU GUYS DO." A familiar boar's voice echoes through the foyer. [2:48 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "Hi!" [2:49 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: "SCATTER!" [2:49 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "SHIT IT'S THE PIGS!" [2:49 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: Willy scrambles up the stairs onto the balcony. [2:50 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "We thought it was the boars....?"

[2:50 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: Clicking footsteps go out the foyer and into the darkness.

In reality, she's in the bedroom hall. [2:50 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: Artemis dashes to hide behind some furniture. "IRRELEVANT, RUN!" [2:50 PM] Monoboar!: "YOU DAMN KIDS KEEPING SCREWING UP MY DAMN MANSION!" [2:50 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Cerviel moved behind a plant. Completely hidden. [2:51 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Renzo doesn't understand why everyone is running. [2:52 PM] Monoboar!: After some time, the lights return back, and a pissed Monoboar is in the midst of the foyer. [2:52 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Renzo waves. [2:52 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: Artemis is somehow hidden underneath a couch. [2:52 PM] Monoboar!: "THE ELECTRICITY COMPANY IS GONNA BE ALL OVER MY ASS!" He glares at Renzo. "YOU." [2:53 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "Weee?"

[2:54 PM] Monoboar!: Monoboar grabs a bucket of paint thinner/cleaner and a rag out of... his ass, handing it towards Renzo.

"CLEAN THE PAINT. I'M GETTING THIS OFF." He refers to the setup. [2:54 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "Okie dokiee!" They take the cleaner. [2:55 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana had scurried away long ago, screaming fearfully as she did. She's probably underneath a piece of furnature or something. [2:55 PM] Riku Yasui... yep: "Renzo you're not the pigs maid," [2:55 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "NO-- OUR GHOST MATERIAL." [2:55 PM] Monoboar!: With his bare hooves, he rips Willy's purple lights off the walls, maybe breaking a few bulbs here and there. His movements were vigorously violent, as if this setup killed his parents or something. [2:55 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" [2:56 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "We are helping," Renzo opens up the paint thinner. [2:56 PM] Willy Wonder | UH OH: Willy looks over the balcony, seeing his lights be harassed. "I liked those lights..." [2:56 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: He's still pretending to be the plant but he's in tears. [2:56 PM] UZOAMAKA! 🖊 😧!: Uzoamaka sees the onslaught happening, and frowns. [2:57 PM] Monoboar!: Monoboar throws another rag from his butt to Riku. "YOU CLEAN TOO!" [2:57 PM] Monoboar!: He snorts in anger. [2:57 PM] Riku Yasui... yep: "No," [2:57 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel lobs her shoe at Monoboar. [2:57 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "ZOZO NO-" Artemis wriggled from under the couch, getting stuck halfway out. "FUCK!!" [2:57 PM] Monoboar!: He dodges that shoe. [2:57 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "Damn." [2:57 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "...." Renzo is cleaning the wall now. [2:58 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel sighs and just scurries to get the shoe. [2:58 PM] Monoboar!: "THOUGHT THIS DAMN THING WOULD PACIFY YOU KIDS- SNRK- BUT IT'S EATING UP ALL THE ELECTRICITY!" [2:58 PM] Riku Yasui... yep: "Let's continue doing that just to mess with the pig," [2:58 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: "Ooohhhh adult things.... adult boar things....." They murmur in a sing-song tone. [2:58 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: Quietly. "...You should pay your bills." [2:59 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: A sharp, high heeled shoe with a pink bow on the top ejects out the bottom of a couch and smacks Monoboar's hoof. [2:59 PM] Monoboar!: "WHO THREW THAT."

[2:59 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Silence. [2:59 PM] Hazel | baby chain: Hazel coughs. [2:59 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: She giggled from underneath the couch. [3:00 PM] Monoboar!: "I'm gonna lose it with you brats! Delusional thinkin' ya got hope!" [3:00 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Renzo scrubs harder. Violent scrubbing. [3:00 PM] Hazel | baby chain: "Shut up, ugly!" Hana seems to have rubbed off on her. [3:01 PM] 🔫Artemis🔫| AAA GO CRAZY: "Fuck You! I may be stuck under this couch but I'll fuck you up!" [3:01 PM] Cerviel Winter | Sad: He's typing on his ID from behind the plant. [3:02 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "YOU SMELL BAD! YOU SMELL LIKE GARBAGE!" screamed a voice from underneath the couch. "YOU LOOK LIKE MY GRANDMA'S THANKSGIVING DINNER! IF YOU HAD HAIR IT'D BE GREASY!" [3:02 PM] Monoboar!: "IT'S LIKE I'M RUNNIN' A DAMN PRESCHOOL. CLEAN THE SHIT UP OR I'M EXECUTING YOU ALL." [3:03 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: "YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT! YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ANY TOYS TO PLAY WITH, THEN, STUPID HOG! YOU'RE SO STUPID YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PLAY WITH REAL TOYS! EVEN A PRESCHOOLER CAN DO THAT!" [3:03 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Renzo rips their rag because they scrubbed too hard. They gently place it on Monoboar's head. "Do you have extras friend?" [3:03 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana's seething bitch!!! [3:03 PM] Monoboar!: Monoboar hands Renzo three more rags. [3:03 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Rags. [3:04 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: They return to cleaning, muttering under their breath. [3:05 PM] Monoboar!: Monoboar storms off in a huff, off to go evade some taxes or something. [3:06 PM] Hana Minami! | baby chain: Hana crawls out from under the couch and towards Hazel, standing up and brushing off her apron and huffing, too. Her left foot was shoeless. [3:06 PM] 🔥 ZOZO! 🔥 Tired.....: Even after Monoboar was gone, Renzo continues scrubbing off paint.