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[vanilleneo]

@unlockthestars: Roman takes her hands in his, making sure that her full attention is focused on him before. He doesn't often voice his feelings, trusting that Neo knows it, but sometimes....., sometimes it needed to be said. Sometimes, you needed to know, with certainty.

"I love you," he speaks as well as signs, his eyes never leaving hers, so she'll be able to see the truth in his eyes.

Neo's eyes move between his face and his hands, fully taking in what he's saying. She knows, of course. Somehow, through everything, they had fallen for one another. She knows, but still... to have it stated outright... made her feel so warm in her chest. Like she could burst and burst into tears all at once.

Carefully removing her hands from his, she reaches up to take hold of his face gently, pulling him down to her level so that she could steal a kiss from her dummy.

I love you too, you silly man.

unprompted

[vanilleneo]

@anonymous: Roman never loved you, he felt pity for you, he thought you were a little girl who was so lost that would do anything for anyone that showed her love. So he did, but it was a false love, intended to use you as a tool and nothing more. You were nothing to him, and you will never be anything to anyone.

Not true. Not true. NOT TRUE.

Neo can feel the way that her hands begin to shake, both of them fisting onto Hush and holding the precious weapon tightly. She knows, she knows that their words aren't true, and yet — there's no one left to prove otherwise. She can fight and argue until the moon came back together, but it would just be her words.

The worst of it is, there was a thread of truth to it. She knows that. Roman had viewed her as a tool, at one point. Early on when they knew each other, and she had viewed him as much the same: a person to be exploited. It had changed for her. It had for him too. It had.

Hadn't it?

scare my muse

[vanilleneo]

@anonymous: How did you get back to Remnant?

Sigh.

She doesn't particularly feel like going into everything that went down after Team RWBY left her back in the Ever After, so she gives a sarcastic answer in the place of the truth: «big door. couldn't miss it.»

Maybe one day she would be ready to discuss it. For now, it seems she's determined to stay tight-lipped... more so than usual.

unprompted

[vanilleneo]

@anonymous: How do you feel about Jaune?

«i trusted that he wasn't going to stab me. beyond that?»

There must have been more of a reason for why she tried to reach out to him, but it boils down to self-preservation. She knows that Ruby likely would have listened, but she wasn't quite ready for that just yet. The rest of WBY were more likely to stab / shoot / punch the living daylights out of her than listen to her just yet. That left the white knight. 

«i don't know.»

unprompted

[vanilleneo]

that ask reminded me that I really need to update Neo's list of how she signs different people's names...

[vanilleneo]

@anonymous: How did you learn sign?

Huh? She hardly thought that would be an interesting question to be asked. Signing with a nonchalant movement to her motions, she explains: «mostly self taught. parents didn't like sign, preferred when i used other methods. so i taught myself. watched a lot of videos. met people when travelling. that's why i use a mix of signs. some from mistral, some from atlas. primarily vale. learning some vacuan from sun.»

unprompted

[vanilleneo]

@flightofaqrow: "i'm disappointed you dont smell like ice cream."

Confusion briefly flashes across Neo's expression, before it drops back down into her more usual irritable neutrality, snapping her fingers to summon the illusory words that hover in the air between the two of them like real-time subtitles: YOU DON'T EXACTLY SMELL LIKE A TREAT YOURSELF.

unprompted

[vanilleneo]

@anonymous: Your parents aren't dead. Jimmy Vanille is coming for you, and he's going to take everything you've ever done, everything you put him through out on you. You thought you were a scared little girl, growing up in that house? You didn't know the meaning of the word fear. He's going to make you wish you'd never been born, the way he had known you shouldn't. You were a mistake, a freak, and by the time he's done with you, no one will be able to tell you were once a little girl.

For a minute, Neo forgets to breathe.

The idea that her father had survived everything that had gone down at the Vanille home all those years ago was something that had never crossed her mind. Sure, her father hadn't been weak by any stretch of the imagination, but aura could only carry you so far, and she'd made damn sure there wouldn't be anything worth finding left behind once she and Roman had hightailed it out of there.

The fear burns away the more that the speaker goes on, however. Going to make her wish she'd never been born? No. She wasn't that little girl anymore. She wasn't scared and weak little Trivia. With the wave of a hand, her words appear in the air in front of the unknown speaker: HE CAN TRY. THIS TIME I'LL MAKE SURE HE STAYS WHERE HE BELONGS.

scare my muse

[vanilleneo]

MAKE MY MUSE SCARED.

send SHIVERS down their spine; bring their worst thoughts and fears to the forefront of their minds and take advantage. see how far you can push my muse before they CRACK. // POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNING.

[vanilleneo]

Make a assumption about my muse and see how they react! Anything goes!

[vanilleneo]

𝟑, 𝟒, 𝟓   ♡   𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒

𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄

“  let’s go home.  ” “  um,  excuse me?  ” “  you broke it.  ” “  need a hand?  ” “  please,  help me.  ” “  i missed you.  ” “  i’m not sorry.  ” “  tell the truth.  ” “  what happened here?  ” “  got a minute?  ” “  life’s a bitch.  ” “  you’ve done enough.  ” “  i’m still learning.  ” “  don’t touch me.  ” “  was that you?  ” “  there’s no god.  ” “  you deserve better.  ” “  you’re a saint.  ” “  you are enough.  ” “  maybe you’re right.  ” “  this will pass.  ” “  you complete me.  ” “  you got this.  ”

𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑

“  don’t be so dramatic.  ” “  no guts,  no glory.  ” “  i’m calling for help.  ” “  run away with me.  ” “  it’s always been you.  ” “  some things take time.  ” “  you’re being awfully quiet.  ” “  please don’t hurt me.  ” “  snap out of it.  ” “  did you miss me?  ” “  how do i look?  ” “  i wanna get better.  ” “  whatever floats your boat.  ” “  i’ll love you always.  ” “  what are you waiting for?  ” “  at least i tried.  ” “  give me a kiss.  ” “  what’s the fucking point?  ” “  god,  i love you.  ” “  i’m doing my best.  ” “  i waited for you.  ” “  you woke me up.  ” “  stay with me tonight.  ”

𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄

“  you can’t keep doing this.  ” “  i think i love you  …  ” “  you make me feel special.  ” “  are you upset with me?  ” “  you need to heal first.  ” “  let me see the wound.  ” “  is your brain even on?  ” “  don’t give up on me.  ” “  you are perfect to me.  ” “  i can’t take this anymore.  ” “  you are my favorite person.  ” “  you had me at  ‘  hello.  ’   ” “  i wanted to see you.  ” “  don’t give me that look.  ” “  you’re a work of art.  ” “  i’m not scared of you.  ” “  i have  …  so many questions.  ”  “  do you think i’m stupid?  ” “  just tell me what happened.  ” “  i just want to help.  ” “  we need to be careful.  ” “  what did you just say?  ” “  i miss talking to you.  ”

[vanilleneo]

The hand holding the scroll out wavers, slowly lowering the device as she listens to Ruby's words. Mismatched eyes stare back at her seriously for a long moment, before her expression softens slightly. Perhaps she wasn't, or didn't believe that she was at the very least.

Neo fidgets slightly, before pursing her lips together and looking back down at the scroll to type out another short message: «not everyone.»

Tossing the scroll over to Ruby for the girl to read, Neo's form shimmers briefly, flickering through different appearances: Cinder Fall, then and now, Salem ( or her best approximation of the Witch, ) her own father, a man Ruby only would have seen in those portraits in the Ever After. All the while, her arms cross over her chest, before she returns to her own form.

Not everyone deserved a second chance. But... she wasn't planning to squander the one she'd been given. With Ruby holding the scroll, she tries to say as much with her hands, but isn't sure the message carries over.

Ruby doesn't know much about Neo. She wants to know more, but that's at the others discretion, not hers. What she can guess is that her life hasn't been easy. Not that it excuses her actions, but it does explain them.

But holding onto a grudge has never solved any problems. Both Emerald and Neo are trying to do better, and Ruby isn't going to lord their past deeds over them. Not everyone had a dad and an Uncle Qrow to help them onto a good path, after all.

"I'm not pretending. Everyone deserves a second chance, Neo. That includes you."

[vanilleneo]

When will I get a post about how SHE committed atrocities but SHE'S my special little guy and also SHE looked hot while doing it

[vanilleneo]

Trying to do better. Neo huffed out a breath, hands falling back to her sides in a tired motion. Trying felt like the keyword: it wasn't as easy as she would like to admit, playing good along with the rest of them. It didn't come as naturally as it did for them, didn't come as easily. She'd been this person for so long. Breaking her down was more difficult than she ever could have anticipated.

Reaching into her back pocket, Neo retrieved her scroll — cracked and damaged, but still functional for what she needs — and types out a quick message: «you don't have to pretend.»

She couldn't believe that Red was really just... that kind. That good. No one was that good, to forgive someone so easily. The world had proven to her over, and over, and over... that there were no truly good people. Just people who faked it better than the rest.

Ruby wasn't trying to compliment Neo, per say. But she was trying to reach out an olive branch. They hadn't started off on the best of terms, to put it lightly, and she was hoping to change that. Especially because Neo was trying to put in the effort.

"You've done some bad things, that's true," Ruby says with a shrug, catching Neo's drift. "But you're trying to do better. That's all anyone can ask, right?"

[vanilleneo]

Rude! Jaune's sudden remark has Neo tripping over her own feet in the sand, nearly losting her balance completely out of sheer surprise at the statement. Her hands move in a what? gesture, staring up at him with a vaguely offended look to her face.

It wasn't as if being this size had been a choice! 

Gesturing downward, she points to the boots on her feet, the heels sinking into the sand doing nothing to help with her strides. As though that were the only thing to blame for her inability to keep up with him. She has half a mind to pull them off, but burning her feet on the sand is even less appealing than twisting her ankle.

While attacking an unarmed opponent isn't really Jaune's style, the thought does cross his mind. But she's trusted him with her weapon, with her life, and despite everything she's done, he takes that sort of thing seriously.

Once they get to the city, Ren can see if she's being honest with him. If she really regrets what she's done. Then they can decide what to do with her.

It takes a moment for him to realize she's struggling to keep up, and he slows his stride, falling into step beside her. "You are really short, you know."

[vanilleneo]

She waits for Sun's approval, despite feeling fairly confident that she's done a pretty estimation of Cinder's appearance from the photograph. Sure enough, going from the look on his face, she's done a good enough job of it -- until a detail finally catches up with him. The glaring flaw in his plan.

With a roll of her eyes, Neo lifts a finger to her temple and bounces it off, the expression reading duh.

Allowing the illusory vision of Cinder to fall away, all too happy not to pretend to be that woman, mismatched eyes watch Sun closely as he seems to be working out the kinks in his plan. Leave it to a troublemaker to always have a back-up, and a back-up to his back-up on even his most ridiculous plans.

His question is met with the lifting of her hand, rocking back and forth. Kind of.

«can. not the easiest. drains aura faster.» With herself, she knew the movements she was going to make, knew how to compensate for them. With someone else, it required more focus to keep the illusion in place. Not impossible: she'd done it before with Roman, helped sneak him into and out of places. «you would have to get it done in an hour or less. consider it a challenge.»

Sun can't help but notice the angry look on her face, brief though it is. He wonders if he's made her mad, unsure what else her expression could mean. He hasn't actually seen her upset before. But before he can comment on it, she's turned her attention to the board, and he hesitates long enough once she starts her shapeshifting roulette that it seems better not to ask.

He's again reminded of the brilliance of Trivia's power once she starts to change shape. He spots Mercury, Emerald, and Adam before she settles on Cinder. Jeez, is that really what she looks like nowadays, he thinks to himself as he looks her over. Somehow the picture on the screen didn't quite do it justice. Having only seen Cinder personally when her face was whole and she wore significantly different clothing, the effect of the red dress hits quite differently. But he can't deny it's accurate.

For a moment, the plan seems foolproof. All she has to do is get locked up, and then when the guards' backs are turned, she'll shift into a prison guard's look and trick them into letting her go! Except...

"Oh, but you don't speak. I forgot about that..."

This stumps him for a moment. Trivia might get away with not speaking for a certain amount of time, but it would only be so long before they realized she couldn't. It's only when he remembers his tactics during stow-away ventures--memorizing the rotational shifts--that he comes up with a workaround.

"Didn't you say you could also use your semblance on me..?"

[vanilleneo]

@badluckqrow: ❛ you’re not as bad as everyone says you are. ❜ (from Ruby)

Little Red was trying to compliment her, she's almost sure of it. It's just a shame that it somehow manages to sound so much like an insult all at once: perhaps she wasn't as bad as people liked to say, but that didn't change the fact that people were still saying all of those things.

They weren't unearned, of course. Neo has no such delusions as to think that joining up with these kids was enough to undo all the harm she had done. The Fall of Beacon, stealing the Relic of Knowledge and handing it over to Cinder, not to mention everything that had happened before she even knew the name Cinder Fall.

After a moment of staring blankly at the younger girl, both her hands lift in a shrug, one hand lifting while the other lowered, repeating the motion twice. A sort of "yes and no" gesture. She certainly didn't perceive herself as evil, but good? That still seemed like something of a pipe dream.

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