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Nessa ([personal profile] warpweft) wrote2023-01-19 08:43 pm

[ENTER THE PALACE]

[You find yourself with a sensation like floating in water.]

[Above, the sky is dark. You can occasionally see things shifting, like gusts of wind, or perhaps waves of water. Is it…even a sky above you? Or is it some kind of giant ocean? Whatever it is, you can’t make it out very well. All around you, you appear to be floating in what appears to be water. It looks like a great, wide ocean of…space in every direction around you, with stars and lights twinkling in the distance. It looks like water and feels like water, but it doesn’t make you wet. You can reach your hand into it and pull some out, the purple and violet water and the tiny points of light inside it will even rest in your hands if you cup them to carry it, but once you’re not trying to hold it anymore, it’ll flow off of you, not a single drop remaining behind. You feel something similar if you go underneath the surface. The “water” doesn’t touch your eyes, mouth or nose when give the chance, it merely drifts around you, allowing you to breathe and see unabated. And you can see for a great distance, the twinkling stars illuminating the ocean of space all around you. Though perhaps less dark and empty, it feels every bit as vast as the sky above. You feel like you could swim forever and never reach the edge.]

[It’s quiet, here, with little noise around you but the starry ocean’s waves crashing back into its surface. It’s peaceful. In another situation, it might even be comfortable.]
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-08 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
I like it! Don't feel that way, Miss Lilith. Dream remnants, alternate realities, past fragments... AUs... they're all completely valid!

Okay, howabout this. Is there anyway to give you a redemption AU? That'd be really the best!
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-08 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Nessa does not believe me capable of redemption. She believes given a second's chance, I would kill her and anybody and everybody she holds dear to retrieve my Heart.

She believes that, so in here, it is the truth.
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-08 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I can understand that. [...] There's probably no redemption AU for me, either. Not a believable one, anyway.

[a bit of a sigh]

Well, I guess the only thing left to ask is... if you want to share anything else about Nessa? Her as a child?
Edited 2023-02-08 06:27 (UTC)
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-08 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
There will come a moment where associating with her will cost you greatly.

She's walked over many graves to get where she is. Including her entire family. She will, without a doubt, walk over yours as well.

[Lilith turns away from Tsumugi.]

But you already know that.

You seem to know how this is going to end. So why waste any more words.
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-09 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
...One last question.

Esmau. She was your apprentice? Not your relative? Did she really like rap? And hate anime?

I guess that's four questions.
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-10 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
She is my disciple, and my granddaughter. She is loyal to me, to and past her end.

Her blood matters not.
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-10 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
All right then.

[it's probably past time to interrogate Lilith...]

Thanks for talking with me! And not killing me. It was very kind of you.
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-10 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[She turns away.]

If you stay here, Esmau will deal with you.

I needn't raise a hand.
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-10 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Right! Thanks!

[okay she's going to go back to... hm. The cabin? Maybe Lyra is there.]
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-10 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[The cabin is a simple one-story affair. There's a living room with a desk and two bedrooms. It appears only two people lived here, one of which is at the desk. She tilts her head up when Tsumugi walks in.]

Ness --

....ah. One of you.

[She stares at Tsumugi briefly. She has purple eyes, same as Nessa and white hair, same as Agnis. She looks older than Agnis, but not by a lot.]

Hmn.

[She looks disappointed to see Tsumugi and goes back to what she's working on at the desk. But, hey, at least she's not kicking her out?]
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-10 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Pardon the intrusion!

[she comes in with a little hesitation, but on seeing the other woman greet her, she takes on a stern look.]

Hey. Don't plain dismiss me like that. As someone who came to Nessa's mind palace to help her, I find that very rude.
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-10 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Without looking up.]

If somebody told you that I have some adventure for you to embark on, or some bauble for you to obtain, they're lying.
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-10 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Well... sorta. They said you'd be in a mood to talk about Nessa.

--But quests aside, what's your name? I'm Tsumugi Shirogane, the Ultimate Cosplayer.
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-10 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
...

....

[She seems to be considering not answering, but, she lets out a sigh through her nose and looks up.]

Lyra Houghton.

Is there something you want to know about my daughter?
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-10 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
...Her childhood?

You're her mother, right? Then that makes Agnis and Nessa your daughters?
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-10 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Agnis is my oldest and Nessa my younger. There is also my son, Caesar, between the two of them.

I had Agnis and Caesar while I lived with my husband, in the country. I had Nessa...

[She sighs.]

In this coven.
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-10 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Umm... this may be plain rude to say out loud. But...

You don't seem much older than Agnis.
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-10 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Sigh.

[That wasn't a sigh, it was her saying the word "sigh" out loud.]

Vanity is one of my many vices. I use cosmetic magic to hold off the effects of aging on my body.

My eldest daughter thinks this is, and I am directly quoting her, "kind of stupid and regressive, mom." What 12-year old calls their mother regressive, I ask you.
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-10 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that plain makes sense. But, you don't need to think of it as a vice. Who wouldn't want to plain look their best?
Edited (did you want to continue from here?) 2023-02-22 21:52 (UTC)