❝If you're out there trying to move on❞

[guiltapalooza]

Characters: Willow (guiltapalooza) and you! OPEN.
Setting: Floor 20, the one open to the outside.
Format: Action tags preferably, but I can prose if you wish!
Summary: Super duper backdated to sometime during the chocolates event last week, around Valentine's Day. Willow ate a peanut butter chocolate and... thinks she should be Aradia's older sister. This includes turning herself into a troll. On purpose. Whoops. (Note: she's only a troll for this post, nowhere else! Please excuse the icons!)
Warnings: Just obsessive stalkerness for Aradia.

[It was delicate work, and it'd taken her a while, but it was finally done. She was even the same blood color as her, which was a happy coincidence. Willow had eaten the chocolate and gotten a glance at Aradia earlier, but had felt too overwhelmed by her feelings to approach her right away. How was she supposed to talk to her unless she was right for her, first? She couldn't be her sister if she was human. Trolls didn't even have sisters.

Which was, honestly, a minor detail in her mind. Everything right now was centered around finding Aradia and showing her what she'd done, certain she'd be happy. There was also a minor footnote about how she had to give Eridan his ring, and oh, he'd probably be happy, too! His ring was all done and she was a troll now! They could be real matesprits. Willow couldn't figure out why that word had seemed funny to her before.

It was something Aradia had, so she, of course, had to have one, too. They both had matesprits. It was perfect.

She'd sought out the big empty space of the twentieth floor to do her spell, but now she's packed up all of her supplies and stuffed them in her messenger bag, and is making her way over to the stairs. She stops the first person she sees.]

Hey! [she says brightly, maybe too brightly, as if nothing is strange about her appearance at all.] Have you seen Aradia? I need to show her how perfect we are now. How alike.

Comments

[verymuchalive]

[It's a little while later when Aradia runs into Willow. Or more specifically, runs into a troll she hasn't seen before. Naturally, her curiosity leads her to investigate]

Hi. Are you new here?

[guiltapalooza]

No, silly! It's me! Willow.

I bet I look pretty different without red hair, huh? [Her peppiness fades into shy hope.] But I thought... we could be closer, if I was like this.

[verymuchalive]

[Okay she's happy-confused-not-really-sure-what's-going-on but it's Willow. She knows Willow, even if not normally like this]

Yes. You, um, you're a troll now? That's a thing that's happening here, you've turned into a troll?

[guiltapalooza]

Yes! [she says excitedly, eager to elaborate.] I wasn't sure the spell would work, because I've never done anything on this scale of self-transfiguration before-- I've dabbled, but, but this is big. And I think I got it all right, physiologically.

We can be like real sisters now!

[Beaming. Smile.]

[verymuchalive]

[That...is a lot to take in about her roommate. She knew about the magic, sort-of, but not that she was this powerful or that she would even want to and...wait, what was that last bit]

Sisters?

[guiltapalooza]

[Oh yeah, she has to explain this part, doesn't she?]

Right, sisters. Like... humans that are born to the same parents, I mean, have the same two genetic donors. They grow up together and are really super close.

Though obviously we're not human. Or I'm not, anymore. [She giggles faintly.]

[verymuchalive]

Oh...really? I know Vriska and Terezi used to call themselves sisters but I don't think they meant it in the same way...do we have to be sisters to be close?

[touchofgenius]

[ ]

Wait, Willow?

[guiltapalooza]

... So, have you seen her? Cause I'm kinda in a hurry.

[touchofgenius]

She's the red Aries one, right?

[guiltapalooza]

Yeah, that's her!

[eagerly,] So you've seen her? What do you think, do I look like her?

[touchofgenius]

Uh. Well, kinda? I mean. Most trolls already look alike to me? But the only difference I can see is the horns...? [Translation: Nope, haven't seen her.]

[guiltapalooza]

Darn. [Frowning deeply. In fact, it's more like a pout.] I really wanted to show her.

This took me all day to get the spell right. There was even an embarrassing incident where I got something wrong that will not be mentioned.

[wwaterboy]

[He hears the words and turns as he comes down the stairs, then stops dead with his mouth open. It's a troll he doesn't know, but it sure sounded like Willow. A land dwelling troll he doesn't know.

Can it be that some other version of Willow has shown up to mess with his head, like all the weird-blooded Feferis? What is going on?]

Wwill?

[guiltapalooza]

Eridan! [She grabs his hands in her own, bouncing a little and clearly too excited to contain herself.] I was looking for you, too!

[Willow leans in and gives him a peck on the cheek, and when she pulls back, she giggles.] Man, it feels all funny balancing with my horns. Isn't this neat?

[wwaterboy]

[Oh, she recognizes him, and he's really confused. He squeezes her hands, holding still as she kisses him, and noticing the very red cast of her eyes. A highblood, then? She's not wearing a symbol, though. This is so weird.]

Yeah, it's me. Wwhat's goin' on Wwill?

[guiltapalooza]

Oh, well, I thought if Aradia and I were going to be sisters, it'd make sense if we were more the same species, [she says breezily, so pleased at his response. He's really the best boyfriend.]

So I turned myself into a troll. I just turned out to have this blood color-- what a great coincidence, huh?

[wwaterboy]

You turned yourself into a troll? [His jaw drops. He's assuming it's temporary, of course, but he is sort of tickled by this] Wwoww!

Uh, wwhat do you mean about bein' sisters wwith the-- I mean, Aradia?

[guiltapalooza]

Yeah, I did! It was pretty tricky so it took me a while, but I think I got everything right. [She gives him a sly look.] Though maybe you should check later.

[Oh wait, now they're onto her favorite topic: Aradia.] Aradia and I... When I saw her earlier, I just knew: we're meant to be family. I just need to find her so that I can prove it to her.

[And yeah, okay, that gleam in her eyes is a lot more obsessive and unrelenting than anything ordinarily seen in Willow's expression. As a troll she seems to be less self-conscious overall, and more direct.]

[uprisings]

[A little startled to be stopped suddenly by Willow. Way way more startled to look over and see this troll lady who looks like her.......]

[NOPE. PAN SHUTTING DOWN BRB]

U-uhhhhhhhh....

[guiltapalooza]

[OH HAY SUMMONER.

She doesn't seem to care about his brain malfunction, just looks disappointed.] So is that a no?

[uprisings]

[WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING RIGHT NOW??? It takes him another second or two before he just kinda... gasps and takes a step back...!!]

Willow?!

[guiltapalooza]

[Gosh, everyone is being so dramatic about this. Willow exhales loudly.]

Yes, it's me, and yes, I turned myself into a troll. Because I'm looking for Aradia.

[uprisings]

Why...?

[Did you turn yourself into a troll, is what he means but fffff he's certainly not going to specify at the moment!]

[guiltapalooza]

Do I have to explain this to everyone? [she asks, rhetorical and exasperated.] Because of Aradia, like I said.

We're sisters now. And I already explained this to you weeks ago, so don't make me repeat it!