[OPEN] standing dumb in the light

[glowsferatu]

WHO: Kanaya Maryam and YOU!
WHERE: Dormitory levels
WHAT: Kanaya wakes up, she is not at all fond of her circumstances. And so the Tower receives a glowing alien girl conspicuously and shiveringly sneaking through the hallway.
HOW: Action

[ thirty seconds of sleep paralysis is a hell of an introduction to a new setting. by the time it's worn off, kanaya has found plenty of time to begin panicking. it doesn't look like any memory she's ever had, so the most reasonable explanation is that it must be someone else's. it's a dream bubble, right? it has to be. that doesn't explain the collar. something is wrong here. who put her in this ugly jumpsuit? who would even make such an ugly outfit?

once she's on her feet, she spares a moment to wonder if she should make the bed before deciding that there are bigger problems at hand, and ends up missing her introduction letters in the process. she elects to sneak out into the hallway instead, only to find it's cold. unreasonably cold, especially in this miserable outfit. her best hope is to keep moving, see if the bubble doesn't change if she does, stopping at each corner to peek around it. you never know what you might encounter in these things. ]

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[glowsferatu]

[ her brows continue to furrow and her thins draw a tight, wide line. brown. she can't begin to fathom what that would look like. she makes a low humming sound, dipping her head and shaking it about, trying to make this make sense. it doesn't. she'll have to work with it anyway. ]

Well! That's... [ baffling, beyond comprehension, something that raises a lot of questions, news that she will probably never be able to resolve. there are about a million good ways to finish this sentence. ] ...Really interesting. [ and that wasn't one of them. ]

I don't even...how does that happen?

[geometry]

[Equius sighs. He'd reacted in about the same way when he'd first realized that there were versions of his players with different bloods, though with significantly more internal shrieking; Kanaya, too, seemed to be much more affected by the news than most other people he's told over the course of his time in the Tower. He shrugs apologetically.]

I... I really don't know. Your guess is good as mine...

[glowsferatu]

I think I need to just... [ she crosses her legs under her, slowly lowering herself into a sitting position right there on the floor, her palms against her forehead. equius is yellow. vriska is brown? and a knight?? of life???

what does this mean for the rest of them and does she even want to know because she isn't convinced that she wants to and this is all just really weird and big and her brain hates that she's expecting it to process all of it. she doesn't move, doesn't say a word, but her glow seems to have grown brighter, little by little. ]

[geometry]

[Equius stands there, watching her like an idiot, wringing his hands a bit. This is... new. He wouldn't have expected Maryam to just throw herself onto the ground like this, and somehow it didn't occur to him from the brief time he talked to the other jade Kanaya that she would do it, either. Mostly because they were sitting down, and having a relatively calm and happy conversation, at the time. But that obviously wasn't a thing anymore, as this Kanaya was taking the whole thing not nearly as well; unnerved by the glow and somewhat fearing for his safety, Equius spoke very uncertainly.]

I-if you want... I'll just go.

[glowsferatu]

[ she takes one hand off her head and holds it in the air to stop him, there's bound to be more she'll want to ask him, but after about ten seconds she can't get a single word out or settle on one. the hand drops to wave him on his way.

she'll just sit here and think about things for a bit, and eventually remember how cold it is and go find her room. ]