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towerofanimus2013-05-10 11:19 pm
eternallily) wrote in towerofanimus2013-05-10 11:19 pm
Entry tags:
the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth, and the landscape of merry and desperate drought
Characters: The witch that was Saki Asami and OPEN.
Setting: Floor 61 - general interactions on May 11th and 12th, witch killin' on the 12th
Format: Prose to begin, either in replies
Summary: Whenever a girl makes a contract and becomes a magical girl, a seed of despair is planted within her. Eventually, that seed will take root and blossom within her. The moment the seed blooms, the girl becomes a witch, and we all know what happens to bad witches in fairy tales, right?
Warnings: Character depression, including suicidal thoughts. Violence, possibly including but not limited to limb loss/decapitation via witch-Saki trying to bite people's body parts off. Character death. Will update if more come up.
The reminder post for and original OOC post should cover everything you need to know. If you have any further questions, please let me know!
...could you really prepare yourself for your own fate? Knowing that you would hurt your friends, that you would die? Did it even matter anymore?
The weight of it all was heavy on Saki as she laid in one of the solid patches of grass on floor 61. She had certainly tried, but you could only fight fate so far in this place. She'd been trying and trying to go on, to convince herself that things were okay, but that had been lying to herself. There wasn't time for that, not anymore. She would just have to hope that if, for some reason, she didn't come back after dying this time, that someone else would step up.
...or that if she did come back after dying, that things would be better. Saki honestly didn't know which would be better.
Her Soul Gem was in one hand, and she turned it this way and that, studying the jewel. It held barely any hint of its normal lavender, instead being mostly filled with cloudy, inky black. Normally, she would be far better about making sure all of its taint was gone, making sure it shone brightly, but she'd long since grown careless. She'd grown weary. She hadn't been having it purified, and she couldn't bring herself to care anymore.
It had always fallen to her to be the strong one, the sane one. The one that took care of the others. She had done that so dutifully, for so long, but finally, finally, she had seen too much, after the last month. After seeing Mami turned into ribbons and unable to speak, seeing Kyoko forcibly turned into a witch, seeing Madoka and Homura's graves...and Kazumi.
Kazumi, with that smile, saying she would continue to cause despair...brainwashing or not, it had been too much. How was she supposed to go on after seeing that?
So many girls like herself, with contracts, with wishes they wanted to have come true...and all of them brought down to nothing. What else could Saki do but give in to the despair that she'd been trying to fight for months?
That dim Soul Gem was the proof of how much pain she felt, how much hurt, how much anger. Now, it was a time bomb with only a few short moments left before it would explode.
If she had been at home, she would have done the responsible thing as soon as she knew she couldn't handle herself anymore: asked the other Pleiades Saints to perform Tocco di Mare. A touch of the sea to separate her Soul Gem from her body temporarily, and a long sleep in the Freezer, until they could break the curse.
"Let the princesses sleep forever, waiting for the prince's kiss." Saki laughed ruefully, letting tears mix with her laughter. There would be none of that for her. No Freezer, no magic spell, and certainly no one to kiss her to break the curse.
One of her bitter tears touched the gold casing of her Soul Gem, and the quiet splash seemed to echo impossibly loudly as the last of the lavender faded, leaving only black for a moment, before it cracked.
All Saki could do was laugh - or was it sob? The two were one and the same for her, as she bent over and let all of her pain, her sadness, her anger, and her despair flow freely. The blackness from inside the Gem rose to meet her, and soon swallowed her entirely before spreading to cover the entire floor.
When the blackness faded, things looked different, and there was no trace of the despairing girl that had been there before.
===
Floor 61 had always been filled with flowers, hadn't it? Flowers, and platforms, and hadn't it always been something of a maze? A maze with a monster at its center. Best not to get too close. The kiss of a witch will lead you off your happy path and into despair.
This particular witch is already angry, already ready to lash out. If you try, early enough, you might be able to speak with her, early in the weekend. But it may not end well. There's no changing her back into a human, after all. The magic is too strong.
Later in the weekend, all she'll want to do is lash out. No humans should suffer a witch to live, lest they be drawn into despair. Witches only exist to cause hurt and destroy hope, after all. It's all too easy, when al their own hope is gone.
Setting: Floor 61 - general interactions on May 11th and 12th, witch killin' on the 12th
Format: Prose to begin, either in replies
Summary: Whenever a girl makes a contract and becomes a magical girl, a seed of despair is planted within her. Eventually, that seed will take root and blossom within her. The moment the seed blooms, the girl becomes a witch, and we all know what happens to bad witches in fairy tales, right?
Warnings: Character depression, including suicidal thoughts. Violence, possibly including but not limited to limb loss/decapitation via witch-Saki trying to bite people's body parts off. Character death. Will update if more come up.
The reminder post for and original OOC post should cover everything you need to know. If you have any further questions, please let me know!
...could you really prepare yourself for your own fate? Knowing that you would hurt your friends, that you would die? Did it even matter anymore?
The weight of it all was heavy on Saki as she laid in one of the solid patches of grass on floor 61. She had certainly tried, but you could only fight fate so far in this place. She'd been trying and trying to go on, to convince herself that things were okay, but that had been lying to herself. There wasn't time for that, not anymore. She would just have to hope that if, for some reason, she didn't come back after dying this time, that someone else would step up.
...or that if she did come back after dying, that things would be better. Saki honestly didn't know which would be better.
Her Soul Gem was in one hand, and she turned it this way and that, studying the jewel. It held barely any hint of its normal lavender, instead being mostly filled with cloudy, inky black. Normally, she would be far better about making sure all of its taint was gone, making sure it shone brightly, but she'd long since grown careless. She'd grown weary. She hadn't been having it purified, and she couldn't bring herself to care anymore.
It had always fallen to her to be the strong one, the sane one. The one that took care of the others. She had done that so dutifully, for so long, but finally, finally, she had seen too much, after the last month. After seeing Mami turned into ribbons and unable to speak, seeing Kyoko forcibly turned into a witch, seeing Madoka and Homura's graves...and Kazumi.
Kazumi, with that smile, saying she would continue to cause despair...brainwashing or not, it had been too much. How was she supposed to go on after seeing that?
So many girls like herself, with contracts, with wishes they wanted to have come true...and all of them brought down to nothing. What else could Saki do but give in to the despair that she'd been trying to fight for months?
That dim Soul Gem was the proof of how much pain she felt, how much hurt, how much anger. Now, it was a time bomb with only a few short moments left before it would explode.
If she had been at home, she would have done the responsible thing as soon as she knew she couldn't handle herself anymore: asked the other Pleiades Saints to perform Tocco di Mare. A touch of the sea to separate her Soul Gem from her body temporarily, and a long sleep in the Freezer, until they could break the curse.
"Let the princesses sleep forever, waiting for the prince's kiss." Saki laughed ruefully, letting tears mix with her laughter. There would be none of that for her. No Freezer, no magic spell, and certainly no one to kiss her to break the curse.
One of her bitter tears touched the gold casing of her Soul Gem, and the quiet splash seemed to echo impossibly loudly as the last of the lavender faded, leaving only black for a moment, before it cracked.
All Saki could do was laugh - or was it sob? The two were one and the same for her, as she bent over and let all of her pain, her sadness, her anger, and her despair flow freely. The blackness from inside the Gem rose to meet her, and soon swallowed her entirely before spreading to cover the entire floor.
When the blackness faded, things looked different, and there was no trace of the despairing girl that had been there before.
===
Floor 61 had always been filled with flowers, hadn't it? Flowers, and platforms, and hadn't it always been something of a maze? A maze with a monster at its center. Best not to get too close. The kiss of a witch will lead you off your happy path and into despair.
This particular witch is already angry, already ready to lash out. If you try, early enough, you might be able to speak with her, early in the weekend. But it may not end well. There's no changing her back into a human, after all. The magic is too strong.
Later in the weekend, all she'll want to do is lash out. No humans should suffer a witch to live, lest they be drawn into despair. Witches only exist to cause hurt and destroy hope, after all. It's all too easy, when al their own hope is gone.
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Yes, Kazumi. This is where the Witch is residing. It's going to turn its face - or what, at least, resembles its face - towards you now. Do you have anything to say? Have you figured out who this was?
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"...Saki?" she asked in a stunned voice.