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towerofanimus2013-05-21 01:59 pm
cullscuttlefish) wrote in towerofanimus2013-05-21 01:59 pm
[open] so come and face me now, here on the stage tonight
Characters: Empress Feferi Peixes and all her subjects (OPEN)
Setting: Dorm floors, Floor 10, Floor 73, and around the tower - name your place!
Format: Prose to start, but I'll match you in comments.
Summary: The rumor carved in tiny print on the back of Feferi's neck is well-hidden, and she honestly meant well. She wanted to protect everyone. But a wish like that is never so simple in the Tower.
Warnings: LOTS OF THEM. Coddling and meddling in business that isn't hers, in the interest of 'helping' people. Trying to control others' behavior, in the name of 'not letting others suffer' - and this means pushing them towards believing in other Tower rumors, pointing your character towards death traps, stopping anything that will hurt it* or saying 'let me put you out of your suffering'. Also, a quick temper, and the writing is on the wall - if she thinks your character is in the wrong, there will be no card-game challenge**, only death.
But it's all for the best, really. She doesn't want you to hurt anymore, or to fight.
Character death is especially likely on Floor 73 - Feferi is angry and will justify any murder as one against her. If you only want her to mess with your character, don't tag into that prompt.
* except the resistance. she didn't mention it in the original rumor, and it's safe.
** but you will get a gold star for trying to challenge her to a card game.
Dorms:
Feferi Peixes isn't one to patrol the dorm floors. Going from place to place, greeting her friends? That's normal. But this is a patrol, nothing more and nothing less. That's unusual.
What's even more unusual is that her normal clothing is gone. She isn't normally so skilled with a needle and thread, but she's managed well enough, upstairs in the sewing room: the tyrian symbol on her clothing has been carefully removed and sewed onto a simple long, white dress, with a few accents: the long tails of her skirt have become a sash at her waist, trailing downwards, and there are tyrian accents just at the hem of the dress. She wears a bit of coral in her hair, and her jewelry and her tiara seem to shine with a bit more pride than normal. Perhaps it's because Feferi is standing straighter, and it seems to add a few inches to her normally diminutive height, heels clicking against the floor as she moves. Is it just a shadow, or is her hair even longer than it normally is? It trails down her back and past her hips on a normal day, but now it seems to reach the floor.
...is that blood dripping off the edges of her trident? Well, it doesn't matter if it is or it isn't. The Empress only kills when it's merited, after all.
Floor 10:
It should surprise no one that Feferi is here, in the aquarium. It's normally one of her favorite places, and as usual, she's laughing with the cuttlefish. Her fingers trail through the water, leaving little swirls and eddies for them to follow. The sound of her laughter isn't normally as - it isn't cold. It's hardly that; the problem is that it's too saccharine. Feferi has always had a sweet nature, but she's never let it go over the top.
Or is it that she's always been like this? Of course it is. She's always sweet, always kind. The Empress loves all of her subjects just the same way, even the smallest ones. Isn't that obvious?
Floor 73:
"This should have been mine."
Feferi's voice is a quiet, angry hiss. Every now and then, she comes up here, to allow herself to feel a moment of anger. It's always been a thorn in the Empress' side that when her control over the entirety of the Tower was taken, so was her castle. It was taken, and left a wreck, as a constant reminder that nothing here can be entirely hers, that her control only goes so far. It's all right, really; in the end, it just meant that she could keep a closer eye on her people. That's what she tells herself, in order to quell the anger. It works, most of the time, but not when she's here. Not when she's facing it.
Here, she can let her mask crumble, just a little, for a short while. When she leaves, she will be the benevolent Empress once more, but even the most kind person has their flaws. Her tendency to come here and remind herself of how her control was broken is one of hers.
Elsewhere:
Feferi can be found throughout the tower, checking on the residents. She's accompanied by a retrieval unit sometimes, and sometimes her trident is bloodstained, indicating that it's angered her and has had to be dispatched. But that's all right. She means so much good.
Setting: Dorm floors, Floor 10, Floor 73, and around the tower - name your place!
Format: Prose to start, but I'll match you in comments.
Summary: The rumor carved in tiny print on the back of Feferi's neck is well-hidden, and she honestly meant well. She wanted to protect everyone. But a wish like that is never so simple in the Tower.
Warnings: LOTS OF THEM. Coddling and meddling in business that isn't hers, in the interest of 'helping' people. Trying to control others' behavior, in the name of 'not letting others suffer' - and this means pushing them towards believing in other Tower rumors, pointing your character towards death traps, stopping anything that will hurt it* or saying 'let me put you out of your suffering'. Also, a quick temper, and the writing is on the wall - if she thinks your character is in the wrong, there will be no card-game challenge**, only death.
But it's all for the best, really. She doesn't want you to hurt anymore, or to fight.
Character death is especially likely on Floor 73 - Feferi is angry and will justify any murder as one against her. If you only want her to mess with your character, don't tag into that prompt.
* except the resistance. she didn't mention it in the original rumor, and it's safe.
** but you will get a gold star for trying to challenge her to a card game.
Dorms:
Feferi Peixes isn't one to patrol the dorm floors. Going from place to place, greeting her friends? That's normal. But this is a patrol, nothing more and nothing less. That's unusual.
What's even more unusual is that her normal clothing is gone. She isn't normally so skilled with a needle and thread, but she's managed well enough, upstairs in the sewing room: the tyrian symbol on her clothing has been carefully removed and sewed onto a simple long, white dress, with a few accents: the long tails of her skirt have become a sash at her waist, trailing downwards, and there are tyrian accents just at the hem of the dress. She wears a bit of coral in her hair, and her jewelry and her tiara seem to shine with a bit more pride than normal. Perhaps it's because Feferi is standing straighter, and it seems to add a few inches to her normally diminutive height, heels clicking against the floor as she moves. Is it just a shadow, or is her hair even longer than it normally is? It trails down her back and past her hips on a normal day, but now it seems to reach the floor.
...is that blood dripping off the edges of her trident? Well, it doesn't matter if it is or it isn't. The Empress only kills when it's merited, after all.
Floor 10:
It should surprise no one that Feferi is here, in the aquarium. It's normally one of her favorite places, and as usual, she's laughing with the cuttlefish. Her fingers trail through the water, leaving little swirls and eddies for them to follow. The sound of her laughter isn't normally as - it isn't cold. It's hardly that; the problem is that it's too saccharine. Feferi has always had a sweet nature, but she's never let it go over the top.
Or is it that she's always been like this? Of course it is. She's always sweet, always kind. The Empress loves all of her subjects just the same way, even the smallest ones. Isn't that obvious?
Floor 73:
"This should have been mine."
Feferi's voice is a quiet, angry hiss. Every now and then, she comes up here, to allow herself to feel a moment of anger. It's always been a thorn in the Empress' side that when her control over the entirety of the Tower was taken, so was her castle. It was taken, and left a wreck, as a constant reminder that nothing here can be entirely hers, that her control only goes so far. It's all right, really; in the end, it just meant that she could keep a closer eye on her people. That's what she tells herself, in order to quell the anger. It works, most of the time, but not when she's here. Not when she's facing it.
Here, she can let her mask crumble, just a little, for a short while. When she leaves, she will be the benevolent Empress once more, but even the most kind person has their flaws. Her tendency to come here and remind herself of how her control was broken is one of hers.
Elsewhere:
Feferi can be found throughout the tower, checking on the residents. She's accompanied by a retrieval unit sometimes, and sometimes her trident is bloodstained, indicating that it's angered her and has had to be dispatched. But that's all right. She means so much good.
Floor 73 because I'm horrible
So as she's heading up the stairs, she stops and spots Feferi and has to stop for a moment. What is going on? Not even thinking twice, Meiling will head towards her, just curious on what exactly is going on.]
Hey...What's wrong Feferi?
38D
As will the fact that she really, really does not want to be bothered.]
...I haven't been Feferi to most people for a long time. Not since I took my title proper. Her Imperial Consideration, the Considerate.
[As opposed to her ancestor, Her Imperious Condescension.]
...and I would really prefer to be left alone. Since the gate was here, and since the counterattack...
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[Unless her memories are being messed with again, she could not remember anything about an attack or Feferi changing her name to a title. She takes her hat off and scratches at her head a bit. She keeps walking towards Feferi. Yes she knows something is wrong but she isn't going to back down until she can figure otu what.}
What happened? I don't remember anything like that...
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...you're mocking me, aren't you? Everyone in this Tower knows what happened here. When I was finally able to open the gate back home, for everyone that wanted to go home, after securing safe harbor here for everyone that came from a doomed timeline...about the retaliation that happened.
The lower floors may be mine to rule, but they left this place as a constant reminder to me.
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Unless...]
I'm not mocking you Feferi....But are you sure about this? It sounds like someone is messing with memories again.
[She glances about with a slight frown at the thought of it.]
I'm sure I would remember if it did happen and I would have been fighting with you..But..Then why are they still bringing more people in?
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Why would I lie about something like this? You were fighting with me. I - everyone was. It's how we found the gates in the first place.
They let us think we had won. Everyone who wanted to go home would. There would be safe harbor here for those of us - the ones like myself, who don't have a place they can go back to. I die in my home world, permanently. I'm not the only one.
So I took a title, a crown, and a duty - this place would be safe. Those of us who had nowhere to go could stay, and anyone who threatened them would have Her Imperial Consideration to protect them.
I wasn't strong enough to stop the counterattack that was triggered the moment I tried to open those gates home, for those that wanted to go. It was all I could do to get everyone else out. They bring others here and leave this place untouched to remind me.
no subject
She would remember a battle like that, she's sure of it. As the tower has quickly gotten her to start paying even more attention to detail and things going on around her.
[Her hat goes back on as she stops a few feet away from Feferi. She's on edge now just because of the extent of this little trick of whatever was going on. So she's going to try and go with it..although at this point, she's realized that what's she's said so far will be slightly held against that.]
It's just another way to torment you then. If it's to serve as a reminder, then use it to get stronger, more determined to win what has been taken back.
Show them that even though you were taken down once it does not mean you can not just take it back.
[Even though her words are strong, they are unsure....Because honest Meiling here...they can be seen as a lie or just encouragement to get stronger.]