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imeeji_frontstage2020-05-28 07:23 pm
unskippablecutscene) wrote in imeeji_frontstage2020-05-28 07:23 pm
Entry tags:
- !days 240-249,
- !lives,
- bride,
- emet-selch,
- five hargreeves,
- jacob cross,
- lahabrea,
- ruler | kotomine shirou,
- shima renzou,
- vergil,
- yuizaki hiyono,
- ♪ allen walker,
- ♪ bakugou katsuki,
- ♪ dante,
- ♪ kurt vander,
- ♪ midoriya izuku,
- ♭ hibiki wataru,
- ♭ lochaana naarabot,
- ♭ luna,
- ♭ randolph orlando,
- ♭ tenshuoin eichi,
- ♯ angra mainyu,
- ♯ echo of ♯ noise,
- ♯ harukawa maki,
- ♯ kise ryouta,
- ♯ nero,
- ♯ sorrowful blade,
- ♯ v (dmc),
- 𝄳 kamiki izumo
Live triple threat!
Who: Cosmo, Marnie, the Grand Master of Ceremonies Ligrev, and you!
Where: the lobby
When: Day 244 noon
[It’s the lobby, there’s like, not much special going on, but Vergil is in a big robe and pointy hat and false beard obscuring himself as much as possible. The massive size of the beard helps muffle his voice a bit too. Marnie is just hanging out nursing a drink, basically. Cosmo has set up a table of drinks.]
Good morning/afternoon/evening, please set all cellular devices to silent during the ceremony or they will be confiscated. ...Good enough? [HE IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE the disguise was not enough.]
Marriage! Fuckin' cute, right? Choosing someone to be bound to for life! Ain't nothin' more romantic, if you're into it! And if you're not, well, we're just fuckin' around, so no worries there. But we've got a theme to pander to, so let's have some fun!
[What we have here is actually a man who is terrible at monologuing. Does he get points for effort?]
[Cosmo raises a glass of champagne in a toast.]
Thank you Ligrev, Grand Master of Ceremonies! Thank you Marnie! We should work on a title for you shouldn’t we.
And with all that said, anyone who comes by now can marry one of these three eligible* bachelors**! Just point at your choice and the other two will see the wedding done… Somehow or other. Personally I recommend Ligrev, a serious older gentleman with a distinguished aura. Then again, if eye-candy is your thing you can’t beat Marnie. Naturally I, Cosmo, am a catch.
Of course you can bring your own bride or groom if you like, too.
Well, who will come get married?
*Citation needed
**Citation needed
[Ligrev starts to back away from the scene the moment they’re all offered as possibly eligible possibly bachelors. Hopefully no one will notice if they’re distracted. This was not part of the deal.]
((Zreal, Baritones, and Taisho get host bonus, all participants get theme bonus + 3 host bonus, come bully Vergil or get hitched what happens in hell stays in hell))
Where: the lobby
When: Day 244 noon
[It’s the lobby, there’s like, not much special going on, but Vergil is in a big robe and pointy hat and false beard obscuring himself as much as possible. The massive size of the beard helps muffle his voice a bit too. Marnie is just hanging out nursing a drink, basically. Cosmo has set up a table of drinks.]
Good morning/afternoon/evening, please set all cellular devices to silent during the ceremony or they will be confiscated. ...Good enough? [HE IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE the disguise was not enough.]
Marriage! Fuckin' cute, right? Choosing someone to be bound to for life! Ain't nothin' more romantic, if you're into it! And if you're not, well, we're just fuckin' around, so no worries there. But we've got a theme to pander to, so let's have some fun!
[What we have here is actually a man who is terrible at monologuing. Does he get points for effort?]
[Cosmo raises a glass of champagne in a toast.]
Thank you Ligrev, Grand Master of Ceremonies! Thank you Marnie! We should work on a title for you shouldn’t we.
And with all that said, anyone who comes by now can marry one of these three eligible* bachelors**! Just point at your choice and the other two will see the wedding done… Somehow or other. Personally I recommend Ligrev, a serious older gentleman with a distinguished aura. Then again, if eye-candy is your thing you can’t beat Marnie. Naturally I, Cosmo, am a catch.
Of course you can bring your own bride or groom if you like, too.
Well, who will come get married?
*Citation needed
**Citation needed
[Ligrev starts to back away from the scene the moment they’re all offered as possibly eligible possibly bachelors. Hopefully no one will notice if they’re distracted. This was not part of the deal.]
((Zreal, Baritones, and Taisho get host bonus, all participants get theme bonus + 3 host bonus, come bully Vergil or get hitched what happens in hell stays in hell))
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How is that going...? For you, I mean.
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We just make each other angry half the time, and we can't see eye to eye, and he makes dumb jokes like it makes it better but it doesn't.
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[just trails off.]
I was telling Raven that he shouldn't talk like he was trying to be a father to you to redeem himself... I feel like that almost makes it sound like an obligation? And it's not that. He's doing it because he cares about you and wants to be there for you, not because there was some wrong in the past he doesn't even remember that he's atoning for. Or at least, not just because of that.
Why do you think Vergil is doing it...?
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If the only thing he knows is that he's a father, maybe he just. Wants something to be.
[A small sigh.]
The... redeeming himself thing. Does it bother him that much?
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[shakes her head as if to clear it]
...I think some of it is just that he's that brooding romantic type who wallows in his past sins, or whatever. But it does also bother him. When one of the few things you know about yourself is that you did something horrifying to the person you care about most...
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But it wasn't even him. Not really. I mean, the guy who actually did it's standing right there in a stupid fake beard.
I never wanted Raven to feel guilty over me. I was just-- excited to have someone in this family I... like.
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[sigh]
Sorry, I don't mean to... [waves a hand vaguely.] It's just... weird for me to think about.
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Sorry you're... wrapped up with so many of us.
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[perhaps she'll just leave it ambiguous how general that 'you' is. perhaps even she doesn't know.
after a pause:]
It's only that the idea of family is... well, you know.
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Seems kinda insensitive to complain about it to you. I mean, I shouldn't be complaining...
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I just mean... it's a little hard for me to understand. It's not like you have an actual history together... So I don't know what makes it "family" other than just... deciding that's what it is.
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All these things I thought were just me, it... came from somewhere else. Everyone in this whole family's the same kind of fucking dumbass, and it starts feeling like a curse you can't escape - but sometimes it feels like you're part of something more than yourself? You have context... but maybe you weren't as free as you thought.
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[looks off to the side]
Maybe that's the part I'm most jealous of. Since I don't even... have myself, really.
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I'd always admired you for being able to build 'yourself,' outta nothing.
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It was basically all of it. Everything before my killing game wasn't real. My orphanage, being an assassin... they were all implanted memories. Just a fictional backstory to make me the character they wanted for the game.
[shakes her head again, more sharply]
—Obviously that's over with. And I am building 'myself', now. But it is literally from nothing.
And I just... wish I had something, sometimes. That's all.
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They just-- put that stuff in your brain?? Fake memories?
Holy crap... but, you knew how t'fight! Did they put that in, too??
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If that's true... I still think you've already become someone. You couldn't spend this long in Hell and have that not happen. When I picture 'Morning Glory', I know what kind of person she is, even without that backstory.
She's level headed, and has a dry sense of humor - but she's adventurous too. In a 'fuck the audience, I do what I want' kinda way, which is pretty badass. Adventurous in the, uh... bedroom too... she knows what she wants, basically.
But she's thoughtful. A good listener who gives advice without coddling anyone. And keeps her unit of weirdos and crazies together... people who care about her. And rely on her.
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[flustered and a little red at some of that, but her lips tug at a smile]
...Thank you. That means a lot. Especially that it seems like I know what I want. Well, knowing it still doesn't mean I can get it, but... even knowing was something I had a lot of trouble with, at the beginning.
And... all that is why I switched names, actually. Because 'Maki' is the name they gave that character, but 'Morning Glory' is who I've become, here. With ZRAEL, and everyone. That's all really important to me.
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I think it's a great name. Like a powerful new dawn.
I don't think ZRAEL would be the same without you. And-- I don't think I'd be, either. You really opened my mind, on a lotta things.
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...I wouldn't be who I am without you, either. Talking to you always... Mm, it's hard to explain.
I may sound confident in what I think and want, but I'm really not confident about a lot of the stuff I tell you. It's stuff I've fought to come to a tentative position on, or that I decided arbitrarily, or that I don't know how to properly describe my feelings about... Sometimes I've struggled to even talk about it with other people, and I wonder if I'm just doing it all wrong.
But then you... get it, so easily. And think it sounds reasonable and smart, and it actually helps you. So... there must be something there, at least.