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and then i'll kick her, sir

So, wow. Wow. That was some drama, wow. Apparently I am taking it upon myself to talk like Bartok from Anastasia, idk why. The important thing here is everyone probably needs a place to come together to discuss things that went down and also figure out how everyone that saw/heard/was impacted by things are going to react and deal with...everything. There's been more than one bit of drama for some characters, and with the festival and Eight's Christmas coming up, it's a good time to figure out where everyone is. I fail at wording things, I am so so sorry.

Let's discuss and plot and handwave and do all sorts of awesome things.

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Right, so. Ril. Ril in Mirrorverse, came into exceptionally close contact with the Madness and has brought a shard of it home with her despite the beautiful job she and Six did in eradicating most of it. This is is a long ~~con~~ game thing, so no drama, yet and probably not for a few months. She's also going to start to partition her mind since she doesn't have Eth to offload to anymore, so she'll start crashing out/staying in bed longer. It's an unconscious safety mechanism.

She's not dealing well at all with dying. No, that's not true. She's not dealing well with Six dying. Basically, she pulled all of his pain over, added it to her own brain exploding and her body crushing itself and then stayed mentally linked with him until he was completely gone. And then she went out like a light. They died in Time & Tea, which means every time she walks downstairs or into the clinic, she's back in that moment. We're talking visual and sensory input and she's doing her best to bypass it, which is messing with her time/space sense and is resulting in her tenses getting messed up. This is in addition to Six and Eleven's fallout, which she shared with Six. No words, just feelings.

Before she could process that properly, they had the earthquake. Pre-earthquake she and Six had a discussion about children thanks to the fact that Ril spent most of the morning nauseous due to pre-earthquake vibrations which timing wise, could have been something else entirely since it's not she and Six were being careful. In the aftermath of the earthquake, one of Ril's first patients was a child who had been crushed by a wall crumbling on top of her. There was no way Ril could save her. Coping with that in the wake of their earlier conversation has been difficult. She's been throwing herself into baking and cooking and anything that will keep her busy, which bring us around to the huge blow up.

Watching her family do this is exhausting, hurtful, and makes her feel helpless because there's nothing she can do except hug them. And bake. It's frustrating, because she's literally supposed to be a peacemaker, that's one of her functions back home, and she's soaking up all the hurt and anger and sorrow and loss like an emotional sponge. She was extremely empathic before, so it makes her highly susceptible to emotion and atmosphere especially when she cares so deeply about the folks who've become her family.

In some respects moving out of Thor 103 is very good for her, since being with Six is just an incredible balm, and he's actually helping her heal by...just being himself. But she misses them all, too. So, she goes 'round to both houses at least once a day to check on them all. She's worried about Eleven right now, mostly, yes because he's been a jerk, but also because she can sense there's more to it than what it appears. That means she's in his hair in a quiet sort of way, maybe not really saying anything, just physically present (fake reading books at the store maybe) when she's not with Six.

As far as Ril and Six, Ril's not really keen to have him out her sight for too long. It makes her restless, for one thing. Dealing with having their newly formed bond shatter when Six died was...devastating on so many levels and the loss of it is something that keeps her pretty close to him. There's deffo elements of PTSD at work here and she's doing her best to cope. She'll not stop being her friendly self, with her hugs everywhere as she tries to help other people. That's what Ril does, and she'd rather focus on others more than herself.

Also, she rather eloquently said she loved Six. Not by name. And to Merope when Ril was attempting to explain how love ought to be. Six heard that and there was a hug. ~~And everything was so adorable, jfc.~~

Snow! This is Ril's first time in snow ever and essentially:
This. <-- How do you walk on snow? And it's ridiculous, so she needs to be out in it and eventually there will be hilariousness and snowball fights and being thrown into snow drifts. I need stupid junk. Sorry. This is a ton of stuff. Questions? Plotting?

Edited 2013-12-17 00:00 (UTC)

Need more info on this Madness with a capital M, how it is a shard, because of similarity with Pandora related things and thus Brax and Romana potential plottage?

I don't know how much you know about Pandora but way back she was Imperiatrix, betrayed by Gallifrey after winning them a war, was executed and stuck in the dark part of the Matrix, becoming Dark Ambition sorta personified, tinkered with her family's genetics Romana becoming its child, tried to take over Romana, failing because a) Brax interceded by hypnotising it away, then trapping a fragment of her using his brain and b) Romana used her brain and an anomaly gobbling monster to defeat her.

So um. Any similarities?

Oh gods, Pandora. I had a Narvin two games ago who introduced Pandora for a plot. I'm not super familiar with her, but there's deffo similarities. Okay. Lowdown on this beast.

The Madness is a by product of the universe being breached by creatures from the Void. It's semi-sentient and is forever seeking to corrupt anything it touches. It's primarily a tool for stirring chaos, which creates energy, and universal energy--the stuff that keeps life force of universes going--is what Voidlings thrive on. The higher the energy generated, the more it grows. Voidlings are the

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Oh gods, Pandora. I had a Narvin two games ago who introduced Pandora for a plot. I'm not super familiar with her, but there's deffo similarities. Okay. Lowdown on this beast.

The Madness is a by product of the universe being breached by creatures from the Void. It's semi-sentient and is forever seeking to corrupt anything it touches. It's primarily a tool for stirring chaos, which creates energy, and universal energy--the stuff that keeps life force of universes going--is what Voidlings thrive on. The higher the energy generated, the more it grows. Voidlings are the <i.>fully sentient focus, but the psychic energy they give off is toxic to Pilots and folk that spend time in space, so they're the first affected. The more time you spend in space (Pilots train regularly and are sent on training runs, etc.), the more likely it is that you'll go Mad. So far, there haven't been any cases since The Weeping, which was the last great galactic war. Two Pilots, one Mad, sacrificed their lives to seal a rip in time and space before Voidlings came through. In Ril's time, that rip has slowly reopened, and no one believes the stories about that sector of space. It's very Bermuda Triangle.

The Madness affects time sense as well, disrupting it in an attempt to destabilize the victim, and slowly, carefully drives them insane. The greater the insanity, the more it thrives. In the later stages her eye color will become tainted with something Six might remember when he encountered it; a sort of oily blackness, and they'll stop reflecting light at all. It's a thing that has been inside her virtually since she was bonded to Eth. Minute traces of it, sniffing around the nooks and crannies, like it does all Pilots. I'm not sure it's communicable, I don't think so, but I'm certain Brax and Romana, and Six, will help her break free long enough to do what she has to do to get rid of it.

Ok! So what would she have to do?

No one likes this option, but she'll need to kill herself. If she winds up murdering someone, she'll do that rather than risk anyone else.

Well, Brax would probably be the quickest to recognise the necessity and would like concentrate on finding a painless way to do it.

Ril would probably walk into the sea. :| But the quickest way would be a headshot or a high enough drop, though she'd try to do it herself so no one has to kill her. Give her enough control back and she'll get it done.

Well, it might be interesting if Brax does it? Which he will if convinced it's the right thing to do. Possibly by slipping her something. Though if it's against Ril's consent, he wouldn't do it.

I think I'd only be interested in that if it were left unknown how that happened ICly, because I doubt Six would be all that keen and I don't want it to break he and Brax up.

...I deffo don't want Brax and Six to fall out about that. And Ril wouldn't want him to be responsible for . She wouldn't at all want Six to be there if she had to die. That'd hurt him entirely too much and Ril would do her best to make sure he wasn't, even if the Madness would want to cause as much hurt as possible.

But, I think giving her the means to do it herself and making sure Six doesn't have to watch her die would work okay. It ought to be by her own hand, at least she'd insist upon it. Asgard's done enough to force others into things, and she likes Braxiatel too much to ask him for much more than letting her have the tools and opportunity necessary. It'll be hard enough to break through, but he's got Bardic Influence which might come in handy.

That's definitely in his MO, so he wouldn't have a problem with it once he gets to accept its necessity.

[hugs Brax] :( Worse? When she dies, I may canon update her at the same time, which is why this wouldn't go down until maybe summer, if I decide to do it. Ugh. She'll come back 600 years old after having sacrificed herself to the Void to seal a rip in time and space.

Well, these things never work out for Brax either so they'll have that in common.

Poor loves. /cuddles them 600 year old Ril will have bright white Pilot hair, have actually traveled in time (tomake sure the Voidlings don't interfere in her wingmate's death, which takes ages, really), and will have experienced enough of the Void to think she's died. /points at icon Slight aging, too.

But, in the end, it's all good...mostly.

Mostly!

In the end of things, after she's fallen through the Void, she crashes out the flip side of a rip in an parallel universe where the Voidlings have managed to kill all but the last Pilot. He's waiting on the other side for her--like he's been doing for 600~ years. They both lost their wingmates, he turns out to be her anchor, and they go fight Voidlings from universe to universe.

It's good and terrible all at once.

It's certainly a busy life!

Zero rest. :( But it's a fascinating life.

Whenever is there? At least there's that.

You're reminding me that my own canon is still not out. ::sobs::

"May you live in interesting times," indeed. And awww. Waiting for more canon is torture. Is there a projected date for release?

Well, the first one was in November. Then it was early December, so, um. I'm hoping they get it up before Christmas.

I hope so too!

First off, Clara and Ril need light, fluffy times in the snow. Just silly happiness.

Second, I think in their conversation over cookie making, Clara is going to see how good it is for ril and six to have their own space and she's really going to start stopping by near daily for tea or food or just to chat. Not only will she get stories from Six, she'll get time with Ril, and she's starting to get that Ril is a lot like her in that she'd much rather take care of other people and coddle them over go through the things that are bothering her.

That is excellent and super true. Clara and Ril will be good for each other and there'll be cuddles and baking and snow. Yes, this sounds lovely.

...Six and Ril are just fun to sit and watch as they go about doing normal crap together. Especially now. But really, how they inhabit spaces around each other is fascinating and I love playing with it.

Like I said, Six will notice something is wrong, though he may not entirely consciously acknowledge it. But he's making an effort to be around her more, though he'll let her do her own stuff/give her space, too. But just... when they're in the same room together he's all up in her personal space as much as possible. Mmm, touching.

He doesn't have the same issue she does with the shop, but we've discussed that before. And of course they had their shopping trip and I still want to get out of town if they can borrow a cart or something and go to a nearby town for a day, idk.

Six isn't angry at anyone anymore, so that's one less stress on her. He's not interested in moving back simply because having so many of him cooped up together is stressful by itself, but she's welcome to bring anyone she can lure around the shop, if she likes.

...her dealing with snow is hilarious and sweet, and Six will try not to laugh if she falls down.

Ril will deffo feel off, but she'll just attribute it to stress. And yes, keep touching her ~~that'll slow the Madness down~~ all the time. Half of it's entirely absent, which probably makes watching them as a third party awesome.

Yes. Out of the city for a day (and night, even). They've enough saved up to splurge on a cart and horse. ~~Ril hasn't seen one of those six legged horses up close before omg larger land animals.~~ She's okay with staying at the shop like this, it's just something to get used to, and she'll be fine. Going back to the house to make sure everyone's okay will help too!

...omgs, though, the snow. That will be awesome. And he can laugh because she will.

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and then i'll kick her, sir

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