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Locked Rooms ([personal profile] guillotineroom) wrote2023-03-12 12:03 pm

[UNICORN]

[when you open your eyes, you find yourself in a pleasant greenhouse. the sweet scent of flowers surrounds you, and the sun shining through the glass ceiling invigorates you from within. there are stone benches on which you can sit, and if you're hungry, there's a garden table with some refreshing tea and scones available to you]

[the voice– the good voice– echoes in your head again]

YOUR DESIRES. . . CREATED THIS REALM. IT IS YOURS. . . IT IS NOT TYPHON'S! I CAN USE THOSE DESIRES TO GIVE YOU A SAFE PLACE. . . FROM WHICH TO FIGHT.

BUT I CANNOT DEFEAT HIM. . . ONLY YOU CAN. ONLY YOU– WITH YOUR OWN DESIRES!! YOU CAN. . . RESHAPE THIS WORLD. . . HOWEVER YOU'D LIKE!
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[personal profile] striketwice 2023-03-12 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The human counterpart to the bird is nowhere to be seen for the moment, but she seems to understand Komaeda's question perfectly anyway. Leaving the scones behind for the moment, she hops over and bobs her head.

Pets please! ]
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[personal profile] luckful 2023-03-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Good girl!!! He offers her gentle pets down her back with two of his fingers, careful not to overwhelm her. ]

Ah, sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt your lunch. I didn't realize we had a bird on the team.
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[personal profile] striketwice 2023-03-12 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ohhh that's the good stuff. She looks like she's enjoying it. ]
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[personal profile] striketwice 2023-03-12 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I see you two became buddies pretty quickly.
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[personal profile] luckful 2023-03-12 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, she's a friend of yours, Alec?

[ So...he's not just a prisoner of their team he hasn't met yet. ]
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[personal profile] striketwice 2023-03-12 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Something like that. Think of her like a familiar, kind of.

[ He's assuming Komaeda is genre-savvy enough to understand what that means. ]

Her name's Tempest.
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[personal profile] luckful 2023-03-12 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ To the bird: ]

A pleasure to meet you, Tempest. Caw.

[ Then back to Alec: ]

A familiar, and not a Persona?
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[personal profile] striketwice 2023-03-13 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ She floofs up her feathers and caws back. Hello! ]

I guess she kind of qualifies as both. I'm not sure if she's an indicator of how much this place has changed me— [ in so short a time, too ] —or something else.

Not that I'm complaining.
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[personal profile] luckful 2023-03-13 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Now that's a curious way of looking at it. ]

What do you mean? You think she would take a different form if this place hadn't changed you?
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[personal profile] striketwice 2023-03-13 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
I think she would have eaten me alive if this place hadn't changed me.

[ Scary??? So he explains a bit more. ]

When she first appeared, it felt like a test. And whatever it was, I passed.
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[personal profile] luckful 2023-03-13 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hewwo????? ]

Ah, I see...in that case, I'm glad you weren't pecked to death by a bird. That would have been unpleasant.
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[personal profile] striketwice 2023-03-13 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely an awful way to go.

[ He is deciding not to share that she wasn't a bird when she first appeared. It's fine. ]
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[personal profile] luckful 2023-03-14 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
And she just...stays out all the time?

[ You know, outside their hearts or whatever. He's not questioning it. ]