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deernet2022-06-25 06:59 am
wishforaneye) wrote in deernet2022-06-25 06:59 am
Video un: ChasingRabbits
I wonder.
[In view was a rose bush, a pale hand cupping a rose of delicate blue, others yet to bloom and some still with their petals curled close within the shot. Moving then, downwards as fingertips brushed open petals of another.]
Does anyone have a particularly favorite color of rose?
[The one under Alice's touch slowly darkened in color, going from shades of blue to purple to pink-]
These have been coming along well.
[A project she'd taken up with Break, once things had settled between them and weren't so tender. A play with Darkblood abilities, and of course she'd taken to it like a duck to water. Of course it was a project she'd let take up a lot of her time, a distraction from things that had been going on.
A want of seeing beautiful flower gardens once upon a time not a terrible inspiration to sink time in to. A creative outlet.]
Whether the color has meaning to you or not, isn't it nice to see something you like? Perhaps thought you might never again, even something so small as a rose of a particular hue.
[In view was a rose bush, a pale hand cupping a rose of delicate blue, others yet to bloom and some still with their petals curled close within the shot. Moving then, downwards as fingertips brushed open petals of another.]
Does anyone have a particularly favorite color of rose?
[The one under Alice's touch slowly darkened in color, going from shades of blue to purple to pink-]
These have been coming along well.
[A project she'd taken up with Break, once things had settled between them and weren't so tender. A play with Darkblood abilities, and of course she'd taken to it like a duck to water. Of course it was a project she'd let take up a lot of her time, a distraction from things that had been going on.
A want of seeing beautiful flower gardens once upon a time not a terrible inspiration to sink time in to. A creative outlet.]
Whether the color has meaning to you or not, isn't it nice to see something you like? Perhaps thought you might never again, even something so small as a rose of a particular hue.
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I like the pink ones, and the purple ones. Used to make flowers all the time back home...
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[Her tone kept light, wistful almost, and implied all the same that promise was never fulfilled.
Still! She moved the camera on to a group of roses, a few of them a mix of purple and pink, and others more solid with hints of the other along the edges.]
I think, perhaps, making one will be just as good, if not better. [She hummed, as if a thought came back-] What flowers did you used to make?
I'd love to hear about it, honestly.
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[It requires a little background, Michael supposes; he doubles back.]
I've recently taken over operations of the more pleasant half of the human afterlife. Heaven, if you want to call it that. Humans like flowers. It isn't all flower gardens, of course, that'd be boring - but I like plants, too. I guess it's a little nostalgic.
[The fake Good Place had flowers all over! His understanding of humans was a lot more basic back then, but he'd known more than enough to make a convincing heaven for them. Even years later, he was still a little proud to find that the real Good Place looked quite similar!]
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Still, that sounds like fun. [Alice settled where she was, the omni's view bobbing a bit as she let it float out of hand.
All the better to find her in the middle of a lot of rose bushes with various colors- mostly shades of blue with some pinks.]
It still sounds delightful, especially if you could get creative- I think people had an idea of 'Heaven'- but the world connected to the Abyss ran on a cycle, souls reincarnated every 100 years after their deaths, unless knocked off the cycle. Still, there was a place where they wait for that. Perhaps that would be a little like Heaven?
[The concept of angels existed after all, and getting into it more had her wondering what she'd be considered in words with heavens and hells.]
Humans are strange, but at least beauty is a concept remains. Flowers and plants are lovely, after all.
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[Demons do that too, but about things. Not people.]
We've got a system set up so that people can leave, when they want to. Otherwise, the whole thing's just a big trap. But no one knows what happens to them then, not even me. Maybe they do reincarnate.
[The question of it worries Michael, a little. But no one he really knows well has departed yet. It's not a concern for right now. From an immortal's perspective, anyhow, it's sort of difficult for him to fully believe that he'll never see someone again. Not when he's got all of eternity to wait.]
Does that mean you've got a finite number of potential humans? Or do new ones still appear sometimes?
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[A single person could nearly destroy a world because of desire, misplaced caring.]
I don't know- there's so many different cycles of 100 years, and even those that become trapped from the cycle can be return if they're freed from the Dolls. From the Abyss.
[Save for those who were utterly destroyed by the Abyss and the powers within.]
It's always a fragile balance, a tipping point, but the story plays on.
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[Michael's afterlife is far more insulated from Earth. When it's all working properly, and people like Michael aren't mucking about, nothing there has any effect on Earth at all. He wouldn't call it "simple", really, but everything complicated about it is pure stupid bureaucracy from his point of view.]
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[She had seen quite a bit through the memories that trickled down-]
Well, the Abyss influenced the world more, given that the Dolls could trick people in to being their path out in to the world so they could kill and eat as many people as possible.
[Hopefully they'd get a handle on that again.]
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[It had sort of been distressing at the time, but in retrospect? Kinda funny!]
We're really not supposed to interfere with Earth affairs. Makes the timelines wonky.
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[Demons- she supposed some had called them that, too.]
Messing with time always makes the outcome worse, doesn't it.
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[Why are demons - or immortals, or whatever - from other worlds always being super gross towards humans? Sure, he's joked around about eating humans before, but for the most part Michael always found things like that rather too sticky and disgusting.]
Oh, it wasn't too bad when I did it. The worst thing that happened was some weird stuff with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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[Curious, however-]
What is a Jacksonville Jaguar?
[... perhaps it couldn't be a surprise that was what had caught her in that, given she knew what changing very specific things certainly could end up worse if what was supposed to happen was someone(s) dying.]
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[It was weird.]
My human friend liked them, he was from that city.
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[She's going to end up looking up what football was- and her sister would probably enjoy the sport.]
Did he get to enjoy the time that the team was decent?
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[With something of a dramatic flourish:]
Blake Bortles~!
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[Yet her tone remained quite chipper despite the fact, and there was a clap for the flourish. Didn't miss a beat, either-]
I'm glad he had a good time, even if the loss of his favorite player dampened that bit of joy. I do hope he found something, or someone else that brought him as much joy- even if it took time. It's always a little sad to see your favorite people no longer having a good time.
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[Maybe don't say that so chipper?]