deernet | video; un: ushiromiya (cw: mentions of house fires, arson, murder)

So for those not in the know, our house burned down last month.

[ What a way to open a post, right. And yet Ange manages to say it with something very close to a pokerface. Those who know her well may see something at its edges though. An annoyance that starts to bleed more and more into the girl's tone as she speaks on. ]

And not in the 'dumb accident' sense. No, it's because apparently it's socially acceptable in this place to come to someone's house and set it on fire, before bringing your friends inside to start murdering its inhabitants. [ Okay, yes. At this point it's not thiny veiled annoyance anymore. This is obvious annoyance that she doesn't bother to hide. ] And before anyone asks me if I'm alright— I'm fine. Totally fine. I mean, I half-turned into a beast back there, but it's clearly cool. It's fine.

[ It's clearly not fine. The sarcasm is thick.

Though Ange seems to realise that's not why she was supposed to make this message, and manages to snap herself out of passive-aggressive-ville for just long enough to sigh and sound a little bit more neutral as she speaks on. ]

Anyway, we want to rebuild the house, but that's obviously something we need help with. None of us are exactly architects.. I think. I've learned to not question weird Remnant hobbies. [ You never know what those Remnant people are capable of. ] Not to mention we'd need help with the actual physical rebuilding itself too.

We could use help from a lot of people, so if anyone would be willing to help, that'd be great.

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[ Ange scoffs.

Not in the sort of way that makes her sound genuinely mad though. No, this is just her being huffy because she thinks the entire situation they got stuck in was dumb and she deserves to be a little huffy and pouty about it. The way a teenager may be, even though Ange is technically a little too old for that now. ]

I can't believe this dumb place is forcing me to consider both the continuation of our literal lives and the potential fun my fiance could have with a water cannon at the same time.

[ It's ridiculous.

Her life is a ridiculous mess. ]

[Willow can't help the faintly amused smile. She is mostly teasing at this point.]

Well, I mean, if we're talking about outfitting our house with weapons and battlements, it makes a lot of sense for them to dual purpose - you know, for defending ourselves, and a little fun now and then.

I think the main problem here might be the difference between what I consider fun and what they consider fun.

[ 'Difference.' Talk more about a Grand Canyon-like gap's worth of it.. ]

I don't think cannons are exactly the sort of thing that can provide peace and quiet for poor exhausted girls like me. [ Yes, Ange.

Your life is clearly so hard. ]

Okay, yeah, point taken. But still, can you really say you wouldn't want a place where you can make your own private skating rink in winter?

[Upsides, there are always upsides. Plus there's the comedic value in defending their new home with Home Alone type tactics like making it icy and hard for an intruder to actually reach the house.]

[ ...!!

There's a pause.

A pause that indicates Ange is totally interested in that idea, at the very least. Because if she wasn't, there's no way she wouldn't have bit back with some deadpan remark much more quickly.

But like hell Ange is going to admit to that fact, so she instead sounds a little ~~tsundere~~ huffy as she says: ]

Do I seem like the type of person who'd want that? [ AS IF THINKING ICE SKATING SEEMS COOL MAKES HER LOOK UNCOOL IN SOME WAY.. Ange, girl, please. ]

[Willow pauses too. Come on. Who doesn't think ice skating is cool? She does remember enjoying the Snoopy on Ice even as a kid. Well, until her dad took her backstage and she got scared and threw up on Woodstock, anyway.]

I don't know. Have you ever been skating before? It's pretty fun. You'd probably like it.

No, never.

[ She shakes her head to herself. ]

Basically everything I've ever done in my life has been done after I showed up in Deerington for the first time. [ Considering how she had lived back home - basically little more than a bird locked up in a cage, unable to ever do much of anything, even if she wanted to. ] And I don't think we've ever had an ice skating rink either here in Trench or back there.

[ Unless she missed it, which is also entirely possible with the depressive episodes Ange went through back in Deerington.. Some stuff just skipped by her entirely because of it. ]

Yeah, I think you're right - although when the lakes and ponds and stuff would freeze in Deerington, you could probably use them for skating?

[Or at least, as far as Willow can recall, there wasn't an actual rink. She supposes that doesn't mean there weren't individuals who went.]

Anyway, it's a lot of fun. You should definitely try it.

[ Ice skating on top of frozen over ponds back in Deerington sounds like the worst possible idea to Ange.. After all, there was always creepy stuff there. Everywhere. Standing on top of ice is just asking for some monster to pierce through the ice and pull you into the water and drown you.

Ugh, what a pain.

Ange shakes her head, trying to get rid of the thought. ]

Well, I guess I could try. [ Please, as if she didn't just think the idea was kind of fun here..

But Ange is just barring herself from showing enthusiasm ever, apparently. ]

If there's ever a chance for it. And a way to learn how to do it in a way that doesn't make me look like a total idiot. [ She can't look uncool and fall in front of everyone! ]

[The only time Willow had ventured out onto the ice in Deerington was that last December in the dream, where the stars had reflected on the ice and introduced her to Puck by turning her into him. It hadn't even been unpleasant as far as unusual activities in the dream tended to be.]

You should definitely try it. And don't worry about looking like an idiot, I'm sure you'll do fine.

[She is absolutely not going to discourage Ange by warning her about the potential for falling starting out.]

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