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witheredblum2025-04-19 03:10 pm
facultwist) wrote in witheredblum2025-04-19 03:10 pm
sinking down, down
Death is a drop into a blackness that swallows you. You feel the movement of not air but shadow across your face as you plummet, and there is no bottom. No crash.
If there is another side, you do not reach it.
It is neither the light of heaven or the fires of hell that greets you when you wake. And wake you do, to the buzz and flicker of old fluorescent lights.
You are laid out beside a full-size competitive swimming pool, half-filled with stagnant water. The doors out are blocked off by locked doors covered in caution tape. The locker rooms are long since emptied, paint peeling from the humidity. The only signs of habitation are a few pieces of scattered graffiti.
Welcome to your new home. There's no sunlight, no indication of time passing. Just you and each other and your thoughts. the stagnant water bubbles a little occasionally, but there's nothing in it.
Before long you'll realize that you no longer need to eat or drink. You might notice your hand go through something if you don't focus. You're a ghost now. What's that they say about unfinished business?
If there is another side, you do not reach it.
It is neither the light of heaven or the fires of hell that greets you when you wake. And wake you do, to the buzz and flicker of old fluorescent lights.
You are laid out beside a full-size competitive swimming pool, half-filled with stagnant water. The doors out are blocked off by locked doors covered in caution tape. The locker rooms are long since emptied, paint peeling from the humidity. The only signs of habitation are a few pieces of scattered graffiti.
Welcome to your new home. There's no sunlight, no indication of time passing. Just you and each other and your thoughts. the stagnant water bubbles a little occasionally, but there's nothing in it.
Before long you'll realize that you no longer need to eat or drink. You might notice your hand go through something if you don't focus. You're a ghost now. What's that they say about unfinished business?
Re: 2/2 cw slight choking im sorry
[what the fuck WHAT THE FUCK-]
[They. Probably don't need to breath? But instincts are instincts, she's trying to shove Anthy's hands apart and kind of. Aiming a kick or knee to push her away.]
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Did that feel dangerous to you? Like you might die if your air was cut off?
[NORMAL]
cw: mild thalassophobia mention
[But- it takes a second or two to process, but she's not actually that out of breath. None of the relief that comes of surfacing after a long time underwater, say.]
...but not fatal, shit.
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I'm not sure what our methods could be, then. I assume we can rule out any nonsense about religious icons or prayer. What would harm her?
[Hatsune keeps talking about being the seventh bullet in the gun. Weaponizing herself. The gun is a weapon that the Interim Headmistress is holding. This is nothing. Is this something?]
What exactly happened when you saw her before?
1/2
Whatever it was was fast, I ended up out in the quad. And then Misty was screaming at me again.
[One of these things was objectively worse, she thinks.]
I was thinking one person could act as a distraction while everyone else actually attacked, but if that's not an option...
2/2 cw: implied suicidal ideation
[That "we" sounds a bit like an "I", somehow.]
cw suicidal ideation
[But Hawke is already upset.]
So . . . try to fight. Either she kicks us out anyway, or we succeed and "survive," or we succeed and die.
cw suicidal ideation
[Also apparently the other option is Rinne actively tormenting her for eternity or something, might as well try something useful before going to Hell.]
cw suicidal ideation
[It's a stupid plan. It's barely a plan. But Vanity's right. They have to try.]
cw suicidal ideation
I'll go left, you go right.
[She is taking off her ghost jacket and ghost folding it before setting it on a desk.]
cw suicidal ideation
[she hesitates for exactly long enough to give hatsune a completely ineffective hug before stancing the fuck up.]
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