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Rosenblum Hall ([personal profile] facultwist) wrote in [community profile] 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?
rosewitch: <user name="shithouse"> | dnt (⚔ belching fire into the sky)

[personal profile] rosewitch 2025-05-17 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Run or fight.

I'm fighting.

[. . . because vanity persuaded her to. this is a bizarro world]
bellpepperexercise: (what)

[personal profile] bellpepperexercise 2025-05-17 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Run or fight, huh? Well, if Satsuki and Hatsune were willing to pull such a crazy stunt that could have gotten them killed...who is she to not?]

...well, I did a few of my own stunts in Guardians and PPG. Maybe stage combat can be useful for something.

Strength in numbers?
rosewitch: <user name="shithouse"> | dnt (⚔ the evening wind)

[personal profile] rosewitch 2025-05-17 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Strength in numbers.

[is this Belonging? is this Partnership? is this Camaraderie? could it possibly be Trust? she can't say she minds it.]
lifegoalsorwifegoals: (i'll be the first thing you see)

[personal profile] lifegoalsorwifegoals 2025-05-17 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
...If you're going to... I would be remiss not to stand beside you.

[ Instead of behind. Instead of watching. ]
sweetsynergy: (K)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-17 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[You know what.]

[Fucking fine, they're probably about to double-die anyway.]


Sorry for stabbing you and fucking with your weird flirting.

[The angriest apology ever.]
lifegoalsorwifegoals: (WHOA‚ WHOA)

1/2

[personal profile] lifegoalsorwifegoals 2025-05-17 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ BLINK. ]
lifegoalsorwifegoals: (i wanna ruin our friendship)

2/2

[personal profile] lifegoalsorwifegoals 2025-05-17 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And then, her polite smile blooms onto her face. ]

My! What a surprise! Thank you, Miss Vanity.
sweetsynergy: (J)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-17 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Literally do not mention it. Ever.

[She hates this.]
lifegoalsorwifegoals: that you don't know of (but there's a few things)

[personal profile] lifegoalsorwifegoals 2025-05-17 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm, no, I think I will.
sweetsynergy: (M)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-17 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah that's what I fucking thought.
bellpepperexercise: (scretch)

[personal profile] bellpepperexercise 2025-05-17 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Rinne...

If you're with me, I think I can do it.

[Even if it's not how Rinne might hope, Kana considers her one of the most important people in her life.]
lifegoalsorwifegoals: (jenny‚ darling‚ you're my best friend)

[personal profile] lifegoalsorwifegoals 2025-05-17 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...!

[ im about to burst into tears ]

Of course. I- I'll be right there. I promise- really promise this time!