Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2022-08-07 11:59 am

Flowers of Heaven 2: future is now + ☆ZRAEL

There’s a whirr and a series of quiet bleep-boops; an odd sound like stones grinding together.

Gathering around you all are strange creatures. Wheeling up to future is now are what seem to be friendly robots, almost like roombas, that have been given attachments of long, jointed arms with simple pincers at the ends, and hopping up to ☆ZRAEL are what look like a number of gargoyles, each no more than a few feet high and in the traditional gothic cathedral style—and all animate, their flesh made of living rock.
None of the creatures speak, exactly, but they chitter and nudge at you like they're greeting old friends, and usher you towards a gap that's opened in the thick curtain of kudzu vines and onto a winding path beyond.

Once you cross through, the vines grow rapidly to cover the open space behind you, and the voices of your fellow idols fade from your ears. It seems as if you’re on your own, now.

❀ ❀ ❀

Here, the vines that surround your path have thick, velvety leaves, and the stems of the vines are traced with shifting, fiber-optic lines that cycle through the rainbow.

The little creatures are carrying some things for you—the roombas carry a wreath of vervain, honeysuckle, and oak flowers and leaves, and the gargoyles a wreath of lotus, clematis, and wild rose. As they approach you, the air shifts in a strange way, and suddenly they have one wreath between them—all those flowers woven together into one, which they offer to you. They also have for you a collection of sixteen different flowers, and a small lantern of blue flame.



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numberedays: ([3 Think] only to destroy them all)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] numberedays 2022-08-07 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Destroying yourself doesn't protect others.
sangreine: crying :: sad :: touch ([haji] shimmering)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sangreine 2022-08-07 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, but... [ Stubborn and utterly pointless, absolutely, and she wouldn't really do this. It's just that forgetting people important to her is too familiar in the worst way. She turns her face away to try and hide that she's starting to cry. ]

How can I go on without someone who protected me, especially when I don't know what happened to them?
numberedays: ([3 Down] my own self.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] numberedays 2022-08-07 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
If they protected you once, you don't think they'd want to see you safe for the rest of this?
sangreine: crying :: sad (singular)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sangreine 2022-08-07 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
And I'm just supposed to live with the fact that I couldn't protect them? Knowing they could be trapped or hurt and I just keep moving? I don't know how to do that.

-- this happens every time. I want to be with the people most important to me so I can help, and then in the end I can't help anything.
numberedays: ([3 Smile] having no one look at me)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] numberedays 2022-08-07 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It's only a game. In this case, I'm sure you'll meet again one day.
sangreine: sad :: neutral (i can't)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sangreine 2022-08-07 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's only a game, then why did they bother protecting me instead of themselves? It's not only a game when someone does that.
numberedays: ([3 Smile] this simple to)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] numberedays 2022-08-07 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe they didn't want to see you suffer this time.
sangreine: sad :: face covered :: serious (undone)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sangreine 2022-08-07 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
And they didn't think I would --

...No, I guess they didn't think I'd suffer just as much if I had to go on without them. I don't think they know that at all, however many times I say it.
numberedays: ([3 Think] only to destroy them all)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] numberedays 2022-08-07 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Having part of your soul burned away is unpleasant, I'm sure.
sangreine: sad :: neutral (i can't)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sangreine 2022-08-07 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
-- You tell me: do I look okay right now even though my soul is intact? If even a fraction of what I'm feeling is written on my face, I shouldn't.