Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-02-17 09:33 am
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Shrike's Heart (#1)

The woman before you is beautiful—fair of features, with lovely golden skin and luxurious long black hair, petite. You have the immediate and distinct impression that she's just let go of your hand, and she steps back, and smiles.

It's not quite a happy smile.

"I'm sorry," she says. "There's just nothing I can do, as things are. But the way is there; it just needs to be lit."

You open your mouth—maybe to say something, or to express confusion—but you have to cough, and taste something metallic, spattering black blood onto the ground in front of you. Then you realize—blood seeps from opening wounds in your arms, your chest, your stomach, your face. It rims your eyes and trails from your nose and you feel like you're dissolving—

—and you fall through the ground like it's the surface of a lake, and go down, down, down.

> Wake Up
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[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[for some reason that jerks a laugh out of him, though even he isn't quite sure what the joke was]

Christ. Guess there isn't much choice.

Alright, let's go see what their 'peace' looks like.

[he's going first tho, iNTO THE HOLE]

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ well, strictly, they do not actually want you to yeet yourself into the hole. in fact, there's an immense pressure that seems to hold you in place at the edge, staring down into the abyss—like the pressure of many immense, incomprehensible eyes on you. when the voices become clear for a moment, they just have on request. ]

Give us your name.

[ well. it's not really a request. more of a demand. ]
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[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[i am feeling CONTRARY AS FUCK]

Awfully demanding for something so eager to get me inside.

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
g̡͎̗̔ͦi̹̦̤̻̅̋̈̇̅ͣ̓̇v̪͙ͯ̿ͯ͗͌ͨ̆̀̚e̲̬͔̫͚̲͔̠͆̐̈́́
̴̨͕̙̜̱͓̣̮͍͌̍̇ͣ̊
̷̒̊̍̆̉ͅy̧̞͉̰̟̙̙ͮ́ͫ̉͠͞ò̡̩̖̬̰͍̜̏̓͊ͩ̎͐̒͟u̓͂҉̨̢̘̘̰̘ŕ̫̱͍̞ͥͭ͜͢
̵̛̝̺̖̆̇͢
̞̦̹ͮ̎́̃̄̔͐̐n̢̤͈̩̦̻̤̤͎̔̋ͥ͘ā̶̛̱̉ͦ͆̑̔ͩͯm̲̳̦͙̠͍͓̫̓̓ͮ͒̍ͪ̋ͦ̚è̶͓̪̝͕̬̘̲͕ͯ̋̏̅͊̎ͭ́ͅ





[ resisting the will of the neverborn in their place of power costs

way more willpower than you have, right now. ]
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[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[i really don't like these fucking places where i don't get to have agency even though i usually am so full of agency!!!

against his will he spits out, he gasps it, like he really would've rathered die than say it]

Kou.

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ well at least you're getting to find out what the fuck is wrong with your unit leader

Your voice emerges, but the words are muffled, garbled, warped, and swallowed into the nothingness that surrounds you.

What was your name? For all that you've barely claimed it for yourself, you don't remember.

But you do see something. ]