driftfleet | 001: Video

Who: Lumiére and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Marsiva
When: Right noe

[There are some things a person comes to expect in their life. Of course, magical curses that turn you and your colleagues into inanimate objects tends to move those goalposts a little, but you still expect certain things to remain the way they are.

For instance, if you live in an 18th century castle in the middle of France, you honestly don't expect to be suddenly not in that castle. And you absolutely do not expect to be suddenly in space. You sure don't expect to somehow understand, at least vaguely what space is. These are things Lumiére did not expect to happen to him today, and yet here they are, happening.

But then again, the Flooters probably don't expect to see a sentient candelabra shuffling in front of their screens as he presses his little candle hands to the window, staring out in the blank nothingness. Lumiére has no idea how he got here, he has no idea WHY he's here, but there's one thing he knows for absolute certainty-

Cogsworth is going to KILL him. ]

Zut alors! What is this place?

[He really, genuinely doesn't have time for this. Usually he's a big fan of all kinds of tomfoolery, but he's kind of on a really tight schedule right now and it's really, really not one he can shirk. He needs to get out of...whatever this is and get back. Like. Now. He turns, looking around him in the vast room, hoping for a sign of life.]

Hello? Anyone home?

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[If the Prince had his way, that's exactly what would have happened and they'd have been nowhere near lifting the damn curse. ]

Excruciatingly boring. And nothing ever gets done that way. I know someone who would do such a thing.

[ princes, man. nothing but trouble. ]

I know a lot of people who'd do that. Pretty sure that's why they're not here, boring people don't end up on reality shows. [ so, there's merit to that plan, too. ]

[They're such a headache. ]

I don't know. Him hyperventilating about not being in control of everything, and making it run like [he chuckles to himself] clockwork might be interesting to watch.

[Well, Lumiére would enjoy watching it. It'd be fun. ]

He does not like variables.

[He misses you really, Cogsworth. Kisses!!! ]

[ ...he tilts his head at the way he emphasizes clockwork. any other time he'd think he's tripping to be thinking this and that this guy was clearly just making a joke about his friend's control freak nature.

but he's talking to a man cursed to look like a candelabra. ]

...is he a clock?

[Turns out it's a bit of both. ]

He is! A small mantel clock to be exact. Not...originally, of course, but the form suits him well all the same. He is very, very particular about everything being just so. Very tightly wound. Head of the Household, and all that. He's a nightmare.

[His tone is both genuinely fond and mercilessly mocking at the same time. It's that sort of friendship. ]

[ he's getting that feeling. ]

How many people got cursed? Did you all get personality-appropriate forms? Are you a candelabra because of your...sunny disposition? [ is he being tactless? sorry this is just fascinating. ]

Um- About...thirty? Forty. I forget how many of us were there. It was Cogsworth's job to know those kinds of things.

[Which probably explains why he's so tightly wound all the time. ]

Perhaps. It also helps my name literally means 'light', so there is that, too. The head of the kitchens is Mrs. Potts, and she became a tea pot. Her children are tea cups.

That's a little on the nose.

[ oh wait, no, what? children are involved? okay this just got so much more unsettling. ]

Why were you cursed? If - it's okay to ask.

Just a little, oui.

[Yup. Children. Lots of them. The Enchantress is literally the worst. ]

It is fine. [He'll omit certain parts out of it because his loyalty to the Beast can never be put to question, but it's still, by and large, the truth.] It was not really me who was cursed. It was the Master of the castle, he...was not as cordial as he could have been and grievously insulted the enchantress in question- not that he knew she was one at the time. He was the one she cursed, we of his household were just made a part of it. Collateral damage, if you will.

[Seriously. Literally the worst. ]

[ okay lumiere's world? is now totally on the list of worlds that need a supergirl visit for some superpunching if hermione can't break this curse. what the hell? people have been rude to him his whole life you don't see him hacking their bank accounts and also ruining the lives of everyone around them! that is some serious super-villainy. ]

That is...so messed up. I'm sorry, man.

[Yes good, it could really use some superpunching. Still, Lumiére continues to take it with good grace, he may hate it, but he's learned to live with it without allowing himself to fall into despair. ]

It was not something any of us would have wanted, no. But at least we could still be there for the master. I don't want to think what would have happened to him if he were left alone.

[ wow. that is some impressive selflessness. everything about winn's face seems to soften. ]

He's lucky to have you. [ it's something a lot of people have been telling him here, that kara's lucky to have him. it always means the world. ]

[His love for the Beast is pretty strong. They all feel the same, really. It's just a shame that sort of love was not enough to break the spell. Rude, really. ]

We know, and we are lucky to have him. Curse aside, he just needs to find his way, that is all. He deserves better than what he got.

[ extremely rude, enchantress is such a backwards thinker. ]

I don't think anyone deserves this for being rude.

You will hear no arguments from me on that one, mon ami.

I seriously question the sanity of anyone who'd argue that.

[After a while, the Beast started to believe he deserved it. Lumiére hated it. Watching the master drop into despair. Belle has changed that. She's brought actual sunshine into the princes life again. He's eternally grateful for that much. ]

As would I.

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