Halloween Mingle!

[abracafcku]

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Mingle Post for the Halloween and Drift period!
When: 10/28-11/11

It's time for a spooky candy-filled drift, Flooters! And because no Halloween is complete without a few tricks...a mini player plot! If you'd rather just have a normal mingle, feel free to ignore it and tag about as normal!

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On the Iskaulit for interested parties there are a few bowls of candy gathered from all the ships. It's a random assortment! The bowls are left in high traffic areas and they can be moved about, so feel free to say your character ran into the bowl wherever you like! Even in the bathroom? Who knows! Fancy hotels do it, so why not the Fleet.

Upon consuming candy taken from the bowl however, the character will have their hair or skin temporarily change color to something not their natural shade. This is a harmless illusion spell and can last anywhere from 1 to 8 hours - player's choice! What colors? Also player's choice! Want to go mauve for the day? Sure! Blue and green? Go for it! Rainbow glitter? Why not?

This is a completely harmless spell though, so while it looks like they've changed colors, it is not a real physical change. After a few hours, the effects wear off and everything is back to normal. Happy Halloween♥

Comments

[shroudedsecrets]

You are not wrong.

[There's a faint glint of amusement at that. Really, if it were anything but dealing with people she'd be more liberal about jumping in; she did not fear much. But these circumstances were so ... odd. But she had been outside of her old parameters for long enough to at least make the attempt to adjust.

Speaking of being "wrong", though... hm.]

... I had thought that some space was appropriate, after that glitch you experienced.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki exhales quietly. ]

It was not pleasant, I'll give it that. I was a different person then.

[shroudedsecrets]

[She nods. She hadn't quite experienced a glitch in such a way, but she'd had her own relateable sort of jolt, otherwise she would not have questioned him in the way she had. A different perspective was... interesting.]

Was it something you had forgotten?

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki hesitates. ]

No. It was something I prefer to forget.

[shroudedsecrets]

... Something changed.

[ The way he had described things had sounded so idyllic, after all. ]

That is unfortunate.

[dothelokimotion]

[ a long pause. ]

My family took me from a battleground. Seeped in the blood of my people. And raised me as one of their own, never telling me the truth.

It changed everything.

[shroudedsecrets]

[ ... Ah. A twist, indeed. ]

... the ideals of your youth, tainted by such a reality. It is... no wonder that looking back that way is difficult.

[ Knowledge changes perspective. ]

What did you do?

[dothelokimotion]

[ what didn't he do? but loki shrugs. ]

Nothing that is important now, considering that world has long perished.

[shroudedsecrets]

There were... no other survivors of your true people?

[ It seems important to question the distinction instead of assuming he was truly the last.

Not that she's entirely certain why she feels so compelled to ask, but there was something there. Sympathy, perhaps. It was still... new. ]

[dothelokimotion]

Ah. No, my . . . real people have survived. My foster world has perished.

[ not that loki will ever have anything to do with jotunheim, ruler or not. ]

[shroudedsecrets]

You seem... conflicted.

[That was a very noticeable pause, after all. And only proved why distinction was important, even if sympathy remained.]

[dothelokimotion]

Conflicted? Not particularly. I was raised to hate them, so my feelings on them are rather neutral at this stage.

[ he's lying but he's also telling the truth. loki will never be neutral to his own self-loathing, but he's unlikely to hate a frost giant on sight anyway. at the most, he'll just feel uncomfortable. ]

[shroudedsecrets]

[She knows better than to take that entirely at face value, but. She understands that it's a difficult subject.

Even if she still cannot be struck by the similarities and differences in the situation with her own son.]

You felt betrayed by your family, but could find no comfort in the truth.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki huffs. ]

Truths are rarely meant to be a comfort.

[shroudedsecrets]

I suppose they are not.

[ She understands that conversation is not her best skill. ]

To have had that sense of love betrayed, or to not have had it at all... children do suffer such things, having no choice.

[dothelokimotion]

[ that is . . . oddly perceptive. ]

It certainly damaged my sense of love.

[shroudedsecrets]

[ She had far too much time to think on the subject lately. It's why she dares now, to ask Loki so many questions while he still seems willing to answer. Still testing those waters. ]

Are there any... that seek to help you repair it?

[dothelokimotion]

[ a long pause. ]

I still have my brother.

[shroudedsecrets]

[ Family is important. Even if it's complicated. ]

... That is good. Then you are not alone.

[dothelokimotion]

. . . And you?

[shroudedsecrets]

[She had been waiting for the turnaround, though now that it's here, it's still... difficult.]

... I know not. The fact that I have only recently become... aware of what has happened to me cannot take away those years of suffering for my child. Or his anger.

[dothelokimotion]

No. You can't.

[ neither odin and frigga can take that away, even if they had good intentions. it's not enough to soothe all wounds. ]

But that does not mean you should stop trying.

[shroudedsecrets]

I am not the mother he once idealized but I am yet... his mother. There is no choice but to keep trying, even if... I know not what it would take for him to have me at all.

[ But having that sense of encouragement from other sources helps, as strange as that realization is. ]

[dothelokimotion]

[ he nods quietly at that. ]

There are no answers there. My father finally said he loved me but . . . it does not erase the manipulations.

[shroudedsecrets]

No. It would not take away what he has already experienced. And worse, to say it to him here in a place far from our reality.

[But that is what has given her all this time to think, and so, as much of an impasse it is...]

To have any chance is better than none at all. To try.