[ we're in the escape room! these two almost run into each other in the dimly-lit mummy's tomb, but before that can happen, a gust of wind comes along and blasts them with a memory! ]
[THIS CANON IS WILDING EVERY TIME I GET A GLIMPSE AT WHATEVER THE HELL IS HAPPENING IN THERE
Well. It's a lot happening and with zero context except for the vagueries that Kate's talked about her own world with, he's just like ????? JUST ??????? also there's something so spooky about being forced to live through someone else's experiences emotions and all since that is not a thing that happened in Hell and he's just like WOAH that's gnarly and hateful. It takes him a second to shake free of the lingering remnants of the memory, but all he says at first is just:]
... Right. If anything, they just seem... innocent. By nature, shadows are curious and they're inclined to feel a bond towards the creature they mimicked.
But they're raised to prioritize the rules of the house and the will of the Great Grandfather above all else. Growing up like that, with no other options... they become twisted.
[There's a thoughtful little hum at that. For all the issues he has with his origins, it is still preferable, on a whole, to just not knowing a damn thing.]
There are still answers waiting out there for you to find, then, I'm sure. Hard to say whether they'd be answers you would be happy to receive, even so.
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Well. It's a lot happening and with zero context except for the vagueries that Kate's talked about her own world with, he's just like ????? JUST ??????? also there's something so spooky about being forced to live through someone else's experiences emotions and all since that is not a thing that happened in Hell and he's just like WOAH that's gnarly and hateful. It takes him a second to shake free of the lingering remnants of the memory, but all he says at first is just:]
...You're quite clever.
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[ she really just put on a blanket, jumped into monster jail, sat around hiding in plain sight for days, and somehow didn't get caught or killed. ]
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You don't get anything done by being overly-cautious, and you figured things out quickly enough.
[It really is a miracle she didn't get her ass grassed about it though my god.]
The place that's like a jail, I assume?
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Most people are tricked into going there. But I went there in search of answers.
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[Just based on the little snippets he picked up in the memory.]
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[INSANE.]
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I suppose it makes sense, given the way they were.
[Mimicking creatures... Honestly relatable. That's how he learned to be like a human, too.]
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But they're raised to prioritize the rules of the house and the will of the Great Grandfather above all else. Growing up like that, with no other options... they become twisted.
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[They are fine until their environment makes them not.]
Who is this "great grandfather"?
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Unlike the other shadows, I was born human. What I am now... it was a sudden change, about a year ago.
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Perhaps the change was a "natural" development, for one whose existence is unnatural to begin with...
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There are still answers waiting out there for you to find, then, I'm sure. Hard to say whether they'd be answers you would be happy to receive, even so.
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It was harder when I was alone.
[ when she didn't think anyone would see her as anything other than a monster.
... also, gimme a return mem if you got 'em! ]
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It's an interesting story. Hearts, born from ashes...
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What do you think of it?
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