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entranceway2017-08-03 02:06 am
deadshapes) wrote in entranceway2017-08-03 02:06 am
Entry tags:
- angels of death: zack,
- from dusk till dawn: seth gecko,
- gravity falls: dipper pines,
- gravity falls: mabel pines,
- night in the woods: mae borowski,
- nocturne: naoki,
- over the garden wall: greg,
- over the garden wall: wirt,
- persona 3: arisato minato,
- persona 5: ryuji sakamoto,
- the adventure zone: angus mcdonald,
- the vampire diaries: klaus mikaelson,
- the walking dead game: clementine,
- undertale: toriel
Astral Destruction
[ Clementine and Mae appear on the screen. It’s a little girl and a cat girl. They’re standing in a room on the first floor. Clem has a crowbar in her hand, slung over her shoulder. Mae has her trusty baseball bat and a very cat-that-got-the-canary grin on her face.]
Hey, so… Mae told me about how she breaks shit sometimes and how it’s… cathartic? [ that’s the word she used, right? ] And I tried it with a light bulb. It felt pretty damn awesome so we thought it might be cool to have an official place where people could break stuff whenever they needed to deal with bullshit.
[Mae immediately picks up the thread, grinning wide.]
So we are super effing pleased to introduce…The Destruction Room.
[She pans the camera over to the sign on the door. It’s generic and straight to the point. Then she pans the camera around to take in the room. There’s rows of shelves filled with china plates, vases, glass figurines and other fragile-looking items. Along the walls are dozens of light fixtures and free-standing lamps, as well as just a metric ton of lightbulbs, both fluorescent and incandescent. All of it is very precariously displayed and it looks like it wouldn’t take much to just knock some of these shelves right over.]
Isn’t it amazing? We stocked it with everything that could possibly go smash.
[Clementine gestures then to have Mae pan the camera toward the wall on the side which has a giant weapon rack with every blunt weapon imaginable from bats to maces to hammers and more. ]
Over on this wall, we’ve got every blunt weapon you can think of so you can really make the breakables crack into a hundred awesome pieces. Also, it’s on the first floor, room 4 so if you hit yourself in the foot or get glass stuck in your arm or something, the clinic’s right next door.
Yeah, we pretty much thought of everything. Because we’re awesome.
[Mae holds out her hand to Clementine for a high-five. Clementine leans over, high fiving her back, with a smile. Totally awesome. ]
Anyway, yeah, come on down and get your smash on. Work out some of that pre-event anxiety or whatever.
Hey, so… Mae told me about how she breaks shit sometimes and how it’s… cathartic? [ that’s the word she used, right? ] And I tried it with a light bulb. It felt pretty damn awesome so we thought it might be cool to have an official place where people could break stuff whenever they needed to deal with bullshit.
[Mae immediately picks up the thread, grinning wide.]
So we are super effing pleased to introduce…The Destruction Room.
[She pans the camera over to the sign on the door. It’s generic and straight to the point. Then she pans the camera around to take in the room. There’s rows of shelves filled with china plates, vases, glass figurines and other fragile-looking items. Along the walls are dozens of light fixtures and free-standing lamps, as well as just a metric ton of lightbulbs, both fluorescent and incandescent. All of it is very precariously displayed and it looks like it wouldn’t take much to just knock some of these shelves right over.]
Isn’t it amazing? We stocked it with everything that could possibly go smash.
[Clementine gestures then to have Mae pan the camera toward the wall on the side which has a giant weapon rack with every blunt weapon imaginable from bats to maces to hammers and more. ]
Over on this wall, we’ve got every blunt weapon you can think of so you can really make the breakables crack into a hundred awesome pieces. Also, it’s on the first floor, room 4 so if you hit yourself in the foot or get glass stuck in your arm or something, the clinic’s right next door.
Yeah, we pretty much thought of everything. Because we’re awesome.
[Mae holds out her hand to Clementine for a high-five. Clementine leans over, high fiving her back, with a smile. Totally awesome. ]
Anyway, yeah, come on down and get your smash on. Work out some of that pre-event anxiety or whatever.
[video]
But even if you don't worry about it, it's still there. It doesn't just go away. I wish it did.
( Clementine would prefer to never have to deal with the feelings in her chest, but- It doesn't work like that. She tried it already, and they snuck up on her. )
[video]
Time doesn't heal wounds, it just numbs them. It'll stay, but maybe it's there so when it happens again, it won't be such a surprise.
[So history didn't repeat itself. It was like armor that slowly grew stronger and thicker after time. He didn't want to sound so pessimistic, but he couldn't sound too idealistic either since that wasn't realistic.]
[video]
Yeah. It does. It has to. Your heart can only feel so much at once-
( A person can get used to anything if they're exposed to it often enough. Clementine breathes out through her teeth then, shaking her head. She appreciates the realism. Anything too optimistic she can't- can't really believe anyway. )
[video]
It gets easier to deal with it. Sometimes it's okay to put it away and not think about it, if it's too much.
[Not that that was easy either. But being too strong wasn't good for anyone.]
If you want someone to listen or talk to though, then I'll be here for you.
[video]
( Sometimes that means shelving it, coming back to it later or- or never coming back to it at all. She smiles then and nods. )
Thank you. If you want that, I'm here too.
[video]
[For some reason, he felt comfortable enough around her to be able to just do that, just to sit and talk or listen, and he wasn't the type to talk much if he didn't want to or have to. But being a little vulnerable around her seemed okay, like it was safe.
He smiled too in return, and did want to lighten up the mood too since she looked ready for it.]
I could meet you now to go smash stuff. It'll be fun.
[And of course, an awesome way to take out whatever it was that he felt.]
[video]
Sounds good. I'm here in the Destruction Room, ready to smash some shit.
It'll be a lot of fun.
[video]
[Minato was so ready to get his smash on, as Mae would put it. It didn't take him long either to get up and out of his room to go meet her so that smashing could start sooner rather than later.]