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entranceway2018-06-16 12:35 am
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BREAKING } from Ace of Spades, the Wonderland Blog of Georgia Mason, entry #14
The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen.
On Monday, in front of a crowd filled with Mirrors and Reals, the ground opened up beneath the Queen of Hearts and swallowed her up into a bright light. In her place, the White Queen, long thought dead, was restored through the boxes of donated memories. Anywhere else, the war that's been brewing for months would be the big story of the day, but Wonderland has never been anywhere else, and the much-touted war turned out to be a chess game. The Red Queen beat the Queen of Hearts, she took it poorly, and then the real story started.
Before her resurrection, the White Queen was the sister about which we knew the least. The earliest record I have found is a memory revealed during a Wonderland party. It shows the three queens as children.
[Embedded video.]
More recently, one of the Red Queen's gifts revealed another memory. It was, fittingly, tied to a white queen chess piece. It showed the White Queen's murder, from the point of view of the perpetrator.
[Another embedded video.]
The killer used the Vorpal Sword and either was or appeared to be one of the White Queen's sisters. I have received confirmation that she was murdered from several sources, but no one has been able to or willing to identity of the killer. The Cheshire Cat said that "perhaps" it had witnessed the murder, but when pressed for an actual name, said, "I'm smarter than to make enemies of them." The Red Queen confirmed her death, but as for the identity of the perpetrator: "That is something I cannot tell you, for I was not there." The Queen of Hearts declined to comment.
While signs do point towards the Queen of Hearts as the murderer, there is only circumstantial evidence so far. Even the White Queen wasn't certain. She assumed the Queen of Hearts, but had no memory of the actual event. "I fell, right to the ground and the next time I opened my eyes was the first time you all saw me. Everything else I remember, my life before that betrayal."
But on further questioning, that's not all she forgets. She claims she never ruled over anything, but Tweedledee and Tweedledum informed me that the Duchess had served her once. I managed to speak to the Duchess before she vanished. "There has been one other, one single proper Queen, the one who ought to be here still. Her loss is greater than you could ever imagine, bad enough to have an impostor sit in her place, do not do not presume that more such vermin could be in the cards." Her implication was clear: the White Queen is gone, and one of her sisters is an imposter who has taken her place.
The White Queen has no memory of the Duchess, or of ever ruling anything before her resurrection. Her role, as she remembers it, has always been keeping peace between her sisters and wielding the vorpal yarn. That much, at least, is consistent in all reports of her character and with her actions so far. She seeks peace between Mirrors and Reals and wants everyone to stop fighting.
We saw the results of the White Queen's quest for peace two winters ago in an alternate Wonderland shown to us in a shared dream. According to the residents there, it was a Wonderland ruled by the White Queen after she had defeated the Queen of Hearts. There had been no events since she had taken over. But no one on the Real side remembered ever having a life before Wonderland, though their Mirrors' memories remained intact. The Real memories were being kept in jars, each labeled with a name, locked away in a secret room.
The White Queen claims she does not have the power to do this. She might be telling the truth, but considering how many gaps there are in her memory, she also might not know. As always, Wonderland leaves us with more questions than answers, but for the moment, at least, the Mirrors seem to be in better hands than they were before. Let's just hope it stays that way.
[As usual, Georgia leaves copies of the article close to several mirrors, and leaves hers uncovered in case anyone wants to talk about it. They deserve to be informed about their monarch.]
On Monday, in front of a crowd filled with Mirrors and Reals, the ground opened up beneath the Queen of Hearts and swallowed her up into a bright light. In her place, the White Queen, long thought dead, was restored through the boxes of donated memories. Anywhere else, the war that's been brewing for months would be the big story of the day, but Wonderland has never been anywhere else, and the much-touted war turned out to be a chess game. The Red Queen beat the Queen of Hearts, she took it poorly, and then the real story started.
Before her resurrection, the White Queen was the sister about which we knew the least. The earliest record I have found is a memory revealed during a Wonderland party. It shows the three queens as children.
[Embedded video.]
More recently, one of the Red Queen's gifts revealed another memory. It was, fittingly, tied to a white queen chess piece. It showed the White Queen's murder, from the point of view of the perpetrator.
[Another embedded video.]
The killer used the Vorpal Sword and either was or appeared to be one of the White Queen's sisters. I have received confirmation that she was murdered from several sources, but no one has been able to or willing to identity of the killer. The Cheshire Cat said that "perhaps" it had witnessed the murder, but when pressed for an actual name, said, "I'm smarter than to make enemies of them." The Red Queen confirmed her death, but as for the identity of the perpetrator: "That is something I cannot tell you, for I was not there." The Queen of Hearts declined to comment.
While signs do point towards the Queen of Hearts as the murderer, there is only circumstantial evidence so far. Even the White Queen wasn't certain. She assumed the Queen of Hearts, but had no memory of the actual event. "I fell, right to the ground and the next time I opened my eyes was the first time you all saw me. Everything else I remember, my life before that betrayal."
But on further questioning, that's not all she forgets. She claims she never ruled over anything, but Tweedledee and Tweedledum informed me that the Duchess had served her once. I managed to speak to the Duchess before she vanished. "There has been one other, one single proper Queen, the one who ought to be here still. Her loss is greater than you could ever imagine, bad enough to have an impostor sit in her place, do not do not presume that more such vermin could be in the cards." Her implication was clear: the White Queen is gone, and one of her sisters is an imposter who has taken her place.
The White Queen has no memory of the Duchess, or of ever ruling anything before her resurrection. Her role, as she remembers it, has always been keeping peace between her sisters and wielding the vorpal yarn. That much, at least, is consistent in all reports of her character and with her actions so far. She seeks peace between Mirrors and Reals and wants everyone to stop fighting.
We saw the results of the White Queen's quest for peace two winters ago in an alternate Wonderland shown to us in a shared dream. According to the residents there, it was a Wonderland ruled by the White Queen after she had defeated the Queen of Hearts. There had been no events since she had taken over. But no one on the Real side remembered ever having a life before Wonderland, though their Mirrors' memories remained intact. The Real memories were being kept in jars, each labeled with a name, locked away in a secret room.
The White Queen claims she does not have the power to do this. She might be telling the truth, but considering how many gaps there are in her memory, she also might not know. As always, Wonderland leaves us with more questions than answers, but for the moment, at least, the Mirrors seem to be in better hands than they were before. Let's just hope it stays that way.
[As usual, Georgia leaves copies of the article close to several mirrors, and leaves hers uncovered in case anyone wants to talk about it. They deserve to be informed about their monarch.]
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[She can always find stories. But puff pieces and opeds and event write-ups just don't have the same oomph.]
It's very hard to say at this point. It depends a lot on what's contained in those missing memories, why she was murdered, and if her motivations change when she gets them back.
[Or if her motivations stay the same but this starts to seem like a decent way to fill them. It is technically a way to ensure peace, isn't it?]
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[Real news and not just Wonderland's latest way to try and ruin their lives. ]
And that all depends on if we can ever get access to those missing memories. It's like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing, but also with extra pieces from completely separate puzzles all mixed in there.
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The Red Queen says she's changed, but I'm not sure how much of that is just time coloring memories and how much is actual difference.
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[That's a joke. Probably.]
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No. More that she's probably very manipulative.
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Maybe. I do believe she isn't intending to be, at least right now. When she gets her memories back, who knows.
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