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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.
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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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it was a lie
everything we told the mirrors
the reasons they could revolt
we could have killed them
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First of all?
Now you're assuming the White Queen is telling the truth. Considering we've known her for about a week and she's missing a lot of her memories, I would not call her a reliable source. The Red Queen says she's different. The Red Queen might be lying too, but I'm more inclined to believe her than White at the moment.
Second, it doesn't change anything. How the Queen of Hearts treated them was still wrong, whether she's directly responsible for making them or not. And yeah, they could have died. That was always a risk. I was looking into ways to prevent their unmaking for just that reason.
[She wasn't having much luck, but she was trying, dammit.]
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[Listen. Listen. Tim has found a reason to boil this down to his personal fucking fault and so he's going to take it and assume direct responsibility, because that's just an instinct he's adopted over the years.]
george im biased
im not fucking reliable and i mean that in more than just the usual sense
i keep trusting her
red
and i know its because of how we met
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You're blaming yourself for a potential scenario that never happened. If Red was lying to us, and if we had managed to stir a revolution without finding a way to protect Mirrors from being unmade, and if Hearts took the opportunity to then kill swathes of Mirrors, well, you still wouldn't be at fault. Hearts would be, for killing them. And Red, for lying.
But as it is, no one died, the revolution never happened, so the entire argument is moot. I am not going to blame you for a something that didn't even happen.
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either of them
[He just got done chewing Shepard out for this same thing, shouldering blame where it isn’t due. When’s he gonna learn? Will he, ever?]
[It means something, at least. That’s she’s trying, even if it’s in the only way she knows how, instead of dismissing him outright. She lays it out plainly. Evenly. Makes it sound objective.]
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I don't trust anyone's judgment fully except my own. But you should trust your judgment. You're making decisions based on your experienced facts. That's the only thing you can do.
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[He’s not used to being...reliable. And he’s not. He knows he’s not. He’s not anyone’s first fucking choice and he knows that.]
we don’t know enough about them
that’s the only bottom line i can put down here
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That much is certain. Help me learn more.
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[He suspects he already knows, but it feels polite to ask.]
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I suspect Cheshire and the Dormouse may have more insight. We also need to keep in touch with the Mirrors so we can learn how things change. Or don't change.
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the white queen and her seemed to know each other
[Slight understatement.]
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or maybe we're just being lied to
[Two steps forward, three steps back. He's starting to get that sensation - that nauseating gut-twist of déjà vu. Clawing, struggling up against an obtuse objective, where answers aren't in easy supply. And, when they initially seem to be, it turns out they're as hollow as any lie.]
bad memories and lies
george this is starting to sound like my life
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hope so
i guess we just keep asking questions then
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Exactly. We might only be getting more questions, but they're better questions now than they were before.
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at least we knew where we stood with hearts
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It's never good news when the dead rise.
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the white queen
wonder if she means it
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Unless they're both lying about that.
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the white queen and the red queen are giving us conflicting information at this point
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and if that's the case how can we trust that this won't be the same issue with the white queen
we're given no choice but to trust that she's going to respect that
we might've had the same choice with the queen of hearts but
i don't know
at least we kind of knew where we stood with her
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Do me a favor and don't test this particular theory. It's not worth dying for.
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though i guess once the next event rolls around we're likely to find out if SOMEONE bites it
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