entranceway | [text] Entry #4

Since the White Queen reappeared, I've been going back through the network for information. I want to consolidate what we know about the Queens.

This post only covers the past year, since I arrived. I plan to keep looking back further.

Let me know if you remember anything that I haven't included.

Red Queen:
- Can survive being stuck in the Core [Attached footage from Jay's camera, Network link]
- Can restore memories lost in the Core [Attached footage from Jay's camera]
- Can transport people from the Mirror side to the Real side [Attached footage from Jay's camera]
- Can lend a bracelet that offers some sort of "magical" protection [Network link]
- Does not need the Queen of Hearts' permission to invite the Mirrors to the Real side [Network link]
- Repeatedly invites Mirrors over to the Real side. Claims to just be doing it to be nice. [Network link]
- CLAIMS that the Mirrors would exist without the Queen of Hearts [Network link] and that they are part of Wonderland [Network link]
- Can NOT free herself from inside the Core [Network link]
- Can (and did) distribute items from inside the Core [Network link, Network link]
- Oldest sister (middle sister: Queen of Hearts, youngest sister: White Queen) [Network link, Network link, Network link]
- CLAIMS she was not present for White Queen's murder [Network link, Attached footage from Jay's camera]
- Claims that anyone who reaches the "eighth square" can become a Queen. Meaning currently unknown. [Network link, Network link, Network link] but that not every Queen has to (???) [Network link]
- Says that Kings are weak [Network link]
- Can guarantee physical safety during an event [Network link, Network link] but not ALL events [Network link]
- Not omniscient [Network link, Network link]
- Born a Queen [Network link]
- "Arose" from Wonderland [Network link] but has always been here? [Network link, Network link]
- Says she can "influence" Wonderland but not "control" it - "powers" are limited?[Network link, Network link, Network link, Network link]
- States (incorrectly?) that the White Queen was dead [Network link, Network link, Network link,Network link]
- Does not like when someone makes an "assumption about [her] character and [her] habits" [Network link]
- Has "limited" power on the Mirror side [Network link]
- Does "regular maintenance" on Wonderland (?) [Network link]
- Claims the White Queen's murderer would not be interested in other people living in Wonderland [Network link]
- Says she hasn't killed anyone to get her power [Network link]
- Created a carnival [Network link]
- Can't send people home [Network link, Network link, Network link]
- Might be the first Red Queen [Network link]
- Knows things about us - may not have a choice? [Network link]
- Says that dead Queens aren't replaced, but Queens who leave can be [Network link]
- Might stop existing if she stops being a Queen [Network link]
- Claims she "cares" about people in Wonderland [Network link]
- Can use the Vorpal shield [Network link]
- Says she would not endanger all of Wonderland [Network link]
- Claims her motivations are to keep Wonderland and the people in it safe [Network link]
- Has some way of "discerning" who needs extra help [Network link]
- CLAIMS she doesn't know why some people show up here and some don't [Network link]
- Says the Real side has always been her "realm" [Network link]
- Can be summoned (?) by a red chess piece [Attached footage from Jay's camera]
- Claims she did not know what would happen as a result of the chess match [Attached footage from Jay's camera]
- Does not want to share her memories of the White Queen [Attached footage from Jay's camera]

Queen of Hearts:
- Red Queen claims she has card motif because she is the middle child and because chess has only 2 sides [Network link]
- Red Queen claims she has not reached the "eighth square" [Network link]
- Not responsible for events [Network link]
- Red Queen claims she does (did?) not intend to kill anyone [Network link]
- Fought with the Red Queen about the Christmas party. Neither Queen took credit. [Read the thread during Christmas, but can't find it again. ((OOC: Jay can't link to or view the Mirror network, but here's the link OOC: Network Link))]
- Could survive being locked in the Core [Network link]
- Can't be stopped from unmaking Mirrors (?) [Network link] unless defeated [Network link]
- Declared war on the Real side after the carnival - offended by invitations, giving out information [Network link]
- Red Queen says she and Queen of Hearts are equally powerful [Network link]
- Could use the Vorpal Shield [Network link]
- Could use the Vorpal Sword [Network link]
- Red Queen says she would not endanger all of Wonderland [Network link]
- Red Queen claims she was never in charge of the Real side [Network link]
- Argued with the Red Queen after losing the chess match [Footage from Jay's camera]
- Fell into (?) Wonderland after losing the chess match [Footage from Jay's camera]
- White Queen believes she may be in the Core [Network link]
- Called the White Queen "too sensitive" [Network link]
- [[IC EDIT]] EDIT: Claimed that souls go to the Core after death, and that she pulls them out five times. Said she would make the person serve her after the fifth. [Network link]

White Queen:
- A "memory" of her created a dream event (?) [Network link, Footage from Jay's camera (???), Network link (?)] but she does not claim to be able to do the things she did in the dream [Network link]
- Red Queen does not believe she was killed (?) by the Jabberwock(y?) [Network link]
- Red Queen claims she is different compared to before her "death" [Attached footage from Jay's camera]
- Red Queen says she was a "sweet youngest sister" [Attached footage from Jay's camera, Attached footage from Jay's camera]
- Red Queen says she has "forgotten a lot" [Attached footage from Jay's camera]
- Red Queen says there are "forces" that brought her back [Footage from Jay's camera]
- Appeared after the Queen of Hearts' disappearance [Footage from Jay's camera]
- Claims her death was "what someone wanted you to believe" [Network link]
- Does not remember her death [Network link]
- Can be summoned by a flower [Network link]
- Claims she had no "realm" and didn't want to rule [Network link]
- Remembers her childhood and claims that she tried to keep the peace [Network link, Network link] and still wants to [Network link]
- Wants there to be "order" [Network link]
- Says she plans to treat the Mirrors well [Network link]
- Stated goal = both sides together, everyone free and happy [Network link]
- Also says she can't decide who comes and goes [Network link]
- Thinks people are scared of her [Network link]
- Can't answer some questions [Network link]
- Thinks the Red Queen or Alice brought her back [Network link]
- Does not know Alice well [Network link]
- Believes the Queen of Hearts may have been responsible for her death [Network link, Network link]
- Describes her revival [Network link, Network link] more "waking up" imagery - connected to Red Queen's "awoken" comment? [Network link]
- Says that she makes Mirrors, that they don't show up naturally [Network link]
- Uses the Vorpal Yarn [Network link]
- Offered Alice her help, offered to let her stay on Mirror side [Network link]
- Will be the one bringing people back after they die [Network link, Network link]
- Claims she won't make people loyal to her after 5 deaths/won't take anything from them (?) [Network link]
- Claims that dying DOESN'T power Wonderland ? [Network link]
- Can be contacted by writing on mirror [Network link]
- Does not have set "laws" in place for punishing Mirrors [Network link, Network link]
- Gone longer than anyone else when they die [Network link]
- She's not the reason why the Mirrors are different from us [Network link]
- Turing put together their own research on her [Network link]

Alice:
- Alice was a Queen (???) [Network link,Network link]
- Now an advisor to the White Queen [Network link]
-[[IC EDIT]] EDIT: Claims to have not met the White Queen. Implied that White Queen died before Alice came to Wonderland. [Network Link]

[[OOC: Please let me know if you see any incorrect links or links to posts/comments that Jay shouldn't be able to access!]]

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The one and only. [Her tone lacks any real strength and conviction.] I know I've been here a while but... I haven't exactly been taking notes. I should've.

This is really impressive.

[The threat of questions about Alex/Tim/Jay stuff hangs in the air, but Max's curiosity has spiked enough that she can ignore it. With all the changes that have recently happened to Wonderland, she needs to be prepared.]

It must have taken forever.

Yeah.

[There's almost a laugh behind it, low and self-deprecating.]

It took...a while. Kinda pisses me off the Network's not easier to get through.

[Finally, what she said really sets in, beyond the fact that she doesn't remember anything. She should've been taking notes, she says. Yeah, maybe, but she didn't, and it's not like they can go back and fix it.]

No--no! [It's supposed to be reassuring, but when it comes out of nowhere like this, it's more startling than anything else.] I mean, it's not like you had to. This place'd probably eat whatever notes you took, anyway. Doesn't seem to like us having a record.

[She's about to talk when he bursts out with that 'reassuring' statement. She lets him finish, startled.]

Doesn't seem to like us, period.

[There's a dryness to her voice, again a lack of real conviction.]

Jay, do you, uh... Do you just record stuff or do you actually like... have an opinion about it?

[She remembers him pointing that camera at her. Maybe he's more interested in recording than anything else... But she's curious about what he thinks of their whole situation.]

[There's a long silence from Jay's end.]

Does it matter?

[She's not gonna be satisfied with that. Nobody's satisfied with that. It's not even really an answer.]

[Does he have an answer?]

I mean, I'm... [Another extended pause.] I'm trying to help.

[Though he can't see it, her brow furrows. Does it not matter?]

Help, like... You think Wonderland's bad and you're trying to help us bust out?

Not...not like that exactly, just...

[Wonderland's bad, but he's seen worse.]

It's just better to know, y'know?

[She pauses, considering.]

...Yeah. But say you had a choice... Would you want to go home?

[There's a lot of hidden questions underneath the fairly innocent one. Are things worse in Alex's (and Tim's) world than here? Is the mystery here so much more intriguing? "Does it matter?", too, she supposes.]

[Jay falls silent, his faint, labored breathing audible over the line.]

[He's thought about it. Of course he's thought about it; he's been thinking about it almost non-stop since he arrived, between locking and relocking his door and worrying Tim's trying to slip pills under his tongue while he sleeps and then worrying the pills might run out and trying to determine what Tim's angle is and trying to piece together what Alex's angle was and trying to figure out how much he can say and if saying anything is dangerous and if saying nothing is more dangerous and if the Queen of Hearts is lying and if the Red Queen is lying and if the White Queen is lying and if Alice is lying and if any of them are who they claim to be or who they used to be or who they were yesterday and playing back the footage and playing back the footage and playing back the]

[Would you want to go home?]

[Yes. He wants to go home.]

[Of course he doesn't. He can only remember fragments, but there must be a reason he never went back. He just has to trust his past self on this one. He wouldn't have been living in a bare-walled apartment by himself for no reason. They never called, not once that he can remember. There must be a reason.]

[But going home isn't even an option, is it? (Is it?) If he's leaving, he's not going home. He's going back to the bloodstained carpet-over-cold-concrete, he's going back to the scratching of withered branches across the window, he's going back to the orange split through with crackling bands of yellow, back to chromatic aberration, back to skipped frames and thoughts that run until they halt, wind it back, play, to the sensation that he should move but nothing responds, to eyes glazed open, fixed on a point on the wall that wasn't there a moment before.]

[That's where he's going. Back where it takes you.]

[Back where, more likely than not, it took Alex Kralie.]

I don't...

[His voice wavers, and he throttles it down into silence until he can pull himself together.]

[One, two, three, four, five.]

No, I--

[One, two, three, four.]

No.

[He takes a long time to answer. So long that she almost speaks again, before he stutters out the handful of words that she's supposed to accept.

Poor Jay sure has some issues, huh?

She ignores the little voice in her head. Though she has to agree, deep down. Such a simple question, common for residents of Wonderland to ask one another, and he struggled so much to answer.

She shouldn't push this. She really shouldn't.]

...Jay are you okay? [A pause.] Really?

[Jay breathes out slowly, sinking his head into his hands. His voice comes over the line muffled.]

Yeah. 'M fine.

[He knows she's not gonna accept that. He barely knows her, but she knew Alex, and she knows Tim, so...yeah, she's not buying it. He'll have to explain.]

I mean, it's between events. There's a place to sleep. There's food. There's the...the closets.

[All the essentials, fully covered: food, water, shelter, a full bottle of pills, nobody breaking into his hotel room, no faceless silhouette leering at him through the window. He's doing fine. He's doing a hell of a lot better than he was back home. He's doing a hell of a lot better than he'll be if this place sends him back.]

Are...you?

[He told Tim he wouldn't talk to her about it, and if it'll keep her safe, he honestly doesn't want to. But if she's not safe, he wants to know.]

["Fine." About as noncommittal as it gets. And the fact that he follows it up with all the reasons he's physically okay- the food, the closets, et cetera- but nothing about his actual mental or emotional health...

Well, she thinks to herself in a drawl. You're no psychologist, Max Caulfield. So stop trying.]

I'm... fine. [Here she could mention the arcade in the youth center. The music room. The lake. Cover up all the dissatisfaction and restlessness with the physical benefits of Wonderland, just like Jay...

She rolls her eyes to herself and switches them to a private channel.]

...I really don't wanna ambush you about this, but I'm assuming we're on the same page about the... The capital-T Thing, right...?

[Jay notices the feed switch to private, and he's about to comment, when she drops that on him.]

[He's silent on his end of the line.]

[Finally, he double-checks that the line is private, double-checks that his camera's picking up the audio, before mumbling a response:]

Tim told me you...you've seen it. 'Cause of Alex, and...and I guess, 'cause of him.

[His voice trails off as Jay attempts to tap a message out to Tim. He promised he'd tell, if Max got curious. He promised he wouldn't go pestering Max about it, but that if Max ever asked him, he'd let Tim know.]

[They've got an agreement now, and the cost of breaking it isn't something Jay wants to think about.]

[He hopes he's typing quietly enough that she can't hear.]

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