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Mulan [Once Upon A Time] ([personal profile] girlworthfighting) wrote in [community profile] outer_divide2014-04-12 08:52 pm

ninth scroll [ video ; OPEN ]

[Mulan meant for this to be voice but she hit the wrong button by accident, and now is too tired to either notice or care what setting she's on. Possibly both.

She's sitting on the end of her bed, long hair lank and messy, face wan and exhausted. Her voice is weary when she speaks.
]

I am grow tired of seemingly always making these calls for the same reason.

[She pauses, sighing and catching her breath.]

But here we stand once again in the aftermath of a calamity. At least I hope it is the aftermath. After these last few days, it's hard to imagine it could be getting any worse.

I want to check on my allies. Some of you I know were injured, or put into harm's way. Others I have not heard from at all. Please. Talk to me.
attention_wenches: (disdain)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-08 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
She's...

[He was about to say "the only one I'm surprised not to be related to," but he tries to keep this mess of a family to himself, where possible.]

We're rather more alike.
attention_wenches: (disdain)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-10 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Can't say I equate warmth and safety. I might melt.

[Flippancy defeats emotional intimacy, clearly.]
attention_wenches: (grumpy)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-11 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a pause, but he'll just blame Thor.]

Does that actually mean anything to you? Jotunheim, I mean. Any sense of what it entails?
attention_wenches: (grumpy)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-13 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki lets a few beats go by, gathering his thoughts.]

...That wasn't me.

[No, that isn't what he meant.]

What I mean is that won't be me, much as I understand him, easy as it is to see how it could go that way. But that Loki shared his past with the Thor you know. Neither of them knows what I do of the frost giants.

[He's biting down his distress the best he can. When Thor told him he cried and he doubts he'll repeat that humiliating incident, but he'd still keep any potential floodgates closed.]
attention_wenches: (determined)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-13 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's a matter of... of experience.

[He's afraid to slow down in case he can't go on.]

When Thor was a child, there was no war with Jotunheim. There was no Algrim, or at least he wasn't an advisor of father's. He sees the frost giants as simply political enemies with a peculiar culture. He has no idea of the bloody legacy I've been carrying and never knew it.
attention_wenches: (noble)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-13 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
If it had none at all I'd simply be as Aesir as the others.
attention_wenches: (leery)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-14 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
It's more the past than the future that troubles me. After all, what that other self of mine has been accused of... Well, it bears no more resemblance to the wickedness of Jotunheim than any other place, in many ways. Less predestined, more cursed.
attention_wenches: (grumpy)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-14 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
The thought was largely metaphorical, but we do sling around a lot of enchantment where I'm from, and who's to say some of the taint of Jotunheim isn't magicked straight into the blood?
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[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-14 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
You can be perfectly wretched when you want to be, can't you?
attention_wenches: (grumpy)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-15 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Bah. Physical contact.
attention_wenches: (disdain)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-15 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Mother says he's a late bloomer and there's nothing wrong with that.]

Oh, what do you know, another way I don't work right.
attention_wenches: (grumpy)

[personal profile] attention_wenches 2014-05-20 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Whence springs the efficacy of such a counterspell, incidentally? I mean, do lips especially signify as runic shorthand? Is the measure deliberately built into these curses? Seems a foolish thing to do.

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