PC: ELSA

[uhhhmagic]

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WEEK 0 - SUNDAY

[uhhhmagic]

[So I hear Elsa is just chilling in the woods. I have to come up with a reason that Taako would be out here, so, here it is. Stumbling through the trees, making extremely pissed off faces at nature. It isn't like he doesn't know what it is. He's been an adventurer for like, literally more than a century, he is just too famous to deal with it now. Eugh.]

Alright. Cool. Absolutely fucking nothing good out here. Guess I'm gonna go be bored somewhere else.

[showyourself]

Oh.

[Elsa looks up from her journal—and blinks.]

Um. Taako?

[uhhhmagic]

From TV, at your service.

[Posing? Posing. God.]

Uh, why are you out here? It's kinda terrible.

[showyourself]

[from teevee, which, at this point, she assumes is a location. like "elsa from arendelle" kinda thing. she. nods. at the pose?]

Well, because, it's... it's quiet.

["...and I'm still mitigating the shock of three people dying in a row, and if I sit in one place very very still for hours on end, I'm certain people around me will become worried, so I'm doing it out here, instead".]

...And easier to think.

[uhhhmagic]

Guess that's an upside. Just seems like the downsides - grass, bugs, fresh air. Balances out.

[He says, ruining the quietude.]

I did this for years, you know, the whole sleeping outside, streets and stuff. Blech!

[showyourself]

[...

she pats the space next to her.]

Will you tell me about it? It sounds rather interesting to me. The opposite of blech. [hmm] Not sure what sound that would be. Blaow?

[uhhhmagic]

Blaow!

[Love that.]

Uh-- What about it though? I mean, it's a lot of adventures. Like, too many. I'm retired now. Or, I was trying to retire, until I got dragged into this mess.

[showyourself]

Can you tell me about one of your many adventures, then? I think it would help... pass the time.

[...]

We can go back, too, if you want. Since. You know. [she waves her hands at all of nature, which taako hates.] The outdoors.

[uhhhmagic]

Just so you know, you totally invited me to ramble about my life, so you can't take it back later. No take backsies!

[He . . . just sits, instead.]

Anyway, can just stay here, it's-- quiet. I guess. Um, okay, story . . . story. Oh, how about the time a boy jumped off a spaceship to impress me, that's a pretty good one!

[showyourself]

[she giggles at taako, and waves a hand to assure him. okay. no take-backsies.]

That sounds like a great story. I have no idea what a spaceship is, so... let's hear it. Very excited.

IM SORRY I NEVER GOT THIS NOTIF IM CRYING

[uhhhmagic]

Geez-- Y'know, thinking about it the title kind of gives away the whole story? Well, whatever, telling it anyway.

Used to travel with this group of losers, um, seven of us - doing this interplanatary research thing, yearly cycles, it's a whole other much longer story - one of the guys is called Magnus, name matches the description, uh, used to spend a good 80 percent of his time trying to make me and Lup and the rest of the team super impressed in the way that almost all 20-something mostly straight dudes do, with like, physical feats of strength. Lifting stuff, punching stuff, eating really large amounts of things, that sort. Almost never works, but it's kind of cute they try, right?

Anyway, one cycle we're regenerating and he immediately sees that we're on this sea planet, floating above the biggest ocean you've ever seen, and decides hey, this is his opportunity. Yells at both of us that he's gonna do an incredible sick cannonball and then runs right off the edge of the damn thing . . . and right into the mouth of the biggest Space Shark I've ever clapped eyes on.

[LAUGHING AT HIS OWN TERRIBLE STORY.]

Funniest thing I've ever seen.

smoorch

[showyourself]

[name matches the description? what,,, is a magnus? but taako is already launching into this description of him that that puts a lot of explanatory work on the fact that magnus is, apparently, a straight dude. whatever that means?

but the story's already continuing, and he's gonna cannonball? that's fun! except--shark???

elsa's mouth forms into a perfect little 'o' of shock as taako laughs away.]

He died?

[ARE YOU LAUGHING AT HIS DEATH???]

[uhhhmagic]

Huh-- Oh. Yeah. Only temporarily though. He thinks it's funny too, you can ask.

[Tapping his chin.]

Don't think I died that year, but I think I did the year after.

[showyourself]

Tempo--where do you live that death is only temporary?

[the one-sidedly casual air around this conversation. could it be.]

How many times have you died?

[uhhhmagic]

Lots of places. I'm a traveler!

[Thinking . . . thinking.]

20 or so? Give or take.

[showyourself]

You don't remember the exact number. [she says it drily because what? does she expect at this point?]

What do you do, as an adventuring traveller? Fight dragons--fight sharks for people?

w1, post-trial

[showyourself]

[well, once kano is finally taken away after an hour, elsa is ready to have a depression nap while everyone else has their lil moments with the soon-to-be-departed—and she's making her way slowly back to the inn.

surprisingly, she looks rather calm—albeit, decidedly aloof. if it wasn't for the pinch in her brow (or the fact that she spent an hour holding kano's arm), it would be hard to discern that she's even bothered at all.]

[uhhhmagic]

[He's not good at emotions, even if he's actually faily astute at reading them. It's the empathy part, that requires you to open up and admit that you, too, sometimes feel things? It's rough out here.]

. . . Uh, Elsa, right?

[showyourself]

Yes.

[...]

Taako. Lup's brother. How are you?

[it's a silly question, but. he reached out, so it only feels fair.]

[uhhhmagic]

That is-- [Doing that thing where someone is struggling to think of what to say, so they just wag their finger around instead. Hah.] An incredibly difficult question to answer?

I don't know. You?

[showyourself]

I don't know, either. [honest answer.] ...Frustrated. Disappointed. Sad.

I don't want to believe any of the people here did it. I... don't.

But I'm not a fool. Someone is hiding their involvement—and they willingly let a child take the fall for them, just to gain back a few memories.

That's all I have.

[uhhhmagic]

Uh, yeah, I mean. I feel that.

[Feel . . . ings. Hard? Anyway,]

Hey, do you think-- Do you think losing your memories, certain memories, can fundamentally change you? Make you into someone who just doesn't act the same. Y'know, instead of just being intrinsically a certain type of person.

[showyourself]

Yes, absolutely. If I didn’t have my sister, if I didnt have everyone I love to think of... taking what makes you who you are away can—

[oh. god.]

You think... someone forgot enough of their humanity to...?

[she can’t even finish the sentence.]

[uhhhmagic]

I dunno-- [Holding up his hands in a bit of a surrender motion.] Just. Started thinking about it when someone mentioned Sharon had forgotten how to cook. Whether she thought that was important or not.

Woah, jeez, sorry, a little bit high right now, and I either get mad funny or mad philosophical and apparently this is the path I took. You want a hit or anything?

[showyourself]

[elsa blanks completely, and blinks several times. high? hit??]

Um. No.

Please don’t hit me. I think you're fine the way you are.