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berserker { the modern prometheus' fire ([personal profile] uuuh) wrote in [community profile] awashlogs2019-04-27 08:06 pm

[open] based on the hit sondheim musical

WHO: Berserker/Frankenstein & open
WHERE: Flavo, the border of the woods
WHEN: Approximately the last 10-14 days of the month.
WHAT: A variety of spooky forest-based prompts both during Event 21 and outside it, for all of your being suspicious of the forest needs. It's a bad place and she doesn't trust it, and there's lots of things to do with places you don't trust.
WARNINGS: Nothing I can think of that needs a content warning. There could be some violence or self-overexertion depending on where things go.

i. the one during the event;

[Some time around the 25th or 26th, Berserker has gone so long without knowing what it is to feel calm that she has reached an untenable level of frenzy.

(And of course, there’s a fear there beneath the inability for her mind to rest. She cannot remember what calm is, so perhaps if she ever did experience it, it wasn’t real. A monstrous, fake emotion for a monstrous, fake form of life, a failure even at that.)

To her, the cause seems obvious. The forest is ominous and threatening and always has been. It feels…it smells…innately weird, a truly dangerous thing.

And that’s why, on one of these days late in the month, it is possible to encounter a very fast flutter of white launching into the trees with an angry howl as Berserker herself tries to run into the forest, without any mind paid to the danger and without any pausing to plan. There’s just yelling, and running, and slamming into the dangerous trees, repeated and repeated.

She can be followed, joined, or maybe even convinced to return to town, but she doesn’t seem to be paying attention to anything else at the moment, and it might take some trying to get through to her.
]

((For this prompt, be aware she won’t be going too deep into the woods solely on account of not having a forest scenario, but she will be making an attempt.))

ii. the one outside of the event;

[This time, she’s having a staring contest with an opponent that can’t even stare back.

Even with no clear enemy to follow into the forest (and therefore no reason to go running in), it’s still just too suspicious for Berserker to deal with. And there’s nothing else for her to do, no one who needs her, and she is so often by herself anyway—

So even when everyone’s emotions are intact, her suspicions don’t wane. She spends hours staring into the colorless abyss, tense but otherwise immobile, her eyes expressionless and fixed. A small animal weaves its way between her legs, even, and Berserker doesn’t even move then.

The only thing that will make her react at all is if someone else approaches the border of the forest, either coming out or going in. Maybe she doesn’t make eye contact right away, but it’s obvious that’s where her attention is because after a moment, she lets out a sound.
]

…Sto p.

iii. the one that can take place at either time;

[After so long of staring down an opponent that doesn’t even seem to exist, the danger of the forest has finally caught up with her. Berserker’s holding onto consciousness by a thread. Her sheer tenacity is probably the only thing that’s kept her from being overwhelmed.

As Servants go, she’s a rather weak one, isn’t she? It’s pretty pathetic…

She wants to go home. It isn’t the cottage in Flavo that she thinks of first as “home,” but that is where she’s going to have to go, isn’t it? Where is home? Ah, perhaps she never had one, but she’d come close enough when she was contracted to that boy.

She doesn’t make it to the cottage she shares with Riku and Mami. And that’s how it’s possible to stumble upon her sitting somewhere in the middle of road in Flavo, her eyes closed, still partially upright but slumping to the side like some discarded toy.
]

iv. the improv one;

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yuugure: (6h8dTOK)

i. hello roomie

[personal profile] yuugure 2019-04-28 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That flash of white just bolting past goes too fast for him to really know who it is, but the sounds that come out of it are worrying. He can't just leave it alone.

He drops what he's doing and turns towards the forest to bolt after the fluttering dress, calling out: ]


Hey! What are you doing?!
troubadamsel: (Permit Me Darling.)

iii

[personal profile] troubadamsel 2019-04-28 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is the third person unconscious person Mari's found this month! jfc.]

What was the point of warning everyone... Honestly.

[With a sigh, she begins to do what she did with the others - making an effort to try and lift Fran onto her horse to take her home.

... Effort being the key word here.
]

Oof...
heartsteals: (you can feel it in the air)

ii

[personal profile] heartsteals 2019-04-29 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ as it turns out, he's neither going in nor out (thankfully this is after the event - there's no guarantee he'd have had the presence of mind not to run into the woods if it were during), but going straight for the border. Where this girl is standing, actually. It's unnatural to see someone simply staring off into the darkness of the forest, and seeing as there have been a few incidents lately, he's worried something got to her.

When she tells him to stop, he stops where he stands, pausing before dipping into a shallow bow. ]


Good evening, mademoiselle. I'm not bothering you, am I?
yuugure: (72)

[personal profile] yuugure 2019-04-29 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Identifying her as his housemate makes him more worried. She'd been lashing around like an injured fish, fully distressed. He needs to help her calm down in spite of the ominous air around them. He frowns at her, approaching but keeping a fair distance. ]

Are you in pain...? Is it because of this place?
yuugure: (200)

[personal profile] yuugure 2019-04-29 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She looks like a spring trap ready to snap. He can tell that, right now, stopping her isn't an option though he'll give it a try. Push comes to shove, he'll follow along with her. He couldn't deal with the guilt of letting her go in and get gobbled up by that place. ]

It's not safe in there. That's what I've been told. You should turn back home... there's probably not much you can do about it right now.
troubadamsel: (Permit Me Darling.)

without it she'd be a neigh-sayer

[personal profile] troubadamsel 2019-04-29 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah... please tell me you're waking up.

[She wasn't about to give up, but she is relieved that gets to stop, and gently begins to let go.]

Are you injured?
heartsteals: (first things first i'm the realest)

[personal profile] heartsteals 2019-04-30 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah. Can't talk? Not well, at least. After spending time with Dextera, he's gotten a little better at recognizing the signs and sounds. ]

That's a relief to hear. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to trouble you a little bit if you're planning on heading in there alone. It's dangerous.

[ this situation is ironic and he doesn't even know it. ]

A friend of mine passed out just going near the border not long ago; I'd not stand so close for so long if I were you.
troubadamsel: (Permit Me Darling.)

[personal profile] troubadamsel 2019-04-30 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Sigh.]

I told people not go to to the forest unprepared! Look at you, you can barely stand.

[She takes her horse by the reigns and pulls them in closer.]

Here. See if you can climb on, I will take you to your home.
yuugure: (2019-03-03 10_18_01-Kingdom Hearts III -)

[personal profile] yuugure 2019-04-30 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Listen, I know you want to go in... badly, apparently, but it's not a good idea to just go in all headstrong like this. Have you talked to anyone... about what might be beyond the trees here?

[ He hasn't but he really thinks she hasn't. She's not the, uh, communicative type, after all. ]
heartsteals: (and wished upon a shooting star)

[personal profile] heartsteals 2019-05-01 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ she really can't talk, it seems. This might be hard - but what kind of gentleman thief would he be if he couldn't handle an unusual woman? Time for a bit of charades.

Whether or not she's weak doesn't cross his mind, frankly - he's just been here long enough to know that going into the forest alone is basically certain death. ]


You're worried about the way the trees are creeping up on the town? Or just about the forest in general...? Not that I can blame you.
troubadamsel: (I'm By Your Side!)

[personal profile] troubadamsel 2019-05-01 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Come now, it's not going to bite you. Here, I'll help you climb on.

[She offers her hand for Berseker to take.]
rebeliune: (62)

iii

[personal profile] rebeliune 2019-05-02 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ From behind Berserker comes a voice. ]

Don't just sit in the middle of the road, dummy.

[ Not that this place has cars, or anything that might pose a risk to her... but even so. Gently, she puts a hand on Berserker's shoulder and shakes her a little, as if making sure she's actually conscious, and not... dead? Switched off? (They might have at least one thing in common, but it occurs to Mordred that she doesn't know all that much about Berserker besides a name and an inhuman body.) ]

Come on, stand up. Did you get lost or something? If you're not busy, you can walk with me for a while.

[ She's fully expecting a rejection — but she's not asking for the sake of her own ego, but out of genuine concern for the other girl. If nobody does anything, Berserker will probably just sit there by herself for hours, and that's no good at all. ]
troubadamsel: (Stay Focused.)

[personal profile] troubadamsel 2019-05-03 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[And a kind smile to boot! She leads Berserker to the horse, and gestures around.]

You put your foot here, you swing your other foot around, then sit and make yourself comfortable. All right?

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