MOSTLY OPEN [action & network]

[hypertoxic]

WHO: Vriska Serket and YOU, plus some closed prompts.
WHERE: All over, really.
WHEN: May 2nd for the prompts in the body of the post, but I'll probably also put up closed headers for the rest of May and use this as a catch-all log as well.
WHAT: Vriska's been a statue for a month. She's going to wake up confused and deeply unhappy. Please hit me up at heartfuls for plotting if you'd like to plan a specific thread, i am 100% open to anything!!
WARNINGS: A foul mouth and an upset teenage disaster with god powers. Anything can happen if you just believe??


[ CLOSED to Minato ]

[ She wakes up.

... first of all. She wakes up, when she doesn't need to sleep and doesn't remember trying to go to sleep. With no real clear idea of why or how or what the fuck, she just kind of abruptly comes back to herself while standing on her feet.

She is so baffled by this state of affairs that it takes her a second to notice the ... rest. The rest, which is: 1) like two blankets wrapped around her, 2) a sign hanging off her neck??, and 3) her hair feels DISGUSTING, why IS that.

Never once in her life and death has Vriska been okay with losing control. And the dawning realization that some Really Weird Shit Must Have Happened without her even knowing does not exactly make her happy. Her expression undergoes an amazing transformation from blank confusion to apoplectic rage in record time. ]

.... Minato? MINATO? [ shrill. very shrill. and loud. she at least recognizes that she's outside their hive when she looks up and boy he better have some kinda answers. ]


[ OPEN to all ]

[ The answers are not satisfying, regardless of what they actually are.

Whenever her talk with Minato ends she'll end up going towards the center of town because it's the best place she can think of to yell at the largest possible number of people all at once. ]

WHAT the FUCK is WRONG with this FUCKING TOWN? I HATE THIS FUCKING TOWN! WHAT THE FUCK!

[ YOU. yes you. god, why did you walk past her range of vision, that was a mistake. ]

EXPLAIN.

[ ... explain what. she doesn't specify, instead just pointing furiously at your face, so, like, take that as you will? ]


[ NETWORK open to all, #005682 ]

I HATE THIS ST8PID AWFUL TRASH HEAP PI8CE OF SHIT 8ULLSHIT TOWN!!!!!!!!
There is 8IRD SHIT in my H8IR and I swear to god I am going to FUCKING KILL whoever 8rought us here!!!!
DXXXX UGH!!!!!!!!

[ did you think she was done yelling. because no. she's not done.

vriska serket is never done yelling. ]

Comments

[hypertoxic]

[ Whoa. That's.

Vriska is arrested for a moment, clear surprise flashing across her features before she can wipe them blank again. There's just ... something very surreal about approaching someone and having them be visibly happy to see her. How ... bizarre.

Unable to help herself, she actually smiles in return, though it's crooked and somewhat exasperated. ]

Thanks. Given what Minato told me, I should be saying the same thing to you, right?

[extrapolating]

[ The surprise catches Elizabeth off guard, and she briefly has a moment of self-doubt where she wonders if it was a strange way to respond. But considering the subject, it's easy to push past it. If she's making a bit of a fool of herself without knowing it, that's fine, since it's more important to her to try and figure out this statue nonsense. ]

That's right. I... [ She trails off, since it's still a bit embarrassing, so she ends up fidgeting slightly as she twists the thimble around her shortened pinky ] I was outside, but I woke up with no idea how I had gotten there. I haven't noticed anything different...

[ She shakes her head, then shrugs ]

Would you happen to remember anything?

[hypertoxic]

Not a damn thing.

[ Vriska shrugs expansively. ]

Sounds like it was pretty much the same for the both of us. I was outside, too. My friends, like, covered me in blankets because they're nice people, if a little slow, but otherwise? Yeah. Walking around one minute, and the next I'm waking up in the middle of the street with no clue what the hell happened.

[extrapolating]

Oh, you're very lucky! I— [ She stops, half laughs, then continues, ] Well, I suppose I should have mentioned that I was going for a bit of a longer walk, but all that found me was the birds.

[ She won't get any more detailed than that, but if you read between the lines... birds are rude to statues, she's realized. But she doesn't want to draw attention to that embarrassing little fact, so she shakes her head. ]

...But that doesn't matter. I- Well, I don't know what I can figure out, but I want to try. It doesn't make any sense for someone to just be changed like that, but there has to be a reason.

[hypertoxic]

Oh, did birds shit in your hair, too?

[ like,

look,

she has a lot of hair, ]

Anyway! Yeah, I agree with you. I am so, so, SO sick of being pushed around, you know? Fuck that! Fuck everything about that. [ AN ANGRY HUFF. but then she makes an actual attempt to calm down. ]

So. We're going to figure this out or--

[ a sudden pause. ]

... I probably shouldn't say "die trying" because that's kind of insensitive? But you get what I mean.

[extrapolating]

[ Her eyes widen slightly, but with a soft laugh, she nods. ]

They... did. Which is a very confusing way to "wake up," I have to say.

[ It's the rudest wake up call in the world, especially when you don't quite realize that you had been a statue in the first place. Just suddenly becoming aware again and having bird poop on you is a bad way to start the day. ]

I don't think it's really worth dying to figure it out, but, yes, I'd like to see how far we can get. It shouldn't be possible, since you're changing what someone is at the base level, but... I might have a guess anyways. Not that it would make much sense why or how it could happen, but I only know of one way something could just change like that.

[hypertoxic]

[ Vriska finds herself smiling a little because Liz is smiling. It's a nice feeling, to make someone laugh. In the end she'll laugh a little. ]

I know, right? One second I'm doing my own thing, and the next I'm waking up a fucking month later. It is definitely pretty jarring!

[ A tilt of her head. ]

Honestly, my only real theory has been some kind of strange eldritch power the source of which just isn't obvious to me yet. But I'm curious to hear what your guess is! It's probably better than mine.

[extrapolating]

[ She nods to agree, though maybe not as colorfully as Vriska. She may have been getting more used to, well, everything outside her tower, but it's still surprising to hear the way she talks! In truth, she hopes that she'll be able to speak that directly too, but it's strange to think of for now.

But as the conversation turns to theory, the smile turns to a more thoughtful frown. ]

It's... complicated, possibly. Do you know anything about quantum physics by any chance? That would let me know how much I need to explain.

[hypertoxic]

Nope. Not a thing. I mean, I know what you're referring to, but I never studied it or anything. That was for nerds. [ The way she says it is amused and a little self-deprecating. It makes her think of Sollux, or maybe Aradia--

but it's silly to think of old friends now. ]

Do you think you could teach me? Maybe we can figure this out together.