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]

... whatever you were insecure about, right?

[ a slow, thoughtful sigh. ]

Not to ascribe angry haunted furniture too much agency or anything, but I can't help but wonder how they knew.

[glaciers]

[A very small nod as his response.]

I have no idea. I haven't talked about it in this town. ... Furniture shouldn't be able to read minds like that.

[hypertoxic]

[ wryly ]

You share pretty freely, but, like, I figured. Shenanigans, Shouto. Endless shenanigans.

[ she moves a hand. ] I won't ask you to tell me. It's just disturbing to consider they have some kind of access to our minds, or our history. Or both.

[glaciers]

Not that though.

[The stuff about his family? Fine. The stuff about not thinking his friends like him? Not spoken.]

The shadows didn't have any access to that. They just tried to kill us and sow discord.

[hypertoxic]

[ "that" ... yeah. she's got a "that," too. she's willing to bet she has more than he does. it's for that reason she doesn't press at all. ]

"Sow discord"? Like how? Just running around fucking shit up?

[glaciers]

That was the "Trying to kill us" part. The other part was just insulting other people and trying to start fights between us.

[hypertoxic]

[ Vriska presses a curled fist to his mouth, glancing away, obviously thinking deeply. ]

... how much did all of this overlap? The furniture and the shadows.

[glaciers]

Not at all. The furniture happened a week or two after we first arrived, and then there was a gap when nothing happened.

Then the shadows started off being mildly annoying, trying to make people trip and insult people. Before they started trying to kill us.

[hypertoxic]

Can you remember how long the gap was? [ she presses. ] And how long the furniture acted up.

[glaciers]

The furniture problems lasted about a week.

I think the gap was two or three weeks? ... Midoriya probably kept track of it. He's good at that kind of thing.

[hypertoxic]

Sorry, I don't mean to grill you. [ she runs a hand through her hair. ] I'll ask him. I'm just trying to get as much information as I can. I am tired of playing games, Shouto.

[ Her mouth briefly thins into a line. ]

Especially by others' rules. I've had enough with being fucked around with, used and discarded like some tool-- it's bullshit. We don't deserve this and if I don't do anything else with my waste of an existence I am going to put a stop to it.

[ with sudden hard, old bitterness. ]

[glaciers]

It's fine. I'd probably try to do the same thing if I didn't live through it.

[Ah. He can definitely understand not wanting to be a tool, but he's not sure if he should actually say anything about that.

He's actually at a loss for what to say here. Comforting people is hard and not something he's had a lot of practice in.]

... Let me know if I can help.

[hypertoxic]

... honestly, I'm sure you'll be able to do plenty to help, but as far as it goes for me ... keeping everyone safe is probably enough? Looking after others just isn't really my strong suit. So if we start fucking shit up around here, well... it shouldn't be me looking after everyone's safety.

[ quietly, her voice colorless. ]

[glaciers]

[While he notes the way she says it, he doesn't press on it either. Things like that can be really difficult. Even All Might can't save everybody... But this sounds different. Like she was the reason other people got hurt.

... Didn't she say she was a ghost?]

I'll do my best to keep everyone safe. That's part of what a hero does.

[hypertoxic]

[ vriska sniffs, rubbing at her face, not looking at him.

he's not wrong about her.

in the end she flaps a hand at him, the motion careless and blasé. ]

Good.

[ she glances around, frowning. ]

I need to go find-- [ you know. another vague hand motion. ] Thanks for filling me in, Shouto. I'll see you later.