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🦎 The White Queen 🦎 ([personal profile] bewhatyouseem) wrote in [community profile] entranceway2018-06-11 09:19 am

+ A Forward dated (6/12) Royal Proclamation +

[ It has been 24 hours since the chess match and after some impatient redecorating, everyone's feeds - Mirror and Real alike come to life with a video set to Baroque music. There is no speaking yet, simply a slide show displaying various parts of the new Mirror side of things. It's an introduction of sorts.

  • The new Throne room which is where the Real side's ballroom is located.
  • Though the White Queen's mirrors can't go without a ballroom of their own.
  • Finally, her own chambers are displayed, with everything neat and orderly, and all signs of the Queen of Hearts (including all of her very odd...pieces and parts of things in jars) completely gone.

    The music fades out, and soon the White Queen, sitting on her throne graces the screen. She is addressing both sides today, however they won't be able to communicate to each other, only to her. ]


  • My dearest Mirrors and Reals,

    The time has come for us to put aside our differences and all the Queen of Hearts used to put you at odds with one another. We are, after all, one kingdom and as my sister the Red Queen proclaimed, we shall live in peace and harmony.

    [ It's not quite what she said, but it's close enough. ]

    From henceforth, I proclaim that no Mirror need to spy on the Real side on my behalf. You have no good graces to earn with me, no reason to bring me information about the other side. I, unfortunately, have no control over the events that occur, but let that be all the dear Reals must worry over. You have my word that there will be no command for you to hurt or kill and you must not live in fear of my mirrors only wishing to cause harm.

    ...Of course, I cannot help it if some mirrors do have this tendency, but I will not advocate it.

    Now, onto my new subjects. And to that point, what your former queen demanded of you.

    You will no longer be unmade at a whim. Please do not live in fear of a mistake. You aren't merely subjects, you are a people. From now on ruled by me, yes, but not as a figure to be feared or only one to please. I will create new mirrors as new Reals arrive, and you will all be cared for.

    There is one exchange I have made with Wonderland's magic, but that does mean we've had to give something up to have a bit of color. For too long our outside world has been black and white. No more.

    [ She pauses, then dramatically claps her hands, the sound echoing in the room. ]

    There are no more tea rooms on our side, dear mirrors. But you do now have a beautiful garden. The color is limited to the gardens only, but oh, I do hope you find it as glorious as I do. Please, do not confine yourselves to the indoors only.

    [ Go touch some grass, please. For her title being the White Queen, things aren't quite so blandly colored and she smiles with a soft nod of her head. ]

    I urge any of you, real and mirror alike, to now take this time to introduce yourselves. I'm quite curious about you all. Though I will say, you will be speaking only to me and at this time, Reals and Mirrors will not be able to address one another.
    postictal: (an even bigger mood)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-11 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
    [Narrow-eyed and darkly suspicious that he is of this, there’s no masking the satisfaction smogging his demeanor, the undeniable air of someone who’s just seen a theory get proven right.]

    Knew you weren’t really dead.
    postictal: (uh huh sure | smoking)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-11 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
    The donation boxes? The white-themed winter Wonderland?

    [The pieces where there. Just didn’t figure how they’d come together.]

    But I guess there can only be two queens on the board at a time, huh?
    postictal: (it was THIS BIG)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-11 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
    You haven’t heard? Donation boxes have been stuck around for months. Forget a word to bring back what’s been “lost.”

    [That was usually how they phrased it, too. Lost. Not dead. Just...gone. Just not here right now.]

    Looks like they did their job. Neither of your sisters seemed to have any clue over who put ‘em there. Weird, right?
    postictal: (u like eating so much??? eat shit)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-11 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
    Don’t have to tell me. [He lived in Alabama, before he came here. By contrast, Tim is painfully unsmiling practically by default, and now is no exception.]

    Seems like someone over here was in your corner from the start. Any idea who?
    postictal: (perfecting the art of the side eye)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-11 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
    She didn’t sound much like she thought you’d come back.

    [Was this her stake in it from the beginning? She seemed genuine. But then, most liars do - assuming that’s what’s happening here.]
    postictal: (what the fuck boy)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-11 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
    Did you know her?

    [This is a casual interrogation now, sorry.]

    Your sister - the Red Queen - she didn’t really talk about you unless someone else brought it up.
    postictal: (cool the sass boy)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-12 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
    If the Red Queen was behind this, that means she can play a real hell of a long con.

    [The Queen of Hearts - she seems, seemed, a tad too impulsive to pull of a thing like that, though he could be wrong. The Red Queen...they collectively, comparatively know far too little about her. She could be more than capable.]
    postictal: (how many stinkeyes can tim have)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-12 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
    [That's a subject shift if he ever heard one. Intentional or not, he doesn't go along with it.]

    So how well do you know Alice?
    postictal: (jay was just waiting that whole time)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-12 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
    Someone, huh? No idea who?
    postictal: (please find peace one day)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-12 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
    Got a pretty spotty memory?

    [At least he knows a thing or two about that, and not even because Wonderland is a real goddamn pain.]
    postictal: (begging for help im screaming for help)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-12 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
    That's assuming you can. Memories don't tend to be recoverable here.

    [Don't tend to. He's been an exception.]
    postictal: (headscratch)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-12 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
    Simple as that, huh?

    [Yeah. He doubts it.]

    What happened when you came back? Do you remember that?
    postictal: (i dont WANT to hear about your KINKS)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-12 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
    So you had a body. Wherever you were. You could feel this happening.

    [Returned some...not-dead gestalt where all the other residents go when they disappear, but don't die? People didn't tend to use that word, died. As if that implies too much finality.]

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