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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: (perfecting the art of the side eye)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-12 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
    Just an observation. [Yeah, he definitely doesn't buy that she absolutely has no clue about what's been going on in her absence. Not entirely.]

    You said that you would be creating new Mirrors when people show up. Your sister, Red? She said the Mirrors don't need to be created. That they exist because we do.
    postictal: (how many stinkeyes can tim have)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-12 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
    The way she said it, they just kind of show up naturally since we’re here. Was she wrong?

    [Or lying? Or, and this one sticks with him - was he misinterpreting literally everything up to that point?]
    postictal: (what the fuck boy)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-13 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
    Why, then? If this isn’t some natural occurrence...why make them at all?

    [Not that they don’t have a right or anything, but it doesn’t exactly seem kind to place a lump sum of everyone’s existential crises in a tiny slice of world together and see what happens.]
    postictal: (u like eating so much??? eat shit)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-14 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
    Evolution or god, depending on who you ask.

    [He's from Alabama. He has heard this exact discussion a thousand times as it pertains to the human soul and doesn't much care to debate it.]

    And that's not an answer. Why do you make them?
    postictal: (that boy needs sLEEP)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-14 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
    [Shut up. Shut up, he’s - he’s trying not to lose the grit of his teeth in a snark of frustration and trying not to let the bite of exasperation curl nails under his skin even if it itches and pools and he sighs.]

    If you don’t have to do it, you realize that what you’re doing, making them - that it’s a cruelty, right?
    postictal: (rethink that move son | smoking)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-14 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
    Because they didn’t get a say in it.

    [He hisses it, cold and dark and snaking out from behind a clenched jaw.]

    They’re not life for the sake of it. They’re based on a template. They’re based on us. They are echoes and copies and the really fucked up thing? Sometimes they’re aware of it.

    They can never be anything else, because they’re always going to know that they’re - they’re fucking by-products. Do you get that?
    postictal: (wow gold star for mr fuckin obvious here)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-14 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
    [Congrats - you’re talking the one person who probably wouldn’t mind if death here were a little more permanent.]

    Yeah? Why don’t you let us out of Wonderland while you’re at it? If you’re the ones drafting the rules, why not break them? Isn’t us being here at all disrupting the natural order of things?
    Edited 2018-06-14 19:59 (UTC)
    postictal: (gdi jay)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-14 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
    Right, sorry. Stupid of me to assume that people with the power of literal creation of life and the ability to raise the dead would be able to get around a thing like that.

    Can you make us a guide, maybe, of what you can do?
    postictal: (how bout you go fuck yourself buddy)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-15 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
    You’ve told us some of what you can and can’t do. And you’ve got no clue how I feel about your answer, so don’t assume that you do. Got that?
    postictal: (u like eating so much??? eat shit)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-15 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
    [Her error is in applying Tim’s attitude to her response in particular, when being blown apart, gutshot and screaming, during a chess match and waking up in a cold sweat over it in the days following would be enough to put anyone in a bad fucking mood. Dislike tends to be more palpable; he trends toward being more vocal and a good deal less articulate.]

    The full extent of what being a Queen means in terms of what you can do. You gonna tell us?
    postictal: (shit boi i die)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-15 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
    I remember.

    [Breathes out. Tries to let the answer, the actual blessed fucking straight answer, loosen the tightness like a spur of bone in his chest. The very same that’s been lodged there since Rocket’s Mirror blew him open at the rib cage.]

    There was an old recording of the three of you. Talking about the sword, the...yarn.
    postictal: (nervous im not nervous ha ha)

    [personal profile] postictal 2018-06-16 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
    Yeah. It was... [He has to think about it for a moment, tracking back time.] Just after I first showed up, actually. September. Almost two years, maybe.

    Like you said. Red and Hearts played chess, Hearts threw a fit, and you tried to quiet them down.

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