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entranceway2013-10-26 08:06 pm
donttestme) wrote in entranceway2013-10-26 08:06 pm
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[At first, it's just a video of a blank wall, trembling a little - but then whoever's holding the device raises it up to their face: It's Chell. Well, it looks like her, but that expression is very not-Chell.
Her eyes are wide and she looks scared and confused and more importantly, she's talking. Loudly. A lot.]
I'M NOT DEAD?! But I'm not me either?!
MIRRORS ARE YOU OKAY DID YOU MAKE IT OVER HERE TOO?! REPORT! How are you doing did the roots get you?? Have you heard from anyone else? Are you all stuck in your Reals too because I think maybe I am and she's noaaaAERK --- fshfu-
[A funny look crosses her face, and the device falls from her hands. There's a few seconds of it just recording the floor, but in the background, Chell whines. She stumbles against a wall, by the sound of it, but she goes quiet. A moment passes, and the device is picked up again: This time, Chell's expression is more controlled, more tired, more annoyed.]
Don't touch the plants.
[She says firmly, nearly through her teeth. Then she ends the video.]
((ooc: You can specify who you are replying to, or leave it to chance, as Mell and Chell struggleto agree on a timeshare arrangement for control.))
Her eyes are wide and she looks scared and confused and more importantly, she's talking. Loudly. A lot.]
I'M NOT DEAD?! But I'm not me either?!
MIRRORS ARE YOU OKAY DID YOU MAKE IT OVER HERE TOO?! REPORT! How are you doing did the roots get you?? Have you heard from anyone else? Are you all stuck in your Reals too because I think maybe I am and she's noaaaAERK --- fshfu-
[A funny look crosses her face, and the device falls from her hands. There's a few seconds of it just recording the floor, but in the background, Chell whines. She stumbles against a wall, by the sound of it, but she goes quiet. A moment passes, and the device is picked up again: This time, Chell's expression is more controlled, more tired, more annoyed.]
Don't touch the plants.
[She says firmly, nearly through her teeth. Then she ends the video.]
((ooc: You can specify who you are replying to, or leave it to chance, as Mell and Chell struggle
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Weeeell normally not without permission? And not without sending Chell-
[She points at herself with her thumbs here, for some reason.]
-over? But man this has been, like, a really weird week, right??
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[ Preach it, sister. ]
But I'm afraid I don't understand, [ he admits after a moment of trying really hard to do so. ] Who is Chell?
[ He kind of gets the mirror thing, but at the same time kind of really doesn't. ]
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Um-- okay! Okay like-- Normally I'm on one side of the glass and Chell is on the the other because we're like-- opposites? Sort of?? And like for one of us to go to the other side, the other has to like -- switch places --- CHELL COME ON I'M TELLING HIM YOU DON'T EVEN GET ALL OF IT!
[At least she turns away for that outburst. Ahem.]
SO LIKE normally I'd look completely different! But I'm like, in Chell's body instead bec---
[Whoops! She sways and her eyes shut for a second, and then suddenly that wide-eyed and slightly confused look turns very serious and kind of angry looking.]
I'm Chell.
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guys stop it
you're giving him cockroaches ]
Excuse me?
[ Opposites? Perhaps two selves separated? Now joined? Daniel takes an unconscious step away from the overflowing craziness on the screen. ]
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"Mell" is from the Mirrorside. I was cut by the plant- [She turns the cut on her arm to the camera] -and now she's in my head instead of behind the mirror.
[If Chell's words are short and if some of them have to go through her teeth and if it looks like there's a lot of effort in her face, that's because she had to say all that over a background of RUDE Chell RUDE god you are so RUDE I was explaining it just fine I've even talked to him before WELL written I mean there's only so much you can do with the mirror in the way but anyway he already knows me so you should have just let me do the talking because he'd believe me we've talked before and he kind of heard about the root thing already because I am capable of talking to people more than once and gosh could you use less words to explain this you're going to leave something out let ME do it GOSHHHHHH!!!]
[yeah.]
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What has his life become. ]
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[ Oh hang on, that actually explains why so many people are apparently getting on video to fight themselves. ]
And that is happening to everyone!
[ Congratulation Daniel! Welcome to the same page as everybody else! ]
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Anyone... who touches the plant. Their mirror...
[She winces, grits her teeth - but then pries them open and sucks in a deep breath.]
O-M-G that's right! HEY go find one of those roots do it do it do it!
[I don't even have to indicate who's who anymore, do I?]
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I think I would rather not!
[ It's already like a bag of cats in here sometimes, he's certainly not in favour of suddenly adding a whole new person into his head. What the christ. ]
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NO you should do it okay!!! He wasn't really so bad of a guy, right? And I don't know what happened to us after the bright light back there but then we ended up here so maybe we stopped existing?
I mean think about that! Not existing is terrible!! How would you feel if-- .... well you wouldn't I mean, because you wouldn't be existing to know about it... WELL come on it'd be like saving a guys' life right isn't that a good thing??
So just go find a root and like hold your hand and you'll totally be a Mirror-hero!
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He's a little grateful that the woman on the screen has resolved herself into the more familiar Mell. But not grateful enough to go inviting strange men into his head for her. ]
Can he not find his way into somebody else? Perhaps you have room for two… three.
[ What is he even saying what is his life any more. ]
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What part of 'your Mirror' didn't you get?! Also there's no way Chell's going to let me get her cut again, sheesh!
I mean, like, with everyone in the mansion on your side and my side it's definitely not coincidence that I ended up with Chell! Think about it!!
[You'd think Chell would have intervened by now, but she has a feeling Mell is perfectly capable of sabotaging herself.]
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Okay, okay, he's trying to think about it. ]
You mean there is someone from your mansion who is particularly linked to m--
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a lot, actually ]
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My God, is--
No, that can't be right.
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Oh yes it is right! There's a you from this side, and a you from my side! That's how mirrors work here!
[Basically.]
But our side is toast and yours isn't so don't be a dick and let Mirror-you borrow your head for a possibly indefinite period of time!
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There's another man who is myself living in your mansion? But that is mad!
[ Yes, Daniel. Because that would be the only mad thing to happen to you in Wonderland. It's occurring to him even as he speaks. How can he really say that something's impossible, when just to get here he had to teleport through space and time?
Well, uh, even if the concept's not impossible, it's still super uncomfortable okay. ]
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Really? That's what gets you?
[Hold on hold on don't be mean, Mell, because that's making Chell think about stepping forward no that's not necessary please she's got that!]
He's not you exactly but he is it's kind of-
I mean he looks like you but he acts different! Like how Chell is a grumpy shut-in and I'm actually sociable--
[Oh hey look at that - Mell suddenly looks pained and whines-- and then her eyes are narrowed and she's talking a little less squeaky and fast and yes that's Chell, nice to see her again.]
They're also against us.
[Not ALWAYS!, Mell insists, unheard.]
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...Daniel looks extremely uncomfortable as Mell's face hardens into Chell's. Not specifically because it's Chell, but because all this switching around makes it feel a lot like he's talking to a crazy person. ]
I would have liked to have been told about all this before they began to possess our minds!
[ And apparently that's Chell's fault. ]
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You talked to her.
[Which should have been your warning, is her implication. Then again assuming Mell blabbed the entire rundown and secrets of the mirrorside is reasonable, isn't it?]
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[ Weeeeeell, there was the hand thing, but he's going to spend his life pretending that didn't flip him out quite as much as it did. And speaking of things that flip him out-- ]
I'm sorry, would you not -- change, quite so much? It makes this very difficult.
[ Difficult for him. Which is obvs the important kind of difficult. ]
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(OH that's not what he means and you know it come on just let me talk to him he's the Real of my friend and yeah we haven't been friends that long but he really helped me over there and helping him exist again would pay that back right so just lemmie talk him into the root thing please please or at least let me talk more because I'm better at explaining things and you're going to just--)
This time the shake of her head is to clear it, not to struggle for control. And with that, her stare is focused on Daniel again.]
Because she didn't want anything from you.
[Of the few interactions with her Mirror, she's noticed that - she's friendly, but when the Mirrorside has to do something, she'll do it. Even if it means, say, stealing a key to their memories. Remember that?]
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(OH COME ON It's not like that was something that the mansion ate! You hadn't even forgotten it like with Jack's memory! I needed it more I mean do you even know what happened to one of the guys who didn't bring a key back?! IT WASN'T NICE OKAY LOOK I HAVE TO DO IT IT'S KIND OF MY JOB HEY DON'T IGNORE ME THIS IS IMPORTA--)]video;
No offence, Chell. ]
What would she want from me?
[ While you answer that, please enjoy the stealthy approach of something grey, and root-shaped, and barely three feet behind Daniel! ]
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(Woah hey when you put it like that it sounds creepy I mean I don't want something from him I just think it's best for us in our current situation to hey you're not even listening you don't even care do you oh hey wait wait wait a minute what's that what's that over there look over there do you seethatthingoverhterewaitWAITwait)][Chell has to shake some sense into herself, and again, speaks firmly and short.]
She wants your mirror on this side.
[It's strained as she-
(Omg omg I think thaaat's Imeanitsnothingdon'tlistentomethere'snothinginterestinggoingonwhateveryoudo)- ahem, as she-(justlikeidon'tevencareaboutthiswhati'msayingrightnowtheresnothingiobviouslycantdistractyouimeangeezyoureSOSTUBBORNandDETERMINEDidkwhyyoudeverhavetrouble)-- as she spea--(justlikedontevenworryaboutlittleoldmeoverhereimfineyouknowionlystoppedexistingforabitandwhatapicnicthatwaswellimeanidontrememberitbutitprobablysuckedandheyitscoolyouthinkallofusshouldfeelthatrealclassyimeanseriously)SHUT UP GOD SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP---][-- Needless to say Chell is presently distracted from anything other than trying to look at the camera and/or speak and absolutely not listen to her Mirror at all. ♥]
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