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entranceway2013-10-26 08:06 pm
donttestme) wrote in entranceway2013-10-26 08:06 pm
[Video]
[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
video;
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.]
video; 1/?
Okay, okay, he's trying to think about it. ]
You mean there is someone from your mansion who is particularly linked to m--
video; 2/?
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a lot, actually ]
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My God, is--
No, that can't be right.
video;
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!
video;
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. ]
video;
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.]
video;
...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. ]
video;
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?]
video;
[ 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. ]
video;
(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?]
[
(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! ]
video;
(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. ♥]
video; 1/3
He's uh... well, he can't say he's entirely unmoved by the call to save a fellow person from nonexistence. But good lord, he doesn't want to sign up to be fighting for the rights to his own tongue and limbs. And that's not even addressing the whole 'another him' thing.
So he has sympathy for Mell, having met her before; but when he bothers to think about it he finds that he has just as much reason to be sympathetic to Chell, who is after all suffering from another person in her head. And there's all this talk about A being against B and wow he didn't realise the two mansions were supposed to be enemies.
He's already opened his mouth to speak, but all of a sudden, he's really not sure who to side with. ]
Listen... Miss, ah...
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BECAUSE INSTEAD OF FINISHING HIS THOUGHT
HE GETS A LASHING ROOT TO THE FACE! ]
video; 3/3
Jesus, Chell, you're a terrible lookout. ]
video;
Hey--
[Except wait there was an echo in her head when she said that- And a barrage of blue text, and suddenly Mell's doubled her efforts to get to the front of the line and Chell is just distracted enough to slip for a moment--]
Hey!!!
[Louder, squeakier - it's Mell!]
Daniel are you okay?! OTHER DANIEL are you there? Did it draw blood? Does that matter?? Hello??
video;
...Miss Mell?
[ Mirror Daniel is more disoriented than he likes to be. He remembers the bright white light, and then -- hrmh. He must have passed out, and this is not the room he remembers being in. It has wobblier walls, for one thing.
And what's stranger is that he can clearly hear his own thoughts yelling at him.
He gets to his feet, but those same own thoughts make a dash for his legs and his mouth and wow okay there's someone else in here, something is very very wrong and he's inclined to suspect more roots bullshit.
He lands on his arse, and someone else says: ]
NononononononononoNO! No, get out, this is mm mmhhn
[ No, that's not the way this will go. Mirror Daniel wrestles back his vocal cords and says sharply: ]
Miss Mell, I -- suspect the roots of an unforeseen side-effect.
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WOO-HOO! You made it!
[Inhale. Deep inhale. Are you ready for this, Daniels? Are you ready for what is now the background noise of Chell's mind?!]
I WAS KIND OF WORRIED because like there was that bright flash of light right and I thought well I had no idea what that could be but like it seems impossible but what if all of us got unmade right BUT it didn't hurt at all like I figure unmaking would but then everything was kind of blank and next thing I knew I was getting tripped up by roots again except the mansion was reversed and my testing uniform was half undone AND THEN I realized I was actually in Chell's body! Like, my Real?! And I wasn't sure what was going on at first and really Chell wasn't making things helpful at all by just being grouchy and trying to fight me and like I don't want to be taking up her body like this wasn't planned or anything but either she doesn't believe me or she doesn't care because we were struggling for awhile but then
[Exhale, inhale, and with a suddenly clearer, less oxygen-deprived head, she gets to the point of that question]
YEAH but okay so we figured it happened after she got nicked by a root-thing so like that was behind it? Like the root pokes a Real and then suddenly we're there??
I think that's it. I have no idea why though! Kind of crazy if you ask me and Idunno if it's better or worse than before but I mean at least it beats not existing?
[Aaand finish that off with a happy little smile. c:]
video;
Regular Daniel wins some ground, and Mirror Dan's legs quite literally walk out from under him. This time he catches himself on the wall, just about. But the wall is rippling and glistening like a lung, and he moves away from the wall again rather sharply. Ugh. Is that normal for the Regular side?
"Sir, please, this is my body and you must leave!" The Regular sounds as cross as he does frightened.
Mirror Dan gets control of the legs again and sits down firmly, on the ground, where it's easier to be steady. "I mean you no harm," he thinks hard, hoping his Regular can hear him, "but you will be hurt if we fall again. Stop struggling."
Mell's finished talking, but to be honest he's missed half of it. ]
What a marvelous state of affairs.
[ His voice, when he says that, is so dry you could store it for years without rotting. ]
But yes -- it's preferable to nonexistence.
[ "This is my body, sir, you have no right! Go back where you came from! Oh, what am I saying? This is all utterly mad!"
With jovially gritted teeth, an addendum: ]
Possibly.
video;
Are - uh are you okay? Did you make it over in one piece?
[Chell's presence in the back of her mind kind of reminds her]
Oh! Oh!
Hey! Real-Daniel! It's okay! You can trust him! Totally! Just let him have a turn or something he's had a really rough day okay!
[Helping!]
[Mell at this point starts walking - and Chell lets her. She can tell her Mirror wants to find them, and if any trouble starts because of it, better that she's there in person.]