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[vitaelamorte]

Has this ever happened to you?!

The theory is beautiful but the practice is ehhhh, the spirit is willing but the flesh needs canon revision, the muse is new and the task is daunting, and people on plurk were like OMG GO APPLY but you were like eehhhhhhhhhhh again and entranceway, what is it with this weird game and questionable run-on sentences in its memes is there no law is there no order is there no country for old men or young men or a bigger animanga cast WILL I LIVE UP TO MY EXPECTATIONS AND THE EXPECTATIONS SOCIETY PLACES UPON ME WHY ARE YOU STILL TYPING LOOK I JUST WANT TO PLAY A FEW THREADS AND SEE HOW THAT CHARACTER WORKS OUT IN THIS GAME oh wait you just want to play a few threads and see how that character works out in this game this game of wonderful Wonderlands well then

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[compulsion]

[He frowns then, looking utterly confused and uncertain about her and the things she was saying.]

Okay, I'll bite and not in the fun way. Why wouldn't you want to know? Even if it isn't how you were born, are you saying there aren't more reasons why you need to be who you are, than not?

[He just can't imagine, living fae all his life and trying to imagine not being it literally made him shudder.]

Now that I can understand. How I ended up sided with people I would actually call friends. We all shared the same enemy. The Morrigan, and the Ash, and half the fae world it feels some days.

[Rolling his eyes at that, though he only rarely questions his choice to shift sides as he has.]

See, that's a mistake. You always want the ambiguously gray guy that will do what you won't and get away with it. The one whose open to changing side and changing his mind. Glad Bo and Kenzi figured that out. They were always the more fun side of things. Also they didn't commit genocide against my entire species of fae, so there's that.

[His expression darkened then, but not getting angry. Just bitter.]

[thewitch]

[ Bonnie thinks about that, her jaw tightening as she furrows her brow. The idea of tangling with a family member of the Originals goes against everything in her nature. But so does most of the things she's learned about here, down to why she would name a ferret after Damon, who is now, supposedly, her best friend.

She finally presses her lips into a smile. ]

I would actually really like that. Thank you.

[thewitch]

I've been through a lot. I've watched people I care about die. I don't know if I would take it all back but at the same time, I wonder what my life would be like if I could.

[ She always assumed Grams was nuts, that all the talk of psychics and witches was just a sign of senility. Bonnie often wonders how simple her life could have been if she hadn't ever found out the truth.

Of course, it could also mean more of her friends dying. It could mean losing Elena and even Caroline. ]

I have enough ambiguously gray guys in my life. [ Damon was the epitome of gray. Whatever side he ends up on is the side that's in his best interest, loyalty be damned.

The last comment catches her off guard, though. As much as she would like to wipe out all vampires (and almost did when she had the chance), it still weighed on her mind. There were some vampires she didn't want to harm, like Stefan and Caroline. Her mind was slowly starting to change, as much as she didn't want it to. ]

Why would someone want to wipe out your species?

[deathlessness]

Good.

[She smiles a bit in return, before Damon finally gets over his need for attention and crawls back into Freya's lap.]

And I think that is my cue to let you get back to your research. Feel free to stop by any time when you're ready to start.

[akajj]

"Well there we go. Something you and I agree on."

She's run into it much too often that power most often means a lot of bullshit and using of people. Jessica has seen it time and time again.

Jessica tensed then, not quite looking at Chloe. "Yeah, trust me. I know that's all you can do, but that doesn't make it any easier." And it didn't mean one thing. "So, if they can take memories and cause us to be in weird places and see things that aren't real... how do we know they're not planting thoughts while they're at it?"

[compulsion]

How many have you saved from dying? How many more would have died without you having that ability that you have?

[He isn't one who has done the same, or saved any lives himself - well not many, but he's seen this. The guilt and the pain from loss. He doesn't entirely get the guilt, but he definitely gets that people feel it. Why? He never knows but it's there.]

No one ever has enough. If we did, the world wouldn't need us. And the world does need guys like me. It likes to pretend otherwise, but the fact that we thrive proves otherwise.

[He shrugs, but Vex doesn't answer right away. No quick answer to that question like he seems to have to the others.]

Because people get scared, and they fear things. Then they kill what they fear. No matter if they deserve it or not. Fear usually wins out.

[thevulnerability]

Chloe cringes slightly. The last thing she wants to do is say something that might risk traumatizing a new arrival (or bringing up old trauma; Chloe knows how it feels, how it's easier to not talk about something because ignoring it is far less painful than reliving it).

But she won't lie to her, either. It wouldn't be fair to do so, and she doesn't like lairs. It's one thing she and Lucifer have in common.

"It's... definitely possible." She nods stiffly, taking a breath before giving her attention back to Jessica. "It's happened, during events. There have been ones where they... make us think things we wouldn't usually. And others where they completely wipe our memories and replace them with something else. I know that probably isn't the answer you're looking for."

[thewitch]

Sounds great.

[ Bonnie offers a nod, giving Damon a parting scratch behind the ears before he departs back to his other mom. ]

I'm looking forward to it.

[thewitch]

[ His question silences her, because he's right. She tries to place a lot of the blame on what's happened on the Salvatores; Grams' death, the vampires escaping the tomb, Caroline's turning... The truth is she blames herself as equally. Bonnie isn't sure she's done more harm than good.

But of course, she has to think about the things she has done. She has to think about how she's going to save Elena, no matter the odds. ]

I guess there's a point to everything. [ Life and death, good and bad. Bonnie has learned there is a place for all of it, as well as the fact that there is so much in between. Her comment serves as a response to both her own situation and his; they both exist the way they do for a reason, and as much as Bonnie might be cynical about it all, she also knows there is a balance that has to be maintained. ]

I definitely get that. I guess... I've kind of been there. [ Back when she wanted to kill Damon, back when Stefan would just be a casually if he got in the way. How had things changed so quickly? ] What is your species, exactly?

[deathlessness]

Me too.

[And with that, she will collect her ferret and head back to her research. /scene]

[akajj]

"Yeah, that's what I've been figuring all along. "Haven't dealt with one of those yet, but figure its just a matter of time. Which means, for all we know? This is really not even real."

She makes a face, disgusted and irritated at the same time.

"I really fucking hate that part, you know? Not knowing what's real or not, what's them and what's you. Makes this place seem like a damn landmine, and everyone in it has a foot on the trigger."

[compulsion]

[Monster that he is, Vex has been around Bo and Kenzi long enough now to know this. That guilt that all seem prepared to carry with them, as if it is necessary to keep being a decent semblance of a human being. Maybe they're right, given he lacks both guilt, or decency, but he hates watching the girls in his life go through this and he'd rather not watch this woman go through it too.]

Yeah, it sucks when the assholes have a good point, huh? I try and do it often, just to get those pissed off looks.

[It's a bad sense of humor, but he's known since he was little that it is one of the few things to get him through his life all these years.]

Fae. As in, yes, fairies. Well that's the genus, I guess? Fae encompasses a lot. The specific kind that was slaughtered is a mesmer.

[He holds up his hand again though he doesn't use the ability this time.]

How we control people, how we feed, and a horrific and disgusting way to murder us slowly as well.

[thevulnerability]

"Yeah..." Chloe fades out for a moment, pressing her lips together. "It's almost like a brainwashing technique. Making us doubt our reality so we can't figure out what we're fighting. And if we can't fight we don't. Maybe it's just something else this place throws in the mix to make us complacent."

Chloe doesn't have any proof of that but it's a theory, and will get filed away into all of her other theories she's come up with since arriving in Wonderland, although the viable ones are few and far between.

"We still have to find a way to live in it, though. As... Completely screwed up as it might be."

[thewitch]

With the things that exist where I'm from? I'm not going to laugh at you about fairies.

[ She doesn't. Bonnie's face is actually really serious and concerned. She doesn't like this, knowing that there are things here that aren't back home. Back home, she knows what she is capable of and how her powers can protect her and her friends. Here, she doesn't know anything. ]

That's how you did that thing earlier... How you controlled me.

[akajj]

Jessica takes another long gulp, pausing for a breath and then taking another drink. She shakes her head, but it's not denying what Chloe is saying. "Wouldn't doubt it. Making you doubt reality is a quick way to get what you want. People start to worry, you know? Is this really the bad guy or am I about to hurt someone that doesn't deserve it."

It's a bitterness that hits way too close to home for Jessica. Way too close.

"And not end up dead. That whole return of the living dead shtick they've got going on? There has to be a reason they want us to believe we can die, and that they hold the key to letting us live again." Because she isn't believing that they actually die. Naw, that so wasn't happening.

[thevulnerability]

"We do die. Believe me."

Chloe would know, after all. Not that it's something she's super thrilled about knowing, it's still one of the few things she's sure of in this place.

"They have control over everything here. Our lives, if we come back, how we come back, even our memories. I don't know how they do the things they do, but at this point I know that it happens. So just... Do you're best not to die. It sucks."

[vexatiously]

That's going to put you ahead of a lot of people here. Some of them aren't even aware of supernatural beings, nonetheless know how to handle them.

And you've got a start with me. I don't tell everyone, but you're a witch and I've had some good dealings with witches before.

[And some bad, though he can't think of a species he hasn't had a bad time with. That's what happens when you're the head enforcer for the Dark, after all.]

Yeah, that would be it. I don't tend to use it too much. Not around here. I mean, there may be bigger and badder, but it's the lack of backing that slows me down here.

[One way or another, he had alliances back home. Not so much here.]

[akajj]

"You believed you die. Doesn't mean you did," she points out. "I'm not saying that we don't, but I'm not accepting any of it for face value. Listen..."

She pauses, considering her words careful, not wanting to admit too much. Not to anyone.

"I've had someone do that to me before. He lives... he lived in my damn head and he controlled me. No matter what I wanted to do, I couldn't. So I'm not buying a single damn word of this place. Not the least of all being that they can bring people back from the dead with our bodies perfectly intact, no wounds, no scars, nothing. We buy that, we've got to buy we could be clones and definitely not playing that game.

"But yeah, thanks. And I mean it. No plans on dying here. I hate having anything in my head as it is."