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mayavericks ([personal profile] mayavericks) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-06-12 09:21 pm

"A Swing and Miss Doesn't Mean it's Game Over"

[Well… All of that sure happened. And while Maya is visibly shaken Sissi's literal dance with death, she’d meant what she’d said to the others -- she would protect them. At that moment, it meant voting and making the “right” decision. Now, though? It means ensuring that no one feels alone, and that everyone has a good meal in them.

She’s not Nana Daiba, however, she certainly can’t do this alone. But she does have the resourcefulness and authoritative disposition to to recruit allies. Discord is sure to be… mostly unbothered by everything that’s happened, and Spongebob will likely be eager to help. She approaches both men: one is asked nicely; The other is grabbed by the collar and dragged from whatever hole he’s locked himself in. Sorry Discord.

For Maya's part, several potato dishes are prepared (can you tell someone has a bias). And while she doesn’t have the resources to make baumkuchen, Maya does manage to produce a cake, as well as… muffins? They’re not… quite how she remembers Nana making them, but she can at least recall how hearty the food had felt, and how it had restored her energy on long days.

It’s a pleasant memory, even if it does make her a touch melancholy.

Nevertheless, the food is laid out in the kitchen, as are a number of pies that Maya has uncovered. She even tucks a few bottles of wine in a corner for the adults that might like it. This is in addition to the mead apparently brought by Salieri. Look she’s not a fan of having alcohol but… she can’t tell the adults no.

But hey, courtesy of Benjamin, there is even some cocoa. It doesn’t start off spiked but… you know. Thanks to Spongebob there are, well… Angry Patties? It’s fine. Even Discord managed to contribute some pies and tea, as well as being bossed around to do the grunt work in the kitchen. There’s also that inexplicable pizza? Huh, that’s weird.

Eventually the group goes around extending invitations to the dorms, knocking on doors and explaining what’s been set up. No one will be forced to go, just… strongly encouraged. Maya herself will even duck into the principal’s office and, if she’s there, invite Hester.

She seemed just as upset as the rest of them.]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-16 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. More like watching someone get inconvenienced than anything. Some of them even liked the spectacle - nothing like a death scene for that.

[He takes a sip of his tea. Sissi's execution was quite a thing. But none of it was even really about her - she didn't get to say a word.]
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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-16 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Salieri hates that he can more than understand that]

A principle that much of opera is built upon, I'm afraid. The spectacle of a death scene.
tellthestory: (♪ recapitulation ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-16 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing wrong with it. If it's just a show.

[It's not as though he thinks writers who include death in their shows are bad people! Salieri shouldn't feel bad. This, here, is just...different.]
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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-16 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's just a show, yes. [he frowns] It...can be made into a show, however.
tellthestory: (♪ improvise ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-17 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
...you mean...like what happened?
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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-17 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly like that.

[his lips purse for a moment]

Public executions are quite the spectacle, and have been for centuries, I'm afraid.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-17 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[The Balladeer smiles a little, a rueful expression.]

Charlie Guiteau had a crowd at the scaffold,
filled up the square.
So many people that tickets were raffled -
shine on his shoes, Charlie mounted the stair.
Said, "Never sorrow,
Just wait 'til tomorrow,
Today isn't fair.
Don't despair..."


...it feels weird singing that without him. He was the only one that got a public execution - the guys who got the electric chair, they didn't let people in.
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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-18 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Most executions of figures of note are public; notorious bandits or criminals and the like.

[his lips purse in displeasure, dislike and disgust] They're distasteful.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-19 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
That's probably why they quit doing it. That, and you can't really get a crowd into where the electric chair is. They had photographers, sometimes - but it's such an ugly thing to see.

[He isn't really sure why anyone needed pictures. The guy was dead; couldn't that just be the end of it?]
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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-19 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Executions often are. I suppose they're meant to instill a sense of fear and of relief both, but usually end up just being terrible to witness.