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itscurtains2021-07-04 12:56 am
stagemanagers) wrote in itscurtains2021-07-04 12:56 am
Week Six
[Last week, in It's Curtains, the weather changed, and with it your fortune in Dads. Discord took Salieri out - or perhaps Salieri took Discord out - and left the survivors with that much less impulse control. Nonetheless, a visit from a new friend might have provided a little bit of much-needed hope?
On Sunday morning, you'll find that the other side of the second floor has opened up - as well as the actual intended path to reach the roof garden. You can finally stop climbing up that rope every time you want to have a picnic or secret lover's rendezvous!
Outside, the weather seems to have calmed down. It's sunny again, with rather a lot of clouds. Though it's warm, the atmosphere seems very...still.]
Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
(( Be sure to submit your memory regain and your AC for this week! As always, Hester's office hours and the merch booth remain available. ))
On Sunday morning, you'll find that the other side of the second floor has opened up - as well as the actual intended path to reach the roof garden. You can finally stop climbing up that rope every time you want to have a picnic or secret lover's rendezvous!
Outside, the weather seems to have calmed down. It's sunny again, with rather a lot of clouds. Though it's warm, the atmosphere seems very...still.]
(( Be sure to submit your memory regain and your AC for this week! As always, Hester's office hours and the merch booth remain available. ))
cw: suicide discussion
She follows his gaze to the window.
It just hurts her head. She pulls the blanket hood over her head more dramatically.]
I just wanted to be with them again.
cw: suicide discussion
[ He breathes out, slowly, and looks back at her. ]
And I know Benjamin's not Antonio, and I'm not the Balladeer, and none of us are replacements for the ones you've lost, but.
[ He thinks carefully about what to say next. ]
You mean a lot to us, too. And we'd miss you. There's no replacing you, either.
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There’s something so earnest about Orpheus that it’s almost painful. Almost Annleigh-like. He’s not a replacement for her, either, but it does make her want to do better for him than she did for her sister.]
I just miss them so much. Dad. And Varian, and Rina, and the Balladeer… everyone.
I don’t want everyone else to have to miss me. But this stupid—- Hester’s stupid fucking thing—- I keep hearing them. They keep singing to me.
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[ Right the illusions or hallucinations everyone else has been talking about. Orpheus hasn't been graced by any himself, save for the occasional strain of distant music carrying through the air, but it does make some of Farrah's behavior make a little more sense. ]
I... want to believe we'll see them again, someday. Properly, not through the board Peregrine has. [ Or the blurry video Nana took. ] Somehow, some way. And if it has to be in the afterlife, then that's okay, but I think... they'd all be much happier if you took your time in getting there.
Antonio would never forgive any of us if we let you go before your time.
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Yeah. And… I died once before, without any action on my part. Who knows. I shouldn’t rush it. People here would be… really upset, if something happened to me.
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[ He smiles at her, leaning back against the unoccupied bed behind him. ]
I've never really had siblings before? And I'm just... glad to have you. You care so much about people, and you're kind when it's time to be and not when it isn't, and you're funny, and braver than you give yourself credit for.
Well, I think it's safe to say
And we can probably all agree
That everyone who met you here
Loves and respects you immensely
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There’s a tiny, prideful smile that spreads across her face as he speaks. She spent a year of her life being the girl no wanted to be around— to have people say things that are so nice about her is so wonderful.]
Thanks, Orpheus. You’ve always been really nice to me too. And supportive, and honest, and you take such good care of Eurydice.
My step-sister has a boyfriend who she’s been with for three times the amount of time I’ve known her for. He is—- was—- always nice. Gentle. Thoughtful.
You remind me a lot of him.
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Thanks! I just try to be good to the people I love? And I know I don't always succeed, but, I'm glad you think so well of me.
You've talked about your step-sister before, right? It sounds like you care about her a lot.
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Yeah. Annleigh. I tried really hard to be a good sister to her. I wasn’t always. But I still love her.
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Sometimes being good to your family can be really hard. Even if you're acting with the best of intentions, or you're doing what you think is right for them.
[ He thinks of working, working, working endlessly on a song that he thought would save everyone but almost doomed Eurydice instead. ]
And sometimes you just can't or don't do either of those things, for whatever reason. But you care, and you try, and I think that counts for a lot.
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[She glances back at the sunshine outside.]
She'd be really angry with me about today, too. I can just imagine her yelling at me. But I think sometimes she yelled, because she cared.
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[ Orpheus never had to deal with the epic highs and lows of high school sports or going viral for bad things happening to him (not yet, not technically) or anything, but there's a universality to the difficulties of being fifteen and having to figure yourself out, especially when you have minimal adult supervision. ]
Yelling isn't really a good way to show someone you care, even when they've done something, um. Bad. And I'm sorry if any of us do that today. But you're right. Sometimes that's just how all the fear and worry comes out, even if it's not the best.