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[wonderland_vogue]

[After the last post debacle, she's being only a tiny bit more careful. Just a tiny bit.

Though she sounds bored if not with a faint hint of curiosity in her tone.]

Probably not the best time for this, but I have to ask now that I've poked around a little. How many of you here are older than, say, a thousand years or so? I'm just curious.

On another note, what are your thoughts on the... captors, I suppose, feeding on the various emotions as it were? Such a thing isn't really... uncommon where I'm from, so it's always interesting to see a new side to it from those not as familiar. We have another name for them, as well, but that is something I'll leave to all of you to be curious about.

Though I'm sure someone here could enlighten you on the term if she so felt inclined.

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[wonderland_vogue]

[Oh that comment is the one that gets under her skin and she's slamming her hands down on the broken brick that's in front of her, a snarl slipping past her lips.]

How fucking dare you say that shit, you don't know a damn thing about what Edward and I did before we were liches or how we even acted before your stupid fucking brother and his stupid fucking friends came across us! [Oh boy, here we go.]

You don't know what actually losing a brother, so fucking desperately trying to fix him, then to try and bring him back from everything, only to have everything fucking fail time and time again until you have nothing left!

You want to know the real reason I became what I am? We did it to make sure we wouldn't lose each other like we lost our goddamned little brother! So fuck off and get off your goddamned high horse! You don't know shit.

[restinglichface]

[In another world, in another life, Lydia and Lup would have had too much in common to not be friends. Sure, Lydia's situation hurts, anything related to twins or losing siblings tugs at a part of her heart that Lup can't ignore. But she forcefully shoves anything soft and emotional aside before it shows up on her face, Lup focusing instead on her anger.

Just how many people had the twin liches tortured over the centuries before they'd finally been taken down? How much did they delight in other's suffering? Though Lydia is unaware of it, Lup had been in the same room with her friends for their whole stay in Wonderland. She's heard the glee in their voices, their laughter ringing clearly, while they'd taken Merle's eye, Taako's beauty, Magnus' years and then eventually his body. She can't forget that.]

Sorry, but your sob story isn't going to work on me. The past is in the past for a reason. It's over and done. Don't get pissy at me that you made the wrong choices and fucked your own shit up. Barry and I've been through hell and I don't see either of us slurpin' up other's suffering just to get by. Get good, sis.

slams in here

[puzzlingly]

Lup. Quit it.

「It's soft but a firm voice he uses, one he has never used to address her.」

[restinglichface]

[Even if his sudden appearance in this little conversation is a surprise, Lup's growling response comes immediately.]

Hey! Fuck off.

[puzzlingly]

「Ouch. Okay, play it cool.」

No. Leave her be. This is an argument neither of you can win.

[restinglichface]

This doesn't involve you. Shoo. Let the big girls talk.

[puzzlingly]

「Since when has he ever shut up when someone tells him to?」

What are you expecting her to say? That you're right? You're right, she could have done things differently. Now, what's next?

[wonderland_vogue]

[Well, she seems to be calming down a bit, just looking at her nails off screen.]

I guess the method of getting emotions could have been different, but the rest of it still would have happened. Sorry.

[restinglichface]

[what the FUCK. don't try and make her think logically when she's mad, atem. that's stupid.]

Of course I'm right! See! She's basically admitting it! Stop sticking up for the enemy!

[puzzlingly]

Please, you're not sorry.

「Don't push it, girl. It's not like he's happy with you either.」

And you, 「Lup.」 she's not my enemy. She might be yours, but not mine.

[wonderland_vogue]

[But Ateeeeem.]

Oh come on, I was stating facts about liches and personal experience. I didn't start this argument. [You kind of did, Lydia.]

[restinglichface]

[But Ateeeeem.]

This is bullshit. Screw this. Screw both of you. Lup's out.

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[puzzlingly]

「Who is the teenager here btw? But it's kind of what he wanted right? Just not this way.」

Lup...

「Damn he'll have to talk to her now, won't he? It's his turn, after all.」

[puzzlingly]

Lydia, stop trying to act so innocent, you don't want to make more enemies here.

[wonderland_vogue]

Not like it'd be any different than what I'm used to, right? Pft.

[puzzlingly]

So, that's it? You gonna try your hardest to be that terrible person during the rest of your life?

[wonderland_vogue]

This wouldn't be my hardest, it's not like I'm going around torturing people here or something. I feel we've had this discussion before, too. Monsters aren't redeemable, darling, it's in their nature, right?

[puzzlingly]

You're wrong.

「Despite of how bad things went with Michael, he still believes people can change, if they really wanted to.」

You weren't always one.

[wonderland_vogue]

[Excuse her while she bites back a laugh, head tilting as she regards her screen again.]

Centuries of being an emotions stealing, torturing people for my own gain, monster. I was a normal elf once but that was so long ago.

[puzzlingly]

You don't get to use the time card on me, Lydia, but if that's what is gonna take, I've been around for millenniums now, and I still could change, for better. 「That's what he wishes to believe anyway.」 If you don't want to no one can make you, but you gonna have to learn to be alone.

[wonderland_vogue]

[Oh, he said the magic word. She's frowning, all of her anger seeming to just sort of melt away despite it.

Maybe he was right, he probably was, but this whole... thing was new. You can't just go from torturing people to make them suffer and turn around and be nice, after all. At least not without some kind of end goal.]

Can't say I've ever been alone. [That's.. the actual truth, too.]

[puzzlingly]

「Well, the change of attitude is confusing, a little. Though it's not the first time Lydia does that, if he remembers their first conversation. But he's been alone, for so long the sole idea is terrifying, for him. Sometimes he forgets he isn't, even now.」

And, what you gonna do about it?