knightsoflegend | open ♔ may castle socialization

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open ♔ may castle socialization

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || Any time during May/June [ forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of these few months. Because not everyone is into parties, ok.

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:
Vi @ the desk
Klaus @ the desk
Maxwell @ the desk
Aurelius @ Dragon's Fire wing
Gar @ the library
Dovan @ 2nd floor pub
Mark @ castle grounds
Lila @ the firing range
Abigail @ library/grounds/kitchen/training rooms
Spike (Kyp) @ people's rooms
Mars @ the library
Sebastian @ front steps
Alaric @ Dragon's Hoard wing
Myri @ cleric's wing, etc.
Spike @ infirmary/kitchen/outside/etc
Elena @ her room
Buffy & Kyp (and Fred) | Closed
Jack @ the cleric's wing
Kyp @ the dungeon
Spike, Buffy, & Helen | Closed
Rose @ various
Lila & Hook | Closed
Han @ the firing range
Brantley & Andrew | Closed
Vi & Des @ the garden
Failboat @ pancake brunch | Closed
Faye @ the library
Alanna @ the firing range
Jaina's induction party
Alex & Abigail | Closed
The Doctor @ the castle grounds
Elena & Helen | Closed
Dumage & Damon | Closed
Lila, Sylar, & Helen | Closed
Damon @ the bar/various

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ buffy playing monster-wrangler isn't exactly new, and so no one is surprised when she disappears to cart kyp away into the dungeon. she takes her time, tries to wheedle more information out of him, and by the time she resurfaces, collects herself, and heads to the infirmary, myri appears to have managed to fall asleep (how light that sleep is, though ...).

the fact that it's probably her first genuine moment of rest in months is what keeps buffy quiet as she approaches. she notices finnick seated in the chair beside her bed like a watchdog, alert but stoic, and a sad smile twists on her lips. ]

How's she doing?

[he gives buffy a limp shrug, eyes still fixed on myri while he speaks in hushed tones.] As well as she can be, considering.

[ lifting a chair from by another bedside, buffy hauls it over to settle beside finnick's. she sits on the edge of it, leaning her elbows forward on her knees and watching myri's sleeping form with a poorly masked grimace. after briefly worrying at her lower lip, she speaks again in a quiet voice. ]

She looks like a ghost. [ myri's cheeks, despite the healing, remain sunken in. they've got her hooked up to an iv nutrient bag to try and account for the obvious deficiencies that came out of her imprisonment, but it hasn't done much for her. she raises a hand to reach it out, ready to rest on the bed on myri's calf, but then she stops and recoils. ] I keep thinking about how I should have seen it, you know? When we got back, I thought the best thing for her would be if we all kept our distance. Being on that mission had caused her so much pain, I didn't want to bring that back with us. Now I can't stop thinking about how if I hadn't held back, if I'd just talked to her, maybe--[ she stops, shaking her head. ]

[he just nods.] I was the same. I was — I broke up with her, I felt like it was partially my fault that she left. So, I felt like it was for the best that I stayed away for awhile. But ... I knew her better than most anyone ... maybe if I had tried to talk to her sooner, I would have known. [his free hand, the one that's not still holding myri's, runs through his hair.] But our what-if-ing doesn't solve anything. The most important thing is to be here for her now.

[ the tug at her heart doesn't make it out of her mouth, the ever-pressing question: what if myri doesn't want them there? what if she's hurt by the fact that they didn't see that she wasn't herself? what if this only made her more certain that she had to stay away from them, stay out of this, because she'd been trying to leave and it had dragged her right back to get hurt more?

she squashes that down because this is myri. this is myri, and she's hurt, and she needs nothing more than she needs friends to support her right now. but the doppelganger's words burn heavily in the back of her mind: you were supposed to try. maybe it had been an effort to split them apart, but it hadn't been all lies. she had been isolated, and cut-off, and running away from the team. so she's here, trying, now that it really counts. ]

When I caught up with her--it--at Elena's ceremony, she said something to me. That I've been standing against everyone, picking this mission over my family. [ her brow furrows. ] It wanted me to doubt. To get me to back down. I should have known then: Myri would never tell me to walk away. She would never want any of us to give up. Family protects each other.

[ with that decided, she turns to look at finnick. ] This didn't happen because of you. We were all ... Everyone was having a hard time. None of us stopped to think what blowback Myri was getting from all of that tension.

I did, though. I knew I was hurting her. That's why I told her to stay away from me. I didn't expect her to leave, but ... that's what happened. [he emits a small sigh. and then ... something occurs to him. (wis 15)]

She — well, not-her — had been trying to get me to stay at the castle, instead of shipping out with the rest of our team the next time we leave. She always worries so much, I thought it was just concern, but — I wonder if it was some kind of strategy, on its part. To single us out.

It was. [How long has she been conscious and listening??? We just don't know. But Myri's eyes are definitely open now, head turned so that she can look at the both of them at her bedside.]

He knew the best and worst parts of us, and he used that against us. He would have lead you all, one by one to the island, and to do that, you needed to feel disconnected. [Her hand squeezes Finnick's weakly.] But we're stronger than that. I see that now. Together, they can't stop us. That's why they needed to wait to take us alone.

[ buffy perks up at finnick's comment, straightening in her seat, but it's myri that really draws her attention. her head whips over to glance at the stirring blonde. she looks alert, but weak, and buffy can't help wondering how long she's been awake if her eyes are so open and clear now.

a sad fragment of a smile twists on buffy's lips as she considers myri's words. she's right, of course—she's always right. warmth glows behind her eyes, the kind of warmth that believes what she's saying with all her heart. they'd survived this. they would save thomas together, and they would win. for all the fear that she had allowed to shake her faith, having myri back has leveled it, regardless of the circumstances. she's not going to be railing on des for not taking this seriously enough anytime soon. ]

It is a pretty good sign that they had to try to split us apart to feel like they had a chance. [ which is a positive spin to put on a bleak and painful event, admittedly, but it's what she's holding onto. ] And we're together now. We'll save Thomas; I promise you we will. [ tears burn at the edges of her eyes, because she wants so badly to follow that up with an apology because she had failed to save myri. ]

We will. [he nods with determination. fuq u uncle jesse, he's not going anywhere now.] And Amaranth. [even though he hates that fucking cat sometimes IT'S HIS GIRLFRIEND'S CAT-DRAGON.]

Vi says Wynn won't let her leave, that he doesn't want her on missions until we've broken the bond with the drow god. I need- we need to talk to him. She needs to be there.

[Doing this together, being united with her family is so important to her right now. She understands why bringing her would be dangerous, but it would be dangerous for all of them and leaving anyone behind would only make them weaker.]

[ oh boy. minefield. she should have guessed she was walking into some such. here's the thing: there are a million good reasons for wynn to decide to bench violet from this mission until that's been dealt with, but myri also makes a very good point as well that their strength is in their bond to one another, and a missing link is just that.

buffy tilts her head, clearly hedging at the edge of a decision. ]

The last thing I want is for us to be split apart, but which is worse: losing Violet for a few months, or bringing her along and watching her die? That's not an exaggeration, it's a real possibility—worse, we might have to be the ones to do it. When we chased Keijen to Dominion, he used this mind control spell on Isabella. He took what she was already feeling and amplified it to turn her against Rafael and me. If Keijen can do that without blinking, what do you think his father can do to someone he's already got an in with?

In Vi's situation, it might be safer for her to stay. For now. I don't know how long it'll take to organize a trip there [they're obviously not just going to hop on the next plane like HOWDY Y'ALL WE'RE HERE TO PARTYYYY] so, maybe we'll ... have time. To fix what's broken in her. [diplomacy 38, son. feel it. he would rather have vi with them, too, but he's with buffy on this one.]

[She frowns slightly, clearly not happy with their opinion on the matter. But she'll talk to Wynn on her own if she has to.]

That island isn't safe for any of us. There's no way to prepare for what he'll have in store for each of us. I've seen it, and we'll need her. I know we will.

What we need is to make sure she's safe. That's the best thing we can do for her—if we can make that happen before we leave, Finnick's right, she'll come with us, but we can't put her in greater danger for our own sakes.

[ that's selfish; it's wrong. violet's best chance is here at the castle. ]

As much as we may or may not need her, if she's in a precarious state, I'd rather not risk her life.

I'd rather not risk any of you. I'd rather that Thomas wasn't being punished for coming to save me. [And maybe she would rather that they were all safe and she was still there, if that's what it took.]

There are some things that we don't get control over. All the more reason to protect each other when we do have the chance. Thomas is already in their hands, whether we like it or not—we don't get our rathers with that one, but we can still protect Violet.

[he jut nods in agreement with buffy. taking a backseat for the moment. ISN'T IT EERIE WHEN THEY AGREE ON THINGS???]

[It's not just eerie, it's downright irksome. But Myri just sighs, presumably relenting for now. She's not giving in on this but she doesn't want to argue with them. And she knows Buffy is way too stubborn to take on while she's still taking meals through a tube.]

Other than my own squire's promotion, was there anything else that I missed? [Her smile is weak and a little forced. But a change of topic could be nice.]

There ... might be something.

[ The shift, sidelong glance she shoots toward Finnick makes it clear that this is a thing she hasn't really broadcast at all yet. If any time is the time to stop keeping things from each other that make it obvious just how bad things are, it's Myri and Spike stumbling in half-dead with Jack. She looks back at Myri. ]

In the club in New York, Sehanine showed up. She called me some kind of ... champion against darkness, supposed to be driving demons out. Anyway, it made Des decide to come with me when I go out at night.[ Everyone has to know by now that 'going out for air' is Buffyspeak for 'demon hunting.' That's not the shocker. ]

When he tried to take a field trip the first time, we ran into something called a paopu. Or a ... baboon. One of those. Anyway, it's this demon ... assassin. [ She cringes. ] It didn't mess with Des. It knew he wasn't the one it wanted. It skipped straight past the human Weeble Wobble and nearly killed me. I think it was one of Chad's.

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[DA FUCK??? man y'all, we've really got to stop with the secrets. but ... better late than never. his expression darkens while buffy shares her baboon story.] What do you think it means?

Maybe they know what Sehanine knew. If the answer is available to the gods, we all know Chad has his connections.

And maybe our doppelfriend made it his business to tell them where to hit. These demons were in London. I was lucky I only had to fight one of them; there were two in the area, I wouldn't have stood a chance. I think it's more of what we saw this evening: they're trying to get us alone, break us apart, and pick us off.

[ She sits back in her chair, shaking her head and leveling her hands on the arms of it. ]

There's no telling how much information they got from this castle and passed along before you guys came back. Strengths, weaknesses, secrets. I think our best chance right now is to assume that they know everything we do and hope we're wrong.

All the more reason to stick together, really.

[She nods in agreement with Finnick.]

And maybe it's best that you two were keeping your distance from me before now. At least we know you weren't sharing much with Kyp that way.

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