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🌸 Miracle Country Mods 🌸 ([info]miraclemods) wrote in [info]miraclecountry,
@ 2018-06-03 20:33:00

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Current mood: productive
Entry tags:! event, ; memory loss event, chise hatori, chloe decker, chloe price, ciel phantomhive, cisco ramon, eliot waugh, harrison 'harry' wells, kady orloff-diaz, lucifer morningstar, quentin coldwater, sakura kinomoto, sebastian michaelis, tulio, william 'penny' adiyodi

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[It's been some time since the world's magic has played in this way. But some of the eldest residents will probably notice some of the signs.

It all feels normal at first, as normal as life in Miracle Country can get. But people will start to feel off in some ways. Like something's missing... or more precisely, like they're losing something. Important memories, and the feelings attached to them, they're slipping away, shed in the form of magical feathers that people will lose here and there throughout the day. The way to recover these? Someone else has to pick them up for you.



When they do, they'll be sucked into a dreamlike state, along with the owner of the memory. You'll dive into a dark, empty place, only to watch at a distance whichever memory was lost. Only when it's been shared, will this memory return to where it belongs - and of course, while happy memories can be shared, some of them can be painful to experience again as they're recovered.

Then again, it'd be painful to lose them forever, right? Even the hurtful things in your past make you who you are now. So you might even end up seeking for someone to take a feather for you, to give those important memories back. And if you leave them alone, if you ignore them, maybe someone you don't want taking them will do it instead... the feathers might find their way into the wrong hands - any hands, as long as they can get back to you. They don't want to be separated, afterall.]

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[info]servingdinner
2018-08-01 08:23 pm UTC (link)
If I may, I do not believe I said it bothers me.

[Yes yes, she had a point in saying that which he's ignoring. Judging others is his favourite hobby; don't take it from him.]

Rather, it is somewhat interesting to see how human-like he is, in spite of what he is - even if that inevitably means he is dreadfully poor at understanding his own feelings.

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[info]ohdetective
2018-08-02 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Having feelings isn't a strictly human thing, you know.

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[info]servingdinner
2018-08-02 08:39 pm UTC (link)
Oh, to some extent, no.

[He shrugs lightly.]

Yet, people are very enamoured with that idea, are they not? 'Do creatures other than humans feel?' 'Do they love?' 'If they do, do they so enough to be like humans?'

What I mean is, I was surprised to find he is human-like in his emotions, not to find he has feelings to begin with.

[Sebastian: continues being really good at saying completely normal human things.]

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[info]ohdetective
2018-08-03 04:24 am UTC (link)
[Yeah, you're totally a convincing human.]

And what sort of emotions were you expecting from him, then?

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[info]servingdinner
2018-08-04 05:30 pm UTC (link)
Ah, well... Cruelty, for one.

[Lucifer sometimes talks big about all the horrible torture he's inflicted on people and how good he is at it, but as someone who is truly, genuinely cruel? Sebastian doesn't buy it.]

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[info]ohdetective
2018-08-07 03:17 am UTC (link)
Well... It's understandable to expect that, considering, but then I guess that just proves his point that people don't understand the real story. And that people are quick to not give him enough credit.

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[info]servingdinner
2018-08-12 08:51 pm UTC (link)
Oh, [he says, shaking his head: that isn't how he meant it, you see--] people's ideas of anything transcending their own reality will be full of inaccuracies - that is inescapable. I would take no human account on such things as fact.

[He's not expecting cruelty because of the human fairytales about the Devil, no. Rather...]

There is a cruelty to all beings standing above lesser creatures, no? Certainly it seems so from the perspective of those lesser creatures; mythologies from all over the world tell of gods, angels, demons and spirits that cruelly toy with human lives, unheeding of the value of what to them seem short, insignificant existences. Is that not so?

[Now, human lives are short and insignificant, of course, but that's beside the point.]

What I mean to say is, I would have expected him to be cruel, not because of what he has or has not done or because what truth there is to the stories about him, but because of what he is. Whether devil or angel, that which stands above humanity seldom has much kindness to spare for it.

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[info]ohdetective
2018-08-13 03:37 am UTC (link)
That seems to me like a generalization. Not everything larger than something smaller, as you define it, is going to end up being automatically cruel. [She can understand the reasoning, and she's by no means saying it doesn't happen or can be the case. Considering her line of work, she's seen a lot of cruelty in the world.]

I'm not sure it can always be so simply black and white. Especially not when it comes to him.

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[info]servingdinner
2018-08-13 08:20 pm UTC (link)
[Hmm.]

Well, generalisations by definition paint the world in broad strokes. Would it seem less offensive a generalisation, were I to say I chiefly had supernatural creatures in mind?

[Not all humans kick puppies just because the puppies are smaller, yadda yadda.]

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[info]ohdetective
2018-08-13 08:55 pm UTC (link)
[Sigh.]

I wonder if supernatural creatures would protest, then, in that case.

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[info]servingdinner
2018-08-14 07:54 pm UTC (link)
Some supernatural creatures would protest, no doubt, were any assessment of their character off by even the slightest margin.

[e__e Ie, don't worry; he knows better than to tell Mr Sensitive-About-His-Image that he's a softie.]

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[info]ohdetective
2018-08-14 11:45 pm UTC (link)
[Smiles a bit, despite herself.]

That's probably true of a lot of people, regardless. [And by people she means humans and non-humans alike.]

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[info]servingdinner
2018-08-18 08:08 pm UTC (link)
[It should be noted that Sebastian tells Lucifer he's a softie at least twice a week. But at least he knows the consequences of this action.]

Regardless, I know well what kind of person he is by now, and come this point his sentimentality does not surprise me as much.

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[info]ohdetective
2018-08-20 10:14 pm UTC (link)
[She fights back the very small smile. Despite Sebastian's relative judgement, she finds Luci's sentimentality to be very sweet. So.]

No, I think that'd be a little hard to miss.

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[info]servingdinner
2018-09-02 07:26 pm UTC (link)
["Sweet" is... one word for it.]

To put it lightly, surely. Knowing him for but five minutes--

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[info]servingdinner
2018-09-02 07:31 pm UTC (link)
[He doesn't get to finish that - no doubt very kind and insightful - comment before another feather conveniently begins see-sawing down nearby. Almost as if it wants to be noticed.]

Ah... again, it seems.

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[info]ohdetective
2018-09-02 09:21 pm UTC (link)
[Eyes it with a frown.]

Is it another one of mine? [She doesn't feel like she's missing anything...]

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[info]servingdinner
2018-09-09 12:23 pm UTC (link)
Considering the incredible subtlety of this world, that seems likely.

[Because, as previously established, the notion that Sebastian should have any important memories to miss is very silly.]

Shall we get it over with, then? If you do not mind.

[Assuming she doesn't disagree, he reaches out a hand to capture the feather, wondering with a sigh whether they'll be here all day, as if neither of them have better things to do--]

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[info]servingdinner
2018-09-09 12:35 pm UTC (link)
[As the memory starts playing, it quickly becomes clear that it's from when Lucifer first arrived in this world: his and Sebastian's first meeting.

No one utters the word "demon" or even "angel", but there's an immediate recognition between the two of them; there's "our kind" and "we" as opposed to "humans", Lucifer asking if Sebastian too left their home.]

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[info]ohdetective
2018-09-11 08:31 pm UTC (link)
[Well, considering her understanding of Lucifer's entire situation now, and her already admittedly quiet suspicion about Sebastian seeming more than he seems-- the absence of 'angel' and 'demon' isn't enough to leave her incapable of figuring out what's going on. She's-- surprised and not surprised?]

[-- wait.]

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[info]servingdinner
2018-09-12 09:22 pm UTC (link)
[Ah--]

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[info]servingdinner
2018-09-12 09:36 pm UTC (link)
Goodness, treating an interaction like that like it is significant or interesting in any way...

[What, did someone dig through Sebastian's memories, all the way back to that day, because this was somehow the most poignant scene they could think of? Such a person could stand to find better things to do with their time, Sebastian thinks.

...Also, if he pretends like nothing maybe no one will focus on all that "we don't sound like we're human" talk in that memory.]

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[info]ohdetective
2018-09-19 05:53 pm UTC (link)
[Look, maybe a few months ago, before learning everything about Lucifer, maybe she'd be quick to take that line of interpretation and be satisfied with that.

Now, though, this memory's making some things a lot clearer, and certainly it makes more sense than anything else. (And really, pour one out for the concept of "HE'S A DEMON" making sense, sob, her life...).

She gives him a long, assessing look-- silent for a moment, not responding to whatever dismissive words he's saying, as she can see it for the deflection it is.]

[...]

... Really. [That's all she says. Really. That's what you're going with?]

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[info]servingdinner
2018-09-23 04:18 pm UTC (link)
[Yes, well... In his defense it's very, very difficult to explain away his true identity once someone's aware that "demon" is a possibility.

Sebastian sighs, meeting her gaze and holding it. Fine, then:]

Find you riddles in it that need explaining? ["Yes, I'm not human. Are you surprised?"]

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[info]ohdetective
2018-09-30 02:30 am UTC (link)
I... [sighs.] I honestly shouldn't be surprised, in hindsight.

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