Darkest Timeline AU Flashback Meme

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DARKEST TIMELINE AU FLASHBACK MEME
Did you work out something for your character's darkest timeline AU that you love so much it would be an absolute crime not to be able to write it out for real? WHAT LUCK! This meme is here for all your flashback-from-the-future needs. It's also the place to display sad single-character vignettes, letters that were never sent to dead friends, and anything else your dastardly little heart desires. Go forth and suffer.

The contents of this meme do not count for AC. For AC, you must participate in the real logs for the event, which will take place in Cloudreach 9:48, or else continue your normal non-event RP in the present (Guardian 9:43). However, you can count log threads in this meme toward your rewards points for the month.

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[samahl]

"Of course," he encourages. He always encourages her creativity and imagination. She needs that being an elvhen child growing up underground.

His heart is also soothed a bit by the fact that she wants to create something for him. It's harder to feel alone when she's there reminding him that he isn't. He still has someone to return to.

[mythalenaste]

"Ummmmm." It comforts her to hear his voice, and to know he hears hers. She loves her foster-parents, but there's no one like her Papa Cyril. She thinks as she pulls her clothes over her head.

"The bathtub is stinky," she decides on at last. "The bathtub is stinky, the bathtub is stinky and ugly..."

A halt in the proceedings as the performer pulls on a clean shift.

[samahl]

He finds himself chuckling as soon as she begins and lets her finish before talking. The sound is a bit softer than how he used to laugh, but at least it is a laugh.

[mythalenaste]

Success! A laugh! It's the most satisfying job she has ever done, and she decides right away that making him laugh is her life's work.

The rest of the song is very similar, and by the end of it she is ready for bed, and stops to allow her adoring public to applaud her work.

[samahl]

He does clap and even gives a quiet cheer. "That was wonderful, da'len," he says. "Now are you going to be all right with Frieda and Gunter?"

He asks not because he doesn't trust her to behave (even though sometimes her energy might test that) but because he knows she also is coping with the loss. Taas had been in her life for as long as she knows.

[mythalenaste]

That cheer makes her life. She soars, way too stoked to go to bed now.

"Today," she bubbles, "we went to the store."

Spoken like it's a veritable haven. Nirvana.

"And we got blackberries."

Now, this is indeed a luxury. Fresh fruit is very hard to find in Ortan Thaig, when it grows on the surface.

"Frieda made Blackberry Cobbler." The capitals are implied.

[samahl]

"Oh, wow, I bet that was tasty!" he replies. He also makes a mental note to repay Frieda for that somehow. It can't have been cheap to get blackberries. "Did you thank her?"

[mythalenaste]

"Yes," she says, and it's unclear whether it's a lie. Although she does not cover the stone when she yells, "THANK YOU FRIEDA!"

But Sina sometimes overdoes the joy and the thanks. She rarely thinks once is enough, whether it's thanks or 'the song that never ends.'

[samahl]

Cyril pulls his crystal back a bit and also makes a mental note to talk to her about yelling in those things later.

"That's good," he praises her being thoughtful and grateful and then settles down. He's still a little stuck on the idea of blackberries though. He wonders what he can possibly do to repay such a luxury and realizes, like a cold weight in his stomach, that Sina should have access to fresh berries every day. She should be a child of the wood and instead she's surrounded by stone and dirt.

He wants to be responsible and tell her to go to bed and end the conversation but leaving her voice would remind him that he's alone so instead he asks, "What else did you do today?" and remembers that she needs to know that she is heard too. He's not the only one dealing with loss.

[mythalenaste]

"Oommmmm," she answers thoughtfully, postponing the actual answer. Things don't change very much for dwarves who never go to the surface, and that is her most common frame of reference. "Gunter taught me how to make really big burps. Want to hear?"

She does not wait for him to answer.

[samahl]

He opens his mouth to answer but then she just goes ahead and does and then he laughs again despite himself.

"That's... really impressive!" he says, amused. "You'll have to show Merrick the next time he visits. He'll probably get a kick out of that."

He thinks, for a moment, that Taas might have enjoyed it too, might have liked touching her back or holding her while she did it and feeling those vibrations throughout her entire tiny body. He puts a hand to his mouth to hold back a choking sob. He swallows hard and continues, hiding any hint of pain from his voice.

"Maybe not do it at the dinner table though, da'len."