[Hello, Aelwyn, are you ready for the worst week of your life?]
i. for you never shut your eye (and you never woke up.) cw for references to magically induced sleep deprivation and PTSD
[Aelwyn has been having a really horrific time this entire week. She can't rest, can't trust her dreams, can't focus on anything. Even the work, the planning, it's all going down the drain because how can she plan anything when she's not even sure what's real.
Memory slips and the like are common, and some might even catch her crying to herself in her more and waking moments. But there's one phrase that she repeats incessantly whenever she sleepwalks.]
...you need to listen to me, there's a vault on the first floor.
...there's a vault on the first floor, Adaine. It's where they put our things.
ii. till the sun is in the sky (his destruction will know no bounds) cw for drowning, natural disasters, shipwreck, celebrity murder, stalking.
[Aelwyn's dream starts out relatively normal. She's supposed to get on a ship, go research... something. They found an... old nest of Kelpies and wanted researchers to accompany the investigators... Yeah.
But the important part is that she's supposed to get on the ship. And someone important's here. Someone incredibly important to The People. She's leaning against the railing when she notices a flash of black and a shining grin behind her.
But instead, it's just her co-worker.]
Oh, it's you. Thought I saw... it doesn't matter.
[Is it just her or are the clouds particularly dark today?]
iii. till the sun is in the sky (the sun shall fall from the heavens) cw for being trapped in a burning building, sorocide, kidnapping, unreality (obviously)
[She's remembers all the nightmares, and this time, as she stumbles through a house party run by those fuckwits over at the school she committed all that arson at, she knows that she's being followed. The black shade behind her, she knows that. The little girl laughing at her, she doesn't know that.
Is it Kalina, though? She's caught glimpses of her before but she's never spoken, not out loud to her. What's happening to her? What day is it? How long has she been asleep? Where is she?
She finds a quiet spot in the party, grabs a pocket watch she has in her hand and idly presses a button on it.
Time freezes to a screeching halt and she can finally breath.
...Only, she's not alone.]
Who's there?!
iv. till the sun is in the sky (the world as we know it will forever perish) cw for torture, sleep deprivation, parental abuse, gaslighting, starvation, inhumane treatment of prisoners
[This time, Aelwyn wakes up, staring ahead, bleary eyed and she immediately understands everything that's happened. Her memories are so clear.
She's back inside the orb. And she's hearing her father drone on and on and on.]
"Yes, I'm sure this was all very relaxing for you, Aelwyn, but your lackadaisical fantasies have come to an end. You've been drained of all your spellslots and the orb will continue it's functions shortly. You've made a real mess of things, you know."
[An elven man, with short blonde hair that looks like it's been combed back, rubs his forehead with irritation at the inconvenience caused to him by his eldest daughter getting the chance to sleep and dream of a world where she had another chance, where her sister loved her enough to come save her, where she could ever get away. Aelwyn's silent, staring, will completely broken.]
"There was talk of them just executing you, you know. I managed to talk them down, and it wasn't easy given your early escape attempts, but I managed it because I value the family name and do not wish to see it further dragged through the mud. Unlike the rest of you, apparently. Behave, and perhaps I might be able to undo the damage that the three of you have caused to our standing."
[He leaves, like he never existed at all, and a black cat person, drenched in the shadows, floats above the orb.]
"Tough break, kid. But hey, maybe someone here will save you."
[And she looks up at whoever's visiting this dream, and gives them a wink and a smirk.]
v. when the blazing sun is gone (if i go to hell will you come with me?) cw for excessive alcohol use, body horror, trying to brutally murder ren specifically
[Aelwyn's spirit is thoroughly soured, and the fact that they're even throwing this party makes her angry. But she goes, because she doesn't want to sour her relationships with this department as well, and she drinks. A lot. And all it serves to do is make her more miserable and detached.
She's wearing white facepaint and some cheap plastic horns over some skull makeup. What's she going as? Fuck off, that's what.
And then the real hunt begins. And she transforms.
Now she's finally a fiend, she growls a dry desolate chuckle.
Ah, so this is what she truly is at her core. A pure evil creature of the Nine Hells. Very well, then. If it worked for Penelope, surely it can work for her too. After all, she was her Queen.
But before finding her queen... It's time to find and KILL Ren Amamiya. And anyone on the road to get to him. Hell, while she's on the way, she'll just kill all the people who have looked down on her.]
vi. when he nothing shines upon (no, it never gave a damn about me)
[She wakes up in her own room. And she doesn't leave her apartment for a few days after that. If you want an in person interaction, you've either gotta be one of her roommates or come looking for her intentionally. Either way, she'll be prickly at best.]
un: aberration
If I hear any of you talk about the real life halloween party one more time, I will actually kill everyone in this office starting with myself.
Kind regards, A.A.
(To clarify for legal purposes, this is a joke. To clarify for you are all insane purposes, you are all completely fucking insane.)
Aelwyn Abernant | Fantasy High
i. for you never shut your eye (and you never woke up.)
cw for references to magically induced sleep deprivation and PTSD
[Aelwyn has been having a really horrific time this entire week. She can't rest, can't trust her dreams, can't focus on anything. Even the work, the planning, it's all going down the drain because how can she plan anything when she's not even sure what's real.
Memory slips and the like are common, and some might even catch her crying to herself in her more and waking moments. But there's one phrase that she repeats incessantly whenever she sleepwalks.]
...you need to listen to me, there's a vault on the first floor.
...there's a vault on the first floor, Adaine. It's where they put our things.
ii. till the sun is in the sky (his destruction will know no bounds)
cw for drowning, natural disasters, shipwreck, celebrity murder, stalking.
[Aelwyn's dream starts out relatively normal. She's supposed to get on a ship, go research... something. They found an... old nest of Kelpies and wanted researchers to accompany the investigators... Yeah.
But the important part is that she's supposed to get on the ship. And someone important's here. Someone incredibly important to The People. She's leaning against the railing when she notices a flash of black and a shining grin behind her.
But instead, it's just her co-worker.]
Oh, it's you. Thought I saw... it doesn't matter.
[Is it just her or are the clouds particularly dark today?]
iii. till the sun is in the sky (the sun shall fall from the heavens)
cw for being trapped in a burning building, sorocide, kidnapping, unreality (obviously)
[She's remembers all the nightmares, and this time, as she stumbles through a house party run by those fuckwits over at the school she committed all that arson at, she knows that she's being followed. The black shade behind her, she knows that. The little girl laughing at her, she doesn't know that.
Is it Kalina, though? She's caught glimpses of her before but she's never spoken, not out loud to her. What's happening to her? What day is it? How long has she been asleep? Where is she?
She finds a quiet spot in the party, grabs a pocket watch she has in her hand and idly presses a button on it.
Time freezes to a screeching halt and she can finally breath.
...Only, she's not alone.]
Who's there?!
iv. till the sun is in the sky (the world as we know it will forever perish)
cw for torture, sleep deprivation, parental abuse, gaslighting, starvation, inhumane treatment of prisoners
[This time, Aelwyn wakes up, staring ahead, bleary eyed and she immediately understands everything that's happened. Her memories are so clear.
She's back inside the orb. And she's hearing her father drone on and on and on.]
"Yes, I'm sure this was all very relaxing for you, Aelwyn, but your lackadaisical fantasies have come to an end. You've been drained of all your spellslots and the orb will continue it's functions shortly. You've made a real mess of things, you know."
[An elven man, with short blonde hair that looks like it's been combed back, rubs his forehead with irritation at the inconvenience caused to him by his eldest daughter getting the chance to sleep and dream of a world where she had another chance, where her sister loved her enough to come save her, where she could ever get away. Aelwyn's silent, staring, will completely broken.]
"There was talk of them just executing you, you know. I managed to talk them down, and it wasn't easy given your early escape attempts, but I managed it because I value the family name and do not wish to see it further dragged through the mud. Unlike the rest of you, apparently. Behave, and perhaps I might be able to undo the damage that the three of you have caused to our standing."
[He leaves, like he never existed at all, and a black cat person, drenched in the shadows, floats above the orb.]
"Tough break, kid. But hey, maybe someone here will save you."
[And she looks up at whoever's visiting this dream, and gives them a wink and a smirk.]
v. when the blazing sun is gone (if i go to hell will you come with me?)
cw for excessive alcohol use, body horror, trying to brutally murder ren specifically
[Aelwyn's spirit is thoroughly soured, and the fact that they're even throwing this party makes her angry. But she goes, because she doesn't want to sour her relationships with this department as well, and she drinks. A lot. And all it serves to do is make her more miserable and detached.
She's wearing white facepaint and some cheap plastic horns over some skull makeup. What's she going as? Fuck off, that's what.
And then the real hunt begins. And she transforms.
Now she's finally a fiend, she growls a dry desolate chuckle.
Ah, so this is what she truly is at her core. A pure evil creature of the Nine Hells. Very well, then. If it worked for Penelope, surely it can work for her too. After all, she was her Queen.
But before finding her queen... It's time to find and KILL Ren Amamiya. And anyone on the road to get to him. Hell, while she's on the way, she'll just kill all the people who have looked down on her.]
vi. when he nothing shines upon (no, it never gave a damn about me)
[She wakes up in her own room. And she doesn't leave her apartment for a few days after that. If you want an in person interaction, you've either gotta be one of her roommates or come looking for her intentionally. Either way, she'll be prickly at best.]
un: aberration
If I hear any of you talk about the real life halloween party one more time, I will actually kill everyone in this office starting with myself.
Kind regards, A.A.
(To clarify for legal purposes, this is a joke. To clarify for you are all insane purposes, you are all completely fucking insane.)