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capemods ([personal profile] capemods) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2014-01-07 04:57 pm

of those blackholes & revelations

WHO: All imPorts.
WHERE: Atropos.
WHEN: January 7th to January 14th.
WARNINGS: Death and destruction.
SUMMARY: Atropos has risen in the night, and the inevitable has come: with her jaws she shears away the City from Earth and swallows it whole.

But the City is not yet dead.
FORMAT: Whatever you please.



The formless mass of metal haunting above, hovering like a lunar tombstone, begins to take shape. Asteroids plummet into the cheeks, the eyes, carving out bone structure. Her features howl with fury, with triumph, as she stares down below, savoring her conquest. A cavity opens. Metal swoops to form jagged, angry shears. Her teeth are born.

She waits as the world rotates, its spin more wobbly than it used to be.

And then she leans down to feast, her bite vampiric. She takes the City and then some, and all that it encompasses, so that every single imPort is captured. She takes the time to drink in any stragglers, any imPorts elusive to the City's thrall.

She holds the City on her tongue as she draws back her fist to punch the world.

And then teeth close to the shuddering, glass shattering vibration of a cosmic laugh. The jaws close, and there is no light for about an hour -- until Atropos begins to siphon solar energy from the sun into her veins. She is dissatisfied with its dying tint, or perhaps she cannot stand the redness of color, so once she injects this energy into her her body (her most intimate domain), she turns it bright yellow again. The universe within her is illuminated.

The City is a floating chunk of broken skyscrapers and puckered asphalt streets. The trauma of consumption has wrecked the usual infrastructure: buildings are half collapses, or skeletal, vehicles are flipped and strewn across the layout. Whatever vegetation that is still clinging onto life has rejoiced under the return of normal sunlight.

You can breathe. It isn't too hot, or too cold -- it's unusually pleasant, in fact. The sunshine veins that light your world are not overwhelming. There is no blue sky to complement the atmosphere, and whatever water still in the City will be constrained to the bottled kind found in shops.

But there are other floating pieces of worlds, and they might have water. Or food.

If you live in the City, your possessions should still be in the City. While about 76% of the natives have fled the City (which had gotten the brunt of focus over the past week), there are still some natives who were too sick, too sentimental or too stubborn to leave.

You'll find that your powers work normally, though you can't teleport within Atropos. You probably wouldn't want to teleport outside of her, anyway.

She swallows, and the City gentle glides down a slick throat. Dust and particles create stunning visuals, like the aurora borealis, except in warmer colors. Light reflects so easily from solar veins and starstrewn flesh.

While you can breathe easily, gravity is fickle. Physics is often defied. Atropos was never one to play by the rules.
shipper: (❝from falling in the snow❞)

[personal profile] shipper 2014-01-16 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kanaya's tears only pull more out of her, her small body shaking with sobs too big for it to contain. she hasn't seen Kanaya in so long, hasn't spoken to her kindly in longer. this shouldn't have been their reunion]

I just wanted to h-help!

[she wants to pull the other girl close, cling to her like a life preserver, but the fork in her chest prevents it. she holds on as much as she can, hiccuping and sniffling and trying to choke out more of her words. Nepeta's voice is soft when she speaks, its wobbliness belying the vulnerability behind the words.]

I'm scared.
glowsferatu: sad (pic#5222551)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-01-17 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that's the worst part of it, if they could have put aside their differences earlier, if kanaya hadn't been so stubborn, this wouldn't have had to happen. they could have faced it together from the start rather than separately, and what a terrifying collaboration that would have been for their enemies. she could have done better by nepeta, especially when she knows this could be the last time she'll have a chance. this is all her fault. ]

You did your best, you fought bravely. [ fear now she can't be faulted for, knowing what's coming, knowing what waits on the other side. who wouldn't be scared in the face of it? helpless.

helpless.

it's the part that hangs most heavily. kanaya hates being helpless, hates just standing by and watching as a friend, and she is still a friend despite it all, die. she can avenge her to some group of doomed guards, but that would be meaningless, empty. there's only one power kanaya knows that can stop this.

she catches her breath and realizes she's balled her fists, knuckles going white. her jaw sets, she can't accept this sitting down. so she breaks her embrace, bracing the fork in nepeta's back in one hand, minimizing the movement to avoid aggravating the wound, and with all the fury of her impotence in the situation she snaps the handle to reduce its length. then, slipping one arm under nepeta's to cradle her head, the other moves under her legs before she stands up. her voice comes out lower, cracking but determined.
]

Don't be scared. We won't let this be the end.
Edited 2014-01-18 20:26 (UTC)