awashrpg | #FF8080 (backdated to before the event)

so there's this ~~hag~~ old granny in the forest. the last time i met her she asked us riddles and if we answered it correctly we'd get to ask one question. and if we got it wrong we got punished. which is unfair. i know riddles are normal for fairytales but some of us are just really bad at riddles!

anyway. lan wangji and i went into the forest a couple of days ago to see if we could find her again. since it seems like if we focus on something we can usually find it.

and we did find her! and she answered one question from each of us and wouldn't answer anymore like a real cheapskate.

but according to her, mr. f is the town, which honestly makes that whole 'clean up the town' quest we got in the beginning really, really weird.

but also, those pages we've been getting? apparently, the people who have those pages in the book get to go home in the end. which also brings up some new questions but it also makes me feel like i deserve a refund for that stupid mirror i got from the wish quest. since if those people's pages weren't in the book then the mirror had been lying!

[And she doesn't want to think about the implications of that...where did those people go?]

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right?? but it fits, doesn't it? in a weird, sappy sort of way.

i saw a lot of the past. but also there was this prediction where i'm from that's been changed but i've seen it there too. or, i think it is? i've never seen the prediction myself.

but it's true that i've never seen anything from here in there before...how does that ice work anyway?

Okay first of all, if love is the answer then what kind of love? Because there is plenty of friendship and bonds and shit. Archer throws around the word "love" like it's confetti. I'm also sure that he will absolutely love anyone who pays attention to him for more than fifteen seconds.

[ BAM, roasted. ]

I don't know how the ice works, but it's served a nice purpose for checking in on our homeworlds. I know mine is still alive and kicking. [ Probably not for long, tho'. ]

he is pretty easy, isn't he?

definitely romantic love, and friendship. i did go in with big bro caramia but it's hard to say if that's familial love or deep friendship...

in the end, i think any kind of love probably counts.

it is useful for that.

is there reason to think your world isn't alive and kicking?

Love was reason the young man went into the forest to find that hen, too, which might have started all of this mess to begin with. Maybe this place is waiting for some big romantic display to restore all the color in the world too, or something like that.

[ Damn just typing that out makes it sound so... so corny to her. But if some big romantic display is actually the key, then there's nothing either Pyra or Mythra can help on that front. ]

Things are pretty bad in my world, but it's still persisting. [ That's all she's going to say about that. ]

but then he lost his feelings, right? to the point where he didn't care about anyone. is that because he forgot how to love others?

what kind of big romantic display? i feel like, if all kinds of love apply, then there have been a lot of those already. just not like, ridiculously big ones like having the entire town work together to put on a musical number to propose marriage.

[Or something.]

i see. i'm glad it's still persisting. i hope things get better for your world.

Something along the lines of a finding that hen, apparently. You know, like quests in fairy tales that this town seems to be so fond of. [ REALLY SHE.... doesn't know what to suggest. ]

Speaking of, that hen story is ridiculous. The guy was an idiot, basically putting a spell over the guy he loved. That ain't right. Maybe the hen or the forest cursed him for forcing someone to love him back. If anything was "forgotten" way back then, it wasn't love, it was common decency.

[ As someone who had been spellbound by the flowers into thinking she loved another... waking up had been hell. Fuck that shit. ]

since this all began because of that hen it wouldn't surprise me.

ISN'T IT THOUGH? like, it's one thing to impress your love by getting a magical chicken. i can't blame a guy for trying to impress. but a magical chicken that makes someone love him? that's awful.

and let's talk about that friend of his! what's with telling him about that legend as a way to help? couldn't she have suggested something else? like small thoughtful gifts? maybe writing a poem? a song???

the more i think about it, the more messed up this story becomes. maybe we shouldn't even bother finding that hen.

we should. just to return it to the forest and let it know that not everyone is like that.

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