[ ...He wheezes a little, and sighs heavily. Reaching up to adjust the cap on his head. ]
Well, shit. We can't just dick around out there until day falls... if we're gonna have to be stuck here, we might as well get something out of it, right?
[ Fuck. Alright, he's walking in first. How's the hallway looking, and how are we feeling? ]
[you're feeling pretty damn bad, actually! which is to say: as aikawa progresses into the hallway, where he can catch glimpses of some students dutifully at work in their classroom through the windows, his bad feelings get more and more intense.
that'll be the case for the others if they try to catch up to him, too, but if they just stay where they are in the courtyard they don't get any better or worse.
well, they'll also see a blackish-purplish sheened butterfly flutter past them in pursuit of aikawa.]
It's... Somethin' about a Hawkmoth. Prays on your negative emotions and amplifies them. Makes ya feel like the only way you get what ya want is through listenin' to it.
[This is the summary he remembers from twoish weeks ago.]
[he saw her memories, but nothing with this school or the tower in it. either way, he's looking alarmed at the butterfly! and the intensifying feelings.]
Are we sure this isn't... I mean, are we sure we're doing the right thing?
anyway. when he snatches the butterfly out of the air, it seems to be absorbed into his glove. (is he wearing a glove? his icon looks like he's wearing a glove but i can't tell. if he's not wearing a glove it's absorbed into his knife or whatever.) there's a glowing purple light that takes the form of the outline of a butterfly that forms over his face - almost like a mask - and then he'll hear a voice in his head...]
You, there... I am Hawkmoth. You don't want to be trapped in that atrocious daycare forever, do you...? I can give you the power to escape from it, and to bring everyone out of there with you. I'll just need you to do one thing for me in return... bring me the Miraculouses.
[also there's the faint sound of butterfly wings flapping in the distance... hmmm... any of you who are experiencing stronger bad vibes because you got closer better watch out...]
[back in his lair, hawkmoth's eye twitches. also, he does not get out of aikawa's head. in fact, the mask-shaped light around his face just glows a little brighter.]
Oh, I'm not going anywhere... I'm here to help you, after all. We can help each other. With the Miraculouses, we can achieve anything. I'll get what I want, and I can give you whatever you want.
[a pause, and then - ]
I can even make it so that once this is over, the only voice you'll ever hear in your head again is your own. Wouldn't it be nice to be completely your own person...?
[flap flap, go the sound of butterfly wings in the distance... quick question, of the remaining three, which of them is closest to aikawa?]
[ well, aikawa seems to be having a crisis but it's also his own ding dang fault, so crow's gonna peer in a few classrooms while he tell whatever mysterious asshole is controlling the butterflies where to get off. ]
As long as he keeps telling the voice to take a hike, he should be fine.
[ Wow he's not having a crisis YET. Thanks guys. Real bro team that he's got here. He's scrunching his nose under his mask, just so you know. That being said, he quiets and stills when McDramatic Silverface moves onto the next thing. For a moment, he's silent.
Fuck... it's a thought that makes him pause, but shake his head slightly. That's way too good to be true for some weird butterfly hallucination to give him.
'...Can you hear this? I don't gotta ask everything out loud, do I?' A quiet thought to himself. He immediately feels a little bit dumb for trying this but the alternative is talking to himself like a madman. Inb4 Britt tells me no he has to argue with him out loud. ]
...Yeah. I'm fine... keep scoping the place, I guess. Think I'll keep looking around the hallways...
[ Rupert you're so nice. Hawkmoth be nice to our twinkboss please. ]
[bradley's vibes remain the same as they were - still kind of bad, but not overwhelmingly so. crow's bad vibes are worsening as he peers into the classroms. hey, one of the classrooms has a familiar face! that's lila! she's bent over a paper and scribbling something. well, they all are. maybe they're taking a test?
when rupert steps towards aikawa, his bad vibes intensify strongly. also, he'll see a blackish-purplish butterfly fluttering toward him.
and unfortunately for aikawa he is, in fact, going to have to talk to himself like a madman because canon leads me to believe that this conversation has to be had out loud. also, his bad vibes intensify strongly as well, so have fun with that.]
Well? What will it be? Don't you just want to be yourself again?
[wow! he hates these vibes! but more importantly...]
—Stop leaving, he's clearly having a situation over here!
[BRADLEY!! But anyways, he's going to actually follow him towards the school to try and get away from this horrible butterfly, though he pauses to look at Aikawa before he does.]
Let's go, okay? Maybe it'll get better if you aren't in the courtyard...
[ Hate that, thank you. He's really glad that he's wearing his mask right now -- but as those bad vibes worsen, something else comes to his mind. No, literally. A piercing pain and then a dull headache, making him clutch his head. Just another reminder to add onto those bad feelings of the things that are being promised away. ]
Ugh -- fuck -- not this...!
[ Sorry Rupert, but Aikawa is -- gonna put some space between himself and you, suddenly taking off deeper into the school. Running off to be alone, the number one way to die in any horror story. While muttering under his breath. ]
Hell -- fine, I'm listening. [ It's not like he has much of a choice right now??? ] But you still have to tell me what the Miracle -- Miraculouses? What those things are... and how the hell we get out of here...!
[exploring the school is just fine and dandy! only, bradley's bad vibes will worsen as he gets deeper into the school, too. there are plenty of closed doors - some with windows nearby that clearly lead into classrooms, which students are learning in, and some with no windows at all. hmm, what could be behind those? there's only one way to find out.
crow will see a bunch of other students in the classroom along with her! they're not doing anything particularly interesting, though. just taking their test. well, the dude in the red hoodie keeps glancing at the clock every couple of seconds as if that's going to make the class end any faster. also, the longer he looks, the more intense his bad vibes will get?
oh, poor rupert. getting further into the school also intensifies the bad vibes. doubly so if he actually runs after aikawa!
all three of them are now having butterflies flutter after them. even rupert, who has dodged the first one; it's just looping around to come after him again.
as for aikawa...]
They're magical jewelry that bestow powers upon the people who use them. The ones I want most are the earrings of the Ladybug and the ring of the Black Cat, which contain the ultimate power of creation and destruction... Ladybug and Chat Noir will be coming after you themselves or sending their allies to fight for them. Once you bring those to me, I'll be able to destroy anything you wish to see gone from this world, and to create anything else in its place. To assist you with that, I can give you a power of your own right now.
[ oof well. that's enough of that. crow's not actually sprinting off in the opposite direction just yet, but he will turn away from the classroom and decidedly not make eye contact with that butterfly, fuck u hawkmoth.
he's just gonna shout in the direction aikawa ran off in. ]
You okay in there? No being taken over by evil beings, or offering up your soul to the demon butterfly?
[AAAAAAA he watches him run off for a second, hesitating, before:]
Bradley, if you don't follow us I'm going to be so mad!
[he has zero trust that bradley is going to follow them. but yeah, he's just sprinting off after aikawa once that's said! despite these Bad Feelings he isn't going to stop. as he runs, despite the party conclusively proving that aikawa is in fact faster:]
How many times do I have to tell you it's not a good idea to run off...?!
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Well, shit. We can't just dick around out there until day falls... if we're gonna have to be stuck here, we might as well get something out of it, right?
[ Fuck. Alright, he's walking in first. How's the hallway looking, and how are we feeling? ]
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that'll be the case for the others if they try to catch up to him, too, but if they just stay where they are in the courtyard they don't get any better or worse.
well, they'll also see a blackish-purplish sheened butterfly flutter past them in pursuit of aikawa.]
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[This is the summary he remembers from twoish weeks ago.]
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So, this Hawkmoth thing is, what. Everywhere? We saw one over by the tower and now here too?
[ -- oh, right. ]
Careful Aikawa, it seems pretty fond of you.
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Wait - are we in Lila's world...?
[he saw her memories, but nothing with this school or the tower in it. either way, he's looking alarmed at the butterfly! and the intensifying feelings.]
Are we sure this isn't... I mean, are we sure we're doing the right thing?
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Alright, so don't listen to them, right...? That's the moral here?
...Dunno what else we're supposed to do here, Rupert. Not a whole lot of options for us.
[ He already sounds audibly unwilling and exhausted by the idea of it, and also these emotions, but.
...
If a butterfly comes too close to him, he'll attempt to snatch it out of the air. ]
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that sure is a choice, aikawa.
anyway. when he snatches the butterfly out of the air, it seems to be absorbed into his glove. (is he wearing a glove? his icon looks like he's wearing a glove but i can't tell. if he's not wearing a glove it's absorbed into his knife or whatever.) there's a glowing purple light that takes the form of the outline of a butterfly that forms over his face - almost like a mask - and then he'll hear a voice in his head...]
You, there... I am Hawkmoth. You don't want to be trapped in that atrocious daycare forever, do you...? I can give you the power to escape from it, and to bring everyone out of there with you. I'll just need you to do one thing for me in return... bring me the Miraculouses.
[also there's the faint sound of butterfly wings flapping in the distance... hmmm... any of you who are experiencing stronger bad vibes because you got closer better watch out...]
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Why did he grab the butterfly? Seriouslyâ
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[to aikawa:]
You good...?
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He holds his head. Oh no, not this bullshit again. ]
Ugh -- what the hell... get out of my head...! [ And he's ABOUT to get angrier, except, well. No, there are more pressing questions. ]
If you -- if you touch a butterfly, you're gonna get weird voices in your head. So if it wasn't obvious enough to probably not touch one, you know!
[ But he breathes. Okay. What next? ]
...Who are you? The hell is the Miraculouses?
[ Said as if it's a singular thing because Miraculouses is just too much of a word. ]
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Oh, I'm not going anywhere... I'm here to help you, after all. We can help each other. With the Miraculouses, we can achieve anything. I'll get what I want, and I can give you whatever you want.
[a pause, and then - ]
I can even make it so that once this is over, the only voice you'll ever hear in your head again is your own. Wouldn't it be nice to be completely your own person...?
[flap flap, go the sound of butterfly wings in the distance... quick question, of the remaining three, which of them is closest to aikawa?]
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[Aikawa clearly is not.
Bradley's still in the courtyard.]
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As long as he keeps telling the voice to take a hike, he should be fine.
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Hey - maybe if you don't talk to it, it'll go away? Does it hurt at all...?
[to crow:]
Don't wander off too far—
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Fuck... it's a thought that makes him pause, but shake his head slightly. That's way too good to be true for some weird butterfly hallucination to give him.
'...Can you hear this? I don't gotta ask everything out loud, do I?' A quiet thought to himself. He immediately feels a little bit dumb for trying this but the alternative is talking to himself like a madman. Inb4 Britt tells me no he has to argue with him out loud. ]
...Yeah. I'm fine... keep scoping the place, I guess. Think I'll keep looking around the hallways...
[ Rupert you're so nice. Hawkmoth be nice to our twinkboss please. ]
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when rupert steps towards aikawa, his bad vibes intensify strongly. also, he'll see a blackish-purplish butterfly fluttering toward him.
and unfortunately for aikawa he is, in fact, going to have to talk to himself like a madman because canon leads me to believe that this conversation has to be had out loud. also, his bad vibes intensify strongly as well, so have fun with that.]
Well? What will it be? Don't you just want to be yourself again?
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He's going to start walking into the school. Bad vibes be damned, he wants to explore.]
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Lila?
[ caaaan she hear him? well, maybe he shouldn't be interupting a test.... can he see anything interesting in the classroom other than lila herself? ]
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—Stop leaving, he's clearly having a situation over here!
[BRADLEY!! But anyways, he's going to actually follow him towards the school to try and get away from this horrible butterfly, though he pauses to look at Aikawa before he does.]
Let's go, okay? Maybe it'll get better if you aren't in the courtyard...
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Ugh -- fuck -- not this...!
[ Sorry Rupert, but Aikawa is -- gonna put some space between himself and you, suddenly taking off deeper into the school. Running off to be alone, the number one way to die in any horror story. While muttering under his breath. ]
Hell -- fine, I'm listening. [ It's not like he has much of a choice right now??? ] But you still have to tell me what the Miracle -- Miraculouses? What those things are... and how the hell we get out of here...!
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crow will see a bunch of other students in the classroom along with her! they're not doing anything particularly interesting, though. just taking their test. well, the dude in the red hoodie keeps glancing at the clock every couple of seconds as if that's going to make the class end any faster. also, the longer he looks, the more intense his bad vibes will get?
oh, poor rupert. getting further into the school also intensifies the bad vibes. doubly so if he actually runs after aikawa!
all three of them are now having butterflies flutter after them. even rupert, who has dodged the first one; it's just looping around to come after him again.
as for aikawa...]
They're magical jewelry that bestow powers upon the people who use them. The ones I want most are the earrings of the Ladybug and the ring of the Black Cat, which contain the ultimate power of creation and destruction... Ladybug and Chat Noir will be coming after you themselves or sending their allies to fight for them. Once you bring those to me, I'll be able to destroy anything you wish to see gone from this world, and to create anything else in its place. To assist you with that, I can give you a power of your own right now.
So? Do we have a deal?
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The rest of this team: Gonna ignore that advice immediately.
Bradley does just attempt to yank the windowless door open. What's over here?]
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he's just gonna shout in the direction aikawa ran off in. ]
You okay in there? No being taken over by evil beings, or offering up your soul to the demon butterfly?
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Bradley, if you don't follow us I'm going to be so mad!
[he has zero trust that bradley is going to follow them. but yeah, he's just sprinting off after aikawa once that's said! despite these Bad Feelings he isn't going to stop. as he runs, despite the party conclusively proving that aikawa is in fact faster:]
How many times do I have to tell you it's not a good idea to run off...?!
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