#lookingformuchness

[mxrana]

@lookingformuchness || continued.

“It… it…it is a Monarchy of Mattresses! And I, of course, am tae Monarsh of…oh!” He blinked a few times, trying to focus on three Miranas all at once. “’Tis tae Queen! There beh a major problem here, nauw.”

Mirana shook her head with a chuckle. He has certainly consumed a bit too much ‘mad tea’. “Do not fear, Your Majesty. I come in peace and wish to sign a treaty. I promise I shall not encroach your Monarchy of Mattresses.”

[irasciblempresse]

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           The letter had been penned much in the manner one could expect – as a cease and desist order – in as sincere a hand as Iracebeth could muster. She would be lying if she said she was unamused by the situation, but she also couldn’t stand disorder be it under her own reign or her sister’s.

            It was a shame the letter didn’t seem to do much, except send a flood of responses to Marmoreal. That the true queen was being held hostage, that they would free her, that they would not rest until the bloody red queen ruled again. Truthfully, it made the old ex-queen laugh – she shouldn’t have, there were people dying over it, but she couldn’t help but cackle with each new letter. Things were always rosier on the other side, it seemed.

            A stranger truth – she didn’t want to reclaim the throne.

                      She was old, older by the minute it seemed. Too much stress made her heart race and threaten to explode inside her. Her own vengeance had been completed, to her mind, and Underland could go to rot, ruin, or even worse, success for all she cared.

           They didn’t seem to believe her though. So she was set out from house arrest and assigned a slightly ironic guard.

            The smirk had been wiped from her lips at the notion.

                                    “Hightopp.”

[irasciblempresse]

8, 12, 20

ASK THE MUN ABOUT THEIR WRITING!  - not accepting (Beneath the cut because this got very ranty and rambly

8. How has roleplaying, specifically, impacted yourlife?

                   {I’ve learned a lot from the characters I play. The way I roleplay, it’s hard for me to not think about them in the day-to-day. When faced with ethical choices, I think about what my character would do - and frequently do the opposite since I have a villainous taste in muses. It’s also helped my acting, since I’m so used to thinking about nuances, characters come together very naturally.}

12. Isthere a quote from a piece of literature that holds great value to you? What isit and why is it important to you?

                     {There’s a lot of them but I’m feelin real fricking sassy today so I’m gonna pick this one.

         “These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the bourgeois.“

                          I have a very odd, complicated relationship with Les Miserables, both the book and the musical. I actually read the book before I saw the musical or movie for a book report in my sophomore year of high school and subsequently a lot of it was blur until I reread it several years later. This is how Monsieur and Madame Thenardier are introduced to us and it is so very, very Hugo. It’s also the way a lot of my peers in school look at me.

                          I go to a private Catholic university (no I’m not catholic, nor am I anti-catholic, blah blah blah) on a loooooooooooooot of scholarship money. Basically I pay less tuition here than I would at a public school, and the education is great for me. That said, a lot of kids around me come from a lot of very old money, and though we’re primarily a liberal school (nothin wrong with that), i don’t fit into their definition of poor so I’m neither pitied nor am I one of them.

                         It’s not something to write home about, nor any real point of adversity, but there’ll be points where I’ll say “Hey guys, can we go somewhere cheap to eat for lunch today, I’m kinda broke” and mean I’ve got exactly six dollars in my bank account, they’ll agree, and we somehow end up in a gastropub where everything is 15-20 dollars. And when I ask how that happened, they’ll go “Yeah I know this is cheap, we’re broke too”

                         It’s that kinda thing. So even though I’m much better off than a lot of people and I’m very grateful for that, I relate to this judgement of the Thenardiers. Even if they’re villians (and in the book they’re villians because they’re lower middle class don’t even get me started), I get them better than I get the rich college kids in the book and the world around me}

20. Who are your top three favorite fictionalcharacters and why? 

                  {This is such a mean questionnnnnnnnnn how am I supposed to choose between my children? ;w;

                   -deep breath- Okay, the first one I’m gonna list are Madame and Monsieur Thenardier whO I’M COUNTING AS ONE CAUSE THEY’RE TWO HALVES OF THE SAME WHOLE FIGHT ME. As mentioned above, weird relationship with les miz. I got into the musical after a really bad breakup - the kind which required me to call the cops - so Marius, Cosette, and Eponine held no appeal to me at all. 

                   I love the honor-among-thieves archetype, and I love the two-halves of the same whole one as well. basically, these two are the best combination of my favorite tropes and got played by SBC and HBC in the hollywood remake so yas

                   Second one is Nympathodra Tonks, who was one of my first cosplays. She and her Auntie Bellatrix are the ones who gave me self-confidence in high school and I can’t think of HP without thinking of her <3

                    Thirdly is Nancy Sikes who I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Obviously I love thieves and pickpockets and doxies and you don’t know how many hours I spend researching this time period, but even more importantly, Nancy is the only female character Dickens ever wrote who actually feels like a person to me. Yes, she’s dramatized to an extent, but her motives are so real, she goes back and forth between her decisions, she’s frightened but so brave and just argh

                       More nancies please we need them <3}

[irasciblempresse]

The Fool. The World.

PUT A TAROT CARD IN MY INBOX AND I'LL ANSWER THE QUESTION!- Not accepting

THE FOOL: What is the stupidest thing your muse has ever done?

                Having her husband executed, honestly. The two were made for each other, and he was the only one consistently able to keep a cool head. But then, of course, she knows this. She’s in active denial about it, but she knows it.

THE WORLD: What has been your muse's greatest success?

                 The victory of the War of the West. I really need to expand on this sometime, but a few years after her parents had passed and Iracebeth was new on the throne (having had Mirana surrender the title with a mixture of threats, logic, and fear), the country to the West attempted an invasion of Wonderland. With a military force of only the Card Guard she had created and the might of the Jabberwock, Underlandian forces not only won the war but expanded their might into half of the offending country

[irasciblempresse]

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           The pen scratching at parchment would have driven some mad, as the author did not so much write as attack with her words. That said, one could expect nothing less of Iracebeth of Crims, even when she was redrafting a peace agreement with the Country to the West.

           Though Underland had quieted muchly since Iracebeth had been defeated and brought back to Marmoreal once and for all, the palace itself had taken on a somewhat surreal air. Even though her chambers took up hardly any room in the grand scheme of things, because everyone refused to live within yards of her, the entire wing had been wholeheartedly abandoned. Most of the servants refused to wait upon her, requiring that the good queen hire back some of the Red Queen’s old staff.

          So the ex-queen stayed in her chambers under a sort of self-imposed house arrest, working through ill-drafted laws her sister had attempted to pass and closing up loopholes. You could say what you wished about the tyrant, but she’d always had a gift with paperwork.

          The best way to be granted a meeting was to appeal to the younger, of course, as she seemed hell-bent on making her older sister apologize for what she’d done. Those meetings seldom went as planned, but the idea was sweet.

[irasciblempresse]

[May I grace the court with this url: lookingformuchness :)]

MY OPINION ON; Lookingformuchness

CHARACTER IN GENERAL: Tarrant and I’ve always had a complicated relationship. Like Mirana, he’s not my favorite, but that’s mostly because he’s in a movie with so many of my favorite character archetypes. I love the good man in a bad situation that is Bayard, I adore Mally’s fierce irreverence, Absolem’s nonsensical wisdom. In any other movie, Tarrant would almost certainly be one of my faves, but as it stands, I don’t think about him as much as I should.HOW THEY PLAY THEM: Honestly you play him fantastically. The perfect mix of madness and kindness, of bitterness about the past and a drive to change the future. And the accent markings, oh mannnn you do so well. Keep it up! <3THE MUN: I haven’t spoken much with them, sadly, but they seem sweet and I look forward to getting to know them~

DO I:

RP WITH THEM: Yeeeeeep!!! And I’m glad to do so!WANT TO RP WITH THEM:  Absolutely <3 They’ve got a great grasp on Tarrant and I always love seeing them on my dashboard 

WHAT IS MY;

OVERALL OPINION: A complex character played well by a mysterious somebody I’d love to get to know as a partner and person <3

[irasciblempresse]

"There is no room at this table."

                    “I am queen! There is always room for me!” Iracebeth scowled, glaring over the table of rebels. She knew they couldn’t be moved, not by her or any other force - save Alice - but that didn’t stop her from attempting. 

         Nothing if not stubborn, as the saying went.

                    “What do you know about Marmoreal’s plan to invade Quest, Hatman?” 

          It was not uncommon for the queen to attempt these interrogation sessions, as she couldn’t be harmed, save by a stray hatpin. Unfortunately, all she could learn was what Mirana confided in the Hatter, and moreover, what he would deign fit to tell her. It was infuriating.

          But it was her best lead at the moment.