(w8)(4)(me) (i'm coming with you) // a multi-fandom multi-muse featuring the following fandoms: Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Stardew Valley, Starkid, Mario Franchise, Popee the Performer, original characters (Élodie Leroux)
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IMPORTANT PSA:
❄️ I’m going to be very upfront about this. I am a chronic blog abandoner when my motivation drops or my interests shift. There’s a good chance this blog will have a complete drop in activity and pick back up several weeks or months later (and I will make sure to let everyone know). If this isn’t your cup of tea for ANY reason, you are more than welcome to unfollow me when I put the blog on hiatus and re-follow when I come back.
❄️ I am currently working full-time, Tuesday through Friday, and am in college doing prerequisites for a dental hygiene degree, which means that my activity will be higher during the weekend.
RULES:
❄️ Please have your age somewhere easily accessible on your blog. I do not write with minors. I am 29 years old, and if you are a minor that follows or attempts to write with me, I will block you.
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ABOUT ME:
❄️ My name is Andy, and I work as a dental assistant! I live in the United States on the West Coast (time zone is PST-8), and I use they/them pronouns
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Ralsei experimenting with gender when he realizes that he can be his own person and not just a stepping stone for the lightners. Ralsei experimenting with many facets of himself. The possibilities are endless.
The next thing Popee remembers is opening his eyes, staring at the cloudless, blue sky. Kedamono is close by on his right, hovering over him with a worried expression, but Popee merely shoves him away, sitting up and rubbing his head. It happened again. He died and woke up like nothing had changed. No unbearable warmth, no ringing in his ears, no... darkness.
Wait. He remembers now that Kris was with him. Looking left and right, he expects to see them lying there, but they weren't. Kedamono seems confused, tilting his head to the side, his mask falling to reveal a new one underneath. The communication is clear; no one else was with you when I found you.
They hadn't had another person in Wolf Zurkus before Papi came along. He couldn't even begin to understand what cruel magic kept them alive here, but he hoped silently that it extended this curse to people who visited, too.
Kedamono tried to cheer him up, offering him an apple. Popee took it after a moment, and they sat there together for a while as the world continued to revolve.
A week passes. No sign of Kris. Life has essentially gone back to normal; Popee is sitting there watching Kedamono perform a trick with ease. His tail twitches with annoyance at how effortlessly he's able to pull it off, but Kedamono stops suddenly, perched on the ball he was balancing on, and points behind Popee.
It's Kris. They came back.
And from first glance, they seem unhurt, like the magic of the circus worked. The two of them come over to meet Kris, making no effort to hide the fact they were searching for signs that what happened actually happened.
Do they remember the Sun being thrown at the Earth? Do they remember the impact? Do they remember the act of thrusting a knife into the ground, only for it to bleed black?
"大丈夫ですか?" (Are you okay?) Popee asks, tilting his head to the side.
Seeing Popee, Kris has tension visibly release from their shoulders, before... this wasn't the scene when they'd made it out here last time. was it? Did time not rewind outside of town? Was that not time rewinding? If so, then what was it?
Their head hurt, and there's a faint grimace to show it... and the japanese... wasn't helping. "Don't... really know japanese outside of anime still..." they did have that dinner, right? Yeah, that was before the last time they'd poked the invisible light. Right? this was messing with their head.
"Going to go by tone and body language here to... guess you also remember that? But then, that doesn't line up with me just redoing the last week more or less all over again like I went back in time..."
"Lesson learned I guess. Don't jokingly cover for you in regards to whoever that guy was." They're trying to make light of it.
Kedamono looks to Popee when Kris starts speaking; his English is not as good, but his tail wags behind him as they speak as a sign that he's content, at least, that they seem okay. Dazed and confused, maybe, but standing, talking, and breathing. Though he's still puzzled at the fact they were somewhere else entirely upon waking. He didn't understand it either, nor does he pretend to. Had they just woken up, even though a week passed? Had he not looked hard enough, even though he hadn't even known they had company?
Popee, on the other hand, seems annoyed, suddenly, by that comment. He huffs, and his tail begins to twitch as he shifts his weight from one foot to the other, but switches to English for convenience sake regardless, "I always remember."
It's a subtle hint that this is not the first time he's experienced death in the circus and probably won't be the last.
He raises an eyebrow when they mumble something under their breath. "Huh? Speak up. I can't understand you when you do that."
That guy? Were they referring to Papi? They hadn't seen him since he threw the sun down on Earth a second time. He was probably fucking off somewhere. Good riddance, too. Popee is still mad that the act had been done, and this time, it hadn't even been his fault! It was the fault of that Calypso girl! She even told him so!
Kedamono pokes his side and asks him something in Japanese.
"Earlier, I asked you if you were alright." It's not so much a question as it is a statement, but the two of them stare expectantly as though waiting for an answer anyway.
He decidedly does not have time to begin to try and decipher this strange message, realizing, instead, with abject horror, that, careful as he'd been since Weirdmaggedon ended, he'd let something happen to his family right under his nose.
To the average tourist, the day seems perfectly normal; he can hear Soos leading a troupe around now, talking excitedly about their newest attraction, the air is warm, children are enjoying overpriced popsicles in the shade of a tree outside. But to Stanford, it's lacking something crucial; the voices of the younger Pines and their friends running about.
But wait. Now that he's had a moment to think, he remembers something. The Operator. He's heard that name before, but where?
He frowns, six fingered hand resting on his chin. That's right... he'd never encountered this creature himself, but he'd spoken to those who have. They'd given vague answers, unable to really remember what happened when they'd gotten lost in the woods, but they'd all said similar things about the experience; the creature had them find its pages, stumbling through the woods under suffocating darkness, static at the edge of their vision and their mind.
Had this thing taken the children?
It would meet the wrath of both of the older Pines twins if it had. But the trouble is, Stanford still doesn't know how to stop it. Those he interviewed all said they didn't know how they'd gotten home, only assuming that they must have won the game and it'd set them free. The younger Pines were both brilliant in their own rights and resilient. But they were still children.
He makes sure he has a gun on his hip, journal tucked in his coat, and kicks open the front door for no reason. "I'm going out," is all he says to Soos when he walks by, towards the woods, and into the unknown.
Tomorrow is the start of my work week. I work until Friday. I have things queued and several drafts to finish, and I will pop in here periodically to say hi
"Yikes! I gotta restock for the trick-or-treaters!"
"And that weird bunch of rootbeer barrels for the old prospector with the ten-gallon hat; he actually likes the failed batch with the overpowering anise!"
"That's right! We're going to go ALL out for Summerween this year, Grunkle Stan! We have to! We can even use that horrible trick or treat monster as inspiration!"
"I took the liberty of hiring this awesome witch lady to cater the event! I found her store after rolling down a hill! It was a match made in heaven! You'll let her into the event free, right, Grunkle Stan?"
Free? Who said anything about free? He looked at her and then at Mabel, unimpressed.
"So, your candy's good, huh? How good we talkin'? You do free samples?"