Second Petal [video]

[rosetotheoccasion]

[Well this is... new. For those who know Ruby, they're probably used to see her as a bouncing ball of energy and excitement. Which isn't a bad thing - Ruby's a pretty upbeat kid who just wants to keep making sure her friends always feel that way too!

But now... now she looks a bit withdrawn. Not outright upset, but she most certainly has the look of someone that's really being bugged by something.]

... Hey, guys.

[Geez, even the way she talks is a bit deflated.]

I kinda have a question. People have been talking about their friends disappearing, and it kinda got me wondering...

When someone returns home, what if they... knew things. About stuff that happened that they didn't experience yet, 'cause someone knows what happened to them in the future, and told them about it.

[... Ah. The picture is becoming clearer now...]

Do you think... could what happened to them later on change, then?

Comments

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[quadrangle]

[LKASMFLEHGRFSHKLN]

ARE YOU NOT READING A FUCKING WORD I JUST WROTE? ARE THE WORDS SLIPPING PAST THE YAWNING CHASM MASQUERADING AS YOUR THINK PAN AND INTO THE STARLESS VOID BEYOND? I SAID EVERY FUCKING DECISION. EVERY. **FUCKING**. DECISION. ALL OF THEM CREATE TIMELINE OFFSHOOTS AND THERE IS ONLY ONE GODDAMN ALPHA. ******ONE.****** THAT'S WHY IS THE ALPHA!
I SWEAR IF I DIDN'T KNOW BETTER I'D SAY YOU WERE DELIBERATELY MISUNDERSTANDING ALL THIS SHIT JUST TO FUCK WITH ME, BUT NO! YOU ARE ACTUALLY THAT STUPID! OR THAT MOTHERFUCKING ENTRENCHED IN DENIAL, AND FRANKLY I CAN'T TELL WHICH IS WORSE.
YOU CAN'T SAVE YOUR FRIEND, ALRIGHT? END OF FUCKING STORY.

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[rosetotheoccasion]

[this is just the way he types don't take it too personally this is just the way he types don't take it too personally it doesn't--

but that

last line

that hits her like a boarbatusk charge straight to the face

because she tried so hard to make it past mercury. she knew something was wrong, she tried stopping it but she couldn't and--

between the chaos that followed and her time here, she never really addressed that. But being smacked in the face with that fact so bluntly

something in her chest twists so painfully that she can't even look at those words and the means she has to stop now before things get worse]

ok
i get it
i'm sorry

[... Because even during her bad times, Ruby just. Can't leave things hanging like that.]