Character(s): Penelope Wilhern and Otogi Ryuuji
Content: Hopefully a new friendship starting /o/
Setting: Muspelheim Gate
Time: Evening-ish
Warnings: . . . I have no idea. Will add if it comes up. Otogi might flirt. Apparently. |D
Well, this was it! Penelope was going out on her own! To live her own life! She'd be free of her mother and her ridiculous that somewhere out there, there was some perfect blue blood man that could stand to look at her long enough to marry her and break the curse. Honestly, the only way that was going to happen was if they found a blind man, which wasn't to say that Jessica Wilhern and Wanda hadn't tried already. Apparently there weren't any blind, blue blooded, single men in the area. Either that, or even they weren't willing to be connected to someone so repulsively monstrous.
No more of that, though. No more being courted by young men through a two-way mirror. No more watching people run away screaming in fear when they saw her nose. Namely because they wouldn't see it anymore, not if Penelope had anything to say about it. She'd spend the rest of her life wearing her scarf around her nose, probably. She actually hadn't really thought too far into the future about it, she just needed to get away, get out there on her own and start her life. She'd go to school and become a horticulturist, whether or not she ever broke the curse, which Penelope wasn't expecting to ever happen.
But the only way she could do any of what she really wanted to was to get out from under her mother's rule. Penelope loved her mother, really, but there was only so much pushing that she could take. This last suitor, Max, had just proven to her that it wouldn't matter how many men she met anyway, they would always run away, and it just hurt too much having to watch it. Knowing that they were running from her. From her nose. But no more. Penelope's life was going to be different. And it would all start as soon as she opened the gate of the Wilhern Estate to the world outside.
Though . . . she'd never realized that the world outside had been built under a bunch of enormous domes. Huh.