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[Thread] Let the dice fly

Nov 04, 2008 20:57

Characters: Cheshire Cat (AU), OPEN
Where: Around Econtra
When: Daytime
Summary: Cat's gone a-prowling, who will he find?
Warnings: Cat has a tendency to appear and disappear, and the personality-switch may catch you unawares? Otherwise, none.

( Taking his chances and venturing out )

[american mcgee's alice] cheshire cat, [equilibrium] john preston, [american mcgee's alice] alice liddell

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darker_alice November 5 2008, 02:27:03 UTC

And neither did she have any intention of letting it die. Alice had felt a pull to him now, more powerful, but of course that would be the case after getting the weapons back. Alice had been alone, and submitted to not having an ounce of life from her world return, but the cuffs were gone now, weren't they? Oh, it was tempting, to let that squirrely amateur figment in her dorm know what a nightmare was like, but now was not the time for that. No, she was sure Helena had her own fight to battle, although if that dark girl and Joker decided to combine forces, she'd have to get involved. She wouldn't deny one man his chaos, but it simply wouldn't do to us Helena's body for it.

But all of that could wait. All of that time feeling something was missing was gone, and she had the means of destruction back...and now, here, was one of her dearest friends, her testament of survival.

"Hello Cheshire cat," she said. "Glad to see you up and about then."

feline_nonsense November 6 2008, 16:10:38 UTC

(OOC: Hey! Sorry, I didn't get the email notification that you'd replied! Just saw your post now!)Alice? Alice ( ... )

darker_alice November 7 2008, 03:07:22 UTC

Alice smiled. "I'm glad for that. It's been terribly boring being in a world that isn't your own, but the danger is just as imminent. Yet this situation is madder than anything I could think of: an army of random characters with power or not, and throwing in the absurd with potions to make you all funny and friendships coming and going. Its no way I've ever fought, really, and to endure all of this without a weapon? It was more than I could bear ( ... )

feline_nonsense November 10 2008, 16:13:05 UTC

Cat cocked his head and flicked his tail, swick-swish!, eyes gone lambent but the light in them still pulsing as if a heartbeat. Still the same Alice, he'd said, copying the furless and their wont to judge by appearances. Didn't Cat know better than that? But still the same? Oh no, not necessarily. The Outside was different, had to be. Wonderland was made for one girl and one girl alone. Past the Looking Glass, everyone needed to share ( ... )

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payitgladly November 5 2008, 05:08:39 UTC

Preston was still growing used to this--society, if you would--and he ventured out every so often to continue to acclimate himself properly. Everything here was so--different. He imagined it would be scary for someone who felt emotions. He did not.

He walked around the plaza area with idle interest. It was here that he had "died" and been "reborn" in the earlier incident with the arrival of the Keepers. That had taken place only a few days after his initial arrival. Not a lot of time to adjust to a new place before being thrust into the middle of things, to say the least. Fortunately, nothing phased the Cleric. Literally.

But now he knew this wasn't some sort of twisted nightmare--he'd never really had one of those before, had he?--and he knew he'd have to adjust or nature would take over and destroy him utterly. That was not acceptable.

He stopped near the fountain and his fingers lightly touched the stone lip of the above-ground pool its base created, his eyes scanning his surroundings constantly.

feline_nonsense November 5 2008, 21:32:34 UTC

What was this? Cat flicked an ear in interest, setting the jaunty gold hoop bored through it a-glitter in the sunlight. Golden eyes flickered as he padded higher up the side of the wall to get a closer look. Big and tall, tall and big, all done in black like a half-deck of cards. What was he? An Ace, a Jack, a King?

Hopping off the roof a nearby building, he flickered out of existence, and reappeared perched quite neatly on the edge of the fountain, quite near to the stranger's fingertips but not near enough. Cats are no stranger to startled reflexes after all. He glanced down at their broken reflections in the water surface. Cracking, cracking, wavering and breaking, was that all they could do?

"If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. At what crossroads do you stand?" he asked, watching the reflection of the man cautiously with eyes glittering green.

After all, Alice had killed a Red King too.

payitgladly November 7 2008, 04:23:24 UTC

The sound of the voice so nearby did indeed startle the Cleric into quick movement. His head and most of his body spun around to stare directly at the large feline perched so near his fingers. The hand jerked away and played idly at his side with nothing particular. The movement was quick and startled--but the Cleric's expression was not, and neither was anything after that. His muscles settled into a relaxed position shortly after the initial excitement ( ... )

feline_nonsense November 10 2008, 17:33:19 UTC

Well this was interesting. This stranger was one of a whole, no broken bits about him, a stone where there should be a face. But Cat had a suspicion, a little piece of a thought, that that wasn't the way things were supposed to be. Perhaps this one had been made too, chiseled away like a chess piece until that was what he was.

Cat turned to look at him, properly, no longer the cracks in the water that the face didn't have. "A good answer," he replied, customary grin widening, "But if you were me, you would find that they are one and the same, tumbled one over the next."

So many questions to ask, the world between your paws, looking and looking like a crystal ball. And yet... "I am a dream," Cat replied with a grin, "One to whom self-awareness is no stranger. If and when that happens... anything's possible."

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