Sol ☼ Thomas "Tan" Moore (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
secretofthefox) wrote2015-09-12 05:09 pm
secretofthefox) wrote2015-09-12 05:09 pm
Memory 33
Negative Neutral: Metal (?) vs Ice
Won: Day 171
Game: feelings jam
Summary
While exploring the ice catacombs, Tan, Fiere and Laura finally come across a door that leads to a set of stairs up. It's not the most well-maintained set of stairs, but considering that they fell down a hole, and therefore the way out is presumably up, this is a welcome discovery, and they head up, Tan helping Laura over the more messed up steps.
At the top of the stairs is a hallway, and at the end of the hallway is an open door, which leads to the sanctuary of the cathedral. Laura goes through the doorway first, and Tan makes to follow, but suddenly, a thick sheet of ice springs up between the two of them. Tan tries to melt it with ice, but no matter how much he and Fiere put into it, it just won't melt.
So he hits the ice wall in frustration, and then starts running down the hallway to try to find an alternate route, because he's got a really bad feeling. The first door yields nothing, but the second finds him in a chapel off the main cathedral, with a couple of windows that look right in. All his fire can't destroy them either, somehow, but he can see in. He can see the choir loft, where Norbert and Kim have been trying to work on the ice wall up there - Norbert catches his eye and adds him to a telepathic network he's got set up, so he can at least hear what's going on. The Thompsons and Rena are still downstairs trying to figure things out down there, but it's not long before they come to the still-locked doors themselves.
And Laura is in the sanctuary, along with a woman with dark, curly hair who looks... the best way to put it is older than she should.
Tan recognizes her, from the funeral many years ago - Jessica, his mom's friend. Tony at first looks happy to see her, though it's only a moment before his expression changes to one of shock. Nina's ghost appears next to him, her reaction worried.
And Kim flips out and starts attacking the ice with double the effort, screaming "Get away from Nee-chan!" Because this woman, Jessica Biggs, was Laura's teacher three years ago when her classmates attacked her.
And from the monologue she starts on (it's not like Laura's going to interrupt), she didn't just not punish the students who attacked. Oh no. She encouraged them. Gave them the idea, even. Her body is enshrouded in wisps of dark grey, an obvious aura of Null, one that she seems to have fully embraced.
Why get the students to attack Laura, back then? Because she is so, so frail and weak, but targeting her would draw out the Angel of Metal so that it could be captured. Of course, that didn't go as planned, until today.
Laura doesn't say anything, but from her expression, Biggs smirks and asks if she'd like to know what she means by that, and then tells her anyway. Laura Mackentire was never the Angel of Metal. That honor belongs to Alexander Roland, Biggs' TA who cared too much for Laura. All this time, she's been tapping into his power through the necklace he gave her. She's nothing but a decoy at best, a thief at worst.
Everyone else is shocked, no one more so than Kim. But Laura... Laura just stands there a moment, before writing a thing on her note pad and showing her former teacher a single message:
I know.
What He Learns
☼ Jessica Biggs is evil.
☼ She caused the Playground Brawl.
☼ Wow what an asshole authority figure.
☼ But she probably hadn't been corrupted back when she was his mom's friend, right...?
☼ That's what an Angel who's been fully corrupted by the Null looks like.
☼ (...that's what he could have become, so easily...)
☼ Laura isn't actually the Angel of Metal.
☼ It's actually Alex, she's just borrowing his power through that necklace that keeps glowing.
☼ While he's in a coma.
☼ Which he fell into when the kids knocked him out.
☼ And Laura knew that?
☼ ...Does explain that male mystery voice during Broken Soul, though, if that was Alex.
☼ And considering this takes place after the starter memory, maybe that's where she figured it out...?
☼ THIS ALL JUST RAISES FURTHER QUESTIONS.
Notes
To be continued!
Won: Day 171
Game: feelings jam
Summary
While exploring the ice catacombs, Tan, Fiere and Laura finally come across a door that leads to a set of stairs up. It's not the most well-maintained set of stairs, but considering that they fell down a hole, and therefore the way out is presumably up, this is a welcome discovery, and they head up, Tan helping Laura over the more messed up steps.
At the top of the stairs is a hallway, and at the end of the hallway is an open door, which leads to the sanctuary of the cathedral. Laura goes through the doorway first, and Tan makes to follow, but suddenly, a thick sheet of ice springs up between the two of them. Tan tries to melt it with ice, but no matter how much he and Fiere put into it, it just won't melt.
So he hits the ice wall in frustration, and then starts running down the hallway to try to find an alternate route, because he's got a really bad feeling. The first door yields nothing, but the second finds him in a chapel off the main cathedral, with a couple of windows that look right in. All his fire can't destroy them either, somehow, but he can see in. He can see the choir loft, where Norbert and Kim have been trying to work on the ice wall up there - Norbert catches his eye and adds him to a telepathic network he's got set up, so he can at least hear what's going on. The Thompsons and Rena are still downstairs trying to figure things out down there, but it's not long before they come to the still-locked doors themselves.
And Laura is in the sanctuary, along with a woman with dark, curly hair who looks... the best way to put it is older than she should.
Tan recognizes her, from the funeral many years ago - Jessica, his mom's friend. Tony at first looks happy to see her, though it's only a moment before his expression changes to one of shock. Nina's ghost appears next to him, her reaction worried.
And Kim flips out and starts attacking the ice with double the effort, screaming "Get away from Nee-chan!" Because this woman, Jessica Biggs, was Laura's teacher three years ago when her classmates attacked her.
And from the monologue she starts on (it's not like Laura's going to interrupt), she didn't just not punish the students who attacked. Oh no. She encouraged them. Gave them the idea, even. Her body is enshrouded in wisps of dark grey, an obvious aura of Null, one that she seems to have fully embraced.
Why get the students to attack Laura, back then? Because she is so, so frail and weak, but targeting her would draw out the Angel of Metal so that it could be captured. Of course, that didn't go as planned, until today.
Laura doesn't say anything, but from her expression, Biggs smirks and asks if she'd like to know what she means by that, and then tells her anyway. Laura Mackentire was never the Angel of Metal. That honor belongs to Alexander Roland, Biggs' TA who cared too much for Laura. All this time, she's been tapping into his power through the necklace he gave her. She's nothing but a decoy at best, a thief at worst.
Everyone else is shocked, no one more so than Kim. But Laura... Laura just stands there a moment, before writing a thing on her note pad and showing her former teacher a single message:
I know.
What He Learns
☼ Jessica Biggs is evil.
☼ She caused the Playground Brawl.
☼ Wow what an asshole authority figure.
☼ But she probably hadn't been corrupted back when she was his mom's friend, right...?
☼ That's what an Angel who's been fully corrupted by the Null looks like.
☼ (...that's what he could have become, so easily...)
☼ Laura isn't actually the Angel of Metal.
☼ It's actually Alex, she's just borrowing his power through that necklace that keeps glowing.
☼ While he's in a coma.
☼ Which he fell into when the kids knocked him out.
☼ And Laura knew that?
☼ ...Does explain that male mystery voice during Broken Soul, though, if that was Alex.
☼ And considering this takes place after the starter memory, maybe that's where she figured it out...?
☼ THIS ALL JUST RAISES FURTHER QUESTIONS.
Notes
To be continued!