#iwillprxvail

                The woman that stood before her was (looked) HUMAN which                 was more than she could say for MOST of the creatures in this                 infernal dimension. It seemed creatures from here were slipping                 into her dimension and the gods were not happy about this. Mary,                 as the youngest of the harpies, got stuck with the bitch job. 

ahhhhhhhhhhh!!

he doesn’t know how thishappened, but he’s not sure it MATTERS—-

     ( there’s so much blood,       there’s so much and        he can’t breathe for the       stench of it and his       hands press over the       wound but it’s MUCH        too late by now and—- )

   and he’s crying.

         of course he’s crying.

❝ i—--

           HATTER.

                          don’t go. ❞

it’s such a stupid, pointless, RIDICULOUS thing to say,but it’s the only thing he canforce past the barricade inhis throat.

     ( and there’s a few of those       mindless soldiers he’d       once thought to save        RUNNING for a doctor       who might be able to fix       this, but he knows it’s       too late———she’s already       halfway gone. )

mun’s interpretation

♤ has your muse developed to be different from their canon selves through roleplay?

well. sort of ??  viv started off as… decidedly AU anyway, so it’s not so much that she developed away from canon as she started off that way. 

♧ any part of their canon portrayal you dislike?

hummmmm well i believe i’ve mentioned before that i’m not. a huge fan. of the movie overall, & i feel like the characterization of all the secondary characters, viv included, lacked depth, so there’s that ?  w/r/t musical canon i don’t. think there’s anything i actively dislike, so much as i just. wish there were more.

the supporting cast in the musical feels a lot more grounded in reality to me but ??  it’s still super sparse on the details. the only thing we know abt viv’s backstory is that she went to boarding school w/ warner  ( and some stuff per word of god abt viv feeling a lot of pressure to succeed & losing sight of whether she’s actually happy, altho even that still just hinted vaguely at there maybe being high expectations from home. )

which gets back to the last question, & the fact that ?  even the parts of viv’s backstory that aren’t obviously AU are still made up out of whole cloth. i’d just love to have had more to work w/ from the start.

✦ has your own interpretation changed from when you first began playing the character?

the magic stuff came. kind of out of nowhere quite a bit after i started writing viv  ( a bit after the first time around w/ this blog, iirc )  & it is @everybodyriise‘s fault entirely. she prompted me for a oneshot w/ viv doing magic and it. uh. stuck.

❝ i can explain !! ❞

he has NO idea what, in particular, the hatter mightbe WORRIED about, butthat seems to cover mostof his bases.

       except—-

   ❝ UNLESS—-do you       think the DANDELION      tea is... too much ?? ❞

❝ —-if you’re another ASSASSIN,    i’d suggest finding a quieter means    of entry next time. 

WIP guessing game!

Unsurprisingly, both of these are from Rust

Sad detail from before Morris meets not-Hatter-yet

The beams oxidize under the paint which then flakes off once there is nothing left to hold it in place, and then it seems to have come all of a sudden.

Sad detail from Matter asking Morris to imagine his favorite place

iwillprxvail​

❝ i KNOW it wasn’t. ❞

and really. it wasn’t. the queen’s ANGER at her repeated strays from the land beyond the looking glass were no one’s fault but her own. STILL, she could not stop her eyes from darkening out of frustration.

    ❝ it was MINE. that woman,        she’s INFURIATED and doesn’t        understand that i DO have tea        party meetings to lead and things to do !!

                                       i’m. sorry. ❞

reassured now that HATTER wasn’t a n g r y  with him, he lifted a hand to touch her shoulder—-fleetingly, feather- light-—the flash-fire guilt he’d felt when she became UPSET in the first place cooling into concern.

   ❝ not YOURS, either. ❞

she COULDN’T be held to blame for her royal pain’s irrational behavior—- her position with the tea party came with RESPONSIBILITIES, and hatter had better sense than to NEGLECT them. it was the queen who had no understanding of OBLIGATION  or DUTY——one only had to look  for a mere second at an archive of her royal decrees to realize that !!