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You know it’s um... really dehumanizing. To do the whole "oh no not aNOTHER __ person @brain put them back" and openly act angry and deny someone’s existence, especially on the basis of things they can’t help like who they are and where they come from even to the point of using it as your entire basis of why you won’t let them talk to people or interact at all with the outworld even if they want to.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Night In The Woods (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Mae Borowski & Bea Santello, No Romantic Relationship(s), platonic relationship - Relationship Characters: Mae Borowski, Bea Santello Additional Tags: road trip fic, they finally get to go on that road trip they planned, a year later but still, Fluff, JUST, pure platonic fluff, and them being dorks, Friendship, friendfic, Road Trip, old west town, Candy factory, pirate analogies, haunted novelty shop, beach, I dont know how to tag things, road trip au, Kinda, its not rly an au, Canon Compliant, Post canon, jumpin joe, yes this is a character in the fic, fight me, also sheriff burr, youll see - Freeform Summary:

🌸 … Oh by Swogan… ok fine. Why not. 🌸 🦌  Yessssssssss >:^D 🦌1) How many system members are there?🦌 22 in the system proper! 🦌 2) Youngest member? Oldest?🌸 Lliana’s the youngest, they just turned 6. Keleshekt’s… the oldest of us who keeps track of ages. Drae’s 1087. 🌸 3) Any friendships within the system?🦌  Yes! Many :^D A lot of us have kind of friend groups I guess we tend to hang out with, but folks don’t really stick to those specifically friendship wise either! 🦌 4) Any relationships within the system?🌸 Swogan and I are in a… romantic relationship. Jack and Vae are partners in another way, and Jack just asked Vae to be queerplatonic partners recently, which they’re still talking out. 🌸🌸 I don’t think there’s anything else… official though. 🌸 5) Does your system have a name?🌸 The Papercraft, or The Papercraft System. Collectively we decided on the first name Dust, since Selkey only fits some of us anymore. 🌸6) Any fictives or factives in the system?🌸 Yes, a few. 🌸 7) What does the headspace/inner world look like? Is it just one building/area, several, or more? 🌸 It’s a world, and probably more we just haven’t seen. Vae… wrote about it, in the last ask game. It’s here. 🌸 8) Do members have separate rooms/areas? Does anyone share a room?🦌 They’re usually seperate! But Theta and Owl share a house, as do Marrow and Teiran! (Theren’s staying there right now too, but he usually lives in his own by the lakes)Lliana, Torik, and Kallista are all living with Owl since we needed to keep an eye on their health for a while after they came here but they should be moving into the other rooms in Marrow and Tei’s house soon!Other than that Rose, Ross, and Ebony all made their home in the cave system, with a bunk room they all sleep in and they’re working on getting Nolita (who isn’t in the system proper, but lives in the area) to join them there since it’s definitely more sheltered than where she is right now. :^TThey don’t always live together but Sorrow sometimes joins 9) Any unused rooms/areas?🌸 A lot, The Papercraft always seemed abandoned but not… as if someone left, as if it was made like this, and no one was ever there. 🌸 10) Unexplored rooms/areas?🦌 Plenty! :^D And it’s awesome, I’m thinking of organizing an expedition of sorts once I have our fronting method all revamped so they work better/give us all more control! 🦌 11) Who likes/dislikes being in the headspace/inner world?🌸 It… varies, but whether we like it or not we’re here, so we’ve had to come to terms with it. It’s better than some places or… situations some of us were in before. 🌸 12) Any members who never leave the headspace/inner world?🦌 The ones outside of the system proper mainly! Several of them haven’t left at all yet, some of them even seem kind of stuck here? :^0c I know South is for sure!🦌 13) What do members do in the headspace?🌸 Live. Normal things, just… in our own bodies instead of this one. Sometimes things this body couldn’t do. 🌸 14) Is anyone religious? What are their religions?🌸 Rose and Ebony are Quaker, Owl… was Atheist but has taken a middle ground between that and pantheism, I worship Swogan - my archfey - but I think all gods exist, 15) Who cofronts the most often (what group/pair)?🦌 No one in particular? :^0c We get front burn after a few hours usually, we switch out a lot and it really depends on if something needs to be done that day in particular and stuff too! We do tend to cofront more with people we’re close to though I guess? 🦌 16) Are there any otherkin in the system?🌸 I’m… rabbitkin. I know Clell’s quailkin, but most of us either were and… changed, somehow, so instead of a kintype that’s just what they are, or their species has some… malleability to it, so it can’t apply. 🌸 🦌 Like me! :^D 🦌 🌸 Like you. 🌸 17) What is something that system members have very different opinions on?🦌 Marmite, coffee, our nature/origins, lots of things! :^0 Tbh I’d be super surprised if we didn’t have different opinions on a lot considering how many of us there are. 🦌 18) Does anyone talk with a different voice in the outer world? In the inner world?🌸 If we have an accent, or a speaking tick it stays the same. The body does change how we sound overall though. It’s a different size, and shape, and for most of us it’s a different species. We can’t get the voice to be exactly what ours usually are. 🌸 9) Favourite part of the inner world/headspace?🌸 The lakes, and the cave system underneath. 🌸 🦌 You’ve explored that? :^0c 🦌 🌸 A little. 🌸 🦌 Cave diving can be dangerous though! ;A; 🦌 🌸 I’m careful, it’s fine. It’s… very pretty down there, and it’s lit well by the… plants, or creatures maybe who grow on the sides. I like the city too, and I haven’t been everywhere, but the lakes and cave system just… relax me. 🌸 🦌 Aaa fine just make sure someone’s around when you’re doing that D^: 🦌 🌸 I do Vae, don’t worry. 🌸 🦌 I like the forest best I think! The dryads I’ve met there are wonderful people, I’m so glad they decided it was a nice place to be! The sky is nice too, and I love exploring it! But it’s also kind of intimidating to be up where when a Diver could appear out of nowhere any time. 🦌 20) Least favourite part of the inner world/headspace?🦌 The dormancy room, underneath Owl’s lab. It isn’t bad in itself! :^0 But… Dave’s been there for a while, and when I go there I always keep worrying about him. 🦌 🌸 There’s a house, around where Vae usually puts the food. It’s… stupid, but I try to avoid it when I can. It’s harmless though. 🌸21) Running jokes within the system?🦌 Teasing Marrow about literally everything. 🦌 🌸 🗡 Bap, or… whatever weapon we prefer. 🌸 🦌 Jack being the token allistic. 🦌 🌸 Owl’s coffee addiction. 🌸 🌸 Vae’s impulsivity, and how Vae has prioritized what foods nae figures out how to create. 🌸 🦌 Juice boxes are good! >:^T 🦌 🦌 We probably forgot some, but those are the ones which spring to mind right now! 🦌

5. Do you have any alters/headmates you keep away from your friends at all costs? (because they are embarrassing or weird) No! That’d be messed up. )^: We have folks we each like to interact with and are friends with personally but if we’d rather be private in such relationships we just talk to each other! We don’t force people away, and especially not because of stuff like that? Gosh.

17. Who would be most likely to blow all the money on food? Whisper loves food so probably her! Or Jack maybe aha.

1. Give examples of their different writing styles/handwriting. Answered!

3. Does anyone have any weird habits that they do with the body that annoy the others? Answered!7. Is anyone dating each other?S and Felt yes! Other than that not currently.

8. What does your headspace look like?Its kind of like the world from Mirrormask I guess but all… Looking like old paper an ink instead of so clean and not reall the same format wise? It’s not in fact actually made of paper in most cases but that’s the main color of the headspace! We haven’t actually explored the whole thing yet since the headspace expanded from the bubble we were in.. whatever that vast ocean place was where the divers surrounded us instead of just dipping in and out of our sky. :^/There’s The Papercraft City, which we live in the border houses of, which is pretty much this vast abandoned looking city which was most of the system inside of the bubble other than the borderlands. It’s pretty cool! There’s a lot of… odd things in there, Nautilus found a building which was pretty much a bungalo wth an abandoned office within - the center cubicles broken and pushed aside for this giant four poster bed, and a hole in the cieling above it.To the… north north west? I think, it’s hard to tell exactly since we seem to have a binary star system there’s the caves Rose, Ross and Ebony spend time in and further on some more smaller ones where I know Nolita’s been hiding out. Past them and closer to north itself are the canyons which stretch a really long way! North west and far closer to the city and where there’s still houses in general are some lakes coming up from the vast blue water cave systems which seem to stretch below and out into the planes mostly, thankfully not too many tunnels running under the houses themselves! (I’ve been down there before, and there was similar in the bubbled system, there’s blue gems and algae of sorts within of the same sort of tint as the water itself has which provides actually pretty decent lighting!)To the east is the planes, and to the north east is a stream turning to a river Sorrow likes to spend her time by and in the banks of which you can find these cute little hermit crabs! There’s other streams and rivers around but that’s our main water source, the water tastes slightly like ballpoint but is safe to drink from Owl’s testing. Though some people and especially the kids prefer juice anyway aha… we still get them to drink though with some coaxing/play pretend! Surprisingly effective. :^VWhile still close enough to the subject of fauna there are some around! We’ve been seeing more and more emerge since the expansion, lots of insects and small creatures in the planes in particular and we’ve been seeing some ungulates too. There’s some… hairy, or feathery maybe bipeds in the mountains and some smaller pure white beings but I have yet to approach them with much success! Verresh is working just on figuring out the plants for now since right now the only food in headspace we know for sure is edible are some of the grass grains and the small ‘apple trees’ which grow here and there in the planes too (other than those I’ve figured out how to create, but people want more variety than juice boxes and soup and I totally get that aha.. I’m trying to figure out more it just takes a while and we need to start seeing what of the stuff already here we can use too!)Beyond the planes are the mountains, S living on the edge of them and Keleshekt and South within. They’re pretty ok! Not the tallest in the world, and rocky on the sides of the planes but they get roughly forrested further in and trail into a line of forest before they get smaller and go into some more planes beyond. That’s the furthest I’ve flown in any direction really though! And it took like two days I think I’ll need some help if I wish to explore anymore or to start an expedition or something. ;^;Which is possible! Since we front with the necklaces those who decided to be in the system proper have instead of a location or the pendulum we passed between us before (the location was the earliest method, the pendulum more recent and good but with the size of the headspace we decided this would be a better way to be able to keep things organized while still allowing us to explore since very few of us have any teleporting ability!) but it’d be… a lot to organize with the amount of stuff we have to do at front right now and other things going on so it may be some time. :^/To the south the planes stretch for a long way, but I’ve gone out far enough to see that they eventually seem to taper into this kind of dark looking forest on the horizon. I want to explore more there though, if it’s anything like the forest in the old one it should be actually really lush and nice inside and I might be able to find the sweeter tasting water which was there some folks may like better! And I miss the dragonflies I saw in there so often where there was more marsh, so bright and blue…The south west is the most unexplored area! Being so.. tall, and enclosed it’s a lot of effort for me to navigate flying through the city and generally we tend to get anxious about going there alone anyway but from what I’ve gathered the city’s pretty big so it might just taper off into the start of the woods like the planes. I’m not sure though! We need to explore it more and I believe Blue and Felt plan to so I guess I’ll hear back from them sometime! :^0And um..I guess finally for this post is the sky! Like I said, we seem to have a binary star system of some sort, or at least that’s how they have appeared in the sky. We’re often overcast so it was hard to tell for a while. The sky tends to have a more purplish tint than the one on earth, and the clouds tend to have stranger more iridescent tints farther up and softer purple and pinkish tints in the more cumulus varieties. They vary! I need to see if I can study them sometime or ask the folks in the caves if they have themselves since they research the divers so much and they’re in similar areas. :^0At night we have a lot of stars because we have little to no light pollution except for from the pools going down to the caves. There are several natural satelites, but many of them are clumped in the same area, though not all seemed to have formed as circular yet! We don’t have a moon, but Luna’s link to our headspace gives off a similar kind of light. It’s comforting.The divers are always here, huge beings who were under sea in the ocean we were in before just appearing in the sky or closer to the land on occasion and  ‘diving’ in from seconds to minutes before disappearing again. We don’t know much about them, but they’re a subject of interest for many of us here!I should draw both things I’ve seen here sometime and what we remember of any ventures outside of The Papercraft’s bubble in the old area too! Or at least map out what we’ve explored so far out here so I can show yall but for now I guess a description shall have to do!