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Up Against The Echo In The Mirror
Who; Anyone!
What; Mirrorverse swap Logs
Where; Around Aterat ( will be replied to with accountsignalinterference) and the Mirrorverse (will be replied to with Mono’s regular account monochromatically )
When; Early October for a full week
Warnings; A very tall man for the Aterat side, probably warnings for stalking if he decides your character is a problem and violence if a fight breaks out. Might be some fighting on the Mirrorverse side as well if Mono and whoever he meets run into something bad.
NOTE; For info please see his journal at this link HERE.
Mono in the Mirror World Log - OTA
Mono hadn’t meant to slip through the mirror. In fact, he made it a habit to avoid mirrors in general for his own awkward feelings towards his reflection, even before the weird portal mirrors had appeared in Aterat. When the portal mirrors had appeared and Mono had randomly caught sight of his reflection once or twice, an anxious feeling always welled up inside him. He still saw himself, everyone did, it was just that Mono’s other self did not look like Mono as he did now... Instead it was the too tall, imposing, looming figure he had feared for a long time... Still did, if only in a slightly different way.
So Mono had avoided crossing in front of the mirror portals or getting close to them as much as possible. It was fairly easy. It wasn’t like the televisions in his world. Those beckoned to him and demanded his attention in order to open the door and let that version of himself free.
It worked out well enough until suddenly it didn’t. His powers had been acting up a little more in the last month for reasons he didn’t know or understand... without even trying to do anything with his ability, reaching for a mug of cocoa had caused it to fly off the end table and across the floor. With a yelp, the boy had hurried to clean up… only to trip and tumble through the mirror.
Leaving Mono's ever present moth friend to flutter about frantically, trying to figure out where her dear little friend had gone...
... Now he was stuck wandering a gloomy, unfamiliar city. If Mono were honest, the energy of the place and way things looked reminded him a little too much of his world in the worst ways. It hadn’t taken long for the boy to fall back on old instincts. Moving cautiously, keeping close to cover and making as little noise as possible when he explored to try to find a way out.
Mono was hesitant to approach anyone, choosing to sneak about from building to building above. Using various (sometimes risky) methods to move across larger gaps. Sometimes… Sometimes there’s a wistful feeling that distracts him, thinking of times when he had someone there to help make things a little easier. He tries to dash those thoughts immediately though, because it’s hard to not think about how poorly that ended for him last time… No, it was better to work alone in these kinds of places.
Doesn’t stop the boy from being curious, though, as he spots a familiar figure that he didn’t expect to see here. He isn’t innocent or naïve enough to approach immediately, though. He needs to make sure they are who they look like. Not whatever strange version exists in this world… And if it is an alternate version of someone, he at least needs to know they aren’t dangerous.
(ooc: Mono will probably be the first to approach your character, so feel free to write your character exploring the mirror verse in whatever way you like. If you want something different, I’m game for that! If you want your character to notice him first, that’s cool too, but his reactions will vary if addressed or approached directly. This goes for Aterat people he knows or the mirror versions of them! :D)
Thin Man Wandering Aterat - Option A - OTA
It’s too… something. Colourful? Noisy? … Alive? He hadn’t cared for the other place he was on the other side of the mirror. Nothing for him to do, no way to reach viewers in the usual manner, but he’d still carved out a little portion of the city to loom about in without bothering much with the others that had arrived there given teamwork was a joke that he'd been the punchline of so long ago... He respected the other powerful arrivals boundaries and (mostly) didn't bother with anyone more than strictly necessary. In that way, it wasn’t entirely unlike his world, where the monsters each ruled over their particular location. The Pale City was his, The Maw was The Lady’s (though from what he could spy from the few televisions there… that may have changed) and so on and so forth.
Still… Clearly no one on the other side of the mirror or in this more lively world had ever been touched by that which everyone, even he himself, was meant to be led by. Hard to tell if it was disappointment or jealousy that he felt as he considered that, but he decided on disgust in the end.
Oh, there was one or two things he did find he favourable about all this, though. The Tell-Phone for one. A fascinating device, so different from the useless hunks of plastic that sat around in his world. These were small, portable… And capable of broadcasting video across some kind of network by anyone who happened to have one. Everyone was easy to reach out to. Accessible anytime, anywhere! How much easier, how much faster, would spreading the signal be for him and the Eye if they had something like this to work with instead of just the television?
For another... he was getting a rather interesting chance to stretch his legs for a lot longer than the usual cycles allowed at this point, and you didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. If the eye ever did extend its reach to this place, well, he was here and he would answer to it again if needed… And it always needed him.
But for now...? For now, he was going to wander around. To see this other city that his smaller (naïve, stubborn, annoying…) self had been running around in for however long he’d been here.
Thin Man Wandering Aterat - Option B - OTA
So you made the mistake of going out too late at night, ignored the prickling sense of dread that crept up on you and now you’re being stalked through the streets of Aterat by a very imposing person… Are they a person? Perhaps an ‘entity’ was the better word for it. He certainly doesn’t move like a normal human. More like something out of a scary story, all tall and menacing and definitely threatening. It looked to be dressed like a detective from those old black and white films, but his skin was pale and his eyes sunken… Is he alive or is he the living dead? Whose to say? All you know is that you should probably focus on getting away rather than trying to strike up a conversation.
Unfortunately, every time you think you’ve lost him, there he is again. Sometimes he’s humming a low, ominous tune. His voice is raspy and harsh from a lack of use, and his gaze conveys a level of disgust with either the sight of you or the fact that you’re insisting on this pointless game of cat and mouse that you clearly can’t win.
What do you do? Do you try to escape into a building and hope he’s too tall to fit inside? Keep hoping that you lose him? Or do you stand your ground and see what happens? Up to you, hopefully at least one of these options is the right one.
(ooc: On the flip side, you could also go with your character intervening to be a big ol hero if the other way doesn't work for you)
What; Mirrorverse swap Logs
Where; Around Aterat ( will be replied to with account
signalinterference) and the Mirrorverse (will be replied to with Mono’s regular account monochromatically )When; Early October for a full week
Warnings; A very tall man for the Aterat side, probably warnings for stalking if he decides your character is a problem and violence if a fight breaks out. Might be some fighting on the Mirrorverse side as well if Mono and whoever he meets run into something bad.
NOTE; For info please see his journal at this link HERE.
Mono in the Mirror World Log - OTA
Mono hadn’t meant to slip through the mirror. In fact, he made it a habit to avoid mirrors in general for his own awkward feelings towards his reflection, even before the weird portal mirrors had appeared in Aterat. When the portal mirrors had appeared and Mono had randomly caught sight of his reflection once or twice, an anxious feeling always welled up inside him. He still saw himself, everyone did, it was just that Mono’s other self did not look like Mono as he did now... Instead it was the too tall, imposing, looming figure he had feared for a long time... Still did, if only in a slightly different way.
So Mono had avoided crossing in front of the mirror portals or getting close to them as much as possible. It was fairly easy. It wasn’t like the televisions in his world. Those beckoned to him and demanded his attention in order to open the door and let that version of himself free.
It worked out well enough until suddenly it didn’t. His powers had been acting up a little more in the last month for reasons he didn’t know or understand... without even trying to do anything with his ability, reaching for a mug of cocoa had caused it to fly off the end table and across the floor. With a yelp, the boy had hurried to clean up… only to trip and tumble through the mirror.
Leaving Mono's ever present moth friend to flutter about frantically, trying to figure out where her dear little friend had gone...
... Now he was stuck wandering a gloomy, unfamiliar city. If Mono were honest, the energy of the place and way things looked reminded him a little too much of his world in the worst ways. It hadn’t taken long for the boy to fall back on old instincts. Moving cautiously, keeping close to cover and making as little noise as possible when he explored to try to find a way out.
Mono was hesitant to approach anyone, choosing to sneak about from building to building above. Using various (sometimes risky) methods to move across larger gaps. Sometimes… Sometimes there’s a wistful feeling that distracts him, thinking of times when he had someone there to help make things a little easier. He tries to dash those thoughts immediately though, because it’s hard to not think about how poorly that ended for him last time… No, it was better to work alone in these kinds of places.
Doesn’t stop the boy from being curious, though, as he spots a familiar figure that he didn’t expect to see here. He isn’t innocent or naïve enough to approach immediately, though. He needs to make sure they are who they look like. Not whatever strange version exists in this world… And if it is an alternate version of someone, he at least needs to know they aren’t dangerous.
(ooc: Mono will probably be the first to approach your character, so feel free to write your character exploring the mirror verse in whatever way you like. If you want something different, I’m game for that! If you want your character to notice him first, that’s cool too, but his reactions will vary if addressed or approached directly. This goes for Aterat people he knows or the mirror versions of them! :D)
Thin Man Wandering Aterat - Option A - OTA
It’s too… something. Colourful? Noisy? … Alive? He hadn’t cared for the other place he was on the other side of the mirror. Nothing for him to do, no way to reach viewers in the usual manner, but he’d still carved out a little portion of the city to loom about in without bothering much with the others that had arrived there given teamwork was a joke that he'd been the punchline of so long ago... He respected the other powerful arrivals boundaries and (mostly) didn't bother with anyone more than strictly necessary. In that way, it wasn’t entirely unlike his world, where the monsters each ruled over their particular location. The Pale City was his, The Maw was The Lady’s (though from what he could spy from the few televisions there… that may have changed) and so on and so forth.
Still… Clearly no one on the other side of the mirror or in this more lively world had ever been touched by that which everyone, even he himself, was meant to be led by. Hard to tell if it was disappointment or jealousy that he felt as he considered that, but he decided on disgust in the end.
Oh, there was one or two things he did find he favourable about all this, though. The Tell-Phone for one. A fascinating device, so different from the useless hunks of plastic that sat around in his world. These were small, portable… And capable of broadcasting video across some kind of network by anyone who happened to have one. Everyone was easy to reach out to. Accessible anytime, anywhere! How much easier, how much faster, would spreading the signal be for him and the Eye if they had something like this to work with instead of just the television?
For another... he was getting a rather interesting chance to stretch his legs for a lot longer than the usual cycles allowed at this point, and you didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. If the eye ever did extend its reach to this place, well, he was here and he would answer to it again if needed… And it always needed him.
But for now...? For now, he was going to wander around. To see this other city that his smaller (naïve, stubborn, annoying…) self had been running around in for however long he’d been here.
Thin Man Wandering Aterat - Option B - OTA
So you made the mistake of going out too late at night, ignored the prickling sense of dread that crept up on you and now you’re being stalked through the streets of Aterat by a very imposing person… Are they a person? Perhaps an ‘entity’ was the better word for it. He certainly doesn’t move like a normal human. More like something out of a scary story, all tall and menacing and definitely threatening. It looked to be dressed like a detective from those old black and white films, but his skin was pale and his eyes sunken… Is he alive or is he the living dead? Whose to say? All you know is that you should probably focus on getting away rather than trying to strike up a conversation.
Unfortunately, every time you think you’ve lost him, there he is again. Sometimes he’s humming a low, ominous tune. His voice is raspy and harsh from a lack of use, and his gaze conveys a level of disgust with either the sight of you or the fact that you’re insisting on this pointless game of cat and mouse that you clearly can’t win.
What do you do? Do you try to escape into a building and hope he’s too tall to fit inside? Keep hoping that you lose him? Or do you stand your ground and see what happens? Up to you, hopefully at least one of these options is the right one.
(ooc: On the flip side, you could also go with your character intervening to be a big ol hero if the other way doesn't work for you)
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Mono noticed the slight shift in her tone as minute as it was, used to subtle quiet shifts and queues when he was working with someone else where he was from. It was easy to tell why. The stumbling thumps are weirdly familiar to the boy, and he really doesn’t want to run into it here. Not when they were so close to finding a way out! Nodding quickly as he let her fill the bowl, he turned to look back the way they came. “Two floors up. Three doors to the right.” He confirmed in a low whisper, they can make it there… Then they can put this whole weird place behind them.
And hopefully that means the other him will be pulled back here and out of Aterat before he can do any damage, he hopes.
“Let’s go… I’ll go ahead.” The boy said, not wanting Yin to lose her water if something tried to tackle them.
Mono takes the lead and moves ahead with quiet, careful steps. The thumping is getting closer and as he comes up past one of the rooms in the apartment, he sees something large stumbling towards them. It’s larger than both of them. It would be towering if it weren’t for the slouch and clumsy steps it takes. Mono doesn’t let his eyes linger on it for too long, not after he sees the wrinkled folds of skin where a face should be, he’d seen something like this far too often where he was from… And it would chase them relentlessly if he didn’t do something.
Reaching out with his powers, he uses them to pull on the door that was ajar. It swings shut with a loud slam and a thump of the thing running into the door. “Let’s go!” He urged in a higher whisper, steps quickening slightly as they make for the stairs outside the apartment. There is more thumping to be heard as they go up and pass by doors, and Mono is careful to watch for any surprises. “This floor, right? The third door?”
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Mono becomes urgent, and Yin actually runs, water splashing from the bowl. She's still graceful in her movements, step for step right behind Mono, all the way up the stairs.
She nods to the floor, then points to the third door, still able to see the mirror on the other side of the door, with what little water remains in the bowl.
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He keeps an eye on her, and on the doors ahead of them as he waits for Yin to confirm the door they needed, before feeling a small flash of hope as she pointed to the third door. They were almost there! He hurried forward, and doesn’t bother to worry about if he breaks another door or not as he shoves the door both with his arms and his power in case it’s locked. There’s a snap as it opens and thuds against the wall behind it, “Let’s go. Once we get through the mirror, we should be back where we should be!” Well, maybe where they should be was debatable, being from different worlds… But Mono liked Aterat and he’d rather be there over most places. It was also where they should be other than here.
The boy waits for Yin, though, wanting to make sure she gets through before he tries. Leaving someone behind or failing to get them out of a bad situation, it didn’t sit well with him… And he didn’t want Yin to grow to dislike him as someone else had.
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Regardless of where home is, Yin doesn't feel one way or another about Aterat, and still, even she would call it where they should be, now. And definitely prefers it to this place and the thing stalking after them. She sticks close to Mono until he speaks about the mirror.
With a nod of her head, Yin might be slow - still faster than her usual - but she steps through the mirror, once she feels ( her specter shows in a nearby kitchen sink and watches them both ) where it is.
This is Yin, though. Even if she was left behind on purpose, she wouldn't dislike anyone over it. Accidents are even more blameless. She waits on the other side, bowl useless and unable to connect her to the other side to keep an eye on Mono, but she listens for him.
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So he waits until Yin is through the mirror, eyes darting between it and the doorway as those clumsy footsteps draw ever closer before finally making a dash to get through himself. He just about bumps into Yin once he does, skidding to a halt and his gaze settles on a less dark and abysmal looking kitchen. The lack of oppressive dark and thuds of footsteps eases his worry. They were safe on the other side of the mirror.
Taking a couple of steps around Yin and away from the mirror, he let out a little quiet breath of relief. “We made it!” He said, voice still a quiet whisper but with an edge of relieved excitement all the same. His eyes land on the specter in the sink and then he looked between it and Yin curiously. “Thanks Yin, I dunno know how much longer we would’ve been stuck there without you finding the mirror.”
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She isn't even entirely sure they are free of the other place, beyond the change in noises. Everything sounded more alive, while less foreboding. When Mono speaks, though, there's no doubt.
"Thank you, as well, Mono." If it wasn't for him, she wouldn't have been able to find the water in the first place. Who knows what would have happened, then.
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So the victory, while a relief, is slightly short lived on his part. Fixing his hat and tugging its brim lower, he urged himself to start moving to actually do the above as not fun as it might be. “We should go back home, huh? I um… People are probably gonna wonder where I went.” He added, knowing they sometimes went looking for him if he was late or missing… And he really hoped they hadn’t. “You gonna be okay to get back to your place?” He added cautiously, just to be sure, before he started towards the house where he lived with Nida and Ignis.
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She nods her head. "I will manage." She can get more water in the place they've returned to and figure it out from there.
"You should check with these people." It didn't do them any good to have people worried over them.
This seems like a good closing point? Thank you again for the thread, I love their cr <3
He tilted his head for a moment to consider if she meant that or not, sometimes people said things that they didn’t exactly mean… But she didn’t sound uncertain or worried about getting back, so the boy would trust her word on that this time. “Okay, then. I’ll go home and do that. See ya around, Yin.” He responded as he fixed his hat a bit and hurried off towards the exit.
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