festive rainbow mirror summoning!

[incanted]

There are now one dozen Bells.

They and most of their friends are all here on Planet Rainbowsand II, to celebrate the addition of Sarion, the elf one, and Aurora, the one with a sister.

Comments

[cardistry]

"It would've happened eventually without you," says Brilliance. "He kind of needed not to be one. He just didn't know it yet."

[lexicality]

"Yeah, isn't somebody married to an Edward," says Lexi vaguely. "My coin color is Peach, hey, if my Bella starts going around with a crown on do you know if that makes me a princess via sisterhood or would one of our parents have to be in on the royalty thing? Because then I would be Princess Peach."

[incanted]

"If he needed to not be one I'm kind of surprised his native magic thingamabob didn't just completely shut down the process."

[toblameforit]

"...I will totally call you Princess Peach if you want," says Tony, grinning.

[cardistry]

"I don't think his power knew," says Brilliance.

[lexicality]

"I think I'll be Lexi till there's enough of me to be confusing at all. Like, more than one. Besides, maybe all Lexis turn out peach coins," laughs Lexi.

[incanted]

"Why did he need it? I mean, Stella's reasons turned out to be partially sketchy, but didn't he know what vampires were and how they worked first anyway?"

[toblameforit]

"I don't think there's actually been a straight duplicate yet," says Tony. "Maybe the next Lexi will be, like. Princess Nectarine."

[cardistry]

"The sketchy reasons are why he needed not to be one."

[lexicality]

"But that wouldn't be funny," says Lexi. She picks at a hangnail just enough to get a coin and shows it off. "So do yours look like sapphires?"

[incanted]

"How does that work?"

[toblameforit]

"Nope, they look like a car I have that's painted in a colour called Sapphire Black."

[lexicality]

"Huh. I have no idea why I got peach. It's not even my favorite color," shrugs Lexi, "my favorite color is red."

[cardistry]

"Because it just - he was okay with it in the first place because he asked her if the sketchy reasons were her reasons and she pretty much said no," says Brilliance, frustrated. "That shit matters, you can't just force somebody to be in love with you forever, there's lots of ways it can be okay to turn somebody into a vampire, even one of us, there's parts of it he liked, but he couldn't stay one when he knew that was why."

[toblameforit]

"One of us got red!" says Tony. "The dead one, I think. With Minus and Juliet."

[incanted]

"...Uh, I'll tread carefully, and I agree it was sketchy of her, but unless she outright lied to him, and given that all the features of vampirism are a package deal and there are plenty of other reasons to want the other parts, doesn't that just about boil down to penalizing her for having the wrong thought cross her mind? It would've been good to bring it up, it sure seemed like she had been misleading in some way, but - like, if she literally just thought he would have fun turning, if nothing else about it occurred to her except for basic safety checks, if she did not notice that particular thing that she was inclined to identify as a perk - then it would've been fine?"

[lexicality]

"It is super strange that there are dead people walking around. Not even strange-amazing like there being a unicorn here, just strange."

[cardistry]

"...I'm not sure," he says. "It's - well, it's not complicated exactly, but it works the way we work, not the way you work. I think... as long as she was going to think about it the way she thought about it, then someday he was going to have to stop being a vampire. And maybe even if she wasn't. And I wasn't there, but if he asked her a question and she made him think the answer was something it wasn't and that's why he was okay with it, I don't really think any of us would care whether you'd call that lying or not. It's still not okay."

[toblameforit]

"The unicorn is awesome," says Tony. "The dead people are - enh, I'm kinda used to it by now."

[incanted]

"Okay." Pause. "Does Jellybean know about how Bells define lying, because Cam's got that aura..."

[lexicality]

"You been hanging out with -" Lexi waves at the party setup. "This crowd for a long time?"

[toblameforit]

"A while, I guess. I dunno, I kind of lost track a little."

[lexicality]

"I didn't know magic existed, like at all, even the kind we have in this world, till like a week ago, and you know the very first thing magic did? It tricked me into letting it possess me to destroy the world. So not cool."

[cardistry]

"I don't know," says Brilliance. "I don't think it matters that much. How you define lying is not the problem, the problem is that tricking somebody into agreeing to something they wouldn't agree to if they knew the whole story is a really shitty thing to do, especially when the something is big enough to change how your whole mind works."

[incanted]

"I would not have Charlie's permission to skip off to uninhabited planets with you if he knew the whole story," Aurora points out. "I mean, you could say that he wouldn't be entitled to stop me regardless, but I am technically a minor child under his custody and the fact that he does not have the wherewithal to prevent me isn't relevant to whether it's his business. And obviously that's a smaller issue than changing someone's species, but the general 'tricking' thing..."