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

[toblameforit]

"Wonder if I could get one of the Jokers to make me one, I hear Jokers and clothes is a thing."

[incanted]

"What else can you tell me? I'm worried I'll - say something wrong about something important and you'll wind up feeling like I'm trying to control you, and then we'll be stuck with a terrible situation where I've gone and misframed the whole thing and all the okay results for me are no longer okay results for you because of that framing."

[lexicality]

"Is it? Brilliance seems to just go around in that T-shirt with his deck of cards design on it and jeans."

[cardistry]

"...I mean, I'm not saying that it would be fun if that happened," he says, "because it really wouldn't, but I've stuck around this long through you saying a couple of scary things, I think we can figure it out. I don't know exactly what you mean by 'framing', but I don't think you can make something that would've been okay be unfixably not okay just by saying the wrong thing."

[incanted]

"I don't have an example in mind to explain what I mean about framing," Aurora sighs.

[cardistry]

"I don't think I could end up feeling like you were trying to control me and then stay that way unless you were actually trying to control me," he says, "and I don't think you'll do that, because I think you've figured out by now to try asking nicely instead."

[incanted]

"If I were - scared or angry or I misunderstood something you said or if I correctly understood something alarming you said, I might not remember to try asking nicely first," says Aurora. "If it was sufficiently desperately important and asking nicely didn't work, then - I don't have an example, but it's not like it couldn't happen, I have been handed the keys to the universe and you've got a grip on the other end of my keychain, I will be handling high stakes sometimes."

[toblameforit]

"I mean," he amends, "there's a bunch of Jokers who like, make and design clothes, it's a common hobby with those guys, I don't know if Brilliance isn't into it or just hasn't gotten around to it or what."

[lexicality]

"Huh." Lexi scuffs her foot on the floor. "I should have a hobby. I don't really, I used to do whatever Renée was doing, crafts and exotic kinds of yoga and whatnot, but nothing stuck."

[cardistry]

"...it needs to not happen, though," says Brilliance. "It needs to not happen or I need to get out of this universe and never come back."

[incanted]

[toblameforit]

"Can't help you there, unless you want to take up engineering," says Tony. "Or video games."

[lexicality]

"I might like video games! We could never afford a system since Bella doesn't like them enough to ever pool our Christmas or birthday wishlists for it, but I used to like going over to friends' who had 'em," says Lexi. "Oh man, that's probably not even a problem any more, I can just," she brandishes her demo triangle, "magic up whatever."

[cardistry]

He hugs her gently, shaking his head.

"That's what happens," he says softly. "Not if you just make me scared of it by accident once in a while, I get scared a lot, I can handle being scared, but if you force me to do something, or force me not to, I'll leave. I'll be really sad about it. And I will run away as far and as fast as I possibly can."

[toblameforit]

"Okay, let's conjure a Super Nintendo and play Mario Kart," says Tony.

[incanted]

"So - what does that leave us with, just hoping really hard that you don't run into any of my dealbreakers where given the choice between you bolting or whatever you'd be doing if I didn't use force I prefer the former?"

[lexicality]

"Yeah!" Lexi picks a little more aggressively at her hangnail, gets enough squares to produce the TV and the console and the cartridge and the controllers, wishes them all into existence, and then makes two more squares so they can have a sofa too. She turns the whole setup on with her triangle, just for fun.

[cardistry]

"If I thought that was ever going to happen, I would've run away already," says Brilliance. "I don't know what I could possibly want to do so badly that I'd still do it if you asked me not to, that would also be the kind of thing you'd fuck me over like that for if it came down to it. I don't think there's that many things you would, and most of that's probably stuff I already don't wanna do all by myself, like blowing up planets."

[incanted]

"It admittedly does help my comfort around this that you demonstrably don't want to blow up planets."

[toblameforit]

Tony beams and flops onto the couch and picks up a controller.

[lexicality]

Lexi, predictably, plays as Princess Peach.

[cardistry]

"Like - I could see us arguing about you not wanting me to do stuff," he says, "sure, probably. But I don't think there's anything I need to do that you need me not to."

[toblameforit]

Tony giggles uproariously, and plays as Mario.

[incanted]

Aurora nods slowly, once.

[lexicality]

Lexi is reasonably good at Mario Kart considering her inexperience; she is a crack shot with green shells and after one false start rarely drives off the track.