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𝓡𝓲𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓪𝓶𝓼 ([personal profile] isawallflower) wrote2020-11-01 10:20 pm
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RYSLIG; ic inbox

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CHEERYCHERRY.

FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 019.46.820.17

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<CHEERYCHERRY> It's Riley!
<CHEERYCHERRY> Please leave a message!
<CHEERYCHERRY> Please be someone with their priorities sorted out properly!


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gothicgambit: (Mastermind)

We Are The Bears

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-14 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Celeste knows, as soon as she hears about the museum- she has to go. Just the idea that someone could visit an exhibit about her life makes her anxious enough to start tearing at the walls. But she holds it down and makes polite conversation, goes to the little birthday party across the hall, and early that morning leaves the apartment building.

She even flies, to save time and also because the bus system is disgusting. She doesn’t try to be coy about it either, breaking one of the skylights with the same bat she’d gotten from her arrival at the mall.

The place is quiet and dark. Falling through the skylight, she enters into a basement that’s very dimly lit with security lights. Celeste takes a moment to look around the display, and faintly wonders who it could belong t-

There’s a cheerleading uniform, hanging benignly in a flat, glass case.

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It’s been several days since Celeste discovered her own exhibit, and Riley’s as well. She had the opportunity to look around at her classmates but… had walked away instead. Somehow, she finds herself wanting to know less and less about the secrets they were keeping. Or maybe it’s because she knows it won’t… change anything. Will it?

Either way. Riley’s exhibit had been… enlightening, and had given her own suspicions some purchase. This was something she felt less willing to let go of, goodness knows why. So one day, when she’s fairly certain Riley is home, she sends her a message over the network:


|Private Message:|
< VersaillesWitch >

We still have your cookie tin, Williams-san. Would there be a time I could bring it over today?
gothicgambit: (Default)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-14 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aw, she's being avoidant. How cute. Unfortunately for Riley, Celeste very much wants to talk to her. So several hours later, when it's getting close to sun-down, there's a polite three knocks on Riley's door.

Should she actually answer it, there's Celeste, done up in her usual makeup and heels for added height, smiling benignly and holding the little tin in her hands.]


Good evening, Williams-san. I know you mentioned I could leave this outside, but I had the strangest thing happen the other day and was wondering if we could chat?

[A pause.]

I won't take up too much of your time.
gothicgambit: (Aww cute)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-14 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Celeste brings up her shoulders and even gives an even brighter smile, but then gives a little look up and down the hall.]

Thank you! But it's a rather, ah, private. I hate to impose, but may I come in?

[Hate to impose? Yeah fuckin' right, they both know that's bullshit. Still, she's not so cruel as to grill Riley about a murder in the hallway. And. Well she doesn't want to risk the harpy slamming the door in her face if she gets nervous.]
gothicgambit: (eye)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-14 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Celeste steps daintily just inside the apartment, and follows Riley to sit at her little kitchen island, more than content there for now. She takes a slow, deep breath in, and lets it out through her nose.


Game Start!]


How gracious of you.

[Everything Celeste is not, as waits until Riley has fully turned back around to start her gambit. Nor is she the type to waste time, so no fucking around with small talk, lest Riley get up any sort of guard.]

I was speaking to Atem, and he told me about the strangest place the other day. Williams-san. Have you heard of Multiversal Museum?
gothicgambit: (eeevil)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-14 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[She keeps her smile on as well, but sees the way Riley has gone oh so rabbit-still. It's understandable to be worried, Celeste knows what she is doing is cruel. But she has to know.

She crosses her legs with a flourish, and reaches for a hidden pocket in the side of her hoop-skirt]


Yes, it seemed very important! So I endeavored to visit it a few days ago, and a certain exhibit happened to catch my eye.

[She takes out a prop-knife in a little plastic bag.]

Do you remember when I told you about my classmate, the Ultimate Idol?
gothicgambit: (Oh poggers)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-14 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[At the sudden drop, the quiet, serious question. There’s a moment where Celeste doubts. It strikes like lightning into her heart, hammering it’s beat somewhere near the ditch of her throat, and she gives into her poker tell that no one has ever guessed:

She laughs.

Turning the jittering nerves into something more practiced and cruel. Then the smile finally fades, and they look at each other head on.]


Well, you’re rather intelligent, why do you think I have it?
gothicgambit: (Srs face)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-15 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Celeste remembers her trial, when Naegi had presented all the evidence and sentenced her to death. Even if Riley was innocent, she refuses to walk away without the whole damn picture. It will be the last piece to the puzzle of what the fuck is going on with Riley, and she wants it.]

No.

[Her more serious demeanor hasn't dropped. In gambling, she's usually playful, vindictive, cruel. Now, in the face of Riley's tears, she's just a scorching cold.]

My classmate, Sayaka Maizono. The Ultimate Idol. Do you recall when I said you reminded me of her, Williams-san?
gothicgambit: (Sweat)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-15 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She cannot tell, just yet, if the stuttering is like Leon's when he admitted to his crimes, or like Naegi when he so innocently denied it. But the puffing up doesn't seem to phase her at all, in fact, she barely seems to breathe or blink.]

The Killing Game is exactly as you would expect. Not terribly creatively named: we were locked in, and told we had to kill each other to escape. Do you know what Maizono-san did, Williams-san?

[Her gaze drops, momentarily, to the knife. So, so similar it was.]

Well, I think you can guess. I suppose I was more accurate to name her than I realized. The same empty smile, the same weapon, it even took place in a bathroom.
gothicgambit: (You aint seen shit)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-15 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Celeste turns in her chair, smoothly meeting Riley head-on. She doesn't move to defend herself at all, instead keeping her hands neatly folded, wings and tail tucked in close. If Riley hurts her now, it will both neatly prove her right and also be 100% deserved. So she's not going to rob that justice from her.

But Riley stops herself, gracelessly curling inward like she's trying to protect herself physically from Celeste's words.]


Tell me what happened, and I will.
gothicgambit: (blood)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-15 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[All of you?

Other people had figured it out. Of course, that's not too surprising, Riley isn't a good liar unfortunately. Hm, she wonders who else had. But it is most certainly not the time to ask.]


Because in the end we aren't nearly as different as you like to pretend, Williams-san. [And she's not angry, not yet, but there's a vindictiveness to her words that speaks to the flirtation of temper.]

Because I have seen even the most seemingly innocent person turn on everyone for the slightest motivation. And because your false sunniness irritates me.

[Because if they ARE both murderers, why the fuck should Riley get away with it?]
gothicgambit: (I’ll fucking stab your parents)

CW: some fucked up feelings about self harm

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-15 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Riley cursing and yelling just makes Celeste grit her teeth, physically trying to hold back the urge to give in and yell back. It is a close thing. She watches Riley's claws dig into her own flesh, tearing at herself like she can't seem to stop, and it slides the last piece into place more clearly than any admission of guilt. After all, Celeste herself is more than familiar with attempting to cleanse herself with her own blood.]

It does matter. Of course it fucking matters! [And out of her control, her voice is rising, raw and real to match Riley's own torment. People must be able to hear them-]

Because why the fuck do you act like you're better than any of us? Why would you deserve to pretend like you're fucking normal!?
dead_eyed_wolf: scare (🐺 with his claws out)

cw: vague abuse implications

[personal profile] dead_eyed_wolf 2021-06-15 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mukuro is dozing, used to being awake more in the evenings rather than the daylight - at least until shrill noise startles her awake.

The yelling sets her teeth on edge, makes her fur spike up - old instincts deeper than the wolf's, alarmed and anxious from the noise alone. She almost wants to hide - but those voices are familiar, she realizes, both of them are recognizable as soon as she tunes in. Celeste and Riley - they're fighting.

She's up and making her way over within seconds. It doesn't sound like either of them are going to back down, and she can't handle it if either of them get hurt. So she does what she always has - she gets in the middle, ready to redirect. She slips in like a shadow, gently putting herself between the two other girls, paws up peaceably as she looks down at her roommate first.]


Celeste, stop.
This isn't - helping.

[Her voice is low and soft. She's trying her best to soothe Celeste rather than make it seem like she's being judged.]
gothicgambit: (angy)

oops all screaming

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2021-06-15 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Celeste isn't familiar with backing down for anything, especially once she's gotten herself wound up about something. It's like a tide, sweeping her up out of her control that she cannot seem to rein in in this moment. So even with Mukuro between them, large and docile, speaking softly and trying to de-escalate, Celeste just flares her wings out larger, longer, trying to make herself just as big and scary as Riley.

She tries to lean around Mukuro's body to point in Riley's face, blind and deaf with rage-]


I'm a hypocrite? I'm a fucking hypocrite?? At least I don't spend all my goddamn time trying to convince people I'm a helpless child!

[She spits out a harsh not-laugh at the phrase 'be better.']

Yeah, be better because god forbid you're just as fucking bad as the rest of us! No, you have to be better!

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