Thalia Grace (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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foolishmortals2017-10-14 10:26 pm
sentree) wrote in foolishmortals2017-10-14 10:26 pm
when your thoughts turn sour make them sweet instead
[ That was...positively horrible? Ugh. After a few hours, notes are slipped under each person's door. They read, in a neat handwriting: ]
Banquet in Vanellope's honor in the dining room.
- Reyna, Sally and Thalia
[ You may not know what to expect when they say banquet, but it...really is one, isn't it? Thalia's main dish is cheeseburgers, so there are so many of those, but the table's positively covered in an arrangement of fruit and vegetables and all kinds of bread. Looks like they've gone all out.
What's really the cream of it all, though, are the desserts. Not a lot that's special, but there's a wide collection of cookies and cupcakes, and enough hot chocolate to feed an army. Maybe literally. There is a section that's particularly fancy, and that's the many candy apples, definitely courtesy of Sally. Along with a cute amount of peppermint bark. It seems like the food is unending, too, since there's the delicatible smell of baking cookies and simmering candy from the kitchen. Thalia and Sally are keeping you stocked, don't worry. ]
Banquet in Vanellope's honor in the dining room.
- Reyna, Sally and Thalia
[ You may not know what to expect when they say banquet, but it...really is one, isn't it? Thalia's main dish is cheeseburgers, so there are so many of those, but the table's positively covered in an arrangement of fruit and vegetables and all kinds of bread. Looks like they've gone all out.
What's really the cream of it all, though, are the desserts. Not a lot that's special, but there's a wide collection of cookies and cupcakes, and enough hot chocolate to feed an army. Maybe literally. There is a section that's particularly fancy, and that's the many candy apples, definitely courtesy of Sally. Along with a cute amount of peppermint bark. It seems like the food is unending, too, since there's the delicatible smell of baking cookies and simmering candy from the kitchen. Thalia and Sally are keeping you stocked, don't worry. ]
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[ There's... ]
Too familiar, after today.
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[ hahaha guess who's not entirely fine at all it's reyna ]
It's... he wasn't terrible in the same way as Northwest. And he's... dead now, too. He's been dead since we left San Juan.
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...Since which time you left San Juan?
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[ She was probably like. Ten. ]
mmmm alcoholism warning
...I ran away from home when I was nine. The only thing keeping me there...was Jason. My mother was... [ ... ] Not a good person. We fought, and she... [ A small laugh. ] She never really liked staying sober for long periods of time. It just made it worse.
I...must've been around the same age as you, from what you've told me, when...Jason disappeared, and...I took off. It was the last time I saw my mother, since, well...by the time I was revived, she'd gotten herself killed on some drunken binge.
[ She says it all simply. Very, very simply. ]
...I always wish she... That it hadn't ended up like that. Mostly, I just wish she had been better.
just. garbage (human) parents warning from this point in general.
[ She pauses, for a second or two. ]
Hylla protected me, for years. Even when he stopped... even when all his rage and paranoia finally overcame his humanity.
[ It's easier than saying mania out loud. ]
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She recognizes the words without saying them. She recognizes them, because, just a few days before they were kidnapped, she heard them from a very different voice. ]
...Jason said...he met our mom like that too. In the last week of their journey.
[ Mania. Gods, she hates spirits...but probably not as much as Reyna. ]
Did she... Gods, Reyna. Did Hylla stop him? Or...were you the one...?
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[ Hi Thalia, Reyna looks actually close to tears rn, you're like the third person to see this. ]
I didn't know the sword was Imperial Gold.
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Her full attention's on Reyna now. It's...yikes. ]
You did the right thing. That...he wasn't your father anymore. He wasn't... He was never a man who could be called your father.
[ ...It's like she's back on the road with Luke. Bitching about their parents. Saying they'll change the world one day. Oh, if only they knew.
She rests a hand on Reyna's arm. ]
You and your sister are stronger than I could've ever imagined, Praetor.
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Thank you, but... it's hard to feel good about it when if I told anyone I'd lose my position.
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[ Her voice is kind of hollow. ]
Strikes me as ungrateful.
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1/2
[ Thalia is quiet for a moment.
...She glances at the bowl of cupcake mix on the counter, a spatula still sticking out of it. In a moment, she snatches it up, as if she's grabbing a knife, but the problem is, with that, a little goes flying... ]
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...Oops.
Would...you believe that was intended to help you...feel better...?
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Not the kind of comforting gesture I'm used to.
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[ She...did kind of need a break in the tension too. ]
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[ She does reach up and wipe... part of it off, anyway, with her finger, and taste it. ]
Unless I've been missing out on something.
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[ ...There are enough cupcakes, why don't they just...she's going to get some spoons. They're eating batter. Demigods aren't afraid of salmonella. ]
You know, I didn't say thank you, for helping with all this. ...And for...the other thing. [ the whole beating the tar out of each other thing ]
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She deserved this much at least. And... you and I both needed that.
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[ ... ]
Is our arrangement still good? You don't...want some space tonight?
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I'm alright. Don't worry.
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[ And so they proceed to eat cake batter, a childish action for those who never really had childhoods. ]