If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme...

[pinkflip]

[ Another week, another horrible sight to see. Another child dead.

Last week, Kim had spent the majority of her time crying in her room. This week, she- ...okay, she definitely cries, but she refuses to do so alone. An hour or so after the trial, notes are slipped under everyone's doors, written in her neat, curvy handwriting. ]

If you don't want to be alone right now, come to the dining room. We will have food. Don't shoulder this on your own.
- Kimberly, Lekmet, Marco, Rocket

[ There's an extra note on Beast's: ]

Please bring the mirror. I think everyone would benefit from talking to those we've lost again.

[ This is becoming painfully routine. Around the dining room, there are signs set up - courtesy of Rocket - that say NO DUCKS ALLOWED. In the dining room itself, there's a variety of foods set up. Various soups, vegetables, chicken nuggets- basically just things so people have something to eat, if they need it. Some simple sandwiches. Thank Lekmet. Marco's provided a rainbow cake. ...And also courtesy of Rocket, there's...booze.

Sorry, Mr. Arrow. ]

Comments

[faciliheir]

[she doesn't like. move away or anything. so that's progress.]

Yeah, working with other people... I mean, I should be able to do it for this, right? Murder is still evil stuff, even when it's for good. [IF SHE EXPLAINS IT THIS WAY TO HERSELF SHE CAN DO IT MAYBE]

[scrapplinghook]

[Progress!]

You've been doing it this long with all of us, you can totally do it with something like this! And I mean... it's not really murder if you're getting rid of something that's hurting a lot of people and can hurt more if we don't stop him. [Yeah she's used to some dark shit, thanks Gravity Falls???] I mean, Grunkle Stan killed a weird triangle guy because he wanted to destroy the world, and nobody's gynna call him a murderer for it.

[faciliheir]

... Not murder if it's a villain, huh. [ain't that just how it is.]

[scrapplinghook]

... Did I say something wrong?

[Freddie's doing that thing people in movies do whrn they start having flashbacks so uhhh Mabel is thinking she messed up somehow???]

[faciliheir]

No, no. You said something good. [and that's really the problem isn't it.

she pauses for a while because, shit, this child is twelve. but she was twelve once, too.]

So, this triangle guy. He probably caused a lot of trouble for you and yours, right? Now he's dead, and you're happy. Right?

[scrapplinghook]

[Mabel's not... entirely convinced.]

Uh huh. He tricked my Grunkle Ford and took over Dipper's body once and opened this scary-weird hole in the sky to let in a bunch of demons and monsters! We couldn't not stop him. So we did and the town and probably the whole world was okay.

[faciliheir]

The day is saved. Yay.

Now, your land gets conquered and absorbed into a giant weird hereditary kingdom that pretends like it's a democracy for some reason-- [NO FREDDIE ON TASK] And they come up to you and they tell you, "We don't think your triangle was punished enough. We've got a fairy that will bring him back to life so he can get punished more." What do you say?

[scrapplinghook]

[Okay so Freddie is totally going somewhere with this.]

That's kinda dumb. We already beat him, we don't have to do it again.

[faciliheir]

Good news! That's not actually your decision. The nice conquerors are basically just informing you before they went ahead and did it. Take your villain's soul, drag it on out, place him on an island with a bunch of other jerks. You go back onto your life.

Twenty years go on by. Plan on having kids? You probably got some kids. And they go off to some fancy school to learn about heroic stuff and math. Cool, right?

Notice comes in the mail. Royal proclamation. Remember when those royals came and took your villain to that island? Whoops, he's gone ahead and had some kids, too. And the royals' dumb, naive little son thinks it'd be swell if a few of them came over.

Your thoughts?

[scrapplinghook]

[What the heckie heck this is a super weird place Freddie comes from.]

If the kids wanna come, sure that's cool! I mean... they didn't do anything wrong, right? It was just their jerk parents.

[It'd be like if she hated Pacifica because her dad tried to join Bill's crew. Sure, she and Pacifica butted heads for a while before they became friends, but that was because of their own rivalry, not just because of who her dad was...]

[faciliheir]

Congratulations, ma petite. You're officially a kinder person than an entire country founded by people called heroes. [sighs] And, who knows? Maybe the kid your villain had isn't half so bad at all. Maybe they're noble, or talented, or caring.

... Y'know, that last part wasn't even my story to tell. The Shadowman's daughter wasn't high up on anybody's list-- if I was even on Ben's list at all. [chuckles] I shouldn't unload on you like this; you don't really deserve it. It's just part of my evil scheme to recruit an army of good folk to take down Auradon.

[if she jokes about it nobody will realize it's actually true.]

[scrapplinghook]

[Mabel's not... really all that surprised about heroes doing bad stuff. She's already been disillusioned in regards to one aspect of her favorite childhood things.... this is kind of another one of those times.]

Hey, you'd be pretty high on my list! I bet hanging out with you outside of this dumb manor would be a whole lot of fun! [Mabel smiles a big happy smile like Freddie didn't just dump a whole big mess of issues on her.] And well... if you want us to help you show them that those ideas about being mean to kids just 'cause of who their parents are are dumb ideas, I'll totally help!!!

[faciliheir]

See, I was thinking more... Removing the magic barrier from the Isle, and just sorta, y'know. Letting whatever happens happen.

[mass slaughter]

[scrapplinghook]

[ah...]

Orrrrr maybe you can go back to those snooty snooty jerks, tell them about what happened here and how you're totally a hero for helping us find a way out, and rub it in their jerk faces that they were wrong about the stuff they did and for trying to judge you like that. Destroying people like that is way better than actually destroying them!

[It really was much better to see Pacifica's parents lose all their money than it was seeing them as part of Bill's weird horror chair thing. It's gotta be the same here, right???]