riptorn: (003)
Zeus ([personal profile] riptorn) wrote in [community profile] foolishmortals2018-03-17 10:26 pm

Recuérdame.

[Those of you who wish to see those who passed on? You'll be directed outside by Zeus, where he raises his arms, and marigolds begin to float around him. They float upwards, and form into a bridge.

It's structurally sound, and it seems fitting that you can cross it.

Eventually, you'll see it. Elysium. The Land of The Dead. Gentle music plays as you cross over into the city.

It's...festive. It's always festive. The architecture is colorful and full of spirit, and your group seems to be the only ones...human in appearance. Even your old friends seem to be a bit more skeletal in appearance. You can spend as much time here as you like, but eventually, that bridge will disappear. And you'll have to leave.

But...they'll never truly be gone. Not if you remember them. And someday, you'll join them. But for now, you celebrate. You've earned your happy ending.]

(ooc: This is the last log for the three canon rounds of Foolish Mortals! Thanks for coming along for the ride - we loved having you, and we hope to see ya real soon!)
bottlerockets: (can you all not)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2018-03-20 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, it's not really my name they make fun of so much as the whole... well. Being a total screw-up in general, and the, uh... panic I caused once when I thought the sky was falling? Which, I wasn't wrong, or not entirely wrong about in the end, but--anyway, it doesn't matter now, I guess.

[... That all came out in a huge rush of words, sorry Fidds.]
Edited 2018-03-20 01:00 (UTC)
terribibble: (a little bit nauseous)

[personal profile] terribibble 2018-03-20 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[haha what]

... Oh my lord, you're actually--

Oh honey I didn't know, I'm sorry. It's just a story where I'm from.

[He figured your dad was just a fucking asshole. As it turns out he is the asshole, it's him.

And he could probably leave that there but he's learned over the past several months that if you wait, you lose your chance. This is something that resonates with him deeply. He feels pretty confident saying what he's about to.]


And-- and listen. From what I know of that story you were just tryin' to help and keep folks safe. So maybe it doesn't matter now but you didn't do wrong.

[YOU'RE TOO YOUNG FOR SELF-HATE YOU STOP THAT

That is not the point of the Chicken Little story but, you know what. If Ford can misinterpret Icarus then Fiddleford can misinterpret Chicken Little. That's on-brand.]
bottlerockets: (wait i actually did something right)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2018-03-20 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's... wait, you know about that? There are people who know about my stupid mistake in other universes?

[Sorry Fidds, Chicken Little might need a minute to process this holy shit even in death we can't escape our sins--]
terribibble: (all of this flesh)

[personal profile] terribibble 2018-03-20 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He's hecking this so badly]

It's -- there's this thing called coincidental multiversal mirroring, where sometimes something from one universe shows up in another in some form, it's-- it's actually fairly common?

[This is where it pays to have Ford Pines in his life. Thank god.]
bottlerockets: (can you all not)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2018-03-20 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
But why... that, of all things to be shared and known about by everyone...
terribibble: (that's for normal boys)

[personal profile] terribibble 2018-03-20 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Well -- well. I couldn't tell you. I bet there's a universe out there where all the mistakes I made are a story. They'd have to make a whole television show to cover it all, probably. At least two seasons.

The way I see it it's not the mistakes that matter, it's how you move on from them.

[Thanks, Naminé.]
bottlerockets: (my dad could do better i guess)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2018-03-20 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
... They made a movie about mine.

[Like, in universe, not being cute and cheeky fourth-walling here, the townspeople literally had a movie showing in the local theater about how much of a fuck-up Chicken Little was for a little while there.]
Edited 2018-03-20 01:57 (UTC)
bottlerockets: (can you all not)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2018-03-20 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
A movie, about... about me, and how much trouble I caused everyone for that sky falling incident. They've had posters advertising it at our local theater for a while now.
Edited 2018-03-20 02:10 (UTC)
terribibble: (that man's gonna be mad at me 4ever)

[personal profile] terribibble 2018-03-20 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
THEY WHAT? AND YOUR DAD LET THEM?

[Like... you can sue over something like that. He feels like you have to be able to. Or like... there's something with rights, and selling them? He doesn't know a lot about movies but he feels like there's got to be provisions about making a movie about a living person and needing to get some form of permission first.]
bottlerockets: (my dad could do better i guess)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2018-03-20 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Y--yeah? I mean, he wasn't happy about it and he complained every time someone mentioned the movie to him... or really mentioned anything about what I did, but since they had already written about it in the papers, and a book about it, and bumper stickers...

[God, he still remembers that comment his Dad said about that, how somehow that's worse because that stuff just sticks forever on a car to have to look at in front of him every time he drives around town...]

Dad said it was inevitable that they'd make a movie to show people too, so... there wasn't a point to stopping them?
terribibble: (and they fucked it up just enough)

[personal profile] terribibble 2018-03-20 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Fiddleford McGucket's fucking pissed.]

Wh-- I just-- the worst that could've happened is people got a real bad scare and it turned out it was a false alarm, that's not -- you don't make a movie about that. That's not normal. Imagine if they made a movie every time someone accidentally leaned on a fire alarm or somethin'. What the hhheck [LANGUAGE] kind of petty people live in your town, to do that to a kid?
bottlerockets: (THE SKY IS FALLING)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2018-03-20 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[wow i can't believe you almost did a swear in front of chicken little]

I don't know? That's just how it was, and then it got worse after that stuff with Dad was found out, and... and honestly, I'm glad I'm dead if only so that I don't have to see what the movie of that was going to turn out like.

[which is a good sign of just how bad and meanspirited his town was if a kid has to be glad to be dead for a reason like that]
terribibble: (i've been nasty this whole time)

[personal profile] terribibble 2018-03-20 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[You know, knowing what he does about Buck, this is just kind of reinforcing his opinions. Of course a man who'd murder two people and get away with it would also just... just let an entire town destroy his son. At first he thought maybe Buck had been trying to get back to him. Fiddleford could sympathize with that. But he's starting to think that wasn't the case, because clearly Buck didn't care all that much about his son's wellbeing.]

That shouldn't've been how it was. There's no world in which that's okay. You understand? All that -- all that's way worse than makin' a genuine mistake. If it'd been me, if you'd've been my son--

[He would have died for Tate. There was a week where he thought he was going to, and the thought didn't scare him because if it came down to it what other choice would there have been?]

No matter what they told you, no matter what they said, you didn't do anythin' wrong and you sure as heck don't deserve to be laughingstock for it. [Knowing his future, he may also have some strong feelings about being the town laughingstock.] And your dad best hope I never meet up with him down here because I've got some words I'd like to say to him about what it means to be a parent.
bottlerockets: (my dad could do better i guess)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2018-03-20 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[For a moment, Chicken Little is quiet, and frankly, in shock: other than Abby and the rest of Chicken Little's friends, no one has ever tried to tell him that he didn't do anything wrong or stick up for him like that before.

Not even his Dad did that. Not really. He just told him to "lay low" and not cause trouble again rather than supporting him or telling people off for picking on him.]


I... [Chicken Little can't cry anymore, but he reaches up to adjust his glasses in a moment of awkwardness.] ... I'm sorry that you died and ended up here, but if there was anyone I had to meet in this place, I'm glad it was someone nice like you.
terribibble: (a virtual dairy queen)

[personal profile] terribibble 2018-03-20 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[HE HAS A LOT OF FEELINGS

But that does kind of calm him down a little. Gotta save all that righteous anger for a rooster skeleton in a bad tie.]


That's -- well you seem like you deserve someone bein' nice to you.

[Especially right now. What with being a child who just died. And you best be glad he didn't hear the explanation Jiminy got or he'd be furious all over again.]

You ever need anythin', you find me, alright? Not like I'm goin' anywhere.
bottlerockets: (well hello there)

[personal profile] bottlerockets 2018-03-20 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh I'm sure Fidds will find out sooner or later, since Jiminy is apparently dead now too??]

Okay... and, uh, same to you as well! I'm gonna wait a little longer in case Dad does show up, but after that...

[Once the living leave and the bridge disappears, maybe then he'll finally peel himself away from this spot to go elsewhere.]