UN: Twilight Sparkles | @Everyone

[thegreatexperiment]

[It's video for a change, although all that's on camera is the ceiling of Sam's room at the Inn. She's been working on a mural actually. It's the underbelly of a dragon, wings outstretched as it lifts up into the sky. Still little more than a pencil outline at this point. And it's missing both a head and a finished tail. But there's an enormous amount of detailing in the scales. It's no Sistine Chapel. But then again, it's not trying to be.

The camera moves as Sam speaks, as if she's gesturing with her hand. Her face never appears, but the disaster zone that is her room appears in flashes.]

Can someone tell me what the fucking point of turning twenty two is?

I mean, seriously. Bar or Bat Mitzvah at thirteen. Quinceañera at fifteen. Super sweet sixteen, whatever the hell that is. Donate blood at seventeen. Vote at eighteen. Drink at twenty one. All the good milestones are gone. Twenty two is a filler year. And don't say you can rent a car at twenty five. My world is literally flame and rubble. I'm never renting a damn car.

[She sighs.]

Anyone still alive after that party?

Comments

[firacrux]

Most likely. So far haven't met too many others with Gardens or moon monsters.

[thegreatexperiment]

Moon monsters? Like the ones Nida was talking about?

[firacrux]

Exactly the ones Nida's talking about.

[thegreatexperiment]

Okay. Definitely from different parts of the multiverse.

And I'm jealous. I hear you guys have fucking dragons.

[firacrux]

Dragons are the best part. Not as big on the ravenous plants.

[thegreatexperiment]

Nida doesn't seem to like them.

The dragons, that is. I don't think anyone likes ravenous plants.

[firacrux]

He doesn't seem to enjoy fighting them the way I do.

The plants stink like rotting cabbage.

[thegreatexperiment]

Is fighting dragons a normal thing? Or more of an extracurricular?

[firacrux]

Both. It would fall under normal duty but most don't go out of their way to go after them unless they gotta. I liked the challenge.

[thegreatexperiment]

So, like...

Skiing.

[firacrux]

Only if skiing had a high probability of ending up digested at the end of it.

[thegreatexperiment]

I'll have to work on a better analogy.

[firacrux]

Skydiving?

[thegreatexperiment]

Oh! That's good!

[A pause.]

Also...you have skydiving?

[firacrux]

Kinda. Not too much in the way of viable aircraft so it ain't a common thing that way. But hey some people love an adrenaline rush and if you gotta be launched off a zipline off a cliff to get it why not?

Personally I think I'll take the dragons.

[thegreatexperiment]

You could always combine them? Dragonslaying while skydiving?

[firacrux]

That sounds pretty awesome. I'm imagining the Ruby tearing off your parachute though and just letting you fall to your death like an idiot.

They're pretty smart.

[thegreatexperiment]

That isn't quite as much fun.

Oh. I'm Sam, B-T-W.

[firacrux]

Maybe if you could control it to where you could land on one's back. Might work on a Hex, definitely not on a Ruby. Wouldn't risk it on a Blue.

Seifer.

[thegreatexperiment]

I'd say "nice to meet you." But meeting in this clown rodeo is never that nice.

[firacrux]

I dunno it's not that bad here. Cold maybe. Wasn't big on the freeze you to death mice.

[thegreatexperiment]

Still a prison.

[firacrux]

Where isn't?

[thegreatexperiment]

[She's silent a moment.]

Touche.

[firacrux]

[Growing up without choices gives you a bleak outlook on life ]

If they're gonna put us in a cage at least it's a big one.