A. Worrigami - OTA [ This is stupid, but Emerald's been here long enough that she's started to have a little more trust in the magic here. People, not so much, but the way things work here make sense. The world is ending, but people are fighting to stop it. Light magic bends light, dark magic makes her neighbor sneeze for three hours straight when he forgets to turn off his alarm before going to work and makes it impossible to sleep. As a general rule, no one's trying to pull a fast one with magic items as long as you actually ask questions instead of just stupidly charging ahead, so she's got the general gist of it for the papers. She feels like she can trust what she knows at least to the extent that she knows she doesn't know everything. Which means she can trust the origami she's been handed.
It doesn't make the opening up part any easier. Emerald finds herself mildly annoyed at her own weakness- her own desire to find someone to care about her that's driven her to do unspeakable things. But that ultimately is what makes her write anything down.
I betrayed the only people I could ever call family.
She couldn't be a part of destroying the world. But she also can't say it was because it was the right thing to do- she didn't decide to do the right thing until after she'd already gotten out.
Sick to my stomach. Angry. At myself, at them.
She wanted Mercury to believe her, to leave with her. She saw it in his eyes the second he left that he only did after it was too late. Mercury wanted her to stop believing in Cinder. Cinder looked right through her when all she'd ever done was for her sake-- she'd saved Cinder's life and Cinder was mad at her for valuing her life over power. There was nothing she could do for either of them, the two people who meant the most in the world to her, and in the face of that she turned her back on both of them. How could she not be angry? And now she just felt...
She pauses before scribbling one more word on the paper.
Alone.
And the two sheets slide together and begin folding together until they form a monkey and run off, using its little paper tail to swing off of a curtain rod and out the window.
..Yeah, Emerald's climbing out the window after it to follow it. She's not really waiting around. It's a little paper monkey and what else does she have to do all day? ]
B. Dark Art - OTA [ Emerald isn't much of an art person, but the art gallery itself has a lot of cool tricks in it. The trick with the fruit is inspired. She's already got her token for getting through it (not much is scarier than living in a literal hellscape ruled by an apocalyptic self-proclaimed goddess who creates her own monsters) but afterwards, she can be found hanging around the exit kind of.. lightly bullying the staff member who gave her her token. ]
I don't need a painting to throw things at you, you know. Just show me.
[ ..She knows how to be polite, but when she doesn't have to pretend to be, she usually isn't. Maybe someone can go rescue the guy? Or help her learn a cool dark magic trick. Whichever. ]
C. Closed to Morgan [ Well, he had told her to call if she wanted to do something. This probably wasn't what he had in mind, but after seeing some poor sap get Frenched by a tree (and leaving him there) Emerald had turned back to the edge of the Broceliande and send him a quick text to meet her there, with no real explanation. She gives him a brief wave as he approaches, then turns to walk back into the forest. ]
Come on.
[ She'll probably explain on the way if he hasn't figured it out on his own. Scavenger hunt time! ]
D. Wildcard [ If you want something else, go for it! Emerald's not likely to willingly subject herself to being hexed, so the third prompt is shaky unless your character agrees to be the blinded one. Can also be hit up at tartetain or taylotjelly#4556 on discord if you wanna plot first. :) ]
Emerald Sustrai 💎 RWBY
[ This is stupid, but Emerald's been here long enough that she's started to have a little more trust in the magic here. People, not so much, but the way things work here make sense. The world is ending, but people are fighting to stop it. Light magic bends light, dark magic makes her neighbor sneeze for three hours straight when he forgets to turn off his alarm before going to work and makes it impossible to sleep. As a general rule, no one's trying to pull a fast one with magic items as long as you actually ask questions instead of just stupidly charging ahead, so she's got the general gist of it for the papers. She feels like she can trust what she knows at least to the extent that she knows she doesn't know everything. Which means she can trust the origami she's been handed.
It doesn't make the opening up part any easier. Emerald finds herself mildly annoyed at her own weakness- her own desire to find someone to care about her that's driven her to do unspeakable things. But that ultimately is what makes her write anything down.
I betrayed the only people I could ever call family.
She couldn't be a part of destroying the world. But she also can't say it was because it was the right thing to do- she didn't decide to do the right thing until after she'd already gotten out.
Sick to my stomach. Angry. At myself, at them.
She wanted Mercury to believe her, to leave with her. She saw it in his eyes the second he left that he only did after it was too late. Mercury wanted her to stop believing in Cinder. Cinder looked right through her when all she'd ever done was for her sake-- she'd saved Cinder's life and Cinder was mad at her for valuing her life over power. There was nothing she could do for either of them, the two people who meant the most in the world to her, and in the face of that she turned her back on both of them. How could she not be angry? And now she just felt...
She pauses before scribbling one more word on the paper.
Alone.
And the two sheets slide together and begin folding together until they form a monkey and run off, using its little paper tail to swing off of a curtain rod and out the window.
..Yeah, Emerald's climbing out the window after it to follow it. She's not really waiting around. It's a little paper monkey and what else does she have to do all day? ]
B. Dark Art - OTA
[ Emerald isn't much of an art person, but the art gallery itself has a lot of cool tricks in it. The trick with the fruit is inspired. She's already got her token for getting through it (not much is scarier than living in a literal hellscape ruled by an apocalyptic self-proclaimed goddess who creates her own monsters) but afterwards, she can be found hanging around the exit kind of.. lightly bullying the staff member who gave her her token. ]
I don't need a painting to throw things at you, you know. Just show me.
[ ..She knows how to be polite, but when she doesn't have to pretend to be, she usually isn't. Maybe someone can go rescue the guy? Or help her learn a cool dark magic trick. Whichever. ]
C. Closed to Morgan
[ Well, he had told her to call if she wanted to do something. This probably wasn't what he had in mind, but after seeing some poor sap get Frenched by a tree (and leaving him there) Emerald had turned back to the edge of the Broceliande and send him a quick text to meet her there, with no real explanation. She gives him a brief wave as he approaches, then turns to walk back into the forest. ]
Come on.
[ She'll probably explain on the way if he hasn't figured it out on his own. Scavenger hunt time! ]
D. Wildcard
[ If you want something else, go for it! Emerald's not likely to willingly subject herself to being hexed, so the third prompt is shaky unless your character agrees to be the blinded one. Can also be hit up at