A1. video. [ open to both courts ]

[greenies]

[ it doesn't immediately occur to thomas that he could probably just communicate through a text system--as far as he knows, the locket is a lot easier to use by video, and so he does. the network is presented with a pair of big, brown doe eyes before he leans backwards a little, revealing a face that could be rather familiar to some--dark hair, a button nose, moles like spots littering his face.

this is not the man you are looking for, however: this is thomas "murphy", and he clears his throat before he introduces himself. ]

Hi. I'm Thomas Murphy, and I'm--kind of a new arrival. I guess they'd call me a greenie if this was back home. [ there's no hint of humor on his face, but he did actually just try and make a joke, and his tone is a little lighter, for it. ]

Can anyone tell me about the Seelie and Unseelie--in your own words, if that makes any sense? What you know about it...you don't have to tell me any secrets or anything, but, maybe why you're there, I guess. [ he's not going to say which court he is (though it's obvious eventually, by the background of caer scima), but he just needs to know. ] Or, if you're okay with where you are. Not that I'm not, but...I don't know. Is there any reason why someone wouldn't be? They apparently brought us here for a reason-- [ again. ] --since we have these "shards", or whatever they are, but I don't have a lot of trust for anybody who says that, because it's usually a load of klunk.

I guess that's all I've got to ask. [ a beat. ] Actually, that's not true. Is there another map around here? Besides the one they gave me, I mean, it's not very good. [ ... ] No offense.

[ thomas is just going to shut his trap now. he almost physically winces and shakes his head. ] That's it, honestly. I'm just going to... hang up now. Thanks.

[ thomas does hang up, and the feed ends--for all of five seconds, before he snaps it back on. ] Oh, wait--also, I want to know if anyone here's ever heard the phrase "WICKED is good." It has to look like this. [ after a second, there's a typed out phrase that appears instead, with WICKED fully capitalized. ] That's really all this time. Um, thanks.

[ click! for real this time. ]

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[oursavinggrace]

Isn't Wicked a musical or something?

[clearly someone's just really into broadway.]

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[greenies]

[ squ...ints.... ]

What's a musical? [ #nailed it ]

[arms]

[ Minho is reserving his appearance on the network for some other time, and if Thomas wants to field all of his questions to the people of Drabwurld, then, you know. It's not really that new a thing for him to do, considering he so frequently asks them and rarely ever finds answers. Hopefully his barrage is well-received, or he at least gets some sort of answer, because he's about as curious as Thomas is.

He's just more subtle, in that department, and isn't about to sit down and ask twenty questions in one sitting.

Right now, he's going to literally sit on the floor out of the way where Thomas is milling around, trying to figure out the shucking map they've been given. It's poor, by his standards. Yeah, sure, being given a map of a continent isn't an awful thing at all to have. But it doesn't have details, and it's not going to help them when they try to get anywhere. ]

Greenie's still a greenie, y'know. [ He caught that joke, Tommy. Kinda proud of you, there. ]

[greenies]

You got here at the same time as me. [ is thomas a little huffy sounding when he says that? okay, maybe a little. he looks exasperatedly up at the ceiling, and it ends with throwing minho a look instead. ] So you're a greenie too.

[ there's just a beat. ] Greenie.

[ that feels really, really weird, but, it's kind of lighthearted and nice, compared to everything else that's happened in their lives. thomas attempted to make a joke, again, and he sighs, flopping down to sit on the ground beside minho. ] Do you think anyone's gonna give us an answer?

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[ex_audacity56]

D'you know what "wicked" means?

[just

checking]

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[greenies]

World in Catastrophe Killzone Department.

[ automatically; yeah, he's pretty much had that one bred into him. ]

Video

[teenyoda]

...

[Just this face. Because your face, bro. Face.]

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[greenies]

[ .... well this is a new one.


thomas stares right back, a little more disturbed than usual. ]

Clones. [ a beat. ] Clones? [ wait WICKED's not even here this is the drabwurld, what is going on. ]

[munies]

[ and Teresa's just making this face at YOUR face, bro ]

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[mesmerism]

[ Waaaaait a second. She saw your face, sir! At the feast. But that guy was named Stiles. Huh, this is weird. ]

Someone told me the Unseelie were all dicks.

[ Yeah, that was Stiles. ]

I just arrived too, so I only have his word to go off of.

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[greenies]

[ thomas has a feeling "dicks" is probably a bad thing. ] No--not me. I don't think I'm a bad guy, anyway.

[ he rubs the back of his neck, self consciously, hand idling over the tattoo WICKED left him. ] You're from the other court, right?

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[munies]

I've heard it. I said it.

[ there are, roughly, 900 things she should probably say right now, and she kind of wants to cry and laugh at the same time, and that's pretty weird to experience, but all that comes out at first is- ]

Murphy?

[ maybe Thomas got his memories back, somehow. after- everything. she sounds a little hopeful, but that's hidden beneath a thick later of confused and nervous ]

video;

[greenies]

[ thomas literally freezes when he hears her voice, because he's heard it a thousand times in his head. seen it, dreamt it, heard it in front of him.

he freezes because standing before him is the girl he got killed. ]

Teresa. [ his throat clicks and he looks thunderstruck when he stares at her, suddenly overwhelmed with the desire to find her. there are a thousand questions--is she alive? how is she alive? does she remember everything? conflicting emotions, happiness and joy and a faint anger, betrayal and sadness all at once hit into thomas with the wrecking ball that is teresa agnes, and thomas isn't sure what to do with himself as he tries to answer her. anything. ]

Jorge made it up. [ he blurts that out, because he did, and it's so much easier than addressing this at large. ] You're alive.

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[quest]

[ these are all pretty good questions. ones that Percy might've had, if he hadn't been so caught up in everything else going on with the demigod squad. ]

All my friends from home are in the Seelie court with me, and I guess you could call all of us heroes, sort of. So that's all I really know about our court. [ but, at the same time, it seems weird to break it up between good/evil, right? because no one is strictly one thing or the other, they never are. except for Annabeth, but. ] I'm alright with where I am. There's someone from home I already miss, but a lot of my friends are in the same court.

[ that line, though. weird. ] I've never heard "WICKED is good".

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[greenies]

[ don't worry man team leaders all have that need to know in common. we got you, buddy. ]

That's kind of funny. [ he cocks his head, thinking about it. ] Because I don't know about me, but my best friend, Minho? He's definitely a hero, and he's here in Unseelie, too. [ thomas, you're a hero too, shh. ] It's not as easy as I thought it might have been at first.

But that's good, about your friends. [ and there's just a tinge of hope to his voice when he asks-- ] All of them...they're all alive back home too, right? I know that sounds weird, but...

[ a beat. ] Good. [ how cryptic, tommy. ]

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[atoned]

[ thomas is going to get a flicker of an image, solely sound, a prolonged viewing of zuko's feet, before he hears and sees nothing at all. throughout this, he'll hear a why won't you — ]

— work! [ oh, it's doing the dictating thing again. there's a slight pause in the appearance of letters, zuko fiddling around, but his locket insists on staying on the text function for now. ]

What's a greenie?

[ is that like a bender? like an earthbender? maybe he'll adopt that for toph, since she's become more annoying as she's grown older. ]

[ unfortunately, he has no answers for thomas. the only time he has heard wicked is good is when he'd once been impersonating azula in front of one of the turtle ducks when he'd been eleven. as for the seelie and unseelie definitions, he's curious himself, which is why he had wanted to respond in the first place. ]

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[greenies]

[ that's fine, zuko--thomas just kind of stares, open mouthed, watching the guy...guy?? deal with the locket. he's not that great with the thing himself, and it takes him a second to get the text function to work.

it feels really weird to answer questions about glader slang, and it makes him smile a little bit. ]

A Greenie is someone new, who just came to something. Sometimes they used to use "greenbean" too. [ mostly on him. ]

video.

[infame]

[He's been watching this entire post for hours, face horrified and slightly embarrassed. Thank God it's not another Stiles. He's not sure his blood pressure could take it.]

The Seellie are considerably more boring and have the unfortunate luck of housing my worlds most unruly teenagers. I see you've met Stiles. The Unseelie are far less predictable, which is always more fun.

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[greenies]

[ his nose wrinkles up at the name stiles--thomas already is not fond of his "clone". ]

Yeah. Are you Peter? [ it's worth an ask. ]

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[tawarwaith]

Greetings Thomas Murphy, I am Tauriel. I cannot say I know much in regards to either of the courts, or how it is they have selected us. All I know is based on speculations and observations. I can tell you that the court I was selected for is not one I would have chosen, if I had any say in it.

[Meaning, she is marked as Unseelie and it still makes her uncomfortable to even think that still.]

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[greenies]

[ wow, this woman speaks very formally. thomas thinks about the letters from ava paige--it stirs an old memory, and he has to shake it away. ]

Um--hi, Tauriel. [ that is a Name. not that he can really talk. ] Really? I think you're the first one I've talked to who said so. Which court are you in?

voice.

[mixcds]

[He's squinting so hard; talking zombies with his sister. There's another world with zombies (???) though, which is - unfortunate. He's not sure how to process that right now. Probably with mass guilt and then righteous haughtiness later on. ]

I probably know as much as you do, right now. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly this war is about.

voice.

[greenies]

Did you just get here, too? [ it seems like there was a whole group of new arrivals--not like the glade. or maybe like it was at first? newt had said a group of them showed up together, and then after that, one by one for months.

weird. (also sorry bout your zombie problem, buddy, we can commiserate.) ] I am too.

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[starspangled]

I thought "wicked" was generally the opposite of good.

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[greenies]

[ thomas's mouth quirks into a tiny little smile. ]

Believe me, I think you're right.

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[invernale]

Harry Dresden, and I'm not yet acquainted with the differences here, but where I'm from, the Seelie represent warmth, growth, life- that kind of thing. They're called the Summer Court. The Unseelie are Winter- the cold and darkness- death. [ And Harry grimaces because back home, he owes a favor to one of the Queens of Winter. ]

They're in a balance, and if either of them should ever overcome the other, then anything mortal is pretty much screwed.

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[greenies]

That's... [ whoa. thomas pauses for a second. ] I guess that makes sense.

[ it stings, a little, to know that they put him on this side. the cold and darkness? thomas doesn't think he's ever known it, except when they lifted him up on the box, when he'd forgotten everything (things he still doesn't remember.)

death, though. death he can get.

the man sounds knowledgeable, though, so he asks yet another question, brown eyes big and curious. ] Did you have something like this wherever you came from?

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[foreignflight]

Unseelie. Seelie. They're just some title they've given everyone for their convenience. I've met people on both sides and some of them are jerks and others are fine. Which court you're on doesn't change who you are.

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[greenies]

[ this kid's frankness is kind of refreshing, and thomas gives a little smile, instantly reminded of a lost friend. ]

I think you're right. [ because he's not a jerk. he's done some horrible, horrible things, so maybe that's why he's here? but that still doesn't explain minho. all he ever did was shoot some guy's toes off...and to be fair, he totally deserved it. ] Still, if it's a war, I have a feeling the, uh, royalty's not too keen on us not fighting each other.

[choreographics]

[Um. Well. That's a very loaded question isn't it and immediately he hones in on the fact he's talking about Wicked. Of course it doesn't take him long to realize it's the wrong kind of Wicked so his train of thought's re-railed and he just lifts an eyebrow.]

I can't really tell you what the Seelie and Unseelie really means for us. I haven't been here long enough for that, but you want to know what I think? [He'll tell you anyway, Thomas.] It doesn't make sense. It really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to keep splitting us up when the concept of right and wrong is really gray. I mean you've probably done stuff that people consider wrong but you considered right, right? I don't know, it just seems like a pretty bad idea to sort us really early on, like we're locked into certain roles from the start without being able to change. I don't know about what's going on over in the other court or whatever, but this one's pretty crowded.

..does that make any sense?

[greenies]

[ wow this guy talks a lot. thomas does listen to everything he's saying with an even, if a little wide eyed, expression though, nodding his head. ]

I'm guessing you're on the other side. Right? [ here on the unseelie side, there's not much going on. someone had told him that there was a balance and thomas had kept that in mind, but if things aren't even...doesn't that throw it out of whack? interesting. ]

It does make sense, though. Like our destinies were chosen before we even really got the chance to do anything. [ thomas won't fight his, though; he can understand full well why they put him with a lot of villains. ]