[@paixaorpg/Unrelated] Mun read a great fanfic and now the muse won't die down /at all/.

[blueberried]

All you did was read a fanfiction! I mean, yeah, I'm not in many of them... You mean that was the only one? [She's not sure how she feels about this. Sorry Violet, but 1971!Wonka fanfiction is hard to come by, let alone with one of the kids maining it.] 

Well I'm fine where I am! So don't go getting any ideas, okay?

[She's the one with the loud voice...]

Hey! [She purses her lips and rolls her eyes.] Can't you bug the others?!

((ooc; canon is 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'))

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[truffulacide]

[what the ever-loving heck is going on here.]

You're...blue.

[blueberried]

[She purses her lips, her brow furrowed. There's a hint of purple flushing at her cheeks. She's not sure whether she's more annoyed or embarrassed that that was all you had to say.]

What's your point?

[truffulacide]

[he blinks.] Well - just that you're blue. You typically don't see that in young children, I think.

[1/2]

[blueberried]

Well that's not my fault! [Yes it is.]

[blueberried]

[She lowers her voice and grumbles a bit.]

I wasn't blue before.

[truffulacide]

...Huh. That makes a little more sense. [keyword here is "a little".] What happened to you?

[blueberried]

[She stops to think about it, resulting in a shudder. She lowers her head.]

Why should I tell you?

[truffulacide]

[he hunches his shoulders and shrugs.]

No one's saying you should, so you don't have to if you don't want to, I guess. I'm a pretty good listener, though, and I don't make a habit of laughing at people for no good reason. [and it's always a plus that he's used to things much stranger than this. really, Violet ranks pretty low on his Weird Scale, all things considered.]

[blueberried]

[A good listener? She hasn't met one of those in a while- well, par that psychiatrist lady, but she seemed a bit dodgy. No one really listened to her. Ever.

With a twist of her lips, she considers maybe, silently. She doesn't have to avoid reporters here, and it has been a while since the incident...]

You wouldn't believe me.

[truffulacide]

[flatly] I nearly drowned going down a waterfall because a group of animals headed by an orange, mustached ball of fur threw my bed down a river.

Trust me, there's not really any limit to the things I'll believe.

[blueberried]

[That- what? Okay, so this guy's had his fair share of weird too. But... talking about it.

She bets hers tops his though.]

I blew up like a giant blueberry. How's that for size?

[No pun intended. Violet, your competitive is showing. At least the competitive side is overriding the embarrassment of it all... a little.]

[truffulacide]

[so it's to be a "who can out-weird the other" contest? bring it on.]

...Okay, I'll admit, that's just a liiiittle bit more than what I was expecting. [but look! he's not grinning or laughing at all!] The pun sort of underplays the nightmarish implications of it, though, so there's that.

But wow. How did that even happen?

[blueberried]

[Oh, now just because she learnt her lesson that curiosity and competitiveness aren't always the best, it's hard for a leopard to change its spots... This is a winner right here.

She didn't even realize that she had made a pun until he mentioned it.

And he's not laughing, but he is listening! Not even her dad would do that, and then he didn't want her to talk to anyone about it because of courts and lawsuits and things it was obvious he wouldn't be able to file against Wonka because of the contract she signed.]

Ever heard of Willy Wonka? [She would have assumed this if she hadn't been in D_M before, because it's Willy Wonka.]

[truffulacide]

[gurrrrl, you're talking to a guy who had to compete for attention from his mother for his entire life. HE DOES NOT LOSE CONTESTS, HE WINS THEM. or quits if they're unfair.]

Can't say that I have. Could he have picked a more terrifying-sounding name?

[blueberried]

[Pffft. It took her being turned into a blueberry at the factory to even make her dad notice her- and that didn't even last! Whilst she was crying through it all, he was too busy on the phone trying to sue Wonka.]

You find that scary? [She means, she does now... but before, that was the most magical name to pretty much all of the kids ever! Well, not ever, but in a while!]

He's a big, famous candy-man guy back in my world. No one saw him in ages and then he opened his factory to five lucky children- Well, I thought we were lucky! [She's speaking fast, more drastic sounding as she goes along. Seems like once she's got someone to speak to about it, it just all comes out.] I won one, because that's what I do...

[She slows down again, obviously at some part she doesn't really feel comfortable with.] Well anyway, first this fat kid nearly drowned; it was pretty scary. He got sucked up a pipe and stuff... I thought it was just an accident, but y'know, I think he planned it now...

[Sorry, but you're getting the long story. She's nearly done though.]

[truffulacide]

[aaaaand the floodgates open!]

- Wait, wait, back up just one minute. You mean someone out there thought it was a good idea to let children - little kids, mind you - into a factory owned by some hermit? Some reclusive, possibly insane hermit?

[and he thought he was the king of bad ideas. EVIDENTLY NOT.]

...Oh, okay, that's just lovely. So you're basically saying that he tried to kill you guys. Is this the part where I should be surprised?

This is the first time she's told anyone in detail, and I've been playing her for 2 years. D:

[blueberried]

Well yeah- but everyone thought he was fab before we went in! [Really. But you have a point.]

That isn't the worst of it.

[Her voice slows more.] He waved this experimental gum thing in front of my face, and I'm pretty sure he knew how much I liked gum... [She stays the hell away from it now though.] So I ate it, and- [She pauses. She never liked to think about the details, but... He told her to stop, didn't he? But he said it so softly and didn't even shout! When adults want you to stop doing something for real, they shout at you!]

He told me to stop. But he didn't mean it! He wasn't even trying! [She finds herself holding back tears. If he had shouted at her, she might have stopped and then she wouldn't go through it and maybe she could have won that factory.

It isn't the factory she really cares about, though.]

It turned me into a blueberry, and everyone was watching and then these freaky Oompa Loompas had to roll me away. It was awful. And the juicing really hurt.

[Something's clicked. She could have avoided all of that if she had just listened.]

[truffulacide]

[...what did he just listen to.]

...Not gonna lie, but that takes the cake for the grossest thing I've heard all...what, week? [yeah, sounds about right. last week was waaaay weirder, believe it or not.] Trust me, that's saying a lot.

How the heck did you even survive? Color aside, you look pretty unblueberry-like to me.

1/2

[blueberried]

[She does not envy your life. She's had enough wacky antics to last her a lifetime, thank you.]

I didn't think I would. There were these presses and... [She doesn't even want to remember this. It was uncomfortable, not fun and to the end, painful.]

2/2

[blueberried]

I don't wanna talk about it.