All Hail the Queen

[whimsicalism]

[An hour passes in this strange place. There's silence for a few moments. Then loud talking starts.]

They don't seem to like me... [A young girl's voice, timid and small despite the fact that everyone can hear her.]

Does it matter? If we act like the sun or the north wind, it's no skin off our backs. [A second voice answers... the same voice? Could she just be talking to herself?] You are the Queen. All ways are your ways.

Yes. Alice is the Queen.

[At this statement, the doors quickly open. As the Queen's note said there's a large table filled with tea and sweets in the middle of the audience hall. There's even chairs for everyone. Far from the ground on an balcony is a large throne. On the throne is a young girl, with a small fluffy cat in her lap. The girl smiles briefly.]

I'm Alice the Queen.

[The cat jumps on the railing of the balcony to stare dispassionately at the gathered group before jumping on the throne herself. Within a few seconds a copy of the Queen is sitting next to her, dressed in black.]

And I'm Alice the Chesire Cat. Welcome to our Castle. [There's a dryness to the Cat's voice that is missing from the Queen's.]

I'm sure we can answer your questions! Come, it's time for Alice's Tea Party! Let's begin, Alice.

[Welcome to Wonderland.]

((OOC: It's alright to still respond to the IC intro post and there will backtagging from myself in this post if needed.))

Comments

[ballooncaged]

What's next? A mirror? A rabbit? Some old guy with a hat?

[Mizuki has just... been looking for answers all day. She's been reasonable, not disingenuously fitting the evidence to her hypothesis. Even friendly to self-proclaimed monsters. But this is it. The final straw. She just walks up to the side of the tea table, slamming her hands down on the edge with all of her strength. Flimsy wood might snap.]

IF I WANTED TO COSPLAY, I'D BE A MERMAID AT SUNFISH POCKET!!!!

[twinverses]

[It shifts but the table seems rather strong.

Hey, that guy's stories are too sad! Alice in Wonderland is better than his stories.

[ballooncaged]

[The solidity is giving Mizuki stimuli to focus a little more.]

Than who? Lewis Carroll??

[twinverses]

Andersen, of course! He wrote the Little Mermaid, after all, and it's far too sad! It's the worst!

[ballooncaged]

Oh, that. Well, SunPoke doesn't really have anything to do with his original vision or the derivatives. The mermaids are based on legends in general.

[Rolling eyes, taking a step back.]

Should have known you'd think of that when you had that other Disney movie...

[twinverses]

We have many movies here. They're here for everyone else.

I don't need movies or books anymore when I have Alice.

[ballooncaged]

Sports broadcasts would interest me more anyway.

[But she shouldn't get swept up in the girls' pace.]

...are you really going to punish us if we don't just accept our ~*happy new party life*~ here?

[twinverses]

You can either live peacefully and forget or try to win at a trial. When someone finally wins, I'll bring everyone back and I'll restore your memories.

You won't be able to leave but every game must have it's conditions.

[ballooncaged]

So... Let me see if I have this straight. You want us to keep killing and executing each other, until we finally execute the wrong person, and then... all of us will get brought back to life??? And also only the one murderer goes free back to the outside world?

What's even the point of anything in that?

[twinverses]

Hehe, that's part of the ending. No skipping ahead!

[imozon]

[Dark Dream suddenly looks up again.]

[ballooncaged]

What?

[Oh, hm, uh-]

Other people can dress how they want, it's about playing a part I didn't ask for!

[imozon]

Huh? I was going to ask why you were asking about mirrors.

[ballooncaged]

Oh. Well, Alice in Wonderland is this whole thing. A story about a girl in a blue dress who meets a cat, goes through a looking glass, all this really specific stuff that's gotten repeated in like a million movies.

[imozon]

Does it have to be a blue dress?

[...I'm sorry she's gone directly to stupidville with this.]

[ballooncaged]

Kinda, yeah. [Seems like a reasonable if arbitrary question.] The whole idea is as many lazy similarities to some original work as possible. But I guess the actual outfit is something that gets tweaked pretty often compared to other stuff.

[imozon]

It's just that most of the people I've known who went through a mirror weren't wearing blue. I guess some of them were, though.

[ballooncaged]

Th... Through a mirror? Like without crashing into a bunch of glass?

I can't say I'm used to that.