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 Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:00 am
 Spring was beginning to give way to winter again and Ruin wasn't sure exactly what she thought of this. Winter was the time of year when the flowers grew and the birds sang and everything got muddy from the falling snow. Ruin hated flowers and she hated bird song. She liked the mud though - It made wonderful squishing noises when you walked through it, once in a while it felt like it was sucking your foot down and Ruin spun wild visions of being sucked down into the earth below, down and down and down into the hot flames of Heaven. Where her father came from.
Ruin sometime wished she had been born down there rather then this bright and mostly sunny world where aside from the piece of land ruled by her father everything was normal and whole and ugly. Her mother was whole...but at least she wasn't ugly. Her father sometimes said her mother was the closest to death a living horse could get and still be alive. Ruin rather liked that turn of phrase and while she had thought of killing her mother so she could be dead like them, her father had finally convinced her this would not work after the fourth or fifth attempt on her part. It had only been because she cared - her father understood but Ruin didn't think her mother did. That was the normal in her.
Ruin snorted in disgust and turned her gaze away from the flower singing in the tree. Stupid animal singing away for no apparent reason what so ever. It had distracted her from her mission - she had been looking for her mother and irritated at the loss of time she tromped extra hard on the early bird bud growing on the ground as she went by. she hoped she crushed it and it would never grow, would wither and die. Dead birds were the best birds.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:20 am
Ugh...there it was again, that irritating strip of rushing grass that snaked through the land. Ruin hated the grass, as a foal she'd tried to copy her mother and drink from it's clear depths..she had been vastly irritated when it just leaked through her face and dribbled back into the pond. She hadn't needed to drink of course and after a few days of trying had given up on the grass. Now she avoided it when she could, even the sight of it tormented her with her failure.
But her mother could often be found wandering by the shoreline - Ruin wasn't sure if she did this on purpose or not but thought it quite likely. She'd started doing it after the 'attempts' to make her more like the rest of her family. A little bit of gratitude there would have been nice. In any case there was no getting around it - Ruin would just have to trudge along beside the winter swollen bank of flowing grass and keep an eye out for her mother. Perhaps she'd be in the grove, Ruin and her siblings had been born there and their mother still spent time there once in a while though Ruin wasn't sure why. She ought to mingle with the rest of the herd more as far as Ruin was concerned...not spend her time sequestered in her own little fortress of trees.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:50 am
 Regret wasn't sure why she still visited this spot now and again, perhaps because it was the place she had last seen her missing son. The only normal one of the entire bunch and he had...been run off, discarded, sent away. It was probably for the best she knew - and it had been months ago, she wasn't supposed to still care, or to have cared at all for that matter. But she had and she did and it was just one more thing in her life to ...regret.
Heaving a deep sigh she eyed the rushing water, it was swollen from snow melt up in the mountain and rushing by in muddy swirls. Everything was muddy this time of year - even herself, though never particularly clean her coat sported larger clumps of caked on mud then normal. Oh well...that was something she truly didn't care about and Thanos had never complained about it either.
She had had so much hope for her progeny when she learned of her pregnancy. Sure their father had been a bit abnormal and that had worried Regret to some degree but she had hoped at least for the chance to right a few wrongs in her life. Instead it seemed she had simply brought more monsters into the world. Suiting she thought to herself..monsters beget monsters after all - and she wasn't talking about Thanos.
Speaking of monsters...a flash of movement along the river banks caught Regrets attention and lifting her head slightly - no more then was really necessary - she stared with bleary eyes at the approaching figure. That gleaming white half face could only belong to one horse of course. Ruin. Regret shuddered slightly - she knew somewhere in her heart of hearts that Ruin had meant well but being attacked by ones own daughter was a sore point with her and one she did not wish to repeat - although Thanos had assured her the problem had been resolved.
It would be like him to tell her that and completely forget however and she had remained vigilant for another attack for some time. It had been months now with no sign of further aggression, but Regret couldn't help but shudder just at the memories. She didn't bother calling out to her daughter, or moving towards her - if the beast was looking for her well she could find her on her own, like every other horse in this herd.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:58 am
It was Regrets movement of the head that caught Ruin attention. Ah just as she had thought! There was father standing in her little meadow surrounded by the towering tree and those accursed brightly colored flowers. Ruin would make sure to do her father a favor and get rid of the flowers before she left. As usual no word of greeting came from her fathers mouth - she was such a cranky creature Ruin thought to herself, though she couldn't really blame her - being normal probably did that to you.
"Hello Father!" She greeted the dappled mare - no point in being snippy with her and making her mood worse right? Besides she had to ask her something and such things Ruin had learned long ago went better if she at leas pretended to be pleasant while around her father. Flicking her one ear Ruin crossed the rest of the distance between them quickly her gaze turning to the rushing grass. "Thinking of drowning yourself ? I'll help you if you want, you can be like mother then" She offered helpfully, she had seen her father looking at the grass and really what other reason was there to do so? The fact that it could take the normalness away was probably the only good thing about the grass.
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:31 pm
Regret sighed as Ruin called her 'father' she had spent the first few months of the fillies life correcting her strange mix-ups but had given up when it became apparent that Ruin just didn't change. Her mix-ups were harmless for the most point anyways - a bit confusing unless you knew her, but harmless.
Her offer to help drown her however was a tad more worrisome and Regret flattened her ears at the filly "Of course i'm not thinking any such thing!' she snapped at her "Although you find this hard to believe I prefer to be alive thank you" Though that wasn't entirely true Regret reminded herself - the whole reason she'd followed Thanos had been to find the portal to hell, when that hadn't panned out she'd learned the black stallion had no intentions of letting her leave and shortly afterwards she'd resigned herself to that act and gotten pregnant. Oh well...Regret didn't much care, what else awaited her in life other then this own personal version of hell she found herself residing in now?
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:11 am
"Don't you be pricking your ears at me!" Ruin told her mother in a haughty tone - sure Regret might have birthed her but she - Ruin - had be given the gift of undeath and so in this herd ranked higher then her mother to her way of thinking. "I was only offering to make you fit in more" She told her in a less angry tone - birds below you'd think she'd offered to do something terrible. Well she told herself that's what you get for trying to be kind and relate to normals - even normals like her mother who were accustomed to living with her kind.
"Honestly I don't know why you don't try to spend more time alone, If you actually tried talking to a few of the herd members maybe they wouldn't flap their hooves about you quite so much. It makes father pissy you know when he hears it, and when he's angry he forgets more" She continued in a know it all voice, truthfully her mother should know al this by now and she ought to be expending more of an effort to fit in with the herd, how was Ruin going to get anywhere in life if her normal mother was always lurking in the shadows like this? She had aspirations..and her mother had better buck up and help them along!
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:47 am
Despite the fact that Regret was used to Ruin and her oddities once in a while one still had to let her rants digest for a few moments so you could decipher exactly what she was trying to say. At least the mare pondered once she'd gotten the jist of it, she seems to have straightened out which one of her parents was father and which one was mother. For the time being anyways - Regret didn't count on this being a lasting recall.
"Let them talk" She told her daughter in an annoyed tone - like she didn't know what the others said about her, most of them didn't go to any lengths to hide it and Regret made little effort to stop them. "Your father would be bored if he wasn't annoyed about something or another, might as well be the way they speak of me. I have no desire to be friends with the lazy wreaks in this herd and I can pin my ears at whomever I like..." She told her daughter letting her voice lower to a slightly threatening level. It would anger Ruin that she'd been corrected - but Regret had learned quickly that she couldn't let the filly run roughshod over her, Ruin was one to take advantage where she could from whomever she could, give her an inch of perceived leverage and before long she'd be trying to dictate her entire life and might get it into her mind to off her mother again in order to 'help her'
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:08 am
Ruin let out a long suffering sigh - her mothers words would be the life of her she swore it! And they were of course exactly what she'd expected from a normie like her mother. Why couldn't her father have just killed her the first time she'd seen him? Was that to much to ask? Ruin didn't think so and then she would have had two undead parents and a family that made sense..instead she had two sisters and one father undead...and a mother and no account missing brother who were norms. Death wasn't fair!
Whatever she'd just have to work twice as hard to make up for this oddity in her heritage she supposed and issued a glare at her mother. "Thats what I SAID!" She yelled at her - like she didn't know the words that came out of her mouth! Horses needed to learn how to listen. Maybe if she tore off a few of their ear they'd start paying more attention, a subtle reminder to use the blasted things. Look at her she only had one ear and she heard just fine! Ruin issued an angry snort the gleaming red orb that acted as her second eye glowing hotly in her anger before she simmered down.
It really wouldn't do to get into an argument with her mother, Regret didn't care as she'd shown time and time again and Ruin would just be wasting her time, she tried another approach "I don't suppose you've ever considered that your actions might have a good effect on your parents?!?" She challenged, Her mother was just being selfish.
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:47 am
Regret merely arched a brow at her daughter and lazily flicked her tail when she shouted, the tell tale glow of her eye showing just how angry she was. Regret didn't care - let her be angry it was better then letting her think she had won this confrontation. Ruin needed firm handling if Regret didn't want to spend what was left of her life looking over her shoulder all the time.
She'd spent enough time doing that back when...She shook her head wearily, since she'd had her foals those memories from the past hadn't bothered her quite as much as before but there was no point in pushing her luck and bringing them out on purpose. It was still better to just...not think most of the time. "You live in a herd where your own actions count for more then anything else - and this herd is full of useless creatures, whatever your ambitions I doubt you'll have much trouble even handicapped with me" She retorted shortly - though her words held quite a bit of truth to them and despite her rules about not caring she found herself vaguely curious about her daughters future plans.
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:00 am
Ruin flicked her one ear as she considered her mothers words carefully, she was slightly irked that she hadn't reacted more to Ruins shouting - but little to no reaction was expected from Regret. Ruin wondered briefly if all normies were so bland and unemotional. They must be thought she hardly remembered her brother she did recall he hadn't ever done much but stand about and shiver in fear. Utterly boring, she hadn't missed him much when he went found, well truthfully she hadn't missed him at all. She hadn't even noticed he was gone for a few weeks.
"Perhaps thats false" She admitted to her mother with a slight bob of her head "But it would be much easier if you would at least attempt to fit in. But don't hope, when mothers gone and I take over the herd I suppose I'll let you stay - you'll be ancient by then and possibly already dead anyways which will be great" She perked up at this thought, it would be amazing for her mother to die when she took over the herd, why that would make everything just so much easier.
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:36 am
Regret choose to ignore most of Ruins comments this time around - she was good at that, ignoring most of the things that went on in life and really who wanted to acknowledge the fact that most of your children would prefer it if you were dead. Of course they had skewed ideas on death - or at least Ruin did and seemed to think she'd come back like their father. Regret hoped not - seriously one 'life' was enough for her and her's had already been awful enough she saw no need to tag on an extra span of time trapped in a half decayed body.
Instead she focused on the rest of Ruins little speech, once she'd spent some time deciphering it again. "So you intend on taking over the herd then?" She asked her - Regret didn't think Thanos would like that very much but she decided to let it sit for now "You know your father will not ever be gone per say right?" At least as far as she knew - Thanos couldn't die again could he? Living with the dead..err undead could be so confusing sometimes.
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:10 am
Ruin scoffed slightly at her mothers question, what a logical thing to say - of course she didn't intend on taking over the herd - she was still far to old and experienced for that! She would settle for being beta until she was older, in fact that was why she had been looking for her mother in the first place - to ask her if she knew where father was.
"Don't be serious!" she told her mother in an amused tone "I couldn't possibly lose the herd right now, I'm far to old for such a thing, no I'll be fathers second in command for a while and when he gets tired and remembers the herd then I'll take over" she clarified in a tone that indicated she thought her mothers question and statement was daft.
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:26 am
"I see" Regret responded, though she found herself having a bit of trouble actually caring about Ruin and her quest at this point - any previous curiosity had been sated and frankly she thought the odds of Ruin actually seeing this through pretty slim. Besides Thanos already had a beta and Rowan was a fairly decent one given the rest of the herds uselessness.
neither could she find herself caring about Ruins tone of voice - it would probably be best in the long run Regret thought dully if ruin just forgot about her to begin with or at lease considered her not worth bothering about. Maybe then she'd quit offering to kill her all the time. In an effort to encourage her daughter to just move along she gave her a blank and uncaring look, it was a look Regret had perfected over her years of traveling she could portray a bleary eyed uncaring old horse pretty damn well. Now if Ruin would just get the point...
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:34 am
Ruin wasn't sure what she had expected from her mother - but that simple phrase and dull eyed look had not been it. It astounded her how Regret could go from animated and almost caring to glassy eyed and stupid in the blink of a mouth. Must be the norm in her. "Yes you will smell!" She snapped at her mother in irritation, here she had been pouring out her ribs and soul and her mother just didn't give a damn. Stupid normal mare with her stupid drinking grass and breathing, Ruin was not for the first time rather glad she had taken after her father.
Speaking of father, Ruin recalled what she had come all this way for in the last place. "Where is mother?" She suddenly demanded in haughty tone "He will care about my past" she told the mare accusingly, though mentally she added on ..if he remembers who I am anyways.
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:42 am
Well she hadn't let right away Regret lamented but it did seem as though she was planning too - and she'd managed to annoy her with her dull eyed look. That was probably a good thing - the more annoyed Ruin was with her the less time she was apt to spend nearby, the filly liked to avoid things that bugged her - which meant she spent allot of time avoiding things. Not my problem Regret reminded herself firmly and lifted her head a bit as she pondered Ruins question.
Normally she did indeed know where Thanos was..but today she wasn't so sure, the black stallion had dropped by early that morning on the way to speak with Rowan but she hadn't seen him since. Well she would just tell Ruin to go and ask Rowan then - surely the roped Palomino would know where he had gotten off too - and if he didn't well...again not your problem.
"I do't know, go ask Rowan" She told Ruin in a bored tone.
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