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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:13 am
The trials. The trials had come and gone, she was terrified of what was doing to happen next. Chuppi had awoken after dying to find herself in her room, fully clothed and unharmed, but filled with a sense of dread that wouldn't allow her to shake it no matter how hard she tried. There was no sleeping for her, no eating for her, and the more she stayed in her room the more apparent it was that she was getting nowhere and fast.
Paranoia was setting in by the time the chupacabra forced herself from her room and she started up and down the hallways of the monster dorm, unsure of what to do next. She wanted to see her friends, see if they were okay or were as upset as she was, but it was very likely they wouldn't want to see her. She had told that hunter everything, even if it was just a fake thing and didn't matter.
Chuppi had been weak and they must hate her for it. That thought scared her far more than anything actually involving the hunters did.Rabid Ice Weasel i've fixed this first post up, let me know when you fix yours and we can do it ;;; i'm super sorry i'm lame to RP with
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:29 pm
Taryn was just taking a morning walk, nothing special about it save the the new eyepod clipped to her skirt. She walked with a small stick, not one for support, but just to carry and beat the occasional tree with, her other hand occupied with keeping Windham leashed. She was humming softly to herself, presumably her music, wrapped in her pea coat. She had no idea that anybody was looking for her, and so she just wandered at her leisure through the grounds, thinking. Windham saw Chuppi before the chimera did.
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:54 pm
The chuapcabra had her senses dulled by her own doubt, her feelings keeping her from thinking too much and paying attention to her surroundings. It was a bit disgusting how pathetic she was acting, her nose stuffed with snot rather than the scents of those around her, and when she turned and spotted one of her team members coming towards her it honestly startled her and she jumped backwards.
Into a tree. Not on it, into it. Her quills were stuck fast and she couldn't wiggle herself loose, instead her motions causing the branches above to shake and shower down brilliantly colored leaves onto her panicking frame. Chuppi couldn't get herself free, not anytime soon anyway.
"Eeeeeeee." She wanted to get lose and get away! She didn't want to talk to Taryn right now, she was ashamed of everything.
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:00 pm
It probably wasn't the best idea to squeal if you didn't want to be spotted. Taryn smiled slightly as she approached Chuppi, and while the cycorgi sniffed the little chupacabra's feet, Taryn reahched behind her and yanked her free, tumbling back into the grass.
"Oof..." was all she had to say about that, and she brushed herself off as she stood. How did she begin? Her brow knotted in concern, and she sighed softly. "Chuppi... how've you been feeling?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:08 pm
Chuppi cowered before Taryn, even if the girl had helped her get free. The events of the trials had seemed so real to her and, even if she knew they weren't overly possible, she was still naive enough to believe that whatever had happened there could happen again in real life.
If that was the case she could easily spill all the secrets out to everyone without a second thought, and Taryn asking her a question right now only seemed to cement that terror deeper in her mind. Her hands instantly went over her ears and she dropped down into a ball, her quills poking themselves out wide in an effort to either make herself seem larger or to protect her form.
"No don't ask me anything! Do not tell me anything I didn't mean to tell them anything I couldn't help it don't hate me!" Her speech was clear English, a sign she was still trying to focus, but it was fast and her accent was hard and heavy on certain words. If she was difficult to understand it was to be expected but Chuppi was shaking, shivering. Her cowardice was infuriating to her, seeing as Taryn seemed to be just fine, but! But! "Lo siento, lo siento!"
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:20 pm
Taryn's brow knotted deeply and she could only crouch to try and get a better look at the ghoul. She'd thought the boys were bad-off, dear Jack...
"Chuppi, what are you on about? What's wrong?" Of course, the trials were wrong. What was it specifically that had gotten to the little one, though? She thought back, thought hard, and shook her head. "No, no, Chuppi, we know it's not your fault. Please, stand up?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:29 pm
"But I kept talking, I told them everything and then they killed me anyway. I didn't want to tell them, I bit my tongue and I wouldn't stop talking. I couldn't choke and I kept talking, but the drums in my head.. . . " Chuppi's hands were pressed over her ears yet her palms were still somewhat up, allowing for a bit of space between her head and her hands. She was trembling faintly and her eyes were threatening tears, though she did turn her head at the command and look up at Taryn. "I am still of the so sorry. I didn't want to say anything and -" She hiccuped, biting back the tears still, and pushed herself somewhat to her feet. Her hands were still over her ears but at least Chuppi didn't look like a horrifying ball of spikes and green scales anymore.
One of her hands gingerly moved down and dusted off her back and her knees, the scales bending as Chuppi pulled them forward. Several pieces of bark were stuck here in there, prompting a groan of unhappiness from the monster, but she let them stay as she looked to the chimera. Taryn had told Chuppi to stand up and so she stood up, and Taryn was saying the trials weren't her fault, but then again Chuppi hadn't seen what had happened to Taryn afterward. Perhaps it was because the chupacabra didn't know that she thought their fate had been a result of her actions.
Unlike the boys, Chuppi wasn't angry at the Horseman about the trial - she didn't quite grasp that they'd done it to prove a point. She assumed the trails were meant to show her faults that she had, and speaking to strangers about vital information seemed to be one of them. "Were you....did they kill you because of what I had said? All the things I had been saying?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:49 pm
Taryn shook her head as Windham weaved between her feet. "They killed all of us, and not because of what you said. They had no real use for us, they planned to kill us from the beginning," she reasoned. There had not been a moment during the final trial that she had thought they'd be freed, although she'd hoped each time someone had escaped. Although at the time she had been disappointed, it had been made pretty clear that Chuppi had no control over her admissions.
"You can't blame yourself. It was... a point being made or... something. You did very well..."
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:58 pm
"I should have tried and to kill myself rather than talking. If I had done more, maybe then you could have run while I talked? Even if they had no use for us, it would have been better. . . ." Chuppi was refusing to cry even if her eyes were getting red and her head hurt from holding it in. Taryn had told her before not to cry, that tears wouldn't fix anything, and the chupacabra was doing her very best not to cry in front of this monster.
It was then that Chuppi noticed how calm Taryn seemed, and she tilted her head a bit to the side in an effort to figure it out. Just how - ? "Why...why do you take this so well? You are not upset like others, or scared like me? Por que?" Why.
Why couldn't Chuppi be strong like that? Why did she want to cry still?
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:11 pm
"No, no, they wouldn't have let you, and we were all locked-in," Taryn reassured the panicking ghoul. She wanted to pat her, to hug her, but that didn't seem like an appropriate reaction at the moment. The question that followed made her forget some of the comfort. Why was it everyone assumed that she was fine? What had she done to make everyone thing she was so cold?
"Of course I'm upset," she urged calmly, "Of course I'm scared. That doesn't mean I'm going to wail in the halls. There's nothing I can do about what happened, and panicking doesn't solve anything. I see my friends suffering, and... I guess I try to stay strong and support them. I don't know, everyone seems to think it doesn't bother me, but it does." Her face was twisted now, furrowed and strained. She had treated the whole experience with logic, as she did with most anything at Amityville. Staying calm and collected was her coping mechanism.
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:23 pm
The chupacabra finally pulled her hands completely away from her head, her fingers having touched the sides of her face several times during the conversation. They dropped down to her sides where they balled into little fists, the sharp p***k of her nails an indications she was squeezing her hands together too tightly. "I...am jealous of you though. You look so calm, collected. I am trying so very hard not to cry because I do not want you mad at me like before. I am trying to smile soon so you can smile but you are looking like you want to cry too."
If Taryn could be strong then Chuppi could be strong, they were both girls and they were both monsters. There had to have been something fundamentally different between them though, Taryn looked like an adult while Chuppi felt like a chupacabra pup all over again. "You should cry if you are wanting too because I can cry with you." She cleared her throat, venturing on. "Maybe a cry will help you this once, maybe." Part of her request was she wanted to cry too and the monster didn't want to be the only one crying. Bottling everything up wasn't healthy, she knew that much, so perhaps a prompt would be good?
Or maybe it would just make Taryn all that much madder and make her leave.
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:34 pm
The chimera arched an eyebrow and tilted her head slightly. She really must seem like some kind of horrible, emotionless wench if everyone was addressing her like this. Chuppi was prone to emotional outbursts and she, well... she had a more determined force of homeostasis, or something. The ghoul finally resolved to shake her head softly.
"I've done my crying already, in private. I cried too but now..." Taryn sighed. Was it really so strange to not be ripping her hair out? "Well, Windham needed me, and I wasn't solving any problems sobbing. I... resolved to work. I like it. It feels like I'm progressing. I analyze things, I analyze myself, and it makes me feel like I have a better understanding of myself. I can't possibly explain away what happened to us, but I believe that there's good to come out of it... there has to be, or I'd be crying all the time."
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:44 pm
"Crying in private is okay, but I don't cry when I am alone." That was...oddly true about the monster and she was surprised to think that she'd never noticed that before. If it hadn't been for Roch telling her to stop sulking she probably would have never cried over Tybalt. If it wasn't for Taryn standing here saying that she'd cried in private then Chuppi probably wouldn't have cried over the trials either. She'd have been too tired, to drained, to even think properly about it enough to even attempt tears.
Yet...she still stood there, not crying even though her eyes were watering and threatening to let lose at every chance they could get. Taryn had told her not to cry and maybe that was why Chuppi was trying to hard not to cry in front of her. "I wonder if Yin cried, or Alexander. I do not know if undeads can cry though so maybe not for Alexander or our friend Mort. Undeads maybe cry dust then?" That thought was actually a bit silly and the corner of her mouth twitched into a smile.
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:37 pm
"They're really not doing so well either," Taryn offered, shaking her head. Windham barked for attention, so she stooped to scratch his head. "Mort seems more angry than upset, though, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of crying involved." She picked her cycorgi up and held him close, nuzzling his fur as he looked through their surroundings. Taryn felt very little about the trials now, except for a determination to use the lessons learned. Any more repeated emotion could break her. "You know, I don't know? Maybe they do? Maybe they don't cry anything, but I think they can still cry without tears..."
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:09 am
As the cycorgi was lifted and moved Chuppi's stomach let out an audible whine. Anything that wasn't a student still had the attention of her appetite even if she was doing her best to suppress it. It seemed as though her emotional state was just letting her body run all kinds of wild with everything and her cheeks turned a pale shade of rosy green, seeing as she couldn't properly blush. It was in her best interest to keep the conversation moving. "Maybe they cry blood too. I have sometimes seen blood coming from eyes like tears." People normally couldn't cry blood but Chuppi didn't really know that. The more she spoke the more her ignorance of other races showed but it seemed naive and honest enough so it wasn't like she was being stupid on purpose. "I...want to see them, to see Mort and them, but it is hard to decide to face them. I am somewhat wishing of having someone to lean on as they do."
It was only when she thought about relationships that Chuppi felt lonely. Lately she hadn't really been feeling it, seeing as she kept herself distracted by many things, but the reminder of Yin and Alex and their feelings for one another was a somewhat bitter pill. School was where one usually learned to love and be loved right? Chuppi wondered if it wasn't uncommon for people to fall in love when scared - which meant if things kept happening like they were she may or may not find a mate before her time at the school was over.
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