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Prompt

These twins seem to have an association with love! What do they do with this association? Do they use it for evil or for good? Does one work one way and the other a different? Do they have sibling rivalry or do they work together.

Tell me their story!

Hey! Cupids! Won't you come home with me?

Male Seryph!

Name of entrant for male seryph: Nyx Queen Of Darkness
Seryph's name Volubile
Seryph's talent + a description of how they use it / what they use it for: Capricious Cupid: Making two unlikely candidates fall in love, only works in conjunction with his sister or it will remain one sided.
Seryph's personality: Volubile is of a very fickle nature, as evidenced by his name. Easily bored and lazy to a fault, he dislikes meddling in people's affairs because it requires too much energy. He loves his sister dearly, and would do anything to protect her--despite his appearances of indifference toward her feelings.

Female Seryph!

Name of entrant for female seryph: Emalthya
Seryph's name Capricia
Seryph's talent + a description of how they use it / what they use it for: Capricious Cupid: Capricia's talent allows her to make ponies fall in love at her whim for a while. Her talent is the cause of many ONSes which seem absolutely... cracktastic... Her talent alone is insufficient to make the love permanent, but used in conjunction with her brother's talent may result in true love forever.
Seryph's personality: Capricia is cheerful and a little vindictive. She loves having power over others and will settle a score by making enemies fall in love with ridiculous ponies. At one point she was deeply in love until Volubile caused that pony to love another and Capricia did not handle it well; now the darker side to her vindictiveness is apparent, but Volubile, feeling responsible, bears the brunt of her feelings.

Prompt Response:


Capricia drew on her straw again. She wasn't really thirsty anymore, but the iced chololate drink was very yummy. She evaluated the ponies in the cafe while she sat and drank her hideously expensive cup of cold milk and flavouring.

Suddenly, a mischievous look marred her pensive features. "Look at that one, Volly. That one over there, the pink unicorn!" She looked at her brother. "We should do him next! And... uh... oh," she giggled and had to hold her hoof against her mouth to stop it from being so loud. "That one, the one in the dress, the kirin outside in the dress! What do you think?"

"Hmm," Volubile murmmurred distractedly. His sister liked to play these silly little games, they weren't really that fun to him. Meddling got boring quite quickly. His sister, on the other hand, liked to move people like pawns on chess boards. The more exciting and controversial the move...the more excited she became. Eventually, he knew he'd be forced to really interact with her, or she'd hassle him to death. But he didn't want to give in too easily. He flipped the pages of the paper, "Hmm."

Capricia was flicking her eyes towards both the pink unicorn and the elegant kirin with an air of one rubbing one's hands with evil delight, but she stopped this when she heard the second 'Hmm' from her brother. Her bright smile immediately changed into a narrow look, almost like someone had thrown a blanket over her head and insulated the mega-watt smile.

"Hmm?" she asked, compressing her voice so it was not icy, but still unpleasant. "Is that all?" In the silence, she tensed like a wound coil.

Carefully, he folded the paper. He knew that warning tone in her voice. He took a sip of his cappicino and glanced negligenatly at the two ponies she mentioned. He had no love for this, there was too much work involved and she always got bored. "What else would you like me to say? It felt like a general summarization of what I felt about the situation." He glanced away from her cold eyes, she still hadn't forgiven him.

"I would like you to say," said Capricia in clipped tones, "something helpful. I always have to pick the ponies and then I have to try and make you pay attention." She picked up her drink and smacked it back down, making the chocolate froth around.

Carefully, he handed his sister a napkin. "What do you want me to do about it? Maybe it would be eaiser if you told me what you wanted me to say so that we can stop this conversation. I'm bored already." He couldnt' resist baiting her.

"Fine," said Capricia in a strained voice similar to her normal voice. "I would like you to say 'Yes, that one, let's do it, it will be fun, let's'", at this point, Capricia slid lower in her seat and punctuated each word with a kick under the table. "'Have. Some. Fun!'" She looked almost hysterical with her eyes too wide and a hint of madness within them.

He winced as she punctuated her words with a kick. "Fine," he slammed down the paper on the table. "If we really must. I don't know why you're so for this. You'd think--" He stopped talking abruptly. "Which ones again?"

A retort dying on her lips and tears fading from her eyes, Capricia sat back up and looked around. "The kimono girl outside with the tea," she said quietly, "and... and the pink unicorn with all the cups."

Vol considered the two with a raised eyebrow, "Those two? Together?" He frowned at the pair. "They don't seem likely," he picked up his drink again and took a sip. "But you will have your way, so how will we do it then?"

"He looks like he's going out," said Capricia in hushed tones. "He'll have to pass her. Right then, I think." She nodded with excitement, the delirium of having power over someone else taking over and removing her pain at Volubile's withdrawal from her. In this one thing, they were together again, even if he didn't want to be. He was still her brother and she would MAKE him be her brother again.

Volubile couldn't help but see the animation in his sister's face, the pure joy of stringing this together. It'd been a long time since he'd seen her truly smile as though she meant it. If it was up to him, he'd give her all she wanted...But sometimes the things you wanted weren't what was good for you. She had never learned that lesson...maybe it would have been better if he'd let her. "Okay. That works," he watched as the kirin moved closer and he pushed out the power that he and his sister used together. She was looking up, and then she was really looking at the pink unicorn as though she'd come up for air.

Capricia watched the joint powers from her and her brother wash over the kirin and the unicorn. She saw the kirin stop and smile sweetly but with reserve to the unicorn and watched her lips move to greet him.

"I think it worked!" she crowed to Volubile. "That will be an odd couple!" She laughed so hard people stared and it began to take on an edge of hysteria.

He reveled in her laugh, the brightness of it and the ease with which it came. It had been good to do this, even if it was just watching the goofy looks on the two lovestruck victim's faces. "Oh love," he laughed along with her. "What fools it's made them."

Volubile's sharp tone made Capricia cease laughing and stare at him. "Is all love foolish, or just theirs?" she asked half-fearing the answer.

"Not all love," he said softly as he reached out and touched her hoof. That broken look on her face, those sad eyes. She still hurt.

Capricia resisted the urge to snatch her hoof away from him, his lying words like ice shards all over her skin. 'Not all love, but my love', she thought angrily. 'Or were you so jealous and selfish you couldn't let another person love me? And now... you act like it was all my fault. For loving someone... Well, you fixed that, didn't you?' It hurt, even to think these things, these true things that she wished she could say. Maybe by saying them in her mind they would be found untrue, maybe she had had a nightmare and she would wake up with a betrothed and a brother and be happy.

But the words were true, no matter how she tried to see them as false.

'I am alone except for you... because you made my love... love another...'

She had flinched, he'd felt it. Gradually, he could see her shrinking away from him. She deserved to know, she did. He should tell her about her "love". He should, but he was a coward about it. If he told her the truth, would it help her to get over that undeserving male? Or would she become more bitter and withdrawn? Maybe it was better that she just hated him instead of---He couldn't tell her. "Please," he begged her. "Not this. Not now."

Capricia ignored him and looked away. Outside, she saw the Kirin and the Unicorn smiling at each other. She had taken a few of his cups for him and he looked as though he was thanking her too much for it. The magic had taken and they were in the beginnings of love. But they were the only ones. In the cafe, the seryph twins saw across from each other. Their talents were united by a bond of love, but there was no longer love between them.