[ there was a hot chance that he would have been playing some chill tunes for the two of them while they enjoyed their "tour" of the tracks while having this conversation but it's also very possible that he turned the volume down when they started to talk. nothing wrong with background music until it interrupts the conversation. ]
I sure did see another person step forward with another "contract"! And from someone else who wouldn't scrutinize the terms of which that contract would have been made! Don't people think before they agree to anything?
[ why bother telling anyone anything anymore if they're just going to let themselves get scammed!! complaining and whining done, he'll sigh and go back to focus on the other things that she found out between then and now. ]
The three spells? I'm familiar with the other two, but only in passing and I didn't quite understand both of them the first time.
[ worthy of rebirth? easy. totally understandable. heat death?? look, technology and the scope of science in d.grayman is really confusing. too far in the relative theoretical sciences for him...for now. ]
I'm fairly certain I could write a list of those I saw this weekend, too. [Sensing his irritation, even if he can't stomp his bunny foot,Cantarella pats his glove compartment to calm him down, even as the numbers go up. The chill tunes are actually very much appreciated. It matches her vibe. It's almost like they're telling a bedtime story... too bad it's more than that.
Though she lacks his eidetic memory, Cantarella is still sharp enough that she can recall these verses to him verbatim:]
A spell to hide his planet of refuge from the eyes of Father, and Paradise...
A spell to destroy Paradise, and Father, who resides within it...
... And, because Paradise is, itself, the Sun... a spell that would convert the lives lost in the following heat death of the universe into the price necessary for a mass resurrection spell.
We can assume the incinerator is about to become much hotter and louder.
[ he appreciates the pat on the dashboard as he basically just sighs deeply (as a car) while really wishing to not have to think about that right now. it's like everyone willfully tied themselves to sika madu when they barely understood who they were. as it were, lavi will be thinking over the three spells and he can't help but think of the drawing from "mikaela".
so while it's very important to think about the incinerator and how things are literally going to heat up for them.... ]
Flower, heart, and moon. [ repeated perfectly from memory (and kind of out of pocket). ] Those were the shapes that Mikaela—rather something that Sika Madu claimed to believe was Mikaela—was drawing as one happy family.
Then the spell has: Paradise—or the Sun, Father, and us. The two of them seem to be opposites or in opposition, perhaps.
[ OR IT COULD JUST BE ONE HUGE COINCIDENCE AND I'M OVERTHINKING. ]
Is Sika therefore the moon? "Mikaela" the heart...and the other "children" the flowers?
[fun fact there's no real moon in wuwa. no we won't elaborate on this]
The moon and the sun oppose each other as often as they are in tandem... [A shame she isn't from Septimont, where that's a bit more thematically appropriate.]
...Not a single one of us is meant to be revived, are we? And yet some may think it's possible.
The symbol associations might not be exactly right but—correct.
[ is he happy that we got here? not particularly but hey. we....are here. we have reached the full point of understanding. just shy of the finish line but we are here!!!! that's the important part. ]
You've figured out the final point I was trying to make the last time we spoke.
[ congwatulations. now cantarella is in full understanding that sika madu will do everything for their children and not them!! enjoy your knowledge!!! ]
More importantly is that whatever "Mikaela" is, refuses to let go of Sika Madu, and Sika Madu is no stranger to let us know how much their children mean to them.
[ so, if you combine this with what they've already spoken about... we do love circles, right? ]
[THANK GOD SHE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THIS because she's been operating on that assumption, if gently couching it in hypotheticals to others.
It brings her no joy, but at least the confirmation is...something.]
I believe I can stop Sika Madu from completing their work this time around, and potentially end some of their contracts. ...But I have not accounted for "Mikaela," and I don't know if I can.
[Cantarella hesitates. She had said their very first meeting that she knows when and how to ask for help. The reality is more complicated, but not for describing now.] I don't know how or from who, but I may need to entrust that part to others, if what I do succeeds at all. [She simply...does not think she can pass through this abyss alone without being swallowed by it.]
[ grips paws. she now has the knowledge that the dead are burdened with. may she take their message beyond the grave to those of the living without fear of being censored. A JOY THAT LAVI DOES NOT HAVE.
but hmm. ]
I think it might not be too difficult to handle "Mikaela" if you understand that they have a very child-like mentality and know how to appeal to them. In my short conversation with them, they were able to understand that their "love" for Sika Madu was unhealthy when I pointed it out.
[ so...that's good news? they could use the two "against" one another to get to whatever goal they want to achieve. maybe. ]
And if you're looking for people to help you with all of this, you can always ask me or anyone in my dorm. [ if she didn't think she could have an invitation to it?? ] If you can guess, they're all pretty passionate and determined to figure this all out and save everyone.
[ not like lavi and apple being dead are huge motivators in all of this. ]
Then getting them to learn how to "move on" or change their idea to a healthier version of love may be our most advantageous option.
[Every bird must one day leave the nest, as they all say...]
Though they can't be killed, and it's been made clear they cannot be confronted physically...Sika Madu has informed me that human medications will affect them if given in exorbitantly higher doses. If they are temporarily separated...perhaps we can help "Mikaela" grow up.
"Mikaela" is obsessed with being Sika Madu's prince even if it kills them, but I was able to have them acknowledge that a prince shouldn't hurt the ones that they're supposed to protect or love. Their "love" is genuine even if its twisted.
[ ...so yeah. definitely a good angle to play. however, lavi will make a soft thoughtful noise when she brings up the point about sika madu and human medications. ]
About affecting Sika Madu with medications—have you spoken with Louis about his findings? [ hmm. cantarella can clearly get the impression that he's trying to be careful with his words again. ] He was doing some interesting tests with the water from the Chapel and in the canals last week.
I came across him in the chapel when it first became a laboratory. We spoke briefly about what he'd uncovered so far regarding the similarities with...certain other substances.
He did indeed, though his research was inconclusive at the time.
[At the time, she'd speculated if Sika was not only powering the place but somehow the cage of it, the way she's now heard their body was used to make their children.]
[ past naru cries in tears as haki blesses me with knowledge. but man is taking a risk with this one. the hesitation in his voice is real but there's no reason not to.
aside from a long suffering journey of more shenanigans. ]
What if I could confirm or deny those findings? Perhaps even offer a bit more enlightenment for any theories. Depending on those findings.
[Sorry, Lavi, but she will be breaking her self-imposed no-fiddling rule, shifting her hands from her lap and out of passenger princess status for one of the few times this entire ride so far.
She adjusts the volume on the music, paradoxically turning it up a bit higher as if the intensity of those soundwaves might overshadow their conversation.]
though, maybe he could use this to his advantage in an interesting way. (not that he knows modern music so we're gonna have to do a bit of reaching for this—) this song will suddenly start to play, however, specially with the part that starts with:
"and all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue like him inside and outside"
the world "blue" somehow always being played louder whenever she raises the volume up. always as well as "inside and outside" but to a less degree. ]
[The go-kart track will just be filled with this bop for a few minutes as Cantarella recreates this video in spirit, if not in content. But also, weirdly, kind of in content.]
This will be a difficult concept for some to wrestle with accepting.
[That seems like a good place to start.]
And yet, a truth we will have to confront sooner, rather than later. [Can we please think of the people who might have to convey this information not through incredibly catchy music?]
For me, it'll will be a matter of finding the...vessel...closest to the heart.
i can't take this thread seriously anymore and i'm the reason
[ lavi is so sorry that he had to be the one to inform her (offer confirmation) for the discoveries of someone else in his dorm. the burden that lays upon this weary rabbit. won't someone pat him on the head and dote on him....
but anyway. i'm sure there will be a way. an empirical way. ]
Given the changes to the "water" levels around this place have risen, I think it might be difficult find what you'd be looking for, but also wouldn't make it too difficult for people to grasp...the concept.
[ as to not make things any better and definitely worse: ]
"Mikaela" might also be mixed in with...all of that as well. They "escaped" me by transforming into a goop and seeped into the cracks in the ground.
i'm so sorry also have a really thin tag bc i'm crispy
Well, "Mikaela"... I wonder if this is just because of my [ dead ] situation, but his shadow was a round and featureless with the exception of one big, black eye. And that eye seemed to also follow whatever "Mikaela" looked as well.
[ we don't actually like that a whole lot now do we? ]
I'm sure that shadow is a key to the "true" form of "Mikaela". [ hmm. ] I kind of wished I had tested touching him then since interacting with shadows is a bit different with me now.
[ but he was sort of unnerved by the whole thing pls understand his lack of doing science that both she and louis would be proud of. ]
I will. I know that people will worry if something happened.
[ reminds myself of the date of this pc. but can't say that he isn't low-key thinking about it. if there was anyone who was going to do it among the (current) dead, he would be the one who was "best suited". ]
It's like parenting on the two extremes of a spectrum. The parent that neglects verses the parent that never seems to let them go.
[ he doesn't know what a helicopter is so he can't use that analogy... ]
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I sure did see another person step forward with another "contract"! And from someone else who wouldn't scrutinize the terms of which that contract would have been made! Don't people think before they agree to anything?
[ why bother telling anyone anything anymore if they're just going to let themselves get scammed!! complaining and whining done, he'll sigh and go back to focus on the other things that she found out between then and now. ]
The three spells? I'm familiar with the other two, but only in passing and I didn't quite understand both of them the first time.
[ worthy of rebirth? easy. totally understandable. heat death?? look, technology and the scope of science in d.grayman is really confusing. too far in the relative theoretical sciences for him...for now. ]
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Though she lacks his eidetic memory, Cantarella is still sharp enough that she can recall these verses to him verbatim:]
A spell to hide his planet of refuge from the eyes of Father, and Paradise...
A spell to destroy Paradise, and Father, who resides within it...
... And, because Paradise is, itself, the Sun... a spell that would convert the lives lost in the following heat death of the universe into the price necessary for a mass resurrection spell.
We can assume the incinerator is about to become much hotter and louder.
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so while it's very important to think about the incinerator and how things are literally going to heat up for them.... ]
Flower, heart, and moon. [ repeated perfectly from memory (and kind of out of pocket). ] Those were the shapes that Mikaela—rather something that Sika Madu claimed to believe was Mikaela—was drawing as one happy family.
Then the spell has: Paradise—or the Sun, Father, and us. The two of them seem to be opposites or in opposition, perhaps.
[ OR IT COULD JUST BE ONE HUGE COINCIDENCE AND I'M OVERTHINKING. ]
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[fun fact there's no real moon in wuwa. no we won't elaborate on this]
The moon and the sun oppose each other as often as they are in tandem... [A shame she isn't from Septimont, where that's a bit more thematically appropriate.]
...Not a single one of us is meant to be revived, are we? And yet some may think it's possible.
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[ is he happy that we got here? not particularly but hey. we....are here. we have reached the full point of understanding. just shy of the finish line but we are here!!!! that's the important part. ]
You've figured out the final point I was trying to make the last time we spoke.
[ congwatulations. now cantarella is in full understanding that sika madu will do everything for their children and not them!! enjoy your knowledge!!! ]
More importantly is that whatever "Mikaela" is, refuses to let go of Sika Madu, and Sika Madu is no stranger to let us know how much their children mean to them.
[ so, if you combine this with what they've already spoken about... we do love circles, right? ]
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It brings her no joy, but at least the confirmation is...something.]
I believe I can stop Sika Madu from completing their work this time around, and potentially end some of their contracts. ...But I have not accounted for "Mikaela," and I don't know if I can.
[Cantarella hesitates. She had said their very first meeting that she knows when and how to ask for help. The reality is more complicated, but not for describing now.] I don't know how or from who, but I may need to entrust that part to others, if what I do succeeds at all. [She simply...does not think she can pass through this abyss alone without being swallowed by it.]
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but hmm. ]
I think it might not be too difficult to handle "Mikaela" if you understand that they have a very child-like mentality and know how to appeal to them. In my short conversation with them, they were able to understand that their "love" for Sika Madu was unhealthy when I pointed it out.
[ so...that's good news? they could use the two "against" one another to get to whatever goal they want to achieve. maybe. ]
And if you're looking for people to help you with all of this, you can always ask me or anyone in my dorm. [ if she didn't think she could have an invitation to it?? ] If you can guess, they're all pretty passionate and determined to figure this all out and save everyone.
[ not like lavi and apple being dead are huge motivators in all of this. ]
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[Every bird must one day leave the nest, as they all say...]
Though they can't be killed, and it's been made clear they cannot be confronted physically...Sika Madu has informed me that human medications will affect them if given in exorbitantly higher doses. If they are temporarily separated...perhaps we can help "Mikaela" grow up.
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[ ...so yeah. definitely a good angle to play. however, lavi will make a soft thoughtful noise when she brings up the point about sika madu and human medications. ]
About affecting Sika Madu with medications—have you spoken with Louis about his findings? [ hmm. cantarella can clearly get the impression that he's trying to be careful with his words again. ] He was doing some interesting tests with the water from the Chapel and in the canals last week.
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I came across him in the chapel when it first became a laboratory. We spoke briefly about what he'd uncovered so far regarding the similarities with...certain other substances.
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Did he say what they were similar to? Say...perhaps someone who has come up a lot during this and previous conversations?
A hot topic.
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He did indeed, though his research was inconclusive at the time.
[At the time, she'd speculated if Sika was not only powering the place but somehow the cage of it, the way she's now heard their body was used to make their children.]
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aside from a long suffering journey of more shenanigans. ]
What if I could confirm or deny those findings? Perhaps even offer a bit more enlightenment for any theories. Depending on those findings.
Maybe it could be worth a try.
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She adjusts the volume on the music, paradoxically turning it up a bit higher as if the intensity of those soundwaves might overshadow their conversation.]
I'm all ears.
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[ HIS VOLUME MIXER!!!!
though, maybe he could use this to his advantage in an interesting way. (not that he knows modern music so we're gonna have to do a bit of reaching for this—) this song will suddenly start to play, however, specially with the part that starts with:
"and all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue like him inside and outside"
the world "blue" somehow always being played louder whenever she raises the volume up. always as well as "inside and outside" but to a less degree. ]
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This will be a difficult concept for some to wrestle with accepting.
[That seems like a good place to start.]
And yet, a truth we will have to confront sooner, rather than later. [Can we please think of the people who might have to convey this information not through incredibly catchy music?]
For me, it'll will be a matter of finding the...vessel...closest to the heart.
i can't take this thread seriously anymore and i'm the reason
but anyway. i'm sure there will be a way. an empirical way. ]
Given the changes to the "water" levels around this place have risen, I think it might be difficult find what you'd be looking for, but also wouldn't make it too difficult for people to grasp...the concept.
[ as to not make things any better and definitely worse: ]
"Mikaela" might also be mixed in with...all of that as well. They "escaped" me by transforming into a goop and seeped into the cracks in the ground.
i'm so sorry also have a really thin tag bc i'm crispy
Is there anything else about "Mikaela" he might not be willing to reveal, even in his morose depression?
eats crispy shay like a potato chip
[ we don't actually like that a whole lot now do we? ]
I'm sure that shadow is a key to the "true" form of "Mikaela". [ hmm. ] I kind of wished I had tested touching him then since interacting with shadows is a bit different with me now.
[ but he was sort of unnerved by the whole thing pls understand his lack of doing science that both she and louis would be proud of. ]
soooo crunchy like chicken skin....
[It's much too easy to think of one larger shadow enveloping the other, overwriting and assimilating it.
...Not that they have much time to get any evidence otherwise, in either direction.]
Given that Father is so indifferent as to barely care, "Mikaela" may be how anything is monitored at all. It did tell me it was created by him.
oooh :9
[ reminds myself of the date of this pc. but can't say that he isn't low-key thinking about it. if there was anyone who was going to do it among the (current) dead, he would be the one who was "best suited". ]
It's like parenting on the two extremes of a spectrum. The parent that neglects verses the parent that never seems to let them go.
[ he doesn't know what a helicopter is so he can't use that analogy... ]