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  Fourth Wall Meme

It's the return of the Fourth Wall Meme, and we're opening it for the next full week! paradisa does not allow non-members to post or comment in our main community, so we're offering this as a place to roleplay with our cast. Both character journals and personal journals are welcome, as well as doubles, original characters, AUs, whatever. Not all can be applied to the main game, but they're certainly welcome here.

Premise:
You wake up in a giant, magical castle. Everything is beautiful and the castle grants material wishes. It also provides a magic journal to every resident that allows everyone to communicate with each other like a two-way radio.
 

Format:
[Actions] Dialogue.

IE:
[Mickey Mouse enters the room, and sits down at the kitchen table.]

Gosh, guys, is this place ever swell!

What are you gonna do?

Comments

[indirectcause]

[He'll blink slowly]

Wow, so it's a...really interesting school?

[Yes interesting, that's the word he's going to go for]

[deadfastrocks]

[She'll smile at him before writing back.]

Yes. Interesting. And sometimes that's interesting in the Chinese sense.

[indirectcause]

In the...Chinese sense?

[deadfastrocks]

[She explains in writing.]

It's an old normie proverb I picked up once. When the Chinese say "May you have an interesting life." they mean "May you have a life, interesting in both the good and the bad ways."

[indirectcause]

Huh. The bad ways aren't exactly what anyone wants.

[deadfastrocks]

[She smiles and types back.]

That is clearly the point. It is a way of wishing ill upon someone without being malicious. The Chinese are kind of genius in that way.

[indirectcause]

I'll take your word on that. [Not only a sentient zombie but a SMART one, what is this world coming to?]

[deadfastrocks]

[Again she types an answer.]

I do research on a lot of normie cultures. Sadly, sometimes my research materials are quite lacking and limited to things like Seventween and In Style.

[indirectcause]

Not a lot of hu- normie books where you are?

[deadfastrocks]

[She starts typing back.] Sadly no. I mean, there are normies but they generally stick to themselves for the most part and regard us with fear. not that I personally blame them. I suppose if I was a normie, and had all the horrible misconceptions thrown at me that they do from an early age...

[And then she thinks about it and slowly types the following.]

Wait. Monsters have misconceptions about normies too you know? On Halloween, we dress up as scary normies. In fact, our guidance counselor, Mr. Deth, has a stress ball shaped like a normie head and its eyes bulge when you squeeze it. Jackson told me about that one, and how uneasy it made him.

[indirectcause]

...

Well that's a disturbing image.

[deadfastrocks]

[She's typing again.]

Isn't it just?