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[corona]

[ It's not unusual. The video just opens on a face: nose, freckles, green eyes the brightest of pretty, muted features and darting nervously back and forth. But anyone in the area may notice the trail of blonde hair leading from somewhere in the middle of the park up into one of the tallest trees where Rapunzel is sitting, relishing her surroundings and hiding at once. ]

So… Is — This is working, right? I mean - I've never really used a bracelet to talk to other people before and - [ she laughs nervously, toys with her hair ] Actually. I've never really talked to other people before in general. It's kind of — Well - [ sigh ] I just really have to ask and - [ she winces ] Sorry.

I need to know if anyone's seen a chameleon around. My chameleon. Well - my friend who is also a chameleon. His name's Pascal. And this is his first time outside too so if you could do me an amazing favor and send him to…Freyr House I think the person said? Or just - return him? My name is Rapunzel and… I would be extremely grateful.

[ And then the brilliant speech segues into a faint half-smile, a smile that eventually freezes as something occurs to her and, feigning bravery, she narrows her eyes, scowling to say loftily: ] But if anyone finds him and doesn't give him back? Or - Or they try and hurt him? I. Will hurt you. Because uh - I have a frying pan? And I am so not afraid to use it.

[ beat ]

Al…so. What's - a god?

[ooc; all-day driving, but tags will come later!]

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[occulthymns]

Good! [She sounds a little reluctant admitting this:] He isn't that bad when he's not being a pervert, but better safe than sorry.

Next up is Diva! She's a vampire and she's incredibly dangerous.

[corona]

[ That startles her. And for a moment Rapunzel hesitates, looking away from Euri at something off-screen, her expression growing increasingly unsure. ]

What...makes her dangerous?

[occulthymns]

[This time she is prepared for any potential naivety!]

Do you know what a vampire is?

[corona]

[ headshake ]

[occulthymns]

In simple terms, a vampire is an undead monster that feeds off of blood. So that's what Diva does - she kills people and drinks their blood. She's killed people here, so it's best to just avoid her.

[corona]

[ ... ]

How do you know that?

[occulthymns]

[O lawd she'll just start listing things off on her fingers.]

She's attacked three people I know, left the first to die after she fed off him and admitted to the second that she's killed people... she's threatened me a few times... she's threatened my dog....

[That last bit is practically growled because fucking with her pet is so far over the line said line isn't even visible anymore.]

1/2

[corona]

[glistens]

[ Rapunzel is emotional. That much is a given. She also mood swings like crazy. But - whatever tears were in her eyes a moment ago she dashes, shaking her head. ]

That's impossible. Diva is my friend.

[occulthymns]

[Oh, that's the worst response she could have gotten. Euri feels kind of bad for this girl - she's so badly sheltered it must be no effort at all for Diva to manipulate her.

Ugh, the thought of that undead monster manipulating anyone here makes her shudder.]

I can prove it.

[corona]

How? [ Because god she doesn't want to hear this. Honestly she doesn't know what a real "friend" is like, how to tell if you're friends with someone or not or whether you've correctly made them your friend at all. But she likes Diva. They both came from isolation. They both like to sing.

To think her judgement call was off... It hurts in a way she hadn't expected. ]

[occulthymns]

A bunch of her threats are on the bracelets. Like how we're talking right now? I don't get how it works, but I can direct your bracelet to those recordings by sending you some underlined text.

[That's a terrible explanation, but she's hoping the point gets across.]

[glistens]

[ Her only response is a surprisingly curt nod. ]

[occulthymns]

Okay, hold on.

[It doesn't take her too long to pull these up. Since Diva had gone completely batshit on herself and Kaz over the past few days, Euri had them prepared to be used as evidence for a couple of the more justice-y residents.

She'll play the private messages so that Rapunzel can hear: this, this, and this up to the end of this comment.

And she'll link to this very damning public recording.]

1/??? FFFF WHY

[glistens]

[ Naturally it takes her awhile to comb through what's there - first to figure out how links work and then to listen, watch, and read the responses. Rapunzel is thorough and surprisingly meticulous. And she's so used to having time dependent on only herself that she loses track of it now, forgetting Euri's presence. ]

[glistens]

[ It goes a little something like this: ]

[glistens]

[glistens]

[glistens]

[glistens]

[glistens]

[glistens]

[glistens]

[ But then finally she comes back full circle, back to shock and confusion and —

And it's way too much. She doesn't even understand half of what's being said or exchanged and it's still way too much all at once; an overload of feeling, of thought, all of her emotions sort of - running into one another, too many of them to fit inside her and so pushing outwards at the edges of her fingers and eyelashes, the latter of which are beginning to dampen as - darn it. She's starting to cry again.

Because more than the sudden anxiety and sensory overload is how flat out puzzled she is. This woman was - is her friend. She's barely known her a day but...she trusts her. And now all Rapunzel knows is that she's angry, knows she hasn't been this much so in a very long time. Diva lied to her. Rapunzel is naive, certainly, and ignorant, but she isn't at all stupid. And for so many people to agree to a lie would be absurd. ]

[glistens]

[ But it goes both ways: she isn't stupid, and that means she has to compensate, so she denies them to herself, the worst parts. Or sides with the defenders. Killing to show that killing is wrong makes no sense even to her.

And...she's still Rapunzel's friend. Whatever her inexperiences speaks to she knows that this, a friendship between two people, means something. Means "loyalty". ]

DONE SOB I AM SO SORRY...

[glistens]

[ Possibly it's redundant. Probably it's pathetic. But in the end the cycling of emotion and expression leads to a single, boring moment: just Rapunzel ducking her head a little and raising a hand to her face and looking away. And in a very quiet voice: ]

She's my friend.