#screenwright

[littlesistersti]

Nickname: Stine or Sti online, offline nicknames are [need to know]

Height: 155 cm and I will always refer to that because I gave up with the weird 5 ft or 5’1 or 5’2 (is American)

Last thing I googled: Automatic fill in? My car bill.

For real? what is difference between IPA: /ʂ/ and /ɕ/ and /ʃ/ ?

I still don't know

Song that sums me up: you think your local dumba-s is that much self-aware?

Followers: enough to count on my fingers

Sleep: less than healthy on school days then way too much on days off

Dream job: screenwright or author but an actual dream job would be a superhero or supervillain or magician/thaumaturge/mage or secret agent in a sci-fi world

Wearing: my hair in a twist using a hair stick and a Betsey Johnson pink ballerina pen, ran out of ink

Book/movie that summarize me: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (books) or

any children's movie that has that one scene that makes you ask either "wait, this is for kids?" or "this is my gay awakening/where my kink began/why the villains were right"

Fav song: it changed every year because Eurovision but if I have to list non-ESC:

Biažy - Naviband,

И​с​п​о​в​е​д​ь Л​о​к​и \ Ispoved' Loki (Loki's Confession) - AeternA,

The Night (1988 Deathrock ver) - Aurelio Voltaire,

some punk rock songs for the amv nostalgia like I Promise - Simple Plan or I Will Not Bow - Breaking Benjamin

If I Die Young - The Band Perry and Dead Hearts - Stars and Runnin' by Adam Lambert counts for the amv nostalgia too

Kyounosuke Yashitate cover of Sebonzakura in Kanji (so it sounds Han-Japanese) or Bad Apple performed by the Wagaku band

Lemon <\3

Eh? Ah, Sou

you can already see a pattern of something rock or something not typisk modern pop

I definitely forgot lots more

æsthetic: fairycore academia ... autumn academia but instead of orange/brown, it's reds ... uh there is pastel pink ... once in awhile I break the pattern and go for punk or lesbian/bisexual fashion ... there's a pining for 18th c. fashion but it's out of my league sadly

Fav author: Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Pope Osbourne, Lewis Carrol, @itsthelass , @speedygal , I can refer to fanfic authors right?, @xiranjayzhao - yet to read them but love their Youtube channel

Random fact: nobody told me being a film major is secretly a psychology major because f-- you, Freud and your p-nis envy / castration anxiety

proceeds to apply Mulvey and Freud to explain misogyny in films

Tagging: @parasiticstars I don't know anybody else so freebie

15 questions 15 tags

ty @drowninglnstars for the tag !!

-nickname: red

-height: that's good question

-last thing i googled: ''malevolent transcripts''

-song stuck in head: antibiotics we're wonderful pills but dont ever think we'll cure all your ills and willow by tswift

-# of followers: at least 10

-amount of sleep: usually 4-6 hours (begrudgingly)

-dream job: librarian/historian

-wearing: shirt, grey sweater, black coat

-movie/book that summarizes you: all of them

-fav song: too many, right now probably constellations by the oh hellos! and faroe's theme from malevolent

-aesthetic: changes everyday, but personality wise eldritchcore/oddcore

-fav authors: alice oseman and any romantic author ever

-random fact: i can bend almost all of my joints backwards

not tagging 15 people because that is too many but -> @aroaceupmysleeve @galxgal @gothicwolf125 @arakhnee @lesbian-hannibal @transgenre-music and whoever want to join in :P

[forever-levi-stan3]

Twisted Dreams

Cool/Twisted Dream

A woman lives in a ghost busters like family that worked in a countryside with a bar. and one night, while they are all around a table, one by one, they sort of die horribly.

She didn't die, but left the place for many years. She goes back after 10 or so, and the family house was still standing. She goes in and finds the family plate that they used, still sitting on the table. She gets close to it, and suddenly, she is sucked into a portal. It brings her to a time, to the owner of the home after her family's death. A man resided there for a while. At first, she was in a ghost state, he couldn't see her, but he could hear her. He had a younger brother, but they barely talked to each other in the home.

One day, while she is a ghost in the house, she accidentally bumps into the older brother and becomes human. They begin talking about her family's death and the reason she might be back at the house. 

At night, she goes to the bar and finds the younger brother leaving. She tries to ask him if anything superstitious has happened to/ around  him at the old house and he refutes everything she asks.

Later that night, the boy slept in his room and awoke to being fondled, only to see no one there. "Not again" he says as he gets aroused. Every time anything like this happened, it was the same way every time. First fondling his chest, then kissing his back. It would lead eventually to being fucked slow and hard. If he were on his back that night, the fondling would be on his back, and fucking without seeing anything, which he didn't prefer. It would always end with someone saying some foreign word that sounded Russian or of German dialect. Once the feeling of the ghost was gone, it would feel like a substance was inside him, but nothing would be there.

The next day, the girl's past friend comes back to town. She hadn't realized she needed another person to help trace back the past. 

They get together really quick and stake out at the late hours that night.

Faint flutters of movement can be heard, and sometimes, full bodies appear. They slept in the younger brother's room since her friend felt the most energy there. The unexpected happens. Two different ghosts begin fondling the girls. The immediate reaction was surprise and felt like it was familiar, in the end they heard a familiar accent which said 'My Love' in Russian. The girl immediately knew who it was: her boyfriend. 

[icearts]

I watched the first Sonic movie today (after seeing the second one like 3 times) and oh my god the screenwright and general story writing was so much better in the first one. It actually told a story and didn't feel oversaturated with "relate to the kids" humor. What happened to the second movie? What's gonna happen to the third?

All of the human characters actually felt real and grounded to the story, while in the second movie they're not even close to the same people. Especially Wade. He went from being a little dumb and super anxious, to being a complete idiot who eats a lot. I didn't think I'd actually like the human characters, but they're good. Sonic 2 kinda looks bad after I saw the first film. If not for Tails and Knuckles completely carrying the energy of the entire movie, it would have been pretty terrible. Hope the writing staff doesn't continue down that direction just because the film sold a lot of tickets haha please I'm begging..

[stonegatetm]

💜  ——  welcome  to  𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞  𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬,  rosie minx & kiera lopez  !  the  fcs  of  chappell roan & jenna ortega  are  now  taken.  please  read  over  our  checklist  and  submit  your  blog  within  twenty  -  four  hours  !  we're  excited  to  write  with  you  soon  ,  ellie  !!

💜  ——  (  chappell roan.  she/her.  cis woman.  )  look,  there  goes  rosie  minx  !  they're  the  twenty-six  year  old  who  has  lived  in  stonegate  hills  for  3 years.  they  spend  most  of  their  time  doing  sewing.  rumor  has  it,  they're  guarded,  but  i  think  they're  really  open-minded  deep  inside.  they  work  as  a/an  singer/songwriter  and  they're  currently  living  in  margo apartments #101.  they  remind  me  of  skinny dipping with strangers, lipstick-smudged music sheets, screaming lyrics with your best friends in the car, and gaining the attention of everyone in the room as soon as you walk through the door  and  they're  always  jamming  out  to  good 4 u  by  olivia rodrigo.  (  Ellie,  27,  set,  she/her,  n/a  )

💜  ——  (  jenna ortega.  she/her.  cis woman.  )  look,  there  goes  kiera lopez   !  they're  the  twenty-one  year  old  who  has  lived  in  stonegate  hills  for  4 years.  they  spend  most  of  their  time  doing  record collecting.  rumor  has  it,  they're  morbid,  but  i  think  they're  really  passionate  deep  inside.  they  work  as  a/an  actress/aspiring director/screenwright  and  they're  currently  living  in  broadstone apartments #204.  they  remind  me  of  80’s horror flicks, the excitement of seeing a new movie in theaters, chipped black nail polish, and predicting the killer only 5 minutes into the movie  and  they're  always  jamming  out  to  baby you’re a haunted house  by  gerard way.  (  Ellie,  27,  set,  she/her,  n/a  )

[academia-cafe]

the urge to befriend a stranger and write a best-seller script with them within two months <3

[takenene]

I mean... when I was taking Advanced English at a tech university we were actually calculating probabilities and drawing, like, integral graphs for Romeo and Juliet so like. Not unprecedented :D

I mean . . . I'm sure I could figure out a way.

[sabayi]

SITUATIONSHIPS by Eugene S. Kaana

SITUATIONSHIPS by Eugene S. Kaana

PDF link below Situationships.    

[bitchlessdino]

give me a movie plot, lovely nana

- livvie (am i too late for this?)

hehe hi lovely livvie will do!

synopsis: Jeonghan took a risk getting involved with someone like Livvie. He was the actor and she was a mere screenwright. He was meant to be on screen, while she was meant to be behind it. Falling in love with something other than her words wasn't suppose to happen. How would the press take this?

Send me ask you'll get a movie plot with your bias!

[ruhrohrps]

talk about your mgk muse?

i just put a little thingy under the cut ~~~

congrats! you’ve unlocked: kaiden masters

occupation: aspiring screenwright leader/owner of ‘anarchy’ (the riot club)

label(s): the jaded washout, the loveable rogue, the charmer, the 'everyone likes a bad boy’, the closet geek, the black sheep, the condescendingly compassionate, the social expert, the 'in it for the thrill of it’, the street rat, the erudite stoner, the rebel leader (facades as the decoy leader)

age: 25

fc: colson baker (mgk)

catchphrase: “yo no - it’s cool. mi casa es tu casa.”

other notable quote(s):

“People who have nothing to be ashamed of are left with nothing to be proud of. Where’s the ideal humane social policy in that?”

“Fuck it: Eat the rich.”

“You NEVER had sex on molly? That fucking sucks.”

“My problem? The only problem I have is risking everything and then giving away whatever I manage to get.”

“Shit, at least politicians act like they care about the inner cities.”

“I dunno, man. Do you ever just feel like you’re floating out of your body? Cool, cool. But, do you like what you see?”

[scifi4wifi]

Star Trek / Dr. Seuss Mashup Deemed Fair Use

Star Trek / Dr. Seuss Mashup Deemed Fair Use

ComixMix earned a victory in court today, along with Hugo and Nebula Award winning science fiction author and screenwright David Gerrold and Canadian comic book writer and artist Ty Templeton. Their book, Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go! has been successfully defended in court against a copyright lawsuit brought by Dr. Seuss Enterprises. The suit alleged trademark infringement, copyright…

[the--concertmaster]

South Park Stardom AU

Ok… so I’m currently drawing a pianist! Tweek for @liohprincexx but I was thinking I could make a really cool AU with Musician! Tweek being part of it.  So… My idea is to create a Stardom AU, where each character is famous in one way or another due to Hollywood (Or broadway)

Tweek would not only be a pianist, but a composer, as we all know he wrote the whole song in “Put it down” so not only is he a fantastic pianist, but he is a fantastic composer, so I feel like he could be a famous movie/film composer. 

Craig would be a director, as I just feel he has the write personality and outlook on life to be a movie director. He would known for making brilliant sci fi films, and would of course, use all of Tweek’s compositions as his OST. 

Kenny would be the Star of His own Superhero franchise, based on a persona he created as a child, which would obviously be Mysterion. In order to get his original film out there he got Craig to produce it. 

Butters would be a broadway star, because he has phenomenal tap skills and enjoys singing and would be a perfect fit for Musical Theatre. He did make a transition into movies and film though when Kenny asked him to play the supervillian in his franchise, but he prefers to stick to his roots in theatre. 

Stan and Kyle are based off Matt and Trey. So I only think it’s right that they persue a career as animators and voice actors and create their own famous animated show, just like South Park. 

Cartman also is a director, but is in musical theatre, just like Butters, cause seriously did you watch Hellen Keller the Musical? Cartman was brilliant at what he was doing, and in all honesty, he would be an extremely successful theatre director, and screenwright for musicals. 

Wendy would be just like Emma Watson. She would be famous for acting, but would be more interested in using her fame to promote serious world issues. 

Bebe with be a renowned Fx Makeup artist. 

And Ike would be a Canadian Pop star.  

[pricechecktranslations]

DSOE: MON; 2--Memory of the Forest

The Muzzle of Nemesis chapter content summary under the cut

New character names untranslated: Narushisu, Haadi, Dio Amesu, Dite, Rumesu, Gandii, Paan, Gai, Rakure, Irei, Herio, Nike, Robaato Sein, Erii Sein, Waizu Rokuze, Maikeru

Scene 1

Levia commentary. She says that these (threads of memory?) are lined up like a forest. She goes into it. There's a bit more description but basically she touches on a memory of when Nemesis was 14.

Scene 2

The scene opens in a bar with Narcissus getting Nemesis a beer--she initially refuses but after some goading goes to drink. The owner of the bar, Hardy, steps in and stops her, saying minors aren't allowed to drink there. He says the same to Narcissus, clearly hostile and asking why members of "Zeus" are there. Narcissus says something to the effect of them being customers and Hardy points out that this bar is a hangout for "Hades".

Members of Hades surround the table that they're at. Narcissus doesn't seem concerned, taunting them about how Zeus stole their place. The Hades members retort that they're the ones who run Aceid, not Zeus. Narcissus taunts them again and sets them off. A fight breaks out--Nemesis stands up to fight but one of the men grabs her. Narcissus speaks to Hardy (who I guess is the leader of Hades as Narcissus is the leader of Zeus) and says it should be a fight between the two of them, as the leaders of their gangs.

Narcissus is tall, but Hardy is (I think more muscular? Wider?). Narcissus doesn't look strong but he's good at footwork and punching, and Nemesis has never seen him lose to anyone.

As they draw closer to each other, Hardy suddenly refuses. Not entirely sure what happens next (I think they're going to gang up on Narcissus and beat him up). He calls to Nemesis for help (which Hardy chides because she's a little girl). He turns around, basically telling her not to get involved. She's being held still by the one guy who grabbed her, but her "friend" isn't.

She calls on her "friend" Ziz-san, who was under the table, and he grabs the men with his tentacles. Nemesis goes over to Hardy and asks him about Dio Ames, a Zeus member whose dead body was found in the northern region/district(?). Hardy insists that Hades is not a gang of killers--furthermore, they aren't rich (and apparently the people in the northern district are). She tells Ziz-san to let them go.

As she and Narcissus leave, Hardy admits that he does know something--if Dio was killed in the northern district, it might have had something to do with Midas Touch, a rich man with a lot of shady rumors about him. Nemesis decides to look into the matter more.

Before they leave, Narcissus (I think) takes the bar's money.

They resolve to investigate later, Nemesis bidding Narcissus goodnight and heading home. She's carrying Ziz-san with her, worried because he's starting to dry out. She decides to take him to water before heading home. She goes to the Millenium Tree Forest, which is now hallowed ground so only people who have permission from the Sisters of Clarith are allowed to live there (permission which Nemesis has apparently).

She goes in the forest and then goes west to a port (near a lake? I think the Lake of Amusement but I'm not sure). Narrative says something about a tent--inside is an eccentric, bearded old man (I think he has a fire going). Nemesis greets him--he is Nikolay Tolle. He says, roughly, "It's cold today, isn't it?" (this is something he says a lot). She asks him to take care of Ziz-san, who is playing around in the water now. He's able to change his size to be larger or smaller (even as he is, the lake is a little small for him). Nikolay agrees to watch him. Nemesis wonders if she should take Ziz-san to the sea, but Nikolay says that it'd be hard for him to survive in the wild, having been raised by humans (there's also a little discussion on other Ziz Tiamas and he mentions that there are apparently some big enough to attack ships, which is relevant because of what happens later).

Nikolay draws in a sketchbook. He is a self-styled artist, and, apparently, someone who is like a father to Nemesis (as she doesn't know her real father).

Her mother told her that her father left before she was born. Her mother wasn't around much either--sometimes she'd be gone for a week, sometimes a month, and sometimes even years. It's been 462 days since she's last seen her mother. The reason her mother gives is, as a screenwright, she's always looking for interesting stories. Nemesis has begged to go along on some occasions, but her mother told her it was dangerous for a kid.

Nikolay is an old friend of her mother's. Nemesis doesn't know their relationship well but they seem to have too big an age gap for them to be lovers. He looks at least 30 years older than her. She originally thought he was her grandfather.

Nikolay taught Nemesis how to live in the forest. He also taught her magic--for example, how to make Ziz-san able to hear the things that Nemesis was saying. Apparently though, Nemesis doesn't seem to have a lot of magical ability, so more advanced magic is beyond her means.

She asks him what he's drawing, and he says his daughter, though he hasn't seen her in a long time (this is the first she's heard of him having a family). He goes quiet though, and then changes the subject to Zeus--he disapproves of her running in their gang, apparently thinking she should get friends her own age. Apparently he wants her to go to school, and her mother gave her money for it. But she finds school boring.

She brushes off his concerns that Zeus is gonna get her in trouble and heads home to get some rest.

Scene 3

Levia jumps to a memory that's several days later.

Scene 4

She's called by Narcissus, so Nemesis heads to a factory on the edge of town (Aceid) to meet with him. The factory used to be a Yarera Zusco Conglomerate factory for making airplanes. The other members are there, so she shoots the breeze with them while waiting for Narcissus to show up (I think two other members are Remes and Dite? idk about translations. Remes might be a pun on Hermes and Dite on Cleodite or something but not sure. Anyway the two of them are apparently dating).

Finally Narcissus arrives with a man wearing a suit following him. He introduces him as Gandhi. Pan, another member, asks if he's a new recruit, but he's not. He has something to do with Midas Touch.

After hearing about him from Hardy, the group had investigated Midas. Dio had apparently gotten involved with (some kind of shady business) Midas had going on behind the scenes and gotten killed for it. Gandhi has told Narcissus that Midas is currently in Marlon, but is coming back in three days. Gandhi has his own problems with Midas, and needs to make him disappear. He offers them all the information they need to (take him out?) and he'll give them a 30% cut of the spoils (gold bullion). The plan is to attack on the sea, where the only guards to contend with will be Midas' own henchmen.

The other people on the Titanis (the ship Midas is riding in) are also rich and important and might have bodyguards, so they should focus just on Midas. • Narcissus declares the team that'll carry out the mission--himself, Guy (?), Laclay (???), Pan, Remes, and Illei (??? All the names are puns on Greek names I think but I don't always know what pun is being made). Nemesis asks about her (owning an octopus and all) and Narcissus puts his hands on her shoulders and says (roughly translated) "I don't mean to say that women get in the way, but they get in the way it would stand out too much to have an octopus on board the ship." She and Ziz are just going to be their secret weapon if the time comes, basically. Then he calls her "honey" and tries to kiss her, but she averts it and goes over to talk to Pan instead.

Pan is glad to hear about the money, but he's more concerned with getting revenge for Dio's death. The two of them were close friends.

Pan asks Nemesis if she's going out with Narcissus. She says no (Narcissus falls to his knees upon hearing this?). Pan asks if she'd like to go out with him. She says no. Pan also falls to his knees (? They're both reacting comically anyway but Nemesis doesn't pay much mind to it).

Scene 5

To save time, Levia jumps to a memory of three days later.

Scene 6

Ziz-san enjoys being in the sea quite a bit. Nemesis and the remaining group are waiting at a port in the west of Elphegort for Narcissus and the team to get back. They have an automobile with them (and something about another member named Helio). Apparently the small ship that Narcissus and the crew took is World Police in design (and something Gandhi supplied for them). It's about time for them to come back, and Nike (another member) points out the Titanis on the horizon.

Apparently there's some kind of problem where native Elphe people in Aceid are having trouble getting work due to something related to the Freezis Conglomerate (having trouble reading that part but I think they have some kind of stranglehold on the jobs in the city? Or at least the ones that would make someone rich? And they have a policy to hire only non-Elphes). The Yarera Zusco conglomerate is a native Elphe business, but Freezis still basically owns Aceid. I think basically it's explaining that "Zeus" is an accumulation of native Elphe children whose families were forced into the slums.

Nemesis is not a pure Elphe, though. Her mother has different hair from her, so she speculates that her father was an Elphe and that's where she got it from.

Narcissus and his group arrive in their boat. Guy and Narcissus come out, and at once they can tell something is wrong. They have the gold but Remes is gone. Narcissus tells them that he was killed by Midas' men, and Dite is devastated. Narcissus tells them that not only were they unable to kill Midas, but he saw their faces and has Remes' corpse. So when the ship comes into port, either he'll kill the group or turn them in to the police.

They suggest running but there's nowhere to go and if they leave, Midas will have them followed. They can't go to Gandhi for help because he's as likely to kill them to remove connections to him as save them (he's an executive of the Freezis Conglomerate).

Everyone starts freaking out, and Nemesis realizes she has to do something to save her friends (they're the only home she has really). That's when she hears a voice telling her to "give over everything to your feelings" (the demon phrase). It is her own voice, speaking inside her head. She realizes what she has to do.

Nemesis goes out to where she can more clearly see the Titanis. It's almost in the port. She calls out to Ziz-san (with telepathy of some kind). He grows bigger and attacks the Titanis, sinking it in a matter of minutes. She thinks upon all the people she killed, and though she knows it's insane, she ends up smiling at it.

She returns to her friends. They know the ship sank, and they know it was her. Nobody says anything at first. Nemesis doesn't want to be thanked, but she wants them to stop looking at her as though she's some frightening thing.

[Here there is a picture of a teenaged Nemesis smiling in front of the water.]

Narcissus finally speaks up, saying to put the gold in the car and go. As they're working, Pan comes over to Nemesis and thanks her for saving them. He says that they were going to kill on the mission--it just ended being a bit. More than planned. I think he also says something to the effect of "they were all rich jerks anyway".

Ziz-san shows up, and Nemesis goes to thank him for his work. He drops a doll in front of her--an Elphe woman. It's dirty but it (I think) doesn't look like it's been in the water long. She speculates it belonged to someone on the ship. Nemesis decides to take it home.

Once they've finished loading the gold into the car they head to their hideout. The car has a radio, so they sit in it and listen to the news on the sinking.

The Titanis sank in the Hark (Haak? It's spelled Haaku) sea, the world police still investigating what happened. The newscaster reads off a list of the deceased, among which are the names Midas Touch, Robert Thayne, Ellie Thayne, Wise Rogzé, Mira Marlon, and Michelle Marlon.

Scene 7

Levia thinks on how Postman had mentioned that Nemesis had killed people with her gun, but he hadn't mentioned how many other people she'd killed outside of that. She thinks a bit more on what kind of girl she was, and then her thoughts turn to the "other voice" that Nemesis heard.

A lot of terms I don't know but she appears to be speculating on Nemesis having Dissociative Identity Disorder (also known as Multiple Personality Disorder). But (I think) she can't diagnose that with auditory hallucinations alone because other ailments also have that as a symptom (like HER syndrome--apparently a lot of people with it have them). She says something else that's hard to read then states that the next memory is the one with Bruno.

Scene 8

Sometimes strange things happen in the forest. Once, when Nemesis got lost , she was able to find her way home by following a trail of acorns. Once when she fell from a tall tree her fall was cushioned by leaves. All of these could be coincidences but Nemesis has come to think that the forest has a will of its own.

Now she thinks that the will of the forest is talking to her inside her house through the doll that she brought home. The voice (which is in the font that Michaela used to speak in the Judgment novel and surrounded by arrow brackets) tells her to escape the forest, saying there are people coming to capture her. Nemesis speculates that Gandhi might have told the police she sank the Titanis.

Nemesis doesn't know who this voice is, but she thinks it might be the "Earth God" that the Held sect worships. The voice tells Nemesis there are invisible beings that are protecting her--in the forest and in the depths of the earth. The voice doesn't have time to explain (and it's managed to delay her pursuers), and tells her to go. As Nemesis is preparing to run, the voice also warns her to be very cautious if she ever meets someone named "Lich" (saying something about him being a "different" being than most of the world and him being inscrutable).

Nemesis ends up leaving the doll behind as she runs off. She isn't sure if the police would arrest her octopus, but she decides to go pick up Ziz-san anyway, going to a cave where he is before leaving the forest.

Before she gets to him she runs into a black man and a white haired woman. They both have guns. The man points her out as the "Demon Beast Master" (Magic Beast User, whatever), something she'd been called among her friends. Although really she's more like the "Octopus Master" because it's just Ziz that she has.

She runs, but she can't get away. Unlike them, she's also not armed, and her magic powers aren't really that great (she can make a chunk of ice the size of her thumb pretty much). She decides to run to get Ziz-san for help (Nikolay is also nearby but he's not really able to do much in her mind).

The white haired women fires at her (which briefly stops Nemesis), and the man chides her (she's Shiro), saying they want to take her in alive. Nemesis calls for Ziz-san, and Nikolay shows up, who looks colder than usual.

He is very calm, even as she desperately begs him to hide her. He decides to go meet with the people chasing her. She calls out for Ziz-san again and then realizes the little pool he's supposed to be in is completely frozen over despite it not being winter. Nikolay is the only person she knows who could do that.

Her pursuers arrive. The black man (Bruno) is surprised to see Nikolay, who recalls Bruno from the time of Loki's trial. Bruno explains they're there on their own (Gallerian doesn't know), hunting Nemesis for what she did. He is of the impression that Nikolay was involved with the sinking, but Nikolay says that they just happen to live in the forest together, disavowing any connection to Nemesis.

This surprises her of course. She thought he'd protect her.

He turns to her, saying that he has to turn her in if she's done something bad, as he used to be a man in a position of enforcing the law.

Bruno finds this amusing, pointing out that he (as Hanma) took bribes and such. Nikolay says that it's been 15 years since he was the head judge, and his mind has changed on many things since then (I suppose he means he's atoning for his misdeeds).

Nikolay is being hunted by the World Police, but since Bruno is in PN he sees no reason to take the man in (that, and as Elluka's apprentice they probably couldn't anyway). Nikolay hands Bruno a chart of where Nemesis' friends are located (something she'd accidentally left behind once). Nemesis realizes that Nikolay had already intended to sell her out (and I think she's also under the impression that Ziz-san is dead).

Nemesis calls him a traitor and tries to run, but he manacles her ankles with ice. Nikolay says that she betrayed him first by doing such a heinous act, citing it as probably being because she's "that person"'s daughter. Nemesis asks if he's talking about her mother, asking what he means by that. He makes a vague comment I don't really understand (something about her being great but he can't agree with her as he is now? I don't know) and Bruno and Shiro take Nemesis away.

Scene 9

Levia thinks on the voice Nemesis heard from the doll, thinking that perhaps Nemesis has many different personalities inside herself and that its warnings were just her own sense of foreboding being heard as someone else's voice.

Coincidentally, Levia also knows someone named Lich--Professor Lich Arklow. Her younger brother is apprenticing under him (and he complains a lot about Behemo's behavior which she finds annoying). Lich also has a younger brother named Michael, who is one of Levia's assistants (and a spirited young lad). He had to stay home tonight.

Now Levia has to choose between a memory of Nikolay and a memory of Bruno. She decides to go to Nikolay first, which is 11 years after Nemesis got captured.

Scene 10

Nemesis is dropping by the village of Yatski. She's eating at a bar. Despite it only having been 11 years since she was last in the Millenium Tree Forest, it's changed dramatically from what she knew. The Held sect and the woodcutters are gone, yet the change is more than just a lack of upkeep--trees are dying, there are new ferocious beasts, etc.

The house she used to live in during her childhood is gone. In its place is the theater called "EVILS THEATER" (which I am going to call Evils Theater because I don't feel like writing it in all caps all the time). She's heard that the late Gallerian's fortune is in there but she doesn't care about that.

She's there looking for the former head of the Tasan Party, who went there searching for his ancestor's sword and vanished. The sword had been stolen from him by Gallerian, so she figures he probably went to Evils Theater to look for it. Which probably didn't go well--he might have been attacked by the woman in the red dress, or the twins who follow her. They look human, but probably aren't.

The theater is why the forest is called the "Demon's Forest".

She decides to give him up for dead and act alone as the new head of the Tasan Party.

It's getting late. She leaves the bar and goes to get a ride to Aceid, but is stopped by a short old man. He confirms her identity and reveals that he is a servant of Nikolay Tolle, telling her he's in a mansion on the edge of Yatski.

When they get there Nikolay is in bed. Apparently he has (some kind of) heart condition, and doesn't have much time left. He reveals that he couldn't stay in the forest due to Nemesis' mother's wrath at having sold out her child.

Nemesis tells him how all her friends in Zeus had been murdered in prison, and she'd ended up working for Bruno in Pere Noel. Nikolay reveals that he knows she betrayed them and became a hero of the people--he checks the news on the radio every day.

Nemesis asks him why he betrayed her that day--she doesn't believe it was just out of some sense of justice. She learned about him while in PN, and his history taking bribes. He eventually admits that (maybe, he says) he'd been afraid of her, but hadn't had the courage to strike her down himself. So he'd decided to leave the matter to "his" judgment (Nikolay also claims he doesn't clearly remember why he did what he did but that he thinks that's closest to the truth).

The wind is blowing. Nikolay said he was cold earlier so Nemesis closes the window (I just think that's sweet idk).

He apologizes for what happened to her friends. They'd been killed by Jorm Zusco. Eventually he was also found dead (apparently he killed himself), so Nemesis couldn't get revenge on him.

Nikolay says that if she wants revenge, she could kill him, as he's the reason they got put in prison in the first place. Nemesis did want to kill him at times, but she doesn't now. She doesn't hate him anymore. He tells her there are times when you have to take responsibility for your mistakes (I think).

She has her "Naga Custom 44" with her--she always uses it any time she kills someone out of revenge.

The servant who led her to the mansion is Höðr from JOC. Nikolay says that he won't do anything to stop her, and no one will hear the gunshot on the outskirts of town as they are.

She decides to kill him--both to get revenge, but also to give a quick death to the man who had watched over her in her youth. He points out that she doesn't look upset to do it, admitting he would have liked her to shed a tear for him. She says she's already resolved to never again cry while shooting someone.

She shoots him.

Scene 11

Levia feels Nikolay's actions are a little inscrutable. But as these are Nemesis' memories, it's impossible for her to really know what he's thinking. She is of the opinion that if people could know what was going on in each other's minds, all conflict would be gone (but of course that would never happen).

She decides to chase after the Bruno memory she passed up earlier.

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