Memory: ✿ spirit control powers going horribly wrong Received: Day 155 (The Bone Witch's parenting game) The Thing: ( with names mysteriously obscured, headcanon to fill in the gaps ) This one is a bit longer, spread out over a small number of years. Yuyuko remembers something faint, almost foggy--but only because she was a small child at the time, as foggy as early childhood memories often are. Her father watches in amazement. There are phantoms littering the estate garden, they come here to see her, to flock around her. Spirits are inherently drawn to her, they always have been, since the day she was born. Her father claps as she marionettes the spirits around effortlessly; they don't seem to mind. It is fun. This power is fun.
A few years older, perhaps, wiggling in her seat as someone trims her hair and ties it up, trying to pin it at the back of her head. She fusses, she wants to leave--she has things to do, things that are more fun than sitting still like this. The person fiddling with her hair, a family attendant, has no patience for belligerent children, though, and ignores her. Yuyuko seems to become more and more frustrated, eventually standing up and trying to leave the room, but not before throwing a tantrum and shouting angrily at the attendant...who promptly drops to the floor, unmoving. Silence.
As much as Yuyuko tries to wake her, shaking her shoulders and screaming, she does not stir. Her father hears the commotion, bursting into the room. It is freezing cold; she can see her breath before her, like when too many phantoms crowd into a small space. The attendant has died, spontaneously, she can gather that. What happened? Did she do something? She feels as if she is gripping something in her hands, but there is nothing there.
It was an accident. The attendant, she must have been ill. So many people were ill, these days. It was nothing for her to worry about, she shouldn't blame herself. Except, it happens again. And again. And she is always at the center of it, someone in her household dropping dead in the blink of an eye. Yuyuko pieces it together: if she can control ghosts, why can't she make them?
Gleamed from it: ❀ "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" to the nth degree ❀ you have committed manslaughter at the age of 8, what will you do? (the answer is cry) ❀ so this must have been what she did to land herself in isolation ❀ and this is probably what her "nebulous-sounding death powers" are. she can just...kill people. rip their souls out. ❀ and her father loved her despite "it" ❀ +500 nervousness, +500 feeling afraid of herself
Shard 11
Received: Day 155 (The Bone Witch's parenting game)
The Thing: ( with names mysteriously obscured, headcanon to fill in the gaps ) This one is a bit longer, spread out over a small number of years. Yuyuko remembers something faint, almost foggy--but only because she was a small child at the time, as foggy as early childhood memories often are. Her father watches in amazement. There are phantoms littering the estate garden, they come here to see her, to flock around her. Spirits are inherently drawn to her, they always have been, since the day she was born. Her father claps as she marionettes the spirits around effortlessly; they don't seem to mind. It is fun. This power is fun.
A few years older, perhaps, wiggling in her seat as someone trims her hair and ties it up, trying to pin it at the back of her head. She fusses, she wants to leave--she has things to do, things that are more fun than sitting still like this. The person fiddling with her hair, a family attendant, has no patience for belligerent children, though, and ignores her. Yuyuko seems to become more and more frustrated, eventually standing up and trying to leave the room, but not before throwing a tantrum and shouting angrily at the attendant...who promptly drops to the floor, unmoving. Silence.
As much as Yuyuko tries to wake her, shaking her shoulders and screaming, she does not stir. Her father hears the commotion, bursting into the room. It is freezing cold; she can see her breath before her, like when too many phantoms crowd into a small space. The attendant has died, spontaneously, she can gather that. What happened? Did she do something? She feels as if she is gripping something in her hands, but there is nothing there.
It was an accident. The attendant, she must have been ill. So many people were ill, these days. It was nothing for her to worry about, she shouldn't blame herself. Except, it happens again. And again. And she is always at the center of it, someone in her household dropping dead in the blink of an eye. Yuyuko pieces it together: if she can control ghosts, why can't she make them?
Gleamed from it:
❀ "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" to the nth degree
❀ you have committed manslaughter at the age of 8, what will you do? (the answer is cry)
❀ so this must have been what she did to land herself in isolation
❀ and this is probably what her "nebulous-sounding death powers" are. she can just...kill people. rip their souls out.
❀ and her father loved her despite "it"
❀ +500 nervousness, +500 feeling afraid of herself