[video] Rose: Make shocking discovery

[grimdarkseer]

The feed opens with Rose sat at her laptop, surrounded by Consorts of the various worlds and with a crystal ball at her side. The backdrop is very clearly not the Land of Light and Rain, with the brightness and rain being replaced by a very different atmosphere, though not one that can easily be discerned from here.

From the way she focuses on the screen, she doesn't appear to have noticed that the community is peeking into what she's doing. In time, she reaches over to the crystal ball and peers into it. The image that is revealed, possibly by the community's intent possibly by something else, has an immediate visible effect on Rose - she's not just shocked; she could almost be described as devastated if she didn't seem so utterly furious. And with that fury, the community seems to flicker a moment before settling down. When it does, Rose's expression is just a little darker than before.

For a time, Rose continues her conversation with Jade, this time latched onto by the community for all to see, and all the while a definite shadow appears to come over her. Not the shadow of grief but of something far bigger. The conversation comes to a halt with two lines.

TT: Maybe I will go kill Jack myself.
TT: Right now.

Almost as soon as those words leave her fingers, her discussion with Jade cuts out. The feed to the community lingers just long enough to see Rose's transformation into something rather more grimdark before the feed flickers once more and then cuts entirely.

(ooc: Next part of the Homestuck canon update and this one needs a little explaining. This covers a lot of it, though the deviation will shape a little differently - Rose will become herself again once she dies and revives on Derse. If anyone has any questions about it, let me know and I'll try and explain the logic a little more.

This means that Rose will be replying to comments to this post; however, they will come some considerable time later, after she reaches the castle, hunts down Jack, finds John, finds Jack, tries to take Jack on and dies. It also means that until then, Rose is on effective blackout from communication.

UPDATE/WARNING: Discussion of suicide in the comments)

Comments

[grimdarkseer]

Perhaps. Not that I expect it will matter for very much longer.

[eternallybored]

do you mean to say your tale is coming to an end already or...?

[grimdarkseer]

The tale itself, I'm sure will endure. But my part in it is drawing to a close, yes.

[eternallybored]

i have come late to this story; is this end timely or untimely, if i may ask?

[grimdarkseer]

I would not like to say. All I will say is that events must happen this way.

[eternallybored]

that is rather disappointing.

[grimdarkseer]

I would be inclined to apologise for my life not being interesting enough for you, but I am about to sacrifice myself for the good of the session.
That strikes me as being marginally more important.

[eternallybored]

and when you say 'session'....

[grimdarkseer]

Of the game we are playing.
I would provide you with the history lesson but I'm certain it's all in the archives and I have little patience for repeating myself.

[eternallybored]

a game, then. do you, perhaps, have any of those 'extra lives' or continues...?

[grimdarkseer]

I just used up my extra life doing something very foolish and yet entirely necessary.
Soon I will use up my last in a similar fashion.