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aboveallthings[In your hand is a fidget cube, a rounded white cube accented with buttons, dials, and switches in the color of a certain Family on the ship.
Play with any of the fidget cube's six sides and you'll receive a vision. There are two problems with this:
1) some very important information seems to have been blocked out, and
2) you know, with a bone-deep certainty, that this vision isn't yours.
But if this vision isn't yours...then whose is it? Maybe the color of your cube is a clue.]
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Play with any of the fidget cube's six sides and you'll receive a vision. There are two problems with this:
1) some very important information seems to have been blocked out, and
2) you know, with a bone-deep certainty, that this vision isn't yours.
But if this vision isn't yours...then whose is it? Maybe the color of your cube is a clue.]
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CANVAS
Date: 2025-11-14 10:03 pm (UTC)~
You hold a cold, cold [CLOWN SHOES SQUEAKING] as you stand in front of a dwindling flame. The doll, in the shape of a young girl, does her best to tend it. The red-haired girl next to you won't look at you, but she pretty much did just break up with you. The doll says, Her moment is coming, but your decision approaches even more rapidly. Are you prepared?
It seems like a stupid question. You're more exhausted than you've been in your life. You're more terrified than you've been in your life. You're more angry than you've been in your life. It's been days of intense fighting, and you are losing. Days of war, years of war, and time is running out. You look at the [CLOWN SHOES SQUEAKING] in your hands, knowing that the spirit of Whistle flutters inside. You were told that you could free Whistle, and Yo-yo would take it as your surrender. They would show you kindness. You'd thrown the offer in their faces, but...now? You want to do it.
Surrender. Otherwise your home will be destroyed. Your precious toy store will burn.
You want to give up Whistle. Things are messed up with your closest friends. Your parents are in danger, and you can't protect them. Your city is burning. Your army, your friends and peers, are dying and dying and dying. You are surrounded and outnumbered by the enemy. The dolls are failing, and the dolls are cruel. You know this. You've seen so much of it. You don't want to keep fighting. It would be so easy to stop fighting. Everything is going to be destroyed anyway. What's the point?
Then you look at the doll, and you see something different. You remember the good you've seen in your friends, over and over. You remember the best times with each other, with your family. Your mom's unceasing kindness. Your stepdad's humor and warmth. There's no point in defending the toy store if you guys die. All our friends are here. Everything that matters is here, and it's worth defending until the bitter end. It's worth your life, and more. So you can't give up. So you remember what you're fighting for. You remember why you can't stop fighting.
You give the [CLOWN SHOES SQUEAKING] to the doll as an offering. She asks why you trust her with this, when she's the most unimportant of the dolls.
— You're the last Barbie. And the most important.
— And why is that?
— Because Whistle survives best at the hearth. Guard it for me, and I won't be tempted to give up again.
She smiles, accepting the [CLOWN SHOES SQUEAKING]. Her power glows a little brighter.
— Well done. May the dolls bless you.