I want to try something first! Because I don't think they should be broken just like that...! [ She smiles and she knows it's not something that will happen, because things don't magically transform. At least, maybe the do in Aather. But not home. It's something you have to work for and struggle for.
So instead she thinks long and hard about everything: It's not the same-- she knows-- her life is blissfully nice, but she remembers being bullied. Bein told she couldn't possibly be a girl and the years of self-loathing that came with it. She's not a girl-- after all-- she can't be cute. She's not special and all she'll amount to is sports.
And she loves sports, but sometimes she wanted to wear cute dressed and hairstyles. Would she ever get to?
She would. And it was scary and difficult. She was pushed to be the leader, the center of Muse. Maki and Hanayo... Told her she was allowed to be cute and was the girliest of them all, and she wanted with all of her heart to believe them.
And then Amethyst, too, pushed her and encouraged her to wear the cute dress she wore know as the uniform. You could change and it'd be scary and hurt, but you weren't alone. And it's this message she wants to pass to Lucky and her heart as she-- once more-- begins to sing. But it's her song about her transformation. ]
It’s time to welcome the day I’ve always been waiting for! But is it okay for me to feel this happy?
Led by the light, this path I walk down continues into the future, it’s filled with hopes, isn’t it?
Can anyone be cute? Of course they can! Even I made a huge… transformation!
Love wing… love wing That’s why I’ll make you happy and with that smile we’ll sing, we’ll sing! I’ll make you happy! Don’t feel hesitant, look towards your dream. If you’re with everyone you love you can do new things! Let’s change ourselves, we’ll be able to reach further! Come, I can see our future! Love wing… love wing
Leave all your hesitations behind and straighten your back! Isn’t it great? Then start enjoying all the wonderful things!
Shined upon by the light, this is a new me I don’t know. Even if just for today I want to stay as wonderful as I can!
Everyone can also be cute! I’m sure you can! Even I made a huge… transformation!
That’s right, every girl will get their day they become a princess. So happy, very happy! It’s like magic! From this surprise, my dream starts to move. Loving is important, it can make you do wonderful things! Let’s change ourselves and let’s search for our next stage! Come, what kind of me will I be tomorrow? Love bell… love bell…
That’s why I’ll make you happy and with that smile we’ll sing, we’ll sing! I’ll make you happy! Don’t feel hesitant, look towards your dream. If you’re with everyone you love you can do new things! Let’s change ourselves, we’ll be able to reach further! Come, I can see our future! Love wing… love bell…
[ Reaches to gently try and touch a flower as she sings. Maybe with enough energy and love they can transform too! ]
[ Alas, the rose does not transform. Unfortunately, all the edges of the roses are extremely sharp, drawing blood that begins dripping to the ground before you're even aware you've been cut.
As your blood soaks into the soil, another rose bush starts to grow from the spot. This bush is not glass, but normal growing plant, and it entwines itself around the nearest glass rose bush, attempting to choke it. Somehow, the new roses are not damaged by the glass.
As its growth slows, the glass rose bush cracks and begins to crumble, and the new bush begins to flower, vivid and unnatural pink-and-amethyst roses blossoming and releasing strong but not overpowering smell of roses undercut with copper. ]
It's not really about mean, just... there are things in faerie that are not bad or good, they just are. But they hurt, if you're not careful. And sometimes doing the right thing hurts.
[ May looks apologetic ]
You don't have to. She'd never make anyone do it, but bringing life to something that had no life before hurts, sometimes.
[ She folds her arms and kind of sits there defiantly. ]
There's more than hurting and that's all this shows! I won't let her believe that's what it is... because they're really pretty both ways! That's why...
Mm! We should encourage her a lot! Because if you're together with everyone then the change doesn't hurt so much... because they support you! That's what it's really about!
No one expects you to go cutting yourself open all over, but that's why your roses made the glass roses crumble - you care about her, and the glass roses are hurting her.
[ Clearly Karen will have to be the most straightforward with this girl, lest she sit and sulk. ]
She would. But she wouldn't want anyone to come here. And yet, here you are.
She would not want these things to harm you, but she is not choosing any of this. It just is. If you would free May, you must remove the roses. And to remove the roses, you must shed blood. You do not have to. It is enough to have weakened them, you may move on if you wish. But that is the state of things.
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I'd ask you to help me out, but... [ she makes a face ] The roses are kind of a pain to deal with. Literally. I wouldn't ask anybody to do that.
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Helping you out won't hurt her will it...?
I know it's scary, but sometimes change is good.
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[ May smiles ]
You're a very sweet kid. No, it won't hurt her. It might hurt you for a while, though.
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You'll need to remove the roses.
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[
She smiles and she knows it's not something that will happen, because things don't magically transform. At least, maybe the do in Aather. But not home. It's something you have to work for and struggle for.
So instead she thinks long and hard about everything: It's not the same-- she knows-- her life is blissfully nice, but she remembers being bullied. Bein told she couldn't possibly be a girl and the years of self-loathing that came with it. She's not a girl-- after all-- she can't be cute. She's not special and all she'll amount to is sports.
And she loves sports, but sometimes she wanted to wear cute dressed and hairstyles. Would she ever get to?
She would. And it was scary and difficult. She was pushed to be the leader, the center of Muse. Maki and Hanayo... Told her she was allowed to be cute and was the girliest of them all, and she wanted with all of her heart to believe them.
And then Amethyst, too, pushed her and encouraged her to wear the cute dress she wore know as the uniform. You could change and it'd be scary and hurt, but you weren't alone. And it's this message she wants to pass to Lucky and her heart as she-- once more-- begins to sing. But it's her song about her transformation. ]
It’s time to welcome the day I’ve always been waiting for!
But is it okay for me to feel this happy?
Led by the light, this path I walk down
continues into the future, it’s filled with hopes, isn’t it?
Can anyone be cute? Of course they can!
Even I made a huge… transformation!
Love wing… love wing
That’s why I’ll make you happy and with that smile
we’ll sing, we’ll sing! I’ll make you happy!
Don’t feel hesitant, look towards your dream.
If you’re with everyone you love you can do new things!
Let’s change ourselves, we’ll be able to reach further!
Come, I can see our future!
Love wing… love wing
Leave all your hesitations behind and straighten your back!
Isn’t it great? Then start enjoying all the wonderful things!
Shined upon by the light, this is a new me I don’t know.
Even if just for today I want to stay as wonderful as I can!
Everyone can also be cute! I’m sure you can!
Even I made a huge… transformation!
That’s right, every girl will get their day they become a princess.
So happy, very happy! It’s like magic!
From this surprise, my dream starts to move.
Loving is important, it can make you do wonderful things!
Let’s change ourselves and let’s search for our next stage!
Come, what kind of me will I be tomorrow?
Love bell… love bell…
That’s why I’ll make you happy and with that smile
we’ll sing, we’ll sing! I’ll make you happy!
Don’t feel hesitant, look towards your dream.
If you’re with everyone you love you can do new things!
Let’s change ourselves, we’ll be able to reach further!
Come, I can see our future!
Love wing… love bell…
[ Reaches to gently try and touch a flower as she sings. Maybe with enough energy and love they can transform too! ]
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As your blood soaks into the soil, another rose bush starts to grow from the spot. This bush is not glass, but normal growing plant, and it entwines itself around the nearest glass rose bush, attempting to choke it. Somehow, the new roses are not damaged by the glass.
As its growth slows, the glass rose bush cracks and begins to crumble, and the new bush begins to flower, vivid and unnatural pink-and-amethyst roses blossoming and releasing strong but not overpowering smell of roses undercut with copper. ]
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She's just going to stubbornly sit here (and wrap the area she just cut, but details). ]
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May presses against the air ]
It's weaker! However you grew that, it definitely worked.
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No! I'll find another way, because that's mean!
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But everything here is a part of her. So if it means destroying each other then that's mean!
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[ May looks apologetic ]
You don't have to. She'd never make anyone do it, but bringing life to something that had no life before hurts, sometimes.
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[ She folds her arms and kind of sits there defiantly. ]
There's more than hurting and that's all this shows! I won't let her believe that's what it is... because they're really pretty both ways! That's why...
Mm! We should encourage her a lot! Because if you're together with everyone then the change doesn't hurt so much... because they support you! That's what it's really about!
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[ Karen catches her eye and smiles a bit ]
No one expects you to go cutting yourself open all over, but that's why your roses made the glass roses crumble - you care about her, and the glass roses are hurting her.
[ That's part of the story, anyway. ]
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She wouldn't want us to hurt ourselves to help! That's why there has to be another way!
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Who said anything about what she would want? She'd want you to have never come in.
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If I were here she'd come to help me!
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She would. But she wouldn't want anyone to come here. And yet, here you are.
She would not want these things to harm you, but she is not choosing any of this. It just is. If you would free May, you must remove the roses. And to remove the roses, you must shed blood. You do not have to. It is enough to have weakened them, you may move on if you wish. But that is the state of things.
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