audio & action @L.Mills forward dated to April 8th

[thestoriesarereal]

[The audio turns on to the sound of silence for the first few seconds before Lucy asks her question.]

If you could have one wish, what would you wish for? Not like...money or anything. Not for powers, but what would you really wish for?

[Because it's her birthday, and she wasn't really in the mood to celebrate. Of course, she'll wish for her family to be okay, for them to remember and come here so they could meet Victor. But...would that be a waste of a wish? Sure, wishes were powerful, but she was in another world, and she didn't think they would be strong enough to pull her family from one realm to the next...

Or, maybe she's just over thinking things. Maybe she just wants to talk and not think about her birthday.]


[ooc: Lucy's birthday is on April 8th, so here's her birthday post! She won't say it's her birthday, not yet anyway. Either way, this post can double as action too. So have fun!]

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[warnotlove]

[That just makes everything worse, in his opinion.]

I don't... know. I kind of already agreed to it, but in order to stop some of us from being able to help we were locked away in some weird underground city. I was trying to figure out how to get out of there when I wound here, instead.

[He sounds more thoughtful than concerned though, as if being here wasn't so bad.]

As for what locked them away... I think it was the Titans, as revenge for defeating them. They were kept in a Labyrinth until people gave up hope, lost faith... stopped believing.

[You know, for something he was adamant about not caring about, speaking about it this way sure made him depressed. Anyway, deflecting the conversation to be about other people is what Orion's really good at, so Lucy might have met her match here.]

Enchanted realm... Sounds like something out of a fairy tale. Not that I have room to talk- I'm apparently living a myth. So, this curse, how does someone break it?

[thestoriesarereal]

It all sounds very complicated. Maybe if I draw a diagram, it'll make more sense... [That's more muttered to herself than to him. She needed something visual for her to see the bigger picture and understand what was going on in his world.

Oh, the Titans? She would've thought the Gods killed them, making sure they never could harm any of them every again.]

And without people believing in them...they disappeared. Is that right?

[If those Gods drew on the power of belief, and people forgot about them, that would cause them to die out... Jeez, she wouldn't want to be in that position.]

The only way to break the curse is with True Love's kiss. I was trying to get my parents to fall back in love...and that didn't work.

[Because the curse seemed to be stronger than anything she's ever faced and no matter what did, it didn't work.]

[warnotlove]

[The Titans were captured and locked away, killing them might have saved everyone a lot of trouble.]

They were trapped in the Labyrinth by the Titans, that's why they disappeared. Having no one to believe in them after they vanished... They became powerless. With no gods taking care of the weather, the crops- it all just did whatever, I guess.

People stopped believing because gods weren't answering them, anymore. Can't really blame them, right? Now we're supposed to get people believing again so they can get their power back. They're basically ageless humans without it, I guess.

[It wasn't all that clear to him, even and he lived it. Orion isn't entirely sure he likes the idea of them having that kind of power again, but it's not really his place to say.]

The curse keeps them from being in love with each other?

[That was a nightmare he was familiar with.]

As long as you're here you can't do anything to help break the curse, either. That sucks...

[thestoriesarereal]

No...can't really believe in something that' isn't there anymore--which was true since they were trapped, but...that had to hurt them a lot. To see friends or family disappear because of a lack of belief.

[She can't imagine that was a pretty way to go.]

No, the curse doesn't stop people from falling in love, but it creates road blocks. Like, my mom used to believe in herself so much, but with how things were working out in Hyperion Heights, the land without magic where everyone was cursed to, she doesn't have much faith in herself.

Yeah....it sucks big time.

[warnotlove]

So, if the curse doesn't stop people from being in love... What happened to your parents?

[He doesn't really know enough about the gods situation to elaborate further, so better to focus on something he might be able to make sense of... maybe.]

[thestoriesarereal]

They forgot who they were...they forgot they were in love with each other, and think they had other families before.

My mom remembers me, but my Dad, Henry, he doesn't think I'm his kid. He likes my mom...but he left Hyperion Heights...and I don't know why.

[warnotlove]

He thinks he has a family with someone else? That must be hard to watch.

[Little close to home.]

Does your mom like him too? I would think that's the first step, right? To fixing things...