MASTERMIND MEME

[employeeoftheyear]

Well now that everything is settled, why not be a little evil? In this AU, your character is the one behind all of this! Feel free to stretch things however you like to make it reasonable for your character to have done this! The world is your evil oyster.

And obviously this doesn't have to line up with game canon; if your character would have been dead in the canon, they can be survivors in this AU! Or you can pretend your character died to hide the fact that they're the mastermind if they lived!

Just go wild! There's no such thing as too much gloating and villain songs!

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[themuseabandonsyou]

[ It's not that Orpheus isn't happy to see Janis again - he is, he's overjoyed, honestly, but then she starts singing, and explains, and it just raises more questions than it answers, really. ]

Eighty seven loops... you mean - we've been doing this for that long? Why? If there's no Wizard anymore, then - why is any of this still happening?

[fourbutts]

Beats me. The story just doesn't have the right ending yet, I guess.

[ One of the screens displays all of them, standing in the garden, same as now, just for a few moments. ]

I've been trying to get out. Every time we all get here, we try. Sometimes we team up. Sometimes you guys say you hate me. It never works. Nothing ever works. The curtain closes and we start over the next day.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus shakes his head, brows furrowed. It doesn't make sense. ]

But - who kept giving us motives? Who talked to us at trials? I don't - I don't understand. Why would we hate you?

[ He hasn't put two and two together, just yet, too overwhelmed by the implications of it all to really see them. ]

[fourbutts]

Really? You can't tell?

[ She gives a single, humorless "ha" of a laugh. ]

See, someone's got to tell the tale
Whether or not it turns out well

[ She cracks the closest thing she can to a smile. ]

But who knows? Maybe it will turn out this time.

[ There's no hope left in her voice. ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ It takes a second for that to sink in, his brows furrowing as he watches her. ]

You mean... you're doing this? You're the Wizard, now? Why? Is there - something that means you have to, instead of just... not taking his place?