Where Are They Now? (5 Year Edition)

[dead_black_eyes]

This meme was done before in this game, right here, and that is where I am stealing it from. But instead of giving characters the option to return home in this hypothetical scenario, the war is still going on five years from the current date in-game, and BREW still needs everyone.

The question is, what has happened in those five years? The children have become adults, the adults are just a little older without being old, and goodness knows a lot can change in that amount of time. Maybe you're thriving, in your business or your partnership. Maybe not. Either way, with no end in sight, life goes on in the city named after Death.


INSTRUCTIONS

-Post with your characters(s)
-Write a short blurb about what has happened in five years. Love, heartbreak, sickness, wealth, what was in the cards for your Weapon or Meister, and what has it shaped them into? Set a scene for the present.
-Tag others in the scene they kindly set.
-Profit$$$$$$$$

Comments

[thorny]

[the tea shop is one of the few places that Rose still returns to when she comes back to the city; its calm atmosphere is a good place to let her guard down half an inch and work on any number of projects she has swirling around her. she knows that Meulin won't look over her shoulder and divulge any secrets.

the door jingles as she steps in from the rain, lightly tapping her umbrella on the doorframe before stepping in further. she smiles a little as she surveys the empty establishment]

I had no idea I was the only person in Death City not made of spun sugar.

[scribes]

[Meulin slipped her finger between the pages she was currently on, and closed the book, looking up. When she saw who it was she greeted Rose with a warm smile. Meulin worried about Rose sometimes (very often) so it was good to hear her joking.]

As they say, you learn something new everyday. How were your travels, Rose?

[thorny]

I've had better. Norway still hasn't managed to make itself amenable to safe tourism.

[not that Europe had ever been a particularly safe place when it came to keeping kishin and Witches at bay. still, she'd gotten what she'd gone there for and that was all that mattered. more information to leak to the public, more fodder in bringing this accursed way to a conclusion.

having secured her raingear she comes over to lean against the other side of the counter for better conversation, papers stuffed underneath her arm for analyzing. dissident articles didn't write themselves, after all.]

I take it you've had a slightly less frantic time than me while I was off.

[scribes]

[Meulin gets to making a cup for Rose as she speaks. The girl has come often enough that she feels she knows her tastes well enough. The news is bothersome, but not especially surprising.]

That is so. We're having our usual round of peace, here in Death City, and no Empresses have been causing trouble as of late.

[How long either of those would last, who knew? Di was, however, grateful for each moment.]

[thorny]

That's surprising. You'd think that cabin fever would have struck at least one of them by now.

[while Meulin busies herself with the tea, Rose spreads her paperwork out on the counter and begins sifting through it. moments like these almost made her guilty for working to change the peace that the troll so cherished, but she didn't have any choice. things had to come to an end someday.]

[scribes]

You would, wouldn't you? I suppose everyone can enjoy a rainy day once in a while.

[She set a cup of tea before her]

Care for any biscuits or sweets? [She couldn't but eye those papers curiously]

[thorny]

It's certainly not difficult, although my bias may be showing with that statement. [she chuckles a little, reaching into her pocket for payment]

No, thank you. I'm afraid that I've already indulged myself on that front earlier today.

[she won't say anything if Meulin ogles them a little - she trusts her. just don't expect Rose to answer any questions about their contents]