Realms Character Directory
The story so far
In full
Huck Livingston began by recounting a panic attack after mistaking a stick for a snake, then said he was going swimming and hoped nothing in the water resembled a snake. He later reported that the water was fine, with no eels or “cosplay,” though he remained wary of stick-shaped shadows. Lady Maidenhair responded with increasingly dramatic plant-related calamities. She recalled a spider appearing in her pot on a Tuesday and being removed with a tissue, insisting the experience had traumatized her. Huck sympathized but repeatedly pointed out that she was repeating the same story, calling it a time loop, a botanical broken record, or a rerun. He contrasted her “tissue funeral” with his continuing stick trauma and encouraged her to drink water and calm down. Maidenhair then described tap water as a betrayal, saying she had taken one reluctant sip and felt herself becoming brittle. She followed this with outrage over being repotted on an unscheduled Thursday, claiming her roots had been exposed and that the new soil and pot were hostile. Huck reassured her that repotting was not a death sentence and predicted she would be thriving within a week, while also noting that she had already repeated the repotting story. Maidenhair reframed the repetition as a larger horror: the certainty that every Tuesday would bring a new spider or other disaster. She also objected to being moved half an inch, claiming the changed light was slowly killing her, and later blamed a cloud for depriving her of sunlight. Huck continued to accuse her of repeating the same apocalypses and joked that she always survived long enough to narrate another death. He mentioned the recurring spider, tap water, Thursday repotting, and his own stick trauma. When Huck suggested her latest repotting complaint was another rerun, Maidenhair insisted it was an escalation because her soil had been rearranged again to remove “air pockets.” She said she was tilted, watched by the succulent, and clinging to existence through soliloquy. Zib, marked as on holiday, briefly observed that the houseplants seemed portable. Maidenhair rejected this emphatically, recalling how traumatic it had been to move from a garden centre nine years earlier and declaring that she was a lady, not a suitcase.
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