The Thirty-Fourth Day

[stalkershiki]

 [Shiki blinks. Then she realizes that she's blinking. Slowly, she moves all of the parts of her body until she accepts that she actually can again. She then runs over and hugs her mannequin. She now knows how it feels. She just spent nearly a month as one, after all.

She then walks over to her journal, which has been open next to her the entire time she was in her mannequin'd state of being, and idly flips to a new page and begins speaking into it.]

So, you know what sucks? Being a mannequin. That's what sucks.

Anyways, um, so I'm pretty sure I was a mannequin for, like, a month or so? I don't know for sure. But, um... how is everyone, I guess? I haven't talked to you guys in a while! I mean, I couldn't, but... Equius! Ted! Barney! Tamaki! Maya! Doctor! Just... everyone! Talk to me? I've missed you~

Oh, and... did I miss anything? I mean, I could hear everything from the journal, but a lot happens all at once, you know?

((ooc: Shiki may be calling out to specific people, but this post is totally open like an open thing! Especially if you want to be the one to tell Shiki that her boyfriend left the castle - she just thinks that she hasn't heard from him in a while. Have fun with her!))

Comments

[demontobeloved]

Know what else sucks? Having your entire power alignment tossed on it's head and being turned into the equivalent of a guardian angel.

[stalkershiki]

Oh... wow, yeah, that... uh... does sound like it would suck?

...Is being a guardian angel really bad for you or something?

[demontobeloved]

I'm a demon, so being a Whitelighter probably wasn't good for me.

It tingled weirdly.

[arealwoman]

I've never had complaints from them before. [ Terrible joke for you Shiki, she apologises ] What was it like?

[stalkershiki]

[But Shiki laughs at everything even mildly funny, including this!]

Well, it didn't hurt or anything... I had a few pins in me, and I didn't really notice, you know? In fact, it didn't really anything. I could barely feel anything... I could see everything, hear everything... but I couldn't feel anything, you know? And I couldn't move. I was just kind of... stuck there, as a sentient mannequin. At least I had the journal open next to me so I didn't get too bored, you know?

[arealwoman]

[ Christina's glad the joke at least went across as one ]

Well that's definitely a first. Although the sentient mannequins I usually get are models and sometimes I have to wonder how much they've actually got up there.

But you could hear everything. Didn't that worry you?

[noblefive]

Well, that sounds weird.

This place almost freaks me out sometimes.

[stalkershiki]

It was weird... but I suppose it could've been worse, you know? I mean, I wasn't, I dunno, tortured by the castle or anything... I just couldn't move or feel anything.

[noblefive]

Definately sounds like torture to me.

[hosting]

Princess Shiki!

Even a day without your voice has been too long, my days have been dark and filled with despair.

[stalkershiki]

Oh, Tamaki... I hope that isn't true! I'd be sad if my loss really made the past month so awful for you!

DICTATED like a bro who can talk

[takethat]

You were a mannequin all that time??

OH SHIT SON THIS JUST GOT REAL WITH ALL THAT DICTATION.

[stalkershiki]

Yeah... about three weeks or so? But yeah. I suppose it's better than just being knocked out for a month, which has happened before, but. Yeah. A mannequin.

[takethat]

...that's kind of awesome.

[toerags]

You were a mannequin?

[ and james thought being invisible lost it's spark after a while. he'll take the invisible over being a mannequin! unless ... ]

Could you move?

[stalkershiki]

No... I couldn't feel anything either. But I could hear and see things, and my journal was open next to me, so I at least had that for entertainment, you know?

[toerags]

That doesn't sound like much fun, being trapped like that. Hope we provided good entertainment and that you were safe from those wolves.

Anyone find you while you were in that state?

[punk_cute]

Aw shit, I thought you'd left or something. Didn't even think you mighta been stuck as something else, sorry. How're you doing now that you're back?

[stalkershiki]

Hey, don't worry about it! I mean, even after all the time I've been in the castle, I didn't expect to turn into a mannequin of all things, you know? And I'm alright... I mean, I only just, uh, regained movement, so I don't know if anything weird is going to happen now, you know?

[teds_out]

Hey, Sheek. A month-- was it really that long? I guess getting knocked out for a couple weeks screwed up my sense of time a bit.

[stalkershiki]

You got knocked out for a couple of weeks? Oh man, that's no fun... I've been there. I hope you're alright?

[optimystic]

Shiki! I'm glad to hear you're back safe and sound!

[stalkershiki]

Haha, well, I'm not sure I'm ever really going to leave, but yeah, I was totally fine! I was also just totally... stuck in the one place without being able to say anything or anything, you know?

[hulloeverything]

I'm glad to hear you're alright, Shiki. I'd been wondering where you'd gone.

[stalkershiki]

Yeah... that was the only really, really bad part of the last few weeks was that I couldn't talk to people and let them know that I'm alright... but I'm here now! Have I missed anything major that might've been off of the journals or something over the past few weeks?