★VIDEO - EMERGENCY DORCHACHT UPDATE

[starseedling]

Name: Steven Universe (SN: Steven U)
Date: August 20th (Backdated)
Format: Video

[Steven appears on camera, looking nervous but determined, like he's just stumbled upon something that he feels the need to tell everyone right now. So, here he is! Steven is very obviously a fae, complete with antennae and slightly too large, pink irises. Behind him, wings will occasionally flutter with agitation.]

Hey guys, Steven here! So - I told Nessie and Mhairi about that whole... dream... thing... we just had...

And it turns out neither of them had any idea that Dorchacht was doing things like that?? Nessie made it sound like their leader, Morgana, just seemed kind of racist at Coven meetings... not that they were enslaving an entire city's worth of monsters?

So... I think this is going to be a pretty big deal. They said they were going to get in contact with the Parliament about it, to see what they could do next. It didn't sound like they were okay with just letting them keep doing those things so, um... phew!

Aaaanyway... I thought you might want to know. I know I've been thinking about it a lot. Haha.

[He signs off, awkwardly.]

[OOC: This isn't massively relevant to this post, but Steven is currently wearing earrings that are charmed to tell him what the truth is when someone knowingly lies to him. So, if your character does that in the post, the earrings will probably tell him. Magic~!]

Comments

[usurpers]

Whoever I find.

[ he has a few names in mind, but— steven, if only you were a little older. and not so reliant on the good side of love. ]

Half of the Parliament doesn’t see us as their problem. The higher ups are just as, [ what’s the word, ] racist as Morgana, and The Coven is playing stupid. It’s almost like someone was waiting for us to sound an alarm, and we did.

[starseedling]

They are?

[That could be in response to a lot of things, but Steven sounds genuinely caught off guard. It's disappointing, in a word.]

You mean... they feel the same way about monsters? That they should be...

[He trails off, uncertainly.]

[usurpers]

Who knows how far they’d go. [ but— he shrugs, lightly, and shifts his hands into his front poncho pockets. ] That’s what I meant earlier.

[ aef ain’t no good guy, sadly, and eren is all too familiar with the switcheroo. ]

Fae and dragons, especially.

[ so bad news for them lmao ]

[starseedling]

[In the days to come, this will turn out to be a pattern. Steven looks crestfallen. That also includes Peridot.]

How can they be so afraid of them? There's hardly any of them left! They don't even have a home anymore!

[usurpers]

Because they’re the most powerful monsters on the continent. [ said easily, with fact in his words rather than heart. ] And they aren’t wrong, are they?

[ mister i’m going to kidnap people and create a massive illusion party that no other monster can create ]

[starseedling]

[HEY THAT WAS PRIVATE, unless Lex told him, in which case, shit. Either way, Steven seems to withdraw defensively at that, though he can't fully deny it.]

Witches can do that stuff too, can't they?

[usurpers]

[ his wife tells him everything 👌 ]

To a degree, but a witch is a witch. Fae can still see through them. [ so any but!!!s simply fall silent when it comes to comparisons. there are none. ]

They don’t correlate. These people’ve lived for hundreds of years like this, it won’t be now that they’ll accept something different and change. Even less from outsiders.

[ and that. is the sad truth. ]

[starseedling]

Then why are we even here...?

[It comes out like a grumble, but it's a genuine feeling he has. Maybe there is no reason for them to be here, maybe this is all a mistake, but some part of him would find comfort in there actually being a purpose to this.]

[usurpers]

The only one’s who’ll find out are the one’s that keep moving forward.

[ because believe him— that’s the only hope he even has left. ]

What’re you going to do?

[starseedling]

[Steven crosses his arms, looking at the ground. He already knows.]

If they end up going to Dorchacht... I'm coming, too.