songerein | September Catch All

Who: Anya and You
Which: Open Log
Where: Around Town
What: Working at Madame Blackbird’s shop and Dreamotion Training
Warnings: None at the moment

Madame Blackbird’s
(As always, Anya can be found working at the clothing portion of Madame Blackbird’s shop. It has gotten pretty busy with the Fairytale Faire coming ever closer and she is fully booked too. Fabrics, threads, and embellishments on hand, she is proceeding to make them into really costumes any person would be happy to wear for it. But hey that is a life of a seamstress during a Faire season.)

Dreamotion Training
(Outside her tree house, Anya is getting herself ready for some more dreamotion skill training as she gets herself mentally prepared for anything the Story Eater could throw at her. She first starts off by sending ice and fire attacks at the boxes she uses for targets.

After a while, she gets a little bit tired and decides to take a break for a moment before continuing again. Feel free to check what she is doing or wave at her as she rests up.)

Wildcard
(Got another prompt in mind? Feel free to comment down below or contact me on

mariscorner or on Discord (Mariposa21 #4257).)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Apropos of nothing at all

After having met

a number of very colorful people, including actual demons from actual Hell, a three-meter talking spider, and people who may or may not be functionally immortal, I'm starting to re-evaluate what I consider believable and what I don't

that in mind

Your parents didn't name you after the infamous Russian princess.

Did they.

I wish that was the case, but in reality my parents named me after a 4th century martyr saint named Anastasia of Sirmium and the name is of Greek origin.

But if my memory is correct, I also had an ancestor from a long time ago who had shared the same name with me.

(Yes, Akechi. Said infamous Russian princess is explaining about how she got her actual real name.)

I notice that you technically answered the question I wrote down, and carefully avoided answering the question I actually asked.

I'm genuinely curious and it's been bothering me.

Oh well then. You are quite an insistent fellow. What if I told you right now that I’M that Russian Princess you speak of? Or should I say Russian Grand Duchess?

Romanova isn't exactly a common last name. But like I said, after being here a while what seems possible has become incredibly distorted.

Apparently alternate timelines are entirely possible, so at this point- why not?

How did you even escape the events of the civil war?

Well this is going to be one of the weirdest tales you’re going to hear. So during the attacks in one of the palaces my family used to live in, I ended running back to my bedroom to find a music box my Grandmama gave to me and she followed after me.

After I got it back from a dollhouse, a boy came in from a hidden door and he got me and Grandmama escape through that door and I dropped the box during the escape. She and I then crossed a mostly frozen over river to run to a train station to catch a train to Paris. But I sadly lost my grip on Grandmama’s hand and hit my head hard on the ground.

That doesn't seem all that strange. Secret passages in a palace seem perfectly normal.

I would agree with you on that too. I can confirm that as it is quite common for many palaces in Europe to have plenty of hidden passages running inside them, usually for palace staff to get to places quickly.

So I would assume you were separated from the grand duchess in- what, St. Petersburg? What, then, is the weird part?

Yes, that would be Saint Petersburg where the palace is located at.

As for the weird part about it, there was this man who used to be friends with Papa and Mama until they wisened up and broke ties with him. But he didn’t took the breaking of ties too well that he sought to destroy my family as an act of revenge.

I'm unfamiliar with that portion of the history. I'm aware the Romanovs had no shortage of enemies, however. Was there some member of the Russian court that turned traitor?

Hm, I don’t recall many of my relatives would do anything bad to each other unless they really gaye each other do much. Nor do I recall anyone within my parents’ circles would try to conspire against Papa since I was very young to care much about things happening within the court.

But I do want to ask you a question: have you heard of the name Gregori Rapustin?

I am. He's fairly famous, actually, historically speaking, for having survived four assassination attempts including a stabbing, two poisonings, and two shootings. Most people remember that and a rumored affair with the queen, but I was unaware of any attempted betrayal. I'm going to hazard a guess that our histories may differ on the subject of Rasputin.

I can agree too. It seems our worlds have differences on how things went down. I honestly don’t care recall the rumors about Mama dating somebody behind Papa’s back since they do love each other.

On the other hand, the Rasputin I knew in my world tried to drag me down a frozen river only for him to break a part of the ice he was on and fell down into said river but he somehow survived it for ten years.

Impressive, but not... terribly strange. What's the catch?

He has a relic that he can use to summon green winged minions and cause all sorts of damages as he wishes. I mean, he wrecked a giant chandelier and a part of a bridge in Paris by just projecting powerful beams at them.

I’m not exactly sure as to how he did got his hands on it, but there is a possible chance that he may have a Faustian deal that has one rule: if something bad happens to the relic, he is basically doomed. Which did happened after I stomped down on said relic.

Grigori Rasputin. Apparent demon-summoner and firer of magic lasers, blew up a bridge in Paris, murdered by the missing Russian princess who'd survived the October Revolution, apparently, in a case of (probable) self-defense.

Hhhhuh.

That differs a bit from historical record.

Yes it is completely different. Same people, different timelines. I am just as surprised by how vast the universe can be too.

(Said missing Russian princess who is doing her best not to crack up at the alternate version of her world where apparently Rasputin didn’t try to curse her entire family out of spite and she didn’t live to see another.)

Your world sounds... interesting. We might have to compare notes, sometime, though I'm not certain how much knowledge turn-of-the-twentieth-century Russia would know about Japanese history.

That would sound like a good idea. I will admit that I wasn’t the most dedicated to my studies compared to my older sisters growing up, but I can offer some sights as well.

Alternate timelines and worlds are very intriguing.

Ugh. 'knowledge would know'? clearly I don't have enough caffeine in me.

September Catch All

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