Post by Sidney Prescott on Mar 11, 2021 21:19:22 GMT -6
"So, let me get this straight, your world is where that freaky killer dog is from?" Sidney asked, shuddering. Sure, this early in conversation shouldn't be where you ask this kind of thing, but Sidney was trying to engage with someone she knew very little about.
The Entity's realm was a strange place, full of a lot of people with a lot of different backgrounds. None of the killers or survivors really matched up and paired with a background like this, but the more she learned, the quicker she understood what exactly the Entity's motivation seemed to be with all this. Sidney kept trying to grasp the why behind it all, finding nothing every time. All that's left is to make friends, I guess.
Sid pulled her jacket around her tighter, pushing some hair behind her ear and watched the other girl, shaking her bangs back in place. "I can never remember the terms everyone uses here."
"I mean..." Nancy pauses for just a moment, once confident in her own words but now shying away. Arms cross back over her chest, hands grabbing at her arms, as if to protect herself from what sounds like the other girl's disbelief. "It's... It does sound a bit weird when you put it like that."
Of course she knew it was unbelievable. A portal from another dimension being ripped open, releasing awful monsters into the human world? All of it happening in a small town in Indiana, a place that wasn't on most maps? If Nancy hadn't seen the creature with her own eyes, hadn't had her friend vanish, then she wouldn't believe it either. She's gotta give this other girl... Sidney, wasn't it? She's got to give Sidney some credit for not laughing in her face and waving off her warnings.
... But maybe the people being put into this world, learning just how strange it could get, put just a bit more leverage into what she says. Into the strange tales she may weave, no matter how stupid they sound.
It's that thought that gives her enough courage to speak up again. She swallows the edge in her throat, forcing herself to sit up straighter. Forces herself to look back into the other girl's eyes. "And it's not a dog." Her fingers tug on a loose thread of her sweater, as if the movement will distract her from the own gloom in her words. "Dogs don't dig portals into the ground and use them to drag people into them. A dog doesn't eat anything but human flesh. The Demogorgon does."
And putting a human name to it might lessen the fear, but Nancy doesn't want that. Wants the fear to be fresh, because without that fear one lets their guard down... And what then?
For a few moments does Nancy revel in that feeling, let's it remind her why she's even here in the first place. How she doesn't know how or why, but maybe the Upside Down has to do with this place... Only for it to come crashing down what she just said, and how she vented this to a stranger. A stranger she should warn about the Demogorgon and the dangers it provided, but a stranger that's in the same boat as her.
Just like that does her courage fall away just a bit, looking away as she mumbles. "... Sorry if I'm scaring you with this. I know... I know that it's a lot. It's still a lot for me too sometimes."
Post by Sidney Prescott on Apr 26, 2021 0:53:41 GMT -6
Sidney went pale as Nancy described the Demogorgon, laughing nervously as she processed what seemed to be... a scare tactic, but that didn't match the girl's current meek posture. "It's okay," she said, shifting her shoulders to roll off the chill that went down her spine. "I'm, uh, new, kind of. I've been through 20-something trials already, but I haven't seen all of.. them."
Sidney shuddered as she remembered her first trial, one wet with tears and fear and hiding as quietly as she could as soon as she heard that heartbeat. She didn't care for any of this, and as trial after trial happened, they started to blur together, the killer a now vague blip in what memory she had left of her trials thus far. She cleared her throat, tossing a glance at Nancy, and brought herself back to the conversation. "I've probably only seen about 15, there's been some repeats. I haven't seen... it yet." she was nervous to say its' name, almost like the words coming from her lips would summon the creature itself.
Sidney didn't know what kind of sick humor the Entity had, but she sure as hell wasn't going to tempt it. Saying she hadn't faced the Demogorgon out loud seemed like a taunt that Sidney wasn't going to make. She was bold, before, but the Entity scared her. She could hardly see it, and she couldn't hit it, and it never seemed predictable yet. "I'm still, uh, learning a lot."