RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE, FOR THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED
It's been a long time since I posted on this thread, but I've been sharing the continuing (horribly abusive) adventures of teen monsters Vivian and Donna on my Twitter. (I'm
HyveMynd there too, with the same avatar.) Below is a collected, text only version of those Tweets. (I feel this loses something without the accompanying GIFs, but here goes.)
Oh jeeze. The relationship between Vivian the Ghoul and Donna the Wyrm (played by me) got all kinds of complicated in tonight's #Monsterhearts game. Strap in kids, here we go. ❤️❤️❤️
Over the weekend, Donna and Vivian go shopping at the local mall. Vivian shoplifting as usual, as it gives her a thrill.
They browse bras at Victoria's Secret, slip into a fitting room together, and start going at it.
But they're interrupted by the woman in the adjoining fitting room banging on the wall. Donna stalks out, rips open the curtain and tells her off. Donna and Vivian make such a scene that security shows up. They get banned from the Victoria's Secret for life.
The pair drive home on Vivian's motorcycle. Donna (the only one wearing a helmet) tries to cover Vivian's eyes in an attempt to make the ride more thrilling. Vivian swats her hands away. She doesn't want to crash and kill Donna. (Awww. ❤️)
Cut to Monday afternoon. Donna's working at the local gas station, and Vivian's in homeroom.
Evylyn, the Queen, approaches Vivian, introducing her to Sarah (an NPC). Evylyn suggests Vivian and Sarah hook up, and Vivian is intrigued despite herself.
Evylyn slips Vivian Sarah's number, saying the two girls should "hang out" tonight. Vivian turns the offer down. Instead she goes to the bathroom and scratches Sarah's number into the wall of every toilet stall.
Then Vivian calls Donna to tell her what happened. Donna says to scratch Sarah's number into the wall of every stall in the boy's bathroom too. Vivian does. Donna starts plotting how to get revenge on Evylyn.
Cut to after school. Tim (NPC) local police force, walks into the gas station just as Donna finishes her shift. He's seen her line dancing at the local bar. He says she has nice moves. He says they should go line dancing together. Like a date.
Donna leans in, grabs Tim's face with her pink nails, and purrs "Sorry sugar. You have the wrong... equipment." into his ear. She's trying to get him all hot and bothered, even though she's not interested.
Vivian and Xavier walk in at that exact moment.
Vivian asks Donna what's going on. Donna explains she just turned Tim down, but Vivian crosses her arms and looks jealous.
Donna grabs Vivian's face in her pink nails and says "You're absolutely adorable when you're jealous, sugar."
Vivian's having none of it and knocks Donna's hand away. Stunned her possession struck her, Donna is caught off guard.
Before she can recover, Xavier, mirroring Donna's actions, grabs her face and moves in for a kiss.
Donna needs to punish Vivian for her insolence. She embraces Xavier, burying her nails in his back, and kisses him passionately.
But Donna maintains eye contact with Vivian the whole time. She wants Vivian to know this kiss with Xavier is HER fault.
Seeing Donna kissing someone else sharpens Vivian's hunger for pain. And bubbling to the surface, a new hunger: flesh. [Mechanics note: Vivian just went Darkest Self.]
Vivian thrusts Donna and Xavier apart, then open hand slaps Donna across the face. "You bitch!" she growls.
Donna reels. "That's not how this relationship works!" She screams. "You're my possession. I hurt YOU, not the other way around!" Donna rakes her pink french tip nails across Vivian's face, drawing dead, black blood. [Donna gave Yxvali, her Dark Power a String here.]
Just then Evylyn and Sarah show up.
Evylyn and Sarah shove Donna to the floor, trying to protect Vivian. Donna starts to cry. She turns a tear streaked face up to Vivian.
"Please." Donna pleads. "We can work this out. Just make them go away." She gestures to Evylyn and Sarah.
Vivian looks down at Donna. The she turns and grabs the arm of Evylyn and Sarah, marching them towards the door.
Evylyn uses the opportunity to push Sarah at Vivian again. "Come with us." Evylyn says. "You should be with people who treat you better."
Turned on, her craving for thrills, pain, and raw read meat all jumbled together, Vivian gives in. "Let's go." she says, and the three of them walk outside to Evylyn's car.
Sprawled on the gas station convenience store floor, Xavier standing nearby, Donna cries as she watches her Treasure Vivian walk out the door.
So, Donna's on the floor of the Speedway gas station with Xavier (the PC Hollow) and Tim (NPC local law enforcement) standing over her.
Xavier extends a hand to help her up. She slaps it away and hisses "You! Why did you do that?"
"You KISSED me! You can't do that." Donna yells at Xavier. She stands up. In the back of her mind Donna hears Yxvali the Tyrant, her infernal patron, whispering Xavier's secret strength: he loves Donna and would do anything to protect her. [Donna gave her Dark Power another String here. That’s two.]
Donna ruthlessly leverages this new knowledge about Xavier. "You let HER (Eyvlyn) put her hands on me. How is that protecting me?" She points a pink talon at him. "You need to do better than that if you love me."
Donna then turns to Tim, putting a pink, sparkly talon under the cop's chin. "And YOU are responsible too." She hears Yxvali again, telling her Tim's secret fear: being kidnapped and taken out to the woods near Dill Lake. [Her Dark Power now has three Strings on her.]
"You WILL help me get my Vivian back." Donna hisses. "Or I will ENSURE you end up in that cabin out by the lake." Tim goes pale. Donna browbeats Tim an Xavier out of the Speedway and into Tim's patrol car.
Donna swerves the wheel so Tim hits Vivian's bike as they head out.
[Cut to Vivian]
Vivian, Sarah, and Evylyn get into Evylyn's car to drive to a secret location. Vivian and Sarah are in the backseat, and Sarah blindfolds Vivian. Sexily. Hungry for Pain, Thrills, Sex, and Flesh all at once, Vivian gives in.
As Evylyn drives (somewhat erratically to disguise their destination), Sarah and Vivian make out in the backseat.
Things are distinctly more "bitey" than might be considered normal.
The trio get to the cult's "murder cabin" out in the woods. Evylyn gives Sarah and Vivian some privacy as things move to the couch.
Vivian's hunger has grown. She can no longer wait. She pushes her face into the crook of Sarah's neck and bites. Hard.
There's a crunch, and Sarah punches Vivian in the face to get her to let go. One of Vivian's teeth breaks off. Unsatisfied, Vivian grabs Sarah, and the two start wrestling each other towards the bedroom. (Sarah's part of a dark cult and is willing to die for Evylyn.)
[Cut back to Donna]
Donna directs Tim to drive to her house. She marches into her pink basement bedroom, sits at her pink vanity, instructs Tim and Xavier to "Wait there", and starts applying pink lipstick.
After a minute, Yxvali the Tyrant appears in her mirror.
"Where is Vivian?" Donna asks, giving Yxvali the Tyrant another sliver of her soul in exchange for the knowledge. The mirror is filled with disturbing images - a future of her without Vivian - but interspersed are flashes of how to get to Evylyn's cabin. [The Dark Power now has four Strings on Donna.]
Meanwhile, Xavier and Tim have seen Donna's hoard - a massive collection of CDs - and each found something they desire. Xavier jumps onto Donna's bed clutching a CD, rumpling the pink satin sheets, and drawing a hissed "Get OFF!" from Donna.
"If you want those CDs, and I KNOW you do," continues Donna, "you're both coming with me to get my Vivian back." Xavier and Tim agree, and they pile into Tim's patrol car - Donna driving, Xavier riding shotgun, and Tim in the backseat (where he's locked in).
Donna drives to Evylyn's cult's "murder cabin". Before they get out, Xavier puts his arm around Donna's neck, leans in for a kiss, and says "This is my last chance before you and Vivian are back together."
His sincerity actually gets to Donna.
"You have terrible timing." Donna says. "We can talk about this later." She gets out of the car, motions Xavier to follow her, then opens the door to the backseat. "Stay here." she tells Tim, taking the gun from his holster. Tim complies.
Donna and Xavier approach the front door of Evylyn's cabin. Donna indicates that Xavier should kick it open. He tries, but kicks the door jamb instead, injuring his ankle.
[Cut to Evylyn inside the cabin]
Although she engineered the whole thing, Evylyn has stayed out of Sarah and Vivian's hook up. But the noises Sarah is making from the bedroom are suddenly pain rather than pleasure.
Evylyn opens the bedroom door to check on Vivian and Sarah.
[Cut to Donna and Xavier]
Donna opens the cabin's front door (which was not actually locked).
All three characters see...
Sarah is on the bed, stripped of clothes, lying flat on her back. Vivian has her face buried between Sarah's legs and is LITERALLY eating her partner, crotch first.
Sarah pulls a knife from under a pillow to defend herself. Without a second's thought, Donna raises Tim's gun at Sarah, gives Yxvali another sliver of her soul to not miss, and pulls the trigger. [That’s five Strings for the Dark Power. Donna is now her Darkest Self.]
*CLICK* Tim's gun is empty.
Donna watches as Sarah plunges the knife into the back of an unaware Vivian's neck.
Killing her.
Outside, unnoticed by everyone (except perhaps Tim, who's locked in the backseat of his own patrol car) a third car pulls up to the cabin.
After arriving just in time to watch Sarah, one of Evylyn's cult members, kill her Ghoul girlfriend Vivian, Donna charges.
She's looking to fucking end Sarah for killing her treasure Vivian.
Eyylyn tries to get in Donna's way, but Donna plows through her into the bedroom. Xavier (the Hollow) follows on Donna's heels, slamming the bedroom door shut.
It's now Donna, Xavier, Vivian's corpse, and Sarah (who is missing most of her genitalia) in the room together.
Ingrid (the Fae) shows up on her bike, just as two men step from the black car and put a bullet through Tim's head. Ouch.
Well, at least Donna doesn't have to make good on that promise to go line dancing with him anymore.
Ingrid snaps the antenna off of (dead) Tim's patrol car, and whips one of the dudes with it, taking out his eye. He drops the gun he was holding from the pain.
Ingrid pulls an awesome drift turn on her bike, snatching up the dropped gun.
Ingrid asks the men who killed Tim (because she wanted revenge on him) and they are uncooperative. She shoots One-Eye in the foot.
[cut to inside the cabin]
Donna has wrestled the knife from Sarah and hands it to Xavier. Donna tenderly scoops up Vivian's corpse.
Evylyn opens the bedroom door. "Give me the knife, Xavier." she says seductively, holding out her hand.
Xavier looks at Donna, looks back at Evylyn, then hands Evylyn the knife.
(Meanwhile, on the bed, poor Sarah passes out from blood loss.)
"I thought you would do anything to protect me!" Donna yells at Xavier. Evylyn flips the knife around, then comes for Donna.
Arms full of her dead ghoul girlfriend, Donna can't protect herself. Evylyn buries the knife in Donna's chest, nearly killing her.
Outside, Ingrid forces the two men inside the cabin at gunpoint. Evylyn and Xavier tie them up. Lots of discussion goes on about what to do with Donna and the two newcomers.
Donna is on the floor, bleeding out, covering Vivian's body the whole time.
Donna looks to Ingrid for help, saying she'll forget everything if she and Vivian can just walk out of the cabin. Evylyn says no. More discussion.
Xavier promises to help Evylyn if Ingrid hands him the gun. After thinking about it, Ingrid agrees.
Xavier takes the gun, and puts it against Donna's head. "I used to think you were so cool." he says, then pulls the trigger.
Donna's brains spatter all over the floor, and she collapses, dead, still holding her (also dead) ghoul girlfriend Vivian in her arms.
That's three sessions worth of sexy, bloody, shenanigans, and is where we pick up tonight. Donna slumped on the floor, Vivian's body in her arms, both of them dead, while Evylyn, Xavier, and Ingrid discuss what to do next.