GODLY AUDIENCES: CATRA

[divus]

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[divus]

[Beauty salon hair dryers look like torture devices but there sure are five of them lined up along the wall to Catra's left when she enters the room. There are five spinny chairs in front of mirrors on the side of the room across from them, where an assortment of hair styling tools are spread out on a counter.

The wall opposite the entrance, meanwhile, has a shelf with an array of nail polishes and a few tables for manicures and pedicures. But she's looking at the hair dryers, so maybe she could try pressing some of the buttons on the chairs...?]

[catraclysm]

[ thank you for indulging me

Catra presses all the buttons on all the chairs one after another, leaving very little time for her to observe the reaction of them, because she is a child. This is going to get very loud, very quickly. ]

[divus]

[imagine this, times five, at the highest volume possible

because that's what's happening right now

it's loud af]

[catraclysm]

-- Gggkk--

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WOW TIME TO GO TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ROOM TO WHERE THE MANICURES ARE AND START PLAYING WITH THE BOTTLES, PRETENDING LIKE EVERYTHING ISN'T SUPER LOUD AND SHE CAN'T EVEN HEAR HERSELF THINK.

MAYBE IF SHE FINDS THE RIGHT BOTTLE SHE WILL FIND HOW TO OPEN THE DOOR ]

[divus]

[this poor cat.

Anyway! As she's looking at the bottles of nail polish, she'll note that some of them seem to be picked up more often than the others - the red and black ones, and the bottles at the very center of the shelf, are mostly clean, but some of the other colors that aren't in the center have a light sheen of dust on them, as if they haven't been moved in a while.

[catraclysm]

[ ...

she starts by trying to move the colors that are most often used to see if anything happens then ]

[divus]

[how is she arranging them

to begin with, the blacks and reds are scattered throughout the rest of the shelf, but the other colors - an assortment of pinks, blues, golds, and whites - are all bunched together in the center.]

[catraclysm]

[ are you really asking me to play color theory there

she switches the reds&blacks with the rest of the center colors i'm never figuring this out and neither is catra so we're going to be there a while ]

[divus]

[the reds and the blacks are in the center now

but like, how are they arranged. alternating colors, all reds together all blacks together, in some kind of pattern...?]

[catraclysm]

[ alterna...ting?

why are you doing this to me i'm a fucking moron ]

[divus]

[well.

nothing happens.

look for clues?]

[catraclysm]

[ yes? it's time for catra to look around to see if there's a goddamn pattern written down on the bottles or something. the table? Underneath the table??? Please I'm so stupid ]

[divus]

[there's no pattern written down on the bottles, but

the black and red ones have a specific brand's label on them.]

[catraclysm]

[ god i knew it was going to be that but ic catra wouldn't and i hate it ]

... Ladybug... hmm...

[



puts them in the shape of a ladybug. perfect. this is exactly what they wanted. ]

[divus]

[and that is, indeed, exactly what needs to be done. in the blink of an eye, a door materializes in the wall.

it's wooden and heavy-looking, but that shouldn't be a problem for catra.]

[catraclysm]

... She likes bugs?

[ that seems odd from what she knows of ambition. wow. what a mystery. i wonder what. it could possibly. mean.

Anyway, Catra is going to push(pull??) that door open with the ease of a Strong Cat. this is, somehow, still gay flexing. what's behind the door??? ]

[divus]

[it opens into a cursed bedroom, that's what.

also, Ambition is standing there, not wearing her mask for once. She's got her arms crossed, and she's smirking.]

I knew it wouldn't take you too long to figure it out.

[catraclysm]

[ sorry she has a visceral reaction of tensing up when seeing masked people unmasked for some reason. give her a second. ]

[catraclysm]

[ OK SECOND'S OVER she's strolling around like she owns the place, looking around in curiosity ]

This is your secret room? Wow. [ ... ] Do I still call you Ambition without the mask, or is that weird?

[divus]

You can call me by my old name if you really want to, but if you slip up and use it out there, no one's going to know who you're talking about.

I'm Ambition now, but in my old life, my name was Chloé.

[catraclysm]

[ wow i am so shocked at this development. i cannot believe. ambition was chloe. this whole time. catra makes a sulk face a bit ]

I'm not an idiot. I wouldn't spread it around.

[ unlike... some ludgers.. who shouldn't be named. closes eyes. anyway ]

Nice to meet you without the mask. [ but. seriously: ] That bed is huge. Is that from where you used to live?

[ ARMY COTS VS LAVISH HOTELS, FIGHT ]

[divus]

Of course it is. Even back then, I surrounded myself with only the best.

[Time to... head on over there. She sits down on the edge of it, but that still leaves a whole metric fuckton of space, so. She gestures for Catra to do the same.]

Just jump onto it, you know you want to.

[catraclysm]

[ god. damn it, she does. and she does jump onto it, and what results is a very serious yelp because just like adora in glimmer's palace, catra is not ready for how GODDAMN FLUFFY it is on that bed. she sinks right in. ]

Eek-- is it always like that?

[ like. she isn't. complaining. she just looks genuinely shocked. catra you dumb bitch you've slept on beds since coming here. on a bed. a single. hm okay you know what never mind ]

[divus]

[She looks amused, because she's an asshole.]

Duh. If it wasn't, I'd have it replaced.

[catraclysm]

[ damn. she could get used to that. also im not saying shes kind of kneading the bed without paying attention but she kind of is ]

Have it replaced... So you were in charge of things even before the godhood, then?

[ closes my eyes. no ]