the dark, skyless star // nico. 81st
May 13, 2020 0:37:04 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 0:37:04 GMT -5
For the first time in a long, rich career, Sardonyx found her heart in the poorest of places. She, like most of her acquaintances, had grown to not expect too much of the games. Not like the actual fans, they were just a story line - a winner would rise from the midst and the other twenty three would be memories. They had to be real to someone, of course, families who would feel a gap in their lines.
Sardonyx, however, was not one of those people, ever. Victors were adored but even then, the only ones holding much of Crowe's heart were the ones she had come to work alongside, and it seemed it would be a decade more after Justice until she would get a new project. But then there's Nico Thorne.
And she had never been more excited to learn everything.
He was without a leg and without an arm and he was exactly perfect as Sardonyx had grown to watch him. There was something so- so home-like, something real in the spirit he ran across that world. For once, Sardonyx had entered the interview stage with a knowledge of who the victor truly was besides stats. Premade lines waited for her, but she had her own questions for this boy.
Still, Sardonyx toyed with the preshow martini. Alcohol had always called her name, and she couldn't help but feel excitement in her career in eight years. Between everything, this broken, poverty begged fighter is the one to win her heart ever since his district killed Pillar Fray. She had memorized every line that came from him over the nine days, and she had tried to love Diana as well, but she had already fallen.
Nico Thorne, the lonesome cowboy. The growing rose, he could be a star,
I could make him a star, she could hardly stop herself from being an alcoholic. She knew it was more of an arrangement than a true agreement, but she was proud to see him come on set, schedule the interview. Take a seat on the show, let us fall in love with you.
It's so simple, perhaps it was just her empty nest but he had everything it took to be family. And maybe it was this respect that she fought over the set design for this interview, they wanted so bad for another ghost town set up. He needed to be comfortable, to treat this boy with some humanity and leave the goddamn west behind.
And so it's in glamor that she walks across the stage, gilded in shining azures and dripping golds. She wanted it fitted for royalty- fitted for family. There was opulence in every bead of the fucking walls, the set dramatic and luxurious its mimic of Sardonyx's composure. Art of cherubs and baby blue skies painted the mile high ceiling, echoing the clamoring cheers of the crowd. A light hearted stage, a heavy hand, for the first time in a long time she actually waits with excitement.
She took her seat, hardly able to keep herself from shaking her leg. The backing of the chair flowed like velvet from the walls, well above her and she felt even taller. "Well,
Hello there everybody!"
She said it with near seduction in her eyes, they looked at her like she was royalty. Adoration from the audience and she was merely a queen, as usual, with her newfound son under her sleeves. Gold flakes rained, slowly, from the ceiling as Sardonyx took her next breath. "Princes, Princess and all royals in between, I welcome you to our most exquisite showing this year on The Roost." There's a gentle cloud that begins to swirl from the marble floor, and it's nothing less from heavenly.
And oh do they rally. "As you may know, Lady Luck-" the audience screams from the named hint. They all know it, Nico Thorne, the newest name, "she has passed her crown to he with the lion's greatest share, and I am sure you have been dying to meet him as much as he's been waiting to be here! Adored and adorn, let's welcome in our guest of excellence tonight,
our lonesome cowboy-"♔
"Nico Thorne!"