Scene #7454: Five Star Precursor BBig Sis

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BB	It's not that hard to find BB if one wants to find her! There's an app! Easily downloadable on every operating system, the five-petal blossom icon transports the user's phone screen to a simple landing page with a large, oddly tactile clicky red button. The texture, even the action feels real, like a stud being depressed with a satisfying 'poch-oit'. In every timeline for every person at that immediate moment but Cantio, the button is not lit up and doesn't work. In this timeline, Cantio is the only one who achieves the satisfying choice of pressing the LOCATE button. Redirecting Cantio via her device's mapping software, it guides Cantio... To a cafe! Really a non-franchise coffeeshop called Coffee Society, eerily empty but with the soft susuration of people. A large, broad bracket-bench of cushioned seating and two tables set up for people to work on laptops with a scattering of chairs and an extreme overage of Coffee Memorabilia. Sprawled out, as the only occupant of the store, is BB! Her oddly sporty-city outfit is just subtly off in a few ways, but it's hard to place a finger on why without interrogating her directly with the eyes. On the table in front of her is a placard that states: 'WISH CONSULTATIONS'. BB doesn't look up as the door rings, though she does smile, engrossed in her own phone-screen. "Hey. I've BBeen waiting for you. Ready to make a wish?"
Cantio	"Is it really going to be that easy...?" Cantio's doubtful. Sure, she's heard BB speaking before, and she's even heard of a few people that had bought into the strangely bubbly woman's pitch, but how could it possibly work? She's always lived by the idea that nothing good happens without a balance somewhere, but... Well, it's not like she has anything else to lose at this point but some time. It's probably just some weird app, anyway. And yet... There's a location given. It's not even particularly far away, either, as she had been expecting. A glitch in the system, perhaps? Or a well-funded prank? Whatever the case is, it's enough to get her moving, and before Cantio realizes it, she's alraedy at the cafe. At least she's dressed in a way that (she thinks) won't arouse any suspicion: In addition to her usual white, pink, and purple ensemble, she's also thrown in a couple of incognito staples: Thick shades, a baseball cap for the local sports team, a brown scarf, and a trench coat that definitely doesn't make her look like someone trying to hide literally everything! What surprises her the most is the fact that BB's actually there. It takes Cantio a bit to settle in, but she does still manage to give BB a polite smile as she takes a seat at the same table. "Hello, Miss BB. Yes, I..." That uncertainty is already creeping back in. "A-actually. I was... I was hoping we could talk about that a bit. To figure out how it works, if it..." She flinches briefly. "Ah.. Sorry! I didn't mean that like I don't it would, just that I'm... Not sure what to ask for...?" Her disguise is useless.
BB	Now, BB has no powers to read other people's thoughts. She already reads too many of her own thoughts, so prying the truth out of people's skulls isn't something in her wheelhouse. However, sometimes the cold read just exists. Sometimes you have a solid tone on someone - anyone - who would come into the door. And it seems like magic, but really, it's just probability. What are the kind of people, who come to these places, like this, for this reason? There are shared traits. The placard on the desk reads 'IT'S THAT EASY' BB, sitting up, leans forward, elbows against the table in a loose cross as her fingers fall across her bicep, pushing up her chest in her white top. "Hey, Cantio, BBig Sis is here, okay?" She leans forward yet more, reaching a hand across the table to lightly touch Cantio's own arm. "Most people can't think of wishes right off! BBut! BBig Sis is a shameless, all-powerful expontential being, and I want you to want things for yourself! And then I'll give them to you. See? Wishes~ Granted~." "Do you... hurt?" She asks, a direct but compassionate question that is mildly detracted from by the red heart-shaped pupils ringed in purple that gaze across the table at Cantio, but, well... She should read the sign.
Cantio	Cantio takes off her shades briefly to rub her eyes. Did the sign always say that? Maybe she just misread it earlier. What did it even say before? No matter. It's strangely relaxing, at least, although there's still an obvious tension to everything around Cantio as she keeps up that forced smile initially. "R-right. Thank you for taking the time to see me for this. " Oddly enough, she doesn't flinch at the physical contact. Somehow, that's one of the few things she's actually used to. She even laughs a little more normally at BB's description of herself. "Shameless? You sound almost like my sister... Exponential how, though? Is that like a kaiju-transformation thing, or do you have some kind of super robot form?" She sounds almost excited about that, but she restrains herself a moment later with a more embarrassed chuckle. "Got a little carried away there... Um. What?" The questions catches her off guard, and she's not certain how to react at first. Can she really trust a complete stranger with what's going on in her head? Why not? Troubling her sister with these sorts of thoughts isn't something she'd be able to do. A relative stranger, though? One that's all but asked for her to do exactly that? It's not like she can go any lower than she already has. "Yes. I've been... Having trouble figuring things out lately. I-I mean, it's kind of been like that for a while, but..." Cantio rubs her neck lightly, slipping one hand under the scraf before just unfurling the whole thing. "I mean, I knew I couldn't really be my sister, but recently, I... Realized my way of thinking makes it impossible to be like her. But trying to make harder choices like a leader should hasn't really panned out, either." She lets out a weary sigh, then props her head up with the back of her hand on her chin. "So I'm kind of at a loss on where to go. If I can't succeed as a hero, and if I can't succeed as a leader, then... What can I do?"
BB	"BBoth!" BB laughs, pshaw-handing at the wrist and drawing back to her extremely obvious chest-maneuvering for maximum A-BBreciation. "I've got the Super-Large and Giant traits, little sis. It's why I'm the children of humanity's BBig Sister! Your precursor hyper-advanced large shoulder to lean on." She lays a hand across her chest. "That's me. BB." Sitting back, she crosses her legs and clasps her hands in her lap, arms framing. "Well, of course, right? You can't BBe someone else. You're you. You can BBecome someone else, but unless you do, you'll always be you." BB raises a finger. A scarlet three-dimensional cube appears above, spinning slowly. The sides catch light like smooth crystal. "If you're outside the cube, why are you trying to BBe in it? If you're inside the cube why are you trying to escape? Your superposition won't change." BB's eyes brighten. "BBut I can move the cube for you. Is all you want, Cantio, to BBlissfully spend your time, happy and content?"
Cantio	"... I'll need to see those transformations sometime. J-just for research, that's all." Cantio is a terrible liar, the very idea of someone becoming a super robot more exciting to her than it probably should be. Less exciting is that pronounced movement, but she can't help stare at least a little! "Giant... R-right." Refocusing on the topic at hand, Cantio rubs her face lightly as she digests what she's hearing. "I guess not, no... I mean, I definitely can't be my sister. She's very..." She needs a better word than 'unrealistic' or 'reckless' or 'foolhardy'. "Impulsive. Idealistic. I wouldn't mind being a little more like her, but it's not really how I was built, you know?" She laughs, but it's not a particularly happy one. It's more like she's accepted it begrudgingly. Looking up at the cube, Cantio lets herself marvel at thesight for a moment before resting her head on her hand again. "Mm... I guess because... Being in the cube would be useful, you know? I can't be in my sister's cube, so being a good leader or... At the very least, someone that can do what she can't would help balance us, I think. Ideally, anyway." It's BB's offer that has Cantio looking utterly confused. "Moving the... I think I know what you mean, but I'm not sure I understand...?" She scratches her cheek lightly, eventually looking down at her hands with some of that frustration returning. "Would just being happy actually help anyone if I'm otherwise just...?" She doesn't say 'useless', but it's pretty heavily implied in her tone.
BB	"The world spins, the Moon exists, I'm forever, and the cube is very, very fake, Cantio." BB explains. The cube expands, seamlessly engulfing the room without more than a light expansive breeze as the walls of the coffee shop fade away, and large grid-lines redefine the space in strange, spinning ways. Far above BB, like a hole, is a dripping black ring that pours twinkling starlight down past the 'floor' of the coffeeshop island in the sea of data, and into the matte black oceans of unreality. "I~ can~ move~ the~ cuBBe~!" She repeats, laughing and uncrossing her legs, sprawling back in a far different and far more 'power spread' lean against the back of the bench, her arms and shoulders resting on the back-trough of the seating. "You're you, right? And you won't stop BBeing you - but your context changes. I'm not just your precursor BBig sis - I'm an exponentially powerful goddess with every Authority you can think of! Over places..." Her voice drops as her smirk turns up a bit more, an extension that shades comedic or cartoonish. "... people..." The area brightens. Little green prisms float through the air, Cantio easily able to see them as solidified data. In each, there's images - sense data - of Cantio enjoying herself on a beach, or playing volleyball, or offering a childhood friend advice, or any number of totally mundane things. In each one, Cantio is beamingly happy, the center of the shot, and having an excellent time. "You can have any of these futures, right now. If all you want is to feel good, and live well, and be useful, I can just move the BBox so that context surrounds you. It's easy!" "It's also a little BBoring. I like to strip away shackles and unlimit everyone who I come across. Isn't that the BBest? To live fully, and shamelessly. And there's so many ways to do it!" BB gestures dismissively with her hand, before her right returns to her lap. "Would you like to simply quit all that awfulness, and work for me? I need Guardians for my Paradox Moon Cell. I'd give you lots of land you can do anything to, people to manage, anything you like! If being compared to your sister brings you pain, then let her be queen, and live your own full timelife, forever, being your own BBest version of Cantio!"
Cantio	Cantio resists the urge to jump right out of her seat when the room starts to become less of a room and more of a strange nonsense space, although she does tense up visibly as she tries to comprehen just what's happened to the floor, the rest of the shop, possibly even the bench and the table. "Wh... Your power even goes this far? Amazing...!" She doesn't jump out of her seat, but she does take a close look at the lines closest to herself, then at BB in her new and improved pose on the bench. She does eventually straighten back up, though, her thoughts once again focusing on those concepts she's still having trouble nailing down for herself. "So I'd still be me, but..." She doesn't finish that thought, her gaze jumping from prism to prism as BB shows her what could be. Some, even things that had happened already and Cantio simply forgot about until now. Maybe. If she had forgotten about them, how could she know if they were real? "That's definitely tempting, Miss BB. It'd certainly be easier to just..." She gestures at the prisms, closing her eyes after a moment to let her head recalibrate a bit after what she's seen. "To just... Leave my duties, to say f... Forget everyone, I'm going to do what I want." That was a bit too close for comfort, even if there's no kids watching. "But as you said, it's... Boring, and it wouldn't really let me live better. Shamelessly, maybe, but not better." The next offer has Cantio raising her eyebrow. It's not nearly as easy to dismiss, although the skepticism is still in full force. "I'm.. Not sure about that. I-I'm not saying no, but... What do you get out of it? Giving away land, power, even... Did you say people?" That's another thing that's going to stick in the back of Cantio's head. "Plus... I'd have to abandon my sister and my home for that. Even if trying to be her isn't really working, to just up and leave..." The shackles are strong on this one, and it doesn't sound like she's going to discard them so easily. She goes quiet for several moments as she organizes her thoughts. And then it finally hits her. "Miss BB. I want to be better than I am. The-" She pauses to try and get the enunciation right. "-BBest version of myself. To be able to create a better home for my... Not just my people, but for anyone that needs one. To be powerful to protect them, to be wise enough to lead them, but I need your help to do it. That's... That's my wish." "I don't want to move outright, but instead... Can you help me widen my box?"
BB	"Fuck everyone." BB encourages. "Say it. Go ahead. 'Fuck everyone'. The price for my contract is your willing oBBliteration of that kind of shame. You can't save 'everyone'. You can't help 'everyone'. You don't matter to 'everyone'." There's a charge to the air, BB leaning forward. Cantio blinks, and BB doesn't move forward so much as rearrange herself in space. Space rearranges about her. Blink. She's smiling, power spread and leaned forward intently. She flaunts her chest. Blink. She's laughing, leaning against the table, low and easy, with heart-pupil eyes only for Cantio. Blink. She's on the table, legs up behind her bent at the knee as she sways them forward and backward, fists on cheeks and elbows wide. Blink. Their noses are touching. Cantio's vision is consumed by purple spheres dotted with red hearts. The light, at this distance, and the sheer electric tingle makes it seem Definitely Oddly Okay that she's close. Later introspection will be whatever it is. "I like this wish BBetter. I know..." Ex~ Act~ Ly~ "What you need." "So let me in." The hearts expand. Blink. Blink Blink. Shuttering lights, like a jumpscare pulsing but it's all Very Good, Don't Worry About It turn the universe off and on again repeatedly. The light fixtures hanging off of the data-grids shatter and pop. Cantio sits, and BB is gone. With but a moment's inspection of the room, BB runs a shining rosegold chalice in the starry sparkling black 'water' around the island of the coffeehouse. Like a poured drink, she places the filled vessel before Cantio, a width nearly three-quarters of her head and deep, and the edges slosh with the oddly vantablack-with-stars-within material. Sidesitting on the table next to it, BB affectionately ruffles Cantio's hair and smiles warmly. "This is my Paradox Grail. I've filled it with all the Imaginary Number Space you need to consume to expand beyond this timeline and gain the power of all your what-if possibilities. To live your life as the ultimate, single Cantio. A truly unique, Five-Star existance. You'll never worry about BBeing anything less than your BBest self." Tinking her purple-nailed finger against the rim. "Drink up! All of it. You really need to coat your insides." BB leans in, lips against Cantio's right ear. "Drink it all down, and become vast and filled, Cantio."
Cantio	"F... Fu-im... Ffffflip..." Cantio's trying, really! She's just having trouble breaking THAT much about herself, although she does manage a whisper of a "funk" by the fifth try. She'll get the full fuck another day, perhaps, even if today isn't that day. Making the effort is still a personal best! Or worst, depending on how she feels when she looks back on all of this. And then BB's right in front of her. Cantio can feel her heartbeat quickening a bit, her cheeks flushing, and her breath hitching briefly, but it's not an unpleasant feeling. It's comfortable. It's like things just feel... Right, somehow, in that moment. She even giggles softly at the nose touching, nodding lightly at the affirmation about the wish of her own choosing. The expanding hearts are a little unsettling, but for much less time than anything else she's seen today. She might already be getting used to this. There is a moment of anxiety when BB disappears, but relief comes back to Cantio's face once the purple haired BBeauty is back with the strange grail. She even leans into the hair ruffling, humming contently . "That sounds pretty impossible, you know. But..." Taking the Grail, she looks into it and takes a moment to just marvel at the strange sight of its contents, but there's something missing from that gaze. There's no hesitation. "You know what? I'll try this 'no inhibitions' thing... At least once in a while. And for this part." She starts downing the contents of the grail with gusto, double-handing the chalice to make sure she can keep whatever it is flowing and only stopping when she needs to breathe. That's the first moment she takes to taste it, to actually try and comprehend the texture of it, but she just keeps on going. It's kind of hard to get it all down, but she puts her all into it, and she's panting a bit by the time she finishes. Clearly, she's never drank that much of anything in one sitting before. "Is that... Did I do it?"
BB	"It's not impossiBBle. You want to BBe a little more like me! Of course I'd help. I'm your BBig sis, after all." BB laughs, lightly, as Cantio tips back the chalice. Caringly, she strokes a finger past the drinking girl's bangs to keep her hair out of the liquid. Drinking it, the first gulp is like sucking down liquid ice, yet the chill finds only a pleasant stickiness to it, like sweetnessless sugar syrup. It downs like liquid, though! That's the helpful part. The first pleasantly iced gulp drops into her core like an iced-cold drink after a long workout, a teethcracking frigidity that radiates outward. The next few continue past her core and splash against her root chakra, splitting at the fork to tumble down both legs and pool in her feet. Another gulp, and the inside of her ankles feels cool and full. The chalice's ocean of liquid pours as she tips it, ceaselessly, and for stretches of time that lose all linear meaning, Cantio can find focus in that progress-bar like interior coating feeling. Of the frozen 'time' filling her up like a reservoir. As she tries to taste it, everything comes to a stop as she tries to pin down the flavor between 'cherry blossoms' and 'cotton candy la croix, but the fizz is just the tingle of cold'. After what feels like an eternity, with a mighty arching tilt to fill up that annoying space behind her eyeballs, Cantio swings forward, feet planted on the ground and the chalice bounces off of BB's front and into her hands. BB laughs once more, this time with unrestrained adoring glee. "Almost." BB lifts the cup and pushes it against Cantio's chest, the rosegold shimmering and sinking into her body. This, now, is heat. Overwhelming, magmatic heat, that pours into her ice-lined insides like molten gold joins the odd feeling of a chalice being gently pressed into her body. As the chalice sinks, so does BB's lips, until they're nose to nose again, and BB can place a loving kiss right on Cantio's mouth. "Contract~ Complete~." BB pants, and hugs Cantio close, her love overwhelming, the heat within Cantio becoming her own. Time expanded in every direction. "Your BBox is now expanded. Live shameless, little sister. Your time was delicious, and I hope you enjoy it fully, since now? It's all~ yours~!" The coffeeshop is just a coffeeshop. A barista, cleaning a glass, looks dumbly at BB, sitting on the table, and Cantio, sitting in a chair being sexually harassed. "You're a singularity, now, Cantio. Your own start and end. You are every Cantio, and I love you..." BB smiles. "BBecause you're mine~!"