how we doin, Taisho

[rollplayinghouse]

Who: Taisho (and anyone who wants to check on them)
Where: Taisho dorms
When: Day 66, late morning

[Maki ultimately spent the night at Future is Now, but in the morning she finally takes everyone's advice and returns to Taisho. She is fully grayscale at this point, and also looks... a bit darker, maybe? Like she's standing in a shadow, or someone moved the brightness slider down slightly.

She changes back into a Taisho outfit before coming back to the common area.]

So... does anyone have thoughts on doing better at unit unity.

Comments

[furrytailprince]

I do not know how we can work together at this rate. Nobody is sincere about it beyond saving their own skin.

[bluerosestyle]

...

To be honest... I doubt that's it. So I'm not losing hope.

[furrytailprince]

... I am trying not to. It is hard to feel much of... anything right now. At least anger is something...

[bluerosestyle]

...Yeah. I wish you could feel something else right now, but... it's not like I don't understand.

[does he ever!!! although at this point catching this from okami and disappearing would be a relief for sol. anyway]

As for what we can do... This is probably more about image than about actual unity. [look at him not explaining his logic to avoid throwing shade on people for okami's sake, he can try when he wants to] I still think unity would help avoid this sort of problem in the future, both for you and for Maki, because it'd mean you'd both feel more comfortable here... because there is a future. I'm sure we can do something, hopefully something that doesn't feel like a joke.

I'll go out to see what I can find out later.

[right now he Can't]

[furrytailprince]

... since when have we been anything but our image?

[bluerosestyle]

...

I know your experience has been different. And I don't think that's right, or fair, to you, in any wya. But many people on Taisho have been kind to me in a lot of ways. So... I care, and I believe things could-- no. Things should be better.

[furrytailprince]

You deserve kindness. You offer it. I am not suggesting you are wrong to hope for more than we are.

I am just... tired. Today was very tiring.

[ Curls in on himself ]

[bluerosestyle]

[you know what...

hugging him now. over the blankets]

[furrytailprince]

[ Freezes up and... Oh...

Relaxes wearily in the embrace ]

[bluerosestyle]

[too many feelings today and also WHY ARE YOU SICK AGAIN AND ABOUT TO DIE NO

OKAMI'S LIFE IS TOO HARD]

Maybe you should try to rest. It's not ideal, but... if you can't fall asleep, there are sleeping pills in the medicine kit I gave you some time ago.

[furrytailprince]

... if I rest, I might forget more. It is getting harder to recall the games... other things... I do not mind forgetting some but... this is all I am here.

[bluerosestyle]

Mm.

[okay you can have your personal space again now]

Then, would you like to talk about the things you'd like to remember? There's a lot I don't know about you, and... that way, I could remind you about them if you forget before we find a cure for this.

[furrytailprince]

[ Nooo he doesn't want it. ;; ]

... I remember being useful, helping to meet with Exael, learning about the audience... It was unnerving but... it allowed me to get information nobody else had at the time... so much has changed now...

[bluerosestyle]

[he's sitting closer to him than before tho!]

Were you there for that meeting? The one I read about in Hiryuu's newcomers guide?

[furrytailprince]

[ Blanketblob nods head ]

Ah... I think so. I came late...

[bluerosestyle]

[talk to sol about things, blanketblob!]

Where was it?

[furrytailprince]

[ Shakes head ]

That's fuzzy... We hid it from them. C did a live... for distraction.

[bluerosestyle]

[nods, internally screaming at the fuzzy comment]

Would you like to be involved in more things like that? Learning about the place where we are, and why... I remember you reading a book about Heaven and Hell once.

[furrytailprince]

... I wanted to. They... do not want me. But there is someone... Nine-Nine and...

[ Cuts off as he fights with his stubborn brain for a name... ]

Intensity. They said I could help them.

[bluerosestyle]

--Who doesn't w--

[no, don't ask that now]

N-Now that you mention it, you told me you worked for Intensity once. What do you do for him?

[furrytailprince]

Research... I believe. I seek out various kinds of information about this place.

[bluerosestyle]

[quiet for a moment]

How do you usually do that?

[furrytailprince]

I... make videos for the audience and I ask... people about their experiences with the factions... I was unable to complete my recent tasks...

[bluerosestyle]

[???? is that why he makes response vids]

You were?

[furrytailprince]

I was not persuasive enough. He... Haruto is quite stubborn.