LIVE!

[criminaljustice]

Who: some good and helpful BAD END=DEAD ENDers and other Imeejins
Where: hotel lobby
When: Day 66, evening after Plan Crazypants

[so anyway.

a Live alert goes off.

and there's Boss, setting fire to Future is Now's cursed couch. this is fine?

Boss seems to be dressed in a suit that's not quite the right fit and his Take No Prisoners t-shirt. maybe some of you even remember a certain portrait that he seems to eerily resemble?

he just smiles up at a camera and waves before going to lounge on a lobby couch near the flames. he hasn't slept much recently, so a nap is fine, right? it's fine.]

((ooc: Boss will be Sir Chilling In The Lobby while Jeva is at work. slow tags may occur until she is free from work. other Bad Enders will be helpers for other units that turn up))

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[motorcycle_noises]

Anything is better than here right now.

[ Now that he's thinking too hard about that fire and low-key trying not to wig out. He jumps up from the lobby couch and starts walking rapidly towards the exit. ]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[f... following him.]

Sorry for pointing it out like that.

[motorcycle_noises]

[ He doesn't stop going until he's across the street from the hotel, at which point he leans on the nearest building. ]

It's not your fault I haven't gotten over it yet.

[ The words come out as a mumble, more annoyed with himself than anything. ]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[looks surprised.]

I wouldn't expect you to be "over it"!

[motorcycle_noises]

I expect me to be over it! Did you know that the main element I fight with back home is fire? I can't be afraid of fire!

[rollwillpowercheck]

That's-- that definitely sounds frustrating. And, believe me, I wish just wanting to be over something made it happen. But... you're just going to make yourself feel worse with those kinds of expectations, you know?

[motorcycle_noises]

But I've been trying to get over it. I hate it. It makes me feel helpless and powerless and I hate it.

[ This is clearly a very scary guy high on demon fumes and not at all a scared, angry teenager. ]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[oh...]

Sanguine-san...

[reaches out to give him a hug.]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ He leans into the hug. ]

I just wanna feel like myself again. I keep feeling like.... I'm coming undone, all the time.

[ There's a certain irony here, but neither of them are really aware of it. ]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[softly:]

... like there's never a point where things slow down and you can catch your breath and put yourself back together. Yeah.

[motorcycle_noises]

Yeah. It's like that.

[ He's quiet for a moment. ]

I think it weren't for... if it weren't for you, for Bad End-- for Phoenix, for Crow... For the people I care for... I think I would've wanted to give up entirely by now.

[rollwillpowercheck]

Mm. I know the feeling.

[reaches up to stroke his hair gently.]

I'm glad you haven't given up, though. I'm glad none of us have.

[motorcycle_noises]

Mmmm.

[ He's quiet for a moment. ]

I've heard what's going on, though. I was gone for a few days and I come back to.... monochrome?

[rollwillpowercheck]

Yeah. Bad timing on your part. It's just... so stupid and arbitrary.

[motorcycle_noises]

Yeah, I was really confused at first.

[rollwillpowercheck]

I'm still confused. By all rights, I should be affected, but...

[makes a frustrated sound.]

[motorcycle_noises]

You've gotten lucky so far. I hope you can stay that way until we get this handled.

[ He sounds.... pretty certain it'll get handled.... ]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[blinks...]

You guys have a plan?

[motorcycle_noises]

Yeah, we know what we've got to do. Just hold on until then, okay?

[rollwillpowercheck]

Is... is there anything I can do to help?

[motorcycle_noises]

Just keep being you. Team unity is important, so's playing up your unit image.

[rollwillpowercheck]

I knew that much. But... I was hoping that maybe Boss-san had learned more from his meeting.

[motorcycle_noises]

....What meeting?

[rollwillpowercheck]

With Asmodeus...? Or, at least I assume it was with him... he disappeared after the summoning didn’t, um, seem to work, so I was worried. But now he’s back and you were saying you knew how to fix things, so I thought he’d learned something and shared it with Bad End—? Is... that not what’s going on??

[motorcycle_noises]

[ There is a whole lot bothering him with that, so let's just start with--- ]

Wait a minute, Boss summoned a demon?