the doctor is IN

[foolmetwice]

Who: Mars and YOU
Where: hotel lobby
When: day 80, morning

[good morning, idols! today Mars has set up a little booth with the following sign hanging out front:]

Are you a person in need? Do you want help? Do you ALSO want points? Come here for free (FREE!!!) advice from an advice pro.

Insert question, receive a genuinely helpful response**, free of charge. Win-win-win scenario!!

** Quality of advice may vary, not responsible for any unintended and less than satisfactory consequences that may stem from acting on said advice.

[WELL, ANYWAY]

[Mars sits with his feet propped on the booth smoking a cigarette, watching as people pass by. he's dressed like a Taisho today in outfit number 5 with his henshin belt around his waist]

Comments

[rootoflove]

Are you really qualified to give advice...?

[foolmetwice]

Yes.

[he delivers in a firm, blunt deadpan, staring at her all the while]

[the real answer is no]

[rootoflove]

Then, um... I do have a question.

[foolmetwice]

Okay. Hit me up. If you have a question, I have an answer.

[rootoflove]

The first memory I bought was really bad. Do you think I should get more, even if they might be awful?

[foolmetwice]

[blinks a little. . . oh, someone is asking for serious advice. . .]

. . . are you interested in knowing what kind of person past you was? You can spend more points so that they aren't broadcast for everyone to see.

[rootoflove]

I do want to understand why I'd do the things I did, but... I'm worried I won't like the answers.

Also I don't have a lot of points, so only buying private memories could get very expensive.

[foolmetwice]

[pppppauses. . .]

Maybe focus on what kind of person you want to be here first, before you dive back into your past. If you have a good handle on the person you want to be now, then you'll be less affected by the things you remember?

[a beat]

Or something.

[rootoflove]

...

I'm sorry. You weren't expecting such a serious question, were you?

[foolmetwice]

Nooooot really.

[at least he's honest]

A good number of my memories have been pretty shitty, too. I remember dying a lot, and I'll probably remember dying even more in the future.

But I buy them anyway, because I'd rather not let fear of the answers I receive hold me back.

[rootoflove]

[looks for a moment like she wants to ask something serious again, but then just smiles]

That's probably the wisest policy. Just to be the person you want to be.

[foolmetwice]

Yeah.

[. . .]

And yes, I know it isn't that easy.

[rootoflove]

Oh, I don't know. I think I can manage.

[foolmetwice]

Good. That's a good attitude to have.

[or so he thinks, anyway]

[rootoflove]

Hehe, I hope so.

[lol]

...Have you been able to hand out a lot of valuable advice to people?

[foolmetwice]

Personally, I think all of my advice is valuable. In some form or fashion.

[rootoflove]

What kind of things have they been asking you?

[foolmetwice]

What kind of lives they should run, what they should buy for their dorms. . . that kinda thing.

[rootoflove]

Oh gosh, I wonder if I'll ever be able to buy something for our dorm... I never seem to have a lot of points.

[foolmetwice]

Do you spend them too quickly or something?

[rootoflove]

I just haven't been participating in Lives enough, I suppose? And our unit has lost both the games there have been since we arrived...

[foolmetwice]

[. . . well. . .]

Lily and I could run another live sometime? Or. Something? Not that I care about helping, it's just Heart Soldier Senshi's thing.

[rootoflove]

You don't have to do that-

[wait]

Ah, but you'd get points for it too...

[foolmetwice]

Yep.

[thumbs up]

And that's the point.

[rootoflove]

I appreciate the thought, but I do want to work harder just by myself, too.