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

[liftoft]

[ no!!!! ]

Rage rooms? Ah, like virtual breakin' stuff? That's actually pretty clever...

[foolmetwice]

[yes!!]

The first time he did it was after Mukuro's tournament. It's not as satisfying as breaking something real, but it's all right,

[liftoft]

Sure--probably a bigger variety of stuff to break, though. I totally wanna try it!

[foolmetwice]

Oh, take me when you do. Don't leave me out of the fun.

[liftoft]

Hell yeah! Definitely I'm gonna! You too, okay? You should lemme know whenever you need to relax, we'll do something fun!

Hmm... I guess I gotta ask you something, if I'm really participating in the live, huh!

[foolmetwice]

[blinks a few times. right, they sure did get off trac]

Oh. Yeah. I guess you can do that, too.

Got any burning questions you've been needing answers to lately?

[liftoft]

[ no that was a VERY IMPORTANT detour.]

Ah, hmmm... What kinda stuff do you think I should do around here to make it a little easier on everybody? For example, I was up early this morning so I could clean the bathroom as a surprise for the rest of Alcheme. Just keeping things nice, y'know?

It doesn't have to be quite like that, but... That's what I've been thinking.

[foolmetwice]

. . . [oh no, asking Mars for advice on genuinely helpful things]

Cook them. . . dinner?

[liftoft]

Woah, everyone??

[ h-hmm... that sounds pretty large scale... and expensive... ]

I guess I could do that, that's not a bad idea...

[foolmetwice]

[SHRUGS]

I'm kind of dry on ideas for that one, but everyone loves free food?

[liftoft]

Sure, sure... you're totally right, there!

...Hmmmmmmmm, hey Mars?

[foolmetwice]

. . . yes?

[blinks at X, a bit bemused]

[liftoft]

You know anything about cooking?

[foolmetwice]

Not a single damn thing.

[he answers without breaking eye contact]

[liftoft]

Hmmmmm...

--Well, I'm sure I'll figure it out!

[foolmetwice]

[THUMBS UP]

Good luck. Try not to burn down the entire kitchen. If you do, I'm not putting out that fire.

[liftoft]

Jeez, leaving me high and dry like that!

[ pauses, kind of awkwardly quiet for a few moments]

...hey, I got something else important to all you about.

[foolmetwice]

[blinks a little]

Huh? What. . . is it?

[suddenly dubious]

[liftoft]

[ scrubs at the back of his head.]

I wanna ask you about that last game, the hunting one.

[foolmetwice]

[. . .]

[casually hits the media attention button again to turn off the live]

All right. Shoot.

[liftoft]

Okay, thanks.

[ X leans against Mars' booth, arms crossed loosely.]

We got separated, and I know I didn't get run through as many times as other people - how'd it go, for you?

[foolmetwice]

[. . . . . .]

[he’s tapping his fingers against the booth table now, jittery and anxious to be taking about this]

You saw what happened with Req.

[so he won’t go into detail there]

. . . did you watch the highlight reel?

[liftoft]

Only parts of it. Didn't see anything of you.

[ moves a little closer, so he can lower his voice as they talk about this.]

[foolmetwice]

[. . . he supposes he can just. . . stick to the big things]

I ran into Man Eater shortly after the round in which I saw you ended.

[llllightly]

Funny that. ☆ZRAEL still isn't too happy about what we did during that trial game.

[liftoft]

Yeah...that's not too surprisin'.

So, he attacked you?