Mingle

[furrytailprince]

Who: People doing things?
Where: Park and adjacent areas
When: Day 126, mid-morning

[ So how about that kiss aftermath? ]

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[The entire vid room shuts down with a snap of his fingers because this is definitely not a conversation Intensity is having broadcasted]

Right. Not talking about King has been all for my sake.

Have you told him about the nightmares?

[puzzlers]

[ that is probably for the best. ]

I didn't say it was all for your benefit. If you wanted to talk about him or about what happened, any of it, then I wouldn't mind.

No. I was hoping to get that somewhat sorted and more manageable first. [ and he's pretty sure it's as good as it's going to get. ] You and Yvette, obviously, are the only two people that know.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

There's nothing to talk about.

[He left Intensity once, but never again. Done and done.]

If the nightmares had stopped, would you have told him?

[puzzlers]

[ nothing to talk about... ]

Of course. [ keeping his mouth shut is part of the reason all of that happened. ] I didn't want to worry him.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT]

Really? That's what you're going with?

[Scoffs]

That's the lamest excuse I've ever heard.

[puzzlers]

[ SEE!!! not that we're talking about it BUT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. ]

I don't want him trying to blame himself, Intensity. It's not like it's his fault I feel guilty.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then stop feeling guilty! Problem solved!

[puzzlers]

Because it's just that easy! [ snaps his finger. ] Oh, hey, what do you know... it didn't work. But I'm working on it, ok, and things are definitely better than they were.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Still a long fucking way if we're having this conversation.

What the fuck are you feeling guilty for anyway? It's not like you're going to ever make that stupid mistake again!

[puzzlers]

[ if he ever makes this mistake again he'll create his own fucken time machine or whatever and go back to punch himself in the face. ]

I didn't tell him what I wanted. I didn't ask him what he wanted. I went along with that stupid circus! letting the tomb keepers tell us that what we needed to do was duel. I doubt they cared for our feelings as much as they did completing some ancient check list! And I didn't get a chance to tell him how much he meant to me... and I doubt you did either! which is why it seems like we both ended up pretty fucken miserable in the future, or am I wrong? [ tell him you're happy! GO AHEAD. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[No need to build a time machine, Yugi. Intensity will happily punch you in the face for you. What are friends for?]

Don't you dare claim you know what I was or wasn't feeling.

All this time, I knew exactly what I needed to do. Because I look forward, Yugi. While you're still obsessed with looking backwards.

And that's why you're memories are such a fucking sort spot for you. Because you keep trying to reconcile the person you were before with the person who you are now, and it doesn't fucking work. Even if you'll console yourself with frail notions like "getting better" and making it "manageable". All the while blaming yourself for a past life and drowning in your own fucking wallowing.

At least he has the common sense to say he doesn't understand why he made that choice.

[puzzlers]

[ that, apparently. ]

[ he doesn't expect intensity to tell him how he felt so he's not going to emphasize how he'd only said seems like. ]

[ but isn't a person a sum of all of their past experiences, or is getting amnesia'd in hell just kinda like starting over. have his memories really played a big part in things here? y- yes. so many of them were good, but then he got stuck on the one or two bad ones and... ugh. having to admit intensity is right is pretty much like getting punched in the face. ]

Without all of my memories I don't think I'll ever know why I made that choice either. [ and trying to guess is clearly just driving him crazy. ] He's here now besides, and that's what I should be focusing on. [ and stopping him from going back a second time, if that so much as TRIES to happen. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

"Here now?" How fleeting. You talk like you're already prepared to lose him again.

[puzzlers]

[ now it's his turn to laugh. ]

I'm not going to lose him again. [ he'll learn from that mistake. ] I'll do everything I can and then some to keep him here beside me. [ beside... us... ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then kick your own ass first. That seems to be the biggest obstacle.

And get the fuck over it.

[puzzlers]

Kick my own ass... [ hm. looks thoughtful for a moment. ] that’s a great idea!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

[Will not rise to this bait. Will not rise to this bait. Will not rise to this bait.

...

Please never let King find out this was Intensity's idea. Whatever this is]

[puzzlers]

... [ notices the staring. ] N- Not like that, but this gives me an idea!

[ time to do a little housekeeping. ] Thanks, Intensity! I appreciate the [ heart to hmmmm. ] talk!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

This better not be like that!

[What is that? We just don't know.

Yugi going from angry to optimistic in 10 seconds flat is throwing him off his game]

[puzzlers]

[ him literally kicking his own ass tyler durden style in an abandoned parking lot somewhere? ]

[ you can thank yourself for that, intensity, because he's got an idea that's sure to probably work, maybe! look, it's fine! everything's fine! or it will be soon enough~! ]

It won't, I promise, but I need to go, so I can do this thing, ok! I'll see you later, Intensity!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[. . .

Guess he's just gonna.

Let him go.

Still very ?????? about the whole thing]